BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Adventures By The Book - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Adventures By The Book X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Adventures By The Book REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231009T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231009T193000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20230111T053836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185838Z UID:10000361-1696876200-1696879800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 4): a FREE in-person series featuring bestselling historical author Jennifer Coburn DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nOur part 4 features bestselling historical author Jennifer Coburn\, as she discusses her book\, Cradles of the Reich. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 4 featuring Jennifer Coburn: Monday\, October 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n  \n\nPart 4: Jennifer Coburn\n\n \n\nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Jennifer has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir\, We’ll Always Have Paris\, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally\, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies\, including A Paris All Your Own. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jennifer-coburn-10-9-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pt-loma-library-series-2023-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230911T193000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20230111T053228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185837Z UID:10000360-1694457000-1694460600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 3): a FREE in-person series featuring bestselling author and baker Amy Wallen DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nOur part 3 event features bestselling author and baker Amy Wallen\, as she discusses her book\, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 3 featuring Amy Wallen: Monday\, September 11\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Jennifer Coburn: Monday\, October 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n  \n\n\nPart 3: Amy Wallen\n\n \nAmy Wallen is the San Diego-based author of When We Were Ghouls\, A Memoir of Ghost Stories and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Moon Pies & Movie Stars. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review\, The Normal School\, Country Living and other national magazines and anthologies. \nHer book\, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies is a charming illustrated book on her journey writing a novel\, some of her teaching experience\, and some recipe-stories on pies\, because it was through pie that she claims she survived novel writing. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Amy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \nPart 4: Jennifer Coburn\n\n \n\nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Jennifer has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir\, We’ll Always Have Paris\, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally\, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies\, including A Paris All Your Own. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n  \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/amy-wallen-9-11-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pt-loma-library-series-2023-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230827T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230827T150000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20230606T111837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185847Z UID:10000390-1693141200-1693148400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Inside the Author's Studio Adventure featuring Moroccan-born chef and cookbook author Kitty Morse DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In-Person Adventure\nThis event is SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist\, please email admin@adventuresbythebook.com.\n\n“But what was the tattered black leather valise doing there\, hidden behind a crocheted comforter on the top shelf of my late mother’s closet? The tarnished brass locking mechanism had already been sprung. I held my breath and lifted the lid…” \nWhen award-winning author and Morocco-born chef Kitty Morse was sorting through her late mother’s belongings\, she never could have imagined the astonishing story that would unfold from those long-forgotten objects. Now\, in her new book – part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook – Kitty delivers Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France\, featuring recipes and the untold true accounts of her Alsatian ancestors during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \nJoin us at Kitty’s Moroccan-themed Vista home for the next in our Inside the Author’s Studio series\, where you will have the opportunity to meet the author up close and personal to learn more about the remarkable story behind her new book\, Bitter Sweet. \nYour Adventure includes  a tasting of savory and sweet bites from her heirloom recipes\, tea\, a slide show of Kitty’s recent remarkable trip to France to visit the sites in her book\, an autographed copy of Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France to be delivered and signed at the event\, tax\, book presentation\, and the opportunity to engage with Kitty live and in-person. \nDue to the special nature of this event\, only a limited number of spaces are available and event is expected to sell out. \nRegistration\nTo register for the in-person event\, simply select the Event Registration (8/27/23) option below\, and the address to Kitty’s private Vista residence will be provided 3 days prior to the event via email. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \nKitty’s career as an author\, travel writer\, cooking teacher\, and tour organizer spans more than twenty-five years\, including a 2019 Moroccan Adventure by the Book trip. Once a food columnist for the Los Angeles Times\, Kitty has written for most major food publications including Fine Cooking\, Sunset\, and Bon Appetit. She hosted 2 television series of her own\, and has appeared on national television in the US and abroad. \nShe has been a guest lecturer and presenter at venues in California and beyond: from the Los Angeles Public Library\, to the City of Chicago\, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC\, cooking schools\, museums\, and universities. She taught Moroccan cuisine at the famed Rancho La Puerta Spa in Tecate\, Mexico\, for several years. Her monthly enewsletter\, The Kasbah Chronicles\, is now in its thirteenth year. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \n\n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Kitty or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork® URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kitty-morse-8-27-23/ CATEGORIES:Cooking Adventure,Event,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/kitty-morse-author-studio-8.27.23-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230628T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230628T190000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20230418T233314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185845Z UID:10000381-1687973400-1687978800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Book Bingo (June Pride Month Celebration): a Virtual Adventure featuring NYT and bestselling fan favorite authors Krista Burton\, Nicolas DiDomizio\, Elle Everhart\, Jesse Leon\, Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, and Viola Shipman DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event:\n“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”– E.E. Cummings \nIn celebration of Pride Month\, we are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (June Pride Month Celebration): A Virtual Adventure\, in partnership with the Jefferson County Public Library. \nIf you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 130 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \nBe you. Do you. Celebrate you…And celebrate Pride Month by playing book bingo with six bestselling and book club favorite authors: Krista Burton\, Nicolas DiDomizio\, Elle Everhart\, Jesse Leon\, Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, and Viola Shipman.  Enjoy presentations by the authors\, while playing an interactive virtual game of bingo\, including fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\n \nKrista Burton is the creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes and was a frequent contributor to the online magazine Rookie. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Elle\, and VICE. She lives in Minnesota. \nLesbian bars have always been treasured safe spaces for their customers—havens that provide not only a good time\, a stiff drink\, and an ideal place to debut a brand-new septum piercing but a sense of belonging\, a shelter from societal alienation and outright persecution. In 1987\, there were 206 of them in America. Today\, however\, only a couple dozen lesbian bars are still open for business. How and why did this happen? What has been lost by such a decline? Has anything been gained? What—if any—are the downsides when marginalized communities become more accepted and mainstream?  In her new book\, Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America\, Krista Burton attempts to answer these questions firsthand\, venturing on an epic cross-country pilgrimage to the last few remaining dyke bars. \n“Moby Dyke is a hilarious adventure story\, a full-throated love letter to lesbian bars\, and an open-hearted memoir all wrapped up in one glorious package. Come for the bars and stay for the people inside them.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Krista or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n \nNicolas DiDomizio holds a bachelor’s degree from Western Connecticut State University and a master’s degree from NYU. His debut novel\, Burn It All Down\, was published in 2021 and praised as “unforgettable” by James Patterson. He lives in upstate New York with his partner Graig and their smooshy bulldog Rocco. The Gay Best Friend is his second novel. \nIn his new book\, The Gay Best Friend\, Domenic Marino has become an expert at code-switching between the hypermasculine and ultrafeminine worlds of his two soon-to-be-wed best friends. But this summer―reeling from his own failed engagement and tasked with attending their bachelor and bachelorette parties―he’s anxious over having to play both sides…A summer wedding comedy told entirely from the POV of the gay best man. \n“Fun\, frothy\, and full of feels. With characters so messy they seem like people you’ve known your entire life―you know\, the ones you simultaneously want to shake some sense into and hug the stuffing out of―it’s the perfect beach read.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Nicolas or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n \nElle Everhart writes romantic comedies featuring the internet\, sarcasm\, and lots of queer characters (especially bisexual characters because “I\, too\, cuff my jeans and can’t properly sit in chairs”).  Elle lives in  East London and works as a secondary English teacher. When she’s not writing\, you’ll catch her watching a whole lot of YouTube\, obsessing over the worst shows Netflix has to offer\, and hanging around with her son. \n People We Meet on Vacation meets The Unhoneymooners in this sparkling debut romantic comedy about two near strangers—and complete opposites—who win a radio contest for a trip around the world. \n“Laugh-out-loud funny\, sizzling hot\, and full of heart. Jack and Dylan are undeniable proof that opposites do attract\, and following them around the world is the great escape we all need right now!” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elle or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. \n“A book for survivors and those who know someone they hope survives\, bodhisattvas all.” \n  \n \nJeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs\, Georgia.  Early on\, Jeffrey spent many a night acting on the stages of DC’s theaters and performing arts centers. He even scored a few television appearances\, including a Super Bowl halftime commercial\, which his accountant wisecracked “Is the finest work of your career.”  When he stepped away from acting for other\, more traditional employment (much to his parents’ delight and relief)\, he also focused on pursuing post-graduate work\, ultimately being awarded Master’s degrees in both Public Administration and Library and Information Science.    Jeffrey calls the nation’s capital home now\, where he serves as a senior advisor at the Library of Congress\, surrounded by books and people who love books—in short\, paradise. \n“Make a glass of sweet tea\, pull up a porch chair\, and a cloth to mop your brow. Red Clay Suzie roots readers in the pacing of the South as Lofton coaxes his people from the heat and the rain and the gardens and the cars. It is a journey of refuge and emergence—helped and hindered by family and friends. Even through the characters’ most painful moments of discovery and loss\, it is an absolute joy to read. Three cheers to Jeffrey Dale Lofton and his stellar debut novel.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n \nWADE ROUSE is the internationally bestselling author of nine books\, which have been translated into nearly 20 languages. Wade chose his grandmother’s name\, Viola Shipman\, as a pen name to honor the woman whose heirlooms and family stories inspire his fiction.  Wade’s novels include The Charm Bracelet\, a 2017 Michigan Notable Book of the Year; The Hope Chest; and The Recipe Box. NYT bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank says of Wade and his latest novel\, The Summer Cottage: “Every now and then a new voice in fiction arrives to completely charm\, entertain and remind us what matters.  Viola Shipman is that voice and The Summer Cottage is that novel.” \nBursting with memorable characters and small-town lore\, Famous in a Small Town\, the enchanting new novel from the bestselling author of The Clover Girls is Fried Green Tomatoes meets Virgin River\, a magical story about the family you’re born with\, and the one you choose. \n“Full of summertime delight…and sweet\, nostalgic charm\, Famous in a Small Town is a beautiful reminder to…fully embrace the magic that lives inside you.” \nTo schedule a book club visit with Viola (Wade) or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \nRegistration: Jefferson County Public Library\nJefferson County Public Library in Colorado helps to build an educated and vibrant community by providing equal access to information and opportunities. For this particular bingo event\, register here with the Jeffco Public Library. Your virtual bingo card and Zoom invite will be sent directly from the Jeffco Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n  \nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or are your group of friends\, colleagues\, and family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that most\, if not all\, of the featured authors are members of our wonderful community of over 130 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/bingo-pride-6-28-23/ CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/June-Pride-book-bingo-6.28.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T160000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20230222T050740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185840Z UID:10000372-1683727200-1683734400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Love Buzz: a Debut Author Afternoon Tea Adventure featuring Neely Tubati Alexander DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nA wretched maid of honor. A hangover from hell. Raucous Mardi Gras crowds. There isn’t much Serena Khan is enjoying about this four-day New Orleans destination bachelorette party UNTIL sparks fly with a handsome stranger…  \nCan you imagine how difficult it is as a first-time author to find new readers? We sure do\, and that’s why we created a new series designed to help you discover new authors we think you’ll really enjoy\, in an intimate setting conducive to conversation and engaging personally with the author. \nPlease join us at our Debut Author Afternoon Tea Adventure to meet Neely Tubati Alexander and enjoy her hilarious and deeply humane novel\, Love Buzz\, which prompts us all to ask if the life we’re living is a life worth loving. \nJoin us live and in-person for our new series\, Debut Author Afternoon Tea Adventure! Gather around the table\, give a debut author a chance to share their first book\, while you sip on calming herbal tea\, nibble on sweet afternoon bites\, and discuss Neely’s new book\, Love Buzz. Your Adventure includes tea and sweet bites\, a copy of Love Buzz to be delivered and signed at the private San Diego residence\, tax\, and the opportunity to engage with Neely live and in-person. \n  \nRegistration\nTo register for the event\, simply select the Afternoon Tea Registration option below\, and the address to the private San Diego residence will be provided 3 days prior to the event via email. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nNeely Tubati Alexander is the author of women’s fiction with rom-com feels you can escape into with a smile. Originally from the Seattle area\, she currently resides in Arizona with her husband and two elementary-aged children. If she’s not tucked away at the little desk in her bedroom writing\, you can find her at some kiddo activity\, drinking wine\, or watching reality television\, usually the last two together. \nHer book\, Love Buzz\, is a sparkling debut about grief\, love\, family and the road not taken. In this spectacularly enjoyable and serendipitous adventure\, a chance romantic encounter during a wild night at a Mardi Gras bachelorette party sends strait-laced Serena Khan’s carefully constructed life into chaos. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/neely-tubati-alexander-5-10-23/ CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures,Tea Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/neely-alexander-5.10.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230413T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230413T193000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20230203T070930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185832Z UID:10000354-1681407000-1681414200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Sloth Lemur's Song: a Taste of Madagascar Adventure featuring Yale University Emerita Professor of Anthropology\, Author and Environmentalist Alison Richard DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In-Person Adventure\nThis event is SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist\, please email events@adventuresbythebook.com.\n\nMadagascar is a place of change. What happens there in the decades ahead can\, perhaps\, suggest ways to help turn the tide on the environmental crisis now sweeping the world… \nWeaving together scientific evidence\, personal accounts\, and the power of storytelling\, author and environmentalist Alison Richard captures the magic and mystery of Madagascar in her new book\, The Sloth Lemur’s Song. Joining Alison to share their combined knowledge and passion of this unique island country will be Debra Erickson\, Executive Director of Wildlife Madagascar\, and Georgeanne Irvine\, Director of Publishing and Children’s Book Author at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. \nWant to learn more about this stunning island country? Join us at a private bayside San Diego residence for our live and in-person Taste of Madagascar Adventure with Alison Richard. Not only will you learn about the nature of this remarkable island (while sipping on wine and dining on delectable sweet and savory crepes made fresh-to-order onsite courtesy of our friends at Isabelle Briens French Pastry Cafe)\, but you will directly support Madagascar\, as a portion of each admission ticket will be donated to the Wildlife Madagascar nonprofit. \nYour Adventure includes sweet and savory crepes freshly made to order\, wine\, an autographed copy of The Sloth Lemur’s Song\, tax\, book discussion\, Q&A\, donation to Wildlife Madagascar nonprofit\, and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal in a private bayside residence. \nNOTE: 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. \n\nRegistration\nThis event is SOLD OUT. To join the waitlist\, please email events@adventuresbythebook.com. \n  \n  \nAbout the Author\n \nAlison Richard is the Crosby Professor of the Human Environment emerita and senior research scientist at Yale University. She previously served as vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge\, and in 2010\, she was awarded a DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire) for her services to higher education. \nHer new book\, The Sloth Lemur’s Song\, is a far-reaching account of Madagascar’s past and present\, led by an expert guide who has immersed herself in research and conservation activities with village communities on the island for nearly fifty years. Alison Richard accompanies the reader on a journey through space and time—from Madagascar’s ancient origins as a landlocked region of Gondwana and its emergence as an island to the modern-day developments that make the survival of its array of plants and animals increasingly uncertain. \nWeaving together scientific evidence with Richard’s own experiences and exploring the power of stories to shape our understanding of events\, this book captures the magic as well as the tensions that swirl around this island nation. \nAbout Wildlife Madagascar\nConservation success ultimately depends on the support and participation of local communities. To protect the most biologically diverse areas remaining in Madagascar\, poverty and the increasing extraction and depletion of forests must be addressed. \nWildlife Madagascar seeks to implement programs that address food security\, training and education for local people\, resource use\, enterprise development\, and conflict management. Program success relies on collaboration and partnership with local communities\, government agencies\, nongovernmental organizations\, and tourism companies. We aim to establish programs that lead to lasting change\, help alleviate poverty\, and support environmental conservation for Madagascar’s vulnerable people\, wildlife\, and habitats. \n  \nAbout the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance\nSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is an international\, nonprofit conservation organization with two front doors: the San Diego Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. They integrate wildlife health and care\, science\, and education to develop sustainable conservation solutions. \n \n  \n\nAbout Isabelle Briens French Pastry Cafe\nIsabelle Briens French Pastry Cafe offers consistent quality\, a warm atmosphere\, and plenty of tasty treats for all occasions. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/alison-richard-4-13-23/ CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/alison-richard-4.13.23-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230408T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230408T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221102T000659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185831Z UID:10000342-1680953400-1680973200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Coronation Year: a Literary Tea Adventure with USA Today and international bestselling author Jennifer Robson DESCRIPTION:GREAT NEWS! We have added a second seating for our Coronation Year Adventure. Since the first seating sold out so quickly\, we now have limited spaces available at 3:00pm for the second seating\, but hurry\, before they are all gone!\n  \nAbout the Event\n\nIt’s coronation year\, as King Charles III’s ceremony is set to take place on May 6\, 2023\, at Westminster Abbey in London\, so we think it’s time for a Coronation Year Literary Tea Adventure. And we couldn’t think of a better author to celebrate with than USA Today and international bestselling author Jennifer Robson\, as she returns with another enthralling and royal-adjacent historical novel\, Coronation Year\, which takes place as the lives of three very different residents of London’s historic Blue Lion hotel converge in a potentially explosive climax on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation… \nJoin Jennifer for a literary tea at the historic Coral Tree Tea House\, where you can relax in a Victorian home in a beautifully landscaped public park. Over books\, tea\, and delectable treats like dainty sandwiches\, scones\, and seasonal berries\, enjoy a chance to learn about  Jennifer’s new novel\, Coronation Year. \nYour Adventure includes the tea in Old Town’s historic Heritage County Park\, tea sandwiches and desserts\, hot tea\, tax\, gratuity\, book discussion\, Q&A\, author signing\, and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal in an intimate setting. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing during the tea\, or pre-order your paperback copy of Coronation Year for delivery and signing at the event. The paperback book is available at a discounted price with purchase of event ticket. \nNOTE: Seating is limited\, so you will want to register soon to guarantee a seat! \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nJennifer Robson is the USA Today and #1 Toronto Globe & Mail bestselling author of Somewhere in France and After the War Is Over. She holds a doctorate in British economic and social history from Saint Antony’s College\, University of Oxford\, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar and an SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. She lives in Toronto\, Canada with her husband and young children. \nIn Jennifer’s new book\, Coronation Year\, it is Coronation Year\, 1953\, and a new queen is about to be crowned. The people of London are in a mood to celebrate\, none more so than the residents of the Blue Lion hotel. \nEdie Howard\, owner and operator of the floundering Blue Lion\, has found the miracle she needs: on Coronation Day\, Queen Elizabeth in her gold coach will pass by the hotel’s front door\, allowing Edie to charge a fortune for rooms and\, barring disaster\, save her beloved home from financial ruin. Edie’s luck might just be turning\, all thanks to a young queen about her own age. \nStella Donati\, a young Italian photographer and Holocaust survivor\, has come to live at the Blue Lion while she takes up a coveted position at Picture Weekly magazine. London in celebration mode feels like a different world to her. As she learns the ins and outs of her new profession\, Stella discovers a purpose and direction that honor her past and bring hope for her future. \nJames Geddes\, a war hero and gifted artist\, has struggled to make his mark in a world that disdains his Indian ancestry. At the Blue Lion\, though\, he is made to feel welcome and worthy. Yet even as his friendship with Edie deepens\, he begins to suspect that something is badly amiss at his new home. \nWhen anonymous threats focused on Coronation Day\, the Blue Lion\, and even the queen herself disrupt their mood of happy optimism\, Edie and her friends must race to uncover the truth\, save their home\, and expose those who seek to erase the joy and promise of Coronation Year. \n. \n  \nAbout the Coral Tree Tea House\nYou’re invited to visit the Coral Tree Tea House located in Old Town’s historic Heritage County Park! No where else can you relax in a Victorian home in a beautifully landscaped public park dedicated to the preservation of seven homes that were saved for their historical significance to the city of San Diego. \n  URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jennifer-robson-4-8-22/ CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures,Tea Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SOLD-OUT-jennifer-robson-4.8.23-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230401T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230401T120000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20230127T050554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185830Z UID:10000353-1680343200-1680350400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Self-Care and Sisterhood Adventure: a Workshop to Heal and Connect with renowned authors Julie Potiker and Puja Shah DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Event\nBreathe in\, breathe through\, breathe deep\, breathe out… \nDo you often forget to take those deep breaths when life has you on the run\, feeling stressed\, or just plain zapped of energy? Here is your opportunity to jump-start a little self-care with a mini workshop at the La Jolla/Riford Library with Julie Potiker\, mindfulness expert and author of SNAP!: From Chaos to Calm\,  and meditation instructor\, philanthropist and visionary poet Puja Shah\, author of For My Sister! \nAfter a fun and interactive workshop learning the evidence based SNAP method for managing difficult emotions\, and gentle mindfulness exercises\, books\, tea\, and delectable treats\, you will be ready to claim your renewed and refreshed spirit. Each attendee will receive their very own gratitude journal\, as well as a paperback copy of SNAP!: From Chaos to Calm AND a paperback copy of For My Sister. And to add an extra dose of feel-good\, we will donate a portion of event proceeds to the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion\, committed to building an equitable\, inclusive\, and caring global community while supporting the practice of self-compassion. \nYour Self-Care Workshop Adventure includes a mini mindfulness workshop\, gratitude journal\, a paperback copy of SNAP!: From Chaos to Calm AND a paperback copy of For My Sister to be delivered and signed at the event\, tea\, sweet bites\, a donation to the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion\, and the opportunity to meet the authors live and in-person. \n\n\nAbout the Authors\n \nJulie Potiker\, is a mindfulness expert with extensive certifications and teacher training in a variety of tools and methods\, including Mindful Self-Compassion. Her new book is SNAP! From Chaos to Calm. Through her Mindful Methods for Life program offerings\, Julie helps others bring more peace and wellness into their lives. Julie’s first book\, Life Falls Apart\, but You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos\, is now available on audiobook. Learn more at MindfulMethodsForLife.com. \nHer work has been featured by The Oprah Magazine\, Costco Connection\, AARP\, AP News\, NBC\, CBS\, Fox\, The CW\, and many more.\nShe holds a B.G.S. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from George Washington University. \n“The SNAP method is brilliant. In one simple practice\, Julie Potiker integrates brain science\, mindfulness\, compassion\, and other effective tools for lifting your mood\, easing anxiety\, calming stress\, and opening your heart. Full of practical wisdom\, she leads readers through funny stories\, tender care\, and many different applications of the SNAP method. Throughout\, she is a super-smart\, encouraging\, and hopeful friend. A wonderful book!”\n– Rick Hanson\, Ph.D.\, author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm\, Strength\, and Happiness \n\n  \n  \n \nPuja Shah is a visionary poet who shares her voice through written and spoken word\, guided meditations\, and teaching. Born in Queens\, New York to immigrant parents\, she defied teachers who questioned her English skills by winning countless poetry and short story awards in her youth. As an avid reader\, she spent her teen years exploring New York City for poetry slams and book readings. The blend of East and West has always fascinated her\, so she holds a graduate degree in dental medicine from Tufts University as well as over a dozen trainings in various forms of yoga\, meditation\, and ancient wisdom. \nHer award-winning book\, For My Sister\, is a journey of light and darkness with Amla and Asya: twin sisters trafficked into India’s notorious Sonagachi district\, Asia’s largest red light district. Can the power of poetry\, photography\, mindfulness\, and sisterly love bring them back home and to each other? It has won the American Book Awards for Social Change and International Impact Book Awards for Women’s Fiction. \nWith over 10 years of nonprofit experience and a long public health career\, Puja has aligned with girl trafficking awareness causes for her debut novel. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout the Center For Mindful Self-Compassion\nThe Center For Mindful Self-Compassion (CMSC) aims to be the global leader in self-compassion training and offers the highest quality programs to diverse populations\, based upon scientific research and established teaching methods. CMSC is committed to building an equitable\, inclusive\, and caring global community supporting the practice of self-compassion where each person matters and everyone belongs. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/julie-potiker-puja-shah-2-26-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures,Workshop Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/potiker-shah-4.1.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230329T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230329T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20230303T051915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185841Z UID:10000374-1680105600-1680111000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Book Bingo (Celebrating Women's History): a virtual Adventure featuring Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nIn recognition of Women’s History Month\, when we commemorate and encourage the study\, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in history\, we are pleased to share stories of women as told by six award-winning\, bestselling\, and book club favorite authors: Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson.  \nIf you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 130 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \n This free event features book club favorite historical fiction authors: Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson\, an interactive virtual game of bingo\, and fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great new reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors whose book tours and events have been curtailed due to COVID-19. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. \nSee below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\n \nNamed in 2015 as a top ten historical romance novelist in Publisher’s Weekly\, Piper Huguley is the author of the Reconstruction era “Home to Milford College” series. She is a 2013 & 2014 Golden Heart finalist for two novels in the “Migrations of the Heart” series about the Bledsoe sisters and set in the early twentieth century. \nPiper’s biographical historical fiction\, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe\, Fashion Designer to the Social Register tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Piper or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nChristina Lynch’s picaresque journey includes chapters in Chicago and at Harvard\, where she was an editor on the Harvard Lampoon. She was the Milan correspondent for W magazine and Women’s Wear Daily\, and disappeared for four years in Tuscany. In L.A. she was on the writing staff of Unhappily Ever After; Encore\, Encore; The Dead Zone and Wildfire. She now lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. She is the co-author of two novels under the pen name Magnus Flyte. She teaches at College of the Sequoias. The Italian Party was her debut novel. \nChristina’s new novel\, Sally Brady’s Italian Adventure (June 13\, 2023\, St. Martin’s Press)\, is set in Hollywood and Italy in 1931-1947. Follow effervescent Sally Brady as she goes from Dust Bowl refugee to glamorous gossip columnist in Rome\, then gets stranded in Fascist-era Tuscany. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Christina or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nSarah McCraw Crow is the author of the novel The Wrong Kind of Woman. She is a longtime magazine writer\, editor\, and book reviewer\, and her articles\, essays\, and reviews have run in BookPage\, The Christian Science Monitor\, Prime Number\, Family Circle\, Ladies’ Home Journal\, Parents\, Parenting\, American Baby\, Baby Talk\, and Working Mother\, among others. Her short fiction has won prizes from So to Speak and Good Housekeeping\, and her stories have been honored as contest finalists by Press 53\, New Letters\, Yemasee\, and Stanford Alumni Magazine. \nShe is a graduate of Dartmouth College (AB\, history)\, Stanford University (MA\, journalism)\, and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA in writing)\, and she’s a member of Grub Street\, Boston\, and the National Book Critics Circle. \nTold through alternating perspectives\, The Wrong Kind of Woman is an engrossing story of grief and renewal\, of shedding old identities and finding new ways to belong\, beautifully woven against the backdrop of the rapid changes of the early Seventies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Sarah or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nIntrigued by the discovery that an ancestor was a founder of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania\, Janis Robinson Daly found her next career direction: unearthing the stories of women whose lives have remained in the shadows. With a love of history\, she balances a need for authenticity and details with a fictional flair to create deeper emotional connections to characters than what biographies provide. A graduate of Wheaton College\, MA\, with a B.A. in Psychology\, Daly explores female-centric issues and the power of supportive relationships developed among women. Daly\, her husband\, and rescue pup reside on Cape Cod\, MA. \nThe Unlocked Path presents and embraces a “New Woman” of the early 20th century: educated\, career-minded\, independent. In 1897 Philadelphia\, after witnessing her aunt’s suicide\, Eliza Edwards vows to find ways to help and heal. Rejecting her mother’s wishes for her society debut\, Eliza enters medical college at a time when only five percent of doctors are female. With the support of a circle of women and driven by a determination to conquer curriculum demands\, battle sexism\, and overcome doubts\, Eliza charts a new life course. Combining science and sympathy\, can she triumph to heal others and herself? \nTo schedule a book club visit with Janis or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nAimie K. Runyan is a multi-published and international bestselling author of historical fiction. She has been nominated for a Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer of the Year award and two Colorado Book Awards. She lives in Colorado with her wonderful husband and two (usually) adorable children. \nIn this intriguing historical novel\, a young woman who is sent to a horrific “bride school” to be molded into the perfect Nazi wife finds her life forever intertwined with a young Jewish woman about to give birth.  A moving and memorable tale of sisterhood\, strength\, and survival\, The School for German Brides will resonate deeply with readers of historical fiction. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Aimie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \n\n\nKate Thompson worked as a journalist for twenty years on women’s magazines and national newspapers. She now lives in Sunbury with her husband\, two sons and a Lurcher called Ted. After ghost writing five memoirs\, Kate moved into fiction. Kate’s first non-fiction social history documenting the forgotten histories of East End matriarchy\, The Stepney Doorstep Society\, was published in 2018.   Kate is passionate about uncovering the stories she considers missing from the history books. Stories of clandestine matriarchal communities pitting their wits against war\, violence and poverty. Tales of enormous camaraderie and tight-knit communities who are the beating heart of East London. \nHer latest novel\, The Little Wartime Library\,  is based on the remarkable true story of Bethnal Green Underground’s shelter library in WW2. Founded in the chaos of the Blitz\, the pioneering underground library provided the solace\, sanctuary and escapism of books in London’s darkest hour. \n\n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Kate or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \nFor Book Clubs\nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson are all members of our wonderful community of over 130 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers\, to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Piper Huguley\, Christina Lynch\, Sarah McCraw Crow\, Janis Robinson Daly\, Aimie K. Runyan\, and Kate Thompson\, or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/book-bingo-3-29-23/ CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/3.29.23-womens-history-month-book-bingo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T193000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20230111T052317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185837Z UID:10000359-1678732200-1678735800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 2): a FREE in-person series featuring Award-Winning Author and Actress Kathi Diamant\, together with Chuck Bieler and Georgeanne Irvine DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nOur part 2 episode features award-winning author and actress Kathi Diamant\, as she discusses her book\, Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes. Joining her in conversation will be Chuck Bieler\, the subject of Kathie’s book\, and Georgeanne Irvine\, Director of Publishing\, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 2 featuring Kathi Diamant: Monday\, March 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 3 featuring Amy Wallen: Monday\, September 11\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Jennifer Coburn: Monday\, October 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n  \nPart 2: Kathi Diamant\n\n \nKathi Diamant is an award-winning author\, actor\, broadcaster and adjunct professor at San Diego State University\, where she leads the Kafka Project\, the official international search to recover a lost literary treasure\, the missing writings of Franz Kafka. Kathi’s award-winning book\, Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant has been reviewed by more than 60 publications and websites\, internationally lauded for its original research and revelations into Dora and Kafka’s lives. \nHer book\, San Diego Zoo Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes\, tells the extraordinary story of how Chuck Bieler “earned his stripes” at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. With inside stories and humorous details\, it captures his tireless efforts to help create an international conservation organization where all wildlife thrives. \nChuck Bieler was executive director of the San Diego Zoo from 1972-1985\, and as director emeritus has continued to work at the Zoo since then–at 53 years at the San Diego Zoo\, he is its longest-serving employee. HEART OF THE ZOO is his story. \nNative San Diego author Georgeanne “George” Irvine has devoted her career to raising awareness about animals and wildlife conservation. She is the director of publishing for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance\, where she has worked for more than four decades\, as well as the author of more than two dozen children’s books about wildlife. Her worldwide expeditions have taken her to many of the wildest places on earth—from the jungles of Borneo and South America to the mountains of China and the forests of India to the Outback of Australia and the savannas of Africa. \n  \n\nPart 3: Amy Wallen\n\n \nAmy Wallen is the San Diego-based author of When We Were Ghouls\, A Memoir of Ghost Stories and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Moon Pies & Movie Stars. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review\, The Normal School\, Country Living and other national magazines and anthologies. \nHer book\, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies is a charming illustrated book on her journey writing a novel\, some of her teaching experience\, and some recipe-stories on pies\, because it was through pie that she claims she survived novel writing. \n\n  \nPart 4: Jennifer Coburn\n\n \n\nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Jennifer has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir\, We’ll Always Have Paris\, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally\, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies\, including A Paris All Your Own. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \n  \nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \n\nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n\n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kathi-diamant-3-13-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pt-loma-library-series-2023-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T140000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221026T204947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185832Z UID:10000343-1677240000-1677247200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The House of Eve: a Southwestern Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with international bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nAs we sail into our live and in-person 2023 Adventures\, we are staying on course with our next literary lunch to be held at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club featuring international bestselling author Sadeqa Johnson. \n The award-winning author of Yellow Wife returns with The House of Eve\, a daring\, beautiful\, and redemptive novel that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother\, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. Enjoy a lovely lunch by the bay and prepare to be mesmerized and charmed by this talented author. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of The House of Eve to be delivered and signed at the event\, lunch\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and the opportunity to meet Sadeqa live and in-person. As a NovelNetwork author\, Sadeqa loves chatting with book clubs\, so why not bring your book club friends with you (contact us for a table reservation up to eight people). \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nSadeqa Johnson is the award-winning author of And Then There Was Me\, Second House From the Corner\, Love in a Carry-on Bag and Yellow Wife. \nYellow Wife is a 2022 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy nominee\, a BCLA Literary Honoree and a Barnes & Noble book club pick in paperback. Her other accolades include winning the National Book Club Conference Award\, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award\, and the USA Best Book Award for Best Fiction. She is a Kimbilio Fellow and teaches in the MFA program at Drexel University. Originally from Philadelphia\, she currently lives near Richmond\, Virginia\, with her husband and three children. \nSadeqa’s new book\, The House of Eve\, selected as the February\, 2023\, Reese’s Book Club Pick\, is a daring\, beautiful\, and redemptive novel that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother\, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. \n1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college\, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. \nEleanor Quarles arrives in Washington\, DC\, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University\, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC’s elite wealthy Black families\, and his par­ents don’t let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William’s family and grant her the life she’s been searching for. But having a baby—and fitting in—is easier said than done. \nWith their stories colliding in the most unexpected of ways\, Ruby and Eleanor will both make decisions that shape the trajectory of their lives. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Sadeqa or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n\n\nAbout Southwestern Yacht Club\nSouthwestern Yacht Club is one of the largest\, oldest\, and most prestigious yacht clubs in San Diego\, California. SWYC was formed in 1925 by visionary yachting enthusiasts looking for ways to enjoy each other’s company and to share their passion for boating. Since then\, the Club has developed into a full-service operation with more than 800 members embracing all forms of yachting\, fishing\, and social activities\, all while earning a reputation as being the friendliest club in the area. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/sadeqa-johnson-2-24-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/sadeqa-johnson-sw-yacht-club-2.24.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T150000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221029T003654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185831Z UID:10000340-1676538000-1676559600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Super Book IV: a San Diego Adventure featuring 22 New York Times/bestselling authors including half-time speakers Julia Whelan and Allison Winn Scotch DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In-Person Adventure\nVirtual registration is now available! \n\nIt’s kickoff time! No\, we aren’t talking about Super Bowl; we are talking about Super Book IV\, and you are invited! \nJoin our team of 22 renowned authors\, including half-time speakers\, renowned audio book narrator and author Julia Whelan and New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch\, who will give book enthusiasts and reading fans the experience of a lifetime\, complete with national anthem\, special half-time presentation\, four quarters of excitement\, and crowd-pleasing food\, scheduled to take place on Thursday\, February 16\, 2023. at: \nAdmiral Baker Golf Course Clubhouse\, 2400 Admiral Baker Rd #3604\, San Diego\, CA 92124 \nAnd of course\, no Adventure by the Book would be complete without lots of excitement and fun! Your ticket includes: \n\nDaylong Adventure featuring up to 22 New York Times and bestselling authors\nFREE copy of Thank You for Listening paperback book by Julia Whelan\nFREE copy of The Rewind paperback book by Allison Winn Scotch\n$25 reduced early bird ticket pricing available for the first 50 Adventurers\nCustom Super Book tote bag\nContinental breakfast\nCrowd-pleasing gourmet boxed lunch\nCollectible event program\nSeating at lunch tables with an author\nVIP option available to seat with your favorite author (limited availability)\nMultiple book signing autographing opportunities with all authors\nPhoto ops with authors\nMeet and greet opportunities with the authors\nBooks provided for sale and signing\nNational anthem performance\nFour quarters of author activities\nHalf-time presentation\nDiscounted block of hotel rooms\nFun prizes and giveaways\n…and much more\n\nBook Pre-Sales\nBooks will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Or\, pre-order copies using THIS ORDER FORM and then email completed forms to Amber at events@adventuresbythebook.com. Please note\, only books purchased at the event or pre-purchased will be eligible for signing at the event. \n\nRegistration\nAvailable below. Your choice of End Zone Registration and/or MVP add-on to request seating with your favorite author (limited availability). \nAnd\, we are now offering Virtual Registration\, which includes a Zoom link to view the live sessions and either 1 hardcover book or 2 paperback books. Please select your desired titles and add it to the notes section of checkout or email events@adventuresbythebook.com. If no titles are selected\, we will send you titles we recommend. \n  \n\nThe Half-Time Speakers\nJulia Whelan is an American actress and author of the international bestselling My Oxford Year\, her debut novel. She is best known for her role as Grace Manning on the television family drama series Once and Again (1999–2002)\, and her co-starring role in the 2002 Lifetime movie The Secret Life of Zoey. \nJulia has also won acclaim for her narration of over 500 audiobooks\, including Gillian Flynn’s thriller Gone Girl\, Tara Westover’s Educated\, Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds\, and Taylor Jenkins Reid’s and Emily Henry’s books. \nHer uplifting new novel\, Thank You for Listening\, tells the story of a former actress turned successful audiobook narrator—who has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic accident—and her journey of self-discovery\, love\, and acceptance when she agrees to narrate one last romance novel. \n  \nAllison Winn Scotch is a New York Times best-selling American author\, best known for her novels The Theory of Opposites (2013)\, Time of My Life (2008)\, and The Department of Lost and Found (2007). She is also a magazine contributor and has written for\, among others\, Cooking Light\, Fitness\, InStyle Weddings\, Men’s Health\, Prevention\, Redbook\, Self\, Shape\, and Women’s Health. \nAt present\, she contributes celebrity interviews and profiles to American Way. Time of My Life is currently under development at The Weinstein Company\, with Meryl Poster producing. \nIn her latest book\, The Rewind\, two exes wake up together with wedding bands on their fingers—and no idea how they got there. They have just one New Year’s Eve at the end of 1999 to figure it out in this big-hearted and nostalgic rom-com. \n  \nPanel 1: It’s a Nail-Biter\nRobert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle\, which has sold more than 8 million books worldwide. In his latest book\, What She Found\, Detective Tracy Crosswhite has agreed to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress. Detective Tracy Crosswhite has agreed to look into the disappearance of investigative reporter Lisa Childress. \n\n  \n  \nMichelle Gable is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of A Paris Apartment\, I’ll See You in Paris\, The Book of Summer\, The Summer I Met Jack\, and The Bookseller’s Secret\, which launched in August 2021 and is a national and Canadian bestseller. The Lipstick Bureau: A Novel Inspired by a Real-Life Female Spy\, inspired by a real-life female spy\, is a WWII-set novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war\, no matter the cost. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Michelle or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nRobert Kerbeck fought one of the worst fires in California history\, the 2018 Woolsey Fire\, to save his home. His debut book\, Malibu Burning: The Real Story Behind LA’s Most Devastating Wildfire\, won the 2020 IPPY Award as the Silver Medalist in Creative Nonfiction\, the Readers’ Favorite Award as the Silver Medalist in Nonfiction Drama\, and the Best of LA award. His newest memoir\, RUSE: Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street\, is a thrilling look into the world of corporate espionage and his career as a secret spy. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Robert or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nHank Phillippi Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of 13 thrillers\, winning the most prestigious awards in the genre: five Agathas\, five Anthonys\, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV\, with 37 EMMYs and dozens more journalism honors. Her book\, The House Guest is a diabolical cat-and-mouse thriller ―but which character is the cat\, and which character is the mouse? The fates and fortunes of two women twist and turn until the shocking truth emerges: You can’t always get what you want. But sometimes you get what you deserve. \n\n  \n  \nPanel 2: It’s Magic\nAmy Meyerson is the bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays and The Imperfects. Her books have been translated into eleven languages\, and her short fiction has been published in numerous literary magazines. Her book\, The Love Scribe\, is a charming novel about a woman with a special gift—her stories help people fall in love. Emotional\, deeply imaginative and brimming with valuable life lessons\, The Love Scribe explores love\, fate and the power of stories when we choose to believe in them. \n  \n  \nAnnabel Monaghan’s first novel for adults\, Nora Goes Off Script\, is an IndieNext and LibraryReads pick and was selected as a best book of summer by Washington Post\, USA Today and as a GMA Best Book of June. Her next novel\, Same Time Next Summer\, will be released in June 2023. She is the author of two novels for young adults\, A Girl Named Digit and Double Digit. She is also the author of Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big? a collection of essays based on her column that appears on the Huffington Post\, The Week and The Rye Record. \n  \n  \nJoe Stillman co-wrote “Shrek” for Dreamworks which earned him an Academy Award® nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Annie and BAFTA Awards. Other produced features are “Beavis & Butthead Do America”\, “Shrek 2”\, “Gulliver’s Travels”\, “Planet 51” and “Joseph King Of Dreams.” The Man Who Came and Went\, his novel of the new west\, is a magically realistic story for the modern era that will tease your understanding and beliefs\, and draw you into the mysteries of the universe. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Joe or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nPanel 3: It’s Personal\nCassandra King Conroy is an award-winning author of five novels\, a book of nonfiction\, numerous short stories\, magazine articles\, and essays. She has taught creative writing on the college level\, conducted corporate writing seminars\, and worked as a human interest reporter. In her book\, Tell Me a Story\, Cassandra considers her life and the man she shared it with\, paying tribute to her husband\, Pat Conroy\, the legendary figure of modern Southern literature. \n  \n  \n  \nRyan Dusick is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist\, the founding drummer of the world’s most popular band Maroon 5\, a mental health advocate\, and an author. His life has been a long and winding road from aspiring pop-star with anxiety\, to heartbroken alcoholic\, to thriving mental health survivor and messenger of hope in recovery. His new book\, Harder to Breathe\, is a roller-coaster memoir about how making it to the top sent him to the bottom—and how he let go of the past and embraced a new future\, one breath at a time.\n \n  \n  \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. Jesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. \n\n  \nPanel 4: It’s a Family Thing\nJeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of 3 novels and an Emmy award-winning television director. In his latest novel\, The Emancipation of Evan Walls\, it is June 1968 and the Civil Rights movement is winding down after the death of Martin Luther King\, Jr. Evan is ten years old and\, in the jargon of the times\, young\, gifted and black. In the presence of his parents and a summer porch gathering of their friends\, he makes a startling declaration. From that moment on\, the central question of his life is born. Is he black enough? \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jeffrey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nSusan Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with more than three-quarters of a million books in readers’ hands and translations in eighteen languages. She is an author\, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism. Her new book\, Only the Beautiful\, is a heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter\, and the winds of fortune that tear them apart. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Susan or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nKatherine Reay is a national bestselling and award-winning author of several novels. She has enjoyed a lifelong affair with books and history\, and brings that love to her stories. Katherine has also written one full-length nonfiction work. In her book\, The London House\, an uncovered family secret sets one woman on the journey of a lifetime through the history of Britain’s WWII spy network and glamorous 1930s Paris in an effort to understand her past\, save her family\, and claim her future. \n  \n  \nJennifer Rosner is the award-winning author of The Yellow Bird Sings\, called “exquisite\, heart-rending… an absolutely beautiful and necessary novel” by The New York Times Book Review and a Finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Award in the categories of Debut Fiction and Book Club. Her previously published books include the memoir\, If a Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard\, and the picture book\, The Mitten String\, a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable. Her forthcoming novel\, Once We Were Home\, is based on true stories of children stolen in wartime and raises heart-wrenching questions of belonging\, identity\, and what it really means to find home. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nPanel 5: It’s Top Secret\nJanie Chang’s historical novels have been Canadian national bestsellers and nominated for international literary awards. Her debut novel\, Three Souls\, was a finalist for the 2014 BC Book Prizes Fiction award; Dragon Springs Road\, her second book\, was a Globe and Mail national bestseller. Both were nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her third book\, The Library of Legends\, was a Book of the Month Club selection and a Globe and Mail national bestseller. Her upcoming novel\, The Porcelain Moon\, set in WWI France\, releases in February 2023. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Janie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nEliza Knight is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author. She is the creator of the popular historical blog\, History Undressed and a co-host on the History\, Books and Wine podcast. Her book\, The Mayfair Bookshop\, is a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford—one of 1930s London’s hottest socialites\, authors\, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters—and a modern American desperate for change\, connected through time by a little London bookshop. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Eliza or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nMadeline Martin is a New York Times and International Bestselling author of The\nLast Bookshop in London. Her moving new novel\, The Librarian Spy\, is inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II. Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet\, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the US military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Madeline or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nKristina McMorris is a New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, and USA Today bestselling author of two novellas and seven novels\, including the million-copy bestseller Sold on a Monday. Previously\, she hosted weekly TV shows\, beginning at age nine with an Emmy Award-winning program. Inspired by stunning true accounts\, her novels have garnered more than two dozen prestigious awards and nominations. Her new book\, the international bestseller The Ways We Hide\, was named Target’s top-five reads of 2022 and features a WWII illusionist recruited by British intelligence to help thwart the Germans. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kristina or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \nOur team can’t wait to see you there! URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/super-book-iv-2-16-23/ CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures,SuperBook Weekend ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/superbook-iv-2.16.23-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T193000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20230110T031843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185834Z UID:10000358-1676313000-1676316600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Point Loma Library Monday Night Author Adventures (Part 1): a FREE in-person series featuring Academy Award nominated Shrek screenwriter and author Joe Stillman (and Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse) DESCRIPTION:About the In-Person Library Series\nWe are delighted to introduce a fun 2023 author series in partnership with the Point Loma Library\, and we invite you to join us! Don’t miss the opportunity to meet five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Joe Stillman\, Kathi Diamant\, Amy Wallen\, Jennifer Coburn\, and Kitty Morse. \nPart 1 features Academy award-nominated screenwriter (Shrek) and author Joe Stillman\, as he discusses his book\, The Man Who Came and Went. \nBOOKS are available for pre-order below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 1 featuring Joe Stillman: Monday\, February 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 2 featuring Kathi Diamant: Monday\, March 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 3 featuring Amy Wallen: Monday\, September 11\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 4 featuring Jennifer Coburn: Monday\, October 9\, 6:30pm Pacific\nPART 5 featuring Kitty Morse: Monday\, November 13\, 6:30pm Pacific\n\n  \n\nPart 1: Joe Stillman\n \nJoe Stillman co-wrote “Shrek” for Dreamworks which earned him an Academy Award® nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Annie and BAFTA Awards. Other produced features are “Beavis & Butthead Do America”\, “Shrek 2”\, “Gulliver’s Travels”\, “Planet 51” and “Joseph King Of Dreams”. In television\, he was co-producer and writer on “King of the Hill\,” for which he received two Emmy Award® nominations. He was a writer and story editor for Nickelodeon’s “The Adventures of Pete and Pete” and a writer on MTV’s “Beavis and Butthead”. \n\n\nThe Man Who Came and Went\, his novel of the new west\, is a magically realistic story for the modern era that will tease your understanding and beliefs\, and draw you into the mysteries of the universe. Fifteen-year-old Belutha Mariah\, our storyteller\, is the oldest of three kids from three different fathers. Her life’s goal is to keep her dysfunctional mom\, Maybell\, from procreating yet again and then to leave the coffin-sized town of Hadley\, Arizona the second she graduates high school. \n\n  \nPart 2: Kathi Diamant\n\n \nKathi Diamant is an award-winning author\, actor\, broadcaster and adjunct professor at San Diego State University\, where she leads the Kafka Project\, the official international search to recover a lost literary treasure\, the missing writings of Franz Kafka. Kathi’s award-winning book\, Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant has been reviewed by more than 60 publications and websites\, internationally lauded for its original research and revelations into Dora and Kafka’s lives. \nHer book\, San Diego Zoo Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes\, tells the extraordinary story of how Chuck Bieler “earned his stripes” at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. With inside stories and humorous details\, it captures his tireless efforts to help create an international conservation organization where all wildlife thrives. \n  \n\nPart 3: Amy Wallen\n\n \nAmy Wallen is the San Diego-based author of When We Were Ghouls\, A Memoir of Ghost Stories and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Moon Pies & Movie Stars. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review\, The Normal School\, Country Living and other national magazines and anthologies. \nHer book\, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies is a charming illustrated book on her journey writing a novel\, some of her teaching experience\, and some recipe-stories on pies\, because it was through pie that she claims she survived novel writing. \n\n  \nPart 4: Jennifer Coburn\n\n \n\nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. Jennifer has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir\, We’ll Always Have Paris\, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally\, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies\, including A Paris All Your Own. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \n  \nPart 5: Kitty Morse\n \nKitty Morse is the author of ten cookbooks\, including a memoir with recipes titled Mint Tea and Minarets: a Banquet of Moroccan Memories\, named Best Book/Arab Cuisine by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Other titles include Cooking at the Kasbah: Recipes from my Moroccan Kitchen (now in its tenth printing from Chronicle Books)\, The California Farm Cookbook\, and Edible Flowers: A Kitchen Companion with Recipes. \n Her 11th cookbook Bitter Sweet: A Wartime Journal and Heirloom Recipes from Occupied France — part Holocaust history\, part memoir\, part cookbook — features recipes from Kitty’s Alsatian ancestors\, and is based upon original family documents and photographs chronicling living in Alsace during the Nazi occupation in WWII. \nRegistration\nAs this event is free and open to the public\, no registration is required and seating is available on a first-come\, first-served based. However\, we encourage you to support each of the featured authors by pre-ordering a copy of the book below to be delivered to the event for signing. Additional copies will be available for sale at the event on a limited basis. \n  \n\nAbout the Point Loma/Hervey Library\nOne of the largest libraries in the City of San Diego\, the Point Loma/Hervey Library offers many unique features and several conference rooms\, a computer lab and media room. Fitting with Point Loma’s history as a fishing village\, the library incorporates themes of marine life and nautical history throughout the two-story building. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/joe-stillman-2-13-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pt-loma-library-series-2023-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230207T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230207T203000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221219T025246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185834Z UID:10000356-1675794600-1675801800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Sergeant: Book Launch Adventure featuring Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Dean Calbreath DESCRIPTION:About the FREE In-Person Book Launch\n\nFrom his noble childhood in the kingdom of Borno to being kidnapped into slavery\, Nicholas Said’s inspiring life-story is an epic journey that takes him from Africa and the Ottoman Empire through Czarist Russia and\, finally\, to heroic acclaim in the American Civil War… \nAnd we can’t think of a better way to celebrate his courageous life than a book launch event during Black History Month at the San Diego Veterans Museum with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dean Calbreath\, whose meticulously researched and approachable new book\, The Sergeant\, documents a unique perspective of slavery from a global perspective that will resonate with a wide audience. \nYour FREE The Sergeant Book Launch Adventure includes a reception with the author to include appetizers and drinks\, a book discussion\, Q&A\, author signing\, and an opportunity to meet and celebrate with Dean as he launches his new book. \n*DATE: Tuesday\, February 7\, 2023 \n*TIME: 6:30 pm PST Reception / 7:00 pm PST Book Discussion \n*LOCATION:  San Diego Veterans Museum – 2115 Park Blvd.\, San Diego\, CA 92101 \n \n\n\nREGISTRATION/BOOK PRE-ORDER\nWhile this event is FREE and open to the public\, registration is requested to help us plan seating and refreshments. Books will be available at the event for signing\, or pre-order your copy below to be delivered to the event for pickup and signing. You may also have an autographed book shipped to you if you are unable to attend the event (select SHIPPED book option below). \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nDean Calbreath was part of the Pulitzer and Polk award-winning team that uncovered the biggest individual bribery scandal in Congressional history. Throughout his career\, he has won more than three dozen other awards\, including for reporting on the economy\, business issues and international affairs\, as well as historical writing. His interest in the story of Nicholas Said dates back to when he was briefly assigned to the Middle East after 9/11\, where he became interested in the stories of Muslims in American history\, including former Muslims like Said. \nWith three colleagues\, Dean co-authored The Wrong Stuff: The Extraordinary Saga of Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham\, a book detailing the Pulitzer-winning probe into the corruption of Rep. Randy Cunningham\, who was subsequently sentenced to prison along with two of his bribers. \nIn his new book\, The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General\, Slave of the Ottomans\, Free Man Under the Tsars\, Hero of the Union Army\, Calbreath examines the parallels and differences in the ways slavery was practiced from a global and religious perspective\, and he highlights how Said’s experiences echo the discrimination\, segregation\, and violence that are still being reckoned with today. \nIn the late 1830s a young Black man was born into a world of wealth and privilege in the powerful\, thousand-year-old African kingdom of Borno. But instead of becoming a respected general like his fearsome father (who was known as The Lion)\, Nicolas Said’s fate was to fight a very different kind of battle. \nAt the age of thirteen\, Said was kidnapped and sold into slavery\, beginning an epic journey that would take him across Africa\, Asia\, Europe\, and eventually the United States\, where he would join one of the first African American regiments in the Union Army. Nicholas Said would then spend the rest of his life fighting for equality. Along the way\, Said encountered such luminaries as Queen Victoria and Czar Nicholas I\, fought Civil War battles that would turn the war for the North\, established schools to educate newly freed Black children\, and served as one of the first Black voting registrars. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/dean-calbreath-2-7-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/dean-calbreath-2.7.23-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221214T023340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185834Z UID:10000355-1675353600-1675359000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Book Bingo (Out of the Shadows): a virtual Adventure with Amery Area (Wisconsin) Public Library featuring Cara Black\, Kimberly Brock\, Fran Hawthorne\, Jennifer Rosner\, Alex Segura\, and Wendy Walker DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nOn Groundhog Day\, Punxsutawney Phil may or may not predict six more weeks of winter\, but we can predict at least six more weeks of great reading with our Book Bingo (Out of the Shadows) virtual Adventure\, in partnership with Amery Area (Wisconsin) Public Library! If you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 150 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \n Join six fabulous authors who are coming out of the shadows and onto your to-be-read list! This free event features presentations by book club favorite authors: Cara Black\, Kimberly Brock\, Fran Hawthorne\, Jennifer Rosner\, Alex Segura\, and Wendy Walker\, an interactive virtual game of bingo\, and fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great new reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors whose book tours and events have been canceled due to COVID-19. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. \nSee below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\n \nCara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series\, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. \nCara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards\, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation\, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal\, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture—and invitations to be the Guest of Honor at conferences such as the Paris Polar Crime Festival and Left Coast Crime. With more than 400\,000 books in print\, the Aimée Leduc series has been translated into German\, Norwegian\, Japanese\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew. \nIn her latest book\, Night Flight to Paris (the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris)\, it is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win—or lose—World War II.  \nTo schedule a book club visit with Cara or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nKimberly Brock is the bestselling author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare and her award-winning debut\, The River Witch. She is the founder of Tinderbox Writers Workshop and has served as a guest lecturer for many regional and national writing workshops including at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. She lives near Atlanta with her husband and three children. \nIn The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare \, a sweeping tale from award-winning author Kimberly Brock\, the answers to a real-life mystery may be found in the pages of a story that was always waiting to be written. \nWhat happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery\, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known the truth lies in what she left behind: a message carved onto a large stone and the contents of her treasured Commonplace Book. Brought from England on Eleanor’s fateful voyage to the New World\, her book was passed down through the fifteen generations of daughters who followed as they came of age. Thirteen-year-old Alice had been next in line to receive it\, but her mother’s tragic death fractured the unbroken legacy and the Dare Stone and the shadowy history recorded in the book faded into memory. Or so Alice hoped. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kimberly or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nFor 30 years\, Fran Hawthorne built a career as a journalist and award-winning nonfiction author\, specializing in health care\, finance\, and the nexus of business and social activism. But all that was a detour: Since 2018 she’s published two novels\, The Heirs\, and now her newest\, I Meant To Tell You\, both from Stephen F. Austin State University Press. \nIn her nonfiction life\, her book Ethical Chic was named one of the best books of 2012 by Library Journal. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, BusinessWeek\, Newsday\, Self\, and many other publications\, and she also writes reviews for the New York Journal of Books. \nIn her book\, I Meant To Tell You\, when Miranda Isaacs’s fiancé\, Russ Steinmann\, is being vetted for his dream job in the U.S. attorney’s office\, the couple joke about whether Miranda’s parents’ history as antiwar activists in the Sixties might jeopardize Russ’s security clearance. But as it turns out\, the real threat emerges after Russ’s future employer discovers that Miranda was arrested for felony kidnapping seven years earlier – an arrest she’d never bothered to tell Russ about. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Fran or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nJennifer Rosner is the author of the novels Once We Were Home and The Yellow Bird Sings\, a Massachusetts Fiction Honors Book and National Jewish Book Award finalist in the categories of debut fiction and book club. She is also author of the memoir If A Tree Falls: A Family’s Quest to Hear and Be Heard\, and the children’s book\, The Mitten String\, a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable. \nJennifer’s writing has appeared in the New York Times\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Forward\, and elsewhere. In addition to writing\, Jennifer has taught philosophy. She earned her B.A. from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her family. \nBeautifully evocative and tender\, filled with both luminosity and anguish\, Once We Were Home reveals a little-known history. Based on the true stories of children stolen during wartime\, this heart-wrenching novel raises questions of complicity and responsibility\, belonging and identity\, good intentions and unforeseen consequences\, as it confronts what it really means to find home. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nAlex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity\, which the New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor’s Choice. NPR described the novel as “masterful\,” and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly\, Kirkus\, and Booklist. \nAlex is also the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall\, the Pete Fernandez Miami Mystery series\, and a number of comic books – including The Mysterious Micro-Face (in partnership with NPR)\, The Black Ghost\, The Archies\, The Dusk\, The Awakened\, and more. His short story\, “90 Miles” was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories for 2021 and won the Anthony Award for Best Short Story. \nHis latest book\, Secret Identity\, is a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books. Alex uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel–hard-edged and bright-eyed\, gritty and dangerous\, and utterly absorbing. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Alex or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nWendy Walker is the author of the psychological suspense novels All Is Not Forgotten\, Emma In the Night\, The Night Before\, Don’t Look For Me and American Girl. Her novels have been translated into 23 foreign languages\, topped bestseller lists both nationally and abroad\, and have been optioned for both television and film. \nWendy holds degrees from Brown University and Georgetown Law School\, and has worked in finance and several areas of the law. As a former family law attorney with training in child advocacy\, Wendy draws from her knowledge of trauma and psychology to write compelling and complex characters and stories. \nHer latest book\, What Remains\, is the story of detective Elise Sutton who finds herself drawn to cold cases. Each crime is a puzzle to solve\, pulled from the past. Elise looks for cracks in the surface and has become an expert on how murderers slip up and give themselves away. She has dedicated her life to creating a sense of order\, at work with her ex-marine partner; at home with her husband and two young daughters; and within\, battling her own demons. Elise has everything under control\, until one afternoon\, when she walks into a department store and is forced to make a terrible choice: to save one life\, she will have to take another. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Wendy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nAbout the Amery Area (Wisconsin) Public Library\nThe Amery Area Public Library enriches the community by connecting people with information\, ideas and experiences. \n\n  \n\nFor Book Clubs\nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Cara Black\, Kimberly Brock\, Fran Hawthorne\, Jennifer Rosner\, Alex Segura\, and Wendy Walker are all members of our wonderful community of over 150 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers\, to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Cara Black\, Kimberly Brock\, Fran Hawthorne\, Jennifer Rosner\, Alex Segura\, Wendy Walker or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/bingo-groundhog-2-2-23/ CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2.2.23-groundhog-day-book-bingo-FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20220722T010757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185826Z UID:10000329-1673193600-1673197200@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Reef Road: a Fireside Virtual Adventure with actress and award-winning author Deborah Goodrich Royce DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nWhen a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach\, Florida\, the lives of two women—a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother’s best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children—collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020… \nJoin actress and award-winning author Deborah Goodrich Royce on Fireside as she discusses her new thriller\, Reef Road.  Make sure to grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa before you curl up in your favorite chair to chat live with Deborah to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Deborah. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Reef Road\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Deborah\, and Q&A. \n  \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nDeborah Goodrich Royce’s literary thrillers examine puzzles of identity. Finding Mrs. Ford and Ruby Falls will be joined by Reef Road in January 2023. \nDeborah began her career as an actress\, starring as Silver Kane\, sister of the legendary Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci) on the ABC soap\, All My Children. She went on to star in feature films such as April Fool’s Day and Just One of the Guys\, TV movies such as Return to Peyton Place and The Deliberate Stranger\, and series such as Beverly Hills 90210 and 21 Jump Street. \n\nIn her novel\, Reef Road\, a young woman’s life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics. What each of them stands to lose as they sneak around the do-not-enter tape blocking Reef Road beach is exposed by the steady tightening of the cincture encircling them. \nIn a nod to the true crime that inspired it\, Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Reef Road probes unhealed generational scars in a wrenching and original work of fiction. It is both stunning and sexy and\, like a bystander surprised by a curtain left open\, you won’t be able to look away. \n  \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations.  \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/deborah-goodrich-royce-1-8-23/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/deborah-goodrich-royce-1.8.23-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221208T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221208T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221028T050946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185833Z UID:10000348-1670515200-1670518800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Thankful for Reading (Part 5): a 5-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite author Elizabeth de Veer DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nThe holiday season is soon upon us\, always a good time to pause and reflect on all that we are thankful for. As we count our blessings this year\, we’d like to give thanks to you dear Adventurers and to the talented authors who bring their books to us every year. \nThis season\, we are delighted to feature five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Jane Ward\, Jennifer Steil\, Michelle Cox\, Eliza Knight\, and Elizabeth de Veer\, as part of a fun 5-part Thankful for Reading Series that you won’t want to miss!  Each week\, Adventures by the Book’s Susan McBeth and Amber Reinhart will chat live virtually with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative and interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, which allows you to join the conversation live. \nThis week’s episode features bestselling author Elizabeth de Veer\, as she chats about her most recent book\, The Ocean in Winter. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 5 featuring Elizabeth de Veer: Thursday\, December 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n  \n \nElizabeth de Veer has a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and has been admitted to writing residencies at the Jentel Artist Residency\, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. \nThe Ocean in Winter is Elizabeth’s first novel and an unforgettable story about grief\, love\, and what it means to be haunted… The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex\, eleven at the time\, found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/elizabeth-de-veer-12-8-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/thankful-for-reading-series-2-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221206T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221025T050321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185831Z UID:10000341-1670342400-1670347800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Ways We Hide: a Virtual Magic Adventure with New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristina McMorris and Professional Magician Brent Allan DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual Adventure\n\nIn research for her new historical novel\, The Ways We Hide\, New York Times and international bestselling author Kristina McMorris learned a trick or two about illusionists who were tasked with designing escape aids to thwart the Germans during World War II.  What were those secrets? \nWhile a magician may never tell\, you may learn some tricks of the trade at our upcoming virtual Magic Adventure! Join Kristina\, along with renowned Brent the Magician for a FREE virtual Adventure\, complete with a fascinating chat with Kristina about her new book\, and a free mini magic show! \nIt’s no illusion; this event is FREE\, but we hope you will purchase a copy of Kristina’s new book\, The Ways We Hide\, below\, so you can be entered into a drawing for a chance to win a prize… you don’t want to miss it! \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nKristina McMorris is a New York Times\, Wall Street Journal \,and USA Today bestselling author whose novels have garnered more than two dozen prestigious awards and nominations\, including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, RWA’s RITA® Award\, and a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction. \nSince her debut released in 2011\, Kristina’s published works have expanded to include the novels Bridge of Scarlet Leaves\, The Pieces We Keep\, The Edge of Lost\, and Sold on a Monday\, a runaway bestseller with over 1\,000\,000 copies sold. Her books have been translated into multiple languages and appeared in compilations by Readers Digest\, Doubleday\, the Literary Guild\, and more. \nInspired by stunning true accounts\, her new book\, The Ways We Hide\, is a  sweeping World War II tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her on a perilous\, heartrending path. \nAs a little girl raised amid the hardships of Michigan’s Copper Country\, Fenna Vos learned to focus on her own survival. That ability sustains her even now as the Second World War rages in faraway countries. Though she performs onstage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist\, behind the curtain she’s the mastermind of their act. Ultimately\, controlling her surroundings and eluding traps of every kind helps her keep a lingering trauma at bay. \nYet for all her planning\, Fenna doesn’t foresee being called upon by British military intelligence. Tasked with designing escape aids to thwart the Germans\, MI9 seeks those with specialized skills for a war nearing its breaking point. Fenna reluctantly joins the unconventional team as an inventor. But when a test of her loyalty draws her deep into the fray\, she discovers no mission is more treacherous than escaping one’s past. \nThe Ways We Hide is a gripping story of love and loss\, the wars we fight―on the battlefields and within ourselves―and the courage found in unexpected places. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kristina or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \nAbout Brent the Magician\n\n\n \nBrent Allan began his love of magic as a teenager\, when he saw a professional magician perform magic table-side at a restaurant. Front hat point on\, he was hooked\, and began to learn different performance arts. He has made his living performing for the past 18 years\, and has expanded his skills to include magic\, juggling\, ventriloquism\, stage hypnosis\, as well as sideshow arts such as fire-eating and sword swallowing. \n\nThese days he performs over 150 shows a year\, and travels all over the United States bringing amazement and amusement to people of all ages. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kristina-mcmorris-12-6-22/ CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/kristina-mcmorris-12.6.22.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221202T193000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221015T000151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185831Z UID:10000339-1670004000-1670009400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:From Story to Film: a Fireside Virtual Adventure DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\nLuz\, a Filipina interpreter\, takes a call from a doctor to discuss the end-of-life options for an elderly Filipina woman in the hospital ICU during the early months of the COVID pandemic. Thus\, the inspiration was born for author Marivi Soliven’s short story\, Pandemic Bread\, which won top accolades at the San Diego Central Library’s Decameron Project\, now being made into a film. \nIf you have you ever wanted to learn about the story to film process\, you won’t want to miss our interactive Fireside chat with author Marivi Soliven\, filmmaker Zeinabu Davis\, supervisor in the humanities section of the Central Library and screenwriter Marc Chery\, and the star of the film\, renowned Filipina actress Princess Punzalan\, to gain insight into how Pandemic Bread\, an original short story of hope and resilience\, is being adapted to the screen. The film came together through a unique collaboration among members of the San Diego Filipino community\, UC San Diego students and film professionals\, many of whom were directly affected by the Covid 19 pandemic. \nTo access this FREE Fireside chat\, please register below and a private VIP link will be sent 2-3 days before the event. \n  \n\nAbout the Speakers\n  \nMarivi Soliven has authored 17 books\, including The Mango Bride (Penguin\, 2013)\, winner of the San Diego Book Awards and the Palanca Awards\, the Philippine counterpart of the Pulitzer Prize. Her flash fiction piece Pandemic Bread was ranked in the top ten among one hundred stories that were published in the San Diego Decameron Project anthology. Her day job as a phone interpreter enriches her stories even as it allows her to support her immigrant community. Information about her creative projects can be found at HERE and on Instagram @marvisoliven. \n  \n \n\nA veteran of independent film and video\, Zeinabu Davis has produced numerous award winning works. Her vision is passionately focused on the depiction of African American women – their hopes\, dreams\, past and future. Her interests include altering and diversifying the terrain of mass media\, film history\, world cinema and folklore. She frequently writes and lectures on African and African American cinema. \n  \nPrincess Punzalan is a native of the Philippines\, and a respected actor in the local and international entertainment industry with more than 800 appearances on television\, film\, and radio. She is the daughter of celebrated Philippine broadcasters and producers Helen Vela (“Lovingly Yours\, Helen”) and Orlando Punzalan. \nShe has been an actor from the age of ten\, when she replaced an ill cast member on the television drama\, “Kahapon Lamang.” Having proved her natural ability\, from that point she was cast in many other TV dramas. \nPrincess’ most famous role was as “Selina\,” the villain in the long-running Philippine TV series “Mula Sa Puso.” Chosen for the part because of her history of underdog\, sweet\, and gentle character roles\, she stunned viewers with her character’s malevolence\, in particular her now-iconic evil laugh which helped her win Best Actress in a Drama Series. Viewers may love to hate her characters on the screen\, but in everyday life she is a loving\, caring mother and wife known for her philanthropic activities. \nAn accomplished executive\, she produced three hit television series and starred in “Princess\,” a weekly drama anthology in the late 80’s where she took on various roles every week and established herself as a versatile actor. \n\nAbout the Decameron Project\nIn October 2020\, inspired by The Decameron written in the 14th century during one of the worst plagues in history\, San Diego Public Library and partner organizations\, Write Out Loud\, the La Jolla Historical Society\, and San Diego Writers\, INK invited San Diego County authors to submit previously unpublished stories for the San Diego Decameron Project. Marc Chery\, supervisor in the humanities section of the Central Library and one of the project directors and screenwriters\, believes “future researchers will have a field day. They’ll be able to read what San Diegans thought and did during the pandemic — the weird things\, the good things\, how we nurtured each other. And they’ll find some really good writing.” \n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n  \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/marivi-soliven-12-2-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pandemic-bread-12.2.22-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221028T045113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185833Z UID:10000347-1669824000-1669827600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Thankful for Reading (Part 4): a 5-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Eliza Knight (and Elizabeth de Veer) DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nThe holiday season is soon upon us\, always a good time to pause and reflect on all that we are thankful for. As we count our blessings this year\, we’d like to give thanks to you dear Adventurers and to the talented authors who bring their books to us every year. \nThis season\, we are delighted to feature five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Jane Ward\, Jennifer Steil\, Michelle Cox\, Eliza Knight\, and Elizabeth de Veer\, as part of a fun 5-part Thankful for Reading Series that you won’t want to miss!  Each week\, Adventures by the Book’s Susan McBeth and Amber Reinhart will chat live virtually with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative and interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, which allows you to join the conversation live. \nThis week’s episode features bestselling author Eliza Knight\, as she chats about her most recent book\, The Mayfair Bookshop. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 4 featuring Eliza Knight: Wednesday\, November 30\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Elizabeth de Veer: Thursday\, December 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n\n  \n\n \n\nEliza Knight is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author. She is the creator of the popular historical blog\, History Undressed and a co-host on the History\, Books and Wine podcast. \nHer latest book\, The Mayfair Bookshop is a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford—one of 1930s London’s hottest socialites\, authors\, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters—and a modern American desperate for change\, connected through time by a little London bookshop. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Eliza or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nElizabeth de Veer has a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and has been admitted to writing residencies at the Jentel Artist Residency\, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. \nThe Ocean in Winter is Elizabeth’s first novel and an unforgettable story about grief\, love\, and what it means to be haunted… The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex\, eleven at the time\, found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/eliza-knight-11-30-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/thankful-for-reading-series-2-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221028T043254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185832Z UID:10000346-1668700800-1668704400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Thankful for Reading (Part 3): a 5-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Michelle Cox (and Eliza Knight and Elizabeth de Veer) DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nThe holiday season is soon upon us\, always a good time to pause and reflect on all that we are thankful for. As we count our blessings this year\, we’d like to give thanks to you dear Adventurers and to the talented authors who bring their books to us every year. \nThis season\, we are delighted to feature five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Jane Ward\, Jennifer Steil\, Michelle Cox\, Eliza Knight\, and Elizabeth de Veer\, as part of a fun 5-part Thankful for Reading Series that you won’t want to miss!  Each week\, Adventures by the Book’s Susan McBeth and Amber Reinhart will chat live virtually with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative and interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, which allows you to join the conversation live. \nThis week’s episode features bestselling author Michelle Cox\, as she chats about her most recent book\, A Spying Eye. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 3 featuring Michelle Cox: Thursday\, November 17\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nPART 4 featuring Eliza Knight: Wednesday\, November 30\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Elizabeth de Veer: Thursday\, December 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n\n \nMichelle Cox is the author of the multiple award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series as well as “Novel Notes of Local Lore\,” a weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents. Her books have been praised by Kirkus\, Library Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, Booklist and many others. \nIn the sixth book of the series\, A Spying Eye: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel\, Clive and Henrietta return to Europe in an attempt to resurrect their failed honeymoon. While in London\, they are approached by their old friend\, Inspector John Hartle\, who convinces them to search for the missing panel of the Ghent Altarpiece\, a famous Renaissance painting\, of which Hitler’s top men are also in pursuit. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Michelle or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n\n \n\nEliza Knight is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author. She is the creator of the popular historical blog\, History Undressed and a co-host on the History\, Books and Wine podcast. \nHer latest book\, The Mayfair Bookshop is a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford—one of 1930s London’s hottest socialites\, authors\, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters—and a modern American desperate for change\, connected through time by a little London bookshop. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Eliza or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nElizabeth de Veer has a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and has been admitted to writing residencies at the Jentel Artist Residency\, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. \nThe Ocean in Winter is Elizabeth’s first novel and an unforgettable story about grief\, love\, and what it means to be haunted… The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex\, eleven at the time\, found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/michelle-cox-11-17-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/thankful-for-reading-series-2-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221116T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221116T173000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221008T081948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185830Z UID:10000338-1668614400-1668619800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Book Bingo (Holiday Gift Ideas): a Virtual Adventure featuring bestselling authors Suzanne Kamata\, Martha Hall Kelly\, Alix Rickloff\, Maggie Smith\, Kris Waldherr and Glenda Winders DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nWe are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (Holiday Gift Ideas): A Virtual Adventure! \nIf you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 150 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \nWith the holidays just around the corner\, we hope you’ll play this festive game of book bingo with us and six book club favorite authors: Suzanne Kamata\, Martha Hall Kelly\, Alix Rickloff\, Maggie Smith\, Kris Waldherr and Glenda Winders. And who knows? You might just find the perfect holiday gift while you play! Enjoy presentations by the authors while playing an interactive virtual game of bingo\, including fun prizes! All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great 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. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\n \nSuzanne Kamata’s short stories\, essays\, articles and book reviews have appeared in over 100 publications including Real Simple\, Brain\, Child\, Cicada\, and The Japan Times. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times\, and received a Special Mention in 2006. She is also a two-time winner of the All Nippon Airways/Wingspan Fiction Contest\, winner of the Paris Book Festival\, and winner of a SCBWI Magazine Merit Award\, an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award\, an APALA YA Honor Award\, and many others. \nHer award-winning book\, The Baseball Widow\, explores issues of duty\, disability\, discrimination\, violence\, and forgiveness through a cross-cultural lens. Although flawed\, these characters strive to advocate for fairness\, goodness\, and safety\, while considering how their decisions have been shaped by their backgrounds. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Suzanne or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nMartha Hall Kelly is the New York Times bestselling author of the 2-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. \nIn her forthcoming novel\, The Golden Doves\, two former female spies\, bound together by their past\, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II. With The Golden Doves\, Martha Hall Kelly has crafted an unforgettable story about the fates of Nazi fugitives in the wake of World War II—and the unsung females spies who risked it all to bring them to justice. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Martha Hall Kelly or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nCritically acclaimed author of historical fiction\, Alix Rickloff’s family tree includes a knight who fought during the Wars of the Roses (his brass rubbing hangs in her dining room) and a soldier who sided with Charles I during the English Civil War (hence the family’s hasty emigration to America). With inspiration like that\, what else could she do but start writing her own stories? \nHer latest novel\, The Girls in Navy Blue\, is a gripping and compelling dual timeline story about three women who joined the Navy during WWI to become yeomanettes and the impact their choices have on one of their descendants in 1968. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Alix or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nMaggie Smith founded ArtSource\, a leading art consulting company\, but when her business was acquired in 2017\, she pursued her dream to became a full-time writer. In addition to writing\, Maggie hosts the podcast Hear Us Roar for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association\, which boasts over 110 episodes and is available on Apple Podcast\, Spotify\, IHeartRadio\, and Amazon Music. \nReaders who love Jodi Picoult’s topical plot twists and Liane Moriarty’s character-driven novels will devour Smith’s Truth and Other Lies\, a fast-paced tale of three women whose lives converge as one fights a devastating accusation\, another campaigns for a contested seat in Congress\, and one\, the young reporter with ties to both\, navigates the tricky line between secrets and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Maggie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nKris Waldherr’s books for adults and children include The Lost History of Dreams\, Bad Princess\, Doomed Queens\, and The Book of Goddesses. Her fiction has won fellowships from the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts and a works-in-progress reading grant from Poets & Writers. \nNamed a Most Anticipated Book for Fall by CrimeReads\, a Reader’s Digest Top 25 Book for Halloween\, and an Editors’ Choice by the Historical Novels Review\, Waldherr’s new novel Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women shocks new life into Mary Shelley’s beloved gothic classic by revealing the feminine side of the tale. You’ll never view Victor Frankenstein and his monster the same way again. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kris or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \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. \nWhat do you wear when you testify against your best friend as she goes on trial for murder? Not a murder mystery in the usual sense\, and spanning time and space\, Sainted in Error delves into the tenacity of friendship and the damage that the stigma still attached to mental illness can do. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Glenda or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n\nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or are your group of friends\, colleagues\, and family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Suzanne Kamata\, Martha Hall Kelly\, Alix Rickloff\, Maggie Smith\, Kris Waldherr and Glenda Winders are 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 Suzanne Kamata\, Martha Hall Kelly\, Alix Rickloff\, Maggie Smith\, Kris Waldherr\, Glenda Winders or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/book-bingo-holiday-gift-ideas-11-16-22/ CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/11.16.22-holiday-gift-ideas.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221028T040645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185832Z UID:10000345-1668096000-1668099600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Thankful for Reading (Part 2): a 5-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Jennifer Steil (and Michelle Cox\, Eliza Knight\, and Elizabeth de Veer) DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nThe holiday season is soon upon us\, always a good time to pause and reflect on all that we are thankful for. As we count our blessings this year\, we’d like to give thanks to you dear Adventurers and to the talented authors who bring their books to us every year. \nThis season\, we are delighted to feature five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Jane Ward\, Jennifer Steil\, Michelle Cox\, Eliza Knight\, and Elizabeth de Veer\, as part of a fun 5-part Thankful for Reading Series that you won’t want to miss!  Each week\, Adventures by the Book’s Susan McBeth and Amber Reinhart will chat live virtually with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative and interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, which allows you to join the conversation live. \nThis week’s episode features award-winning author and journalist Jennifer Steil\, as she chats about her most recent book\, Exile Music. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 2 featuring Jennifer Steil: Thursday\, November 10\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 3 featuring Michelle Cox: Thursday\, November 17\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nPART 4 featuring Eliza Knight: Wednesday\, November 30\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Elizabeth de Veer: Thursday\, December 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n  \n\n \nJennifer Steil is an award-winning author and journalist who lives in many countries (currently Uzbekistan). Her third book\, the novel Exile Music\, was released by Viking in May 2020\, won the Grand Prize in the 2020 Eyelands Book Awards\, and was named a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award. \nBased on an unexplored slice of World War II history\, Exile Music is the captivating story of a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n\n \nMichelle Cox is the author of the multiple award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series as well as “Novel Notes of Local Lore\,” a weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents. Her books have been praised by Kirkus\, Library Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, Booklist and many others. \nIn the sixth book of the series\, A Spying Eye: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel\, Clive and Henrietta return to Europe in an attempt to resurrect their failed honeymoon. While in London\, they are approached by their old friend\, Inspector John Hartle\, who convinces them to search for the missing panel of the Ghent Altarpiece\, a famous Renaissance painting\, of which Hitler’s top men are also in pursuit. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Michelle or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n\n \n\nEliza Knight is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author. She is the creator of the popular historical blog\, History Undressed and a co-host on the History\, Books and Wine podcast. \nHer latest book\, The Mayfair Bookshop is a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford—one of 1930s London’s hottest socialites\, authors\, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters—and a modern American desperate for change\, connected through time by a little London bookshop. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Eliza or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nElizabeth de Veer has a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and has been admitted to writing residencies at the Jentel Artist Residency\, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. \nThe Ocean in Winter is Elizabeth’s first novel and an unforgettable story about grief\, love\, and what it means to be haunted… The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex\, eleven at the time\, found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jennifer-steil-11-10-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/thankful-for-reading-series-2-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20221028T012309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185832Z UID:10000344-1667491200-1667494800@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Thankful for Reading (Part 1): a 5-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Jane Ward (and Jennifer Steil\, Michelle Cox\, Eliza Knight\, and Elizabeth de Veer) DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nThe holiday season is soon upon us\, always a good time to pause and reflect on all that we are thankful for. As we count our blessings this year\, we’d like to give thanks to you dear Adventurers and to the talented authors who bring their books to us every year. This season\, we are delighted to feature five bestselling and fan-favorite authors\, Jane Ward\, Jennifer Steil\, Michelle Cox\, Eliza Knight\, and Elizabeth de Veer\, as part of a fun 5-part Thankful for Reading Series that you won’t want to miss! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book’s Susan McBeth and Amber Reinhart will chat live virtually with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative and interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, which allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun five-part series. \nThis week’s episode features award-winning author and journalist Jane Alessandrini Ward\, as she chats about her most recent book\, In the Aftermath. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Series Schedule\nPART 1 featuring Jane Ward: Thursday\, November 3\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 2 featuring Jennifer Steil: Thursday\, November 10\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 3 featuring Michelle Cox: Thursday\, November 17\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nPART 4 featuring Eliza Knight: Wednesday\, November 30\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Elizabeth de Veer: Thursday\, December 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nJane Alessandrini Ward is the author of In the Aftermath (2021)\, The Mosaic Artist (2011) and Hunger (Forge\, 2001). She has been a contributing writer for an online regional and seasonal food magazine and a blogger and occasional host of cooking videos for an internet recipe resource affiliated with several newspapers across the country. Jane now divides her time between Chicago and the north shore of Massachusetts. \n\n\nIn her book\, In the Aftermath\, when David Herron—overwhelmed and despairing\, his family’s business and finances in ruin due to the bursting lending bubble of 2008—takes his own life one chilly spring morning\, he has no idea the ripple effect his decision will set into motion. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jane or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n\n \nJennifer Steil is an award-winning author and journalist who lives in many countries (currently Uzbekistan). Her third book\, the novel Exile Music\, was released by Viking in May 2020\, won the Grand Prize in the 2020 Eyelands Book Awards\, and was named a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Lesbian Fiction Award. \nBased on an unexplored slice of World War II history\, Exile Music is the captivating story of a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n\n \nMichelle Cox is the author of the multiple award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series as well as “Novel Notes of Local Lore\,” a weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents. Her books have been praised by Kirkus\, Library Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, Booklist and many others. \nIn the sixth book of the series\, A Spying Eye: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel\, Clive and Henrietta return to Europe in an attempt to resurrect their failed honeymoon. While in London\, they are approached by their old friend\, Inspector John Hartle\, who convinces them to search for the missing panel of the Ghent Altarpiece\, a famous Renaissance painting\, of which Hitler’s top men are also in pursuit. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Michelle or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n  \n  \n\n \n\nEliza Knight is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling author. She is the creator of the popular historical blog\, History Undressed and a co-host on the History\, Books and Wine podcast. \nHer latest book\, The Mayfair Bookshop is a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford—one of 1930s London’s hottest socialites\, authors\, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters—and a modern American desperate for change\, connected through time by a little London bookshop. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Eliza or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n \nElizabeth de Veer has a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and has been admitted to writing residencies at the Jentel Artist Residency\, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. \nThe Ocean in Winter is Elizabeth’s first novel and an unforgettable story about grief\, love\, and what it means to be haunted… The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex\, eleven at the time\, found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Elizabeth or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside is the new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations. \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \n \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jane-ward-11-3-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/thankful-for-reading-series-2-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221029T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221029T200000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20220714T033821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185823Z UID:10000320-1667066400-1667073600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Cradles of the Reich: PRIVATE House Parties with USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn DESCRIPTION:About the Private House  Parties\nNOTE: These are private events and not open to the general public. \nHave you scheduled a private house party with USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn to discuss her much-anticipated first historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich? If so\, then you are in the right place to pre-order her book for delivery and signing at your private event. Please select the ticket option below that reflects the house party you will be attending. \nCan’t make it to a house party? Select the Mailed ticket option and a copy of Cradles of the Reich will be mailed to you\, includes shipping within the US only. \nDo you want to schedule your own private house party with Jennifer for your book club or for your friends? Simply email Jennifer directly at jen@jencoburn.com for more details. \n  \nAbout Laurie’s House Party\nAbout: Join Laurie’s Bagels & Books house party and discuss Jennifer’s new historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich!  Order your copy below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nDate: Sunday October 2 \nTime: 10:30am – 12:30pm (Pacific time) \n  \n  \nAbout the Meridian House Party\nAbout: Join the Meridian house party and discuss Jennifer’s new historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich. Order your copy below to be delivered to the event for signing. \nDate: Monday October 3 \nTime: 5:00-7:00pm (Pacific time) \n  \n  \nAbout The Fair Lawn Jewish Center Author Event\, New Jersey\nAbout: Unable to join the in person event in New Jersey but joining in via Zoom? You can still get a signed copy of Jennifer’s new historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, shipped directly to you. Order your copy below. \nDate: Wednesday October 26 \nTime: 8:00pm (Eastern time) \n  \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. \nJennifer has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir\, We’ll Always Have Paris\, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally\, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies\, including A Paris All Your Own. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \nGermany 1939. The nation is on the brink of war and Hitler’s plan to create a “master race” of pure-blooded Aryan babies has been launched. The top-secret Lebensborn Nazi breeding program is brought to life in Cradles of the Reich\, the story of three German women who change the course of one another’s lives. \nAt Heim Hochland\, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria\, three women’s fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant university student from Berlin. An Aryan beauty\, she’s secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde\, only eighteen\, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official’s child. And Irma\, a 44-year-old nurse\, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose. \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jennifer-coburn-10-3-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Private-House-Parties-Coburn.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T133000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20220818T004404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185827Z UID:10000336-1666697400-1666704600@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:When We Had Wings: a Filipino Luncheon Adventure with USA Today and New York Times bestselling authors Susan Meissner\, Kristina McMorris\, and Ariel Lawhon DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In-Person Adventure\nTHIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! To add your name to the wait list\, please email Amber at events@adventuresbythebook.com\n\nFrom three bestselling authors\, including USA Today bestselling author Susan Meissner and New York Times bestselling authors Kristina McMorris and Ariel Lawhon\, comes an interwoven tale about a trio of Filipina nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival during World War II … \nThe story of these “Angels of Bataan” comes to life courtesy of three talented Angels of Literature\, ALL three of whom you will meet in person at our When We Had Wings Filipino Luncheon Adventure. Please join us in welcoming back former San Diego resident Susan Meissner\, together with Kristina McMorris and Ariel Lawhon\, as they discuss their new book\, When We Had Wings\, over a delicious Filipino lunch courtesy of Starfish Filipino Eatery\, THE place to go for modern Philippine cuisine! \nYour Adventure includes a delicious Filipino luncheon to include appetizer\, salad\, your choice of entree\, choice of dessert\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation with Susan and Kristina in an authentic and intimate setting. \nAnd don’t forget to take advantage of a special pre-order discount below for their book to be delivered and signed at the event. Books will also be available for signing at the event at regular price. \n  \nAbout the Authors\n \nSusan Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with more than three-quarters of a million books in print in eighteen languages. She is an author\, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism. \nHer novels include The Nature of Fragile Things\, which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly; The Last Year of the War\, named to Real Simple magazine’s list of best books for 2019; As Bright as Heaven\, which earned a starred review in Library Journal; Secrets of Charmed Life\, a Goodreads finalist for Best Historical Fiction 2015; and A Fall of Marigolds\, named to Booklist’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction titles for 2014. \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 \nKristina McMorris is a New York Times\, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author whose novels have garnered more than two dozen prestigious awards and nominations\, including the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, RWA’s RITA® Award\, and a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction. \nSince her debut released in 2011\, in addition to her novellas in the anthologies A Winter Wonderland and Grand Central\, Kristina’s published works have expanded to include the novels Bridge of Scarlet Leaves\, The Pieces We Keep\, The Edge of Lost\, and Sold on a Monday\, a runaway bestseller with over 1\,000\,000 copies sold. Her books have been translated into multiple languages and appeared in compilations by Readers Digest\, Doubleday\, the Literary Guild\, and more. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kristina or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n  \n \nAriel Lawhon is a critically-acclaimed\, New York Times author of historical novels including The Wife the Maid and the Mistress\, Flight of Dreams\, I Was Anastasia\, and Code Name Helene. Her books have been translated into numerous languages and have been Library Reads\, One Book One County\, Indie Next\, Costco\, Amazon Spotlight\, and Book of the Month Club selections. \nAriel lives in the rolling hills outside Nashville\, Tennessee\, with her husband and four sons. Ariel splits her time between the grocery store and the baseball field. \n  \nAbout the Book\nBased on the true experiences of nurses dubbed “The Angels of Bataan\,” When We Had Wings is about three women who shift in and out of each other’s lives through the darkest days of the war\, buoyed by their unwavering friendship and distant dreams of liberation. \nThe Philippines\, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom\, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin\, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila\, they believe they’re living a paradise assignment. All three are seeking a way to escape their pasts\, but soon the beauty and promise of their surroundings give way to the heavy mantle of war. \nCaught in the crosshairs of a fight between the U.S. military and the Imperial Japanese Army for control of the Philippine Islands\, the nurses are forced to serve under combat conditions and\, ultimately\, endure captivity as the first female prisoners of the Second World War. As their resiliency is tested in the face of squalid living arrangements\, food shortages\, and the enemy’s blatant disregard for the articles of the Geneva Convention\, the women strive to keep their hope— and their fellow inmates—alive\, though not without great cost. \nNot in San Diego or cannot attend the event? No worries\, we are happy to ship books directly to you\, after we get Susan Meissner and Kristina McMorris to sign your copy. Just click on the shipped book option below. \n  \n  \nAbout Starfish Filipino Eatery\n \n\n\nStarfish Filipino Eatery is created to bring the flavors of the Philippine Islands in a modern contemporary flavor profile. Using the freshest ingredients and produce we believe it is the most important part of any cuisine. Although not a typical Filipino eatery that serves all kinds of regional dishes\, Starfish has classic dishes that are served in more traditional style as well. \nThe cuisine is a blend of Asian and Spanish influences. The Philippines was colonized by Spain for 300 years and the cuisine has evolved to include many of Spanish style dishes such as Paella\, Tapas\, Tortas\, etc. Starfish Filipino Eatery is focusing on bringing those bold Spanish/Asian flavors to its menu. \nSpecial dishes are those that are inspired by the owner’s global travels. Spices\, sauces\, seasonings and culinary techniques help bring out the uniqueness of these dishes. You will always find something new on the menu as it is inspired by what the season brings to the markets. \nFor those who love Philippine food and those who are adventurous and want to try different bold flavors and some unique Asian/Spanish dishes\, Starfish Filipino Eatery is the place for you! URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/meissner-mcmorris-10-25-22/ CATEGORIES:Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/meissner-mcmorris-when-we-had-wings-10.25.22-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221024T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221024T203000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20220805T012652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185810Z UID:10000312-1666638000-1666643400@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Olga: an in-person Literary Adventure with New York Times and internationally bestselling German author Bernhard Schlink DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\nPLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: This event is now taking place at the Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Library\, address is 215 W. Washington Street San Diego\, CA 92103.\n\nNew York Times and internationally bestselling German author Bernhard Schlink stormed onto the U.S. literary scene when his book The Reader (1997) was selected as an Oprah pick and made into an Oscar-winning film featuring Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet. Since then\, he has continued to write powerful and disquieting books that raise moral questions about Germany immediately following WWII. \n Now\, together with the Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Library\, we are pleased to invite you for a live and in-person presentation by this renowned German author in one of his few U.S. stops on book tour. Your Adventure includes an afternoon presentation of Bernhard’s powerful new novel\, Olga\, a story of love\, passion\, and history\, Q&A\, book signing\, and the opportunity to meet this internationally bestselling author. \nThis event is free and open to the public. However\, make sure to pre-order your copies (below) of Olga\, The Reader and The Woman on the Stairs for pickup and signing at the event. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nBernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. A professor emeritus of law at Humboldt University\, Berlin\, and Cardozo Law School\, New York\, he is the author of many internationally bestselling novels\, including The Reader\, which became an Oscar-winning film starring Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes\, and The Woman on the Stairs. \nHis latest novel\, Olga\, a story of love\, passion\, and history\, was a #1 international bestseller and follows Olga from late nineteenth-century to modern-day Germany. Orphaned at an early age\, Olga lives with her grandmother in a small Prussian village. Unloved by her grandmother and different from the local children\, Olga grows up a lonely soul\, until she meets Herbert\, the son of a local aristocrat. Olga is quickly drawn to his adventurous spirit. \nWhen Herbert joins the army\, he falls in love with his missions\, and Olga sends him frequent letters to cope with her sense of loneliness\, until one day\, Herbert embarks on a quixotic mission into the Arctic\, and Olga’s loyalty is put to the test. \nBernhard\, a master storyteller\, who arguably may be Germany’s greatest living writer\, seamlessly shifts between different viewpoints and forms and tells the story of a woman who\, like many of her generation\, is forced to live below her capacities\, next to men who live above theirs. Yet Olga manages to cope with the hardships of her era with strength\, dignify\, and courage. And she loves against all odds: passionately\, desperately\, wisely. \n\nAbout the Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Library\nThe Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox Library is a popular destination that connects our diverse community to free educational and cultural resources that will enrich their lives. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/bernhard-schlink-10-24-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/bernhard-schlink-olga-10.24.22-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221022T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221022T170000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20220806T051428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185827Z UID:10000335-1666450800-1666458000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Inside the Author's Studio Adventure (with Pie!) featuring LA Times bestselling author\, writing instructor and baker Amy Wallen DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In-Person Adventure\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 series\, Inside the Author’s Studio\, dedicated to exclusive and intimate private home Adventures with some of your favorite authors. \nLA Times bestselling author and baker Amy Wallen loves providing comfort food and inspiration for aspiring novelists\, and her new book\, How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies\, offers sweet and savory insider secrets on living the writing life… And what better way to learn the tricks of the trade than through an intimate (and delicious!) pie baking Adventure inside the author’s kitchen! \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. \nJoin us at Amy’s private San Diego residence for our live and in-person Inside the Author’s Studio Adventure with Amy Wallen. Your Adventure includes sweet and savory pie tastings\, wine\, an autographed copy of How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies\, tax\, book discussion\, Q&A\, donation to Traveling Stories\, and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal in her 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. \nNOTE: Event is limited to fully vaxxed Adventurers and will be held in the open space of Amy’s back deck\, complete with view! \n  \nRegistration\nTo register for the live event\, simply select the Inside the Author’s Studio Event (10/22/22) option below\, and the address to the private San Diego residence will be provided 3 days prior to the event via email. \n  \nAbout the Author\n \nAmy Wallen is the San Diego-based author of When We Were Ghouls\, A Memoir of Ghost Stories and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Moon Pies & Movie Stars. Her essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review\, The Normal School\, Country Living\, Alta Journal and other national magazines and anthologies. \n Her soon-to-be-released book\, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies is a charming\, illustrated book sharing her journey writing a novel\, some of her teaching experience\, and some recipe-stories on pies\, because it was through pie that she claims she survived novel writing. \nShe was the Associate Director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute in Saratoga Springs\, NY for 7 years. She has taught creative writing classes at UCSD and UCLA Extensions. She co-facilitates a bi-annual manuscript workshop with pie. Amy also mentors science and engineering students on personal essays\, and has helped scores of writers finish their books with her editing services. \nAnd her pie baking. As a kid\, she was a chicken pot pie fanatic. Today she bakes any kind of pie. If you can dream it\, she will bake it. Can she whet your appetite with salmon and portobello pie\, carne asada pie in a cornmeal crust\, and for dessert four-cherry pie or apple ginger pie? Pie\, pie\, pie. \n  \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. URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/amy-wallen-10-22-22/ CATEGORIES:Cooking Adventure,Dinner Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Amy-Wallen-inside-author-studio.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221018T203000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20220507T074520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185819Z UID:10000314-1666119600-1666125000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:The Age-Proof Brain: an Adventure in Better Health with brain scientist Marc Milstein DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nWhat is one simple thing you can do each day to boost your mood and memory and improve sleep and metabolism? Learn the answer to this question and so many more as brain scientist Marc Milstein discusses his new book\, The Age-Proof Brain: New Strategies to Improve Memory\, Protect Immunity\, and Fight Off Dementia. \nYou won’t want to miss this opportunity to meet Marc at the La Jolla/Riford Library\, as he turns cutting-edge medical research into easy-to-follow advice to help you fire on all cylinders—no matter your age. \nWhile this event is free and open to the public\, seating is limited and is expected to sell out. Purchase your copy of The Age-Proof Brain below to reserve your seat\, and your book will be delivered at the event for signing. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nDr. Marc Milstein is a frequent health expert in the media and has explained cutting edge science-based wellness in the Huffington Post\, USA Today and Weight Watchers magazine. Dr. Milstein is also a regular keynote speaker to major corporations such as Nike\, UBS\, Merrill Lynch\, and conferences around the world. \nDr. Milstein earned both his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry and his Bachelor of Science in Molecular\, Cellular\, and Developmental Biology from UCLA. Dr. Milstein has conducted research on topics including genetics\, cancer biology\, neuroscience\, and infectious disease\, and his work has been published in multiple scientific journals. Dr. Milstein utilizes his scientist training to cut through the hype and inaccurate health headlines to give you actionable\, accurate strategies that will energize your audience and provide them a clear road map to a longer\, healthier\, more productive life\, all explained in an easy to understand and entertaining manner. \nIn his book\, The Age-Proof Brain\, learn how to improve your brain health—now and in the future. \nWhile there’s no magic pill that will turn an aging brain into a healthy\, youthful one\, you are far from powerless when it comes to keeping your brain in tip-top shape. By learning how your brain works\, how to keep it working optimally\, and identifying changes you can start making immediately\, you can drastically improve your health—immediately and in the long-term. \nOur power to improve brain function and reduce our risk of illness lies in the brain’s connection with the rest of the body—meaning that various lifestyle factors\, such as sleep habits and environmental toxins\, often have a greater impact on our health than our genes. \nThe Age-Proof Brain offers integrative\, science-supported strategies to:\n• Increase your memory\n• Fight off depression\n• Improve your mood\n• Boost day-to-day productivity\n• Ignite energy\n• Prevent dementia and non-genetic Alzheimer’s \nIn the process\, you’ll also get an entertaining guide to what’s really going on up there\, how our brains are connected to our immune systems\, and the surprising truth about what doctors previously got wrong about Alzheimer’s and dementia. \nBy the end of this book\, not only will you know how to manage your lifestyle for a healthier brain\, but you’ll already be living a happier and more fulfilling life. \n\n\n\nRegistration\nWhile this event is free and open to the public\, seating is limited and is expected to sell out. Purchase your copy of The Age-Proof Brain below to reserve your seat\, and your book will be delivered at the event for signing. \n\n\nAbout the La Jolla/Riford Library\nWith a unique connection to San Diego’s biotech industry\, the La Jolla-Riford Library is believed to be the first in the country to feature a public biotech laboratory. The Bio Lab is part of an innovation space at the library that also includes 3D printers and a 50-person capacity classroom. \nLa Jolla-Riford Library opened in 1989\, thanks to a generous land donation from Ms. Florence Riford. At 25\,000 square feet\, the library features a cozy fireplace\, enclosed outdoor reading patio\, spacious community room with a piano and art gallery\, and the History Room which houses a comprehensive collection of La Jolla historical documents and newspaper archives. \n\n \n  \n\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/marc-milstein-10-18-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/marc-milstein-la-jolla-library-10-18-22-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221008T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221008T153000 DTSTAMP:20260525T210244 CREATED:20220416T225732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185813Z UID:10000296-1665237600-1665243000@adventuresbythebook.com SUMMARY:Cradles of the Reich: a Live and In-Person Carlsbad City Library Adventure with USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nThree women\, a nation seduced by a madman\, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race… You won’t want to miss this opportunity to meet USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn at the Carlsbad City Library\, as she discusses her much-anticipated first historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich.  \nThis event is free and open to the public. Copies of Cradles of the Reich 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\n \nJennifer Coburn is the author of the highly-anticipated historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. \nJennifer has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir\, We’ll Always Have Paris\, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally\, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies\, including A Paris All Your Own. \nWhen Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development\, interview prep\, and all-around tiger mothering. \nGermany 1939. The nation is on the brink of war and Hitler’s plan to create a “master race” of pure-blooded Aryan babies has been launched. The top-secret Lebensborn Nazi breeding program is brought to life in Cradles of the Reich\, the story of three German women who change the course of one another’s lives. \nAt Heim Hochland\, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria\, three women’s fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant university student from Berlin. An Aryan beauty\, she’s secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde\, only eighteen\, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official’s child. And Irma\, a 44-year-old nurse\, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jennifer or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n \n\n\n  \nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. More information is available through the Carlsbad City Library. Tickets below are to purchase a hardcover copy of Cradles of the Reich to be delivered at the event for signing. \n\n\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\nSave URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jennifer-coburn-10-8-22/ CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://adventuresbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/jen-coburn-carlsbad-library-oct-8-2022.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR