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Author Visits
| Thursday, September 16, 2010 |
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| Authors @ Your Library presents: Inara Scott |
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6:00PM - 7:30PM |
Inara Scott will discuss and sign her book Delcroix Academy, Book 1: The Candidates. Dancia Lewis is far from popular. And that's not just because of her average grades or her less-than-glamorous wardrobe. In fact, Dancia's mediocrity is a welcome cover for her secret: whenever she sees a person threatening someone she cares about, things just...happen. Cars skid. Structures collapse. Usually someone gets hurt, so Dancia does everything possible to avoid getting close to anyone, believing this way she can supress her powers and keep them hidden. But when recruiters from the prestigious Delcroix Academy show up in her living room to offer her a full scholarship, Dancia's days of living under the radar may be over. Inara Scott grew up in Buffalo, NY. Consequently, she spent much of her childhood complaining about being cold. To spare the world her whining, she fled the cold climate and eventually wound up in the Pacific Northwest, where the old Douglas Fir trees and thick ferns make you think you’ve wandered into a fairy tale. She listens to cheesy, happy music. Event is co-sponsored by Puddn'Head Books. |
| Sunday, September 19, 2010 |
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| Authors @ Your Library presents: William Gibson |
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2:00PM - 3:30PM |
William Gibson will discuss and sign his new book, Zero History. Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It's odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn't; she can't afford to. Hollis Henry, former rock singer turned journalist, has very unwillingly forced by global economic collapse to work once again for the secretive Belgian finance genius Hubertus Bigend, who hired her in Spook Country. She finds herself entangled in a threatening mesh of postmodern marketing, corrupt American military contractors, and belated romance. She is reunited with the Russian translator Milgrim, who spent Spook Country in a haze of prescription drugs, but is now fresh out of a very expensive private detox facility in Basel, and is now also working for Bigend. William Gibson lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his family. This event is co-sponsored by Left Bank Books. |
| Monday, September 20, 2010 |
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| Authors @ Your Library presents Jonathan Franzen |
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7:00PM - 8:30PM |
Jonthan Franzen will discuss and sign his new novel, Freedom. Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time. Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Corrections, winner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction; the novels The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion; and two collections of essays, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by FSG. He lives in New York City. Co-sponsored by Left Bank Books. |
| Saturday, September 25, 2010 |
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| Authors @ Your Library presents: Meg Selig |
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10:00AM - 11:00AM |
Meg Selig will discuss and sign her book, Changepower! 37 Secrets to Habit Change Success. Meg Selig guides readers through a step-by-step process that will help them achieve any habit change goal. Whether the reader wants to break a hurtful habit like smoking or overeating, or build a healthy habit like exercising or speaking up, Changepower! provides a springboard for change. She earned her M.A. Ed. in counseling at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to her consulting work, she is also an adjunct professor of counseling at St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley. Selig lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Books available for sale. Light refreshments. |
| Saturday, October 02, 2010 |
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| Authors @ Your Library presents: Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan, Brian Floca and Neal Jordan |
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10:30AM - 12:00PM |
Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan, Brian Floca and Neal Porter will discuss and sign the book, Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring. Martha Graham: trailblazing choreographer; Aaron Copland: distinguished American composer; and Isamu Noguchi: artist, sculptor, craftsman. Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, Illustrator Brian Floca, and editor Neal Jordan tell us the story behind the scenes of the collaboration that created APPALACHIAN SPRING, from its inception through the score’s composition to Martha’s intense rehearsal process. Brian Floca's vivid watercolors bring both the process and the performance to life. Enjoy a slideshow of Floca's paintings and a Q & A with the authors, illustrator and editor. Books for sale courtesy of Pudd’nHead Books. |
| Wednesday, October 20, 2010 |
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| Authors @ Your Library presents Matt Kindt |
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7:00PM - 8:30PM |
Matt Kindt will discuss and sign his new graphic novel, Revolver. In this surreal thriller, an ordinary guy living in two different realities gradually realizes that he has the power to avert a series of apocalypses. Kindt has written and drawn stories for Dark Horse Comics and other independent publishers. He also works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Books for sale courtesy of Left Bank Books. |
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