BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Adventures By The Book - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Adventures By The Book X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Adventures By The Book REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230813T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230813T160000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230516T014909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185846Z UID:10000386-1691935200-1691942400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:A Bakery in Paris: an Afternoon Dessert Adventure featuring international bestselling author Aimie K. Runyan DESCRIPTION:“Each dessert has its own story” – Alessandro D’Avenia\n  \nAbout the In-Person Event\nThis event is SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist\, please email admin@adventuresbythebook.com.\nA small\, simple bakery is the backdrop to the captivating\, new historical fiction novel by international bestselling author Aimie R. Runyan\, so we wanted it to also be the backdrop of our Bakery in Paris Afternoon Dessert Adventure. \nJoin us at Isabelle Brien’s French Pastry Cafe for an afternoon of tres magnifique desserts and lively book discussion. While you indulge in a delicious homemade French pastry and a steaming cup of coffee or tea\, chat with Aimie about her new book\, A Bakery in Paris. which tells the story of two women of the same family\, one from 1870 and the other from 1946\, facing loss\, accepting love and making impossible choices with courage and a belief that baking can bring about a revolution of their own making \nYour Adventure includes an authentic French dessert served with coffee or tea\, tax\, gratuity\, a paperback copy of A Bakery in Paris to be signed at the event and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal in an intimate setting. \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nAimie K. Runyan is a multi-published and international bestselling author of historical fiction. She has been nominated for a Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer of the Year award and four Colorado Book Awards. She lives in Colorado with her wonderful husband and two (usually) adorable children. \nA Bakery in Paris is a captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post–World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family\, generations apart\, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny corner of Montmartre. Both women must grapple with loss\, learn to accept love\, and face impossible choices armed with little more than their courage and a belief that a bit of flour\, yeast\, sugar\, and love can bring about a revolution of their own. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Aimie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n\nAbout Isabelle Brien’s French Pastry Café\nIsabelle Brien’s French Pastry Café offers consistent quality\, a warm atmosphere\, and plenty of tasty treats for all occasions. \n \nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/aimie-runyan-8-13-23/ CATEGORIES:Dessert Adventure,Event,Wine Pairing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/aimie-runyan-8.13.23-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230806T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230806T160000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230525T093340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185847Z UID:10000388-1691330400-1691337600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Double Trouble: a BFF Happy Hour Adventure featuring fan-favorites Alli Frank & Asha Youmans and Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n\nHere comes trouble… and make it double! \nDouble trouble in this case is a good thing\, because it is an opportunity for you to meet not one\, but two\, fan-favorite author duos: Alli Frank & Asha Youmans and Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke. Come enjoy a delicious glass of wine\, along with some scrumptious bite-sized snacks as we celebrate the newest book releases of these two sets of author best friends! \nYour Adventure includes a happy hour experience\, a glass of wine paired with some delicious snacks\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet both sets of authors up close and personal in an intimate setting. Better yet\, double your fun with our VIP ticket which includes discounted event plus copies of bothThe Better Half and Forever Hold Your Peace to be delivered to the event for signing. \n  \nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nAlli Frank and Asha Youmans found literary soulmates in each other after working together as teacher and school administrator in Seattle\, WA. They discovered a shared mission as educators and as authors— to use humor\, joy and compassion to write stories that encourage candid conversations about issues such as race\, religion\, culture\, class\, privilege\, parenting and education. Their debut\, Tiny Imperfections\, tackled desperate parents and their ill-fated misbehaviors with razor-sharp wit\, followed by Never Meant to Meet You\, which deftly mined the often comedic and underexplored common ground between Black and Jewish experiences in America. \nTheir newest collaboration\, The Better Half\, captivated Mindy Kaling\, and Mindy’s Book Studio\, to publish the book in collaboration with Amazon Publishing. It is a sidesplitting spin on reaching the pinnacle of life\, only to stare down a slippery slope on the other side. \nAfter a difficult five years\, at age forty-three\, Nina Morgan Clarke’s time has finally arrived. With an ex-husband relocated across the country\, her father bouncing back after the loss of his beloved wife\, and her daughter\, Xandra\, thriving at boarding school\, Nina is stepping into her dream job as a trifecta: a first-generation\, Black female head of the storied Royal-Hawkins School. To mark the moment\, Nina and her best friend\, Marisol\, take a long-overdue girls’ trip to celebrate the second half of Nina’s life―which is shaping up to be the best part of her life. \nAs Nina’s school year gets underway\, all seems to be progressing as planned. Before long\, wunder-hire Jared Jones\, two hundred pounds of Harvard-educated ego\, relentlessly pushes Nina to her ethical limits. Soon after\, dutiful Xandra accuses one of her teachers of misconduct. And most alarming\, the repercussions of her trip with Marisol force Nina into a life-altering choice. Time is of the essence\, and Nina must decide if she will embrace a future she never could have predicted.. \nAlli Frank and Asha Youmans bring their very different cultural backgrounds and perspectives together to write in one seamless\, cohesive voice\, united in their belief that humor and fiction can inspire empathy and learning\, and that exposure to diverse experiences can only enrich one’s life. \n  \n \nLiz Fenton and Lisa Steinke have been best friends for over thirty years and survived high school and college together. They’ve co-authored seven novels\, including the Amazon Charts bestseller\, The Good Widow. In addition to writing books\, they created a podcast\, We Fight So You Don’t Have to: Lessons from a thirty-year friendship. They also appear monthly on a San Diego news station to share their favorite book club picks. \nTheir forthcoming book\, Forever Hold Your Peace\, is like Father of the Bride meets Bride Wars\, and features two ex-best friends find themselves shockingly entangled after more than two decades apart. \nWhen their newly engaged kids ask all four divorced parents to meet each other over brunch\, everyone RSVPs yes–secretly hoping someone at the table will get to the bottom of the bottomless mimosas fast enough to say what they’re all thinking: that this engagement\, coming after a whirlwind romance between two people barely out of college\, is too much too soon. \nBut at that brunch it’s not the impulsive couple’s decisions that end up under the microscope\, as it turns out June\, mother of the bride\, and Amy\, mother of the groom\, certainly do know each other–they’re ex-best-friends who haven’t spoken since their explosive falling out more than twenty-five years ago. Reeling from their unwanted reunion and eager to shift the spotlight off their past as decades-old secrets and rivalries come to light\, the two moms battle it out for the prize of Most Enthusiastic About This Wedding. \nBut when their history—and their present-day shenanigans—threaten to crack the foundations of the happy couple’s future\, June and Amy find themselves becoming unexpected allies in an all-hands-on-deck effort to get their kids (and themselves) a happily-ever-after two generations in the making. \n  \nAbout Napatini Bistro and Wine Bar\nLynn and Gary McLean are the owner-operators of Carlsbad’s Napatini Bistro & Wine Bar. They moved to San Diego’s North County in 2019 from the San Francisco Bay Area\, where they lived very close to California Wine Country. Long story made short: This is a bucket list to-do for Lynn & Gary! “We wanted a wine experience. Our friends and we thought of all the great times we had at wine tasting rooms in Wine Country. We thought that if we were ever given the opportunity\, we would try to mimic that wine-tasting room experience- at least as much as practical- by opening a wine bar\, minus elaborate decor. After hitting a number of challenges we opened in December 2022!” URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fenton-steinke-frank-youmans-8-6-23-2/ CATEGORIES:Event,Happy Hour Adventures,Wine Pairing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/liz-and-lisa-8.6.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230806T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230806T160000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230525T004550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185847Z UID:10000387-1691326800-1691337600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Double Trouble: a BFF Happy Hour Adventure featuring fan-favorites Alli Frank & Asha Youmans and Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke! DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Adventure\n\nHere comes trouble… and make it double! \nDouble trouble in this case is a good thing\, because it is an opportunity for you to meet not one\, but two\, fan-favorite author duos: Alli Frank & Asha Youmans and Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke. Come enjoy a delicious glass of wine\, along with some scrumptious bite-sized snacks as we celebrate the newest book releases of these two sets of author best friends! \nYour Adventure includes a happy hour experience\, a glass of wine paired with some delicious snacks\, tax\, gratuity\, and an opportunity to meet both sets of authors up close and personal in an intimate setting. Better yet\, double your fun with our VIP ticket which includes discounted copies of both The Better Half and Forever Hold Your Peace to be delivered to the event for signing. \n  \nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nAlli Frank and Asha Youmans found literary soulmates in each other after working together as teacher and school administrator in Seattle\, WA. They discovered a shared mission as educators and as authors— to use humor\, joy and compassion to write stories that encourage candid conversations about issues such as race\, religion\, culture\, class\, privilege\, parenting and education. Their debut\, Tiny Imperfections\, tackled desperate parents and their ill-fated misbehaviors with razor-sharp wit\, followed by Never Meant to Meet You\, which deftly mined the often comedic and underexplored common ground between Black and Jewish experiences in America. \nTheir newest collaboration\, The Better Half\, captivated Mindy Kaling\, and Mindy’s Book Studio\, to publish the book in collaboration with Amazon Publishing. It is a sidesplitting spin on reaching the pinnacle of life\, only to stare down a slippery slope on the other side. \nAfter a difficult five years\, at age forty-three\, Nina Morgan Clarke’s time has finally arrived. With an ex-husband relocated across the country\, her father bouncing back after the loss of his beloved wife\, and her daughter\, Xandra\, thriving at boarding school\, Nina is stepping into her dream job as a trifecta: a first-generation\, Black female head of the storied Royal-Hawkins School. To mark the moment\, Nina and her best friend\, Marisol\, take a long-overdue girls’ trip to celebrate the second half of Nina’s life―which is shaping up to be the best part of her life. \nAs Nina’s school year gets underway\, all seems to be progressing as planned. Before long\, wunder-hire Jared Jones\, two hundred pounds of Harvard-educated ego\, relentlessly pushes Nina to her ethical limits. Soon after\, dutiful Xandra accuses one of her teachers of misconduct. And most alarming\, the repercussions of her trip with Marisol force Nina into a life-altering choice. Time is of the essence\, and Nina must decide if she will embrace a future she never could have predicted.. \nAlli Frank and Asha Youmans bring their very different cultural backgrounds and perspectives together to write in one seamless\, cohesive voice\, united in their belief that humor and fiction can inspire empathy and learning\, and that exposure to diverse experiences can only enrich one’s life. \n  \n \nLiz Fenton and Lisa Steinke have been best friends for over thirty years and survived high school and college together. They’ve co-authored seven novels\, including the Amazon Charts bestseller\, The Good Widow. In addition to writing books\, they created a podcast\, We Fight So You Don’t Have to: Lessons from a thirty-year friendship. They also appear monthly on a San Diego news station to share their favorite book club picks. \nTheir forthcoming book\, Forever Hold Your Peace\, is like Father of the Bride meets Bride Wars\, and features two ex-best friends find themselves shockingly entangled after more than two decades apart. \nWhen their newly engaged kids ask all four divorced parents to meet each other over brunch\, everyone RSVPs yes–secretly hoping someone at the table will get to the bottom of the bottomless mimosas fast enough to say what they’re all thinking: that this engagement\, coming after a whirlwind romance between two people barely out of college\, is too much too soon. \nBut at that brunch it’s not the impulsive couple’s decisions that end up under the microscope\, as it turns out June\, mother of the bride\, and Amy\, mother of the groom\, certainly do know each other–they’re ex-best-friends who haven’t spoken since their explosive falling out more than twenty-five years ago. Reeling from their unwanted reunion and eager to shift the spotlight off their past as decades-old secrets and rivalries come to light\, the two moms battle it out for the prize of Most Enthusiastic About This Wedding. \nBut when their history—and their present-day shenanigans—threaten to crack the foundations of the happy couple’s future\, June and Amy find themselves becoming unexpected allies in an all-hands-on-deck effort to get their kids (and themselves) a happily-ever-after two generations in the making. \n  \nAbout Napatini Bistro and Wine Bar\nLynn and Gary McLean are the owner-operators of Carlsbad’s Napatini Bistro & Wine Bar. They moved to San Diego’s North County in 2019 from the San Francisco Bay Area\, where they lived very close to California Wine Country. Long story made short: This is a bucket list to-do for Lynn & Gary! “We wanted a wine experience. Our friends and we thought of all the great times we had at wine tasting rooms in Wine Country. We thought that if we were ever given the opportunity\, we would try to mimic that wine-tasting room experience- at least as much as practical- by opening a wine bar\, minus elaborate decor. After hitting a number of challenges we opened in December 2022!” URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fenton-steinke-frank-youmans-8-6-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Happy Hour Adventures,Wine Pairing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/liz-and-lisa-8.6.23-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230731T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230731T220000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230408T003740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185846Z UID:10000382-1690819200-1690840800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Pageant of the Masters: a Dinner & Festival of Arts Adventure featuring award winning historical fiction author Nicola Harrison DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nThis event is SOLD OUT.\nThe Pageant of the Masters is the Festival of Arts’ crowning jewel and arguably one of the most unique productions in the entire world…  \nAnd what happens when you add in dinner before the show with award-winning historical fiction author Nicola Harrison at the iconic Hotel Laguna – our Pageant of the Masters Dinner & Festival of Arts Adventure! \nJoin Nicola and your fellow Adventurers for a grand Laguna Beach experience. Enjoy strolling through the Pageant grounds a bit to view the art exhibits\, followed by a decadent dinner at Hotel Laguna with the the author\, as she discusses her book\, Hotel Laguna\, culminating in a group experience at Pageant of the Masters Festival of Arts\, widely known as the best presentation of its kind. \nYour Adventure includes dinner at the iconic Hotel Laguna with the author\, followed by reserved admission with the author to the Pageant of the Masters\, a signed hardcover copy of Nicola’s book Hotel Laguna\, photo-ops\, and an intimate and unforgettable evening with Nicola. Get your Early Bird registration now\, but hurry — Discounted pricing ends in a few weeks! Although transportation is not included\, carpooling is encouraged. \n\nSchedule:\n4:00 pm –  Grounds open; leisure time to enjoy the art exhibits \n5:00 pm – Dinner with Nicola at Hotel Laguna and book signing \n6:30-7:30pm – Stroll the Pageant grounds and enjoy the art exhibits \n7:30 pm – Doors to the Pageant of the Masters open \n8:30 pm – Pageant of the Masters begins \n10:00 pm – Event concludes \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nNicola Harrison is the author of three historical fiction novels\,  Montauk\, The Show Girl\, and Hotel Laguna.  \nBorn and raised in England\, she moved with her family to Southern California when she was 14. She is a graduate of UCLA and received her MFA from Stony Brook University. Prior to writing novels she worked as a fashion journalist in New York City\, where she lived for 17 years. Now she resides in Manhattan Beach\, California\, with her husband\, two sons and a high-maintenance chihuahua named Lola. \nHer book\, Hotel Laguna\, follows trailblazer Hazel Francis\, from the female-staffed factories of World War II to the sun-splashed beaches of southern California\, on a daring journey to demand more for herself. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Nicola or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n\nAbout the Pageant of the Masters\nAn outdoor amphitheater\, professional orchestra\, original score\, live narration\, intricate sets\, sophisticated lighting\, expert staff and hundreds of dedicated volunteers have won recognition for the Pageant of the Masters as the best presentation of its kind. \n \n\n  \n\nAbout Hotel Laguna\nFrom the cool atmosphere of the street-level lobby to the panoramic views of our oceanfront bluff\, Hotel Laguna invites guests to wander and explore; to discover the many moods and unique details of this historic property. Immersed in the modern comfort of a Laguna Beach classic\, they meet new discoveries at every turn. \n \nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/nicola-harrison-7-31-23/ CATEGORIES:Dinner Adventures,Event,Wine Pairing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/3nicola-harrison-7.31.23-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230628T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230628T190000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230418T233314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185845Z UID:10000381-1687973400-1687978800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Book Bingo (June Pride Month Celebration): a Virtual Adventure featuring NYT and bestselling fan favorite authors Krista Burton\, Nicolas DiDomizio\, Elle Everhart\, Jesse Leon\, Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, and Viola Shipman DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event:\n“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”– E.E. Cummings \nIn celebration of Pride Month\, we are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (June Pride Month Celebration): A Virtual Adventure\, in partnership with the Jefferson County Public Library. \nIf you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series\, 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! \nBe you. Do you. Celebrate you…And celebrate Pride Month by playing book bingo with six bestselling and book club favorite authors: Krista Burton\, Nicolas DiDomizio\, Elle Everhart\, Jesse Leon\, Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, and Viola Shipman.  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! \nWhile 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. \nYour 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. \n  \nAbout the Authors\n \nKrista Burton is the creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes and was a frequent contributor to the online magazine Rookie. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Elle\, and VICE. She lives in Minnesota. \nLesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers—havens that provide not only a good time\, a stiff drink\, and an ideal place to debut a brand-new septum piercing but a sense of belonging\, a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987\, there were 206 of them in America. Today\, however\, only a couple dozen lesbian bars are still open for business. How and why did this happen? What has been lost by such a decline? Has anything been gained? What—if any—are the downsides when marginalized communities become more accepted and mainstream?  In her new book\, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America\, Krista Burton attempts to answer these questions firsthand\, venturing on an epic cross-country pilgrimage to the last few remaining dyke bars. \n“Moby Dyke is a hilarious adventure story\, a full-throated love letter to lesbian bars\, and an open-hearted memoir all wrapped up in one glorious package. Come for the bars and stay for the people inside them.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Krista or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n \nNicolas DiDomizio holds a bachelor’s degree from Western Connecticut State University and a master’s degree from NYU. His debut novel\, Burn It All Down\, was published in 2021 and praised as “unforgettable” by James Patterson. He lives in upstate New York with his partner Graig and their smooshy bulldog Rocco. The Gay Best Friend is his second novel. \nIn his new book\, The Gay Best Friend\, Domenic Marino has become an expert at code-switching between the hypermasculine and ultrafeminine worlds of his two soon-to-be-wed best friends. But this summer―reeling from his own failed engagement and tasked with attending their bachelor and bachelorette parties―he’s anxious over having to play both sides…A summer wedding comedy told entirely from the POV of the gay best man. \n“Fun\, frothy\, and full of feels. With characters so messy they seem like people you’ve known your entire life―you know\, the ones you simultaneously want to shake some sense into and hug the stuffing out of―it’s the perfect beach read.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Nicolas or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n \nElle Everhart writes romantic comedies featuring the internet\, sarcasm\, and lots of queer characters (especially bisexual characters because “I\, too\, cuff my jeans and can’t properly sit in chairs”).  Elle lives in  East London and works as a secondary English teacher. When she’s not writing\, you’ll catch her watching a whole lot of YouTube\, obsessing over the worst shows Netflix has to offer\, and hanging around with her son. \n People We Meet on Vacation meets The Unhoneymooners in this sparkling debut romantic comedy about two near strangers—and complete opposites—who win a radio contest for a trip around the world. \n“Laugh-out-loud funny\, sizzling hot\, and full of heart. Jack and Dylan are undeniable proof that opposites do attract\, and following them around the world is the great escape we all need right now!” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elle or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. \n“A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives\, bodhisattvas all.” \n  \n \nJeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs\, Georgia.  Early on\, Jeffrey spent many a night acting on the stages of DC’s theaters and performing arts centers. He even scored a few television appearances\, including a Super Bowl halftime commercial\, which his accountant wisecracked “Is the finest work of your career.”  When he stepped away from acting for other\, more traditional employment (much to his parents’ delight and relief)\, he also focused on pursuing post-graduate work\, ultimately being awarded Master’s degrees in both Public Administration and Library and Information Science.    Jeffrey calls the nation’s capital home now\, where he serves as a senior advisor at the Library of Congress\, surrounded by books and people who love books—in short\, paradise. \n“Make a glass of sweet tea\, pull up a porch chair\, and a cloth to mop your brow. Red Clay Suzie roots readers in the pacing of the South as Lofton coaxes his people from the heat and the rain and the gardens and the cars. It is a journey of refuge and emergence—helped and hindered by family and friends. Even through the characters’ most painful moments of discovery and loss\, it is an absolute joy to read. Three cheers to Jeffrey Dale Lofton and his stellar debut novel.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n \nWADE ROUSE is the internationally bestselling author of nine books\, which have been translated into nearly 20 languages. Wade chose his grandmother’s name\, Viola Shipman\, as a pen name to honor the woman whose heirlooms and family stories inspire his fiction.  Wade’s novels include The Charm Bracelet\, a 2017 Michigan Notable Book of the Year; The Hope Chest; and The Recipe Box. NYT bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank says of Wade and his latest novel\, The Summer Cottage: “Every now and then a new voice in fiction arrives to completely charm\, entertain and remind us what matters.  Viola Shipman is that voice and The Summer Cottage is that novel.” \nBursting with memorable characters and small-town lore\, Famous in a Small Town\, the enchanting new novel from the bestselling author of The Clover Girls is Fried Green Tomatoes meets Virgin River\, a magical story about the family you’re born with\, and the one you choose. \n“Full of summertime delight…and sweet\, nostalgic charm\, Famous in a Small Town is a beautiful reminder to…fully embrace the magic that lives inside you.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Viola (Wade) or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \nRegistration: Jefferson County Public Library\nJefferson County Public Library in Colorado helps to build an educated and vibrant community by providing equal access to information and opportunities. For this particular bingo event\, register here with the Jeffco Public Library. Your virtual bingo card and Zoom invite will be sent directly from the Jeffco Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n  \nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre 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 130 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/bingo-pride-6-28-23/ CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/June-Pride-book-bingo-6.28.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230610T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230610T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230312T011556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185841Z UID:10000377-1686409200-1686416400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Reading Between the Vines: a Summer Happy Hour Adventure featuring Adele Griffin and Annabel Monaghan DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\n“Insightful\,” “Warmhearted\,” “The Ultimate Summer nostalgia read\,” “an unforgettable love story.”  \nWhat better way to launch the summer than with a happy hour featuring two authors whose new releases are utterly delightful\, witty\, and wonderful. \nCome raise a glass to toast the onset of summer with the authors of two big-hearted and unforgettable tales\, Adele Griffin and Annabel Monaghan. As part of our new series\, Reading Between the Vines\, and together with San Pasqual Winery in La Mesa\, California\, we have paired two books perfect for summer reading with wines and charcuterie tastings hand selected by the folks at the San Pasqual Winery Tasting Room and Gallery (not the winery itself)\, 8364 La Mesa Blvd\, La Mesa. \nYour Adventure includes a relaxing and enjoyable afternoon meeting the authors\, an individually wrapped charcuterie box and a 3-flight wine tasting specially paired for each book\, book signings\, photo-ops\, and an intimate and unforgettable afternoon celebrating fearless women at the San Pasqual Winery Tasting Room and Gallery. Pre-order both books below and receive a discount! \n\n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nAdele Griffin is a New Yorker who enjoys living in Los Angeles even if it never snows here. She is the author of many books for new and young people. The Favor (June 2023) is her first book for older people. She loves pull-quotes\, bakery cakes\, and writing about herself in third person. \nFrom this National Book Award finalist comes an insightful and warmhearted story of two very different women who make an unexpected connection when one decides to carry a baby for the other.  A contemporary story that celebrates alternative routes to family\, The Favor is an incisive examination of what it means to long for a child and what relationships cost us―and what they’re worth. \n  \n \nAnnabel Monaghan is the author of IndieNext and LibraryReads pick Nora Goes Off Script as well as two young adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?\, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in the Huffington Post\, the Week\, and the Rye Record. She lives in Rye\, New York\, with her family. \nAnnabel’s new release\, Same Time Next Summer\, is the ultimate summer nostalgia read\, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn’t seen in fourteen years\, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart\, calling into question everything she thought she knew about their love story\, and herself. \n“An unforgettable love story…Bursting with the magic of first love\, it’s everything I want in a summer romance.” \n\n  \n\nAbout San Pasqual Winery\nSan Pasqual Winery is a small\, family owned winery located in La Mesa\, California – about 15 miles east of San Diego. Although the namesake dates to the 1970’s when it was located in the San Pasqual Valley\, the winery was later “reinvented” as San Diego’s first urban winery\, earning it a spot on Sunset Magazine’s list of “Hot 100 West Coast Trends.” \nThe winery is now located in the industrial area of La Mesa\, with offsite tasting rooms nearby in the Village of La Mesa and downtown San Diego at Seaport Village. With annual production ranging from three to four thousand cases\, most of their wine is sold directly from the winery and tasting room locations\, allowing a more personal connection with the people who enjoy their wines. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/adele-griffin-annabel-monaghan-6-10-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Happy Hour Adventures,Wine Pairing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/monaghan-griffin-6.10.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230609T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230609T160000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230222T035613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185840Z UID:10000371-1686321000-1686326400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Lady Tan's Circle of Women: a Free Library Adventure featuring New York Times bestselling author Lisa See DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Adventure\n\nNo mud\, no lotus\, they tell themselves: from adversity beauty can bloom… \nNew York Times bestselling author Lisa See returns with Lady Tan’s Circle of Women\, a captivating historical novel based on the true story of a female physician from 15th-century China. Join Lisa at the Carlsbad City Library and learn about Tan Yunxian\, who defied Confucius’ belief that “an educated woman is a worthless woman.” \nThis Adventure will include a brief presentation by Kimberley Woo\, Doctorate of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine that discusses general concepts in Chinese Medicine today\, and an interactive portion during which the audience will locate common acupuncture points on themselves. \nThis event is expected to sell out\, so we recommend that you purchase a VIP registration below\, which not only guarantees your seat (while supplies last)\, but also includes a hardcover copy of Lady Tan’s Circle of Women to be delivered to you at the event for signing. Books will be also be available for purchase at the event.  \n  \nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. However\, seating is available on a first-come fist-serve basis\, and you can guarantee a seat (while supplies last) by purchasing the VIP registration below\, which includes a copy of Lady Tan’s Circle of Women to be delivered to the event for signing. \nPLEASE NOTE: VIP SEATING IS SOLD OUT FOR THIS EVENT. THE REMAINING EVENT SEATS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON A FIRST-COME\, FIRST-SERVED BASIS\, SO PLAN TO ARRIVE EARLY. YOU MAY STILL PRE-ORDER A COPY BELOW OF LADY TAN’S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS TO BE DELIVERED TO YOU AT THE EVENT FOR SIGNING. BOOKS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AND SIGNING AT THE EVENT. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nIn her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, Peony in Love\, Shanghai Girls\, Dreams of Joy\, and China Dolls\, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the strong bonds between women. \nThese books have been celebrated for their authentic\, deeply researched\, lyrical stories about Chinese characters and cultures. Independent booksellers have honored her novels by selecting them as an Indie Next pick\, her novels were sold to 39 countries\, she has won numerous awards domestically and internationally\, and her novel Snow Flower was made into a feature film produced by Fox Searchlight. \nHer latest book\, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women\, was inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China. Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family\, yet haunted by death\, separations\, and loneliness— will go on to break free of traditions\, treat women and girls from every level of society\, and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later. \nAbout Kimberley Woo\n \nDr. Kimberley Woo graduated from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in May 2012 with a Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine (MSTOM).  Four years later\, she earned a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Since graduating with her MSTOM\, Dr. Woo has enjoyed practicing Chinese medicine within integrated settings\, and she is also currently serving on two committees for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. \nDr. Woo’s professional goals include helping patients experience the benefits and balance of individualized and integrated approaches to health. From pediatrics to geriatrics\, from weekend warriors to professional athletes\, Carlsbad-based Dr. Woo finds the uniqueness of each case and strives to help patients both within the office while receiving treatments\, and outside when they are home. \nWhen Dr. Woo is not at work\, she is an avid “gym rat” and is a bikini fitness competitor.  Dr. Woo enjoys cooking\, restaurant dining\, and traveling.  She is refreshing her Mandarin and French language skills in anticipation of future trips abroad. \n\n  \nAbout the Carlsbad City Library\n \n\n\nCarlsbad City Library provides community members of all ages with convenient access to high-quality resources and services to inform and enrich individual and community life. Carlsbad City Library is the destination for information\, enjoyment of reading\, lifelong learning\, and cultural enrichment for those who live\, work and play in Carlsbad. \n  URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/lisa-see-6-9-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,SoCal Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Lisa-See-Carlsbad-Library-June-92023-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T203000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230310T003856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185841Z UID:10000375-1684868400-1684873800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Evening of Suspense: a Free Coronado Public Library Adventure featuring New York Times bestselling authors Kate White and Cara Black DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Adventure\n\n“The suspense is horrible; I hope it will last.” – Oscar Wilde \nWe won’t keep you in suspense – or maybe we will\, because Oscar Wilde is right! And if you like suspense as much as we do\, you won’t want to miss two New York Times bestselling authors\, Kate White and Cara Black\, who both have new books that will keep you turning pages late into the night.  \nKate White’s new psychological thriller\, Between Two Strangers\, is “deliciously addictive…as impossible to predict as it is to put down” (Lisa Unger) and Cara Black’s historical novel\, Night Flight to Paris “vividly evokes the sights\, sounds\, and smells of Paris under Nazi occupation” (Publisher’s Weekly). Meet both authors at the Coronado Public Library for a delicious evening of suspense. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but if you wish to guarantee your spot with VIP seating\, simply purchase one (or both to receive a bundled discount!) of the author’s books below\, which will be delivered to you at the event for signing. Books will be also be available for purchase at the event. Only books pre-purchased below or at the event are eligible for signing. \n  \nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. However\, seating is available on a first-come first-served basis\, and you can guarantee a seat (while supplies last) by purchasing one (or both to receive a special bundled discount!) of the authors’ books below\, to be delivered to the event for signing. \n  \nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nKate White is the New York Times bestselling author of 17 novels of suspense: 9 standalone psychological thrillers\, including The Secrets You Keep and The Second Husband\,  and 8 Bailey Weggins mysteries. \nFor 14 years Kate served as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan\, which under her became the most successful magazine in single copy sales in the U.S. Though she loved her magazine career\, she decided to leave 10 years ago to concentrate full-time on another passion: writing suspense fiction. \nKate’s first mystery\, If Looks Could Kill\, was a Kelly Ripa Book Club pick and #1 bestseller on Amazon\, and she has received and been nominated for many awards in her media career\, including an International Thriller Writers Award. \nHer new book\, Between Two Strangers\, is pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a struggling artist who receives a bewilderingly large\, life-changing inheritance from a man she spent a single night with twelve years ago – and she has no idea why. \n \n  \nCara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series\, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. \nCara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards\, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation\, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal\, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture—and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime. \nWith more than 400\,000 books in print\, the Aimée Leduc series has been translated into German\, Norwegian\, Japanese\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew. \nHer new book\, Night Flight to Paris\, is the (stand-alone) sequel to Three Hours in Paris\, chosen by the Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal and Seattle Times as one of the Best Crime Novels of 2020 \nIt’s been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then\, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney\, her former handler\, drags her back into the fray for a risky three-pronged mission in Paris. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Cara or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \nAbout the Coronado Public Library\n Library\n\n\nThe Coronado Public Library’s mission is to meet the informational\, recreational\, and cultural needs of the community and to actively promote reading\, life-long learning\, and the pursuit of knowledge. \n  URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kate-white-cara-black-5-23-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,SoCal Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/White-Black-Coronado-5.23.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T153000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230310T004026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185841Z UID:10000376-1684850400-1684855800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Afternoon of Suspense: a Free Carlsbad Public Library Adventure featuring New York Times bestselling authors Kate White and Cara Black DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Adventure\n\n“The suspense is horrible; I hope it will last.” – Oscar Wilde \nWe won’t keep you in suspense – or maybe we will\, because Oscar Wilde is right! And if you like suspense as much as we do\, you won’t want to miss two New York Times bestselling authors\, Kate White and Cara Black\, who both have new books that will keep you turning pages late into the night.  \nKate White’s new psychological thriller\, Between Two Strangers\, is “deliciously addictive…as impossible to predict as it is to put down” (Lisa Unger) and Cara Black’s historical novel\, Night Flight to Paris “vividly evokes the sights\, sounds\, and smells of Paris under Nazi occupation” (Publisher’s Weekly). Meet both authors at the Carlsbad City Library for a delicious afternoon of suspense. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but if you wish to guarantee your spot with VIP seating\, simply purchase one (or both to receive a bundled discount!) of the author’s books below\, which will be delivered to you at the event for signing. Books will be also be available for purchase at the event. Only books pre-purchased below or at the event are eligible for signing. \n  \nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. However\, seating is available on a first-come first-served basis\, and you can guarantee a seat (while supplies last) by purchasing one (or both to receive a special bundled discount!) of the authors’ books below\, to be delivered to the event for signing. \n  \nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nKate White is the New York Times bestselling author of 17 novels of suspense: 9 standalone psychological thrillers\, including The Secrets You Keep and The Second Husband\,  and 8 Bailey Weggins mysteries. \nFor 14 years Kate served as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan\, which under her became the most successful magazine in single copy sales in the U.S. Though she loved her magazine career\, she decided to leave 10 years ago to concentrate full-time on another passion: writing suspense fiction. \nKate’s first mystery\, If Looks Could Kill\, was a Kelly Ripa Book Club pick and #1 bestseller on Amazon\, and she has received and been nominated for many awards in her media career\, including an International Thriller Writers Award. \nHer new book\, Between Two Strangers\, is pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a struggling artist who receives a bewilderingly large\, life-changing inheritance from a man she spent a single night with twelve years ago – and she has no idea why. \n \n  \nCara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series\, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. \nCara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards\, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation\, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal\, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture—and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime. \nWith more than 400\,000 books in print\, the Aimée Leduc series has been translated into German\, Norwegian\, Japanese\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew. \nHer new book\, Night Flight to Paris\, is the (stand-alone) sequel to Three Hours in Paris\, chosen by the Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal and Seattle Times as one of the Best Crime Novels of 2020 \nIt’s been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then\, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney\, her former handler\, drags her back into the fray for a risky three-pronged mission in Paris. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Cara or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \nAbout the Carlsbad City Library\n\n\n\nThe Carlsbad City Library system\, serves the community with three inviting and unique facilities: Carlsbad City Library on Dove Lane\, Georgina Cole Library and Carlsbad City Library Learning Center.. \n  URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/white-black-carlsbad-5-23-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,SoCal Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/White-Black-Carlsbad-5.23.23-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230509T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230302T011810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185841Z UID:10000373-1683648000-1683651600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:A Boob's Life: a FREE Virtual Book Launch Adventure featuring award-winning author Leslie Lehr in conversation with New York Times/bestselling authors Kristin Harmel\, Laura Zigman and Jamie Brenner DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nAward-winning author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs; it’s why she wrote A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me-and You.  But she’s not alone… New York Times/bestselling authors Kristin Harmel\, Laura Zigman and Jamie Brenner\, want to talk about boobs\, too\, and we think you need to hear what they have to say\, because these four beloved and bestselling authors have had to take a good hard look at their own bodies as they underwent (or are undergoing) treatment for breast cancer. \nPlease join these four courageous authors for a casual\, frank conversation about breast cancer–how they were diagnosed\, how it changed their lives\, how their cancer was treated\, what they now know that they wish they knew then\, how it changed their perspective going forward\, how it affected them as writers\, and how it affected their relationship to our own bodies. This is an important conversation for anyone who has breasts\, or loves them. \nFollowing their dialogue\, celebrate Leslie’s paperback launch of A Boob’s Life\, which explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman’s body. Leslie deftly blends her personal narrative with national history\, starting in the 1960s with the women’s liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America’s obsession with the female form has affected her own life’s journey and the psyche of all women today. \nAnd of course\, we want to hear from you\, so have your questions ready. These authors are candid\, brave\, and eager to educate others. No matter your gender\, you’ll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again. \n\nBooks\nBooks from all the featured authors are available below for purchase and will be shipped directly to you. Please consider donating a copy of A Boob’s Life to a cancer center to distribute to women undergoing breast cancer treatment. Just click on the DONATION COPY of Leslie’s book below. Thank you for your continued support! \n  \nRegistration\nThis event is free and open to the public. For event admission\, simply select the FREE Book Launch Registration (5/9/23) below and we will send you a Zoom link a few days prior to the event to access the virtual session. \n\n\n\nAbout the Authors\n \n\nLeslie Lehr explores the duality of today’s women to navigate a new path between sexy and sacred.Salma Hayek is developing Leslie’s critically acclaimed new memoir\, A Boob’s Life\, into a comedy series for HBO Max. A prize-winning writer\, Leslie’s books include What A Mother Knows\, a Target Recommended Read\, Wife Goes On\, and 66 Laps\, winner of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize. Her nonfiction books include Welcome to Club Mom\, Club Grandma\, excerpted on FisherPrice.com\, and Wendy Bellissimo: Nesting\, featured on Oprah. \nLeslie’s personal essays have appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column about breast cancer (called “How I Got to Here” narrated by Katie Couric on NPR). Good Morning America called it a “Must-read.” \nA Boob’s Life (now in paperback with additional material) explores the surprising truth about women’s most popular body part with vulnerable\, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts—or loves them. Good Morning America called it a “Must-read”\, People Magazine and Glamour had it in “Best New Books\,” Pub Weekly had it in “Best Books” \n  \n\n \n\nKristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling\, USA Today bestselling\, and #1 international bestselling author of The Forest of Vanishing Stars\, The Book of Lost Names\, The Winemaker’s Wife\, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and are sold all over the world. \nKristin is currently undergoing treatment for breast cancer and has courageously taken her story public to help inspire women to schedule their mammograms\, because early detection does save lives. You may have been one of the more than 1\,200 women who committed to getting their mammogram as part of our Susan G. Komen virtual fundraising event in honor of Kristin on March 7. \nKristin’s forthcoming book\, The Paris Daughter\, is a historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation. \n  \n\n \n\nLaura Zigman is the author of five novels\, including Separation Anxiety (which was optioned by Julianne Nicholson and the production company Wiip (Mare of Easttown) for a limited television series); Animal Husbandry (which was made into the movie Someone Like You\, starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd)\, Dating Big Bird\, Her\, and Piece of Work. She has ghostwritten/collaborated on several works of non-fiction\, including Eddie Izzard’s New York Times bestseller\, Believe Me; been a contributor to the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Huffington Post; produced a popular online series of animated videos called Annoying Conversations; and was the recipient of a Yaddo residency. \nSmall World is heartfelt novel about two offbeat and newly divorced sisters who move in together as adults—and finally reckon with their childhood. \n  \n\n \n\nJamie Brenner writes beach reads with a twist\, including the national bestseller The Forever Summer and her latest Gilt.  People Magazine calls her books\, “a delightful escape wherever you are.” Publishers Weekly says of her new novel\, Gilt\, “This beach read sparkles like a diamond.” \nHer book\, Gilt\, is a luxurious and richly compelling novel about a famous family jewelry dynasty and the hidden past that could topple it all. \nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/lesli-lehr-5-9-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/leslie-lehr-5.9.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230430T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230430T173000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230210T043233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185840Z UID:10000368-1682861400-1682875800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Reading Between the Vines: a Sonoma Wine & Book Pairing Adventure featuring New York Times and bestselling authors Karen White\, Noelle Salazar\, Rebecca Rosenberg\, Renee Rosen\, Robert Kerbeck\, Martha Conway\, Eleanor Brown\, and Kristin Beck DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\n“Language is wine upon the lips” – Virginia Woolf\nVirginia Woolf made the connection between language and wine\, so we decided to take a page from her and create an entire Adventures by the Book series devoted to the pairing of wine and books. Voila! Introducing our new Reading Between the Vines series to take place at the estate producer Hook & Ladder Winery in Sonoma County\, California! \nWith the assistance of Melier\, we have created for you an entire afternoon filled with sumptuous wines\, delicious books\, and charcuterie platters galore\, all presented under California’s brilliant trademark sunshine. Eight New York Times and bestselling authors – Karen White\, Noelle Salazar\, Rebecca Rosenberg\, Renee Rosen\, Robert Kerbeck\, Martha Conway\, Eleanor Brown\, and Kristin Beck – will be on hand to share with you their latest books\, all paired with wines and charcuterie spreads hand selected by the folks at Hook & Ladder. \nAnd if you really want to up your experience\, and we think Virginia Woolf would have indulged\, join us for the pre-event VIP experience\, an intimate behind the scenes with the winemaker and the authors in the barrel room\, which includes a book of your choice with a paired bottle of wine. \n1:30-2:45pm – Your VIP experience will include your choice of one of the eight bottles of wine and paired book to be delivered to you for signing\, along with a special reception in the barrel room with the winemaker and the authors. Limited spaces available to allow for a more intimate experience. Early bird pricing available until the end of March! \n3:00-5:30pm – Your Adventure includes a relaxing and enjoyable afternoon meeting the authors\, tasting delectable wines and charcuterie spreads specially paired for each book\, book signings\, photo ops\, and an intimate and unforgettable afternoon at the gorgeous Hook & Ladder Winery in Santa Rosa (Sonoma County). \n  \nRegistration\nFor regular event admission\, choose the Event Registration option which includes wine tasting\, charcuterie tastings\, and one paperback book of your choice. Enhance your experience by choosing the VIP Add-On\, which includes a winemaker reception in the barrel room and one bottle of wine paired with a book of your choice. But hurry! The VIP Add-On early bird pricing ends March 10th! \n\n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nKaren White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 34 books\, with almost two million books in print in fifteen different languages\, including the Tradd Street series\, The Last Night in London\, Dreams of Falling\, The Night the Lights Went Out\, Flight Patterns\, The Sound of Glass\, and A Long Time Gone. She is the coauthor of The Lost Summers of Newport\, All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband near Atlanta\, Georgia. \nIn Karen’s novel\, The Shop on Royal Street\, Nola Trenholm is hopeful for a fresh start in the Big Easy but must deal with ghosts from her past—as well as new ones—in this first book in a spin-off series of Karen White’s New York Times bestselling Tradd Street novels. \nHook and Ladder Paired Wine: \n2021 Midnight Ranch Pinot Noir\n  \n \nNoelle Salazar was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest\, where she’s been a Navy recruit\, a medical assistant\, an NFL cheerleader\, and always a storyteller. As a novelist\, she has done extensive research into the Women Airforce Service Pilots\, interviewing vets and visiting the training facility—now a museum dedicated to the WASP—in Sweetwater\, Texas. When she’s not writing\, she can be found dodging raindrops and daydreaming of her next book. Noelle lives in Bothell\, Washington with her family. \nHer debut\, The Flight Girls\, was a USA Today and international bestseller. in her new book\, Angels of the Resistance\, it’s 1940 Netherlands\, and courageous women are risking everything for country\, for family\, and for each other. \nHook and Ladder Paired Wine: \n2021 Aquarius Ranch Chardonnay\n  \n \nRebecca Rosenberg is a lavender farmer\, champagne geek\, and award-winning author of four books. She fell in love with méthode champenoise in Sonoma\, California\, where she lives on a lavender farm with her family. Since then\, she has pursued decades of delicious research in the wine caves and cellars of France\, Spain\, Italy\, Portugal\, Argentina and California. She is a champagne historian\, tour guide and champagne cocktail creator for Breathless Wines. \nIn her new book\, Madame Pommery is surprised with a newborn at forty years old in 1860 Champagne\, France. After she is suddenly widowed and must support her family\, she starts a champagne house with no experience and invents brut champagne\, breaking society and patriarchal rules. \nHook and Ladder Paired Wine: \n2020 Organic Mendocino Blanc De Blanc\n  \n \nRenee Rosen is a USA Today bestselling author whose novels include The Social Graces\, Park Avenue Summer\, Windy City Blues\, White Collar Girl\, What the Lady Wants\, and Dollface\, as well as the young adult novel\, Every Creek Pot. She is currently working on a new novel about the Barbie doll creator\, Ruth Handler\, coming in 2025. \nIt is 1938\, and a young woman selling face cream out of a New York City beauty parlor is determined to prove she can have it all. Her name is Estée Lauder\, and she’s about to take the world by storm\, in The Glamour Girl\, Renee’s dazzling new novel. \nHook and Ladder Paired Wine: \n2022 Rosé of Pinot Noir\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n \nRobert Kerbeck’s true crime memoir\,RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street is the story of how a wannabe actor became the world’s greatest corporate spy. Frank Abagnale\, author of Catch Me If You Can\, said\, “Kerbeck has mastered the art of social engineering\, or what he calls ‘rusing’\, and taken it to a whole new level\,” while the New York Journal of Books wrote “Kerbeck’s astounding spy story is fraught with tension.” \nRobert’s previous book MALIBU BURNING: The Real Story Behind LA’s Most Devastating Wildfire\, won a SoCal Journalism Award\, the IPPY Award\, and the Best of LA Award. His writing has appeared in numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Los Angeles Magazine\, and Lithub’s Crime Reads. Robert is also the creator and host of the Soho House Literary Salon @ Soho House Malibu where his most recent guest was legendary ESPN sports media figure Stephen A. Smith. \nHook and Ladder Paired Wine: \n2020 “Third Alarm” Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon\n\n\n\n.\n \nMartha Conway is the author of several novels including The Underground River\, which was a New York Times Book Editor’s Choice. Her novel Thieving Forest won the North American Book Award for Best Historical Fiction. Martha’s short fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review\, Mississippi Review\, The Quarterly\, Carolina Quarterly\, and other publications. In addition to writing\, Martha is an instructor of creative writing at Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program. She received her BA from Vassar College in History and English\, and her MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Born and raised in Ohio\, she now lives in San Francisco with her family\, where the fog reminds her of lake-effect cloud cover in Cleveland. \nIn her new novel\, The Physician’s Daughter\, it is 1865\, the American Civil War has just ended\, and 18-year old Vita Tenney is determined to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a country doctor like her father. But when her father tells her she must get married instead\, Vita explores every means of escape – and finds one in the person of war veteran Jacob Culhane. Damaged by what he’s seen in battle and with all his family gone\, Jacob is seeking investors for a fledgling business. Then he meets Vita – and together they hatch a plan that should satisfy both their desires. In a world made for men\, can one woman break free from tradition and walk a new path? \nHook and Ladder Paired Wine: \n2020 Marcucci Ranch Zinfandel\n  \n \nEleanor Brown is the New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of three novels: Any Other Family\, The Weird Sisters\, and The Light of Paris. Her writing has been hailed by People magazine as “delightful” and “creative and original” by Library Journal. In addition to her fiction writing\, Eleanor edited the anthology A Paris All Your Own. Her book reviews\, interviews\, and essays have been featured in publications including The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, and Publishers Weekly. Born and raised in the Washington\, D.C. area\, Eleanor lives with her family in Colorado. \nEleanor returns with a striking and intimate new novel\, Any Other Family\, about three very different women facing an impossible question: What makes a family? They look just like any other family. But they aren’t a family like any other – not quite. Instead\, they are three sets of parents who adopted four biological siblings\, committing to keeping the children connected after the death of their grandmother. \nHook and Ladder Paired Wine: \n2021 Spider Web Ranch Chardonnay\n\n. \n \nKristin Beck is the bestselling author of Courage\, My Love. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest\, she often writes to the sound of drumming rain and percolating coffee\, and she wakes up every day excited to do so. Her books center on overlooked women in history who led courageous\, often riveting lives.. \nKristin’s new historical novel\, The Winter Orphans\, is a poignant and ultimately triumphant novel based on the incredible true story of children who braved the danger of wintry mountain passes in France to escape the Nazis in 1942 Southern France\, from the acclaimed author of Courage\, My Love. \nHook and Ladder Paired Wine: \n2019 Cabernet Franc\n\n\nAbout Hook & Ladder Winery\nHook & Ladder is an “estate” producer\, specializing in small bottlings of Pinot Noir\, “Old Vine” Zinfandel\, Chardonnay\, Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blends sourced from the family’s sustainably-farmed vineyards in Russian River Valley and its sub-appellation\, Chalk Hill. The winery also produces and sells estate-grown Olive Oil from trees grown at their Los Amigos Ranch. \n\n\nAbout Melier\nLuxury tastes shouldn’t be confined to luxury resorts. Book a Melier experience and enjoy private wine & culinary experiences from your home\, office\, or vacation rental. And when you book with Melier\, you’re directly supporting the tastemakers who are bringing their creations to life. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/reading-between-the-vines-4-30-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Wine Pairing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/new-read-between-the-vines-4.30.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230423T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230423T160000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230220T031811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185840Z UID:10000370-1682258400-1682265600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Reading Between the Vines: a Wine & Book Pairing Adventure featuring USA Today bestselling and book club favorite author Susan Meissner DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\n“Language is wine upon the lips” – Virginia Woolf\nVirginia Woolf made the connection between language and wine\, so we wanted to take a page from her and create an entire Adventures by the Book series devoted to the pairing of wine and books. Voila! Introducing our new Reading Between the Vines series to take place at the estate producer Hook & Ladder Winery\, 2134 Olivet Rd\, Santa Rosa\, in Sonoma County\, California! \nWith the assistance of Melier\, indulge in an afternoon filled with sumptuous wine tastings\, fascinating books\, and mini-bites\, all presented under California’s brilliant trademark sunshine. While you sample some of the delectable wines that Hook & Ladder Winery is known for\, meet USA Today bestselling author Susan Meissner and learn about her novel Only the Beautiful. Books are available for preorder below to be delivered and signed at the event. \n  \n\nAbout the Author\n \nSusan Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with more than three-quarters of a million books in print in eighteen languages. She is an author\, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism. \nHer novels include The Nature of Fragile Things\, which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly; The Last Year of the War\, named to Real Simple magazine’s list of best books for 2019; As Bright as Heaven\, which earned a starred review in Library Journal; Secrets of Charmed Life\, a Goodreads finalist for Best Historical Fiction 2015; and A Fall of Marigolds\, named to Booklist’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction titles for 2014. \nHer latest book\, Only the Beautiful\, is a heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter\, and the winds of fortune that tear them apart. \nEvent Registration\nWhile this event is free and open to the public\, registration is requested for planning purposes. Also\, you may pre-order a copy below of Only the Beautiful to be delivered at the event for signing. Only books purchased below or at the event are eligible for signing. \n\nAbout Hook & Ladder Winery\nHook & Ladder is an “estate” producer\, specializing in small bottlings of Pinot Noir\, “Old Vine” Zinfandel\, Chardonnay\, Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blends sourced from the family’s sustainably-farmed vineyards in Russian River Valley and its sub-appellation\, Chalk Hill. The winery also produces and sells estate-grown Olive Oil from trees grown at their Los Amigos Ranch. \n\n\n\nAbout Melier\nLuxury tastes shouldn’t be confined to luxury resorts. Book a Melier experience and enjoy private wine & culinary experiences from your home\, office\, or vacation rental. And when you book with Melier\, you’re directly supporting the tastemakers who are bringing their creations to life. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/susan-meissner-4-23-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Wine Pairing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/read-between-the-vines-susan-meissner-4.23.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T120000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230329T035910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185845Z UID:10000379-1681988400-1681992000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Michelangelo's David: a World Art Week virtual Adventure featuring art historian and USA Today bestselling author Laura Morelli DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nMichelangelo’s David\, a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture\, was created in the early days of the 16th century\, and today it stands as one of the most recognized works of art in the world\, a symbol of strength and youthful beauty. But what is David’s story\, and what makes it a pivotal work for the history of western civilization? \nLucky for us that art historian and USA Today bestselling author Laura Morelli is in the house\, because her novel\, The Giant\, tells us the story behind the art\, which Laura has agreed to share with us in a multi-sensorial slide show presentation. \nPlease join us for this important conversation about the role art plays in our world today. Your Adventure includes a signed paperback copy of The Giant\, admission to the Zoom event\, a fascinating slide show presentation about David\, and discussion with the author. \n\nBooks\nSigned books are included with your event admission and will be shipped directly to you. Feel free to purchase additional gift copies below\, all of which will include signed bookplates. \n  \nRegistration\nFor event admission\, simply select the David Event Registration (4/20/23) below and we will send you a Zoom link a few days prior to the event to access the virtual session. \n\n\nAbout the Author\n \n\nLaura Morelli holds a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University and is an award-winning\, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling historical novelist. \nShe is the author of the popular guidebook series that includes Made in Italy. Her historical novels\, including The Night Portrait and The Last Masterpiece\, bring the stories of art history to life. Laura’s books have been picks at Costco\, Target\, and Hudson News. \nLaura has taught college students in the U.S. and in Italy\, and shares her passion for the history of Italian art in her online programs at lauramorelli.com. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Laura or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/laura-morelli-4-2-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/laura-morelli-4.20.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230416T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230416T160000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230220T032245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185814Z UID:10000352-1681653600-1681660800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Reading Between the Vines: a Wine & Book Pairing Adventure featuring USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\n“Language is wine upon the lips” – Virginia Woolf\nVirginia Woolf made the connection between language and wine\, so we wanted to take a page from her and create an entire Adventures by the Book series devoted to the pairing of wine and books. Voila! Introducing our new Reading Between the Vines series to take place at the estate producer Hook & Ladder Winery\, 2134 Olivet Rd\, Santa Rosa\, in Sonoma County\, California! \nWith the assistance of Melier\, indulge in an afternoon filled with sumptuous wine tastings\, fascinating books\, and mini-bites\, all presented under California’s brilliant trademark sunshine. While you sample some of the delectable wines that Hook & Ladder Winery is known for\, meet USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn and learn about her historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich. Books are available for purchase below to be delivered and signed at the event. \n  \n\nAbout the Author\n \nJennifer Coburn is the author of the historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Jennifer has also published 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. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \nEvent Registration\nWhile this event is free and open to the public\, registration is requested for planning purposes. Also\, you may pre-order a copy below of Cradles of the Reich to be delivered at the event for signing. Only books purchased below or at the event are eligible for signing. \n\nAbout Hook & Ladder Winery\nHook & Ladder is an “estate” producer\, specializing in small bottlings of Pinot Noir\, “Old Vine” Zinfandel\, Chardonnay\, Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux-style blends sourced from the family’s sustainably-farmed vineyards in Russian River Valley and its sub-appellation\, Chalk Hill. The winery also produces and sells estate-grown Olive Oil from trees grown at their Los Amigos Ranch. \n\n\n\nAbout Melier\nLuxury tastes shouldn’t be confined to luxury resorts. Book a Melier experience and enjoy private wine & culinary experiences from your home\, office\, or vacation rental. And when you book with Melier\, you’re directly supporting the tastemakers who are bringing their creations to life. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jennifer-coburn-4-16-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Wine Pairing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/read-between-the-vines-jennifer-coburn-4.16.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230401T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230401T120000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230127T050554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185830Z UID:10000353-1680343200-1680350400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Self-Care and Sisterhood Adventure: a Workshop to Heal and Connect with renowned authors Julie Potiker and Puja Shah DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nBreathe in\, breathe through\, breathe deep\, breathe out… \nDo you often forget to take those deep breaths when life has you on the run\, feeling stressed\, or just plain zapped of energy? Here is your opportunity to jump-start a little self-care with a mini workshop at the La Jolla/Riford Library with Julie Potiker\, mindfulness expert and author of SNAP!: From Chaos to Calm\,  and meditation instructor\, philanthropist and visionary poet Puja Shah\, author of For My Sister! \nAfter a fun and interactive workshop learning the evidence based SNAP method for managing difficult emotions\, and gentle mindfulness exercises\, books\, tea\, and delectable treats\, you will be ready to claim your renewed and refreshed spirit. Each attendee will receive their very own gratitude journal\, as well as a paperback copy of SNAP!: From Chaos to Calm AND a paperback copy of For My Sister. And to add an extra dose of feel-good\, we will donate a portion of event proceeds to the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion\, committed to building an equitable\, inclusive\, and caring global community while supporting the practice of self-compassion. \nYour Self-Care Workshop Adventure includes a mini mindfulness workshop\, gratitude journal\, a paperback copy of SNAP!: From Chaos to Calm AND a paperback copy of For My Sister to be delivered and signed at the event\, tea\, sweet bites\, a donation to the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion\, and the opportunity to meet the authors live and in-person. \n\n\nAbout the Authors\n \nJulie Potiker\, is a mindfulness expert with extensive certifications and teacher training in a variety of tools and methods\, including Mindful Self-Compassion. Her new book is SNAP! From Chaos to Calm. Through her Mindful Methods for Life program offerings\, Julie helps others bring more peace and wellness into their lives. Julie’s first book\, Life Falls Apart\, but You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos\, is now available on audiobook. Learn more at MindfulMethodsForLife.com. \nHer work has been featured by The Oprah Magazine\, Costco Connection\, AARP\, AP News\, NBC\, CBS\, Fox\, The CW\, and many more.\nShe holds a B.G.S. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from George Washington University. \n“The SNAP method is brilliant. In one simple practice\, Julie Potiker integrates brain science\, mindfulness\, compassion\, and other effective tools for lifting your mood\, easing anxiety\, calming stress\, and opening your heart. Full of practical wisdom\, she leads readers through funny stories\, tender care\, and many different applications of the SNAP method. Throughout\, she is a super-smart\, encouraging\, and hopeful friend. A wonderful book!”\n– Rick Hanson\, Ph.D.\, author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm\, Strength\, and Happiness \n\n  \n  \n \nPuja Shah is a visionary poet who shares her voice through written and spoken word\, guided meditations\, and teaching. Born in Queens\, New York to immigrant parents\, she defied teachers who questioned her English skills by winning countless poetry and short story awards in her youth. As an avid reader\, she spent her teen years exploring New York City for poetry slams and book readings. The blend of East and West has always fascinated her\, so she holds a graduate degree in dental medicine from Tufts University as well as over a dozen trainings in various forms of yoga\, meditation\, and ancient wisdom. \nHer award-winning book\, For My Sister\, is a journey of light and darkness with Amla and Asya: twin sisters trafficked into India’s notorious Sonagachi district\, Asia’s largest red light district. Can the power of poetry\, photography\, mindfulness\, and sisterly love bring them back home and to each other? It has won the American Book Awards for Social Change and International Impact Book Awards for Women’s Fiction. \nWith over 10 years of nonprofit experience and a long public health career\, Puja has aligned with girl trafficking awareness causes for her debut novel. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout the Center For Mindful Self-Compassion\nThe Center For Mindful Self-Compassion (CMSC) aims to be the global leader in self-compassion training and offers the highest quality programs to diverse populations\, based upon scientific research and established teaching methods. CMSC is committed to building an equitable\, inclusive\, and caring global community supporting the practice of self-compassion where each person matters and everyone belongs. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/julie-potiker-puja-shah-2-26-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures,Workshop Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/potiker-shah-4.1.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230329T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230329T173000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230303T051915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185841Z UID:10000374-1680105600-1680111000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Book Bingo (Celebrating Women's History): a virtual Adventure featuring Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nIn recognition of Women’s History Month\, when we commemorate and encourage the study\, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in history\, we are pleased to share stories of women as told by six award-winning\, bestselling\, and book club favorite authors: Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson.  \nIf you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features 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! \n This free event features book club favorite historical fiction authors: Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson\, an interactive virtual game of bingo\, and 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 new reads! \nWhile 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 whose book tours and events have been curtailed due to COVID-19. \nYour 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. \nSee below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\n \nNamed in 2015 as a top ten historical romance novelist in Publisher’s Weekly\, Piper Huguley is the author of the Reconstruction era “Home to Milford College” series. She is a 2013 & 2014 Golden Heart finalist for two novels in the “Migrations of the Heart” series about the Bledsoe sisters and set in the early twentieth century. \nPiper’s biographical historical fiction\, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe\, Fashion Designer to the Social Register tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Piper or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nChristina Lynch’s picaresque journey includes chapters in Chicago and at Harvard\, where she was an editor on the Harvard Lampoon. She was the Milan correspondent for W magazine and Women’s Wear Daily\, and disappeared for four years in Tuscany. In L.A. she was on the writing staff of Unhappily Ever After; Encore\, Encore; The Dead Zone and Wildfire. She now lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. She is the co-author of two novels under the pen name Magnus Flyte. She teaches at College of the Sequoias. The Italian Party was her debut novel. \nChristina’s new novel\, Sally Brady’s Italian Adventure (June 13\, 2023\, St. Martin’s Press)\, is set in Hollywood and Italy in 1931-1947. Follow effervescent Sally Brady as she goes from Dust Bowl refugee to glamorous gossip columnist in Rome\, then gets stranded in Fascist-era Tuscany. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Christina or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nSarah McCraw Crow is the author of the novel The Wrong Kind of Woman. She is a longtime magazine writer\, editor\, and book reviewer\, and her articles\, essays\, and reviews have run in BookPage\, The Christian Science Monitor\, Prime Number\, Family Circle\, Ladies’ Home Journal\, Parents\, Parenting\, American Baby\, Baby Talk\, and Working Mother\, among others. Her short fiction has won prizes from So to Speak and Good Housekeeping\, and her stories have been honored as contest finalists by Press 53\, New Letters\, Yemasee\, and Stanford Alumni Magazine. \nShe is a graduate of Dartmouth College (AB\, history)\, Stanford University (MA\, journalism)\, and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA in writing)\, and she’s a member of Grub Street\, Boston\, and the National Book Critics Circle. \nTold through alternating perspectives\, The Wrong Kind of Woman is an engrossing story of grief and renewal\, of shedding old identities and finding new ways to belong\, beautifully woven against the backdrop of the rapid changes of the early Seventies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Sarah or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nIntrigued by the discovery that an ancestor was a founder of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania\, Janis Robinson Daly found her next career direction: unearthing the stories of women whose lives have remained in the shadows. With a love of history\, she balances a need for authenticity and details with a fictional flair to create deeper emotional connections to characters than what biographies provide. A graduate of Wheaton College\, MA\, with a B.A. in Psychology\, Daly explores female-centric issues and the power of supportive relationships developed among women. Daly\, her husband\, and rescue pup reside on Cape Cod\, MA. \nThe Unlocked Path presents and embraces a “New Woman” of the early 20th century: educated\, career-minded\, independent. In 1897 Philadelphia\, after witnessing her aunt’s suicide\, Eliza Edwards vows to find ways to help and heal. Rejecting her mother’s wishes for her society debut\, Eliza enters medical college at a time when only five percent of doctors are female. With the support of a circle of women and driven by a determination to conquer curriculum demands\, battle sexism\, and overcome doubts\, Eliza charts a new life course. Combining science and sympathy\, can she triumph to heal others and herself? \nTo schedule a book club visit with Janis or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nAimie K. Runyan is a multi-published and international bestselling author of historical fiction. She has been nominated for a Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer of the Year award and two Colorado Book Awards. She lives in Colorado with her wonderful husband and two (usually) adorable children. \nIn this intriguing historical novel\, a young woman who is sent to a horrific “bride school” to be molded into the perfect Nazi wife finds her life forever intertwined with a young Jewish woman about to give birth.  A moving and memorable tale of sisterhood\, strength\, and survival\, The School for German Brides will resonate deeply with readers of historical fiction. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Aimie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \n\n\nKate Thompson worked as a journalist for twenty years on women’s magazines and national newspapers. She now lives in Sunbury with her husband\, two sons and a Lurcher called Ted. After ghost writing five memoirs\, Kate moved into fiction. Kate’s first non-fiction social history documenting the forgotten histories of East End matriarchy\, The Stepney Doorstep Society\, was published in 2018.   Kate is passionate about uncovering the stories she considers missing from the history books. Stories of clandestine matriarchal communities pitting their wits against war\, violence and poverty. Tales of enormous camaraderie and tight-knit communities who are the beating heart of East London. \nHer latest novel\, The Little Wartime Library\,  is based on the remarkable true story of Bethnal Green Underground’s shelter library in WW2. Founded in the chaos of the Blitz\, the pioneering underground library provided the solace\, sanctuary and escapism of books in London’s darkest hour. \n\n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Kate or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \nFor Book Clubs\nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson are all members of our wonderful community of over 130 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers\, to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson\, or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/book-bingo-3-29-23/ CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/3.29.23-womens-history-month-book-bingo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230323T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230323T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230112T070347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185839Z UID:10000365-1679587200-1679590800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Audiobook Narrators\, Authors\, and Production: a Virtual Fireside Adventure series featuring (Episode 4 - Diversity in Audio Books) Ronnie Butler\, Gabra Zackman and Emily Woo Zeller DESCRIPTION:About the Fireside Series\nTwenty years ago\, Amazon developed its first idea of an audiobook player. Today\, on Audible alone\, there are over 200\,000 titles available to enjoy in audiobook format\, and the audiobook narrator business is thriving and includes a host of impressive talents. However\, how many of you have ever interacted live with an audiobook narrator to meet them face to face\, ask questions about the books they read\, the authors with whom they work\, and how the industry works? If you’re like most of us\, probably hardly anyone. \nThanks to our new 5 part free Fireside virtual series\, Audiobook Narrators\, Authors\, and Production\, you will have a chance to meet some of the nation’s best audiobook narrators and learn about the industry that has taken books to a new level. Just in time to celebrate the annual Audies Awards (March 28)\, join us for this exciting 5 part series in which you will meet over a dozen prestigious\, fan-favorite\, and award-winning narrators\, authors\, and producers\, whose voices you have likely heard. \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with different speakers to discuss their audio book(s) on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply select the Audiobook Series Registration option below. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\n\nPART 4 (Diversity in Audio Books) – featuring Ronnie Butler\, Gabra Zackman\, Emily Woo Zeller: Thursday\, March 23\, 2023\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nPART 5 (TikTok for Books) – featuring Nancy Peterson\, Kelsey Navarro: Thursday\, March 30 2023\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n  \n\nAbout the Speakers\n\nPART 4 – Diversity in Audio Books\n\n \nRon Butler is a Los Angeles-based actor with credits in film\, theater\, and television. As an audiobook narrator\, he’s received two Audie nominations and won eight AudioFile magazine Earphones Awards. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an IFP award-winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People. Originally from the Bahamas\, he grew up singing calypso onstage with his father before touring (and recording) in Europe with his own jazz band. He has written\, produced\, and directed short films and independent features\, and currently has several audio dramas and television scripts in development. \n\n  \n \nGabra Zackman has been in the audiobook business for over 15 years\, beginning when they were still called “Books on Tape.”  To date\, she has recorded over 500 audiobooks in all genres. She’s an Audie and Earphones award-winning narrator who is equally at home recording romance\, memoir\, sci-fi\, and fantasy. She works in a home studio as well as studios all over New York City. Gabra is sometimes referred to by the handle “Audiobook Goddess.” \n  \n \nEmily Woo Zeller is an American voice actress and audio book narrator. She voices Panam Palmer in CD Projekt Red’s 2020 videogame Cyberpunk 2077. In the Star Wars canon\, she is Dr. Aphra in the audio drama Dr. Aphra and narrated in the 2020 audio production of FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. \n  \nPART 5 – TikTok for Books\n \nNancy Peterson\, winner of the prestigious Audio Publishers Association Audie Award\, is a veteran actor and voice-over artist. Nancy has a penchant for dialects\, diving deep into the study of language. Her narration style\, summed up by AudioFile magazine\, “creates the sense of listening to a play instead of a straightforward reading.” She began her narrating career with petty theft. As a precocious eleven-year-old\, the allure of her dad’s brand-new cassette recorder she was strictly forbidden to touch\, was too tempting to bear. With an Encyclopedia Brown paperback and the recorder\, she began a journey she continues to love. \n  \n \nKelsey Navarro grew up in Las Vegas with a background in film\, singing\, and acting. She narrates anything from self-help to erotica. In her spare time\, she reads voraciously and enjoys listening to a good podcast or audiobook. She worked in management for over nine years and nerds out over personal development\, superheroes\, and really great food. \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/episode-four-3-23-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/audiobook-fireside-series-part-four-3.23.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230319T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230319T173000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230211T003948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185840Z UID:10000369-1679241600-1679247000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Fearless Women: a Reading Between the Vines Adventure featuring New York Times and bestselling authors Elizabeth Cobbs\, Georgie Blalock\, and Elizabeth St. John DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\n“A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey\, but a woman of strength knows it is in the journey where she will become strong.” – Unknown \nIt’s Women’s History Month\, time to celebrate the trailblazing women who have walked difficult paths to pave the road we walk upon today\, but it is also time to celebrate YOU\, the women who are traversing the new roads we walk upon today. \nCome raise a glass to celebrate Fearless Women with New York Times and bestselling authors Elizabeth Cobbs\, Georgie Blalock\, and Elizabeth St. John\, as part of our new series\, Reading Between the Vines. Together with San Pasqual Winery in La Mesa\, California\, we have paired three books by our fearless authors with wines and charcuterie tastings hand selected by the folks at the San Pasqual Winery Tasting Room and Gallery (not the winery itself)\, 8364 La Mesa Blvd\, La Mesa. \nYour Adventure includes a relaxing and enjoyable afternoon meeting the authors\, an individually wrapped charcuterie box and a 3-flight wine tasting specially paired for each book\, book signings\, photo-ops\, and an intimate and unforgettable afternoon celebrating fearless women at the San Pasqual Winery Tasting Room and Gallery. \nAnd\, now that we’ve entered Women’s History Month\, we think award-winning historian Elizabeth Cobbs’ article about the history of Feminism is a fascinating read. Check it out HERE! \n\n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nGeorgie Blalock is the bestselling author of The Other Windsor Girl and The Last Debutantes. She is a history and movie buff who loves combining her different passions through historical fiction\, and a healthy dose of period piece films. When not writing\, she can be found prowling the non-fiction history section of the library or the British film listings on Netflix or in the dojo training for her next karate black belt rank. Georgie also writes historical romance under the name Georgie Lee. \nHer latest book is An Indiscreet Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria’s Defiant Daughter. Before Princess Margaret\, before Duchess Meghan\, there was Princess Louise: royal rebel. \n  \n \nAward-winning historian Elizabeth Cobbs brings fresh\, unexpected perspectives to our understanding of the past and present. Building upon worldwide research and extraordinary life experiences\, Elizabeth writes best selling fiction and non-fiction that is both scholarly and witty. Her path-breaking books\, articles\, and documentary films reveal a world that is as intriguing and surprising as it is real. \nElizabeth earned her Ph.D. in American history at Stanford University. She now holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair at Texas A&M University. Her books have won four literary prizes\, two for American history and two for fiction\, and she has won four prizes for documentary filmmaking. Elizabeth has been a Fulbright scholar in Ireland and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington\, D.C. She has served on the Historical Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department and on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History. \nHer inspiring book\, Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé\, shows us that the quest for women’s rights is deeply entwined with the founding story of the United States. \n  \n \nElizabeth St. John’s critically acclaimed historical fiction novels tell the stories of her ancestors: extraordinary women whose intriguing kinship with England’s kings and queens brings an intimately unique perspective to Medieval\, Tudor\, and Stuart times. Elizabeth’s books include her trilogy\, The Lydiard Chronicles\, set in 17th Century England during the Civil War\, and her newest release\, The Godmother’s Secret. \nInspired by England’s most enduring historical mystery\, Elizabeth’s book\, The Godmother’s Secret\,\nblends her family history with known facts and centuries of speculation about what happened to the Princes in the Tower. \n\n\n  \n\nAbout San Pasqual Winery\nSan Pasqual Winery is a small\, family owned winery located in La Mesa\, California – about 15 miles east of San Diego. Although the namesake dates to the 1970’s when it was located in the San Pasqual Valley\, the winery was later “reinvented” as San Diego’s first urban winery\, earning it a spot on Sunset Magazine’s list of “Hot 100 West Coast Trends.” The winery is now located in the industrial area of La Mesa\, with offsite tasting rooms nearby in the Village of La Mesa and downtown San Diego at Seaport Village. With annual production ranging from three to four thousand cases\, most of their wine is sold directly from the winery and tasting room locations\, allowing a more personal connection with the people who enjoy their wines. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fearless-women-3-19-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Wine Pairing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/fearless-women-read-between-vines.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230112T023859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185839Z UID:10000364-1678982400-1678986000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Audiobook Narrators\, Authors\, and Production: a Virtual Fireside Adventure series featuring (Episode 3 - TikTok Sells Books) Jayne Rylon and Lila Dubois DESCRIPTION:About the Fireside Series\nTwenty years ago\, Amazon developed its first idea of an audiobook player. Today\, on Audible alone\, there are over 200\,000 titles available to enjoy in audiobook format\, and the audiobook narrator business is thriving and includes a host of impressive talents. However\, how many of you have ever interacted live with an audiobook narrator to meet them face to face\, ask questions about the books they read\, the authors with whom they work\, and how the industry works? If you’re like most of us\, probably hardly anyone. \nThanks to our new 5 part free Fireside virtual series\, Audiobook Narrators\, Authors\, and Production\, you will have a chance to meet some of the nation’s best audiobook narrators and learn about the industry that has taken books to a new level. Just in time to celebrate the annual Audies Awards (March 28)\, join us for this exciting 5 part series in which you will meet over a dozen prestigious\, fan-favorite\, and award-winning narrators\, authors\, and producers\, whose voices you have likely heard. \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with different speakers to discuss their audio book(s) on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply select the Audiobook Series Registration option below. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\n\nPART 3 (TikTok Sells Books) – featuring Jayne Rylon\, Lila Dubois: Thursday\, March 16\, 2023\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nPART 4 (Diversity in Audio Books) – featuring Ronnie Butler\, Gabra Zackman\, Emily Woo Zeller: Thursday\, March 23\, 2023\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nPART 5 (TikTok for Books) – featuring Nancy Peterson\, Kelsey Navarro: Thursday\, March 30 2023\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n  \n\nAbout the Speakers\n\nPART 3 – TikTok Sells Books\n\n \nJayne Rylon is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author\, who has sold more than two million copies of her books. She has received numerous industry awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Indie Erotic Romance and the Swirl Award\, which recognizes excellence in diverse romance. She is an Honor Roll member of the Romance Writers of America. Her stories used to begin as daydreams in seemingly endless business meetings\, but now she is a full time author\, who employs the skills she learned from her straight-laced corporate existence in the business of writing. She lives in Ohio with her husband\, the infamous Mr. Rylon\, and kittens they foster for a rescue organization. When she can escape her purple office\, she loves to travel the world\, avoid speeding tickets in her beloved Sky\, SCUBA dive\, and–of course–read. \n\n  \n \nLila Dubois is a multi-published\, bestselling author of erotic\, paranormal and fantasy romance. Her books have been nominated for many awards including RT Book Reviews Erotic Novella for Undone Rebel and the Golden Flogger. Having spent extensive time in France\, Egypt\, Turkey\, Ireland and England Lila speaks five languages\, none of them (including English) fluently. Lila lives in California with her own Irish Farm Boy and loves receiving email from readers. \n  \nPART 4 – Diversity in Audio Books\n\n \nRon Butler is a Los Angeles-based actor with credits in film\, theater\, and television. As an audiobook narrator\, he’s received two Audie nominations and won eight AudioFile magazine Earphones Awards. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an IFP award-winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People. Originally from the Bahamas\, he grew up singing calypso onstage with his father before touring (and recording) in Europe with his own jazz band. He has written\, produced\, and directed short films and independent features\, and currently has several audio dramas and television scripts in development. \n\n  \n \nGabra Zackman has been in the audiobook business for over 15 years\, beginning when they were still called “Books on Tape.”  To date\, she has recorded over 500 audiobooks in all genres. She’s an Audie and Earphones award-winning narrator who is equally at home recording romance\, memoir\, sci-fi\, and fantasy. She works in a home studio as well as studios all over New York City. Gabra is sometimes referred to by the handle “Audiobook Goddess.” \n  \n \nEmily Woo Zeller is an American voice actress and audio book narrator. She voices Panam Palmer in CD Projekt Red’s 2020 videogame Cyberpunk 2077. In the Star Wars canon\, she is Dr. Aphra in the audio drama Dr. Aphra and narrated in the 2020 audio production of FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. \n  \nPART 5 – TikTok for Books\n \nNancy Peterson\, winner of the prestigious Audio Publishers Association Audie Award\, is a veteran actor and voice-over artist. Nancy has a penchant for dialects\, diving deep into the study of language. Her narration style\, summed up by AudioFile magazine\, “creates the sense of listening to a play instead of a straightforward reading.” She began her narrating career with petty theft. As a precocious eleven-year-old\, the allure of her dad’s brand-new cassette recorder she was strictly forbidden to touch\, was too tempting to bear. With an Encyclopedia Brown paperback and the recorder\, she began a journey she continues to love. \n  \n \nKelsey Navarro grew up in Las Vegas with a background in film\, singing\, and acting. She narrates anything from self-help to erotica. In her spare time\, she reads voraciously and enjoys listening to a good podcast or audiobook. She worked in management for over nine years and nerds out over personal development\, superheroes\, and really great food. \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/episode-three-3-16-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/audiobook-fireside-series-part-three-3.16.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230207T061149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185839Z UID:10000367-1678896000-1678899600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Finding Your True Inner Voice: a Virtual Interactive Adventure with author\, Broadway singer and vocal coach to celebrities\, Mary Setrakian DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n“When the whole world is silent\, even one voice becomes powerful.” – Malala Yousafzai \nHave you ever wondered how to find your own true voice? We can’t think of a better person to help guide you on that journey than renowned Master Voice Teacher Mary Setrakian\, the inspirational and respected vocal coach to Oscar\, Grammy\, and Emmy Award-winning artists\, Broadway stars\, as well as singers\, actors\, and music lovers around the world who simply love to sing. \nThe Mary Setrakian Method not only unlocks the potential of the voice\, but also frees the human spirit. Now Mary’s book\, SING\, Find Your True Voice\, breaks down the ten elements of her process\, The Revolutionary Send\, which connects voice technique with the emotional life. Mary’s students don’t just say their singing gets better– they say that working with Mary changes their life. \nMary joins Susan McBeth on Fireside on March 15 to talk about her book\, SING\, Find Your True Voice. Mary will share her techniques that empower and heal the voice\, as well as some of the stories about personally working with stars (like Nicole Kidman\, Mary J. Blige\, Kerry Washington\, James Gandolfini\, Bella Thorne)\, her students from around the world\, and even those who think they can’t carry a tune. \nNow\, with the interactive new functionality of the Fireside virtual platform\, YOU are invited and encouraged to participate live as she not only answers all of your singing questions\, but she will also diagnose your speaking voice on the spot! She’ll give you profound insights and help on how to find your true voice. \nEXCITING NEWS! The exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, is now accessible and available on all devices. No app download is required and it is free to join. While the event is FREE\, registration below is required to send you the Fireside link to attend the virtual event. \nYour Adventure includes a live\, interactive Fireside chat with Mary Setrakian in conversation with Adventures by the Book’s owner and CEO\, followed by audience participation session in which Mary will diagnose your speaking voice on the spot! \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \n\nAs a Master Voice Teacher\, Mary Setrakian prepared Nicole Kidman for her Golden Globe Award winning and Oscar nominated performance in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge. She has been the Master Voice Teacher to Grammy Award-winners Michael Bolton and Mary J. Blige\, Oscar winners Forest Whitaker and Kate Winslet\, Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington\, as well as the stars of John Turturro’s musical movie Romance & Cigarettes\, including James Gandolfini\, Mandy Moore\, and Bobby Cannavale. Mary prepared Bella Thorne for her feature film singing debut in Midnight Sun. She was the vocal coach to Ben Daniels for his performance as Pontius Pilate in JC Superstar Live on NBC starring John Legend\, and has been Broadway star Sierra Boggess’ teacher since Sierra was seventeen years old. \nMary has been seen on Broadway in Hello\, Dolly! starring Carol Channing. She toured with the Broadway companies of The Phantom of the Opera\, Les Miserables\, Hello\, Dolly!\, Evita\, and was featured at Carnegie Hall in Jubilee directed by Herbert Ross. \nMary holds a Masters in Voice Performance with Distinction from the New England Conservatory\, and is a graduate of Stanford University in Music/Voice with Honors. She studied at the Tanglewood Music Festival with Phyllis Curtain\, and was a voice student of Joan Heller\, Mark Pearson\, Marie Gibson\, and Corinne Swall. She has studied acting with her mentor\, Susan Batson\, for over thirty years. \nTo purchase a copy of the Sing: Find Your True Voice\, click here. \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nEXTRA! EXTRA! Fireside is now accessible on all platforms and no app downloading is required. Register below for the event\, and we’ll send you a link on how you can join in and interact live with our featured authors. \nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/mary-setrakian-3-15-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/mary-setrakian-3.15.23-fireside.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230111T052317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185837Z UID:10000359-1678732200-1678735800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 2): a FREE in-person series featuring Award-Winning Author and Actress Kathi Diamant\, together with Chuck Bieler and Georgeanne Irvine DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nOur part 2 episode features award-winning author and actress Kathi Diamant\, as she discusses her book\, Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes. Joining her in conversation will be Chuck Bieler\, the subject of Kathie’s book\, and Georgeanne Irvine\, Director of Publishing\, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 2 featuring Kathi Diamant: Monday\, March 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 3 featuring Amy Wallen: Monday\, September 11\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Jennifer Coburn: Monday\, October 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n  \nPart 2: Kathi Diamant\n\n \nKathi Diamant is an award-winning author\, actor\, broadcaster and adjunct professor at San Diego State University\, where she leads the Kafka Project\, the official international search to recover a lost literary treasure\, the missing writings of Franz Kafka. Kathi’s award-winning book\, Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant has been reviewed by more than 60 publications and websites\, internationally lauded for its original research and revelations into Dora and Kafka’s lives. \nHer book\, San Diego Zoo Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes\, tells the extraordinary story of how Chuck Bieler “earned his stripes” at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. With inside stories and humorous details\, it captures his tireless efforts to help create an international conservation organization where all wildlife thrives. \nChuck Bieler was executive director of the San Diego Zoo from 1972-1985\, and as director emeritus has continued to work at the Zoo since then–at 53 years at the San Diego Zoo\, he is its longest-serving employee. HEART OF THE ZOO is his story. \nNative San Diego author Georgeanne “George” Irvine has devoted her career to raising awareness about animals and wildlife conservation. She is the director of publishing for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance\, where she has worked for more than four decades\, as well as the author of more than two dozen children’s books about wildlife. Her worldwide expeditions have taken her to many of the wildest places on earth—from the jungles of Borneo and South America to the mountains of China and the forests of India to the Outback of Australia and the savannas of Africa. \n  \n\nPart 3: Amy Wallen\n\n \nAmy Wallen is the San Diego-based author of When We Were Ghouls\, A Memoir of Ghost Stories and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Moon Pies & Movie Stars. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review\, The Normal School\, Country Living and other national magazines and anthologies. \nHer book\, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies is a charming illustrated book on her journey writing a novel\, some of her teaching experience\, and some recipe-stories on pies\, because it was through pie that she claims she survived novel writing. \n\n  \nPart 4: Jennifer Coburn\n\n \n\nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Jennifer has also published 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. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \n  \nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kathi-diamant-3-13-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pt-loma-library-series-2023-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230112T012632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185838Z UID:10000363-1678377600-1678381200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Audiobook Narrators\, Authors\, and Production: a Virtual Fireside Adventure series featuring (Episode 2 - Indie Audiobook Success Stories) Neil Hellegers\, Teri Schnaubelt\, Joe Arden and Andi Arndt DESCRIPTION:About the Fireside Series\nTwenty years ago\, Amazon developed its first idea of an audiobook player. Today\, on Audible alone\, there are over 200\,000 titles available to enjoy in audiobook format\, and the audiobook narrator business is thriving and includes a host of impressive talents. However\, how many of you have ever interacted live with an audiobook narrator to meet them face to face\, ask questions about the books they read\, the authors with whom they work\, and how the industry works? If you’re like most of us\, probably hardly anyone. \nThanks to our new 5 part free Fireside virtual series\, Audiobook Narrators\, Authors\, and Production\, you will have a chance to meet some of the nation’s best audiobook narrators and learn about the industry that has taken books to a new level. Just in time to celebrate the annual Audies Awards (March 28)\, join us for this exciting 5 part series in which you will meet over a dozen prestigious\, fan-favorite\, and award-winning narrators\, authors\, and producers\, whose voices you have likely heard. \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with different speakers to discuss their audio book(s) on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply select the Audiobook Series Registration option below. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\n\nPART 2 (Indie Audiobook Success Stories) – featuring Neil Hellegers\, Teri Schnaubelt\, Joe Arden\, Andi Arndt: Thursday\, March 9\, 2023\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nPART 3 (TikTok Sells Books) – featuring Jayne Rylon\, Lila Dubois: Thursday\, March 16\, 2023\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nPART 4 (Diversity in Audio Books) – featuring Ronnie Butler\, Gabra Zackman\, Emily Woo Zeller: Thursday\, March 23\, 2023\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nPART 5 (TikTok for Books) – featuring Nancy Peterson\, Kelsey Navarro: Thursday\, March 30 2023\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n  \n\nAbout the Speakers\n\nPART 2 – Indie Audiobook Success Stories\n\n \nNeil Hellegers is an actor and award-winning audiobook narrator who lives in Brooklyn\, NYC with his wife\, son\, and mutt. As a narrator\, has has read over 350 titles for numerous publishers and producers including Macmillan\, Penguin Random House\, Hachette\, Harper\, Audible Studios\, Blackstone Audio\, Tantor Audio\, Aethon Books\, Podium Audio and more. He is very grateful to have been awarded a few Earphones awards from AudioFile Magazine\, a Society of Voice Arts & Sciences (SOVAS) award\, and multiple Audie Nominations\, for his audiobook work. \n  \n\n\n \nTeri Schnaubelt is a Chicago-based stage\, on-camera\, and voice actor as well as oil painter and photographer. She has voiced over 100 books for New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors\, in addition to helping independent authors get their stories heard. \n\n  \n\n \nJoe Arden has narrated over 600 audiobooks in the romance genre\, been featured in Men’s Health magazine\, and won multiple industry awards. His debut novel\, THE CHAMELEON EFFECT\, was shortlisted by Audible’s Editorial Staff as “one of the best audiobooks of 2022”.\nHe is an advocate for consent and equality and a proud dog dad to a rescue blue nose pitbull. \n\n  \n\n \nAndi Arndt is a storytelling scholar who has become a favorite of audiobook listeners\, authors\, and publishers alike. Andie is a 2-time Audie Award winner\, Audible Narrator Hall of Famer\, and the recipient of several Voice Arts Award nominations. She is a top selling narrator of contemporary romance as well as popular non-fiction and fiction books\, such as Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik\, and The Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates. \n\n  \n  \nPART 3 – TikTok Sells Books\n\n \nJayne Rylon is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author\, who has sold more than two million copies of her books. She has received numerous industry awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Indie Erotic Romance and the Swirl Award\, which recognizes excellence in diverse romance. She is an Honor Roll member of the Romance Writers of America. Her stories used to begin as daydreams in seemingly endless business meetings\, but now she is a full time author\, who employs the skills she learned from her straight-laced corporate existence in the business of writing. She lives in Ohio with her husband\, the infamous Mr. Rylon\, and kittens they foster for a rescue organization. When she can escape her purple office\, she loves to travel the world\, avoid speeding tickets in her beloved Sky\, SCUBA dive\, and–of course–read. \n\n  \n \nLila Dubois is a multi-published\, bestselling author of erotic\, paranormal and fantasy romance. Her books have been nominated for many awards including RT Book Reviews Erotic Novella for Undone Rebel and the Golden Flogger. Having spent extensive time in France\, Egypt\, Turkey\, Ireland and England Lila speaks five languages\, none of them (including English) fluently. Lila lives in California with her own Irish Farm Boy and loves receiving email from readers. \n  \nPART 4 – Diversity in Audio Books\n\n \nRon Butler is a Los Angeles-based actor with credits in film\, theater\, and television. As an audiobook narrator\, he’s received two Audie nominations and won eight AudioFile magazine Earphones Awards. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an IFP award-winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People. Originally from the Bahamas\, he grew up singing calypso onstage with his father before touring (and recording) in Europe with his own jazz band. He has written\, produced\, and directed short films and independent features\, and currently has several audio dramas and television scripts in development. \n\n  \n \nGabra Zackman has been in the audiobook business for over 15 years\, beginning when they were still called “Books on Tape.”  To date\, she has recorded over 500 audiobooks in all genres. She’s an Audie and Earphones award-winning narrator who is equally at home recording romance\, memoir\, sci-fi\, and fantasy. She works in a home studio as well as studios all over New York City. Gabra is sometimes referred to by the handle “Audiobook Goddess.” \n  \n \nEmily Woo Zeller is an American voice actress and audio book narrator. She voices Panam Palmer in CD Projekt Red’s 2020 videogame Cyberpunk 2077. In the Star Wars canon\, she is Dr. Aphra in the audio drama Dr. Aphra and narrated in the 2020 audio production of FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. \n  \nPART 5 – TikTok for Books\n \nNancy Peterson\, winner of the prestigious Audio Publishers Association Audie Award\, is a veteran actor and voice-over artist. Nancy has a penchant for dialects\, diving deep into the study of language. Her narration style\, summed up by AudioFile magazine\, “creates the sense of listening to a play instead of a straightforward reading.” She began her narrating career with petty theft. As a precocious eleven-year-old\, the allure of her dad’s brand-new cassette recorder she was strictly forbidden to touch\, was too tempting to bear. With an Encyclopedia Brown paperback and the recorder\, she began a journey she continues to love. \n  \n \nKelsey Navarro grew up in Las Vegas with a background in film\, singing\, and acting. She narrates anything from self-help to erotica. In her spare time\, she reads voraciously and enjoys listening to a good podcast or audiobook. She worked in management for over nine years and nerds out over personal development\, superheroes\, and really great food. \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/episode-two-3-9-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2new-audiobook-fireside-series-part-two-3.9.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T173000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230127T045114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185839Z UID:10000366-1678204800-1678210200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Benefit for Susan G. Komen Foundation: a Virtual Breast Cancer Fundraising Adventure in honor of NYT and international bestselling author Kristin Harmel DESCRIPTION:FREE TOTE BAG BONUS FOR FIRST 20 PRE-ORDERS!\nThe New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names returns to Paris with this “exquisite and gut-wrenching” (NYT bestselling author Lisa Barr) tale of two mothers\, two daughters\, and an Allied bomb that falls in the suburbs of Paris\, changing the course of both families’ lives. \nKristin Harmel’s highly anticipated new release THE PARIS DAUGHTER releases June 6\, 2023. Pre-Order your copy below\, starting April 10\, and before May 19th and we’ll sweeten the pot by sending a FREE tote bag along with the first 20 pre-orders received (while supplies last). \n \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nKristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling\, USA Today bestselling\, and #1 international bestselling author of The Forest of Vanishing Stars\, The Book of Lost Names\, The Winemaker’s Wife\, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into more than 30 languages and are sold all over the world. \nHer forthcoming book\, The Paris Daughter\, is a historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation. Paris\, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though the shadow of war creeps across Europe\, neither woman suspects that their lives are about to change irrevocably. \nWhen Elise becomes a target of the German occupation\, she entrusts Juliette with the most precious thing in her life-her young daughter\, Mathilde\, playmate to Juliette’s own little girl. But nowhere is safe in war\, not even a quiet little bookshop like Juliette’s Librairie des Rêves\, and when a bomb falls on their neighborhood\, Juliette’s world is destroyed along with it. \nMore than a year later\, with the war finally ending\, Elise returns to reunite with her daughter\, only to find her friend’s bookstore reduced to rubble-and Juliette nowhere to be found. What happened to Mathilde in those last\, terrible moments? Juliette has seemingly vanished without a trace\, taking all the answers with her. Elise’s desperate search leads her to New York-and to Juliette-one final\, fateful time. \nLike Kristin herself\, Elise\, Juliette\, and their friend Ruth must face the most difficult battles of their lives and find the strength within themselves to carry on. That’s what we are celebrating in this very special Adventures by the Book fundraising adventure: the capacity we all have to dig deep and find light in the darkness in our most difficult hours. Kristin’s books–and the novels featured by more than 40 authors joining her–remind us of that message. \nWe are all stronger than we know–and that’s worth celebrating. \n\nFINDING THE STRENGTH WITHIN US ALL\nSpecial guest appearances by more than 60 all-star authors including:\nMary Kay Andrews\nLisa Barr\nMarie Benedict\nAli Brady\nJamie Brenner\nJanet Skeslien Charles\nMeg Waite Clayton\nKaren Cleveland\nMegan Crane\nLaura Dave\nFiona Davis\nElin Hilderbrand\nLiz Fenton\nHazel Gaynor\nLinda Gerber\nJane Green\nAlison Hammer\nKristin Harmel\nKristy Woodson Harvey\nPatti Callahan Henry\nSally Hepworth\nElin Hilderbrand\nAlice Hoffman\nBrenda Janowitz\nPam Jenoff\nNancy Johnson\nSadeqa Johnson\nAlka Joshi\nJulia Kelly\nMartha Hall Kelly\nChristina Lauren\nLeslie Lehr\nDebbie Macomber\nMadeline Martin\nSusan Meissner\nBrenda Novak\nKristina McMorris\nMary Alice Monroe\nAlyson Noël \nColleen Oakley\nZibby Owens\nSarah Penner\nLouise Penny\nNguyễn Phan Quế Mai\nSusan Elizabeth Phillips\nJane Porter\nNita Prose\nKate Quinn\nJennifer Robson\nJennifer Rosner\nWade Rouse (writes as Viola Shipman)\nLisa Scottoline\nEmily Wing Smith\nLisa Steinke\nKelli Stuart\nWendy Toliver\nAdriana Trigiani\nAllison Van Diepen\nRoxanne Veletzos\nHeather Webb\nLaura Zigman \nAbout the Virtual Event\nAdventures by the Book was founded twelve years ago with the goal of connecting people and communities\, one book at a time. In a world that is often divided and disconnected\, this is our way of bringing people together in unique\, interesting\, and adventurous ways through the power and magic of books. \nSo when we heard that our dear friend\, New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel\, was diagnosed with breast cancer\, we knew we had to unite our literary friends to help. But this is more than just an event to raise funds for breast cancer research. It’s an opportunity for the literary community to come together in a celebration of the strength we can all find within ourselves in difficult times. \nAnd since March is Women’s History Month\, this is the perfect time to flex our collective female spirit in support of women like Kristin who are struggling with breast cancer. Let’s raise much needed funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation and unite in our support for breast cancer awareness. Kristin’s cancer was caught early only because she went in for an annual mammogram; we want to remind every single one of you about the power of early detection\, too. \nJoin Kristin at this very special event\, along with virtual and/or live appearances by an all-star cast of more than 40 international and New York Times bestselling authors\, to show Kristin we are there for her in her time of need! \nThe Susan G. Komen Foundation has invested more than $3.3 billion in groundbreaking research\, community health outreach\, advocacy and programs in more than 60 countries to prevent and cure breast cancer. Their efforts have helped reduce deaths from breast cancer in the United States by 42 percent since 1989\, but as long as women like Kristin are affected\, we need to band together to help. \n\nHow can I help? DONATE Today:\n(1) Donate to Kristin’s Susan G. Komen Foundation fundraiser HERE right now. Let’s help Kristin reach (or exceed) her goal of $40\,000 to improve research\, outreach\, and eradication of breast cancer! All donations through Kristin’s page will be split equally between funding research and funding mammograms for the uninsured and underinsured. \n(2) Pre-purchase Kristin’s new book (below)–or any of our guest author’s books (BOOK ORDER FORM). Kristin’s The Paris Daughter releases on June 6\, 2023\, and though she is planning to tour in June\, her recovery will limit the number of appearances she’ll be able to make. Kristin has given selflessly of her time every week since Covid began through her Friends & Fiction appearances\, and even while undergoing chemo\, she is still selflessly advocating for women to schedule mammograms and raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Adventures by the Book will donate 20% of book sale pre-orders to the Susan G. Komen Foundation in Kristin’s honor. \n(3)  For the first 100 people who purchase The Paris Daughter\, shipping will be free for any other book(s) you order (BOOK ORDER FORM) from the event’s featured authors–so the more you order\, the more you’ll save\, and the more you’ll help. Adventures by the Book will donate 20% of all book sales to the Susan G. Komen Foundation in Kristin’s honor. And\, for every book sold through the event (up to 250)\, Kristin will donate a book to cancer centers for patients to read as they’re undergoing treatment. \n(4) Want to join Kristin and Adventures by the Book in making even more of a difference for patients currently in treatment? You can also purchase any of our guest authors’ titles (book order form coming soon)\, for women to take home or to read during or after their cancer treatments. And yes\, Adventures by the Book will also donate 20% of these book sales to the Susan G. Komen Foundation as well\, in Kristin’s honor. \nFOUR ways to help. DONATE because Adventurers are changing the world\, one story at a time! \n\nOrder Books:\nUse this BOOK ORDER FORM to select which books you want to purchase. Then\, in order to place a book order\, please email Amber at events@adventuresbythebook.com with the book(s) title(s)\, number of copies you wish to purchase\, and a phone number. We will call you to process your order. \n\nEvent Registration:\nNOTE: Registration for the event is now closed–but don’t worry! You can still watch the event live on Facebook! Just go directly to the Adventures by the Book Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/adventuresbythebook). The livestream will begin on the page a few minutes before 7pm ET/4pm PT with surprise appearances from a dozen additional authors. (If you don’t see it streaming live by 6:57pm ET/3:57pm PT\, simply refresh the page.) \n\nAbout the Susan G. Komen Foundation\nThe Susan G. Komen Foundation’s mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities and investing in breakthrough research to prevent and cure breast cancer. Donate to Kristin’s Susan G. Komen Foundation fundraiser HERE right now. \n\n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kristin-harmel-3-7-2023/ CATEGORIES:Conversations Worth Having,Event,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/susan-g-komen-fundraiser-3.7.23-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230110T050116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185834Z UID:10000357-1677772800-1677776400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Audiobook Narrators\, Authors\, and Production: a Virtual Fireside Adventure series featuring (Episode 1-AudioBook Production) Erin Spencer\, Amy Rubinate\, and Travis Baldree DESCRIPTION:About the Fireside Series\nTwenty years ago\, Amazon developed its first idea of an audiobook player. Today\, on Audible alone\, there are over 200\,000 titles available to enjoy in audiobook format\, and the audiobook narrator business is thriving and includes a host of impressive talents. However\, how many of you have ever interacted live with an audiobook narrator to meet them face to face\, ask questions about the books they read\, the authors with whom they work\, and how the industry works? If you’re like most of us\, probably hardly anyone. \nThanks to our new 5 part free Fireside virtual series\, Audiobook Narrators\, Authors\, and Production\, you will have a chance to meet some of the nation’s best audiobook narrators and learn about the industry that has taken books to a new level. Just in time to celebrate the annual Audies Awards (March 28)\, join us for this exciting 5 part series in which you will meet over a dozen prestigious\, fan-favorite\, and award-winning narrators\, authors\, and producers\, whose voices you have likely heard. \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with different speakers to discuss their audio book(s) on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply select the Audiobook Series Registration option below. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\n\nPART 1 (Audiobook Production) – featuring Erin Spencer\, Amy Rubinate\, and Travis Baldree: Thursday\, March 2\, 2023\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nPART 2 (Indie Audiobook Success Stories) – featuring Neil Hellegers\, Teri Schnaubelt\, Joe Arden\, Andi Arndt: Thursday\, March 9\, 2023\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nPART 3 (TikTok Sells Books) – featuring Jayne Rylon\, Lila Dubois: Thursday\, March 16\, 2023\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nPART 4 (Diversity in Audio Books) – featuring Ronnie Butler\, Gabra Zackman\, Emily Woo Zeller: Thursday\, March 23\, 2023\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nPART 5 (TikTok for Books) – featuring Nancy Peterson\, Kelsey Navarro: Thursday\, March 30 2023\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n  \n\nAbout the Speakers\nPART 1 – Audiobook Production\n \nErin Spencer is the owner and executive producer at One Night Stand Studios\, an audiobook production company based in Los Angeles\, California. A passionate and accomplished storyteller\, Erin’s love of the arts has been nurtured across her 20-year career in entertainment. From screen to stage to voicing over 400 audiobooks\, Erin continues to seek meaningful ways to connect with audiences. \n\n\n  \n\n\n \nAmy Rubinate is an award-winning audiobook director\, producer\, and narrator. Her Los Angeles-based production company\, Mosaic Audio\, has recorded and produced nearly 3000 audiobooks for major publishers. Amy casts and directs hundreds of books a year\, specializing in directing authors and celebrities. Amy received her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University\, and her first middle grade graphic novel\, Kate and the City of Fire\, will be released this year. \n\n  \n\n \nTravis Baldree is a full-time audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to hundreds of stories. Before that\, he spent decades designing and building video games like Torchlight\, Rebel Galaxy\, and Fate. He also writes books and is the author of Legends & Lattes\, a low-stakes cozy fantasy novel. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his very patient family and their small\, nervous dog. \n\n  \n  \nPART 2 – Indie Audiobook Success Stories\n\n \nNeil Hellegers is an actor and award-winning audiobook narrator who lives in Brooklyn\, NYC with his wife\, son\, and mutt. As a narrator\, has has read over 350 titles for numerous publishers and producers including Macmillan\, Penguin Random House\, Hachette\, Harper\, Audible Studios\, Blackstone Audio\, Tantor Audio\, Aethon Books\, Podium Audio and more. He is very grateful to have been awarded a few Earphones awards from AudioFile Magazine\, a Society of Voice Arts & Sciences (SOVAS) award\, and multiple Audie Nominations\, for his audiobook work. \n  \n\n\n \nTeri Schnaubelt is a Chicago-based stage\, on-camera\, and voice actor as well as oil painter and photographer. She has voiced over 100 books for New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors\, in addition to helping independent authors get their stories heard. \n\n  \n\n \nJoe Arden has narrated over 600 audiobooks in the romance genre\, been featured in Men’s Health magazine\, and won multiple industry awards. His debut novel\, THE CHAMELEON EFFECT\, was shortlisted by Audible’s Editorial Staff as “one of the best audiobooks of 2022”.\nHe is an advocate for consent and equality and a proud dog dad to a rescue blue nose pitbull. \n\n  \n\n \nAndi Arndt is a storytelling scholar who has become a favorite of audiobook listeners\, authors\, and publishers alike. Andie is a 2-time Audie Award winner\, Audible Narrator Hall of Famer\, and the recipient of several Voice Arts Award nominations. She is a top selling narrator of contemporary romance as well as popular non-fiction and fiction books\, such as Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik\, and The Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates. \n\n  \n  \nPART 3 – TikTok Sells Books\n\n \nJayne Rylon is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author\, who has sold more than two million copies of her books. She has received numerous industry awards including the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Indie Erotic Romance and the Swirl Award\, which recognizes excellence in diverse romance. She is an Honor Roll member of the Romance Writers of America. Her stories used to begin as daydreams in seemingly endless business meetings\, but now she is a full time author\, who employs the skills she learned from her straight-laced corporate existence in the business of writing. She lives in Ohio with her husband\, the infamous Mr. Rylon\, and kittens they foster for a rescue organization. When she can escape her purple office\, she loves to travel the world\, avoid speeding tickets in her beloved Sky\, SCUBA dive\, and–of course–read. \n\n  \n \nLila Dubois is a multi-published\, bestselling author of erotic\, paranormal and fantasy romance. Her books have been nominated for many awards including RT Book Reviews Erotic Novella for Undone Rebel and the Golden Flogger. Having spent extensive time in France\, Egypt\, Turkey\, Ireland and England Lila speaks five languages\, none of them (including English) fluently. Lila lives in California with her own Irish Farm Boy and loves receiving email from readers. \n  \nPART 4 – Diversity in Audio Books\n\n \nRon Butler is a Los Angeles-based actor with credits in film\, theater\, and television. As an audiobook narrator\, he’s received two Audie nominations and won eight AudioFile magazine Earphones Awards. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an IFP award-winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People. Originally from the Bahamas\, he grew up singing calypso onstage with his father before touring (and recording) in Europe with his own jazz band. He has written\, produced\, and directed short films and independent features\, and currently has several audio dramas and television scripts in development. \n\n  \n \nGabra Zackman has been in the audiobook business for over 15 years\, beginning when they were still called “Books on Tape.”  To date\, she has recorded over 500 audiobooks in all genres. She’s an Audie and Earphones award-winning narrator who is equally at home recording romance\, memoir\, sci-fi\, and fantasy. She works in a home studio as well as studios all over New York City. Gabra is sometimes referred to by the handle “Audiobook Goddess.” \n  \n \nEmily Woo Zeller is an American voice actress and audio book narrator. She voices Panam Palmer in CD Projekt Red’s 2020 videogame Cyberpunk 2077. In the Star Wars canon\, she is Dr. Aphra in the audio drama Dr. Aphra and narrated in the 2020 audio production of FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. \n  \nPART 5 – TikTok for Books\n \nNancy Peterson\, winner of the prestigious Audio Publishers Association Audie Award\, is a veteran actor and voice-over artist. Nancy has a penchant for dialects\, diving deep into the study of language. Her narration style\, summed up by AudioFile magazine\, “creates the sense of listening to a play instead of a straightforward reading.” She began her narrating career with petty theft. As a precocious eleven-year-old\, the allure of her dad’s brand-new cassette recorder she was strictly forbidden to touch\, was too tempting to bear. With an Encyclopedia Brown paperback and the recorder\, she began a journey she continues to love. \n  \n \nKelsey Navarro grew up in Las Vegas with a background in film\, singing\, and acting. She narrates anything from self-help to erotica. In her spare time\, she reads voraciously and enjoys listening to a good podcast or audiobook. She worked in management for over nine years and nerds out over personal development\, superheroes\, and really great food. \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/audio-book-fs-3-2-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/audiobook-fireside-series-part-one-3.2.23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T140000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20221026T204947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185832Z UID:10000343-1677240000-1677247200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The House of Eve: a Southwestern Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with international bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nAs we sail into our live and in-person 2023 Adventures\, we are staying on course with our next literary lunch to be held at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club featuring international bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson. \n The award-winning author of Yellow Wife returns with The House of Eve\, a daring\, beautiful\, and redemptive novel that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother\, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. Enjoy a lovely lunch by the bay and prepare to be mesmerized and charmed by this talented author. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of The House of Eve to be delivered and signed at the event\, lunch\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and the opportunity to meet Sadeqa live and in-person. As a NovelNetwork author\, Sadeqa loves chatting with book clubs\, so why not bring your book club friends with you (contact us for a table reservation up to eight people). \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nSadeqa Johnson is the award-winning author of And Then There Was Me\, Second House From the Corner\, Love in a Carry-on Bag and Yellow Wife. \nYellow Wife is a 2022 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy nominee\, a BCLA Literary Honoree and a Barnes & Noble book club pick in paperback. Her other accolades include winning the National Book Club Conference Award\, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award\, and the USA Best Book Award for Best Fiction. She is a Kimbilio Fellow and teaches in the MFA program at Drexel University. Originally from Philadelphia\, she currently lives near Richmond\, Virginia\, with her husband and three children. \nSadeqa’s new book\, The House of Eve\, selected as the February\, 2023\, Reese’s Book Club Pick\, is a daring\, beautiful\, and redemptive novel that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother\, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. \n1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college\, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. \nEleanor Quarles arrives in Washington\, DC\, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University\, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC’s elite wealthy Black families\, and his par­ents don’t let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William’s family and grant her the life she’s been searching for. But having a baby—and fitting in—is easier said than done. \nWith their stories colliding in the most unexpected of ways\, Ruby and Eleanor will both make decisions that shape the trajectory of their lives. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Sadeqa or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n\n\nAbout Southwestern Yacht Club\nSouthwestern Yacht Club is one of the largest\, oldest\, and most prestigious yacht clubs in San Diego\, California. SWYC was formed in 1925 by visionary yachting enthusiasts looking for ways to enjoy each other’s company and to share their passion for boating. Since then\, the Club has developed into a full-service operation with more than 800 members embracing all forms of yachting\, fishing\, and social activities\, all while earning a reputation as being the friendliest club in the area. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/sadeqa-johnson-2-24-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/sadeqa-johnson-sw-yacht-club-2.24.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T193000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20230110T031843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185834Z UID:10000358-1676313000-1676316600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 1): a FREE in-person series featuring Academy Award nominated Shrek screenwriter and author Joe Stillman (and Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse) DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nPart 1 features Academy award-nominated screenwriter (Shrek) and author Joe Stillman\, as he discusses his book\, The Man Who Came and Went. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 1 featuring Joe Stillman: Monday\, February 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 2 featuring Kathi Diamant: Monday\, March 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 3 featuring Amy Wallen: Monday\, September 11\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Jennifer Coburn: Monday\, October 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n  \n\nPart 1: Joe Stillman\n \nJoe Stillman co-wrote “Shrek” for Dreamworks which earned him an Academy Award® nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Annie and BAFTA Awards. Other produced features are “Beavis & Butthead Do America”\, “Shrek 2”\, “Gulliver’s Travels”\, “Planet 51” and “Joseph King Of Dreams”. In television\, he was co-producer and writer on “King of the Hill\,” for which he received two Emmy Award® nominations. He was a writer and story editor for Nickelodeon’s “The Adventures of Pete and Pete” and a writer on MTV’s “Beavis and Butthead”. \n\n\nThe Man Who Came and Went\, his novel of the new west\, is a magically realistic story for the modern era that will tease your understanding and beliefs\, and draw you into the mysteries of the universe. Fifteen-year-old Belutha Mariah\, our storyteller\, is the oldest of three kids from three different fathers. Her life’s goal is to keep her dysfunctional mom\, Maybell\, from procreating yet again and then to leave the coffin-sized town of Hadley\, Arizona the second she graduates high school. \n\n  \nPart 2: Kathi Diamant\n\n \nKathi Diamant is an award-winning author\, actor\, broadcaster and adjunct professor at San Diego State University\, where she leads the Kafka Project\, the official international search to recover a lost literary treasure\, the missing writings of Franz Kafka. Kathi’s award-winning book\, Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant has been reviewed by more than 60 publications and websites\, internationally lauded for its original research and revelations into Dora and Kafka’s lives. \nHer book\, San Diego Zoo Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes\, tells the extraordinary story of how Chuck Bieler “earned his stripes” at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. With inside stories and humorous details\, it captures his tireless efforts to help create an international conservation organization where all wildlife thrives. \n  \n\nPart 3: Amy Wallen\n\n \nAmy Wallen is the San Diego-based author of When We Were Ghouls\, A Memoir of Ghost Stories and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Moon Pies & Movie Stars. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review\, The Normal School\, Country Living and other national magazines and anthologies. \nHer book\, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies is a charming illustrated book on her journey writing a novel\, some of her teaching experience\, and some recipe-stories on pies\, because it was through pie that she claims she survived novel writing. \n\n  \nPart 4: Jennifer Coburn\n\n \n\nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Jennifer has also published 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. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \n  \nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n  \n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/joe-stillman-2-13-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pt-loma-library-series-2023-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230207T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230207T203000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20221219T025246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185834Z UID:10000356-1675794600-1675801800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Sergeant: Book Launch Adventure featuring Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Dean Calbreath DESCRIPTION:About the FREE In-Person Book Launch\n\nFrom his noble childhood in the kingdom of Borno to being kidnapped into slavery\, Nicholas Said’s inspiring life-story is an epic journey that takes him from Africa and the Ottoman Empire through Czarist Russia and\, finally\, to heroic acclaim in the American Civil War… \nAnd we can’t think of a better way to celebrate his courageous life than a book launch event during Black History Month at the San Diego Veterans Museum with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dean Calbreath\, whose meticulously researched and approachable new book\, The Sergeant\, documents a unique perspective of slavery from a global perspective that will resonate with a wide audience. \nYour FREE The Sergeant Book Launch Adventure includes a reception with the author to include appetizers and drinks\, a book discussion\, Q&A\, author signing\, and an opportunity to meet and celebrate with Dean as he launches his new book. \n*DATE: Tuesday\, February 7\, 2023 \n*TIME: 6:30 pm PST Reception / 7:00 pm PST Book Discussion \n*LOCATION:  San Diego Veterans Museum – 2115 Park Blvd.\, San Diego\, CA 92101 \n \n\n\nREGISTRATION/BOOK PRE-ORDER\nWhile this event is FREE and open to the public\, registration is requested to help us plan seating and refreshments. Books will be available at the event for signing\, or pre-order your copy below to be delivered to the event for pickup and signing. You may also have an autographed book shipped to you if you are unable to attend the event (select SHIPPED book option below). \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nDean Calbreath was part of the Pulitzer and Polk award-winning team that uncovered the biggest individual bribery scandal in Congressional history. Throughout his career\, he has won more than three dozen other awards\, including for reporting on the economy\, business issues and international affairs\, as well as historical writing. His interest in the story of Nicholas Said dates back to when he was briefly assigned to the Middle East after 9/11\, where he became interested in the stories of Muslims in American history\, including former Muslims like Said. \nWith three colleagues\, Dean co-authored The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham\, a book detailing the Pulitzer-winning probe into the corruption of Rep. Randy Cunningham\, who was subsequently sentenced to prison along with two of his bribers. \nIn his new book\, The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General\, Slave of the Ottomans\, Free Man Under the Tsars\, Hero of the Union Army\, Calbreath examines the parallels and differences in the ways slavery was practiced from a global and religious perspective\, and he highlights how Said’s experiences echo the discrimination\, segregation\, and violence that are still being reckoned with today. \nIn the late 1830s a young Black man was born into a world of wealth and privilege in the powerful\, thousand-year-old African kingdom of Borno. But instead of becoming a respected general like his fearsome father (who was known as The Lion)\, Nicolas Said’s fate was to fight a very different kind of battle. \nAt the age of thirteen\, Said was kidnapped and sold into slavery\, beginning an epic journey that would take him across Africa\, Asia\, Europe\, and eventually the United States\, where he would join one of the first African American regiments in the Union Army. Nicholas Said would then spend the rest of his life fighting for equality. Along the way\, Said encountered such luminaries as Queen Victoria and Czar Nicholas I\, fought Civil War battles that would turn the war for the North\, established schools to educate newly freed Black children\, and served as one of the first Black voting registrars. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/dean-calbreath-2-7-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/dean-calbreath-2.7.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T173000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20221214T023340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185834Z UID:10000355-1675353600-1675359000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Book Bingo (Out of the Shadows): a virtual Adventure with Amery Area (Wisconsin) Public Library featuring Cara Black\, Kimberly Brock\, Fran Hawthorne\, Jennifer Rosner\, Alex Segura\, and Wendy Walker DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nOn Groundhog Day\, Punxsutawney Phil may or may not predict six more weeks of winter\, but we can predict at least six more weeks of great reading with our Book Bingo (Out of the Shadows) virtual Adventure\, in partnership with Amery Area (Wisconsin) Public Library! If you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features 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 150 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \n Join six fabulous authors who are coming out of the shadows and onto your to-be-read list! This free event features presentations by book club favorite authors: Cara Black\, Kimberly Brock\, Fran Hawthorne\, Jennifer Rosner\, Alex Segura\, and Wendy Walker\, an interactive virtual game of bingo\, and 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 new reads! \nWhile 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 whose book tours and events have been canceled due to COVID-19. \nYour 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. \nSee below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\n \nCara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series\, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. \nCara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards\, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation\, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal\, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture—and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime. With more than 400\,000 books in print\, the Aimée Leduc series has been translated into German\, Norwegian\, Japanese\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew. \nIn her latest book\, Night Flight to Paris (the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris)\, it is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win—or lose—World War II.  \nTo schedule a book club visit with Cara or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nKimberly Brock is the bestselling author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare and her award-winning debut\, The River Witch. She is the founder of Tinderbox Writers Workshop and has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national writing workshops including at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. She lives near Atlanta with her husband and three children. \nIn The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare \, a sweeping tale from award-winning author Kimberly Brock\, the answers to a real-life mystery may be found in the pages of a story that was always waiting to be written. \nWhat happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery\, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured Commonplace Book. Brought from England on Eleanor’s fateful voyage to the New World\, her book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age. Thirteen-year-old Alice had been next in line to receive it\, but her mother’s tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy and the Dare Stone and the shadowy history recorded in the book faded into memory. Or so Alice hoped. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kimberly or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nFor 30 years\, Fran Hawthorne built a career as a journalist and award-winning nonfiction author\, specializing in health care\, finance\, and the nexus of business and social activism. But all that was a detour: Since 2018 she’s published two novels\, The Heirs\, and now her newest\, I Meant To Tell You\, both from Stephen F. Austin State University Press. \nIn her nonfiction life\, her book Ethical Chic was named one of the best books of 2012 by Library Journal. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, BusinessWeek\, Newsday\, Self\, and many other publications\, and she also writes reviews for the New York Journal of Books. \nIn her book\, I Meant To Tell You\, when Miranda Isaacs’s fiancé\, Russ Steinmann\, is being vetted for his dream job in the U.S. attorney’s office\, the couple joke about whether Miranda’s parents’ history as antiwar activists in the Sixties might jeopardize Russ’s security clearance. But as it turns out\, the real threat emerges after Russ’s future employer discovers that Miranda was arrested for felony kidnapping seven years earlier – an arrest she’d never bothered to tell Russ about. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Fran or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nJennifer Rosner is the author of the novels Once We Were Home and The Yellow Bird Sings\, a Massachusetts Fiction Honors Book and National Jewish Book Award finalist in the categories of debut fiction and book club. She is also author of the memoir If A Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard\, and the children’s book\, The Mitten String\, a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable. \nJennifer’s writing has appeared in the New York Times\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Forward\, and elsewhere. In addition to writing\, Jennifer has taught philosophy. She earned her B.A. from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her family. \nBeautifully evocative and tender\, filled with both luminosity and anguish\, Once We Were Home reveals a little-known history. Based on the true stories of children stolen during wartime\, this heart-wrenching novel raises questions of complicity and responsibility\, belonging and identity\, good intentions and unforeseen consequences\, as it confronts what it really means to find home. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nAlex 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. \nAlex is also the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall\, the Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery series\, and a number of comic books – including The Mysterious Micro-Face (in partnership with NPR)\, The Black Ghost\, The Archies\, The Dusk\, The Awakened\, and more. His short story\, “90 Miles” was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories for 2021 and won the Anthony Award for Best Short Story. \nHis latest book\, Secret Identity\, is a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books. Alex uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel–hard-edged and bright-eyed\, gritty and dangerous\, and utterly absorbing. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Alex or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nWendy Walker is the author of the psychological suspense novels All Is Not Forgotten\, Emma In the Night\, The Night Before\, Don’t Look For Me and American Girl. Her novels have been translated into 23 foreign languages\, topped bestseller lists both nationally and abroad\, and have been optioned for both television and film. \nWendy holds degrees from Brown University and Georgetown Law School\, and has worked in finance and several areas of the law. As a former family law attorney with training in child advocacy\, Wendy draws from her knowledge of trauma and psychology to write compelling and complex characters and stories. \nHer latest book\, What Remains\, is the story of detective Elise Sutton who finds herself drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve\, pulled from the past. Elise looks for cracks in the surface and has become an expert on how murderers slip up and give themselves away. She has dedicated her life to creating a sense of order\, at work with her ex-marine partner; at home with her husband and two young daughters; and within\, battling her own demons. Elise has everything under control\, until one afternoon\, when she walks into a department store and is forced to make a terrible choice: to save one life\, she will have to take another. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Wendy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nAbout the Amery Area (Wisconsin) Public Library\nThe Amery Area Public Library enriches the community by connecting people with information\, ideas and experiences. \n\n  \n\nFor Book Clubs\nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Cara Black\, Kimberly Brock\, Fran Hawthorne\, Jennifer Rosner\, Alex Segura\, and Wendy Walker are all members of our wonderful community of over 150 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers\, to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Cara Black\, Kimberly Brock\, Fran Hawthorne\, Jennifer Rosner\, Alex Segura\, Wendy Walker or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/bingo-groundhog-2-2-23/ CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2.2.23-groundhog-day-book-bingo-FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20221103T005923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185833Z UID:10000349-1673539200-1673542800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Harder to Breathe: a Fireside Virtual Adventure with Maroon 5 founding drummer and author Ryan Dusick in conversation with music producer Terry Wollman DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIn the 90’s\, Ryan Dusick and his friends\, including Adam Levine\, dreamed of making it big and\, against all odds\, they did. Yet for drummer Ryan Dusick\, stardom came to an abrupt halt with the devastating loss of his ability to play drums due to chronic nerve damage\, followed by personal struggles with anxiety and alcoholism after his departure from the band. \nTwo decades after Harder to Breathe became a megahit song by one of the world’s most popular bands\, Maroon 5’s original drummer\, Ryan Dusick\, presents an unflinching examination of fame\, anxiety\, mental health\, and recovery in his new memoir Harder to Breathe: A Memoir of Making Maroon 5\, Losing It All\, and Finding Recovery. \nNow\, in conversation with music producer Terry Wollman and Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth\, Ryan will share Maroon 5’s story of camaraderie and pressure\, as well as his own narrative: a decade lost to liquor and anti-anxiety medication\, his ferocious commitment to recovery\, and his current perspective as a professional counselor. \nJoin our FREE virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, by simply purchasing a book or register below\, and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Ryan Dusick. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Harder to Breathe: A Memoir of Making Maroon 5\, Losing It All\, and Finding Recover\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Ryan Dusick in conversation with Terry Wollman and Susan McBeth\, and Q&A. \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \n\nRyan Dusick is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist\, the founding drummer of the world’s most popular band Maroon 5\, a mental health advocate\, and an author. His life has been a long and winding road from aspiring pop-star with anxiety\, to heartbroken alcoholic\, to thriving mental health survivor and messenger of hope in recovery. \nHis new book\, Harder to Breathe\, is a roller-coaster memoir about how making it to the top sent him to the bottom—and how he let go of the past and embraced a new future\, one breath at a time. \nIn the nineties\, Ryan Dusick and his friends Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael dreamed about making it big . . . and against all odds\, they did. This inside story recounts Maroon 5’s founding and their road to becoming Grammy-winning megastars\, told through the eyes of former drummer Ryan Dusick. He takes readers behind the scenes of the band’s meteoric rise to success—and the grueling demands that came with it—as well as his personal struggles with anxiety and addiction after his departure from the band. \n\nAbout the Moderator\n \n\nTerry Wollman brings his talent and passion to every recording and performance. Originally from Miami\, he moved to Los Angeles after graduating from the prestigious Berklee College of Music with a degree in Arranging and quickly built a solid reputation as an in-demand\nmusic director/guitarist/producer/composer. \nTerry has performed with an array of artists including Billy Preston\, Dionne Warwick\, Al Jarreau\, Little Richard\, Wilson Phillips\, Joan Baez\, Eartha Kitt\, Joe Walsh\, Keb’ Mo’ and Melissa Manchester. He has numerous TV credits including his stints as musical director of 2 national late night talk shows\, and hit shows Married With Children\, Scrubs and Desperate Housewives. Wollman was the Music Producer for the Emmy Nominated HBO documentary If You’re Not in the Obit\, Eat Breakfast\, narrated by Carl Reiner; featuring Tony Bennett\, Alan\nBergman (with Dave Grusin)\, and Dick Van Dyke. \nFrom his critically acclaimed solo debut “Bimini”\, to his 25 year retrospective album “Silver Collection” and “Cassini’s Last Dance”\, Terry weaves his memorable melodies over unique and eclectic arrangements. He is currently in the studio recording his next CD of special collaborations scheduled for release later this year. Terry’s weekly podcast Making It with Terry Wollman explores the secrets\, successes and strategies for making it in the music biz. \nWebsite: www.terrywollman.com\nSpotify: https://C54QZr.bio.to/JBkqS3Dl\nPodcast: www.firesidechat.com/terrywollman\nIG: https://www.instagram.com/terrywollman/ \n\n\n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/ryan-dusick-1-12-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ryan-dusick-1.12.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T170000 DTSTAMP:20260526T021244 CREATED:20220722T010757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185826Z UID:10000329-1673193600-1673197200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Reef Road: a Fireside Virtual Adventure with actress and award-winning author Deborah Goodrich Royce DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nWhen a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach\, Florida\, the lives of two women—a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother’s best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children—collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020… \nJoin actress and award-winning author Deborah Goodrich Royce on Fireside as she discusses her new thriller\, Reef Road.  Make sure to grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa before you curl up in your favorite chair to chat live with Deborah to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Deborah. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Reef Road\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Deborah\, and Q&A. \n  \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nDeborah Goodrich Royce’s literary thrillers examine puzzles of identity. Finding Mrs. Ford and Ruby Falls will be joined by Reef Road in January 2023. \nDeborah began her career as an actress\, starring as Silver Kane\, sister of the legendary Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci) on the ABC soap\, All My Children. She went on to star in feature films such as April Fool’s Day and Just One of the Guys\, TV movies such as Return to Peyton Place and The Deliberate Stranger\, and series such as Beverly Hills 90210 and 21 Jump Street. \n\nIn her novel\, Reef Road\, a young woman’s life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics. What each of them stands to lose as they sneak around the do-not-enter tape blocking Reef Road beach is exposed by the steady tightening of the cincture encircling them. \nIn a nod to the true crime that inspired it\, Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Reef Road probes unhealed generational scars in a wrenching and original work of fiction. It is both stunning and sexy and\, like a bystander surprised by a curtain left open\, you won’t be able to look away. \n  \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations.  \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/deborah-goodrich-royce-1-8-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/deborah-goodrich-royce-1.8.23-2.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR