V.E. Schwab celebrates THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE at BN Union Square

**PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THESE GUIDELINES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DUE TO CHANGING COVID-19 REQUIREMENTS**

Join Barnes & Noble - Union Square on Monday, April 17, 2023, as we welcome the New York Times bestselling author of Shades of Magic series, V.E. Schwab, to celebrate the release of THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE B&N Exclusive Edition Trade Paperback; a genre-defying tour de force.

V.E. Schwab will be in conversation with the author of Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi.

BONUS!: Your ticket for admission includes a copy of THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE B&N Exclusive Edition Trade Paperback, which has a unique B&N-exclusive alternate cover, designed French Flaps, deckled edges, and the bonus story Ghost in the Frame.

Copies of THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE B&N Exclusive Edition Trade Paperback will be pre-signed and stamped with a tour exclusive custom image. In lieu of a post-event signing line, there will be a longer Q&A session.

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TICKETING INFORMATION

• Book Admission - $21.81 (Admission + one pre-signed copy of THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE B&N Exclusive Edition Trade Paperback + 5-cent bag fee): **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• One pre-signed copy of THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE B&N Exclusive Edition Trade Paperback
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ABOUT THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE:

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

ABOUT V.E. SCHWAB:

VICTORIA “V. E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, the acclaimed Shades of Magic series, the Villains series, This Savage Song, and Our Dark Duet. Her work has received critical acclaim, been featured in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Washington Post and more, been translated into more than a dozen languages, and has been optioned for television and film. When she’s not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters.

ABOUT TOCHI ONYEBUCHI:

Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel, Crown of Thunder, and War Girls. His novella Riot Baby, a finalist for the Hugo, the Nebula, the Locus, the Ignyte, and the NAACP Image Awards, won the New England Book Award for Fiction and an ALA Alex Award. He holds a B.A. from Yale, a M.F.A. in screenwriting from the Tisch School for the Arts, a Master's degree in droit économique from Sciences Po, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. His fiction has appeared in Panverse Three, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Obsidian, Omenana Magazine, Uncanny, and Lightspeed. His non-fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Nowhere Magazine, the Oxford University Press blog, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, among other places.