An Evening with Deborah Harkness

Magic City Books is thrilled to welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author Deborah Harkness for an event to celebrate the release of the highly anticipated fifth book in the All Souls series, The Black Bird Oracle, on Monday July 22. This ticketed event will start at 7:00pm and take place at The Synagogue | Congregation B'nai Emunah (17th and Peoria).

This is a ticketed event, each ticket comes with one (1) hardcover copy of The Black Bird Oracle ($32.00 value) by Deborah Harkness and one (1) seat at the event on July 22. There are a limited quantity of free tickets available that do not come with a copy of the book.

All books will be signed in advance by Deborah Harkness and available for pickup at the event. Magic City Books will have signed copies of other books in the All Souls series for sale at the event but there will be no opportunity to have books signed that were previously purchased and no opportunity for personalizations.

At the conclusion of the event, there will be an opportunity to have a photo with Ms. Harkness. A professional photographer will be on site to take photos, no personal photography will be allowed. There is no additional charge for a photo with Deborah Harkness.

All tickets include a copy of the book, there is a limit of four tickets per transaction. Please provide the full name and email address of each ticket holder so that all event notifications and information can be sent to all attendees.

If you have a ticket and are unable to attend the event, you will be able to pick up your book at Magic City Books during normal business hours. The last day for ticket holders to pick up The Black Bird Oracle by Deobrah Harkness is Friday, September 6, 2024. We will make an effort to have signed books available for pick up but can not guarantee a signed copy.

About The Black Bird Oracle

Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, an Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clermont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana's family line.

Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family's future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It's time you came home, Diana.

On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family's dark past and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power--if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it.

In this stunning new novel, grand in scope, Deborah Harkness deepens the beloved world of All Souls with powerful new magic and long-hidden secrets, and the path Diana finds at Ravenswood leads to the most consequential moments yet in this cherished series.

Deborah Harkness is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, The Book of Life, Time's Convert, and The World of All Souls. A history professor at the University of Southern California, Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships. She lives in Los Angeles.