From a Grown-Up Book Fair to Bigfoot, what you need to know about books in Oklahoma

Grown-Up Book Fair returns to Best of Books and Roughtail Brewery

Edmond independent bookstore Best of Books, 1313 E Danforth Rd, is hosting multiple book signings in October and the Grown-Up Book Fair is Back:

• Best of Books is again teaming up with Roughtail Brewery to bring back the Grown-Up Book Fair but with a spooky twist at the Grown-Up Booook Fair on from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 14 at Roughtail Brewery, 320 W. Memorial Road. Shop thrillers, horror, mystery, magical fantasy and more fall favorites alongside the latest bestsellers, bookish gifts, funky pens, stickers and more all while sipping local craft beers. Meet local authors and treat yourself to signed books by Kent Frates, author of “Oklahoma’s Most Notorious Cases, Vol. 1 & 2” featuring true crimes in Oklahoma; and Jeff Provine, author of the “Haunted Oklahoma” series with chilling ghost stories from across the state.

• Join Best of Books at 6 p.m. Oct. 3 for an in store signing event with New York Times Bestselling author Steve Sheinkin as he discusses his new Young Adult Non-Fiction book, “Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe“ with Best of Books President, Joe Hight. The event is free and open to the public. Purchase of "Impossible Escape" from Best of Books required to enter the signing line.

• Local authors will be at Best of Books from noon to 2 p.m. Oct. 21 for book signings. Meet Gerry Cole, author of “Blue Skies and Tail Winds”; Paul Hamilton, author of “Song and Symphony”; L.J. Ussery, author of “The Heir of Naldukar”; and Lauren Brownrigg, author of “You Are … .” The event is free and open to the public. Books from each author will be available to purchase at the event to be signed by the authors.

• Join Best of Books at 6 p.m. Oct. 24 for a book signing with Oklahoma young adult author Hanna C. Howard for her new release, “Our Divine Mischief.” Howard will be in conversation with “Autumn’s Tithe” author Hannah Parker. The event is free to attend and open to all. Books will be available to purchase at the event as well however preorders will be given priority in line.

New Bob Dylan Center exhibit coincides with new book

The Bob Dylan Center will premiere a new exhibition of Dylan artifacts from its collection in conjunction with the forthcoming release of "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" — "the most comprehensive book ever published on the work of the Nobel Prize–winning musician and cultural icon" — as well as host a series of events and concert performances during a celebratory weekend taking place Oct. 20 and 21 in Tulsa. Ticket information for all of the weekend’s events can be found at https://bobdylancenter.com/mixing-up-the-medicine-launch/.

Featured events and activities include special performances by Hurray For The Riff Raff and Bedouine at Cain’s Ballroom on Oct. 21, the Sarah Lee Guthrie Trio at the Woody Guthrie Center and presentations by noted Dylan collector and aficionado Mitch Blank and author, journalist and cultural critic Greil Marcus on Oct. 21.

"Bob Dylan: Mixing Up The Medicine" was authored and edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, and features essays on Dylan artifacts and more than 1,100 images within the book’s 608 pages that span the arc of Dylan’s life, music and art. It will be published by Callaway Books on Oct. 24, but attendees to any of the Tulsa events will have the opportunity to purchase the book in advance on the premises.

Pear Street Books and Plants to pop up at events

Pear Street Books and Plants, 918 N Hudson Ave., has announced the following events:

• Nov. 4: Romance Author Panel with book signing at Pear Street Books and Plants.

• Nov. 24-26: Holiday Pop Up shops opening weekend in Midtown at 10th and Hudson.

Library system to host fall book sale

The Friends of the Metropolitan Library System and the Metropolitan Library System are partnering for a Fall Better Books Sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 6 and 7 at the OSU-OKC campus, 900 N Portland Ave.

Books will be on sale for $3 and up and there will be a membership preview sale from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 5. No carts will be admitted at this event. For more information, go online to www.supportmls.org/booksale.

Recent books in stores and coming soon with Oklahoma ties

•"Bigfoot Watching Woman Watching Bigfoot (An Ele Carmichael Novel)" by M Sparks Clark (Loophole Books, 246 pages, in stores)

When bestselling thriller novelist Ele Carmichael discovers that her longtime love is cheating on her, she buys a luxury cabin in the backwoods of Oklahoma's Kiamichi Mountains, sight unseen, and promptly moves there, only to discover that someone or something is already living there. Her determination to stay earns her the respect of the creatures and leads her to a group of unexpected friends who soon become like family — a family interested in protecting the "guests" who live on her land. But when bigfoot hunters who want access to her property threaten her life, her fate is in the hands of these new friends to save her.

•"Oklahoma's Haunted Route 66" by Tanya McCoy (The History Press, 144 pages, in stores)

Route 66 may seem like a quieter thoroughfare than it was in its heyday, but the ghosts of Oklahoma's past bustle along unabated. British airmen disappear into the mist above Miami. Phantoms stir in the Dust Bowl's shallow grave. A westbound Frisco train hops the rails outside Kellyville. Author McCoy weaves amongst the spirits still traveling along Oklahoma's historic Route 66 with commentary and historic and current photos of the sites.

•"Benita and the Night Creatures" by Mariana Llanos (Barefoot Books, 32 pages, in stores)

In this book by Oklahoma-based author Llanos, Benita, who loves to read in bed, keeps getting interrupted by a whistling Tunche, a scary Supay and other spooky creatures from Peruvian lore. To the creatures’ disbelief, Benita is so absorbed by her book that she’s not the least bit scared of them. This humorous celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on taking the “scary” out of monsters.

•"The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, 4)" by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 480 pages, in stores)

Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited. When Grayson’s half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem. Jameson Hawthorne is a risk-taker, a sensation-seeker, a player of games. When his mysterious father appears and asks for a favor, Jameson can’t resist the challenge. Drawn into twisted games, Grayson and Jameson—with the help of their brothers and the girl who inherited their grandfather’s fortune — must dig deep to decide who they want to be and what each of them will sacrifice to win.

•"Come Before Winter" by Ken Hada (Turning Plow Press, 142 pages, in stores)

Hada’s 11th collection of poetry, "Come Before Winter" is an invitation written with a keen and pressing awareness of time passing, measured and marked by the turning of seasons. Like the pastoral letter from Paul to Timothy, from which the title is derived, these poems arrive as exhortations to the reader to meditate, as Emerson says, on “the flux of all things.”

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Book sales, Grown-Up Book Fair and author signings in Oklahoma