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Great News DC Dwellers! We are bringing the French bookstore to you for our next FRENCH BOOK FAIR at the beautiful Alliance Française!Stop by the AFDC at 2142 Wyoming Ave TOMORROW, Saturday May 23 from 10am to 4pm! You'll find tables chock full of books en Français for all ages. Best of all, 10-15% of sales will be donated back to the AFDC Library! Would you like to organize a book fair for your school or organization? Did you know that we offer fundraisers --in-store, online AND in person where we give back 10-15% of all sales?Contact us for more...

We are SO EXCITED that our very own (Kensington MD-based!) Carole Geneix Auteure 's brand new crime novel, #ManhattanPalace, released TODAY. It is IN STOCK at Bonjour Books and ready to thrill you.We are several chapters in and it is already a HUGE coup de 💓 It is set in a fictitious #NYC luxury hotel owned by the mega-rich Sharp-Sterling family, whose matriarch Jacklyn is dubbed the “Queen of England”.The family members and all the staff are abuzz getting the hotel ready for a lavish wedding: of the dilettante grandson George Sharp Junior to Coco, the trending French Instagram star.As the scene of...

  We are thrilled to announce Bonjour Books DC is sponsoring a LOCAL FRENCH AUTHOR PAVILION as part of the 16th annual Kensington Day of the Book festival on Sunday, April 23 from 11am to 4pm!https://www.dayofthebook.com/The Kensington Day of the Book Festival is a family friendly street festival spanning three blocks of Howard Avenue in the heart of historic Kensington. Come meet authors, poets, literary and community organizations. Live music on a few stages, special guest speakers, poetry readings, cookbook demos, children’s program, and much more. Not your average book festival! Now in its 16th year, this festival offers something for everyone!The French...

*|MC:SUBJECT|* *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* View this email in your browser The month has flown by, but hopefully you've had a chance to participate in some of the DC Francophonie Festival events. Pas encore? Pas de soucis!  There are several more planned before the end of the month, including tomorrow's virtual Roundtable on contemporary Caribbean literature and Nuit de la Poésie on March 31! Also:  Local Student Showcase:  Celebrating La Francophonie!  We especially hope you will walk down Howard Ave in Kensington and behold the amazing student projects on view in our window (partially pictured above). Students from both the Sligo Creek Elementary School French Immersion...

This is an excellently written, expertly researched biography of Kamala Harris. In addition to detailed coverage of her political career starting as San Francisco DA and then Attorney General of California, I appreciated the detail about her early life, all the way from her parents' upbringing and education and civil rights activism at UC Berkley.  The author also covers Harris's middle and high school years in a multicultural neighborhood in Montreal as well as her time as an undergraduate at Howard University -- all significant to understanding who she is and the importance of her networks in her life and career.  Highly...