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SUMMARY:Mystery Books & Brews Luncheon Adventure
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nAdventures by the Book® is excited to announce the second in our Mystery Books & Brews series with our favorite bookselling friends at Mysterious Galaxy\, where murder\, mayhem\, mystery\, and much more\, rule! And we couldn’t be more pleased to feature New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance! If you love mystery books and beer (and really\, who doesn’t?)\, then make sure to join us at Gordon Biersch Brewery in Mission Valley on Friday\, March 23rd! \nAs you enjoy lunch\, J.A. Jance will discuss her exciting new book\, Duel to the Death\, an elaborate and gripping novel that is equal parts thriller and mystery\, a combination you wont want to miss. \nYour Adventure includes lunch\, soft beverage (wine and beer available separately)\, tax\, gratuity\, author talk\, book signing\, and the chance to meet the author up-close and personal in a thrilling and intimate setting. \n\nAbout the Author\nJ.A. Jance is the New York Times bestselling author of the Ali Reynolds series\, the J.P. Beaumont series\, and the Joanna Brady series\, as well as five interrelated Southwestern thrillers featuring the Walker family. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee\, Arizona\, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle\, Washington\, and Tuscon\, Arizona. Visit her online at JAJance.com. \nHer newest book\, Duel to the Death\, features a familiar name\, Ali Ryenolds. After taking down the man responsible for his best friend’s death\, Stuart Ramey thinks the case is finally closed. That is\, until Stu finds himself left with a multimillion dollar fortune in Bitcoin in a desperate bid by Frigg\, a rogue A.I. program created by the killer\, to keep itself from being fully deactivated. \nTo sort out his situation and take Frigg down for good\, Stu enlists the help of Ali Reynolds and the rest of his cyber security colleagues at High Noon Enterprises. But they are not the only ones who know about Frigg’s existence. \nGraciella Miramar\, an unassuming accountant to all appearances\, is actually the right-hand woman to El Pescado\, the leader of a dangerous drug cartel. She’ll do anything to get her hands on that program. With Frigg’s help\, Graciella hopes to take over her father’s criminal underworld and become wealthy beyond her wildest dreams. But Stu—and El Pescado and his henchmen—may not be so easily defeated. \nWritten in J.A. Jance’s classic “take-no-prisoners” style (Kirkus Reviews)\, in this thriller\, Stu\, Ali\, and their team will come to realize that everything has its price. \n\nSave
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SUMMARY:Orange County Literary Lunch Adventure
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nAdventures by the Book® is coming to Orange County\, and we are excited to celebrate our inaugural event with beloved SoCal author\, Susan Meissner\, author of such perennial book club favorites as Secrets of a Charmed Life\, Fall of Marigolds\, The Shape of Mercy\, and A Bridge Across the Ocean. \n\n\nOver a delicious fajita luncheon at Claim Jumper Restaurant\, Susan will discuss her new novel\, As Bright As Heaven. Set in Philadelphia during the Great War\, Susan relates another of history’s rarely remembered moments\, this time\, the deadliest pandemic in human history\, exactly 100 years after it devastated the world.\n \nYour Adventure includes lunch\, beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, author talk\, book signing\, and the chance to meet the author up-close and personal in an intimate setting. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nSusan Meissner is a multi-published novelist\, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism. Her novels include A Fall of Marigolds\, named to Booklist’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction titles for 2014\, and The Shape of Mercy\, named by Publishers Weekly as one of the 100 Best Novels of 2008. A California native\, she attended Point Loma Nazarene University. Susan is a pastor’s wife and a mother of four young adults. When she’s not working on a novel\, Susan writes small group curriculum for her San Diego church. \nIn As Bright As Heaven\, her first book to be published in hardcover\, Susan turns back the clock exactly 100 years to the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic\, which infected about one-third of the world’s population. In a richly imagined and evocative novel\, she explores the impact on one American family living in Philadelphia – from the first hints of the disease as World War I draws to a close to its far-reaching consequences. Epic in scope but intimately depicted\, As Bright As Heaven is sure to become another of Susan’s perennial book club favorite books. \n\nSave
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