Patrick Ness with Jill Tew - Piper at the Gates of Dusk!

Beloved author Patrick Ness is back with another book set in the world of Chaos Walking!

Little Shop of Stories is thrilled to welcome Patrick Ness to Decatur to celebrate Piper at the Gates of Dusk! Join us for a very special evening with Patrick and moderator Jill Tew as they delve into the start of this new trilogy! See below for more details:

Tickets:

Admission: $0 this free ticket admits one to our event

Admission + Book: $19.99 this ticket admits one to our event and includes a copy of Piper at the Gates of Dusk to be signed and picked up that evening

Please note that you must purchase a copy of Piper at the Gates of Dusk from Little Shop in order to enter the signing line. Eventbrite, website, and in person purchases all count!

About the Book:

It’s been twenty years since the monstrous war that almost tore New World apart, and there’s a new generation on the planet. Todd and Viola’s sons Ben and Max have known only peace growing up on the family farm outside a bustling human settlement. They dream of the usual things, like school and adventure, until the nightmares begin . . .
A sudden sickness has infected the young people of New World with Noise in the form of their worst thoughts about themselves. Some suspect the Spackle, the indigenous people with whom humans have a very uneasy truce. Others wonder about a connection to a mysterious object looming in the sky. And then, one by one, the children of New World begin to disappear.
Ben, with his mother’s logical mind, and Max, with his father’s courageous heart, become caught up in separate quests for answers, journeys that will test their beliefs in their parents, each other, and in their very existence on the planet.
Patrick Ness makes a masterful return to New World in this timely work of science fiction, one that looks at the interplay of fear, power, and propaganda, and at the stories we tell ourselves.

About the Author and Moderator:

Patrick Ness is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy, as well as Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody and it sequel, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody: The Hat of Great Importance. He wrote the #1 New York Times bestseller A Monster Calls (inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd), which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was made into a major motion picture for which he wrote the screenplay. He is also the author of More Than This, Release, Different for Boys, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and Burn. His many accolades include two Carnegie Medals, an Olivier Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the BookTrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children’s Book Award. Patrick Ness lives in Los Angeles and London.

Jill Tew is the critically-acclaimed, award-winning Caribbean American author of dystopian romance and middle grade novels that imagine Black girls in exciting new worlds. Her books have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal, been named Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections, and have been featured in the New York Times, People, and elsewhere. Her debut The Dividing Sky was declared a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, Reactor Mag, Publishers Weekly, and Bookshop.org, and was featured in the New York Times as one of Veronica Roth’s favorite dystopian novels. Jill lives in Atlanta with her family.