Madison, Wisconsin’s organization Centro Hispano of Dane County will be hosting Reyna Grande on July 12th starting at 5:30pm. She will be sharing about her memoir THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US. The relevant topic of immigration will be the center of the conversation for the evening. This is our first time working with Centro Hispano and […]
Read More »June is Children’s Awareness Month and this month, on Wednesday, June 22, the Family and Children’s Association will host their scholarship fund reception. NYT Bestselling author, Regina Calcaterra will be the keynote speaker for the event. Her memoir, ETCHED IN SAND, tells the story of Regina and her four siblings who survived an abusive childhood, only […]
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This Sunday, June 12, at Cleveland Bradley Library for a Meet the Author event in Cleveland, Tennessee, Andrew Maraniss will be speaking about his book, STRONG INSIDE. The event will start at 2:30 p.m. and give the audience a chance to hear more about Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player for the SEC. […]
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We are thrilled to announce the Cedar Rapids public library is hosting their summer event Out Loud! The Metro Library Network Author Series for 2016. Every summer, they host this series and bring in bestselling authors. This year will be hosted at the Hotel at Kirkwood Center in Cedar Rapids on Fridays, starting at 7 […]
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Christina Baker Kline will be speaking at the Avalon Free Public Library on July 20th at 7 p.m. Stop by and here her share about ORPHAN TRAIN. Christina’s the best-selling author of ORPHAN TRAIN and will be speaking at Avalon Free Public Library as part of their annual author lecture series. This series brings in […]
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Come see Ellen Urbani and hear about her novel, LANDFALL, at the Eugene Public Library on Saturday, June 4. Ellen Urbani is the author of the memoir, WHEN I WAS ELENA, and released her newest book, LANDFALL, a work of modern historical fiction, in 2015. LANDFALL, set in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, captures the […]
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What are some of the “teachable” moments in your book that make it work well for a Community Reads program? In one sense, the whole book is a teachable moment. I wrote Thunderdog: The True Story of a Blind Man, his Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero, to teach people about blindness […]
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A few days ago, I found the perfect pair of ski boots online. I’d been wanting them for ages, and was thrilled to see that a UK retailer had them in stock. The rub: shipping cost more than the boots themselves! Naturally, I began researching U.S. stores that might carry them, and before I knew […]
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Leif Enger will speak in Wauwatosa on Sunday, February 28th, as the culminating event in this year’s Tosa All-City Reads program.
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What are some of the “teachable” moments in your book that make it work well for a Community Reads program? One of my main goals in writing LIAR, TEMPTRESS, SOLDIER, SPY was to highlight forgotten heroines of the Civil War, on both sides of the conflict. History is usually written by, for, and about men, […]
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