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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
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CATEGORIES:ABTB Means Business,Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:All the Ways We Said Goodbye: a Southwestern Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with NYT bestselling authors Karen White and Beatriz Williams
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s time to sail forward with our 2022 Adventures by the Book live and in-person events\, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to set course with the second in our exciting new author series to be held at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club. \nThe New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to have lunch at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club in the beautiful Point Loma residential area within the Shelter Island Yacht Basin with NYT bestselling authors Karen White and Beatriz Williams as they discuss their novel\, All the Ways We Said Goodbye.  \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of All the Ways We Said Goodbye to be delivered and signed at the event\, lunch\, beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and the opportunity to meet Karen and Beatriz live and in-person. \n  \n\nAbout the Authors\nKaren White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 29 books\, including the Tradd Street series\, The Last Night in London\, Dreams of Falling\, The Night the Lights Went Out\, Flight Patterns\, The Sound of Glass\, and A Long Time Gone. She is the co-author of All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. \nNot entirely convinced she wanted to be a writer\, Karen first pursued a career in business and graduated cum laude with a BS in Management from Tulane University. Ten years later\, in a weak moment\, she wrote her first book. In the Shadow of the Moon was published in August\, 2000. Her books—referred to as “grit lit” (Southern Women’s Fiction)—have since been nominated for numerous national contests including the SIBA (Southeastern Booksellers Alliance) Fiction Book of the Year. \nShe grew up in London but now lives with her husband near Atlanta\, Georgia. \n  \n\n \nBeatriz Williams is the New York Times\, USA Today\, and internationally bestselling author of Our Woman in Moscow\, The Summer Wives\, Her Last Flight\, The Golden Hour\, The Secret Life of Violet Grant\, A Hundred Summers\, and several other works of historical fiction\, including three novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. \nA graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University\, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before she turned her attention to writing novels that combine her passion for history with an obsessive devotion to voice and characterization. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards\, have been translated into more than a dozen languages\, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world. \nBorn in Seattle\, Washington\, Beatriz now lives near the Connecticut shore with her husband and four children\, where she divides her time between writing and laundry. \n\n  \n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\nIn All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, three women’s fates are joined by one splendid hotel… \nFrance\, 1914. As war breaks out\, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father\, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate\, using it as their headquarters\, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp\, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer first met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. Despite their conflicting loyalties\, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love\, but betrayal will shatter them both\, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz—the home of her estranged American heiress mother\, with unexpected consequences. \nFrance\, 1942. Raised by her indomitable\, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz\, Marguerite “Daisy” Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband\, a Nazi collaborator\, after France falls to Hitler. At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother’s Resistance efforts\, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand\, who creates identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees. But as Daisy is drawn ever deeper into Legrand’s underground network\, committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake of the country—and the man—she holds dear\, she uncovers a devastating secret … one that will force her to commit the ultimate betrayal and to confront at last the shocking circumstances of her own family history. \nFrance\, 1964. For Barbara “Babs” Langford\, her husband\, Kit\, was the love of her life. Yet their marriage was haunted by a mysterious woman known only as La Fleur. On Kit’s death\, American lawyer Andrew “Drew” Bowdoin appears at her door. Hired to find a Resistance fighter-turned traitor known as “La Fleur\,” the investigation has led to Kit Langford. Curious to know more about the enigmatic La Fleur\, Babs joins Drew in his search\, a journey of discovery that takes them to Paris and the Ritz—and to unexpected places of the heart…. \n\n  \n\nAbout Southwestern Yacht Club\nSouthwestern Yacht Club is one of the largest\, oldest\, and most prestigious yacht clubs in San Diego\, California. SWYC was formed in 1925 by visionary yachting enthusiasts looking for ways to enjoy each other’s company and to share their passion for boating. Since then\, the Club has developed into a full-service operation with more than 800 members embracing all forms of yachting\, fishing\, and social activities\, all while earning a reputation as being the friendliest club in the area. \n \n\n\n\n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/all-the-ways-we-said-goodbye-a-southwestern-yacht-club-lunch-adventure/
CATEGORIES:Event,Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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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
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SUMMARY:Sainted in Error: a Wine & Cheese Garden Adventure with award-winning writer Glenda Winders
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\nWhat do you wear when you testify against your best friend as she goes on trial for murder? You might just want to sit down with a glass of wine and nibbles to hear how award-winning author Glenda Winders delves into this question and the tenacity of friendship in her new novel\, Sainted in Error. \nYour relaxing Garden Adventure includes wine\, cheese\, a paperback copy of Sainted in Error to be delivered at the event for signing\, and the opportunity to meet the award-winning author. Seating is limited\, so make sure to register soon to guarantee your seat. \nAdditional books will be available for purchase and signing at the event\, or pre-order your paperback copy of Sainted in Error to be shipped directly to you if you are unable to attend in person. \nPan’s Outdoor Garden:\nPan’s Outdoor Garden is a private residence near downtown San Diego; the address will be emailed to you a week prior to the event.  \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nGlenda Winders is an award-winning fiction writer\, editor\, and journalist whose work has appeared in major magazines and newspapers nationwide. Her first novel\, The Nine Assignments\, was published in 2016. She lives with her husband in Columbus\, Indiana. \nHer book\, Sainted in Error\, delves into the tenacity of friendship and the damage that the stigma still attached to mental illness can do. \nAs Maggie Patterson runs her hand over the clothes in her closet and muses about the prosaic details of preparing for a shockingly personal murder trial\, she is catapulted into the memories that led her to this moment. Piece by piece\, she assembles the fragments of her past to make sense of a violent crime\, the echoes of which ripple through her recollections. \nMaggie and Cynthia meet as college freshmen and are seemingly destined to be best friends for life. As the years pass\, however\, Maggie’s marriage and career lift her to success and wealth while Cynthia’s jealousy and untreated mental illness cause their relationship to disintegrate. As the stories of the two women’s lives unfold\, Cynthia’s paranoia and anger sour every relationship she has and turn even the people who have loved her most against her\, ultimately bubbling over into an event that Maggie never sees coming.
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SUMMARY:Book Bingo (The Heart of History): a Virtual Adventure featuring Bryn Turnbull\, Lucy Sanna\, Florence Reiss Kraut\, Howard Jay Smith\, Loretta Ellsworth\, Kathi Diamant
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nWe are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (The Heart of History): A Virtual Adventure! If you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 150 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \nWith Valentine’s Day right around the corner\, it’s the perfect time to take a deep dive into the heart of history! This free event features presentations by book club favorite authors: Bryn Turnbull\, Lucy Sanna\, Florence Reiss Kraut\, Howard Jay Smith\, Loretta Ellsworth\, and Kathi Diamant\, an interactive virtual game of bingo\, and fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great new reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors whose book tours and events have been canceled due to COVID-19. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\nBryn Turnbull is a writer of historical fiction. Equipped with a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews and a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from McGill University\, Bryn\, who resides in Toronto\, writes books intended to drive readers to similar levels of distraction – to transport them into different eras and different worlds. \nHer novel\, The Last Grand Duchess\, takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Nikolaevna Romanov\, the first daughter of the last tsar \nGrand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe. But even as unrest simmers in the capital\, Olga is content to live within the confines of the sheltered life her parents have built for her and her three sisters: hiding from the world on account of their mother’s ill health\, their brother Alexei’s secret affliction\, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin\, the priest on whom the tsarina has come to rely. Olga’s only escape from the seclusion of Alexander Palace comes from the grand tea parties her aunt hosts amid the shadow court of Saint Petersburg—a world of opulent ballrooms\, scandalous flirtation\, and whispered conversation. \nBut as war approaches\, the palaces of Russia are transformed. Olga and her sisters trade their gowns for nursing habits\, assisting in surgeries and tending to the wounded bodies and minds of Russia’s military officers. As troubling rumors about her parents trickle in from the front\, Olga dares to hope that a budding romance might survive whatever the future may hold. But when tensions run high and supplies run low\, the controversy over Rasputin grows into fiery protest\, and calls for revolution threaten to end three hundred years of Romanov rule. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Bryn or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nLucy Sanna\, novelist and science writer\, has found success in venues ranging from novels and short stories to feature science articles and personal growth books. With an education in English literature\, a nose for research\, and a passion for sensual detail\, Lucy easily moves through time\, place\, and voice\, bringing both creative fancy and authenticity to her work. \nThe Cherry Harvest is a memorable coming-of-age story and love story\, laced with suspense\, which explores a hidden side of the home front during World War II\, when German POWs were put to work in a Wisconsin farm community . . . with dark and unexpected consequences. \nThe war has taken a toll on the Christiansen family. With food rationed and money scarce\, Charlotte struggles to keep her family well-fed. Her teenage daughter\, Kate\, raises rabbits to earn money for college and dreams of becoming a writer. Her husband\, Thomas\, struggles to keep the farm going while their son\, and most of the other local men\, are fighting in Europe. \nWhen their upcoming cherry harvest is threatened\, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade local authorities to allow German war prisoners from a nearby camp to pick the fruit. \nBut when Thomas befriends one of the prisoners\, a teacher named Karl\, and invites him to tutor Kate\, the implications of Charlotte’s decision become apparent—especially when she finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Karl. So busy are they with the prisoners that Charlotte and Thomas fail to see that Kate is becoming a young woman\, with dreams and temptations of her own—including a secret romance with the son of a wealthy\, war-profiteering senator. And when their beloved Ben returns home\, bitter and injured\, bearing an intense hatred of Germans\, Charlotte’s secrets threaten to explode their world. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Lucy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nFlorence Reiss Kraut is a native New Yorker\, raised and educated in New York City. She holds a BA in English and a master’s in social work. She worked for thirty years as a clinician\, a family therapist\, and CEO of a family service agency while writing stories and essays for publication. Then she retired to devote herself to writing and traveling widely. She has published personal essays for the New York Times and her fiction has appeared in journals such as The Evening Street Press\, SNReview\, The Westchester Review and others. \nHer novel\, How to Make a Life\, is an engaging and heartfelt portrayal of intergenerational trauma and hope. \nWhen Ida and her daughter Bessie flee a catastrophic pogrom in Ukraine for America in 1905\, they believe their emigration will ensure that their children and grandchildren will be safe from harm. But choices and decisions made by one generation have ripple effects on those who come later―and in the decades that follow\, family secrets\, betrayals\, and mistakes made in the name of love threaten the survival of the family: Bessie and Abe Weissman’s children struggle with the shattering effects of daughter Ruby’s mental illness\, of Jenny’s love affair with her brother-in-law\, of the disappearance of Ruby’s daughter as she flees her mother’s legacy\, and of the accidental deaths of Irene’s husband and granddaughter. \nA sweeping saga that follows three generations from the tenements of Brooklyn through WWII\, from Woodstock to India\, and from Spain to Israel\, How to Make a Life is the story of a family who must learn to accept each other’s differences―or risk cutting ties with the very people who anchor their place in the world. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Florence or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nHoward Jay Smith is an award-winning writer from Santa Barbara\, California. Beethoven in Love: Opus 139 and Meeting Mozart: From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo da Ponte are respectively his third and fourth books along with Opening the Doors to Hollywood and John Gardner: an Interview. \nHe was recently awarded a John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts\, Literature Division Scholarship\, The James Buckley Excellence in Writing Award. Smith is a former Bread Loaf Scholar & Washington\, D.C. Commission for the Arts Fellow\, who taught for many years in the UCLA Extension Writers Program and has lectured nationally. His articles and photographs have appeared in the Washington Post\, the Beethoven Journal\, Horizon\, the Journal of the Writers Guild of America\, the Ojai Quarterly\, and numerous trade publications. \nWhile an executive at the ABC Television\, Embassy TV\, and Academy Home Entertainment he worked on numerous film television\, radio and commercial projects. He serves on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Symphony and is a member of the American Beethoven Society. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Howard or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nLoretta Ellsworth earned a master’s degree in Writing for Children from Hamline University. She’s the author of four young adult novels: The Shrouding Woman\, a Rebecca Caudill nominee; In Search of Mockingbird\, which won the Midwest Bookseller’s Choice Honor Award\, was a Teen’s Top Ten finalist\, an IRA Notable\, and was named to the New York Library’s List of Books for the Teen Age; In a Heartbeat\, which was named a spring Midwest Connection’s Pick and an ALA Notable; and Unforgettable\, which was a Kirkus Pick of the Month. \nMesmerizing and romantic\, Stars Over Clear Lake transports readers to the Surf Ballroom\, where musical acts became legends in the 1940s and which holds the key to one woman’s deepest secret. \nLorraine Kindred’s most cherished memories are of the Surf Ballroom\, the place where youth lost themselves to the brassy sounds and magnetic energy of the big band swing\, where boys spent their last nights before shipping off to war―and where Lorraine herself was swept away by a star-crossed romance. \nReturning to the ballroom for the first time in decades\, Lorraine enters a dazzling world she thought long vanished. But as the sparkling past comes to life\, so does the fateful encounter that forced her to choose between her heart and her duty all those years ago―and Lorraine must face the secret she’s buried ever since. Along the way\, she’ll rediscover herself\, her passion\, and her capacity for resilience. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Loretta or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nKathi Diamant is an award-winning author\, actor\, broadcaster and adjunct professor at San Diego State University\, where she leads the Kafka Project\, the official international search to recover a lost literary treasure\, the missing writings of Franz Kafka. \nKathi’s award-winning book\, Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant has been reviewed by more than 60 publications and websites\, internationally lauded for its original research and revelations into Dora and Kafka’s lives. It has been published in the US\, UK\, and in translation in Spain\, France\, Russia\, China and Brazil\, with excerpts published in literary arts journals and in other books. \nHer new book\, Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes\, is publishing just in time for Valentine’s Day. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kathi or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Bryn Turnbull\, Lucy Sanna\, Florence Reiss Kraut\, Howard Jay Smith\, Loretta Ellsworth\, and Kathi Diamant are all members of our wonderful community of over 150 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Bryn Turnbull\, Lucy Sanna\, Florence Reiss Kraut\, Howard Jay Smith\, Loretta Ellsworth\, Kathi Diamant\nor any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
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SUMMARY:The Power of Regret: a live and in-person Adventure featuring New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\n  \n\n“No regrets.”  How many of us have embraced this philosophy of life? Now\, New York Times bestselling author\, Daniel Pink\, boldly proclaims in his new book\, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward\,  that this philosophy is nonsense\, and perhaps even dangerous. Everyone has regrets\, he says\, but if we reckon with them in fresh and imaginative ways\, we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions\, perform better at work and school\, and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose. \n Join us\, together with the San Diego Central Library\,  for a live and in-person afternoon presentation by Daniel about his bold new book and his own World Regret Survey\, which has collected regrets from more than 16\,000 people in 105 countries. In The Power of Regret\, Daniel identifies the four core regrets that most people have. By understanding what people regret the most\, we can understand what they value the most. And by following the simple\, science-based\, three-step process that he sets out\, we can transform our regrets in a positive force for working smarter and living better. \nYour Adventure includes author presentation\, a hardcover copy of The Power of Regret\, tax\, Q&A\, book signing\, and the opportunity to meet New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink. Your book will be conveniently delivered to you at the event for signing. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n  \nDaniel H. Pink is the New York Times bestselling author of 7 books about business\, work\, creativity\, and behavior\, including When\, A Whole New Mind\, Drive\, and To Sell is Human\, which have won multiple awards\, have been translated into 42 languages\, and have sold millions of copies around the world. \nDaniel was host and co-executive producer of “Crowd Control\,” a television series about human behavior on the National Geographic Channel that aired in more than 100 countries. He has appeared frequently on NPR\, PBS\, ABC\, CNN\, and other TV and radio networks in the US and abroad. \nIn his forthcoming work\, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward\, Daniel Pink explains that everybody has regrets\, which are a universal and healthy part of being human\, but by understanding how regret works\, we can make smarter decisions\, perform better at work and school\, and bring greater meaning to our lives. \nDrawing on research in social psychology\, neuroscience\, and biology\, Pink debunks the myth of the “no regrets” philosophy of life. And using the largest sampling of American attitudes about regret ever conducted as well as his own World Regret Survey—which has collected regrets from more than 15\,000 people in 105 countries—he lays out the four core regrets that each of us has. These deep regrets offer compelling insights into how we live and how we can find a better path forward. \nAs he did in his bestsellers Drive\, When\, and A Whole New Mind\, Pink lays out a dynamic new way of thinking about regret and frames his ideas in ways that are clear\, accessible\, and pragmatic. Packed with true stories of people’s regrets as well as practical takeaways for reimagining regret as a positive force\, The Power of Regret shows how we can live richer\, more engaged lives. \n  \nAbout the San Diego Central Library\nThe San Diego Central Library is a popular destination that connects our diverse community to free educational and cultural resources that will enrich their lives.
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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
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CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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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
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CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Woodrow on the Bench: a Free Julian Library Adventure
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nFor anyone who has ever loved a dog (or even if you haven’t had the pleasure)\, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to meet New York Times and international bestselling author Jenna Blum at the Julian Public Library\, as she discusses her heartfelt memoir\, Woodrow on the Bench.  \nThis event is free and open to the public. Copies of Woodrow on the Bench will be available for purchase and signing at the event or preorder a copy below to be delivered to the event for signing. \n\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\n\nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. More information is available through the Julian Public Library. Tickets below are to purchase a copy of Woodrow on the Bench to be delivered at the event for signing. \n  \n\n\n\n\nSave
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SUMMARY:Carlsbad Library Book Bingo: A Live and In Person Adventure
DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In Person Event\nAre you ready for a fun afternoon of live\, in-person Book Bingo? Well\, get out your bingo cards\, then\, because it’s time to join New York Times and international bestselling author Jenna Blum\, together with nine more book club favorite authors at the Carlsbad City Library to do just that!  If you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. This is the first time in over two years that we have hosted a live and in-person bingo\, and we can’t wait to play with you! \n This FREE event features presentations by book club favorite authors: Jenna Blum\, Georgie Blalock\, Rich Farrell\, Nicola Harrison\, Aimee Liu\, Jan Moran\, Isla Morley\, Kaira Rouda\, Judith Teitelman\, and Wendy Voorsanger\, an interactive game of book bingo\, and fun prizes\, and all you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about great new reads to add to your to be read list). \nWhile this event is free\, your book(s) purchase provides much-needed support to these authors whose book tours and events have been cancelled due to COVID-19. Books will be available for purchase at the event or\, better yet\, why not pre-order your book(s) below to receive a 10-20% discount\, and we will deliver your books to you at the event for signing! \nYour Adventure includes a keynote presentation by Jenna Blum\, three panels with all nine other book club favorite authors\, an interactive game of Book Bingo (bingo cards provided at event)\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors in person. Pre-order your book(s) below for pickup at the event and receive a 10-20% discount\, or purchase your book(s) at the event. Only books pre-ordered below or at the event are eligible for signing. \nAbout the Keynote 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. \n\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\nTo schedule a book club visit with Jenna or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nAbout the Authors and Books\nGeorgie Blalock is an award-winning author of historical fiction\, whose passion for history and movie allows her to combine her different passions through historical fiction\, and a healthy dose of period piece films. When not writing\, she can be found prowling the non-fiction history section of the library or the British film listings on Netflix or in the dojo training for her next karate black belt rank. Georgie also writes historical romance under the name Georgie Lee. \nIn her new book\, The Last Debutantes\, they danced the night away\, knowing their world was about to change forever. They were the debutantes of 1939\, laughing on the outside\, but knowing tragedy— and a war—was just around the corner. When Valerie de Vere Cole\, the niece of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain\, makes her deep curtsey to the King and Queen of England\, she knows she’s part of a world about to end. The daughter of a debt-ridden father and a neglectful mother\, Valerie sees firsthand that war is imminent. \nNevertheless\, Valerie reinvents herself as a carefree and glittering young society woman\, befriending other debutantes from England’s aristocracy as well as the vivacious Eunice Kennedy\, daughter of the U.S. Ambassador. Despite her social success\, the world’s troubles and Valerie’s fear of loss and loneliness prove impossible to ignore. How will she navigate her new life when everything in her past has taught her that happiness and stability are as fragile as peace in our time? For the moment she will forget her cares in too much champagne and waltzes. Because very soon\, Valerie knows that she must find the inner strength to stand strong and carry on through the challenges of life and love and war. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Georgie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nRichard Farrell is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work\, including fiction\, memoir\, essays\, interviews and book reviews\, has appeared or is forthcoming in The Forge\, Potomac Review\, Hunger Mountain\, New Plains Review\, Upstreet\, Descant\, Contrary\, Newfound\, Numéro Cinq\, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Grossmont College and at San Diego Writers\, Ink. \nIn The Falling Woman\, it’s rumored one person may have survived the midair explosion of a passenger jet on a cross-country course from Washington\, DC\, to San Francisco. But soon she becomes a national media sensation when “the Falling Woman\,” as the press dubs her\, is said to have been taken to a Wichita hospital—and then to have disappeared without a trace. \nFast-paced and full of twists and surprises\, The Falling Woman is a story of the irony of fate\, and of which conflicting factor will prevail: the need of the government and its people to know the truth\, or the right of a woman to determine how her personal story will play out. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Rich or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nNicola Harrison is the author of two historical fiction novels\, Montauk and The Show Girl (August 10\, 2021). Born and raised in England\, she moved with her family to Southern California when she was 14. She is a graduate of UCLA and received her MFA from Stony Brook. Prior to writing novels she worked as a fashion journalist in New York City and now lives in Manhattan Beach\, California with her husband\, two sons and a high-maintenance chihuahua named Lola. \nThe Show Girl\, her new novel\, gives a glimpse of the glamorous world of the Ziegfeld Follies\, through the eyes of a young midwestern woman who comes to New York City to find her destiny as a Ziegfeld Follies star. It’s 1927 when Olive McCormick moves from Minneapolis to New York City determined to become a star in the Ziegfeld Follies. Extremely talented as a singer and dancer\, it takes every bit of perseverance to finally make it on stage. And once she does\, all the glamour and excitement is everything she imagined and more―even worth all the sacrifices she has had to make along the way. \nThen she meets Archie Carmichael. Handsome\, wealthy―the only man she’s ever met who seems to accept her modern ways―her independent nature and passion for success. But once she accepts his proposal of marriage he starts to change his tune\, and Olive must decide if she is willing to reveal a devastating secret and sacrifice the life she loves for the man she loves. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Nicola or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nAimee Liu is the author of numerous bestselling novels as well as nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Ms.\, and many other publications. She is on the faculty of Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program at Port Townsend\, WA. \nIn her novel\, Glorious Boy\, it’s 1942 and the Japanese have invaded Burma and are closing in on India. After five years\, aspiring anthropologist Claire Durant and her husband Shep\, a civil surgeon\, must evacuate with their beloved but mysteriously mute four-year-old\, Ty. They cannot\, however\, take Naila\, the local girl whose ability to communicate with Ty has made them dangerously dependent on her. In the desperate odyssey that follows\, Claire\, Shep\, and Naila will all take unimaginable risks while drawing deeply from their knowledge of these unique islands to save their beloved “glorious boy.” \nGlorious Boy is a tale of war and devotion\, longing and loss\, and the power of love to prevail. A memorable and original novel\, Aimee evokes every side in a multi-cultural conversation with sympathy and rare understanding. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Aimee or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nJan Moran is an Amazon All-Star Author and Rizzoli Bestselling author of 20th-century historical novels and heartfelt contemporary series. The Chocolatier\, The Winemakers\, and Scent of Triumph are stylish historical novels published in more than a dozen languages\, while her Summer Beach: Seabreeze Inn is a beloved beach read series. \nIn Seabreeze Wedding\, at the historic Seabreeze Inn\, sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay are busier than ever with wedding plans of their own\, although challenges threaten to derail the special events. New guests are also throwing a wedding at the inn\, bringing a host of trials and chaos. As Ivy prepares the old beach house for a season of weddings\, surprising discoveries from decades past arise that could change even the best of plans. RSVP now and join the party on the beach. \nSeabreeze Wedding is a favorite in the beloved Summer Beach series that may also be read as a stand-alone novel. The heartwarming story is set on the sunny Southern California coastline. Visit the small town of Summer Beach now\, where the bonds of friendship and love prove unbreakable. Available in ebook\, paperback\, hardcover\, large print\, and audiobook. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jan or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nIsla Morley grew up in South Africa during apartheid\, the child of a British father and a South African mother. During the country’s State of Emergency\, she graduated from Nelson Mandela University with a degree in English Literature. By 1994\, she was one of the youngest magazine editors in South Africa\, but left her career\, country\, and kin when she married an American and moved to California\, where she pursued a career in non-profit work\, focusing on the needs of women and children. Her debut novel\, Come Sunday\, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Prize and has been translated into 7 languages\, and her novel\, Above\, was an IndieNext Pick\, a Best Buzz Book and a Publishers Weekly Best New book. \nHer most recent novel\, The Last Blue\, is a luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of “the Blue People of Kentucky\,” in which Isla probes questions of identity\, love\, and family in 1937 Appalachia. \nWhen two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati\, Ohio—a writer and photographer—are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration\, they happen upon Jubilee Buford\, a woman whose skin is a shocking and unmistakable shade of blue. From this happenstance meeting between a woman isolated from society and persecuted her whole life\, comes a mesmerizing story in which the dark shades of betrayal\, prejudice\, fear\, and guilt\, are refracted along with the incandescent hues of passion and courage. Panning across the rich rural aesthetic of eastern Kentucky\, The Last Blue is a captivating love story and an intimate portrait of what it is like to be truly one of a kind. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Isla or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nKaira Rouda is an accomplished business leader\, entrepreneur\, national speaker and internationally bestselling and award-winning author. A former magazine editor\, and society columnist\, Kaira won the Stevie Award for Women in Business for creating the first female-focused residential real estate brand\, Real Living\, and growing the brand to more than 22 states before its sale to Berkshire Hathaway. Her first book\, Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs\, led to a national speaking tour where she inspired thousands. She lives in Southern California with her husband\, Congressman Harley Rouda\, and her four twenty-something children. \nIn her soon-to-be-released novel\, Somebody’s Home\, Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter\, Jess\, she’s starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is the first step toward a new life. Even if it does come with the unexpected. The previous owners\, a pastor\, and his wife have left something―or rather someone―behind… \nTom Dean has a bitter hatred for the father who considers him a lost cause\, and for the woman who’s moved into their family’s house. The only home he’s ever known. He’s never going to leave. She thinks he’ll be gone in three days\, but Tom has the perfect plan. For a newly single mother and her daughter\, a fresh start is the beginning of a nightmare. Before the weekend is over\, somebody is going to get exactly what they deserve. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kaira or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nJudith Teitelman has straddled the worlds of art\, literature\, and business since she was a teenager and worked her first job as a salesperson at a B. Dalton / Pickwick Bookstore. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in Art History\, she opened and managed Art and Architecture Books of the Twentieth Century. She began her career in the nonprofit sector in 1983\, and in 1990 launched her arts and business management consulting firm working nationally with grassroots and mid-sized organizations and large institutions. She is also a mentor\, trainer\, and professional advisor to artists working in all disciplines\, and is on the Theater School faculty at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) co-teaching Entrepreneurship. She is a regular trainer at the Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership and the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)\, among others\, and was a trainer for more than 20 years at Los Angeles’ Center for Nonprofit Management. \nGuesthouse for Ganesha\, a tale of love\, loss\, and spirit reclaimed\, weaves Eastern beliefs and perspectives with Western realities and pragmatism. In 1923\, seventeen-year-old Esther Grünspan arrives in Köln “with a hardened heart as her sole luggage.” Thus begins a twenty-two-year journey\, woven against the backdrops of the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the “Age of Darkness” when human civilization degenerates spiritually)\, in search of a place of sanctuary. \nThroughout her travails\, using cunning and shrewdness\, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her Jewish heritage\, navigate war-torn Europe\, and emigrate to India. Esther’s traveling companion and the novel’s narrator is Ganesha\, the elephant-headed Hindu God worshipped by millions for his abilities to destroy obstacles\, bestow wishes\, and avenge evils. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Judith or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n Born and raised on the American River\, author Wendy Voorsanger has long-held an intense interest in the history of women in the West. Her debut historical novel\, Prospects of a Woman\, has won 10 indie literary awards\, including the Independent Press Award for Western Fiction\, the National Indie Excellence Award for Western Fiction\, the International Book Award for Best New Fiction\, the IPPY Award for Regional Fiction\, and the NexGen Indie Book Awards for Regional Fiction. She earned a BA in journalism from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Castro Writers’ Cooperative\, the Lit Camp Advisory Board\, the San Mateo Public Library Literary Society\, and the Historical Novel Society. \nA gripping and illuminating window into life in the Old West\, Prospects of a Woman tells the story of one woman’s passionate quest to carve out a place for herself in the liberal and bewildering society that emerged during the California gold rush frenzy. \nElisabeth Parker comes to California from Massachusetts in 1849 with her new husband\, Nate\, but soon realizes he’s not the man she thought. As Nate struggles with his sexuality\, Elisabeth is forced to confront her preconceived notions of family\, love\, and opportunity. She finds comfort in corresponding with her childhood friend back home\, writer Louisa May Alcott\, and spending time in the company of a mysterious Californio. Armed with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance\, she sets out to determine her role in building the West\, even as she comes to terms with the sacrifices she must make to achieve independence and happiness. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Wendy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\nAbout the Carlsbad City Library\n \n\n\nCarlsbad City Library provides community members of all ages with convenient access to high-quality resources and services to inform and enrich individual and community life. Carlsbad City Library is the destination for information\, enjoyment of reading\, lifelong learning\, and cultural enrichment for those who live\, work and play in Carlsbad. \n\n\n\nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Jenna Blum\, Georgie Blalock\, Rich Farrell\, Nicola Harrison\, Aimee Liu\, Jan Moran\, Isla Morley\, Kaira Rouda\, Judith Teitelman\, and Wendy Voorsanger are all members of our wonderful community of over 150 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Jenna\, Georgie\, Rich\, Nicola\, Aimee\, Jan\, Isla\, Kaira\, Judith\, Wendy\, or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here. \nEvent Registration\nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required\, but seating is limited and available on a first-come\, first-served basis only. For more information\, contact the Carlsbad City Library. \nWhile the event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below or at the event offers support to these authors whose book tours and events have been canceled during COVID. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Woodrow on the Bench: A Southwestern Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with NYT Bestselling Author Jenna Blum
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n  \nIt’s time to sail forward with our 2022 Adventures by the Book live and in-person events\, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to set a new course with an exciting author series to be held at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club. \nFor anyone who has ever loved a dog (or even if you haven’t had the pleasure)\, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to have lunch at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club in the beautiful Point Loma residential area within the Shelter Island Yacht Basin with New York Times and international bestselling author Jenna Blum as she discusses her heartfelt memoir\, Woodrow on the Bench.  \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Woodrow on the Bench to be delivered and signed at the event\, lunch\, beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and the opportunity to meet Jenna live and in-person. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n  \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\n\nAbout Southwestern Yacht Club\n  \nSouthwestern Yacht Club is one of the largest\, oldest\, and most prestigious yacht clubs in San Diego\, California. SWYC was formed in 1925 by visionary yachting enthusiasts looking for ways to enjoy each other’s company and to share their passion for boating. Since then\, the Club has developed into a full-service operation with more than 800 members embracing all forms of yachting\, fishing\, and social activities\, all while earning a reputation as being the friendliest club in the area. \n \n\n\n\n\nSave
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SUMMARY:Book Bingo (New Year\, New Reads): a Virtual Adventure with Amery Area (Wisconsin) Public Library featuring B.A. Shapiro\, Keisha Bush\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Caroline Leavitt\, Heather Webb\, and Wendy Voorsanger
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nWe are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (New Year\, New Reads): A Virtual Adventure\, in partnership with Amery Area (Wisconsin) Public Library! If you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 150 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \n It’s a new year\, the perfect time to discover new authors or new books to add to your to-be-read list! This free event features presentations by book club favorite authors: B.A. Shapiro\, Keisha Bush\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Caroline Leavitt\, Heather Webb\, and Wendy Voorsanger\, an interactive virtual game of bingo\, and fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great new reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors whose book tours and events have been canceled due to COVID-19. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\nB.A. Shapiro is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of nine novels\, including Metropolis (May\, 2022)\, The Collector’s Apprentice\, The Muralist and The Art Forger\, which won the New England Book Award for Fiction\, among other honors. Her books have been selected as Community Reads throughout the country and have been translated into over a dozen languages. \n\nShapiro takes readers to Paris in the 1920s and the ever-fascinating world of Gertrude Stein’s salon and the artists in her latest novel\, The Collector’s Apprentice. When she is accused of playing a role in a Ponzi scheme perpetrated by her erstwhile fiancé\, Paulien Mertens seeks solace and sanctuary in Paris\, where she creates a false identity as a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby. \nAs Vivienne attempts to recover her father’s art collection—stolen along with all her family’s assets—and prove her innocence\, the eccentric and wealthy American art collector Edwin Bradley offers her a job. She is soon immersed in the world of expatriates and post-Impressionist art\, becoming Matisse’s lover\, and traveling between Paris and Bradley’s native Philadelphia\, where he is building an art museum. But her exciting new life is abruptly interrupted when Vivienne is arrested for Bradley’s murder. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with B.A. Shapiro or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nKeisha Bush was born and raised in Boston\, Massachusetts. She received her MFA in creative writing from The New School\, where she was a Riggio Honors Teaching Fellow and recipient of an NSPE Dean’s Scholarship. After a career in corporate finance and international development that brought her to live in Dakar\, Senegal\, she decided to focus full-time on her writing. She lives in East Harlem. \nSet in Senegal\, Keisha’s novel No Heaven for Good Boys is a meditation on the power of love\, and the strength that can emerge when we have no other choice but to survive. Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves snatching pastries from his mother’s kitchen\, harvesting string beans with his father\, and searching for sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed\, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher\, the tides of his life turn forever. \nIbrahimah is sent to the capital city of Dakar to join his cousin Étienne in studying the Koran under Marabout Ahmed for a year\, but instead of the days of learning that Ibrahimah’s parents imagine\, the young boys\, called Talibé\, are forced to beg in the streets in order to line their teacher’s pockets. To make it back home\, Étienne and Ibrahimah must help each other survive both the dangers posed by their Marabout\, and the darker sides of Dakar: threats of black-market organ traders\, rival packs of Talibé\, and mounting student protest on the streets. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Keisha or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\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!). \nIn her novel\, Goodbye Orchid\, handsome athlete and entrepreneur Phoenix Walker accompanies his love\, half-Asian beauty Orchid\, to the airport. Neither believes today is goodbye. But after she leaves\, disaster strikes. Phoenix wakes in the hospital\, broken\, forever changed. He longs for Orchid but remembers the tragedy in her past that makes her panic over images of trauma. Now\, he’s faced with the hardest decision of his life. Does he burden the woman whose traumatic childhood makes him feel protective of her? Or does true love mean leaving her without explaining why? \nGoodbye Orchid is a beautiful book\, full of deep\, thoughtful truths as well as hard-won wisdom for its protagonists. Their individualized and honest perspectives make the journeys as surprising as they are engaging. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Carol or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nCaroline Leavitt is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Cruel Beautiful World\, Is This Tomorrow\, Pictures of You\, Girls In Trouble\, Coming Back To Me\, Living Other Lives\, Into Thin Air\, Family\, Jealousies\, Lifelines\, Meeting Rozzy Halfway. Various titles were optioned for film\, translated into different languages\, and condensed in magazines. \nUnapologetically honest and intimately written\, With or Without You is a contemporary story of what happens to relationships as the people in them change\, whether slowly or in one cataclysmic swoop. After almost twenty years together\, Stella and Simon are starting to run into problems. An up-and-coming rock musician when they first met\, Simon has been clinging to dreams of fame even as the possibility of it has grown dimmer\, and now that his band might finally be on the brink again\, he wants to go on the road\, leaving Stella behind. \nBut when she falls into a coma on the eve of his departure\, he has to make a choice between stardom and his wife—and when she wakes a different person\, with an incredible artistic talent of her own\, the two of them must examine what it is that they really want. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Caroline or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \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 to 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. A 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. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Heather or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nBorn and raised on the American River\, author Wendy Voorsanger has long-held an intense interest in the history of women in the West. Her debut historical novel\, Prospects of a Woman\, has won 10 indie literary awards\, including the Independent Press Award for Western Fiction\, the National Indie Excellence Award for Western Fiction\, the International Book Award for Best New Fiction\, the IPPY Award for Regional Fiction\, and the NexGen Indie Book Awards for Regional Fiction. She earned a BA in journalism from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Castro Writers’ Cooperative\, the Lit Camp Advisory Board\, the San Mateo Public Library Literary Society\, and the Historical Novel Society. \nA gripping and illuminating window into life in the Old West\, Prospects of a Woman tells the story of one woman’s passionate quest to carve out a place for herself in the liberal and bewildering society that emerged during the California gold rush frenzy. \nElisabeth Parker comes to California from Massachusetts in 1849 with her new husband\, Nate\, but soon realizes he’s not the man she thought. As Nate struggles with his sexuality\, Elisabeth is forced to confront her preconceived notions of family\, love\, and opportunity. She finds comfort in corresponding with her childhood friend back home\, writer Louisa May Alcott\, and spending time in the company of a mysterious Californio. Armed with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance\, she sets out to determine her role in building the West\, even as she comes to terms with the sacrifices she must make to achieve independence and happiness. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Wendy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nAbout Amery Area (Wisconsin) Public Library\nThe Amery Area Public Library enriches the community by connecting people with information\, ideas and experiences. \n\n  \nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that B.A. Shapiro\, Keisha Bush\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Caroline Leavitt\, Heather Webb\, and Wendy Voorsanger are all members of our wonderful community of over 150 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers\, to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with B.A. Shapiro\, Keisha\, Carol\, Caroline\, Heather\, Wendy or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Holiday Cheer at the Spreckels Mansion: an in-person Adventure with award-winning author Sandra Bonura
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\nNOTE: This event is SOLD OUT and now accepting a waitlist. Please email events@adventuresbythebook.com if you wish to join the waitlist.  \n\nGerman immigrant Claus Spreckels may not have been THE Santa Claus\, but San Diegans have been grateful for the gifts his son John bestowed on our beloved city nearly 135 years ago when he almost single-handedly transformed the bankrupt village of San Diego into the thriving city it is today. \nSo the holiday season seems the most fitting time to learn a bit more about John D. Spreckels whom surprisingly few people know about. Join award-winning author Sandra Bonura in the Music Room of the former Spreckels mansion in Coronado\, now known as the Glorietta Bay Inn\, as she discusses her latest book\, Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego for a behind-the-scenes look into the Spreckels family and its role in business and into the man himself. \n*Your Adventure includes an afternoon at the Glorietta Bay Inn\, a hardcover copy of Empire Builder\, a brief tour of the former mansion\, a glass of wine (or two)\, light snacks\, tax\, gratuity\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the opportunity to engage in meaningful and intimate conversation with Sandra. And\, if time permits\, Sandra may escort us across the street to the Hotel del Coronado to enjoy their beautiful holiday decor as well. \n*Due to the special nature of this event\, only the first 20 people to register are guaranteed a spot\, so make sure to reserve your space quickly. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\nSandra Bonura lives in Southern California and teaches in higher education. She is deeply interested in education\, California (particularly San Diego)\, and Hawaiian history; when they merge\, there is instant engagement. \nHer five published works are Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego\, Light in The Queen’s Garden: Ida May Pope\, Pioneer for Hawai’i’s Daughters\, “Queen Lili’uokalani’s Beloved Kawaiaha’o Seminary”\, “Lydia K. Aholo—Her Story\, Recovering the Lost Voice\,” and An American Girl in the Hawaiian Islands: The Letters of Carrie Prudence Winter. \nSandee is a frequent storyteller and lecturer on the importance of using a multitude of primary sources to gain perspectives on historical events. To that end\, she provided a unique viewpoint in a documentary about Queen Lili`uokalani and her involvement in the education of Hawaiian children in the 19th century. \nIn her new book\, Empire Builder: John D. Spreckels and the Making of San Diego\, Sandra reveals the man behind the city. Like many native San Diegans who came before and after her\, Sandra Bonura grew up in the world John D. Spreckels built. Bonura’s mother worked on Coronado Island\, where — at one time or another during his late 19th- and early 20th-century heyday — Spreckels had owned North Island\, the San Diego-Coronado Ferry System\, the Coronado Beach Company\, and the Hotel Del Coronado. \nAs a girl\, Bonura often spent weekends with her grandmother at the Hotel Metropole boarding house\, where she could see the marquee of the grand Spreckels Theater from the lobby window. From her grandmother’s second-floor room\, Bonura had a fine view of what used to be D Street\, which Spreckels renamed Broadway and developed into a thoroughfare worthy of six of his own buildings. \nBut before he was the man who gave San Diego electric streetcars\, its first skyscraper and the Spreckels Organ Pavilion\, John D. Spreckels was the son of a hardworking German immigrant\, a rebellious son who left the family’s booming sugar business to make his mark on a nowhere town that he loved at first sight. \nIt was that John D. Spreckels — the man with the humble German roots and the immigrant work ethic — who convinced author Bonura that the story of the other John D. Spreckels — the powerful\, ambitious man who put San Diego on multiple maps — was a tale she could tell.\nWith her new book\, Bonura hopes to do justice to both of them. \n\nAbout the Glorietta Bay Inn\n\n\nThe Glorietta Bay Inn is a historic landmark in Coronado and famous for its grandeur architecture\, built-in 1908 as the home of sugar baron John D. Spreckels. The Inn has built a reputation of providing friendly efficient service combined with comfort and charm that has guests returning all year for a memorable stay.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/holiday-cheer-at-the-spreckels-mansion-an-in-person-adventure/
CATEGORIES:Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Inside the Author's Studio: A Laugh Out Loud Adventure featuring Actress and NYT Bestselling Author Annabelle Gurwitch (Live and In Person)
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In Person\, Event\n\nHave you ever wanted to go behind the scenes with an author to get a glimpse of where they live and work\, to learn more about the writer behind the book? Well\, our curiosity got the best of us too\, which inspired the launch of our new series\, Inside the Author’s Studio\, dedicated to exclusive and intimate private home Adventures with some of your favorite authors. \nWe are thrilled to announce the second of our Inside the Author’s Studio Adventures featuring activist\, actress and New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch! Please join us for a Laugh Out Loud Adventure at a private residence (not the author’s home)\, where Annabelle will be discussing her latest novel\, You’re Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility. And since this event falls during Hanukkah\, Annabelle will be sharing her own Jewish family stories while we all enjoy a tasting of traditional Hanukkah foods. \nAnd since part of any writer’s journey is ensuring that everyone has access to literacy and reading materials\, we want to dedicate a portion of all book sales from the event to Traveling Stories\, whose mission it is to eradicate illiteracy\, one book at a time. \nYour Adventure includes an exclusive invite into a private residence\, a tasting of Jewish-themed foods\, a hardcover copy of You’re Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility to be signed at the event\, tax\, gratuity\, book discussion\, Q&A\, donation to Traveling Stories\, and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal in the private residence. Due to the private and intimate nature of this event\, tickets are limited and will be offered on a first-come\, first-served basis\, so make sure to register soon to guarantee admission. \nOnly books purchased below or at the event are eligible for signing. The event address will be emailed to Adventurers 3 days prior to the event. \n*PLEASE NOTE: COVID-19 vaccination is required for attendees. By registering for this event\, you are certifying that you have been COVID vaccinated\, that you have not been exposed to the COVID virus\, and you are not exhibiting any COVID symptoms. You WILL be asked to show your proof of vaccination at the door\, so please bring it with you.  \n  \nAbout the Author\nAnnabelle Gurwitch is an actress\, activist\, and author of five books including the New York Times bestseller and Thurber Prize finalist I See You Made an Effort. She’s written for The New Yorker\, New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Wall Street Journal\, LA Magazine and Hadassah amongst other publications. \nYou may recognize Annabelle as the longtime cohost of Dinner & a Movie on TBS and a regular commentator on NPR. She’s performed on the Moth Mainstage\, at Carolines on Broadway\, and at arts centers around the country. Her acting credits include: Seinfeld\, Murphy Brown\, Boston Legal and Dexter and once in while she returns to acting playing a rabbi on Better Things on FX or a therapist for an FBI agent in Michael Bay’s upcoming Ambulance. \nIn her newest book\, You’re Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility\, Annabelle gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proves that our no-frills new normal doesn’t mean a deficit of humor. \nIn these essays\, Gurwitch embraces homesharing\, welcoming a housing-insecure young couple and a bunny rabbit into her home. The mother of a college student in recovery who sheds the gender binary\, she relearns to parent\, one pronoun at a time. She wades into the dating pool in a Miss Havisham-inspired line of lingerie and flunks the magic of tidying up. You’re Leaving When? is for anybody who thought they had a semblance of security but wound up with a fragile economy and a blankie. Gurwitch offers stories of resilience\, adaptability\, low-rent redemption\, and the kindness of strangers. Even in a muted Zoom. \n  \nAbout Traveling Stories\n\n\nTraveling Stories is a nonprofit organization based in San Diego\, California that has been providing low-income children access to quality literacy support since 2010. Their mission is to empower children to achieve their dreams. Since its inception\, Traveling Stories has opened eight international libraries\, has empowered almost 10\,000 local children in San Diego\, and has trained almost 700 volunteers. \nFounder Emily Moberly was inspired to start Traveling Stories after teaching English to students at a bilingual school in Honduras. \n \n\n\n 
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/annabelle-gurwitch/
CATEGORIES:Dinner Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Carlsbad Library Adventure featuring Actress and NYT Bestselling Author Annabelle Gurwitch (in person)
DESCRIPTION:About this FREE In Person Event\n\nAfter nearly a two-year COVID hiatus\, we are thrilled to announce that live and in-person events with the Carlsbad City Library have returned. Please join us live and in-person for this fun Adventure featuring actress and New York Times bestselling author\, Annabelle Gurwitch\, as she discusses her laugh-old-loud novel\, You’re Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility. \nThis FREE Adventure includes a book discussion\, Q&A\, author signing\, and an opportunity to meet the hilarious Annabelle Gurwitch. \nBooks are available for pre-order (below) to be delivered at the event for signing\, or you may purchase your book at the event. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\nAnnabelle Gurwitch is an actress\, activist\, and author of five books including the New York Times bestseller and Thurber Prize finalist I See You Made an Effort. She’s written for The New Yorker\, New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Wall Street Journal\, LA Magazine and Hadassah amongst other publications.  You may recognize Annabelle as the longtime co-host of Dinner & a Movie on TBS and as a regular commentator on NPR. Her acting credits include: Seinfeld\, Murphy Brown\, Boston Legal and Dexter and once in a while she returns to acting playing a rabbi on Better Things on FX or a therapist for an FBI agent in Michael Bay’s upcoming Ambulance. \nIn her newest book\, You’re Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility\, Annabelle gives irreverent and empathetic voice to a generation hurtling into their next chapter with no safety net and proves that our no-frills new normal doesn’t mean a deficit of humor. \nIn these essays\, Gurwitch embraces homesharing\, welcoming a housing-insecure young couple and a bunny rabbit into her home. The mother of a college student in recovery who sheds the gender binary\, she relearns to parent\, one pronoun at a time. She wades into the dating pool in a Miss Havisham-inspired line of lingerie and flunks the magic of tidying up. You’re Leaving When? is for anybody who thought they had a semblance of security but wound up with a fragile economy and a blankie. Gurwitch offers stories of resilience\, adaptability\, low-rent redemption\, and the kindness of strangers. Even in a muted Zoom. \n  \nAbout the Carlsbad City Library\n\n\nCarlsbad City Library provides community members of all ages with convenient access to high quality resources and services to inform and enrich individual and community life. Carlsbad City Library is the destination for information\, enjoyment of reading\, lifelong learning\, and cultural enrichment for those who live\, work and play in Carlsbad. \n \n\n\n 
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/annabelle-gurwitch-carlsbad-library/
CATEGORIES:Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Book Bingo (My Story\, The Memoir): a Virtual Adventure featuring Jenna Blum\, Aimee Liu\, Susan May\, Lilly Dancyger\, Laura Davis\, Amy Wallen
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nWe are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (My Story\, The Memoir): A Virtual Adventure! If you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 150 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \n As the year comes to a close\, we decided to get a little closer to our NovelNetwork authors by discussing their intimate memoirs! This free event features presentations by book club favorite authors: Jenna Blum\, Aimee Liu\, Susan May\, Lilly Dancyger\, Laura Davis\, and Amy Wallen\, an interactive virtual game of bingo\, and fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about great new reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors whose book tours and events have been canceled due to COVID-19. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information. \nAbout the Authors\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. \n\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\nTo schedule a book club visit with Jenna or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nAimee Liu is the bestselling author of the novel Glorious Boy\, as well as Flash House; Cloud Mountain; and Face. Her nonfiction includes Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders and Solitaire. Aimee’s books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her short fiction has been nominated for and received special mention in the Pushcart Prize competition. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Los Angeles Times\, Poets & Writers\, and many other periodicals and anthologies. She taught for many years in Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program at Port Townsend\, WA. \nIn Gaining\, Liu shatters commonly held beliefs about eating disorders while assembling a puzzle that is as complex and fascinating as human identity itself. If you’ve ever suffered from an eating disorder-or cared for someone who is anorexic or bulimic-you may think you understand these illnesses. But do you really understand why they occur? Do you know what it takes to fully recover? Do you know how eating disorders affect life after recovery? \nNow\, nearly three decades after she detailed her first battle with anorexia in Solitaire\, Aimee Liu presents an emotionally powerful and poignant sequel that digs deep into the causes\, cures\, and consequences of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Aimee Liu believed she had conquered anorexia in her twenties. Then in her forties\, when her life once again began spiraling out of control\, she stopped eating. Liu realized the same forces that had caused her original eating disorder were still in play. She also noticed that other women she knew with histories of anorexia and bulimia seemed to share many of her personality traits and habits under stress-even decades after “recovery.” Intrigued and concerned\, Liu set out to learn who is susceptible to these disorders and why\, and what it takes to overcome them once and for all. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Aimee or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nSusan May has written over 30 books of fiction and nonfiction. She writes romance for Harper Collins as Susan Carlisle. Under the name S. Carlisle May she published A WWII Fight Surgeon about her great uncle’s experience. Often found speaking to nursing groups\, civic groups\, and high school health classes\, Susan will talk to anyone who will listen about the importance of organ donation. She has led workshops on time management\, organizing your time\, finding the right writer’s conference to meet your needs\, and making rejection work for you. \nIn her memoir\, Nick’s New Heart: 30 Years and Counting\, Susan recounts the story of her one-year-old son\, Nick\, who received one of the first successful pediatric heart transplants. Most people associate heart problems with old age. However\, many American children suffer serious heart issues that once were insurmountable. In the past\, infants with heart defects like Nick’s invariably died at a very young age but with surgical and medical advances\, this gloomy situation has changed\, providing not only a positive quality of life but a substantial life span. \nNick’s life has been similar to taking a roller coaster ride without a seat belt or a safety bar. No one\, not even Nick’s doctors or his family\, knew what was around the next turn. His story’s often more dramatic than fiction\, as devoted doctors and nurses worked together with his family not just to save Nick’s life\, but to provide him with a happy life. He grew up alongside his peers\, graduated from college\, married\, and became a father. Through each of those milestones has come great experiences\, a deeper understanding of the human spirit and God’s love\, the value of hope\, love\, and steadfast support from friends\, relatives\, nurses\, staff\, and doctors – and his hometown. Through it all\, Nick has lived and loved. Not just survived\, but thrived and beat the odds. Thirty years and counting… \nTo schedule a book club visit with Susan or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nLilly Dancyger is the author of Negative Space (2021)\, a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards\, and the editor of Burn It Down (2019)\, a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women’s anger from Seal Press. Lilly is a contributing editor at Catapult and assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books. Her writing has been published by Guernica\, Literary Hub\, The Rumpus\, Longreads\, The Washington Post\, Playboy\, Rolling Stone\, and more. \nHer memoir\, Negative Space\, explores Dancyger’s own anger\, grief\, and artistic inheritance as she sets out to illuminate the darkness that was hidden from her. Despite her parents’ struggles with addiction\, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? \nDancyger’s father\, Joe Schactman\, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials and brought his young daughter into his gritty\, iconoclastic world. She idolized him—despite the escalating heroin addiction that sometimes overshadowed his creative passion. When Schactman died suddenly\, just as Dancyger was entering adolescence\, she went into her own self-destructive spiral\, raging against the world that had taken him away. But as an adult\, Dancyger began to question the mythology she’d created about her father—the brilliant artist\, struck down in his prime—using his paintings\, sculptures\, and prints as a guide to piece together a truer story. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Lilly or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nLaura Davis is the author of six non-fiction books\, including The Courage to Heal: For Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse\, The Courage to Heal Workbook\, and Becoming the Parent You Want to Be. Her groundbreaking books have been translated into 11 languages and sold more than 1.8 million copies. Over the course of her long career as a communicator\, she has been a columnist\, a talk show host\, and a radio news reporter. Her other passion\, aside from writing\, is teaching and encouraging others to write. She loves building writing communities where people can find their voice\, tell their stories and hone their craft. \nHer riveting new memoir\, The Burning Light of Two Stars\, examines the endurance of mother-daughter love\, how memory protects and betrays us\, and the determination it takes to fulfill a promise when ghosts from the past come knocking. When she published The Courage to Heal in 1988\, Laura Davis helped more than a million women work through the trauma of childhood sexual abuse. But her decision to go public with her grandfather’s incest deepened an already painful estrangement with her mother\, Temme. \nOver the next twenty years\, from a safe distance of three thousand miles\, Laura and her mother Temme reconciled their volatile relationship and believed that their difficult past was behind them. But when Temme moves across the country to entrust her daughter with the rest of her life\, she brings a faltering mind\, a fierce need for independence\, and the seeds of a second war between them. As the stresses of caregiving rekindle Laura’s rage over past betrayals\, they threaten her intention to finally love her mother “without reservation.” Will she learn what it means to be truly openhearted before it’s too late? \nTo schedule a book club visit with Laura or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nAmy Wallen is an author\, editor\, teacher\, and baker. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review\, The Normal School\, Country Living\, and other national magazines and anthologies. Her first novel MoonPies & Movie Stars was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Additionally\, she teaches creative writing classes through the UCSD Extension\, is the Associate Director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute\, hosts manuscript workshops with pie\, and mentors Science and Engineering students on personal essays. Amy is the proud owner of Savory Salons\, her way of bringing pies and writing together! \nIn her memoir\, When We Were Ghouls\, Amy learns her parents are grave robbers\, and with her memory out of focus\, she tries to figure out what truly happened. She excavates both their sojourn overseas and how her family was one by one sent away from her until she was left alone at the age of seven in Lagos\, Nigeria. \nIn 1971\, Amy’s blue-collar Southern peripatetic family was transferred from Ely\, Nevada to Lagos\, Nigeria. From Nevada to Nigeria\, and elsewhere\, When We Were Ghouls follows a family that has been dispersed around the world\, a family who\, like ghosts\, come and go and slip through Amy’s fingers making it unclear if they were ever there. A cross between Alexandra Fuller’s Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family\, with some Indiana Jones thrown in\, the tale starts in the middle\, around a pre-Inca grave her family uncovers. We see her family members appear and disappear in Peru and Bolivia and beyond. On one level the story is about family\, but it also represents how with both innocence and denial our worldly treasures are neglected—not just our children\, but the artifacts of humanity\, and ultimately humanity itself. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Amy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Jenna Blum\, Aimee Liu\, Susan May\, Lilly Dancyger\, Laura Davis\, and Amy Wallen are all members of our wonderful community of over 150 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers\, to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Jenna\, Aimee\, Susan\, Lilly\, Laura\, Amy or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/bingo-memoir/
CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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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
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CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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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
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CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:The Island of Missing Trees: a virtual Adventure with Booker-nominated author Elif Shafak
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nJUST ANNOUNCED: NOVEMBER’S SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB SELECTION BY REESE WITHERSPOON! \nAs we give thanks this holiday season\, let’s not forget to celebrate the wonder of trees and nature’s interconnectivity. And what better way to do that than celebrating with Booker-nominated and world-renowned British-Turkish author Elif Shafak\, as she discusses her new novel\, The Island of Missing Trees\, a Los Angeles Times and Time magazine’s “Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2021.“ \nEnjoy Elif’s moving\, beautifully written and delicately constructed story of love\, division\, transcendence\, history\, and eco-consciousness\, her best work yet. \nEvent includes a copy of The Island of Missing Trees\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.and Canada\, author discussion\, Q&A\, a 30 minutes video about Turkey\, and the opportunity to meet this world-renowned author virtually via Zoom! \n*This event will be held virtually via Zoom. Event access is provided via Zoom link emailed to you three days prior to the event. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\nElif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. She has published 19 books\, 12 of which are novels. She is a bestselling author in many countries around the world and her work has been translated into 55 languages. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize and was Blackwell’s Book of the Year. \nThe Forty Rules of Love was chosen by BBC among the 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. The Architect’s Apprentice was chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall’s inaugural book club\, The Reading Room. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey\, the US\, and the UK\, including St Anne’s College\, Oxford University\, where she is an honorary fellow. She also holds a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Bard College. \nElif is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature. She was a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women’s rights\, LGBTQ+ rights\, and freedom of expression\, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice TED Global speaker. Shafak contributes to major publications around the world and she was awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. \nIn 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people “who will give you a much-needed lift of the heart”. She has judged numerous literary prizes\, including PEN Nabokov Prize and she has chaired the Wellcome Prize. Recently Shafak was awarded the Halldór Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to “the renewal of the art of storytelling.” \nIn her new novel\, The Island of Missing Tree\, two teenagers\, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot\, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna\, hidden beneath garlands of garlic\, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle\, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof\, and this tree bears witness to their hushed\, happy meetings and eventually\, to their silent\, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out\, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble\, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later\, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species\, but really\, he’s searching for lost love. \nYears later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited— her only connection to her family’s troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/elif-shafak/
CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Stars\, Secrets & Sunflowers: a Fall Back In Time Dinner Adventure featuring Kristin Harmel\, Alka Joshi\, Martha Hall Kelly
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In Person\, Event\n\nIt’s that time of year again – time to turn your clocks back one hour and gain an extra hour of sleep in anticipation of cooler weather\, perfect for curling up with a good book. And what better way to fall back in time\, to the mid-1860’s and late-1960’s\, than by diving into not one\, not two\, but three fascinating works of historical fiction. \nPlease join us as we welcome NYT bestselling authors Kristin Harmel\, Alka Joshi\, and Martha Hall Kelly at our fun Fall Back In Time Dinner Adventure at Café Coyote\, as the authors discuss their respective books\, The Forest of Vanishing Stars (an evocative coming-of-age World War II story based partially on incredible true accounts of survival)\, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur\, (henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé to intern at the Jaipur Palace)\, and Sunflower Sisters (the story of a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with a young enslaved girl). \nYour Adventure includes a signature Cafe Coyote Mexican dinner\, chips and salsa\, a soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the opportunity to engage in meaningful and intimate conversation with all three authors. And if you really want the full Stars\, Secrets\, and Sunflowers experience\, make sure to join the VIP Dinner (requires purchase of 3 book discounted bundle)\, which includes a margarita\, and a 30 minute meet and greet with the authors. \nPLEASE NOTE: Dinner event begins at 3:45 pm. VIP reception begins at 3:00 pm. Only books purchased below or at the event will be eligible for signing. \n  \nAbout the Authors and Books\nKristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling\, USA Today bestselling\, and #1 international bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names\, The Winemaker’s Wife\, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into twenty-nine languages and are sold all over the world. \nA former reporter for PEOPLE magazine\, Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16\, when she began her career as a sportswriter\, covering Major League Baseball and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay\, Florida in the late 1990s. After stints covering health and lifestyle for American Baby\, Men’s Health\, and Woman’s Day\, she became a reporter for PEOPLE magazine while still in college and spent more than a decade working for the publication\, covering everything from the Super Bowl to high-profile murders to celebrity interviews. Her favorite stories at PEOPLE\, however\, were the “Heroes Among Us” features—tales of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. \nHer new historical novel\, The Forest of Vanishing Stars\, based partially on incredible true stories of survival against staggering odds\, is an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis—until a secret from her past threatens everything. \n  \nBorn in Jodhpur\, Rajasthan\, India\, Alka Joshi has lived in the U.S. since the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She ran her own advertising and PR agency for 30 years. The Henna Artist was her first novel. Currently\, she is working on the third book of the trilogy and a screen adaption of The Henna Artist. \nFor decades\, she wrote advertising commercials and marketing copy. It was her husband who urged her to try fiction. He encouraged her to take evening workshops\, which she really enjoyed. When she enrolled in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the age of 51\, her instructors were so generous with their praise that she began to feel like a semi-serious writer. It wasn’t until her literary agent notified her that MIRA Books\, a division of Harper Collins\, had sent a really good contract that she realized she’d become an author! \nIn Alka’s intriguing new novel\, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur\, henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé\, Malik\, to intern at the Jaipur Palace in this tale rich in character\, atmosphere\, and lavish storytelling. While this is a stand alone novel\, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur picks up where international bestselling novel The Henna Artist\, a Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick\, leaves off. \n  \nMartha Hall Kelly is the New York Times bestselling author of the 1.5-million-copy bestselling novel Lilac Girls and Lost Roses. A native New Englander\, Martha enjoys spending her days filling legal pads with stories and reading World War II books. \nInspired by true accounts\, Martha’s new work of historical fiction\, Sunflower Sisters\, provides a vivid\, detailed look at the Civil War experience\, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations\, to a war-torn New York City\, to the horrors of the battlefield. It’s a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse\, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty\, a story still so relevant today. \nLilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday\, an American philanthropist who helped young girls released from Ravensbruck concentration camp. Now\, in Sunflower Sisters\, Kelly tells the story of her ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey\, a Union nurse who joins the war effort during the Civil War\, and how her calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma\, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army\, and Anne-May Wilson\, a southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. \n\nAbout Café Coyote\n\n\nFor over 30 years Café Coyote has remained one of San Diego’s Landmark Restaurants located in the Heart of Old Town San Diego’s Historic Walking District. A friendly staff\, loyal patrons\, delicious Mexican Food\, and a Festive Atmosphere have contributed to Café Coyote’s being Voted Best Mexican Restaurant 18 Years In A Row! \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/harmel-joshi-kelly/
CATEGORIES:Dinner Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Book Bingo (Book Tricks and Treats): A Private Virtual Adventure
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nNOW OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC!!\nWe are pleased to partner with the Scottsdale (Arizona) Friends of the Library for another fun Bingo (Book Tricks and Treats): A Virtual Adventure! If you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 150 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \n Just in time to choose some Halloween reads that are filled with book tricks and treats\, this free event features presentations by book club favorite authors: Karen White\, Sarah Warburton\, Laura Morelli\, Greta Kelly\, Nicola Harrison\, and Matt Coyle\, an interactive virtual game of bingo\, and fun prizes\, and all you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about great new reads to add to your to be read list). \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors whose book tours and events have been cancelled due to COVID-19. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information. \nAbout the Authors\nKaren White is the New York Times bestselling author of 28 books\, including the Tradd Street series\, Dreams of Falling\, The Night the Lights Went Out\, Flight Patterns\, The Sound of Glass\, A Long Time Gone\, and The Time Between. She is the coauthor of All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband near Atlanta\, Georgia. \nIn her newest book\, The Attic on Queen Street\, Karen returns to the house on Tradd Street for one last time as the bestselling series featuring psychic medium Melanie Trenholm comes to a hauntingly spectacular finale! Filled with psychics and haunted houses\, ghosts\, and evil spirits\, this is a must-read for Halloween (or anytime)! \nAfter the devastating events of the past few months\, the last thing Melanie Trenholm wants is to think about the future.  Why\, when her husband\, Jack\, has asked for a separation—a separation that might have been her fault?  Nevertheless\, with twin toddlers\, a stepdaughter leaving for college soon\, a real estate career to resume and a historic home that is still being restored\, Melanie doesn’t have much time to wonder where it all went wrong—but that doesn’t stop her from trying to win him back. Despite everything\, Melanie and Jack must work together to find the answers before evil spirits of past and present destroy everything they love. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Karen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nSarah Warburton is the author of Once Two Sisters\, a Publishers Weekly pick of the week\, a Crimereads recommended debut\, and a PopSugar featured title. She lives in the mountains of Southwest Virginia and\, for ten years\, was the lead writer for the monthly magazine UpClose. Her work has appeared in the Southern Arts Journal\, Women on Writing\, Embark Literary Magazine\, and Oyster River Pages. \nIn her newest novel\, You Can Never Tell\, inspired by the Moors Murders\, Sarah explores the twisted side of suburbia. Framed for embezzlement by her best friend Aimee\, museum curator Kacy Tremain and her husband Michael move from New Jersey to a charming Texas suburb to escape their past. Kacy quickly makes new friends–preppy\, inscrutable Elizabeth\, chatty yet evasive Rahmia\, and red-headed\, unapologetic Lena. But good friends aren’t always what they seem. \nAs she navigates the unexpectedly cutthroat social scene of her new town\, Kacy begins to receive taunting postcards–and worse\, discovers cameras hidden in the wall of her home. Lena and her husband\, Brady\, reassure her that the cameras are just relics of the paranoid previous homeowner . Once the cameras are removed and Kacy’s fears are quelled\, Kacy and Michael make the happy discovery that they are going to be new parents. \nMonths after the birth of their daughter\, Michael accidentally makes a shocking discovery about Brady’s past. And when Lena suddenly goes missing\, Kacy and Michael begin to uncover the truth about their neighbors–and it’s more terrible than anyone could have imagined. \nInterlaced with transcripts of a chilling “true crime” podcast that follow the tangled threads of the drama\, You Can Never Tell is a taut and complex psychological thriller that never lets up until its breathless conclusion. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Sarah or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nLaura Morelli holds a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University and is an award-winning\, USA Today bestselling historical novelist. Laura has taught college students in the U.S. and in Italy. She has covered art and authentic travel for TED-Ed\, National Geographic Traveler\, Italy Magazine\, CNN Radio\, and other media. Laura is the author of the popular Authentic Arts guidebook series that includes Made in Italy. Her historical novels\, including The Night Portrait and The Gondola Maker\, bring the stories of art history to life. \nIn her new historical novel\, The Stolen Lady\, two women\, separated by five hundred years\, trick the Nazis and hide Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa—with unintended consequences. This stunning historical novel that will forever change the way you look at the Mona Lisa. \nFlorence\, 1479: House servant Bellina Sardi’s future seems fixed when she accompanies her newly married mistress\, Lisa Gherardini\, to her home across the Arno. But when Lisa’s husband asks Master Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of Lisa\, Bellina finds herself tasked with hiding an impossible secret. \nFrance\, 1939: As the Nazis close in on Paris at the dawn of World War II\, a young archivist helps the frantic Louvre staff spirit away the Mona Lisa and other priceless works of art to hiding places in the French countryside. But as the dangerous game of cat and mouse comes to a head\, Anne realizes her own family may hold the secret to returning the Louvre’s collection to safety. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Laura or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \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\, daughter Lorelei and a cat who may\, or may not\, control the weather. Her her 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. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Greta or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nNicola Harrison is the author of two historical fiction novels\, Montauk and The Show Girl (August 10\, 2021). Born and raised in England\, she moved with her family to Southern California when she was 14. She is a graduate of UCLA and received her MFA from Stony Brook. Prior to writing novels she worked as a fashion journalist in New York City and now lives in Manhattan Beach\, California with her husband\, two sons and a high-maintenance chihuahua named Lola. \nThe Show Girl\, her new novel\, gives a glimpse of the glamorous world of the Ziegfeld Follies\, through the eyes of a young midwestern woman who comes to New York City to find her destiny as a Ziegfeld Follies star. It’s 1927 when Olive McCormick moves from Minneapolis to New York City determined to become a star in the Ziegfeld Follies. Extremely talented as a singer and dancer\, it takes every bit of perseverance to finally make it on stage. And once she does\, all the glamour and excitement is everything she imagined and more―even worth all the sacrifices she has had to make along the way. \nThen she meets Archie Carmichael. Handsome\, wealthy―the only man she’s ever met who seems to accept her modern ways―her independent nature and passion for success. But once she accepts his proposal of marriage he starts to change his tune\, and Olive must decide if she is willing to reveal a devastating secret and sacrifice the life she loves for the man she loves. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Nicola or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nMatt Coyle is the author of the bestselling Rick Cahill crime novels. He knew he wanted to be a crime writer when he was fourteen and his father gave him The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler. He graduated with a degree in English from University of California at Santa Barbara. His foray into crime fiction was delayed for thirty years as he spent time managing a restaurant\, selling golf clubs for various golf companies\, and in national sales for a sports licensing company. \nWriting at night for over a decade his debut novel\, Yesterday’s Echo\, was finally published in 2013. The wait was almost worth it as it won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel\, the San Diego Book Award for Best Mystery\, the Ben Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Fiction. \nWill Rick Cahill survive an insidious disease long enough to see his first-born child—or will sadistic killers murder him first? Find out in his latest book\, the soon to be released Last Redemption. Rick Cahill is finally living a settled\, happy life. His fiance is pregnant with their first child and he is doing PI work that pays well and keeps him out of danger. Then a doctor gives him the bad news about the headaches he’s been suffering—CTE\, the pro football disease that leads to senility and early death—a secret he keeps from Leah and his best friend Moira MacFarlane. \nWhen Moira asks him to monitor her son\, Luke—who’s broken a restraining order to stay away from his girl-friend—a simple surveillance explodes into greed\, deceit\, and murder. Luke goes missing\, and Rick’s dogged determination compels him to follow clues that lead to the exploration of high finance and DNA cancer research. Ultimately\, Rick is forced to battle sadistic killers as he tries to find Luke and stay alive long enough to see the birth of his child. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Matt or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Karen White\, Sarah Warburton\, Laura Morelli\, Greta Kelly\, Nicola Harrison\, and Matt Coyle are all members of our wonderful community of over 150 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers\, to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Karen\, Sarah\, Laura\, Greta\, Nicola\, Matt or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here. \nEvent Registration\nThis event is open only to Maricopa County (Arizona) residents and members of the Scottsdale Friends of the Library (register below). The Friends of the Scottsdale Public Library is pleased to present this unique bingo event to our members and other readers throughout the county. \nWhile the event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below offers support to these authors whose book tours and events have been cancelled. Book prices below include shipping within the U.S. and will include signed bookplates. \nPlease note that only one registration per email address is offered\, so if you have friends or family who also wish to play book bingo with us\, make sure to have them register with their own email address so they won’t miss out on the fun! \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/book-bingo-trick-treat-2021/
CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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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
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CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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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
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SUMMARY:Play Nice But Win: an ABTB Means Business Fireside Adventure featuring Michael Dell and Mark Cuban
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nYou may know MICHAEL DELL as the renowned innovator and technology leader who founded Dell Technologies\, but you may not know about the three battles waged to build his computer empire: one to launch it\, one to keep it\, and one to transform it. For the first time\, Michael reveals the highs and lows of the company’s evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own\, as he matured into the CEO it needed. \nIn his new book\, Play Nice But Win\, Michael recalls\, with humor and humility\, the mentors who showed him how to turn his passion into a business; the competitors who became friends\, foes\, or both; and the sharks that circled\, looking for weakness. What emerges is the long-term vision underpinning his success: that technology is ultimately about people and their potential. \nAnd who better to moderate our Play Nice But Win Adventure with Michael than renowned entrepreneur\, Fireside co-founder and Shark Tank TV star MARK CUBAN\, who also knows a thing or two about sharks and business. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Play Nice But Win\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside discussion with Michael in conversation with Mark\, Q&A\, and the unique opportunity to converse live* on Fireside.  \n*For admission to this event\, 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 Michael and Mark on the virtual stage; however\, event is accessible via live broadcast on all devices. Event access is provided via instructions emailed to you a week prior to the event. All of Michael’s net proceeds from Play Nice But Win will go to the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation\, which is dedicated to transforming the lives of children living in urban poverty in the US\, India\, and South Africa. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\nMichael Dell is chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies\, an innovator and technology leader providing the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future\, transform IT and protect their most important information. He is the author of two books including the forthcoming book\, Play Nice But Win: A CEO’s Journey from Founder to Leader. \nMichael is an honorary member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and is an executive committee member of the International Business Council. In 1999\, he and his wife\, Susan Dell\, established the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. \nIn his new book\, Michael Dell\, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America’s largest technology companies\, reveals the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader. \nIn 1984\, soon-to-be college dropout Michael Dell hid signs of his fledgling PC business in the bathroom of his University of Texas dorm room. Almost 30 years later\, at the pinnacle of his success as founder and leader of Dell Technologies\, he found himself embroiled in a battle for his company’s survival. What he’d do next could ensure its legacy—or destroy it completely. \nMore than an honest portrait of a leader at a crossroads\, Play Nice But Win is a survival story proving that while anyone with technological insight and entrepreneurial zeal might build something great—it takes a leader to build something that lasts. \nAbout the Moderator\nMark Cuban is the co-founder of Fireside\, a “next-gen podcast platform” that facilitates live conversation\, as well as an American billionaire entrepreneur\, television personality\, and media proprietor. \nSince the age of twelve\, Mark has been a natural businessman. From selling garbage bags door to door\, Mark went on to create successful corporations\, such as MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com. In addition\, Mark is the best selling author of How to Win at the Sport of Business. \nHe is also the owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team of the National Basketball Association (NBA)\, co-owner of 2929 Entertainment\, and chairman of AXS TV. He is also one of the main “shark” investors on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank. \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. \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\nAbout Adventures by the Book Means Business\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! And now\, we are taking that mission quite literally and are thrilled to introduce the second 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 \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n  \nSave
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