Historical Fiction Brunch: a Friends of the Corona Public Library Adventure featuring NYT, USA Today, and international bestselling authors Bernhard Schlink, Alka Joshi, Jennifer Coburn, and Nicola Harrison
April 26 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
$4.00 – $28.99
About the Live, In-Person, Adventure
Adventures by the Book(R) is pleased to support the Friends of the Corona Public Library for their annual blockbuster historical fiction author brunch, this year featuring NYT and internationally bestselling German author Bernhard Schlink, international and NYT bestselling author Alka Joshi, USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn, and bestselling author Nicola Harrison.
This event regularly sells out, so get your tickets through the Friends and pre-order your books below to be delivered for signing at the event.
Registration
Registration for this event through the Friends of the Corona Public Library is coming soon. Preorder your books below (to guarantee availability) to be delivered to the event for signing. Books will also be available for purchase and signing at the event.
About the Authors and Books
Bernhard Schlink is the NYT and internationally bestselling German author of The Reader, which became an Oscar-winning film starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes, as well as The Woman on the Stairs, and Olga.
His new novel, The Granddaughter, follows Kaspar who, only after the sudden death of his wife, Birgit, discovers the price she paid years earlier when she fled East Germany to join him: she had to abandon her baby. Shattered by grief, yet animated by a new hope, Kaspar closes up his bookshop in present day Berlin and sets off to find her lost child in the east.
More than twenty-five years after The Reader, Bernhard Schlink once again offers a masterfully gripping novel that powerfully probes the past’s role in contemporary life, transporting us from the divided Germany of the 1960s to modern day Australia, and asking what unites or separates us.
Alka Joshi is the NYT and internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy, which has been translated into 29 languages and optioned for an episodic series.
Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, which began as a love letter to her mother and eventually grew into a love letter to India, paved the way for the sequels: The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris.
Her new historical novel, Six Days in Bombay, is a sweeping novel of identity and self-discovery that takes readers from Bombay to Prague, Florence, Paris and London, to uncover the mystery behind a famous painter’s death.
Jennifer Coburn is the USA Today bestselling author of Cradles of the Reich, as well as a mother-daughter travel memoir, We’ll Always Have Paris, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies, including A Paris All Your Own.
In her new novel, Girls of the Glimmer Factory, the path of childhood friends Hannah, a Jewish prisoner at Theresienstadt, and Hilde, a true believer in the Nazi cause, when the Reich Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda decides to create a documentary that will renew confidence in Hitler’s plans for Jewish containment.
To schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on Adventures by the Book® (formerly NovelNetwork®):
Nicola Harrison is the bestselling author of three novels, Montauk, The Show Girl, and Hotel Laguna. Born and raised in England, she moved with her family to Southern California when she was 14. Prior to writing novels she worked as a fashion journalist in New York City.
In her newest novel, set in 1942, Hazel Francis leaves Wichita, Kansas for California, determined to do her part for the war effort. At Douglas Aircraft, she became one of many “Rosie the Riveters,” helping construct bombers for the U. S. military. But now the war is over, men have returned to their factory jobs, and women like Hazel have been dismissed, expected to return home to become wives and mothers.
To schedule a book club visit with Nicola or any of our authors on Adventures by the Book® (formerly NovelNetwork®):
About the Friends of the Corona Public Library
The mission of the Friends of the Corona Public Library is to promote community pride for the Library, to promote increased knowledge and understanding of services and needs, to enhance the Library’s environment, to foster support for the Library through programs and events, and to enhance the Library visitor experience.
