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Let’s Have An Adventure: a Virtual Book Bingo featuring NYT bestselling and fan favorites Sara Ackerman, Donna Jones Alward, Anna Bliss, Lora Chilton, Katherine Howe and Alex Segura
July 11 @ 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Free – $113.91
About the Virtual (Zoom) Event:
“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
In celebration of the fun experiences we all know and love, we are pleased to announce another fun virtual Book Bingo Adventure in partnership with the Amery Area (Wisconsin) Public Library.
If you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features Adventures by the Book® (formerly NovelNetwork®) authors, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships, participation by more of our over 130 book club favorite authors, and space to accommodate many more readers!
Dive into stories about daring and exciting experiences by playing book bingo with six New York Times bestselling and book club favorite authors: Sara Ackerman, Donna Jones Alward, Anna Bliss, Lora Chilton, Katherine Howe and Alex Segura. Enjoy presentations by the authors, while playing an interactive virtual game of bingo, including fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great reads!
While this event is free, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors.
Your Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo, Q&A, prizes, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information.
About the Authors
Sara Ackerman is the Hawai’i born, bestselling author of historical novels set in the islands. Her books have been labeled “unforgettable” by Apple Books, “empowering & deliciously visceral” by Book Riot, and New York Times bestselling authors Kate Quinn and Madeline Martin have praised Sara’s novels as “fresh and delightful” and “brilliantly written.” Amazon chose Radar Girls as a best book of the month, and ALA Booklist gave The Codebreaker’s Secret a starred review.
Her novel, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West, is an extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific.
To schedule a book club visit with Sara or any of our authors on Adventures by the Book® (formerly NovelNetwork®):
Donna Jones Alward has enchanted readers with stories of happy endings and homecomings that have won several awards and been translated into over a dozen languages. She’s worked as an administrative assistant, teaching assistant, in retail and as a stay-at-home-mom, but always knew her degree in English Literature would pay off, as she is now happy to be a full-time writer. Her new historical fiction tales blend her love of history with characters who step beyond their biggest fears to claim the lives they desire.
Her novel, When the World Fell Silent, is the 1917 Halifax Explosion in Nova Scotia. Two women will ever be the same again as their paths cross in the most unexpected way, trailing both heartbreak and joy its wake…
To schedule a book club visit with Donna or any of our authors:
Anna Bliss is a debut novelist with an MA in Literature and Visual Culture from the University of Sussex, where she wrote her dissertation on women’s narratives of the London Blitz during World War II. An alumna of the juried Northern California Writers’ Retreat, she also has studied at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Social Welfare, the American Jewish University, and the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. Her professional background includes over ten years in marketing and arts administration.
Anna’s debut novel, Bonfire Night, has been called “A tender work of art”, and has already risen to notable acclaim. The book quickly became a Barnes & Noble bestseller and won the Historical Novels Review Editor’s Choice award. Set before and during World War II, this moving, intricately wrought novel brings together a young Irish Catholic photographer and a British Jewish medical student, each discovering the price of love, art, and ambition.
To schedule a book club visit with Anna or any of our authors:
A member of the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia, Lora Chilton tells the story of her people and their unlikely survival due to the courage of three Patawomeck women. As a part of the process, she interviewed tribal elders, researched colonial documents and studied the Patawomeck language. Chilton graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. She has worked as a Registered Nurse, a small business owner, an elected official, a non-profit executive and a writer.
Her novel, 1666, is a fictional retelling of the survival of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia through the lives of three women.
To schedule a book club visit with Lora or any of our authors:
Katherine Howe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, The House of Velvet and Glass, and Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty with Anderson Cooper, as well as several young adult novels. She served as editor of The Penguin Book of Witches and her fiction has been translated into over twenty languages.
Her novel, A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself,
is a daring first-hand account of one young woman’s unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.
To schedule a book club visit with Katherine or any of our authors:
Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which The New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor’s Choice. NPR described the novel as “masterful,” and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. Secret Identity was also listed as one of the Best Mysteries of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Booklist, the South Florida Sun Sentinel and more, and was nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Hardcover, the Lefty and Barry Awards for Best Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, and won the LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category.
His novel, Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow, introduces Anya Corazon, aka Araña—a groundbreaking super hero—in an action-packed story about unlikely friendship, perseverance, and what it means to be a hero.
To schedule a book club visit with Alex or any of our authors:
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For Book Clubs or Author Live Chats
Are you in a book club, library reading group, or are your group of friends, colleagues, and family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that most, if not all, of the featured authors are members of our wonderful community of over 145 Adventures by the Book® (formerly NovelNetwork®) authors available to meet with small groups via video chat.
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