Authors @ Your Library
| Wednesday, December 09, 2009 | ||||
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM | Sharon Shinn will discuss and sign her new young adult novel, Gateway. This novel is about an adopted teenage girl from China who was raised in St. Louis. When Daiyu steps under the Arch-she finds herself in an alternate version of her familiar city where almost everyone is Chinese. She has been brought here by mysterious strangers to help them bring down the corrupt ruling government, but to do so, she must play a dangerous part among the elite members of this society. Very quickly she learns to trust no one except a young man named Kalen. He will help her carry out her plans and then find her way back home-but she is not so sure that, when her task is over, she’ll be able to leave Kalen behind. Sharon Shinn (born 1957) is an American novelist who combines aspects of fantasy, science fiction, and romance. She has published more than a dozen novels for adult and young adult readers. She works as a journalist in St. Louis, Missouri. Books available for sale from Subterranean Books. | |||
| Sunday, January 17, 2010 | ||||
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| 2:00PM - 3:30PM | Robert Crais will discuss and sign his new novel, The First Rule. Frank Meyer had the American dream-until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The only thing out of the ordinary about Meyer was that-before the family and the business and the normal life-a younger Frank Meyer had worked as a professional mercenary, with a man named Joe Pike. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Pike does not. With the help of Cole, he sets out on a hunt of his own-an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminality, and at the heart of it, an act so terrible even Pike and Cole have no way to measure it. Sometimes, the past is never dead. It's not even past. Robert Crais is the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. He is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including The Two Minute Rule, The Forgotten Man, and L.A. Requiem. Co-sponsored by Left Bank Books. | |||