![]() IN THE REGION We are located in Harrisburg's Midtown Arts District, across the street from the historic Broad Street Market and just a few blocks north of Pennsylvania's Capitol complex. Use the ParkMobile phone app and select savings code "LUVHBG" to receive up to 4 hours of free street-parking on Saturdays! Some nearby unmetered streets have residential-only parking from 8am-10am and 3pm-5pm weekdays. Metered street parking is available on 3rd and Verbeke Streets, 8am-7pm Monday-Saturday. Limited free parking in the lot behind our store. PARKING Free 2-hour parking is available around the neighboring Broad Street Market. C-SPAN's Book TV has archived its broadcast of a Video Tour with the owners. We partner in-store with Tammy’s Just Baked Cakes & Pies, which offers breakfast and lunch service with cakes galore and famously good sweet potato pie. We are pleased to offer organic, single-origin and direct-trade coffees and espresso drinks from the award-winning importers and roasters Counter Culture Coffee, as well as over 30 varieties of loose-leaf organic and fair-trade teas from Rishi Tea. Our bookstore-cafe extends over two buildings and includes over 200,000 used, new, and discounted books for all readers, in addition to an exceptional collection of rare books, lithographic and woodcut prints, "The Little Scholar" children's and young adult wing, changing art gallery exhibits, a main stage for author talks and acoustic music, a community classroom, and a poet's corner. Ward is the international bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial.WHAT YOU’LL FIND Our store is housed in a renovated 1920's movie theater, which became Harrisburg's first split-level department store in the 1950s and is now a vibrant community meeting place in Pennsylvania's capital city. We are honored to have been named one of "America's Great Independent Bookstores",” voted " Simply the Best" Independent Bookstore in the region since 2004! In 2023, Publishers Weekly named us the national Bookstore of the Year. Little Eve also won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. Ward is a three-time winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel: for The Girl from Rawblood, her debut Little Eve and The Last House on Needless Street. She studied English at the University of Oxford and later earned her master’s degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Connect with her on Twitter on Instagram and on Facebook Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. Her novels have sold over 10 million copies internationally, and her work has also been translated into twenty-nine languages. About the Authors: Lisa Jewell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels, including The Family Upstairs and Then She Was Gone, as well as Invisible Girl and Watching You. The exclusive live-stream link will be sent at least one hour in advance of the event. This event is available via live-stream, and requires purchase of the book + USPS Priority shipping. ![]() Tickets available here: Additional signed copies of Lisa and Catriona's previous books may be purchased at the event. Book personalization and signing to follow presentation. Seating is general admission first come, first served. Doors will open at 6:00pm, and the event will begin at 7:00pm. Every ticket includes a signed copy of the book(s) and general admission entry. Advertisement The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is honored to welcome New York Times bestselling authors Lisa Jewell and Catriona Ward to Harrisburg for an in-person conversation on their new thrillers, NONE OF THIS IS TRUE (Jewell) and LOOKING GLASS SOUND (Ward).
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