About Us

 Danielle Hulton is the owner and operator of Ada's Technical Books. She is passionate about bringing the tech community together around amazing books and exciting authors. Some of her favorite books in the store include: Bonk by Mary Roach, China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh, The Difference Engine by Doran Swade, Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss, Snow Crash by Niel Stephenson, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow, and Using Drupal by Byron, Berry, Haug, Eaton, Walker, and Robbins.
  David Hulton is the behind the scenes support at Ada's. His specialties include cryptography and FPGA design. Some of his favorite books in the store include: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, Crytonomicon by Neal Stephenson, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow, Zero Day by Mark Russinovich, The Pattern on the Stone by W. Daniel Hillis, A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie, Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A Rago, & Dennis Ritchie, and Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson.

Vel is the general manager and Ada's Employee Number 1. Some of her favorite books in the store include: Genius by James Gleick, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough, Hackers by Stephen Levy, Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, One Grain of Rice by Demi, Tesla: Man out of Time by Margaret Cheney, and A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

John has been in the book industry for six years and hopes to continue as a book merchant for years to come.  As a proud Capitol Hill native, he loves the opportunity to contribute toward the neighborhood's unique atmosphere.  His passion for narrative and history make him an ideal reference for fiction, mathematic and scientific history, and cultural human development. Some of his favorite books in the store include: The Science of Kissing by Sheril Krishenbaum, The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester, The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio, The Abacus and the Cross by Nancy Marie Brown, Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan, The Physics of Superheros by James Kakalios, Instant Gratification by Christopher Lapp, Math Curse by Jon Scieszka, Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, The Hunger Games by Suzane Collins, The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal, and The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollen.