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:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220907T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220907T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220804T032127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185826Z UID:10000330-1662566400-1662570000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Happier Hour: a Virtual Fireside Adventure with award-winning educator and researcher Dr. Cassie Mogilner Holmes DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nOur most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. \nJoin award-winning educator and researcher Dr. Cassie Mogilner Holmes on Fireside as she discusses her new book\, Happier Hour\, where you will learn how to immediately improve your life by better investing your time. \nAnd it all starts with a happier hour! So\, be sure to grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa before you curl up in your favorite chair to chat live with Cassie 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 Cassie. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Happier Hour\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Cassie\, and Q&A. \n  \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nCassie Mogilner Holmes is a Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Her research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness\, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one’s lifetime\, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Across these inquiries\, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment. \nCassie’s academic research on the role of time in cultivating well-being has been published in leading academic journals\, including Psychological Science\, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology\, and the Journal of Consumer Research\, and earned her the Early Career Award from both the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. \nCassie was identified by Poets & Quants as one of the best 40 business professors under 40\, and popular accounts of her research have been featured on NPR and in such publications as The Economist\, The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Financial Times\, and Scientific American. \nProfessor Cassie Holmes is the author of the upcoming book\, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction\, Expand Your Time\, and Focus on What Matters Most\, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course\, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.” \nHappier Hour provides empirically-based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to: \n– Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices\n– Sidestep distractions\n– Create and savor moments of joy\n– Design your schedule with purpose\n– Look back on your years without regrets \nEnlivened by Holmes’s upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research\, Happier Hour teaches you how small changes can have an enormous impact\, helping you feel less overwhelmed\, more present\, and more satisfied with your life overall. It all starts by transforming just one hour into a happier hour. \n\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. Chat live now!  \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/dr-cassie-mogilner-holmes-9-7-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cassie-holmes-fs-9.7.22-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220901T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220901T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220716T054728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185825Z UID:10000326-1662048000-1662051600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Fall Into Reading (Part 4): a 6-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s never too early to start planning your autumn book selections\, so why not fall into reading now by joining our 6-part Fireside Chat Fall Series featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul to discover six fun new reads! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun six-part series. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. 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 Fall Series Schedule\nPART 4 featuring Gill Paul: Thursday\, September 1\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Carol Van Den Hende: Thursday\, September 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 6 featuring featuring Ellen Meeropol: Thursday\, September 22\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n \nGill Paul’s historical novels have reached the top of the USA Today\, Toronto Globe & Mail and UK kindle charts\, and been translated into twenty languages. She specializes in relatively recent history\, mostly 20th century\, and enjoys re-evaluating real historical characters and trying to get inside their heads. \nGill also writes historical non-fiction\, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world\, this series includes Royal Love Stories\, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories. \nIn her book\, The Manhattan Girls: A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends\, it’s New York City 1921: The war is over\, fashions are daring\, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here\, four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Gill or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nCarol Van Den Hende is the award-winning author of Goodbye\, Orchid which won the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonflys\, received honorable mention in NY Book Festival and finalist in the Best Book Awards. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to marketing and strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!). \nHer novel\, Orchid Blooming\, is the captivating first book in the Goodbye\, Orchid contemporary fiction series. \nKind and generous\, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident\, the beauty industry marketer yearns to win a promotion to China to connect to her mom’s ancestry. But with competition fierce\, she despairs she’ll never make the grade… until she meets an encouraging man who makes her feel safe despite her usual distrust. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Carol or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novel The Lost Women of Azalea Court (September 2022) and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World (November 2022). Her previous novels are Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize\, The Women’s National Book Association\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.. \nIn her new book\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, hidden histories haunt both the landscape and the characters… \nThe neighbors of Azalea Court\, Lexi\, Harriet\, and Detective McPhee narrate this story together\, uncovering ghosts\, secrets\, and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Ellen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fall-into-reading-part-4-a-6-part-virtual-fireside-adventure-featuring-bestselling-and-fan-favorite-authors-sara-ackerman-jamie-beck-carol-van-den-hende-madeline-martin-ellen-meeropol-and-gill/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/fireside-chat-fall-series-5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220825T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220825T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220716T054333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185825Z UID:10000325-1661443200-1661446800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Fall Into Reading (Part 3): a 6-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s never too early to start planning your autumn book selections\, so why not fall into reading now by joining our 6-part Fireside Chat Fall Series featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul to discover six fun new reads! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun six-part series. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. 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 Fall Series Schedule\nPART 3 featuring Jamie Beck: Thursday\, August 25\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nPART 4 featuring Gill Paul: Thursday\, September 1\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Carol Van Den Hende: Thursday\, September 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 6 featuring featuring Ellen Meeropol: Thursday\, September 22\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n\n \nWall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Beck’s realistic and heartwarming stories have sold more than three million copies. She is a two-time Booksellers’ Best Award finalist\, a National Readers’ Choice Award winner\, and critics at Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Booklist have respectively called her work “smart\,” “poignant\,” and “entertaining.” \nIn addition to writing novels\, she enjoys dancing around the kitchen while cooking and hitting the slopes in Vermont and Utah. Above all\, she is a grateful wife and mother to a very patient\, supportive family. \nHer book\, Take It From Me\, is a humorous and heartwarming novel about friendship and all its little secrets. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jamie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n \nGill Paul’s historical novels have reached the top of the USA Today\, Toronto Globe & Mail and UK kindle charts\, and been translated into twenty languages. She specializes in relatively recent history\, mostly 20th century\, and enjoys re-evaluating real historical characters and trying to get inside their heads. \nGill also writes historical non-fiction\, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world\, this series includes Royal Love Stories\, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories. \nIn her book\, The Manhattan Girls: A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends\, it’s New York City 1921: The war is over\, fashions are daring\, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here\, four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Gill or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nCarol Van Den Hende is the award-winning author of Goodbye\, Orchid which won the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonflys\, received honorable mention in NY Book Festival and finalist in the Best Book Awards. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to marketing and strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!). \nHer novel\, Orchid Blooming\, is the captivating first book in the Goodbye\, Orchid contemporary fiction series. \nKind and generous\, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident\, the beauty industry marketer yearns to win a promotion to China to connect to her mom’s ancestry. But with competition fierce\, she despairs she’ll never make the grade… until she meets an encouraging man who makes her feel safe despite her usual distrust. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Carol or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novel The Lost Women of Azalea Court (September 2022) and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World (November 2022). Her previous novels are Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize\, The Women’s National Book Association\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.. \nIn her new book\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, hidden histories haunt both the landscape and the characters… \nThe neighbors of Azalea Court\, Lexi\, Harriet\, and Detective McPhee narrate this story together\, uncovering ghosts\, secrets\, and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Ellen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fall-into-reading-part-3-a-6-part-virtual-fireside-adventure-featuring-bestselling-and-fan-favorite-authors-sara-ackerman-jamie-beck-carol-van-den-hende-madeline-martin-ellen-meeropol-and-gill/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/fireside-chat-fall-series-5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220811T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220811T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220716T052722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185825Z UID:10000324-1660233600-1660237200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Fall Into Reading (Part 2): a 6-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s never too early to start planning your autumn book selections\, so why not fall into reading now by joining our 6-part Fireside Chat Fall Series featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul to discover six fun new reads! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun six-part series. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. 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 Fall Series Schedule\nPART 2 featuring Madeline Martin: Thursday\, August 11\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 3 featuring Jamie Beck: Thursday\, August 25\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nPART 4 featuring Gill Paul: Thursday\, September 1\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Carol Van Den Hende: Thursday\, September 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 6 featuring featuring Ellen Meeropol: Thursday\, September 22\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n\n \nMadeline Martin is a New York Times and international bestselling author of historical fiction and historical romance. \nShe lives in sunny Florida with her two daughters (known collectively as the minions)\, one incredibly spoiled cat and a man so wonderful he’s been dubbed Mr. Awesome. She is a die-hard history lover who will happily lose herself in research any day. When she’s not writing\, researching or ‘moming’\, you can find her spending time with her family at Disney or sneaking a couple spoonfuls of Nutella while laughing over cat videos. She also loves to travel\, attributing her fascination with history to having spent most of her childhood as an Army brat in Germany. \nHer moving novel\, The Last Bookshop in London\, was inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II. The Librarian Spy is an inspiring novel that highlights the women who dared to resist in the face of adversity. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Madeline or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n\n \nWall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Beck’s realistic and heartwarming stories have sold more than three million copies. She is a two-time Booksellers’ Best Award finalist\, a National Readers’ Choice Award winner\, and critics at Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Booklist have respectively called her work “smart\,” “poignant\,” and “entertaining.” \nIn addition to writing novels\, she enjoys dancing around the kitchen while cooking and hitting the slopes in Vermont and Utah. Above all\, she is a grateful wife and mother to a very patient\, supportive family. \nHer book\, Take It From Me\, is a humorous and heartwarming novel about friendship and all its little secrets. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jamie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n \nGill Paul’s historical novels have reached the top of the USA Today\, Toronto Globe & Mail and UK kindle charts\, and been translated into twenty languages. She specializes in relatively recent history\, mostly 20th century\, and enjoys re-evaluating real historical characters and trying to get inside their heads. \nGill also writes historical non-fiction\, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world\, this series includes Royal Love Stories\, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories. \nIn her book\, The Manhattan Girls: A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends\, it’s New York City 1921: The war is over\, fashions are daring\, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here\, four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Gill or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nCarol Van Den Hende is the award-winning author of Goodbye\, Orchid which won the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonflys\, received honorable mention in NY Book Festival and finalist in the Best Book Awards. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to marketing and strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!). \nHer novel\, Orchid Blooming\, is the captivating first book in the Goodbye\, Orchid contemporary fiction series. \nKind and generous\, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident\, the beauty industry marketer yearns to win a promotion to China to connect to her mom’s ancestry. But with competition fierce\, she despairs she’ll never make the grade… until she meets an encouraging man who makes her feel safe despite her usual distrust. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Carol or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novel The Lost Women of Azalea Court (September 2022) and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World (November 2022). Her previous novels are Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize\, The Women’s National Book Association\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.. \nIn her new book\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, hidden histories haunt both the landscape and the characters… \nThe neighbors of Azalea Court\, Lexi\, Harriet\, and Detective McPhee narrate this story together\, uncovering ghosts\, secrets\, and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Ellen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fall-into-reading-part-2-a-6-part-virtual-fireside-adventure-featuring-bestselling-and-fan-favorite-authors-sara-ackerman-jamie-beck-carol-van-den-hende-madeline-martin-ellen-meeropol-and-gill/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/fireside-chat-fall-series-5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220804T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220804T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220716T051735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185824Z UID:10000323-1659628800-1659632400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Fall Into Reading (Part 1): a 6-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s never too early to start planning your autumn book selections\, so why not fall into reading now by joining our 6-part Fireside Chat Fall Series featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul to discover six fun new reads! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun six-part series. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. 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 Fall Series Schedule\nPART 1 featuring Sara Ackerman: Thursday\, August 4\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 2 featuring Madeline Martin: Thursday\, August 11\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 3 featuring Jamie Beck: Thursday\, August 25\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nPART 4 featuring Gill Paul: Thursday\, September 1\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Carol Van Den Hende: Thursday\, September 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 6 featuring featuring Ellen Meeropol: Thursday\, September 22\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nSara Ackerman is a USA Today bestselling author who writes books about love and life\, and all of their messy and beautiful imperfections. She believes that the light is just as important as the dark\, and that the world is in need of uplifting and heartwarming stories. Born and raised in Hawaii\, she studied journalism and later earned graduate degrees in psychology and Chinese medicine. She blames Hawaii for her addiction to writing\, and sees no end to its untapped stories.  \n\n\nIn her new book\, The Codebreaker’s Secret\, Sara delivers with a riveting novel of WWII-era Hawaii about a plucky heroine\, a decades-old mystery\, and a stirring romance. \nA brilliant female codebreaker. An “unbreakable” Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. The Codebreaker’s Secret is a dazzling story of love and intrigue set during America’s darkest hour. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Sara or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n\n \nMadeline Martin is a New York Times and international bestselling author of historical fiction and historical romance. \nShe lives in sunny Florida with her two daughters (known collectively as the minions)\, one incredibly spoiled cat and a man so wonderful he’s been dubbed Mr. Awesome. She is a die-hard history lover who will happily lose herself in research any day. When she’s not writing\, researching or ‘moming’\, you can find her spending time with her family at Disney or sneaking a couple spoonfuls of Nutella while laughing over cat videos. She also loves to travel\, attributing her fascination with history to having spent most of her childhood as an Army brat in Germany. \nHer moving novel\, The Last Bookshop in London\, was inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II. The Librarian Spy is an inspiring novel that highlights the women who dared to resist in the face of adversity. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Madeline or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n\n \nWall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Beck’s realistic and heartwarming stories have sold more than three million copies. She is a two-time Booksellers’ Best Award finalist\, a National Readers’ Choice Award winner\, and critics at Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Booklist have respectively called her work “smart\,” “poignant\,” and “entertaining.” \nIn addition to writing novels\, she enjoys dancing around the kitchen while cooking and hitting the slopes in Vermont and Utah. Above all\, she is a grateful wife and mother to a very patient\, supportive family. \nHer book\, Take It From Me\, is a humorous and heartwarming novel about friendship and all its little secrets. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jamie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n\n \n\nGill Paul’s historical novels have reached the top of the USA Today\, Toronto Globe & Mail and UK kindle charts\, and been translated into twenty languages. She specializes in relatively recent history\, mostly 20th century\, and enjoys re-evaluating real historical characters and trying to get inside their heads. \nGill also writes historical non-fiction\, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world\, this series includes Royal Love Stories\, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories. \nIn her book\, The Manhattan Girls: A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends\, it’s New York City 1921: The war is over\, fashions are daring\, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here\, four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Gill or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nCarol Van Den Hende is the award-winning author of Goodbye\, Orchid which won the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonflys\, received honorable mention in NY Book Festival and finalist in the Best Book Awards. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to marketing and strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!). \nHer novel\, Orchid Blooming\, is the captivating first book in the Goodbye\, Orchid contemporary fiction series. \nKind and generous\, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident\, the beauty industry marketer yearns to win a promotion to China to connect to her mom’s ancestry. But with competition fierce\, she despairs she’ll never make the grade… until she meets an encouraging man who makes her feel safe despite her usual distrust. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Carol or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novel The Lost Women of Azalea Court (September 2022) and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World (November 2022). Her previous novels are Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize\, The Women’s National Book Association\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.. \nIn her new book\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, hidden histories haunt both the landscape and the characters… \nThe neighbors of Azalea Court\, Lexi\, Harriet\, and Detective McPhee narrate this story together\, uncovering ghosts\, secrets\, and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Ellen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fireside-fall-series/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/fireside-chat-fall-series-5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220712T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220712T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220514T052915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185820Z UID:10000315-1657641600-1657645200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:I'm Not Broken: a 4-part Fireside PRIDE Adventure with author and social impact consultant Jesse Leon DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nJoin us for an unforgettable 4-part series with author and social impact consultant Jesse Leon\, as we discuss his unflinching and inspiring memoir\, I’m Not Broken. As Jesse shares his extraordinary story of resilience and survival while shining a light on his childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking\, street life\, and substance abuse\, you are invited and encouraged to participate in the conversation on Fireside’s unique platform that allows for live dialogue on our virtual stage. \nOur I’m Not Broken virtual Fireside Adventure by the Book series\, featuring the author in conversation with Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth\, will focus on four different aspects of Jesse’s identity that are described in his book while detailing the possibilities of self-transformation and self-acceptance\, including coming to terms with his queer identity and finding community\, the journey of addiction/recovery/mental health\, being the child of Mexican immigrants and The American Dream\, and turning points in his life. \nPre-order your book below for shipping to you upon publication on August 23\, and then tune in to Fireside for this important four-part episodic mini-series during PRIDE Month\, including a follow-up book club style conversation in late summer after the book has been released and you have had an opportunity to read Jesse’s story. We hope you will come away with a deeper and richer understanding of the inherent challenges Jesse and so many others face. Bring your questions\, your stories\, your open mind\, and your heart. \nUpcoming I’m Not Broken Schedule\nSERIES 1: Tuesday\, June 21\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 2: Tuesday\, June 28\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 3: Tuesday\, July 5\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 4: Tuesday\, July 12\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\n  \nTo join all (or part) of this series on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply pre-order a signed copy of I’m Not Broken below to be shipped directly to you upon publication in late August. 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 Jesse and Susan. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\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 recently moved back to San Diego to be closer to his mother and to pursue his dream of publishing this book. He is a native Spanish speaker and fluent in English and Portuguese. \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. \nBorn to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s\, Jesse Leon’s childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Jesse with a deadly secret. Hurt\, alone\, and scared for his life\, Jesse numbed his pain by losing himself in the hyper-masculine culture of the streets and wherever else he could find it—in alcohol\, drugs\, and prostitution. Overlooked by state-sanctioned institutions and systems intended to help victims of abuse\, neglected like many other low-income Latinos\, Jesse spiraled into cycles of suicide and substance abuse. \nI’m Not Broken is the heartbreaking and remarkable story of the journey Jesse takes to win back his life\, leading him to the steps of Harvard University. From being the lone young person of color in Narcotics Anonymous meetings to coming to terms with his own sexual identity\, to becoming an engaged mentor for incarcerated youth\, Jesse finds the will to live with the love and support of his family\, friends\, and mentors. Recounting the extraordinary circumstances of his life\, Jesse offers a powerful\, raw testament to the possibilities of self-transformation and self-acceptance. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jesse-leon-6-21-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/jesse-leon-4-part-series-june-july-2022-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220630T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220630T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220404T232424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185818Z UID:10000306-1656604800-1656608400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Precious Jules: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring critically-acclaimed author Shawn Nocher DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nHave you ever wondered where lies that fine line between selfishness and what passes for love? \nCritically-acclaimed author Shawn Nocher explores that complicated question in her new book\, The Precious Jules. Settle in with a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live on Fireside with Shawn 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 Laila. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of The Precious Jules\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Shawn\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nShawn Nocher (pronounced “No-Shay”) is the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Hand to Hold in Deep Water. Her short stories and nonfiction articles have been published in SmokeLong Quarterly\, Pithead Chapel\, MoonPark Review\, Writer’s Digest\, and Electric Literature\, among others. She teaches in the Master of Arts writing program at Johns Hopkins University\, has given wings to two children\, and lives with her husband and an assortment of sassy rescue animals in Baltimore\, Maryland\, where she writes in a room of her own. \nShawn’s new novel\, The Precious Jules\, is a deeply felt family narrative that examines the fine line between selfishness and what passes for love. \nAfter nearly two hundred years of housing retardants\, as they were once known\, the Beechwood Institute is closing the doors on its dark history\, and the complicated task of reassigning residents has begun. Ella Jules\, having arrived at Beechwood at the tender age of eight\, must now rely on the state to decide her future. Ella’s aging parents have requested that she be returned to her childhood home\, much to the distress of Ella’s siblings\, but more so to Lynetta\, her beloved caretaker who has been by her side for decades. \nThe five adult Jules children\, haunted by their early memories of their sister\, and each dealing with the trauma of her banishment in their own flawed way\, are converging on the family home\, arriving from the far corners of the country — secrets in tow — to talk some sense into their aging parents and get to the root of this inexplicable change of heart. \nThis family story asks what is best for one child in light of what is perceived as the greater good\, and just what is the collective legacy of buried family secrets\, shame\, and helplessness. The Precious Jules is a deeply felt family narrative that will make you fall in love with these flawed and imperfect characters standing on the threshold of an awakening they never expected. \n  \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/shawn-nocher-6-30-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/shawn-nocher-6-30-22-Fireside-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220629T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220629T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220401T081203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185818Z UID:10000305-1656518400-1656522000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Second Husband: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring New York Times bestselling author Kate White DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nHow well do we really know our loved ones? That’s a question that New York Times bestselling author Kate White tackles in her fast-paced new novel of suspense\, The Second Husband. \nJoin Kate on Fireside as she discusses this psychological thriller about a woman whose seemingly perfect world is rocked by the reopening of her first husband’s murder case.  You are going to need a glass of wine or hot cocoa before you curl up in your favorite chair to chat live with Kate 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 Kate. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of The Second Wife\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Kate\, and Q&A. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nKate White is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels of suspense: seven standalone psychological thrillers\, including The Fiancée (June 2021)\, and eight Bailey Weggins mysteries.  Her last standalone thriller\, Have You Seen Me\, was an Amazon Editors’ pick for best thrillers of 2020\, and her 2019 novel\, Such a Perfect Wife\, was nominated for an International Thriller Writers Award. She has been published in countries around the world. \nFor fourteen years Kate served as the award-winning editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine\, which under her became the number one seller on U.S. newsstands. Though she loved her job\, she decided to leave nine years ago to concentrate full-time on another passion of hers\, being a suspense novelist. \nLike many female mystery authors\, Kate fell in love with the genre after reading her first Nancy Drew book\, in her case The Secret of Redgate Farm. Kate is a frequent speaker at libraries\, book conferences\, and companies\, and has also appeared on many television shows\, including The Today Show\, CBS This Morning\, and Good Morning America. \nThe Second Husband is Kate’s new psychological thriller about a woman whose seemingly perfect world is rocked by the reopening of her first husband’s murder case. \nAfter losing her husband Derrick in what appears to have been a random street crime\, thirty-something Emma has built a new life with widower Tom. Tom is kind\, handsome\, driven\, and successful\, and Emma is finally able to feel safe again\, both in their relationship and in the home they’ve made together on the Connecticut shore. \nThen one day a homicide detective shows up at Emma and Tom’s door asking questions. Though Emma had been cleared of her husband’s murder\, it appears that law enforcement is taking another look at her and the case. What have they found exactly? And more importantly\, will the renewed investigation ruin Emma’s chances for a happy life? \nA fast-paced work of psychological suspense asks the question\, “How well do we really know our loved ones?” \n  \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kate-white-6-29-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/kate-white-6-29-22-Fireside.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220525T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220409T023143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185819Z UID:10000309-1653494400-1653498000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:A Touch of Darkness: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair in conversation with Laura Thalassa DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIn mythology and literature\, she is known as the dreaded Persephone\, queen of the Underworld\, and goddess of death. Now\, a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Persephone and Hades Greek myth in her reimagined New Greece comes forth from bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair. \nSo grab a glass of wine\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Scarlett\, in conversation with Laura Thalassa\, to discuss Scarlett’s latest book\, A Game of Retribution\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage” with the authors. \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book(s) 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 Scarlett and Laura. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of A Game of Retribution and/or Death\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Scarlett and Laura\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nInternational and USA Today bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the author of the Hades X Persephone Saga\, the Hades Saga\, King of Battle & Blood\, and When Stars Come Out. She has a Master’s degree in Library Science and Information Studies and a Bachelors in English Writing. She is obsessed with Greek Mythology\, murder mysteries\, and the afterlife. \nIn her new book\, A Game of Retribution\, Hades\, God of the Dead\, does not take sides or bend the rules. He makes no exceptions to these values―not for god or mortal\, even his lover\, Persephone\, Goddess of Spring. \nUsually\, fear prevents retaliation…But not this time. \nWhen Hera\, Goddess of Women\, approaches Hades with a plan to overthrow Zeus\, he declines to offer help. As punishment\, Hera sentences Hades to perform a series of labors. Between killing mythical monsters and recovering deadly stolen artifacts\, each feat seems more impossible than the last and draws his attention away from Persephone―whose own tragedy has left her questioning whether she can be Queen of the Underworld. \nCan Hades maintain the balance he craves? \n\n  \n\n \nFound in the forest when she was young\, Laura Thalassa was raised by fairies\, kidnapped by werewolves\, and given over to vampires as repayment for a hundred-year debt. She’s been brought back to life twice\, and\, with a single kiss\, she woke her true love from eternal sleep. She now lives happily ever after with her undead prince in a castle in the woods.…or something like that anyway. \nWhen not writing\, Laura can be found scarfing down guacamole\, hoarding chocolate for the apocalypse\, or curled up on the couch with a good book. \nIn her new novel\, Death\, he’s known by many names: Thanatos. Horseman. God’s last angel. And then\, of course\, there’s the one I’m all too familiar with—Death. \nThe day Death comes to Lazarus Gaumond’s town and kills everyone in one fell swoop\, the last thing he expects to see is a woman left alive and standing. But Lazarus has her own extraordinary gift: she cannot be killed—not by humans\, not by the elements\, not by Death himself. \nThe end is here. Humankind is set to perish\, and not even the horsemen can stop Death from fulfilling his final task. \nOnly Lazarus can. \n\n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/scarlett-st-clair-5-25-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/scarlett-st-clair-fireside-5.25.22-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220517T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220402T063755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185818Z UID:10000307-1652803200-1652806800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Mother County: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring award-winning author Jacinda Townsend DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIn her new novel\, Mother Country\, award-winning author Jacinda Townsend offers a bone-deep and unsparing portrayal of the ethical and emotional claims we make upon one another in the name of survival and in the name of love. \nJoin us live as we chat with Jacinda about her new transnational feminist novel\, where you have the unique opportunity to converse and ask questions live with the author on our virtual 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 Jacinda. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Mother Country\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Jacinda\, and Q&A. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nJacinda Townsend is the author of Saint Monkey\, set in 1950’s Eastern Kentucky\, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Saint Monkey was also the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. \nHer new transnational feminist novel\, Mother Country\, explores human trafficking and motherhood. \nSaddled with student loans\, medical debt\, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident\, Shannon\, an African American woman\, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There\, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech\, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. \nWith the help of her boyfriend and a bribed official\, Shannon makes the fateful decision to adopt and raise the girl in Louisville\, Kentucky. But the girl already has a mother: Souria\, an undocumented Mauritanian woman who was trafficked as a teen\, and who managed to escape to Morocco to build another life. \nIn rendering Souria’s separation from her family across vast stretches of desert and Shannon’s alienation from her mother under the same roof\, Jacinda Townsend brilliantly stages cycles of intergenerational trauma and healing. Linked by the girl who has been a daughter to them both\, these unforgettable protagonists move toward their inevitable reckoning. \n  \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jacinda-townsend-5-17-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Jacinda-Townsend-5.17.22-fireside.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220330T233208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185817Z UID:10000302-1652198400-1652202000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Darling Girl: a Virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling author Liz Michalski DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nAll you need is faith\, trust\, and a little pixie dust . . . \nWith that bit of magic\, bestselling author Liz Michalski has created her new novel\, Darling Girl\, a beautiful\, grounded\, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J. M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan. So grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Liz 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 Liz. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Darling Girl\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Liz\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nLiz Michalski is a former reporter and editor. As a college student\, she spent a semester interning with a member of English parliament\, an experience that made her fall in love with London and also taught her how to make a proper cup of tea. (Her first attempt\, which involved a tea bag and microwave\, almost caused an international incident. When she’s not writing\, you can find her hiking\, walking\, or running in the magical outdoors. She lives in Massachusetts with her family\, a hive of bees\, two chickens\, and the world’s best dog. \nIn her newest book\, Darling Girl\, to save her daughter’s life one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan—who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be . . . \nLife is looking up for Holly Darling\, granddaughter of Wendy—yes\, that Wendy. She’s running a successful skincare company; her son\, Jack\, is happy and healthy; and the tragedy of her past is well behind her . . . until she gets a call that her daughter\, Eden\, who has been in a coma for nearly a decade\, has gone missing from the estate where she’s been long tucked away. And\, worst of all\, Holly knows who must be responsible: Peter Pan\, who is not only very real\, but more dangerous than anyone could imagine. \nEden’s disappearance is a disaster for more reasons than one. She has a rare condition that causes her to age rapidly—ironic\, considering her father is the boy who will never grow up—which also makes her blood incredibly valuable. It’s a secret that Holly is desperate to protect\, especially from Eden’s half-brother\, Jack\, who knows nothing about his sister or the crucial role she plays in his life. Holly has no one to turn to—her mother is the only other person in the world who knows that Peter is more than a story\, but she refuses to accept that he is not the hero she’s always imagined. Desperate\, Holly enlists the help of Christopher Cooke\, a notorious ex-soldier\, in the hopes of rescuing Eden before it’s too late . . . or she may lose both her children. \nDarling Girl brings all the magic of the classic Peter Pan story to the present\, while also exploring the dark underpinnings of fairy tales\, grief\, aging\, sacrifice\, motherhood\, and just how far we will go to protect those we love. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/liz-michalski-5-10-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/liz-michalski-5.10.22.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220331T233657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185817Z UID:10000303-1650470400-1650474000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Scarlet Carnation: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling author Laila Ibrahim DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIn an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice\, class divides\, and WWI\, two women fight for their dreams. . . \nJoin award-winning author Laila Ibrahim on Fireside as she discusses her galvanizing new historical novel\, Scarlet Carnation. Grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Laila 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 Laila. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of Scarlet Carnation\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Laila\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nLaila Ibrahim grew up in Whittier\, California on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County\, and moved to Oakland\, California to attend Mills College where she studied Psychology and Child Development. After getting a Master’s Degree in Human Development\, she realized she wanted to do more hands-on work with children\, and opened up her own preschool: Woolsey Children’s School. Her education and experiences as an educator and parent provide ample for her writing – especially her study of Attachment Theory and multiculturalism. \nShe identifies as a devout Unitarian Universalist – which is sort of like being a radical moderate – and worked as the Director of Children and Family Ministries at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland for five years. She lives in a small co-housing community in Berkeley with her wife\, Rinda\, a public school administrator. She is the proud mother of wonderful young adult daughters. \nIn her newest novel\, Scarlet Carnation\, it’s 1915. May and Naomi are extended family\, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. For both women\, the twentieth century promises social transformation and equal opportunity. \nMay\, a young white woman\, is on the brink of achieving the independent life she’s dreamed of since childhood. Naomi\, a nurse\, mother\, and leader of the NAACP\, has fulfilled her own dearest desire: buying a home for her family. But they both are about to learn that dreams can be destroyed in an instant. May’s future is upended\, and she is forced to rely once again on her mother. Meanwhile\, the white-majority neighborhood into which Naomi has moved is organizing against her while her sons are away fighting for their country. \nIn the tumult of a changing nation\, these two women―whose grandmothers survived the Civil War―support each other’s quest for liberation and dignity. Both find the strength to confront injustice and the faith to thrive on their chosen paths. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/laila-ibrahim-4-20-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/laila-ibrahim-4.20.22-Fireside-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220209T085809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185812Z UID:10000289-1648656000-1648659600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Hello Girls: a Fireside Virtual Adventure with award-winning historian and author Elizabeth Cobbs DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nJust in time to commemorate the centennial of WWI\, award-winning historian and author Elizabeth Cobbs\, Ph.D.\, has written The Hello Girls\, the defining account of the first women to serve in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. So grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of The Hello Girls\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Elizabeth\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\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 book\, The Hello Girls\, tells the untold story of how America’s first women soldiers helped win World War I\, earned the vote and fought the US Army. \nIn 1918\, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing’s explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote\, these courageous young women swore the army oath and settled into their new roles. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers wooed\, mocked\, and ultimately celebrated them. \nThe army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920\, the year Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. When they sailed home\, they were unexpectedly dismissed without veterans’ benefits and began a sixty-year battle that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/the-hello-girls-a-fireside-virtual-adventure/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/elizabeth-cobbs-hello-girls-fireside-march-30-2022-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220315T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220129T152441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185811Z UID:10000287-1647360000-1647363600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Conversations in Race: a 5-part virtual Fireside Adventure with Emmy award winning TV director and award winning author Jeffrey Blount DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nNever before have we hosted a five-part Adventure based on one book. However\, award-winning author Jeffrey Blount’s powerful novel\, The Emancipation of Evan Walls\, has inspired us to do just that. \nOur Conversations in Race virtual Fireside Adventure by the Book series\, featuring the author in conversation with Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth\, will focus on five different characters (or sets of characters) who offer a different perspective on race\, allowing us a unique opportunity to have a meaningful\, educational\, and respectful dialogue that opens our minds\, our hearts\, and our world. \nWhile not necessary to participate in the event\, we strongly encourage you to read a copy of The Emancipation of Evan Walls so you have a deeper and richer understanding of the characters and their inherent challenges as we chat live on our virtual stage. We hope you will join us for this important series\, and make sure to bring your questions\, your open mind\, and your heart. \nUpcoming Conversations in Race Schedule\nSERIES 1: Tuesday\, February 15\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 2: Tuesday\, February 22\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 3: Thursday\, March 3\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 4: Friday\, March 11\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 5: Tuesday\, March 15\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nTo join any part of this series on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply register for event(s) admission(s) below. You can also purchase a signed copy of The Emancipation of Evan Walls to be shipped directly to you. 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 Jeffrey and Susan. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nJeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of three novels — Almost Snow White\, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards. Hating Heidi Foster\, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature. The Emancipation of Evan Walls\, winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Award for African American fiction\, winner of the 2019 Readers Favorite Book Award\, winner of the 2019 American Bookfest Best Book Award\, and a Shelf Unbound 2019 Notable Book. \nHe is also an Emmy award-winning television director and a 2016 inductee to the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. During a 34-year career at NBC News\, Jeffrey directed a decade of Meet The Press\, The Today Show\, NBC Nightly News\, and major special events. \nIn his book\, The Emancipation of Evan Walls\, Evan Walls has been married to his wife Izzy for years\, yet she knows nothing about half of his life. That part of him he put away long ago and they have lived peacefully alongside the dead spot it has left in their love. However\, the birth of their first child changes everything. Evan\, fearful of a reincarnation of his childhood in the life of his new daughter\, finally finds the courage to tell his wife. Desperate\, he hopes that she can help him protect their child. \nIt is June 1968. The Civil Rights movement is winding down after the death of Martin Luther King\, Jr. Negroes in the town of Canaan\, Virginia has been used to acting the same\, thinking the same and sharing in the unadulterated hatred of a common enemy. Evan is ten years old and\, in the jargon of the times\, young\, gifted and black. In the presence of his parents and a summer porch gathering of their friends\, he makes a startling declaration. From that moment on\, the central question of his life is born. Is he black enough? \nEvan has a dream that will turn the sleepy town of Canaan upside down\, forcing him to walk the slippery and angry slope between blacks and whites. In time\, his dream disintegrates a family\, a marriage\, countless friendships and a dramatic first love. Only his great-grandmother\, Mama Jennie and mentor\, Bojack\, help him fight to keep his dream alive. And only Izzy can help him come to grips with what he learns from telling his traumatic life story. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/conversations-in-race-a-5-part-fireside-adventure/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/jeffrey-blount-conversations-race-2022.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220309T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220309T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220127T031438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185811Z UID:10000286-1646841600-1646845200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Next Ship Home: a virtual Ellis Island Adventure featuring NYT bestselling author Heather Webb in conversation with Susan Meissner DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nToday\, Ellis Island is a poetic symbol of the American Dream\, but it wasn’t always that way. . . Join New York Times bestselling author Heather Webb\, in conversation with USA Today bestselling author Susan Meissner as they unravel Ellis Islands’ important history through their respective novels\, The Next Ship Home and A Fall of Marigolds. \nGrab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and join us for a virtual Fireside Adventure on Ellis Island\, where you can chat live with the authors to discuss their books\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual Adventure on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase event admission below or\, better yet\, purchase Heather’s book (or a discounted two-pack) and receive FREE event admission. 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 Heather and Susan. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \n\n\nAbout the Authors and Books\nHeather Webb is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of seven historical novels. In 2015\, Rodin’s Lover was a Goodread’s Top Pick\, and in 2018\, Last Christmas in Paris won the Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award. Meet Me in Monaco\, was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Goldsboro RNA award in the UK\, as well as the 2019 Digital Book World’s Fiction prize. To date\, Heather’s books have been translated into over a dozen languages.  She lives in New England with her family and one feisty rabbit. \nHeather’s novel\, The Next Ship Home\, is inspired by true events and reveals the dark secrets of Ellis Island as two unlikely friends challenge a corrupt system\, altering their fate and the lives of the immigrants that come after them. \nA young Italian woman arrives on the shores of America\, her sights set on a better life. That same day\, a young American woman reports to her first day of work at the immigration center. \nBut Ellis Island isn’t a refuge for Francesca or Alma\, not when ships depart every day with those who are refused entry to the country and when corruption ripples through every corridor. While Francesca resorts to desperate measures to ensure she will make it off the island\, Alma fights for her dreams of becoming a translator\, even as women are denied the chance. As the two women face the misdeeds of a system known to manipulate and abuse immigrants searching for new hope in America\, they form an unlikely friendship—and share a terrible secret—altering their fates and the lives of the immigrants who come after them. \n  \n \n\nSusan Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with more than three-quarters of a million books in print in 18 languages. Her novels include 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. \n\nIn her compelling\, emotional novel\, A Fall of Marigolds\, a beautiful scarf connects two women touched by tragedy. \nSeptember 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor\, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan\, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then\, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers\, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries…and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. What she learns could devastate her—or free her. \nSeptember 2011. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side\, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully\, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine\, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers…the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. But a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf may open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life. \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/heather-webb-3-9-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/next-ship-home-heather-webb-3-9-22.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220113T050146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185806Z UID:10000279-1646150400-1646154000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The First\, the Few\, the Only: an ABTB Means Business Fireside Adventure with nFormation's Deepa Purushothaman and Fireside's Falon Fatemi DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nFor over ten years\, Adventures by the Book has been offering our signature one-of-a-kind\, multi-sensorial events and travels with authors. That’s because when it comes to connecting people and communities with books\, we mean business! \nAnd now\, we are taking that mission quite literally and are thrilled to welcome you to join the next in our new Adventures by the Book Means Business series\, offering you the opportunity to meet some of the greatest minds in the business world. \n \nAnd speaking of the greatest minds in business\, we are thrilled to celebrate the first day of Women’s History Month with Deepa Purushothaman\, co-founder of nFormation professional community for women of color\, as she discusses her inspiring new book\, The First\, the Few\, the Only\, with Fireside co-founder and CEO Falon Fatemi. \nHere is your chance to join the live conversation between Deepa and Falon\, on the exciting new platform that Falon co-founded\, to discuss The First\, the Few\, the Only.  Learn how to support their deeply personal call to action for women of color to find power from within and to join together in community. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of The First\, the Few\, the Only (with signed bookplate)\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside discussion with Deepa and Falon\, Q&A\, and the unique opportunity to converse live* with these brilliant creative artists and innovators. \n*Admission to this event is unique\, as Fireside is open by invite only. Simply purchase a book below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. Use your iPhone or iPad to chat live with the authors on the virtual stage; however\, or listen to the live broadcast on all other devices. Event access is provided via instructions emailed to you the week of the event. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nDeepa Purushothaman is the author of The First\, The Few\, The Only: How Women of Color can Redefine Power in Corporate America and the co-founder of nFormation\, a company that provides a brave\, safe\, and new space for professionals who are women of color. \nPrior to this\, Deepa spent more than twenty years at Deloitte and was ‘a first’: an Indian American woman and one of the youngest people to make partner in the company’s history. In her time there\, she helped grow Deloitte’s Social Impact Practice\, served as a National Managing Partner of Inclusion\, and served as the Managing Partner of WIN—the firm’s renowned program to recruit\, retain\, and advance women. \nThe First\, The Few\, The Only is a deeply personal call to action for women of color to find power from within and to join together in community\, advocating for a new corporate environment where we all belong—and are accepted—on our own terms. \nWomen of color comprise one of the fastest-growing segments in the corporate workforce\, yet often we are underrepresented—among the first\, few\, or only ones in a department or company. For too long\, corporate structures\, social zeitgeist\, and cultural conditioning have left us feeling exhausted and downtrodden\, believing that in order to “fit in” and be successful\, we must hide or change who we are. \nAs a former senior partner at a large global services firm\, Deepa Purushothaman experienced these feelings of isolation and burnout. She met with hundreds of other women of color across industries and cultural backgrounds\, eager to hear about their unique and shared experiences. In doing so\, she has come to understand our collective setbacks—and the path forward in achieving our goals. \nBusiness must evolve—and women of color have the potential to lead that transformation. We must begin by pushing back against toxic messaging—including the things we tell ourselves—while embracing the valuable cultural viewpoints and experiences that give us unique perspectives at work. By fully realizing our own strengths\, we can build collective power and use it to confront microaggressions\, outdated norms\, and workplace misconceptions; create cultures where belonging is never conditional; and rework corporations to be genuinely inclusive to all. \n  \n\n\nAbout the Moderator\n\n\nFalon Fatemi co-founded interactive entertainment platform Fireside with Mark Cuban and Mike Ihbe. Previously she was the Founder of Node\, the first horizontal AI-as-a-service platform that enables users of business applications to see into the future by putting the power of prediction into third-party applications with 4 simple API calls. Node had raised $40M from top tier investors and was acquired by SugarCRM in Aug of 2020. \nIn September 2020\, Falon was listed as Fortune’s 40 under 40 as one of the most influential people in Technology: https://fortune.com/40-under-40/2020/falon-fatemi/. \nPreviously\, at age 19\, Falon was the youngest employee at Google and has spent over a decade focused on go-to-market strategy\, global expansion\, and strategic partnerships at Google\, YouTube\, and the startup world. \nIn her free time\, Falon writes a column for Forbes covering company building in Silicon Valley and how AI is impacting the future of work forbes.com/sites/falonfatemi/. In 2019 she was recognized as Goldman Sachs top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs and in Inc Magazine as a Science Pioneer in the top 100 Women Building America’s Most Innovative and Ambitious Businesses. \nIn 2018 she was recognized in Fast Company as one of the top 100 Most Creative People in Business and in SFBusiness Times as one of the 40 under 40 visionaries changing the bay area and the world. In 2017\, Falon was deemed “The Rainmaker” as one of the 50 women on Marie Claire’s New Guard list comprised of “female visionaries changing the world we live in.” She is also a contributor for Entrepreneur Magazine\, and has written articles for Wired\, Business Insider\, Fast Company\, Venturebeat\, Re/Code\, TechCrunch\, Huffington Post and more. \n\n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \nDuring the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n\n\n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/deepa-purushothaman/ CATEGORIES:ABTB Means Business,Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/deepa-purushothaman-march-1-22-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T200000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220129T003158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185806Z UID:10000278-1645556400-1645560000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:A Girl From Africa: a Fireside Virtual Adventure with U.N. Special Advisor and Humanitarian Elizabeth Nyamayaro DESCRIPTION:  About the Event\nImagine a little African girl who has a near-death experience\, yet somehow manages to empower herself and spark a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world. Well\, imagine no more\, because that is exactly the remarkable story that award-winning humanitarian Elizabeth Nyamayaro shares in her victorious memoir\, I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment\, Community\, and Hope. \nIn our Fireside chat with Elizabeth\, you will learn about her vivid life and her extraordinary story of persevering through incredible odds to find her true calling—while delivering an important message of hope\, empowerment\, community support\, and interdependence. \nYour Adventure features a live conversation with the author on the exciting new virtual storytelling platform Fireside\, where you can converse live with Elizabeth on our virtual stage about her profound book\, I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment\, Community\, and Hope.  \nTo join our virtual event\, simply purchase a book 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 Elizabeth. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment\, Community\, and Hope\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Elizabeth\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n  \nElizabeth Nyamayaro is an award-winning humanitarian and Special Advisor at the United Nations World Food Programme. Born in Zimbabwe\, Elizabeth has worked at the forefront of global development for over two decades improving the lives of underserved populations and has held leadership roles at the World Bank\, World Health Organization\, UNAIDS\, and UN Women. \nRecognized as Apolitico’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy 2018 & 2019\, Elizabeth is a leading gender expert and recipient of the Feminist Majority Foundation’s prestigious Global Women’s Rights Award for her work on behalf of women and girls globally. Elizabeth is a Political Scientist by training and holds a MSc in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. \nHer book\, I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment\, Community\, and Hope\, is a profound and soul-nourishing memoir from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world. \nWhen severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe\, Elizabeth Nyamayaro\, then only eight\, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life’s purpose. Unable to move from hunger and malnourishment\, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her life—a transformative moment that inspired Elizabeth to dedicate herself to giving back to her community\, her continent\, and the world. \nIn the decades that have followed\, Elizabeth has been instrumental in creating change and uplifting the lives of others: by fighting global inequalities\, advancing social justice for vulnerable communities\, and challenging the status quo to accelerate women’s rights around the world. She has served as a senior advisor at the United Nations\, where she launched HeForShe\, one of the world’s largest global solidarity movements for gender equality. In I Am a Girl from Africa\, she charts this “journey of perseverance” (Entertainment Weekly) from her small village of Goromonzi to Harare\, Zimbabwe; London; New York; and beyond\, always grounded by the African concept of ubuntu—“I am because we are”—taught to her by her beloved grandmother. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\n  \nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/elizabeth-nayamayaro/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/elizabeth-nyamayaro-february-22-2022-fireside-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20220122T053514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185810Z UID:10000283-1644422400-1644426000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Ones We Keep: a Virtual Fireside Adventure with debut novelist Bobbie Jean Huff DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nOne family. One tragedy. One incredible decision to change their fate. What would you do? This is the question that debut novelist Bobbie Jean Huff explores in her emotional new book\, The Ones We Keep\, and one which you will be able to discuss live with the author in our next virtual Fireside Adventure. \nGrab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Bobbie Jean 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 Bobbie Jean. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of The Ones We Keep\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Bobbie Jean\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to experience the debut of her emotional book. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nCanadian-American Bobbie Jean Huff studied music in the United States and France\, but it wasn’t until she moved to Canada that she began writing. Since childhood she had wanted to write a novel\, but for decades wrote only short stories\, poetry\, and essays. \nThe plot for The Ones We Keep was sparked when she was returning to a Vermont family resort where she and her family had been staying. She looked across the lake to the dock\, where children were playing\, and asked herself\, What if? The Ones We Keep took three years to write. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Dzanc Prize for Fiction and was a semi-finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom 2019 Creative Writing Competition. \nIn her emotional debut\, for fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler\, The Ones We Keep follows the splintered lives of four family members in the years following an unthinkable tragedy\, and the choices they must make to find their way back to each other. One family. One tragedy. One incredible decision to change their fate. \nA quiet lakeside resort in Vermont seems like the perfect summer getaway for Olivia and Harry Somerville and their three young boys. But in a single moment\, their idyllic family retreat becomes a mother’s worst nightmare. Returning from a solo hike one afternoon\, Olivia learns from a passing stranger that one of her sons has drowned—but not which one. In that moment\, Olivia makes a panicked decision that will change her family forever. \nAn emotional and heartfelt meditation on the nature of loss\, the gift of recovery\, and the bonds of love\, The Ones We Keep tells the story of one family as they learn to face their grief and fight for hope. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/bobbie-jean-huff/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/bobbie-jean-huff-2.9.22.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220203T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220203T140000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20211008T020618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185759Z UID:10000259-1643893200-1643896800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Secrets of the Sprakkar: an Exclusive Virtual Adventure with Eliza Reid\, the First Lady of Iceland DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nCan you imagine living in a gender-equal world? If so\, you may be intrigued by Iceland which\, for the past twelve years\, has been ranked by the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report as number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women’s experiences there so positive? \nWell\, Eliza Reid knows a thing or two about that. As First Lady of Iceland\, she has delved into what a more gender-equal world would look like\, and why it’s worth striving for. In her new book\, Secrets of the Sprakkar (“extraordinary women”)\, she examines her adopted homeland’s attitude toward women—the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness\, the influence of current and historical role models\, and\, crucially\, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement. \nWe invite you to join us for a very special Adventure\, where you can chat live with this extraordinary First Lady of Iceland about her new book\, Secrets of the Sprakkar. Grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Eliza 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 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 Patti. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Secrets of the Sprakkar\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Eliza\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to experience the pre-launch of Eliza’s fascinating book. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\nEliza Reid\, the First Lady of Iceland\, was born in 1976 in Ottawa\, Canada. She moved to Iceland in 2003. Madame Reid holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations from Trinity College\, University of Toronto\, where she held the position of Head of College in her final year. She holds a Master of Studies degree in modern history from St. Antony’s College\, Oxford University. She speaks French and Icelandic. \nMadame Reid is  co-founder of the acclaimed Iceland Writers Retreat\, an annual event that combines small-group writing workshops with cultural tours to introduce visitors to Iceland’s unique literary heritage. In this capacity\, she has been active in helping to promote Icelandic writers and literary heritage abroad\, especially in North America. \nShe also served on the jury of the 2018 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction\, one of Canada’s largest literary prizes. She was previously an editor for Icelandair’s in-flight magazine\, a staff writer at Iceland Review\, and has been published in Monocle\, The Globe and Mail\, and several other newspapers and magazines. Prior to becoming First Lady\, Madame Reid was also a frequent commentator on Icelandic current affairs for foreign media. \nIn her book\, Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World\, Reid charts her personal journey from a Canadian farm to Iceland’s Presidential Residence and along the way proves to be the best possible guide to the historical\, geographical and cultural factors that helped women thrive and built a vibrant modern society. \nReid’s own experience as an immigrant from small-town Canada who never expected to become the first lady is expertly interwoven with interviews with dozens of sprakkar (“extraordinary women”) to form the backbone of an illuminating discussion of what it means to move through the world as a woman\, and how the rules of society play more of a role in who we view as “equal” than we may understand. Secrets of the Sprakkar is a powerful and atmospheric portrait of a tiny country that could lead the way forward for us all. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/eliza-reid/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Final-Reid-Eliza-2-3-22.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20211125T034033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185804Z UID:10000268-1642003200-1642006800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Yellow Wife: a Fireside Virtual Adventure with internationally bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson DESCRIPTION:  About the Event\nGet settled into your favorite comfy chair for this important Fireside chat with internationally bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson. In her latest novel\, Yellow Wife\, one of O Magazine’s Most Anticipated Novels of 2021 and just named as one of NPR’s Best Books of 2021 in Historical Fiction\, Sadeqa offers an unflinchingly powerful account of a painful period in American history. \nYour Yellow Wife Adventure features the author on the new virtual storytelling platform Fireside\, where you can converse live with Sadeqa on our virtual stage about her award-winning book\, Yellow Wife.  \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book 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 Sadeqa. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of Yellow Wife\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Sadeqa Johnson\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nSadeqa Johnson is the internationally bestselling author of four novels and the recipient of the National Book Club Award\, the Phillis Wheatley Award and the USA Best book Award for best fiction.  A former public relations manager\, she spent several years working with well-known authors such as JK Rowling\, Bebe Moore Campbell\, Amy Tan and Bishop TD Jakes before becoming an author herself. \nHer debut novel\, Love in a Carry-on Bag\, is the recipient of the 2013 Phillis Wheatley award for best fiction\, OOSA best book award\, and USA best book award for African-American fiction. Second House From the Corner\, was hailed by Essence magazine and a Go on Girl! Bookclub selection for 2017. And Then There Was Me\, won the National Book Club Conference fiction book of the year award\, and was a finalist for the Phillis Wheatley award. She has also received the Black Pearl Magazine Author of the Year award for 2017. \nSadeqa is a Kimbilo Fellow\, former board member of the James River Writers\, and proud member of the Tall Poppy Writers. She also teaches fiction writing for the MFA program at Drexel University. Originally from Philadelphia\, she currently lives near Richmond\, Virginia with her amazingly supportive husband of 18 years\, and their three beautiful children. \nHer latest novel\, Yellow Wife\, named by O Magazine as one of 2021’s Most Anticipated Novels\, is an intricately crafted story inspired by the pages of history. Born on a plantation in Charles City Virginia\, Pheby Delores Brown\, has lived a privileged life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the plantation’s medicine woman\, and cherished by the Master’s sister\, she is set apart from the others on the plantation\, belonging to neither world. \nFreedom on her 18th birthday has been promised to her\, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love\, Essex Henry\, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known and unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous “Devil’s Half-Acre\,” a jail where the enslaved are broken\, tortured\, and sold every day in Richmond\, Virginia. There Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailor’s cruelty but also to his contradictions. To survive Pheby will have to outwit him but soon faces the ultimate sacrifice. \n“Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson is a page-turner of a novel that is utterly transporting. Johnson’s rich historical detail and enchanting prose sucked me into another world from the very first page. The book is a reminder that the inner lives of black women are as complicated as they are fascinating and make for some fo the most affecting literature in American history. I loved it.” – Attica Locke\, New York Times bestselling author of Heaven\, My Home. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/yellow-wife/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/sadeqa-johnson-january-12-2022-fireside-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220110T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220110T160000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20211201T035401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185804Z UID:10000269-1641826800-1641830400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Smart Growth: an ABTB Means Business Fireside Adventure with CEO\, author\, and Top 50 business leader Whitney Johnson DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nFor over ten years\, Adventures by the Book has been offering our signature one-of-a-kind\, multi-sensorial events and travels with authors. That’s because when it comes to connecting people and communities with books\, we mean business! \nAnd now\, we are taking that mission quite literally and are thrilled to welcome you to join the next in our new series\, Adventures by the Book Means Business\, offering you the opportunity to meet some of the greatest minds in the business world. \n \nAnd we can’t think of a better way to continue our new Adventures by the Book Means Business series than with CEO\, author\, and one of the top 50 business leaders in the world (Thinkers 50) Whitney Johnson\, as she discusses her groundbreaking new book\, Smart Growth. \nChat live* with the author on the exciting new platform Fireside to discuss Smart Growth\, ask questions\, and converse with Whitney live “on stage.” Find out what smart growth really means\, culling interviews from some of the top business geniuses of our time. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Smart Growth (with signed bookplate)\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside discussion with Whitney\, Q&A\, and the unique opportunity to converse live* with these brilliant creative artists and innovators. \n*Admission to this event is unique\, as Fireside is open by invite only. Simply purchase a book below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. An iPhone or iPad is required to chat live with the authors on the virtual stage; however\, event is accessible via live broadcast on all devices. Event access is provided via instructions emailed to you three days prior to the event. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nWhitney Johnson is the CEO of human capital consultancy Disruption Advisors\, an Inc. 5000 2020 fastest-growing private company in America. One of the 50 leading business thinkers in the world (#14) as named by Thinkers50\, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. \nWhitney is an innovation and disruption theorist and former award-winning Wall Street stock analyst. She is the author of the bestselling Build an A Team\, the critically-acclaimed Disrupt Yourself\, and is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. \nIn her new book\, Smart Growth\, growth is the goal. Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be\, are capable of being\, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what leaders strive toward. \nBut how do we grow? It turns out it happens in a predictable way\, which means we can understand where we are in our growth and chart a way forward. In this compact\, complete guide\, Whitney Johnson dives more deeply than ever into the S Curve of Learning so that you can envision how growth happens and direct yourself and others in your organization to create a culture that fosters it. \nThe growth and learning journey comes in three phases: the Launch Point\, the Sweet Spot\, and Mastery. Compelling examples of successful people will show you when and why growth is slow\, how to keep going\, what to do when growth and learning are almost too fast to keep up with\, and how to leap from one growth journey to another. As individuals grow\, so do organizations and societies. Growth is learning put into action—action that betters the world as we better ourselves and our small niches\, both personal and professional\, within it. Growth occurs when learning is internalized—when we try something new and invest the effort to move it from being something we do to something we are. \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \nDuring the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n\n\n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/smart-growth/ CATEGORIES:ABTB Means Business,Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/whitney-johnson-smart-growth-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220105T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220105T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20211006T191604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185759Z UID:10000258-1641398400-1641402000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:A Thousand Steps: a Fireside Virtual 1970's Adventure DESCRIPTION: About the Event\nStep back in time with us into the Age of Aquarius\, where peace\, love\, and enlightenment\, as well as hippies\, drugs\, and war defined an era.  Our Thousand Steps 1970’s Virtual Adventure features New York Times bestselling and three-time Edgar award-winning author T. Jefferson Parker in an exciting pre-launch event on the new storytelling platform Fireside\, where you can converse live on our virtual stage with Jeff about his beguiling thriller and coming-of-age novel\, A Thousand Steps.  \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book 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 Patti. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of A Thousand Steps\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with T. Jefferson Parker\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nT. Jefferson Parker is the bestselling author of 23 crime novels\, including Edgar Award-winners Silent Joe and California Girl. Jeff was born in L.A. and grew up in Southern California. He studied English at UC Irvine and worked as a newspaper reporter for five years while writing his first book\, Laguna Heat\, on evenings and weekends. HBO made Laguna Heat into one of its first original television movies in 1987. \nAlthough the “T” is part of his legal name it does not stand for a name. It is a decorative initial put there by his parents\, who once told him they thought T. Jefferson Parker would look good on the White House door. Parker lives in north San Diego County\, and enjoys fishing\, hiking\, and just about anything outdoors. \nHis latest novel\, A Thousand Steps\, is set in Laguna Beach\, California\, in 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna\, seeking peace\, love\, and enlightenment. Matt Antony is just trying to get by. Matt is sixteen\, broke\, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom’s a stoner\, his deadbeat dad is a no-show\, his brother’s fighting in Nam . . . and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she’s just another runaway hippie chick\, enjoying a summer of love\, but Matt doesn’t believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach. \nAll Matt really wants to do is get his driver’s license and ask out the girl he’s been crushing on since fourth grade\, yet it’s up to him to find his sister. But in a town where the cops don’t trust the hippies and the hippies don’t trust the cops\, uncovering what’s really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast. If it’s not already too late… \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/t-jefferson-parker/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/t-jefferson-parker-fireside-1-5-22.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211209T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211209T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20211023T211814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185803Z UID:10000264-1639065600-1639069200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:In Polite Company: a Fireside Virtual Adventure featuring critically-acclaimed debut novelist Gervais Hagerty DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nPeek behind the veil of Charleston’s cobbled streets as you join critically-acclaimed debut novelist Gervais Hagerty for an exciting afternoon of fabled historic homes\, walled gardens\, and cocktail parties at our In Polite Company Virtual Adventure. Get ready for a “beautiful debut novel” (Sue Monk Kidd) by a debut “author to watch” (Mary Alice Monroe) that “allows us a fascinating glimpse into an elite Southern society trying to hold onto age-old traditions and values in a rapidly changing world” (Cassandra King Conroy). \nHere is your opportunity to chat live with Gervais about her entertaining debut novel\, In Polite Company\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” To join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book 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 Gervais. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of In Polite Company\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Gervais\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to converse live with Gervais “on stage”. Log-in instructions will be emailed 3-5 days prior to the event. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nGervais Hagerty grew up in Charleston\, South Carolina. She earned her B.A. in psychology from Vanderbilt University. After a post-college stint in Southern California\, she returned to the East Coast\, where she worked as a news reporter and producer for both radio and television broadcasts. \nIn 2013\, she earned her M.B.A. from The Citadel\, The Military College of South Carolina\, and soon after became a professor teaching Leadership Communications. As the director of Patricia McArver Public Speaking Lab\, she coached students\, faculty\, and staff to become effective speakers. She also advised the college’s public speaking club. She is a board member of The Charleston Council for International Visitors and serves on Charleston’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. \nIn Polite Company\, Gervais’s debut novel\, introduces protagonist Simons Smythe\, who knows there’s more to her hometown than sweet tea and Southern hospitality. Behind the walled gardens\, inside the fabled historic homes\, live Charleston’s elite. Simons was born into this powerful aristocracy that has quietly ruled the city for centuries. Simons’s family has a banner year ahead; Her older sister will give birth to her second child\, and her younger sister will make her debut—a series of cocktail parties and balls to introduce her to society. And in one year\, Simons plans to marry Trip. She hopes that’s enough time to fall back in love. \nSimons produces the news at a local TV station\, a job that increasingly tests her loyalty to her family and friends. On her days off\, Simons surfs the waves of Folly Beach\, crabs the salty rivers of Edisto Island\, and follows her wayward heart to King Street bars. The one touchstone in this confusing time is her elegant and secretive grandmother\, Laudie\, who—repeatedly and mysteriously—urges Simons to “be brave”. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/gervais-hagerty/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/gervais-hagerty-dec-9-2021-fireside.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211123T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20211021T231455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185800Z UID:10000262-1637683200-1637686800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Gone but Thankful: a Fireside Virtual Adventure featuring triple-amputee author Linda Olson DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n“’I didn’t marry your arms and your legs … if you can do it\, I can do it\,’” was the first thing Linda Olson’s husband\, Dave Hodgens\, said to her after the accident. Meet Linda\, who at age twenty-nine\, lost both her legs and right arm in a train vs. car accident in Germany. In spite of everything\, she decided to take control of her life rather than become a victim… \nPlease join us for this heartfelt Virtual Fireside Adventure to discuss Linda’s inspiring memoir\, Gone: A Memoir of Love\, Body\, and Taking Back My Life\, an incredible story of survival that reminds us all how precious life is. So make a hot cup of tea\, grab a tissue or two\, and curl up on the couch for this must-see Adventure where you can chat live with Linda\, ask questions\, and converse with her “on stage.” This Adventure will certainly inspire you to be thankful on so many levels. \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book 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 Linda. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. Log-in instructions will be emailed 3-5 days prior to the event. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of Gone\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Linda\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to hear Linda’s remarkable story. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nAt age twenty-nine\, Linda Olson lost both her legs above the knee and her right arm in a train vs. car accident in Germany. Linda had to rebuild her life as she learned to walk with prostheses and devised new ways to perform the activities of daily living. \nA year later she moved back to Los Angeles where she lived independently\, gave birth to her first child\, and finished her Radiology training. She had an illustrious thirty-year career as a Professor of Radiology at the University of California\, San Diego where she was the Director of Breast Imaging and the recipient of many teaching awards. With help from teams of friends and family\, Linda and her husband Dave raised their two children to canoe\, kayak\, backpack\, raft and travel in remote places. \nDetailing her experience in her new memoir\, Gone\, Linda explains how Dave and she were young doctors whose story had all the makings of a fairy tale. But then\, while they were vacationing in Germany\, a train hit their van\, shattering their lives―and Linda’s body. When Linda saw Dave for the first time after losing her right arm and both of her legs\, she told him she would understand if he left. His response: “I didn’t marry your arms or your legs. If you can do it\, I can do it.” \nIn order to protect their loved ones\, they decided to hide the truth about what really happened on those train tracks\, and they kept their secret for thirty-five years. As a triple amputee\, Linda learned to walk with prostheses and change diapers and insert IVs with one hand. She finished her residency while pregnant and living on her own. And she and Dave went on to pursue their dream careers\, raise two children\, and travel the world. \nGone asks readers to find not only courage but also laughter in the unexpected challenges we all face. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/linda-olson/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/linda-olson-gone-november-23-2021-fireside-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20211018T015134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185800Z UID:10000261-1637251200-1637254800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:A Single Light: a Fireside Virtual Adventure of Suspense DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nHalloween may be over\, but there are still thrills to be had as we join New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee for an afternoon of nonstop suspense at our next Fireside Virtual Adventure. As you curl up in your favorite chair\, grab a glass of wine\, and get cozy for this exclusive Adventure\, chat live with Tosca about her bone-chilling thriller\, A Single Light\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book 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 Tosca. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of A Single Light\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Tosca\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to converse live with Tosca “on stage”. Log-in instructions will be emailed 3-5 days prior to the event. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nTosca Lee is the award-winning\, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Between\, The House of Bathory Duology (The Progeny\, Firstborn)\, Iscariot\, The Legend of Sheba\, Demon: A Memoir\, Havah: The Story of Eve\, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker. \n\n\nA notorious night-owl\, she loves watching TV\, eating bacon\, playing video games with her kids\, and sending cheesy texts to her husband. You can find Tosca hanging around the snack table or wherever bacon is served. \n\n\nIn A Single Light\, Tosca’s highly-anticipated sequel to The Line Between\, Chase and Wynter come face-to-face with a society radically changed by a global pandemic six months after vanishing into an underground silo with sixty-one others\, where communities scrabble to survive under rogue leaders and cities are war zones. There is no sign of Noah and the rest of the group that was supposed to greet them when they surfaced–the same people Wynter was counting on to help her locate the antibiotics her gravely ill friend\, Julie\, needs. \nAs the clock ticks down on Julie’s life\, Wynter and Chase embark on a desperate search for medicine and answers. But what they find is not a nation on the cusp of recovery but one decimated by disease. What happened while they were underground? With food and water in limited supply and their own survival in question\, Chase and Wynter must venture further and further from the silo. They come face-to-face with a radically changed society\, where communities scrabble to survive under rogue leaders and cities are war zones. As hope fades by the hour and Wynter learns the terrible truth of the last six months\, she is called upon again to help save a nation she no longer recognizes–a place so chaotic she’s no longer sure it can even survive. \nFast-paced and taut\, A Single Light is a breathless thriller of nonstop suspense about the risks of living in a world outside the safe confines of our closely-held beliefs and the relationships and lives that inspire us. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/tosca-lee/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/final-tosca-lee-november-18-2021-fireside.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20210811T051038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185757Z UID:10000248-1636473600-1636477200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Around the World in 80 Books: a Fireside Virtual Adventure with Renowned Harvard Professor David Damrosch DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nAdventures by the Book® was created to offer worldwide opportunities to connect readers with authors and their books through unique\, innovative and interesting events and travels. And if ever there were a book to represent our mission\, Around the World in 80 Books is the one!  This is your opportunity to virtually Travel around the World with David Damrosch\, chair of Harvard University’s Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. Join us live on Fireside to journey through the places\, times and people who have made our world literature. Get ready to travel the globe on a unique Fireside Adventure where you can chat live with David to discuss his book and world literature\, ask questions\, and converse with him “on stage.” \nAdmission to this event is unique\, as Fireside is open by invite only. Simply purchase a book below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can join be in the virtual audience to converse live with the author. For other apps\, you will have the opportunity to listen to the live broadcast on our Fireside public profile page. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Around the World in 80 Books\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with David\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to virtually travel around the world with a renowned Harvard University Professor of Comparative Literature. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\nDavid Damrosch is a renowned author of over 25 books about literature\, as well as Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature and chair of comparative literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. He has lectured in fifty countries around the world\, and his online Harvard course Masterpieces of World Literature has been taken by nearly 100\,000 people \nDavid’s research includes methods of comparative literature and world literary studies; Bible and ancient Near Eastern literatures; modern European and global Anglophone literatures. His current research projects include a book on the discipline of Comparative Literature\, and a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association\, who has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. \nHis new book\, Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey\, is a transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe\, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. \n\n\nInspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg\, David set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice\, Tehran and points beyond\, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel Prize–winners Orhan Pamuk\, Wole Soyinka\, Mo Yan\, and Olga Tokarczuk\, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world\, and the ways in which the world bleeds into literature.To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today\, David explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI. \n\n\nIn his literary cartography\, the author includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics\, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy\, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we’re entering. Taken together\, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on enduring problems\, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat\, as well as the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books’ heroines have to struggle—from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to Margaret Atwood today.\n\nAround the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings\, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book® has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/david-damrosch-80-books/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/david-damrsoch-november-9-2021-final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211104T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20211020T212755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185800Z UID:10000263-1636041600-1636045200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Seventh Queen: a Fireside Virtual Adventure DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIf you need a little heroism\, treachery\, and magic in your life\, bestselling author Greta Kelly is sure to make your wish come true\, as she joins us for a fantastical afternoon/evening of intrigue and perhaps a bit of sorcery at our Seventh Queen Fireside Virtual Adventure. Curl up in your favorite chair\, grab a glass of wine\, and get cozy for this exclusive Adventure\, where you can chat live with Greta about her new novel\, The Seventh Queen (the exciting sequel to the cliffhanger ending of The Frozen Crown) ask questions and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book 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 Greta. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of The Seventh Queen\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Greta\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to converse live with Greta “on stage”. Log-in instructions will be emailed 3-5 days prior to the event. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nGreta Kelly is (probably) not a witch\, death or otherwise\, but she can still be summoned with offerings of too-beautiful-to-use journals and Butterfingers candy. She currently lives in Wisconsin with her husband EJ\, daughters Lorelei and Nadia who are doing their level best to take over the world. \nHer exciting debut fantasy\, The Frozen Crown\, and the first novel in a thrilling duology packed with heroism\, treachery\, magic and war\, a princess with a powerful and dangerous secret must find a way to save her country from ruthless invaders. \nHer soon to be released second novel of the duology\, The Seventh Queen\, follows the gasp-inducing cliffhanger ending of The Frozen Crown\, the exciting conclusion to the epic story of Askia—a warrior\, witch\, and queen-to-be—as she confronts the monster that stole her throne…and is holding her prisoner to steal her magic. \nThe Empire of Vishir has lost its ruler\, and the fight to save Seravesh from the Roven Empire is looking bleak. Moreover\, Askia has been captured by power-hungry Emperor Radovan\, who plans on making her his wife simply so he can take her magic as his own\, killing her in the process. Aware of his ex-wives’ fates\, Askia must find a means of avoiding this doom\, not only for the sake of Seravesh\, but now for Vishir as well. She must put both nations first and remember Ozura’s advice: you must play the game in order to survive. Askia was born a soldier\, but now it’s time to become a spy. \n  \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n\n\n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/seventh-queen/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/greta-kelly-november-4-2021-fireside.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211028T150000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20211009T021819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185800Z UID:10000260-1635429600-1635433200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Two Who Survived: an Exclusive Virtual Adventure with Rose Schindler\, 91 year old Holocaust Survivor DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n“Stay alive\,” he said\, “so you can tell the world what they are doing to us.” And at 91 years old\, that is just what Rose Schindler is doing and has been doing since that day at Auschwitz\, when her father put his hands on her arms and bent down to look into her blue eyes. It was the last time she ever saw him. \nPlease join us for our most poignant and powerful Adventure yet\, where you can help Rose keep her promise to her father by hearing her story of life at Auschwitz\, the loss of her family\, and ultimately meeting her future husband\, fellow Holocaust survivor\, Max\, and the love and hope that gave them purpose after the Holocaust. \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book 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 Patti. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover or paperback copy of Two Who Survived\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Rose\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to experience to hear Rose’s remarkable story. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\nRose Schindler (1929-) was born and raised in Czechoslovakia. She was deported to Auschwitz along with her parents\, aunt\, five sisters and two brothers when she was just 14 years old. \nMax Schindler (1929-2017) was from Cottbus\, Germany. He and his family were deported to Poland and sent to a forced labor group in 1942. Over a three year period\, Max was sent to six concentration camps. \nDespite these horrible beginnings\, Max and Rose found each other and have been engaged in Holocaust activities for much of their lives. They are members of the ’45 Aide Society and involved in The Butterfly Project\, whose mission is to educate students about the Holocaust. Rose has also been the president of the New Life Club\, a local San Diego organization of Holocaust survivors. \nThey have been interviewed extensively by the news media and their video testimonies are included at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute – the organization founded by Steven Spielberg. \nMax and Rose have earned many awards as well. They were honored to receive the Jewish Heritage Month Local Heroes Award from KPBS television in 2016. Rose was named one of the Cool Women of 2015 by the San Diego Girl Scouts\, as well as a Woman of Valor during the 24th Annual Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival. She was awarded an honorary high school diploma from La Jolla Country Day School in 2018\, and awarded an honorary Master of Business Administration by the California International Business University in May 2019. A sought-after speaker\, Rose continues to recount her story regularly at schools and events. \nTwo Who Survived\, written by M. Lee Connolly\, is the compelling Holocaust memoir of Rose and Max and chronicles the true story of two children from different worlds: a city boy and a country girl. When the persecution of Jews began in the late 1930s\, both were plucked from their homes and thrust into concentration camps. They were stripped of everything and forced to navigate a truly incomprehensible\, volatile\, dangerous and unpredictable world. Despite their exposure to the horrors of the Holocaust\, they endured and carried on with a determination that shaped them forever. \nFollow the lives of Max and Rose as they learned to adapt to a reality beyond belief and emerged stronger than ever. When they were finally liberated from their concentration camps\, they navigated a new world individually before finding each other to form what each so tragically lost: a family. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/rose-schindler/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Rose-Schindler-fireside-10.28.21-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20210526T061625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185751Z UID:10000232-1634918400-1634922000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Woodrow on the Bench: A Fireside Happy Hour Adventure with Jenna Blum DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nFor anyone who has ever loved a dog (or even if you haven’t had the pleasure)\, this is the don’t miss event of the season\, a Friday evening Happy Hour Adventure on Fireside with New York Times and international bestselling author Jenna Blum to discuss her heartfelt memoir\, Woodrow on the Bench. Grab a glass of wine\, and maybe a box of tissues\, and curl up in your favorite chair for our exclusive Fireside happy hour where you can chat live with Jenna to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse with her “on stage.” \nAdmission to this event is unique\, as Fireside Chat is open by invite only. Simply purchase a book below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can join be in the virtual audience\, and if not\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Woodrow on the Bench\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Jenna\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to experience the pre-launch of Jenna’s touching book. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\nJenna Blum is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us (a New York Times bestseller\, the # 1 bestselling novel in Holland in 2011\, and the winner of the 2005 Ribalow Prize\, awarded by Hadassah Magazine and adjudged by Elie Wiesel)\, The Stormchasers (an international bestseller\, a Borders Book Club Selection\, a feature in French Elle\, and a Target Pic) and The Lost Family (a Target Pick and received starred reviews from all four trades: Kirkus\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Booklist\, and Library Journal)\, as well as the novella “The Lucky One” in the anthology Grand Central. Jenna is also one of Oprah’s Top 30 Women Writers and CEO/ CoFounder of literary social media company A Mighty Blaze. \nJenna is based in Boston\, where she teaches master novel and marketing workshops for Grub Street Writers\, where she has been an instructor for over 20 years. Jenna earned her B.A. in English at Kenyon College and her M.A. in Creative Writing at Boston University\, where she was the fiction editor for AGNI Literary Magazine and taught creative writing and journalism. The daughter of a CBS newswriter and producer\, Jenna interviewed Holocaust survivors for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation from 1993-1997. \nFor anyone who has ever loved a dog\, Woodrow on the Bench\, Jenna’s first memoir\, pays tribute to her beloved black Lab\, Woodrow\, that recalls the last six months of his life and the ways in which he taught her to live. Since she adopted him as a puppy fifteen years earlier\, Jenna Blum and Woodrow have been inseparable. Known to many as “the George Clooney of dogs” for his good looks and charm\, Woodrow and his “Mommoo” are fixtures in their Boston neighborhood. \nBut Woodrow is aging. As he begins to fail\, the true nature of his extraordinary relationship with Jenna is revealed. Jenna may be the dog parent\, but it is Woodrow\, with his amazing personality and trusting nature\, who has much to teach her. A divorcée who has experienced her share of sadness and loss\, Jenna discovers\, over the months she spends caring for her ailing dog\, what it is to be present in the moment\, and what it truly means to love. Aided by an amazing group of friends and buoyed by the support of strangers\, Jenna and Woodrow navigate these precious final days together with kindness\, humor\, and grace. Their unforgettable love story will reaffirm your belief in kindness\, break your heart\, and leave your spirit soaring. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/woodrow-on-the-bench/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/final-enna-Blum-Fireside-Oct-22-2021.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211016T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211016T170000 DTSTAMP:20260506T181551 CREATED:20210826T041221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185758Z UID:10000254-1634400000-1634403600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Once Upon A Wardrobe: an Exclusive Fireside Virtual Adventure with Patti Callahan Henry in conversation with Debbie Macomber DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nNamed one of Time Magazine’s top 100 novels of the century\, C.S. Lewis’s The Lion\, the Witch and the Wardrobe is one of the most beloved books of all time. Yet\, how many readers know the story behind the story that inspired Lewis to create his magical world of Narnia? Thankfully\, New York Times and international bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry’s latest novel\, Once Upon A Wardrobe sets out to do just that. In this tenderly imagined and enchanting story\, Patti pulls back the curtain on the early life of C.S. Lewis. \nGrab a glass of wine or hot cocoa and curl up in your favorite chair for our exclusive Fireside Adventure where you can chat live with Patti in conversation with beloved New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber\, to discuss their new books\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book 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 Patti and Debbie. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Once Upon A Wardrobe or Dear Santa\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Patti in conversation with Debbie\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to experience the pre-launch of both Patti’s and Debbie’s enchanting books. \nAnd if you want the full C.S. Lewis experience\, order a discounted two-book “Mr. and Mrs. Lewis” bundle\, to include a hardcover copy of Once Upon a Wardrobe and a paperback copy of Becoming Mrs. Lewis. \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\nPatti Callahan Henry is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of sixteen novels and the recipient of The Christy Award\, A 2019 Winner “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year for 2020 and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for 2019. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast. Patti is also a contributor to the weekly life lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. \nGrowing up in Philadelphia as the daughter of a Presbyterian minister\, Patti learned early the value of storytelling. At the age of twelve\, her family moved to South Florida where Patti found the sanctuary of libraries and began her slow but steady journey into understanding the power of story to navigate confusing times in life. A full-time author and mother of three children\, she now resides in both Mountain Brook\, Alabama\, and Bluffton\, South Carolina with her husband. \nIn her latest novel\, Once Upon A Wardrobe\, protagonist Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations\, on a scholarship at Oxford\, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. That is\, until the younger brother she loves\, George\, doesn’t have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a copy of a brand-new book called The Lion\, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from\, there’s no way she can refuse. \nDespite her timidity about approaching the famous author\, Megs soon finds herself taking tea with the Oxford don and his own brother\, imploring them for answers. What she receives instead are more stories… stories of Jack Lewis’s life\, which she takes home to George. Once Upon A Wardrobe is another tenderly imagined and enchanting story that pulls back the curtain on the early life of C. S. Lewis. \n  \n \n\nDebbie Macomber is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of today’s most popular writers with more than 200 million copies of her books in print worldwide. In her novels\, Debbie brings to life compelling relationships that embrace family and enduring friendships\, uplifting her readers with stories of connection and hope. Her novels have spent over 1\,000 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Thirteen of these novels hit the number one spot.\n\nShe serves on the Guideposts National Advisory Cabinet\, is a YFC National Ambassador\, and is World Vision’s international spokesperson for their Knit for Kids charity initiative. A devoted grandmother\, Debbie and Wayne live in Port Orchard\, Washington\, the town which inspired the Cedar Cove series. \nCelebrated as “the official storyteller of Christmas”\, Macomber’s annual Christmas books are beloved and five have been crafted into original Hallmark Channel movies. Macomber is also the author of the bestselling Cedar Cove Series which the Hallmark Channel chose as the basis for its first dramatic scripted television series. Debuting in 2013\, Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove was a ratings favorite for three seasons. \nIn her nostalgic new Christmas novel\, Dear Santa\, a special holiday wish list brings about hope\, love\, and second chances. Lindy Carmichael isn’t feeling particularly joyful when she returns home to Wenatchee\, Washington\, for Christmas. The man she thought was “the one” has cheated on her with her best friend\, and she feels completely devoid of creativity in her graphic design job. Not even carolers or Christmas cookies can cheer her up–but Lindy’s mother\, Ellen\, remembers an old tradition that might lift her daughter’s spirits. \nReading through a box of childhood letters to Santa and reminiscing about what she’d wished for as a young girl may be just the inspiration Lindy needs. With Ellen’s encouragement\, she decides to write a new letter–not to Santa\, but to herself. Little does Lindy know that this exercise in gratitude will cause her wishes to unfold before her in miraculous ways. And\, thanks to some fateful twists of Christmas magic–especially an unexpected connection with a handsome former classmate–Lindy ultimately realizes that there is truly no place like home for the holidays. \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/patti-callahan-henry/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/final-patti-callahan-debbie-macomber-10-16-21.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR