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SUMMARY:Cradles of the Reich: a Southwestern Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nThe esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club in the beautiful Point Loma residential area within the Shelter Island Yacht Basin is the ideal launch site for USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn to discuss her first work of historical fiction\, Cradles of the Reich.  \nJoin us for lunch as Jennifer brings to life the top-secret Lebensborn Nazi breeding program in 1939 Germany. Three women\, a nation seduced by a madman\, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race has been launched. How will these women change the course of one another’s lives? \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Cradles of the Reich to be delivered and signed at the event\, lunch\, beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and the opportunity to meet Jennifer live and in-person. Or why not bring your book club or book loving friends. Purchase a table of 8 and you will receive priority seating at the event as well! \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\nAbout Southwestern Yacht Club\n\nSouthwestern Yacht Club is one of the largest\, oldest\, and most prestigious yacht clubs in San Diego\, California. SWYC was formed in 1925 by visionary yachting enthusiasts looking for ways to enjoy each other’s company and to share their passion for boating. Since then\, the Club has developed into a full-service operation with more than 800 members embracing all forms of yachting\, fishing\, and social activities\, all while earning a reputation as being the friendliest club in the area. \n \n\nSave
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SUMMARY:Cradles of the Reich Book Launch Adventure featuring USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn
DESCRIPTION:PRE-ORDER YOUR BOOK IN TIME FOR THE LAUNCH!\n  \nThree women…\na nation seduced by a madman…\nand the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race\nWe are so excited about Jennifer Coburn’s new historical novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, that we are committed to pre-selling 1\,000 copies of her book by her official book launch date on October 6\, 2022. Won’t you help us reach that goal by pre-ordering a copy below (receive a 10% discount if you order before the end of March\, 2022). We will either deliver your copy to be signed at Jennifer’s FREE book launch event in Coronado\, California\, or we will ship your copy to you with an official signed copy (not a bookplate) to arrive on or before the date of publication. \n  \nAbout the FREE In-Person Book Launch\n  \n\nDid you know that thousands of “racially fit” babies were bred and taken from their mothers to be raised as part of the new Germany? Come join us at Jennifer Coburn’s launch party to learn more about her new novel\, Cradles of the Reich\, based on untold historical events. As she brings us intimately inside the Lebensborn Society maternity homes that actually existed in several countries during World War II\, you will be inspired by the connections women forge that can carry us through\, even driving us to heroism we didn’t know we had within us. \nYour FREE Cradles of the Reich Book Launch Adventure includes a book discussion\, Q&A\, author signing\, and an opportunity to meet and celebrate with USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Coburn as she launches her first work of historical fiction. \nBooks are available for pre-order (below) to be shipped upon publication or delivered at the event for signing\, or you may purchase your book to be signed at the event. \n \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\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. \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 
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jen-coburn-launch/
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SUMMARY:Fall Into Reading (Part 6): a 6-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s never too early to start planning your autumn book selections\, so why not fall into reading now by joining our 6-part Fireside Chat Fall Series featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul to discover six fun new reads! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun six-part series. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Fall Series Schedule\nPART 6 featuring featuring Ellen Meeropol: Thursday\, September 22\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n\n \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novel The Lost Women of Azalea Court (September 2022) and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World (November 2022). Her previous novels are Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize\, The Women’s National Book Association\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.. \nIn her new book\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, hidden histories haunt both the landscape and the characters… \nThe neighbors of Azalea Court\, Lexi\, Harriet\, and Detective McPhee narrate this story together\, uncovering ghosts\, secrets\, and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Ellen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fall-into-reading-part-6-a-6-part-virtual-fireside-adventure-featuring-bestselling-and-fan-favorite-authors-sara-ackerman-jamie-beck-carol-van-den-hende-madeline-martin-ellen-meeropol-and-gill/
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SUMMARY:Happier Hour: an in-person Happy Hour Adventure with award-winning educator and researcher Dr. Cassie Mogilner Holmes
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\n\nOur most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. \nJoin award-winning educator and researcher Dr. Cassie Mogilner Holmes\, as she demonstrates how small changes in your life can have enormous impact by helping you feel less overwhelmed\, more present\, and more satisfied with your life overall. \nIn  her new book\, Happier Hour\, based on her wildly popular class at UCLA\, Cassie relies on her upbeat narrative and ground-breaking research to guide us in how to immediately improve our lives by better investing our time. And it all starts with a happier hour\, one that we are delighted to offer you at our lively Café Coyote Happier Hour Adventure! \nIf you want to enjoy happier hours in your life\, join us in Old Town for this special happy hour Adventure that includes delicious Mexican happy hour appetizers\, chips and salsa\, a Happier Hour margarita (or soft beverage)\, tax\, gratuity\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the opportunity to engage in meaningful and intimate conversation with Cassie as she discusses her new book. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nCassie Mogilner Holmes is a Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Her research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness\, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one’s lifetime\, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Across these inquiries\, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment. \nCassie’s academic research on the role of time in cultivating well-being has been published in leading academic journals\, including Psychological Science\, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology\, and the Journal of Consumer Research\, and earned her the Early Career Award from both the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. \nCassie was identified by Poets & Quants as one of the best 40 business professors under 40\, and popular accounts of her research have been featured on NPR and in such publications as The Economist\, The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Financial Times\, and Scientific American. \nProfessor Cassie Holmes is the author of the upcoming book\, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction\, Expand Your Time\, and Focus on What Matters Most\, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course\, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.” \nHappier Hour provides empirically-based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to: \n– Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices\n– Sidestep distractions\n– Create and savor moments of joy\n– Design your schedule with purpose\n– Look back on your years without regrets \nEnlivened by Holmes’s upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research\, Happier Hour teaches you how small changes can have an enormous impact\, helping you feel less overwhelmed\, more present\, and more satisfied with your life overall. It all starts by transforming just one hour into a happier hour. \n  \nAbout Café Coyote\n\n\nFor over 30 years Café Coyote has remained one of San Diego’s Landmark Restaurants located in the Heart of Old Town San Diego’s Historic Walking District. A friendly staff\, loyal patrons\, delicious Mexican Food\, and a Festive Atmosphere have contributed to Café Coyote’s being Voted Best Mexican Restaurant 18 Years In A Row!
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SUMMARY:Book Bingo (Fall Into Reading): a Virtual Adventure featuring NYT and bestselling authors Jeffrey Blount\, Denise Heinze\, Robert Kerbeck\, Kerry Anne King\, Gill Paul and Joe Stillman
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nWe are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (Fall Into Reading): 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! \nAs the trees change color and autumn comes our way\, we hope you’ll fall into reading with us by playing book bingo with six book club favorite authors: Jeffrey Blount\, Denise Heinze\, Robert Kerbeck\, Kerry Anne King\, Gill Paul and Joe Stillman. 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 \nJeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of three novels — Almost Snow White\, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards. Hating Heidi Foster\, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature. The Emancipation of Evan Walls\, winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Award for African American fiction\, winner of the 2019 Readers Favorite Book Award\, winner of the 2019 American Bookfest Best Book Award\, and a Shelf Unbound 2019 Notable Book. \nHe is also an Emmy award-winning television director and a 2016 inductee to the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. During a 34-year career at NBC News\, Jeffrey directed a decade of Meet The Press\, The Today Show\, NBC Nightly News\, and major special events. \nIn his book\, The Emancipation of Evan Walls\, Evan Walls has been married to his wife Izzy for years\, yet she knows nothing about half of his life. That part of him he put away long ago and they have lived peacefully alongside the dead spot it has left in their love. However\, the birth of their first child changes everything. Evan\, fearful of a reincarnation of his childhood in the life of his new daughter\, finally finds the courage to tell his wife. Desperate\, he hopes that she can help him protect their child. \nIt is June 1968. The Civil Rights movement is winding down after the death of Martin Luther King\, Jr. Negroes in the town of Canaan\, Virginia has been used to acting the same\, thinking the same and sharing in the unadulterated hatred of a common enemy. Evan is ten years old and\, in the jargon of the times\, young\, gifted and black. In the presence of his parents and a summer porch gathering of their friends\, he makes a startling declaration. From that moment on\, the central question of his life is born. Is he black enough? \nEvan has a dream that will turn the sleepy town of Canaan upside down\, forcing him to walk the slippery and angry slope between blacks and whites. In time\, his dream disintegrates a family\, a marriage\, countless friendships and a dramatic first love. Only his great-grandmother\, Mama Jennie and mentor\, Bojack\, help him fight to keep his dream alive. And only Izzy can help him come to grips with what he learns from telling his traumatic life story. \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 \nDenise Heinze is an award-winning author who has published scholarly work\, essays\, memoirs\, poetry\, and fiction. Her debut novel\, Sally St. Johns\, is a “wickedly funny” eco-thriller that dramatizes the deadly seriousness of global warming. \nHer debut historical fiction\, The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew\, was a finalist in the University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab Prize. A descendant of Louisa May Alcott\, she lives in North Carolina. \nA transporting and evocative story\, The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew is a fiercely hopeful novel — a portrait of two intrepid women who choose to live out their dreams of a future more free than the past. \nDetermined to set the historical record straight\, and clear her conscience\, Temperance Flowerdew — the wife of Virginia’s first two governors — puts quill to paper\, recounting the hardships that nearly brought the Jamestown colony to its knees\, and the extraordinary sacrifice of her servant girl\, Lily. \nWhen she steps aboard the Falcon in 1609\, Temperance Flowerdew is not only setting sail from England to the distant shores of America\, she’s embarking upon a future of opportunity. She doesn’t yet know how she will make her mark\, but in this new place she can do or be whatever she wants. \nWilling as she is to brave this new world\, Temperance is utterly ill-equipped to survive the wilderness; all she knows is how to live inside the pages of adventure and philosophy books. Loyally at her side\, Lily helps Temperance weather pioneer life. A young woman running from lifelong accusations of witchcraft\, Lily finds friendship with Temperance and an acceptance of her psychic gifts. Together\, they forge paths within the community: Temperance attempts to advise the makeshift government\, while Lily experiences the blossoming of first love. \nBut as the harsh winter approaches\, Lily intuitively senses a darkness creep over the colony and the veneer of civilized life threatens to fall away — negotiations with the Indians grow increasingly hostile and provisions become scarce. Lily struggles to keep food on the table by foraging in the woods and being resourceful. Famine could mean the end of days. It’s up to Lily to save them both\, but what sacrifice will be enough to survive? \nTo schedule a book club visit with Denise or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\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.\n\nRobert’s essays and short stories have been featured in numerous magazines and literary journals. One story was adapted into the award-winning film\, Reconnected. A lifetime member of The Actors Studio\, Robert has worked extensively in theater\, film\, and television\, appearing in lead roles in major shows and earning several awards. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania\, he resides in Malibu.\n\nHis 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. In the world of high finance\, multibillion-dollar Wall Street banks greedily guard their secrets. Enter Robert Kerbeck\, a working actor who made his real money lying on the phone\, charming people into revealing their employers’ most valuable information. In this exhilarating memoir that will appeal to fans of The Wolf of Wall Street and Catch Me If You Can\, unsuspecting receptionists\, assistants\, and bigshot executives all fall victim to “the Ruse.” \nAfter college\, Kerbeck rushed to New York to try to make it as an actor. But to support himself\, he’d need a survival job\, and before he knew it\, while his pals were waiting tables\, he began his apprenticeship as a corporate spy. \nAs his acting career started to take off\, he found himself hobnobbing with Hollywood luminaries: drinking with Paul Newman\, taking J.Lo to a Dodgers game\, touring E.R. sets with George Clooney. He even worked with O.J. Simpson the week before he became America’s most notorious double murderer. \nBefore long\, however\, his once promising acting career slowed while the corporate espionage business took off. The ruse job was supposed to have been temporary\, but Kerbeck became one of the world’s best practitioners of this deceptive—and illegal—trade. His income jumped from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Robert or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nKerry Anne King (who also writes as Kerry Schafer) is a Washington Post and Amazon charts bestselling author who writes compelling and transformational stories about family and personal growth with elements of mystery\, humor\, and an undercurrent of romance. Often\, you’ll also find a touch of magic. \nWhen not absorbed in her creative pursuits\, you’ll find Kerry hanging out with her Viking and an assortment of animals on their little piece of heaven in rural northeastern Washington. She loves interacting with readers and is happy to make herself available for virtual book club meetings. \nIn Kerry Anne’s novel\, Improbably Yours\, an unusual inheritance leads to a life-changing journey of romance\, secrets\, and the treasure of found family. \nBlythe Harmon is on the fast track to a life she never wanted. On her thirtieth birthday\, just as she’s about to lock herself into a high-powered job and accept a marriage proposal to match\, an unusual bequest from her beloved late grandmother\, Nomi\, offers an escape and an invitation to adventure. \nEquipped with Nomi’s urn of ashes and a treasure map\, Blythe sets off for a small island in the San Juans where she rents the mysterious and unsettling Improbable House. Secret by secret\, clue by cryptic clue\, she begins to unravel the puzzle her grandmother has left her to piece together. Her quest is complicated\, though\, by a powerful attraction to an enigmatic islander and empathy for his orphaned niece\, both of whom are inexorably tied to the old house. \nJust when Blythe thinks she’s on the verge of solving the mystery\, her quest takes an unexpected turn\, and she discovers that the treasure she’s really seeking is something that could never be buried in the ground. While she’s on the treasure hunt of a lifetime\, the past and the future are coming together in this magical novel. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kerry Anne or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nGill Paul’s historical novels have reached the top of the USA Today\, Toronto Globe & Mail and UK kindle charts\, and been translated into twenty languages. She specializes in relatively recent history\, mostly 20th century\, and enjoys re-evaluating real historical characters and trying to get inside their heads. \nGill also writes historical non-fiction\, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world\, this series includes Royal Love Stories\, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories. \nIn her book\, The Manhattan Girls: A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends\, it’s New York City 1921: The war is over\, fashions are daring\, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. \nDorothy Parker: renowned wit\, member of the Algonquin Round Table\, and more fragile than she seems. Jane Grant: first female reporter for the New York Times\, and determined to launch a new magazine she calls The New Yorker. Winifred Lenihan: beautiful and talented Broadway actress\, a casting-couch target. And Peggy Leach: magazine assistant by day\, brilliant novelist by night. \nTheir romances flourish and falter while their goals sometimes seem impossible to reach and their friendship deepens against the backdrop of turbulent New York City\, where new speakeasies open and close\, jazz music flows through the air\, and bathtub gin fills their glasses. \nThey gossip\, they comfort each other\, and they offer support through the setbacks.  But their biggest challenge is keeping their dear friend Dottie safe from herself. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Gill or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \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”. \nMore recently he worked on Nickelodeon’s “Sanjay And Craig” and “Kirby Buckets” for Disney. Other TV credits include “Albert” for Nickelodeon\, “The War Next Door” for the USA Network\, “Clueless”\, “Doug” and “Danger And Eggs” for Amazon. Joe is currently working on a “Curious George” feature for streaming on Peacock. \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. \nAlong comes the new grill cook at Maybell’s Diner\, Bill Bill\, a mysterious drifter with the ability to mind-read orders. As word spreads in Hadley and beyond\, the curious and desperate pour into this small desert town to eat at Maybell’s. \nSome believe Bill knows the secrets of the universe. \nBelutha figures he’s probably nuts. But his cooking starts to transform the lives of locals and visitors\, and Belutha finds her angry heart opening\, as Bill begins to show her the porous boundary between this life and what comes after. \nIn a normal American town\, something new and strange\, and yet achingly familiar\, begins to unfold. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Joe or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or 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 Jeffrey Blount\, Denise Heinze\, Robert Kerbeck\, Kerry Anne King\, Gill Paul and Joe Stillman 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 Jeffrey Blount\, Denise Heinze\, Robert Kerbeck\, Kerry Anne King\, Gill Paul\, Joe Stillman or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/book-bingo-fall-into-reading-9-14-22/
CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Fireside 101: a Free Tutorial
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\nCurious about all the events we have been hosting on the exciting new virtual platform Fireside? It’s time for you to join the fun! \nJoin the folks at Fireside\, and our Adventures by the Book team on a FREE Zoom session to help you get familiar with Fireside! Join our Fireside 101 FREE Tutorial and we’ll show you how to simply download the app\, and demonstrate all the fun and creative features of this sizzling hot platform.  \nEvent includes fun book giveaways… you won’t want to miss it!  \n\nClick HERE to register now!\n\n\n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside 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 \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fireside-tutorial-9-13-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:The Ways We Hide: an in-person Sunday Brunch Adventure with New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristina McMorris
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\n\nFrom Kristina McMorris\, the New York Times bestselling author of Sold On A Monday―over a million copies sold!―comes a new sweeping World War II tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her on a perilous\, heartrending path. \nDon’t miss this opportunity to meet Kristina in person while enjoying a decadent brunch at Parc Bistro as she discusses her new book\, The Ways We Hide! \nYour Adventure includes a delicious brunch\, French pastries\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the opportunity to engage in meaningful and intimate conversation with Kristina as she discusses her new book. \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\, 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. \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 Parc Bistro\n\n\nPull up a well-loved bistro chair to a table topped with white linen and crisp butcher paper. Listen to the crackle of a fresh baguette being torn apart. Take in the aroma of our Award-Winning Cuisine. Sit back\, relax and enjoy your event with family\, friends\, clients\, or coworkers. Let Parc Bistro handle the details. \nParc Bistro’s passion is to serve. Their mission is to provide the highest level of service\, warmest hospitality\, and creative cuisine available. Their commitment to gracious and informed hospitality combined with the comfort and beauty of their restaurant draws repeat guests year after year. \nParc Bistro focuses on simple\, fresh ingredients and items that are made from scratch daily and they take pride in their commitment to excellence.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kristina-mcmorris-9-11-22/
CATEGORIES:Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Fall Into Reading (Part 5): a 6-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s never too early to start planning your autumn book selections\, so why not fall into reading now by joining our 6-part Fireside Chat Fall Series featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul to discover six fun new reads! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun six-part series. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Fall Series Schedule\nPART 5 featuring Carol Van Den Hende: Thursday\, September 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 6 featuring featuring Ellen Meeropol: Thursday\, September 22\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n \nCarol Van Den Hende is the award-winning author of Goodbye\, Orchid which won the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonflys\, received honorable mention in NY Book Festival and finalist in the Best Book Awards. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to marketing and strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!). \nHer novel\, Orchid Blooming\, is the captivating first book in the Goodbye\, Orchid contemporary fiction series. \nKind and generous\, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident\, the beauty industry marketer yearns to win a promotion to China to connect to her mom’s ancestry. But with competition fierce\, she despairs she’ll never make the grade… until she meets an encouraging man who makes her feel safe despite her usual distrust. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Carol or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novel The Lost Women of Azalea Court (September 2022) and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World (November 2022). Her previous novels are Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize\, The Women’s National Book Association\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.. \nIn her new book\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, hidden histories haunt both the landscape and the characters… \nThe neighbors of Azalea Court\, Lexi\, Harriet\, and Detective McPhee narrate this story together\, uncovering ghosts\, secrets\, and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Ellen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
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SUMMARY:Happier Hour: a Virtual Fireside Adventure with award-winning educator and researcher Dr. Cassie Mogilner Holmes
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nOur most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. \nJoin award-winning educator and researcher Dr. Cassie Mogilner Holmes on Fireside as she discusses her new book\, Happier Hour\, where you will learn how to immediately improve your life by better investing your time. \nAnd it all starts with a happier hour! So\, be sure to grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa before you curl up in your favorite chair to chat live with Cassie to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Cassie. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Happier Hour\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Cassie\, and Q&A. \n  \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nCassie Mogilner Holmes is a Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Cassie is an expert on time and happiness. Her research examines such questions as how focusing on time (rather than money) increases happiness\, how the meaning of happiness changes over the course of one’s lifetime\, and how much happiness people enjoy from extraordinary versus ordinary experiences. Across these inquiries\, her findings highlight the joy that stems from interpersonal connection and paying attention to the present moment. \nCassie’s academic research on the role of time in cultivating well-being has been published in leading academic journals\, including Psychological Science\, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology\, and the Journal of Consumer Research\, and earned her the Early Career Award from both the Association of Consumer Research and the Society of Consumer Psychology. \nCassie was identified by Poets & Quants as one of the best 40 business professors under 40\, and popular accounts of her research have been featured on NPR and in such publications as The Economist\, The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, the Financial Times\, and Scientific American. \nProfessor Cassie Holmes is the author of the upcoming book\, Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction\, Expand Your Time\, and Focus on What Matters Most\, which is based on her wildly popular MBA course\, “Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design.” \nHappier Hour provides empirically-based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to: \n– Optimally spend your hours and feel confident in those choices\n– Sidestep distractions\n– Create and savor moments of joy\n– Design your schedule with purpose\n– Look back on your years without regrets \nEnlivened by Holmes’s upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research\, Happier Hour teaches you how small changes can have an enormous impact\, helping you feel less overwhelmed\, more present\, and more satisfied with your life overall. It all starts by transforming just one hour into a happier hour. \n\n  \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform founded by billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai. This innovative\, technological format allows YOU to actively participate in live discussions\, debates and meaningful conversations.  \nAdventures by the Book\, as one of many content creators\, hosts a literary series that includes regular book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. Chat live now!  \n \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/dr-cassie-mogilner-holmes-9-7-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Fall Into Reading (Part 4): a 6-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s never too early to start planning your autumn book selections\, so why not fall into reading now by joining our 6-part Fireside Chat Fall Series featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul to discover six fun new reads! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun six-part series. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Fall Series Schedule\nPART 4 featuring Gill Paul: Thursday\, September 1\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Carol Van Den Hende: Thursday\, September 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 6 featuring featuring Ellen Meeropol: Thursday\, September 22\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n \nGill Paul’s historical novels have reached the top of the USA Today\, Toronto Globe & Mail and UK kindle charts\, and been translated into twenty languages. She specializes in relatively recent history\, mostly 20th century\, and enjoys re-evaluating real historical characters and trying to get inside their heads. \nGill also writes historical non-fiction\, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world\, this series includes Royal Love Stories\, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories. \nIn her book\, The Manhattan Girls: A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends\, it’s New York City 1921: The war is over\, fashions are daring\, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here\, four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Gill or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nCarol Van Den Hende is the award-winning author of Goodbye\, Orchid which won the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonflys\, received honorable mention in NY Book Festival and finalist in the Best Book Awards. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to marketing and strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!). \nHer novel\, Orchid Blooming\, is the captivating first book in the Goodbye\, Orchid contemporary fiction series. \nKind and generous\, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident\, the beauty industry marketer yearns to win a promotion to China to connect to her mom’s ancestry. But with competition fierce\, she despairs she’ll never make the grade… until she meets an encouraging man who makes her feel safe despite her usual distrust. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Carol or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novel The Lost Women of Azalea Court (September 2022) and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World (November 2022). Her previous novels are Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize\, The Women’s National Book Association\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.. \nIn her new book\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, hidden histories haunt both the landscape and the characters… \nThe neighbors of Azalea Court\, Lexi\, Harriet\, and Detective McPhee narrate this story together\, uncovering ghosts\, secrets\, and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Ellen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fall-into-reading-part-4-a-6-part-virtual-fireside-adventure-featuring-bestselling-and-fan-favorite-authors-sara-ackerman-jamie-beck-carol-van-den-hende-madeline-martin-ellen-meeropol-and-gill/
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SUMMARY:Fall Into Reading (Part 3): a 6-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s never too early to start planning your autumn book selections\, so why not fall into reading now by joining our 6-part Fireside Chat Fall Series featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul to discover six fun new reads! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun six-part series. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Fall Series Schedule\nPART 3 featuring Jamie Beck: Thursday\, August 25\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nPART 4 featuring Gill Paul: Thursday\, September 1\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Carol Van Den Hende: Thursday\, September 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 6 featuring featuring Ellen Meeropol: Thursday\, September 22\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n\n \nWall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Beck’s realistic and heartwarming stories have sold more than three million copies. She is a two-time Booksellers’ Best Award finalist\, a National Readers’ Choice Award winner\, and critics at Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Booklist have respectively called her work “smart\,” “poignant\,” and “entertaining.” \nIn addition to writing novels\, she enjoys dancing around the kitchen while cooking and hitting the slopes in Vermont and Utah. Above all\, she is a grateful wife and mother to a very patient\, supportive family. \nHer book\, Take It From Me\, is a humorous and heartwarming novel about friendship and all its little secrets. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jamie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \n  \n \nGill Paul’s historical novels have reached the top of the USA Today\, Toronto Globe & Mail and UK kindle charts\, and been translated into twenty languages. She specializes in relatively recent history\, mostly 20th century\, and enjoys re-evaluating real historical characters and trying to get inside their heads. \nGill also writes historical non-fiction\, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world\, this series includes Royal Love Stories\, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories. \nIn her book\, The Manhattan Girls: A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends\, it’s New York City 1921: The war is over\, fashions are daring\, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here\, four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Gill or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nCarol Van Den Hende is the award-winning author of Goodbye\, Orchid which won the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonflys\, received honorable mention in NY Book Festival and finalist in the Best Book Awards. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to marketing and strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!). \nHer novel\, Orchid Blooming\, is the captivating first book in the Goodbye\, Orchid contemporary fiction series. \nKind and generous\, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident\, the beauty industry marketer yearns to win a promotion to China to connect to her mom’s ancestry. But with competition fierce\, she despairs she’ll never make the grade… until she meets an encouraging man who makes her feel safe despite her usual distrust. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Carol or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novel The Lost Women of Azalea Court (September 2022) and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World (November 2022). Her previous novels are Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize\, The Women’s National Book Association\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.. \nIn her new book\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, hidden histories haunt both the landscape and the characters… \nThe neighbors of Azalea Court\, Lexi\, Harriet\, and Detective McPhee narrate this story together\, uncovering ghosts\, secrets\, and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Ellen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
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SUMMARY:Fall Into Reading (Part 2): a 6-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s never too early to start planning your autumn book selections\, so why not fall into reading now by joining our 6-part Fireside Chat Fall Series featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul to discover six fun new reads! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun six-part series. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Fall Series Schedule\nPART 2 featuring Madeline Martin: Thursday\, August 11\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 3 featuring Jamie Beck: Thursday\, August 25\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nPART 4 featuring Gill Paul: Thursday\, September 1\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Carol Van Den Hende: Thursday\, September 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 6 featuring featuring Ellen Meeropol: Thursday\, September 22\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n\n\n \nMadeline Martin is a New York Times and international bestselling author of historical fiction and historical romance. \nShe lives in sunny Florida with her two daughters (known collectively as the minions)\, one incredibly spoiled cat and a man so wonderful he’s been dubbed Mr. Awesome. She is a die-hard history lover who will happily lose herself in research any day. When she’s not writing\, researching or ‘moming’\, you can find her spending time with her family at Disney or sneaking a couple spoonfuls of Nutella while laughing over cat videos. She also loves to travel\, attributing her fascination with history to having spent most of her childhood as an Army brat in Germany. \nHer moving novel\, The Last Bookshop in London\, was inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II. The Librarian Spy is an inspiring novel that highlights the women who dared to resist in the face of adversity. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Madeline or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \n  \n\n \nWall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Beck’s realistic and heartwarming stories have sold more than three million copies. She is a two-time Booksellers’ Best Award finalist\, a National Readers’ Choice Award winner\, and critics at Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Booklist have respectively called her work “smart\,” “poignant\,” and “entertaining.” \nIn addition to writing novels\, she enjoys dancing around the kitchen while cooking and hitting the slopes in Vermont and Utah. Above all\, she is a grateful wife and mother to a very patient\, supportive family. \nHer book\, Take It From Me\, is a humorous and heartwarming novel about friendship and all its little secrets. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jamie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \n  \n \nGill Paul’s historical novels have reached the top of the USA Today\, Toronto Globe & Mail and UK kindle charts\, and been translated into twenty languages. She specializes in relatively recent history\, mostly 20th century\, and enjoys re-evaluating real historical characters and trying to get inside their heads. \nGill also writes historical non-fiction\, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world\, this series includes Royal Love Stories\, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories. \nIn her book\, The Manhattan Girls: A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends\, it’s New York City 1921: The war is over\, fashions are daring\, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here\, four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Gill or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nCarol Van Den Hende is the award-winning author of Goodbye\, Orchid which won the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonflys\, received honorable mention in NY Book Festival and finalist in the Best Book Awards. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to marketing and strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!). \nHer novel\, Orchid Blooming\, is the captivating first book in the Goodbye\, Orchid contemporary fiction series. \nKind and generous\, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident\, the beauty industry marketer yearns to win a promotion to China to connect to her mom’s ancestry. But with competition fierce\, she despairs she’ll never make the grade… until she meets an encouraging man who makes her feel safe despite her usual distrust. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Carol or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novel The Lost Women of Azalea Court (September 2022) and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World (November 2022). Her previous novels are Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize\, The Women’s National Book Association\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.. \nIn her new book\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, hidden histories haunt both the landscape and the characters… \nThe neighbors of Azalea Court\, Lexi\, Harriet\, and Detective McPhee narrate this story together\, uncovering ghosts\, secrets\, and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Ellen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/fall-into-reading-part-2-a-6-part-virtual-fireside-adventure-featuring-bestselling-and-fan-favorite-authors-sara-ackerman-jamie-beck-carol-van-den-hende-madeline-martin-ellen-meeropol-and-gill/
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SUMMARY:Tales of Al the Water Rescue Dog: a Live and In-Person Carlsbad Library Adventure with NYT bestselling author and renowned long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nMeet AL; the ungainly\, unruly\, irresistible Newfoundland puppy who grows up to become a daring rescue dog and super athlete—part of Italy’s elite\, highly specialized corps of water rescue dogs who swoop out of helicopters and save lives. \nMeeting Al is possible courtesy of New York Times bestselling author and long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox\, as he is affectionately and intimately introduced in her heartfelt book\, Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog. Join us in the Schulman Auditorium at the Carlsbad City Library\, for this free in-person event to learn more about Al from Lynne.  \nThis event is free and open to the public. Hardcover copies of Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog 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 \nLynne Cox is an American long-distance open-water swimmer\, motivational speaker\, and author. Over the course of more than 35 years\, spanning a period equal to 8 Olympic Games\, Lynne accomplished swims setting world records and opening borders\, contributed to medical research\, supported environmental causes\, and inspired people to overcome great obstacles. \nShe is best known for her swim across the Bering Strait from the United States to the Soviet Union on 7 August 1987. She twice held the overall record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel from England to France and has completed over 60 challenging swims around the world. \nWhen Lynne saw a video of a Newfoundland dog leaping from an airborne helicopter into Italian waters to save someone from drowning\, she was transfixed by the rescue\, and captivated by the magnificence\, physicality\, and daring of the dog. \nTales of Al is the moving\, inspiring story of Lynne’s adventures on Italy’s picturesque Lake Idroscalo\, as witness to the rigorous training of one of these spectacular dogs at SICS\, the famed school that has taught hundreds of dog owners how to train their dogs—Newfoundlands\, German shepherds\, and golden retrievers—for this rescue operation. Lynne writes about coming to know the dog at the book’s center\, Al herself\, from puppyhood\, an adorable but untrainable chocolate Newfoundland—about the dreams\, expectations\, disappointments\, and vision of her trainer and about realizing the dog’s full potential; striving with all of her canine might to become an expertly trained\, highly specialized water rescue dog. \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 Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog 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
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SUMMARY:Fall Into Reading (Part 1): a 6-part virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s never too early to start planning your autumn book selections\, so why not fall into reading now by joining our 6-part Fireside Chat Fall Series featuring bestselling and fan favorite authors Sara Ackerman\, Jamie Beck\, Carol Van Den Hende\, Madeline Martin\, Ellen Meeropol\, and Gill Paul to discover six fun new reads! \nEach week\, Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth will chat live with a different author to discuss their new book on the innovative interactive storytelling platform\, Fireside\, that allows you to join the conversation live. Pre-order a book below for shipping to you and then tune in to Fireside for this fun six-part series. \nTo join all (or part) of this series on Fireside\, simply pre-order a book below to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with the authors. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast HERE. \n\nUpcoming Fall Series Schedule\nPART 1 featuring Sara Ackerman: Thursday\, August 4\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 2 featuring Madeline Martin: Thursday\, August 11\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 3 featuring Jamie Beck: Thursday\, August 25\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nPART 4 featuring Gill Paul: Thursday\, September 1\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 5 featuring Carol Van Den Hende: Thursday\, September 8\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nPART 6 featuring featuring Ellen Meeropol: Thursday\, September 22\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n  \n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nSara Ackerman is a USA Today bestselling author who writes books about love and life\, and all of their messy and beautiful imperfections. She believes that the light is just as important as the dark\, and that the world is in need of uplifting and heartwarming stories. Born and raised in Hawaii\, she studied journalism and later earned graduate degrees in psychology and Chinese medicine. She blames Hawaii for her addiction to writing\, and sees no end to its untapped stories.  \n\n\nIn her new book\, The Codebreaker’s Secret\, Sara delivers with a riveting novel of WWII-era Hawaii about a plucky heroine\, a decades-old mystery\, and a stirring romance.  \nA brilliant female codebreaker. An “unbreakable” Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. The Codebreaker’s Secret is a dazzling story of love and intrigue set during America’s darkest hour. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Sara or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \n  \n\n \nMadeline Martin is a New York Times and international bestselling author of historical fiction and historical romance. \nShe lives in sunny Florida with her two daughters (known collectively as the minions)\, one incredibly spoiled cat and a man so wonderful he’s been dubbed Mr. Awesome. She is a die-hard history lover who will happily lose herself in research any day. When she’s not writing\, researching or ‘moming’\, you can find her spending time with her family at Disney or sneaking a couple spoonfuls of Nutella while laughing over cat videos. She also loves to travel\, attributing her fascination with history to having spent most of her childhood as an Army brat in Germany. \nHer moving novel\, The Last Bookshop in London\, was inspired by the true history of America’s library spies of World War II. The Librarian Spy is an inspiring novel that highlights the women who dared to resist in the face of adversity. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Madeline or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \n  \n\n \nWall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Beck’s realistic and heartwarming stories have sold more than three million copies. She is a two-time Booksellers’ Best Award finalist\, a National Readers’ Choice Award winner\, and critics at Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Booklist have respectively called her work “smart\,” “poignant\,” and “entertaining.” \nIn addition to writing novels\, she enjoys dancing around the kitchen while cooking and hitting the slopes in Vermont and Utah. Above all\, she is a grateful wife and mother to a very patient\, supportive family. \nHer book\, Take It From Me\, is a humorous and heartwarming novel about friendship and all its little secrets. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jamie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n  \n  \n\n \n\nGill Paul’s historical novels have reached the top of the USA Today\, Toronto Globe & Mail and UK kindle charts\, and been translated into twenty languages. She specializes in relatively recent history\, mostly 20th century\, and enjoys re-evaluating real historical characters and trying to get inside their heads. \nGill also writes historical non-fiction\, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world\, this series includes Royal Love Stories\, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories. \nIn her book\, The Manhattan Girls: A Novel of Dorothy Parker and Her Friends\, it’s New York City 1921: The war is over\, fashions are daring\, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here\, four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Gill or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nCarol Van Den Hende is the award-winning author of Goodbye\, Orchid which won the American Fiction Award\, Pinnacle Achievement Award\, IAN for Best First Novel\, two Royal Dragonflys\, received honorable mention in NY Book Festival and finalist in the Best Book Awards. When she’s not penning stories of resilience and hope\, Carol applies her MBA to marketing and strategy (in chocolate\, sweet!). \nHer novel\, Orchid Blooming\, is the captivating first book in the Goodbye\, Orchid contemporary fiction series. \nKind and generous\, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident\, the beauty industry marketer yearns to win a promotion to China to connect to her mom’s ancestry. But with competition fierce\, she despairs she’ll never make the grade… until she meets an encouraging man who makes her feel safe despite her usual distrust. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Carol or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n \nEllen Meeropol is the author of the novel The Lost Women of Azalea Court (September 2022) and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World (November 2022). Her previous novels are Her Sister’s Tattoo\, Kinship of Clover\, On Hurricane Island\, and House Arrest. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize\, The Women’s National Book Association\, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.. \nIn her new book\, The Lost Women of Azalea Court\, hidden histories haunt both the landscape and the characters… \nThe neighbors of Azalea Court\, Lexi\, Harriet\, and Detective McPhee narrate this story together\, uncovering ghosts\, secrets\, and lies. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Ellen or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
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CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Any Other Family: a Family Style Dinner Adventure with NYT bestselling author Eleanor Brown
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\n\nWhat makes a family? New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Brown dares to answer just that with her striking and intimate new novel\, Any Other Family.  And what better way to discuss a family-themed book than with a family-style dinner with the author\, in the fun and eclectic Buca di Beppo restaurant. \nYour Adventure includes an authentic Italian dinner at the Carlsbad Buca di Beppo Restaurant that includes salad\, entrée\, bread\, dessert\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the opportunity to engage in meaningful and intimate conversation with Eleanor. Pre-order your hardcover copy of Any Other Family along with your dinner registration and receive at a special discount. \n*Special dietary requests are available upon request with seven days’ notice. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nEleanor Brown is the New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of Paris. Her writing has been hailed by People magazine as “delightful” and “creative and original” by Library Journal. \nIn addition to her fiction writing\, Eleanor edited the anthology A Paris All Your Own. Her book reviews\, interviews\, and essays have been featured in publications including The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, and Publishers Weekly. Born and raised in the Washington\, D.C. area\, Eleanor lives with her family in Colorado. \nHer new novel\, Any Other Family\, is about about three very different women facing an impossible question: What makes a family? \nThough they look like any other family\, they aren’t one—not quite. They are three sets of parents who find themselves intertwined after adopting four biological siblings\, having committed to keeping the children as connected as possible. \nAt the heart of the family\, the adoptive mothers grapple to define themselves and their new roles. Tabitha\, who adopted the twins\, crowns herself planner of the group\, responsible for coordinating playdates and holidays\, determined to create a perfect happy family. Quiet and steady Ginger\, single mother to the eldest daughter\, is wary of the way these complicated not-quite-family relationships test her boundaries. And Elizabeth is terrified that her unhappiness after adopting a newborn means she was not meant to be a mother at all. \nPushed into uncomfortably close quarters on their first family vacation\, when they receive a call from their children’s birth mother announcing she is pregnant again\, the delicate bonds the women are struggling to form threaten to collapse. \nDeeply empathetic and shrewdly observed\, Any Other Family opens a conversation about modern adoption\, the rules of family\, and what it means to be a good parent. \n  \nAbout Buca di Beppo Restaurant\n\n\nThe first Buca di Beppo opened its doors in 1993 in the basement of a Minneapolis apartment building. Since then\, they’ve grown to over 100 locations worldwide. Their mission is to capture the fun and enthusiasm of an authentic Italian gathering along with delectable food. Every Buca di Beppo restaurant offers an eclectic setting designed to make every occasion a party! Their dishes are inspired by the cuisine enjoyed for generations in villages throughout Italy. Their dishes are served family-style\, meant to be shared by the entire table. Nothing brings a group closer together than trying a bit of this and a taste of that.
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CATEGORIES:Dinner Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Summer 2022 Literary Tea Adventure featuring NYT and international bestselling author Eleanor Brown
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nREGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE NOW! Please *REGISTER HERE*.\n\n A striking and intimate new novel about three very different women facing an impossible question: What makes a family… \nJoin New York Times and international bestselling author Eleanor Brown for a decadent afternoon tea at the historic Westgate Hotel. Over books\, bubbly\, and delectable tea treats like dainty sandwiches\, scones\, and seasonal berries\, you will enjoy an afternoon presentation by Eleanor as she discusses her new novel\, Any Other Family. \n \nYour Adventure includes an elegant tea in the historic heart of San Diego\, book discussion\, Q&A\, author signing\, and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal in an intimate and luxurious setting. Seating is limited due to current COVID restrictions\, so you will want to register soon to guarantee a seat. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing during the tea\, or pre-order your hardcover copy of Any Other Family for delivery and signing at the event. \n  \nEvent Registration\nRegistration for this Literary Tea Adventure is ONLY available through the Westgate Hotel. Please REGISTER HERE. \nThe shopping cart below is to pre-order a signed hardcover copy of Any Other Family (to be delivered at the event for signing) only and will not register you for the tea. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nEleanor Brown is the New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of The Weird Sisters and The Light of Paris. Her writing has been hailed by People magazine as “delightful” and “creative and original” by Library Journal. \nIn addition to her fiction writing\, Eleanor edited the anthology A Paris All Your Own. Her book reviews\, interviews\, and essays have been featured in publications including The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, and Publishers Weekly. \nBorn and raised in the Washington\, D.C. area\, Eleanor lives with her family in Colorado. \nIn her new novel\, Any Other Family\, Eleanor tells the story of a family formed when three sets of parents adopt biological siblings\, and how that delicate relationship is tested when the children’s birth mother becomes pregnant again and asks the family to find parents for this child. \nA book that asks what makes a family\, a good parent\, and what we owe the people we love. \n.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/eleanor-brown-7-17-22/
CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures,Tea Adventures
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SUMMARY:I'm Not Broken: a 4-part Fireside PRIDE Adventure with author and social impact consultant Jesse Leon
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nJoin us for an unforgettable 4-part series with author and social impact consultant Jesse Leon\, as we discuss his unflinching and inspiring memoir\, I’m Not Broken. As Jesse shares his extraordinary story of resilience and survival while shining a light on his childhood spent devastated by sex trafficking\, street life\, and substance abuse\, you are invited and encouraged to participate in the conversation on Fireside’s unique platform that allows for live dialogue on our virtual stage. \nOur I’m Not Broken virtual Fireside Adventure by the Book series\, featuring the author in conversation with Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth\, will focus on four different aspects of Jesse’s identity that are described in his book while detailing the possibilities of self-transformation and self-acceptance\, including coming to terms with his queer identity and finding community\, the journey of addiction/recovery/mental health\, being the child of Mexican immigrants and The American Dream\, and turning points in his life. \nPre-order your book below for shipping to you upon publication on August 23\, and then tune in to Fireside for this important four-part episodic mini-series during PRIDE Month\, including a follow-up book club style conversation in late summer after the book has been released and you have had an opportunity to read Jesse’s story. We hope you will come away with a deeper and richer understanding of the inherent challenges Jesse and so many others face. Bring your questions\, your stories\, your open mind\, and your heart. \nUpcoming I’m Not Broken Schedule\nSERIES 1: Tuesday\, June 21\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 2: Tuesday\, June 28\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 3: Tuesday\, July 5\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 4: Tuesday\, July 12\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\n  \nTo join all (or part) of this series on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply pre-order a signed copy of I’m Not Broken below to be shipped directly to you upon publication in late August. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Jesse and Susan. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nJesse Leon is a social impact consultant to foundations\, impact investors\, non-profits\, and real estate developers on ways to address issues of substance abuse\, affordable housing\, and educational opportunities for at-risk youth. Since receiving a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School\, Jesse has managed multi-million dollar philanthropic grantmaking for various foundations and banking institutions\, managed over $1B in public sector investments for affordable housing\, and built thousands of units of mixed-income housing as a real estate developer for Bank of America. \nJesse recently moved back to San Diego to be closer to his mother and to pursue his dream of publishing this book. He is a native Spanish speaker and fluent in English and Portuguese. \nJesse’s unforgettable memoir\, I’m Not Broken\, is an inspirational portrait of one young man’s indomitable strength and spirit to survive—against all possible odds. \nBorn to indigenous working-class Mexican immigrants in San Diego in the 1970s\, Jesse Leon’s childhood was violently ruptured. A dangerous and harrowing encounter at a local gift shop when he was eleven years old left Jesse with a deadly secret. Hurt\, alone\, and scared for his life\, Jesse numbed his pain by losing himself in the hyper-masculine culture of the streets and wherever else he could find it—in alcohol\, drugs\, and prostitution. Overlooked by state-sanctioned institutions and systems intended to help victims of abuse\, neglected like many other low-income Latinos\, Jesse spiraled into cycles of suicide and substance abuse. \nI’m Not Broken is the heartbreaking and remarkable story of the journey Jesse takes to win back his life\, leading him to the steps of Harvard University. From being the lone young person of color in Narcotics Anonymous meetings to coming to terms with his own sexual identity\, to becoming an engaged mentor for incarcerated youth\, Jesse finds the will to live with the love and support of his family\, friends\, and mentors. Recounting the extraordinary circumstances of his life\, Jesse offers a powerful\, raw testament to the possibilities of self-transformation and self-acceptance. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jesse-leon-6-21-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:The Precious Jules: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring critically-acclaimed author Shawn Nocher
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nHave you ever wondered where lies that fine line between selfishness and what passes for love? \nCritically-acclaimed author Shawn Nocher explores that complicated question in her new book\, The Precious Jules. Settle in with a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live on Fireside with Shawn to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Laila. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of The Precious Jules\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Shawn\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nShawn Nocher (pronounced “No-Shay”) is the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Hand to Hold in Deep Water. Her short stories and nonfiction articles have been published in SmokeLong Quarterly\, Pithead Chapel\, MoonPark Review\, Writer’s Digest\, and Electric Literature\, among others. She teaches in the Master of Arts writing program at Johns Hopkins University\, has given wings to two children\, and lives with her husband and an assortment of sassy rescue animals in Baltimore\, Maryland\, where she writes in a room of her own. \nShawn’s new novel\, The Precious Jules\, is a deeply felt family narrative that examines the fine line between selfishness and what passes for love. \nAfter nearly two hundred years of housing retardants\, as they were once known\, the Beechwood Institute is closing the doors on its dark history\, and the complicated task of reassigning residents has begun. Ella Jules\, having arrived at Beechwood at the tender age of eight\, must now rely on the state to decide her future. Ella’s aging parents have requested that she be returned to her childhood home\, much to the distress of Ella’s siblings\, but more so to Lynetta\, her beloved caretaker who has been by her side for decades. \nThe five adult Jules children\, haunted by their early memories of their sister\, and each dealing with the trauma of her banishment in their own flawed way\, are converging on the family home\, arriving from the far corners of the country — secrets in tow — to talk some sense into their aging parents and get to the root of this inexplicable change of heart. \nThis family story asks what is best for one child in light of what is perceived as the greater good\, and just what is the collective legacy of buried family secrets\, shame\, and helplessness. The Precious Jules is a deeply felt family narrative that will make you fall in love with these flawed and imperfect characters standing on the threshold of an awakening they never expected. \n  \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/shawn-nocher-6-30-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:The Second Husband: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring New York Times bestselling author Kate White
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nHow well do we really know our loved ones? That’s a question that New York Times bestselling author Kate White tackles in her fast-paced new novel of suspense\, The Second Husband. \nJoin Kate on Fireside as she discusses this psychological thriller about a woman whose seemingly perfect world is rocked by the reopening of her first husband’s murder case.  You are going to need a glass of wine or hot cocoa before you curl up in your favorite chair to chat live with Kate to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Kate. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of The Second Wife\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Kate\, and Q&A. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nKate White is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels of suspense: seven standalone psychological thrillers\, including The Fiancée (June 2021)\, and eight Bailey Weggins mysteries.  Her last standalone thriller\, Have You Seen Me\, was an Amazon Editors’ pick for best thrillers of 2020\, and her 2019 novel\, Such a Perfect Wife\, was nominated for an International Thriller Writers Award. She has been published in countries around the world. \nFor fourteen years Kate served as the award-winning editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine\, which under her became the number one seller on U.S. newsstands. Though she loved her job\, she decided to leave nine years ago to concentrate full-time on another passion of hers\, being a suspense novelist. \nLike many female mystery authors\, Kate fell in love with the genre after reading her first Nancy Drew book\, in her case The Secret of Redgate Farm. Kate is a frequent speaker at libraries\, book conferences\, and companies\, and has also appeared on many television shows\, including The Today Show\, CBS This Morning\, and Good Morning America. \nThe Second Husband is Kate’s new psychological thriller about a woman whose seemingly perfect world is rocked by the reopening of her first husband’s murder case. \nAfter losing her husband Derrick in what appears to have been a random street crime\, thirty-something Emma has built a new life with widower Tom. Tom is kind\, handsome\, driven\, and successful\, and Emma is finally able to feel safe again\, both in their relationship and in the home they’ve made together on the Connecticut shore. \nThen one day a homicide detective shows up at Emma and Tom’s door asking questions. Though Emma had been cleared of her husband’s murder\, it appears that law enforcement is taking another look at her and the case. What have they found exactly? And more importantly\, will the renewed investigation ruin Emma’s chances for a happy life? \nA fast-paced work of psychological suspense asks the question\, “How well do we really know our loved ones?” \n  \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kate-white-6-29-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:The Lies I Tell: a Southwestern Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with New York Times and international bestselling author Julie Clark
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nAs we sail onward with our 2022 Adventures by the Book live and in-person events\, we are staying the course with another exciting author lunch to be held at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club with New York Times and international bestselling author Julie Clark. \nIn another bone-chilling thriller\, Julie Clark is back\, and this time\, she will take you straight into the collision course of two dynamic\, complicated women… Join us for lunch at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club in the beautiful Point Loma residential area within the Shelter Island Yacht Basin with Julie as she discusses her twisty new suspense novel\, The Lies I Tell.   \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of The Lies I Tell to be delivered and signed at the event\, lunch\, soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and the opportunity to meet Julie live and in-person. As a NovelNetwork author\, Julie 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 \nJulie Clark is the New York Times and international bestselling author of The Last Flight. It has earned starred reviews from Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Library Journal\, and the New York Times has called it “thoroughly absorbing”. It’s been named an Indie Next Pick\, a Library Reads Pick\, and a Best Book of 2020 by Amazon Editors and Apple Books. Her debut\, The Ones We Choose\, was published in 2018 and has been optioned for television by Lionsgate. \nHer forthcoming twisted domestic thriller\, The Lies I tell\, dives deep into the psyches and motivations of two women and their unwavering quest to seek justice for the past and rewrite the future. \nShe’s back. Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person\, depending on the town\, depending on the job. She’s a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real. She slides alongside you and tells you exactly what you need to hear\, and by the time she’s done\, you’ve likely lost everything. \nKat Roberts has been waiting ten years for the woman who upended her life to return. And now that she has\, Kat is determined to be the one to expose her. But as the two women grow closer\, Kat’s long-held assumptions begin to crumble\, leaving Kat to wonder who Meg’s true target is. \n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Julie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\n\n  \n\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\n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/julie-clark-6-23-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Book Bingo (June Pride Month Celebration): a Virtual Adventure featuring NYT and bestselling authors Ann Aguirre\, Annabeth Albert\, Kim Taylor Blakemore\, Robert Gwaltney\, Timothy Janovsky\, Joshua Moehling\, and Katrina Monroe
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nWe are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (June Pride Month Celebration): A Virtual Adventure\, this month 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 150 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 book club favorite authors: Ann Aguirre\, Annabeth Albert\, Kim Taylor Blakemore\, Robert Gwaltney\, Timothy Janovsky\, Joshua Moehling\, and Katrina Monroe. 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 \nNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre has been a clown\, a clerk\, a savior of stray kittens\, and a voice actress\, not necessarily in that order. She grew up in a yellow house across from a cornfield\, but now she lives in Mexico with her family. She writes all kinds of genre fiction\, but she has an eternal soft spot for a happily ever after. \nIn her novel\, Boss Witch\, Clementine Waterhouse is a perfectly logical witch. She doesn’t tumble headlong into love. Rather she weighs the pros and cons and decides if a relationship is worth pursuing. At least that’s always been her modus operandi before. Clem prefers being the one in charge\, always the first to walk away when the time is right. Attraction has never struck her like lightning…until the witch hunter comes to town. \nGavin Rhys hates being a witch hunter\, but his family honor is on the line\, and he needs to prove he’s nothing like his grandfather\, a traitor who let everyone down. But things in St. Claire aren’t what they seem\, and Gavin is distracted from the job immediately by a bewitching brunette with a sexy smile and haunting secrets in her eyes. \nCan the bossiest witch in town find a happy ending with the last person she should ever love? \n  \n \nAnnabeth Albert grew up sneaking romance novels under the bed covers. Now\, she devours all subgenres of romance out in the open—no flashlights required! When she’s not adding to her keeper shelf\, she’s a multi-published Pacific Northwest romance writer. She has penned many critically acclaimed and fan-favorite LGBTQ romance series. To find out what she’s working on next and other fun extras\, be sure to join her reader group on Facebook! Also\, be sure to sign up for her newsletter for free ficlets\, bonus reads\, and contests. She’s a compulsive knitter\, late-night reader\, obsessive gamer\, and happy bi-pride flag-waver. \nIn her new book\, Out of Character\, Jasper Quigley is tired of being everyone’s favorite sidekick. He wants to become the hero of his own life\, but that’s not going to happen if he agrees to help out his former best friend turned king of the jocks\, Milo Lionetti. High school was miserable enough\, thanks\, and Jasper has no interest in dredging up painful memories of his old secret crush. \nBut Milo’s got nowhere else to go. His life is spiraling out of control and he’s looking to turn things back around. Step one? Replace the rare Odyssey cards he lost in an idiotic bet. Step two? Tell his ex-best-friend exactly how he feels―how he’s always felt. \nJasper may be reluctant to reopen old wounds\, but he never could resist Milo. There’s a catch\, though: if Milo wants his help\, he’s going to have to pitch in to make the upcoming children’s hospital charity ball the best ever. But as the two don cosplay for the kids and hunt for rare cards\, nostalgia for their lost friendship may turn into something even more lasting… \n  \n \nKim Taylor Blakemore writes historical novels that feature fierce and often dangerous women. She writes about the thieves and servants\, murderesses and mediums\, grifters and frauds – the women with darker stories\, tangled lies and hidden motives. She has been a finalist for the Women’s Fiction Association Star Award and a recipient of a Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award\, both for her novel The Companion. \nIn her book\, The Companion\, it’s 1855\, New Hampshire. Lucy Blunt is set to hang for a double murder. Murderess or victim? Only Lucy knows the truth. \nIn the shadow of the gallows\, Lucy reflects on the events that led to her bitter downfall―from the moment she arrived at the rambling Burton mansion looking for work and a better life to the grisly murders themselves. \nIn a mysterious household of locked doors and forbidden affections\, Lucy slips comfortably into the shadows\, where she believes the indiscretions of her past will remain hidden. But when Lucy’s rising status becomes a threat to the mistress’s current companion\, the delicate balance of power and loyalty begins to shift\, setting into motion a brewing storm of betrayal\, suspicion\, and rage. \nNow\, with her execution looming closer\, Lucy’s allies fight to have her sentence overturned as the tale she’s spinning nears its conclusion. But how much of her story can we trust? After all\, Lucy’s been known to bend the truth… \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kim or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nRobert Gwaltney\, a writer of southern fiction\, is a graduate of Florida State University. He resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is an active member of the Atlanta literary community. By day\, he serves as Vice President of Easter Seals North Georgia\, Inc.\, Children Services\, a non-profit supporting children with disabilities and other special needs. Robert’s work has appeared in such publications as The Signal Mountain Review and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Robert also serves as Prose Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. \nIn his book\, The Cicada Tree\, it’s the summer of 1956\, and a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence\, Georgia\, a natural event with supernatural repercussions\, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell\, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this emergence\, dark obsessions are stirred\, uncanny gifts provoked\, and secrets unearthed. \nDuring a visit to Mistletoe\, a plantation owned by the wealthy Mayfield family\, Analeise encounters Cordelia Mayfield and her daughter Marlissa\, both of whom possess an otherworldly beauty\, a lineal trait regarded as that Mayfield Shine. A whisper and an act of violence perpetrated during this visit by Mrs. Mayfield all converge to kindle Analeise’s fascination with the Mayfields. \nAnaleise’s burgeoning obsession with the Mayfield family overshadows her own seemingly\, ordinary life\, culminating in dangerous games and manipulation\, setting off a chain of cataclysmic events with life-altering consequences—all of it unfolding to the maddening whir of a cicada song. \n\n  \n \nTimothy Janovsky is a queer\, multidisciplinary storyteller from New Jersey. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Muhlenberg College and a self-appointed certificate in rom-com studies (accreditation pending). When he’s not daydreaming about young Hugh Grant\, he’s telling jokes\, playing characters\, and writing books. Never Been Kissed is his first novel. \nDear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush\, it’s been a few years since we were together\, but I can’t stop thinking about the time we almost… In his debut novel\, Never Been Kissed\, Wren Roland has never been kissed\, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic on the eve of his birthday\, he sends emails to all the boys he (ahem) loved before he came out. Morning brings the inevitable Oh God What Did I Do?\, but he brushes that panic aside. Why stress about it? None of his could-have-beens are actually going to read the emails\, much less respond. Right? \nEnter Derick Haverford\, Wren’s #1 pre-coming-out-crush and his drive-in theater’s new social media intern. Everyone claims he’s coasting on cinematic good looks and his father’s connections\, but Wren has always known there’s much more to Derick than meets the eye. Too bad he doesn’t feel the same way about the infamous almost-kiss that once rocked Wren’s world. \nWhatever. Wren’s no longer a closeted teenager; he can survive this. But as their hazy summer becomes consumed with a special project that may just save the struggling drive-in for good\, Wren and Derick are drawn ever-closer…and maybe\, finally\, Wren’s dream of a perfect-kiss-before-the-credits is within reach. \n  \n \nJoshua Moehling lives in Minneapolis and works in the medical device industry by day and writes at night. And There He Kept Her\, his first novel\, is a sharp\, intense thriller combining a dark plot with a relentless pace. \nWhen two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs\, what starts as a simple burglary turns into a nightmare for all involved. Emmett Burr has secrets he’s been keeping in his basement for more than two decades\, and he’ll do anything to keep his past from being revealed. As he gets the upper hand on his tormentors\, the lines blur between victim\, abuser\, and protector. \nPersonal tragedy has sent former police officer Ben Packard back to the small Minnesota town of Sandy Lake in search of a fresh start. Now a sheriff’s deputy\, Packard is leading the investigation into the missing teens\, motivated by a family connection. As clues dry up and time runs out to save them\, Packard is forced to reveal his own secrets and dig deep to uncover the dark past of the place he now calls home. \nUnrelentingly suspenseful and written with a piercing gaze into the dark depths of the human soul\, And There He Kept Her is a thrilling page-turner that introduces readers to a complicated new hero and forces us to consider the true nature of evil. \n  \n \nKatrina Monroe lives in Minnesota with her wife\, two children\, and Eddie\, the ghost who haunts their bedroom closets. They Drown Our Daughters (for fans of Jennifer McMahon and Silvia Moreno-Garcia)\, is her haunting and atmospheric new novel. \nThey say Cape Disappointment is haunted. That’s why tourists used to flock there in droves. They’d visit the rocky shoreline under the old lighthouse’s watchful eye and fish shells from the water as they pretended to spot dark shapes in the surf. Now the tourists are long gone\, and when Meredith Strand and her young daughter return to Meredith’s childhood home after an acrimonious split from her wife\, the Cape seems more haunted by regret than any malevolent force. \nBut her mother\, suffering from early stages of Alzheimer’s\, is convinced the ghost stories are real. Not only is there something in the water\, but it’s watching them. Waiting for them. Reaching out to Meredith’s daughter the way it has to every woman in their line for generations―and if Meredith isn’t careful\, all three women\, bound by blood and heartbreak\, will be lost one by one to the ocean’s mournful call. \nPart modern gothic\, part ghost story\, They Drown Our Daughters explores the depths of motherhood\, identity\, and the lengths a woman will go to hold on to both. \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 with the Jeffco Public Library (coming soon) or you may register below. \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 Kim Taylor Blakemore is a member 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 Kim Taylor Blakemore or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/pride-bingo-6-9-22/
CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Tales of Al the Water Rescue Dog: a Live and In-Person Adventure with NYT bestselling author and long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nFor anyone who has ever loved a dog (or even if you haven’t had the pleasure)\, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to meet New York Times bestselling author and long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox at the La Jolla/Riford Library\, as she discusses her heartfelt book\, Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog.  \nThis event is free and open to the public. Copies of Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog 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\nLynne Cox is an American long-distance open-water swimmer\, motivational speaker\, and author. Over the course of more than 35 years\, spanning a period equal to 8 Olympic Games\, Lynne accomplished swims setting world records and opening borders\, contributed to medical research\, supported environmental causes\, and inspired people to overcome great obstacles. \nShe is best known for her swim across the Bering Strait from the United States to the Soviet Union on 7 August 1987. She twice held the overall record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel from England to France and has completed over 60 challenging swims around the world. \nWhen Lynne saw a video of a Newfoundland dog leaping from an airborne helicopter into Italian waters to save someone from drowning\, she was transfixed by the rescue\, and captivated by the magnificence\, physicality\, and daring of the dog. \nTales of Al is the moving\, inspiring story of Lynne’s adventures on Italy’s picturesque Lake Idroscalo\, as witness to the rigorous training of one of these spectacular dogs at SICS\, the famed school that has taught hundreds of dog owners how to train their dogs—Newfoundlands\, German shepherds\, and golden retrievers—for this rescue operation. Lynne writes about coming to know the dog at the book’s center\, Al herself\, from puppyhood\, an adorable but untrainable chocolate Newfoundland—about the dreams\, expectations\, disappointments\, and vision of her trainer and about realizing the dog’s full potential; striving with all of her canine might to become an expertly trained\, highly specialized water rescue dog. \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 La Jolla/Riford Library. Tickets below are to purchase a copy of Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog to be delivered at the event for signing. \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/lynne-cox-5-26-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:A Touch of Darkness: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair in conversation with Laura Thalassa
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIn mythology and literature\, she is known as the dreaded Persephone\, queen of the Underworld\, and goddess of death. Now\, a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Persephone and Hades Greek myth  in her reimagined New Greece comes forth from bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair. \nSo grab a glass of wine\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Scarlett\, in conversation with Laura Thalassa\, to discuss Scarlett’s latest book\, A Game of Retribution\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage” with the authors. \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book(s) or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Scarlett and Laura. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of A Game of Retribution and/or Death\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Scarlett and Laura\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nInternational and USA Today bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the author of the Hades X Persephone Saga\, the Hades Saga\, King of Battle & Blood\, and When Stars Come Out. She has a Master’s degree in Library Science and Information Studies and a Bachelors in English Writing. She is obsessed with Greek Mythology\, murder mysteries\, and the afterlife. \nIn her new book\, A Game of Retribution\, Hades\, God of the Dead\, does not take sides or bend the rules. He makes no exceptions to these values―not for god or mortal\, even his lover\, Persephone\, Goddess of Spring. \nUsually\, fear prevents retaliation…But not this time. \nWhen Hera\, Goddess of Women\, approaches Hades with a plan to overthrow Zeus\, he declines to offer help. As punishment\, Hera sentences Hades to perform a series of labors. Between killing mythical monsters and recovering deadly stolen artifacts\, each feat seems more impossible than the last and draws his attention away from Persephone―whose own tragedy has left her questioning whether she can be Queen of the Underworld. \nCan Hades maintain the balance he craves? \n\n  \n\n \nFound in the forest when she was young\, Laura Thalassa was raised by fairies\, kidnapped by werewolves\, and given over to vampires as repayment for a hundred-year debt. She’s been brought back to life twice\, and\, with a single kiss\, she woke her true love from eternal sleep. She now lives happily ever after with her undead prince in a castle in the woods.…or something like that anyway. \nWhen not writing\, Laura can be found scarfing down guacamole\, hoarding chocolate for the apocalypse\, or curled up on the couch with a good book. \nIn her new novel\, Death\, he’s known by many names: Thanatos. Horseman. God’s last angel. And then\, of course\, there’s the one I’m all too familiar with—Death. \nThe day Death comes to Lazarus Gaumond’s town and kills everyone in one fell swoop\, the last thing he expects to see is a woman left alive and standing. But Lazarus has her own extraordinary gift: she cannot be killed—not by humans\, not by the elements\, not by Death himself. \nThe end is here. Humankind is set to perish\, and not even the horsemen can stop Death from fulfilling his final task. \nOnly Lazarus can. \n\n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/scarlett-st-clair-5-25-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Mother County: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring award-winning author Jacinda Townsend
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIn her new novel\, Mother Country\, award-winning author Jacinda Townsend offers a bone-deep and unsparing portrayal of the ethical and emotional claims we make upon one another in the name of survival and in the name of love. \nJoin us live as we chat with Jacinda about her new transnational feminist novel\, where you have the unique opportunity to converse and ask questions live with the author on our virtual stage. \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Jacinda. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Mother Country\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Jacinda\, and Q&A. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nJacinda Townsend is the author of Saint Monkey\, set in 1950’s Eastern Kentucky\, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Saint Monkey was also the 2015 Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. \nHer new transnational feminist novel\, Mother Country\, explores human trafficking and motherhood. \nSaddled with student loans\, medical debt\, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident\, Shannon\, an African American woman\, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There\, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech\, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. \nWith the help of her boyfriend and a bribed official\, Shannon makes the fateful decision to adopt and raise the girl in Louisville\, Kentucky. But the girl already has a mother: Souria\, an undocumented Mauritanian woman who was trafficked as a teen\, and who managed to escape to Morocco to build another life. \nIn rendering Souria’s separation from her family across vast stretches of desert and Shannon’s alienation from her mother under the same roof\, Jacinda Townsend brilliantly stages cycles of intergenerational trauma and healing. Linked by the girl who has been a daughter to them both\, these unforgettable protagonists move toward their inevitable reckoning. \n  \n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/jacinda-townsend-5-17-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Mustique Island: a virtual Zoom Adventure featuring NYT bestselling author Sarah McCoy in conversation with NYT bestselling author Kate Quinn
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n  \nClose your eyes and imagine you are visiting a luxurious private island filled with the wealthy and privileged\, where you can skinny dip\, party\, and entertain lovers away from the public eye under a white hot sun blazing. Well\, lucky for you that you won’t have to imagine anymore\, because New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy‘s much-anticipated new novel\, Mustique Island\, takes us to just such a place. \nJoin Sarah\, in conversation with fellow New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn\, as they discuss Sarah’s glamorous and scandalous novel\, and you might just find out that the mystique of Mustique may have a very dark side as well. \nYour Adventure includes author discussion\, Q&A\, a hardcover copy of Mustique Island\, tax\, shipping within the US\, and the opportunity to meet Sarah McCoy and Kate Quinn virtually via Zoom! \n*This event will be held virtually via Zoom. Event access is provided via Zoom link emailed to you 3-5 days prior to the event. \n  \n\nAbout the Authors and Books\n \nSarah McCoy is the New York Times\, USA Today\, and international bestselling author of the novels Marilla of Green Gables\, The Mapmaker’s Children\, The Baker’s Daughter\, a 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Best Historical Fiction nominee\, the novella “The Branch of Hazel” in Grand Central\, The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico\, and Le souffle des feuilles et des promesses (Pride and Providence). \nHer work has been featured in Real Simple\, The Millions\, Your Health Monthly\, Huffington Post\, Read It Forward\, Writer Unboxed\, and other publications. She was the host of the NPR WSNC Radio monthly program “Bookmarked with Sarah McCoy” from 2018-2019 and a Board Member for the literary nonprofit Bookmarks. Sarah taught English writing at Old Dominion University and at the University of Texas at El Paso. \nHer latest novel\, Mustique Island\, is a glamorous\, scandalous\, and moving exploration of the bonds of love and motherhood. \nIt’s January 1972 but the sun is white hot when Willy May Michael’s boat first kisses the dock of Mustique Island. Tucked into the southernmost curve of the Caribbean\, Mustique is a private island that has become a haven for the wealthy and privileged. Its owner is the eccentric British playboy Colin Tennant\, who is determined to turn this speck of white sand into a luxurious neo-colonial retreat for his rich friends and into a royal court in exile for the Queen’s rebellious sister\, Princess Margaret—one where Her Royal Highness can skinny dip\, party\, and entertain lovers away from the public eye. \nWilly May\, a former beauty queen from Texas—who is also no stranger to marital scandals—seeks out Mustique for its peaceful isolation. Determined to rebuild her life and her relationships with her two daughters\, Hilly\, a model\, and Joanne\, a musician\, she constructs a fanciful white beach house across the island from Princess Margaret—and finds herself pulled into the island’s inner circle of aristocrats\, rock stars\, and hangers-on. \nWhen Willy May’s daughters arrive\, they discover that beneath its veneer of decadence\, Mustique has a dark side\, and like sand caught in the undertow\, their mother-daughter story will shift and resettle in ways they never could have imagined. \n\n  \n \nKate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. She has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga\, and two books in the Italian Renaissance\, before turning to the 20th century with The Alice Network\, The Huntress\, The Rose Code\, and The Diamond Eye. All have been translated into multiple languages. \nA native of southern California\, she attended Boston University where she earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Classical Voice. Kate and her husband now live in San Diego with three rescue dogs. \nHer latest novel\, The Diamond Eye\, is an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. \nIn 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv)\, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight\, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper—a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine\, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. \nStill reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss\, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington\, DC—until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows\, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life. \nBased on a true story\, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation\, of a mother who became a soldier\, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever. \nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/sarah-mccoy-5-14-22/
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SUMMARY:In the Shadows of History: A Virtual Adventure featuring New York Times and bestselling authors David R. Gillham\, Audrey Blake\, Julia Bryan Thomas\, Tracey Enerson Wood
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\n“We walk unknowing amid the shadows of our past and\, forgetting our history\, are ignorant of ourselves.” – Salman Rushdie \nCourtesy of New York Times and bestselling authors David R. Gillham\, Audrey Blake\, Julia Bryan Thomas\, and Tracey Enerson Wood\, here’s your opportunity to step out of the shadows and become enlightened at our upcoming In the Shadows of History Adventure.  Join us on Zoom* to “meet” David\, Audrey\, Julia\, and Tracey\, as they share the stories behind their new novels. \nThis Virtual Adventure was designed not only to support creative artists whose book tours and events were cancelled due to COVID-19. Event admission is included with your purchase of any of the authors’ books\, or purchase all four and receive a special bundled discount. Signed bookplates and shipping are included. \n*Instructions to join the Zoom virtual Adventure will be emailed to you three days prior to the event. If you do not receive your Zoom invite 3 days prior to the event\, first check your spam file before you contact us to resend. Please note that no technical assistance will be available during the event\, so we highly recommend you practice using Zoom with friends and family prior to the event. \nAbout the Authors\n \nDavid R Gillham is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of City of Women and also Annelies: a Novel of Anne Frank. He studied screenwriting at the University of Southern California before transitioning into fiction. After moving to New York City\, Gillham spent more than a decade in the book business\, and he now lives with his family in Western Massachusetts. \n\n\nIn his new historical novel\, Shadows of Berlin\, it is 1955 in New York City\, a city engorged with skyscrapers\, blaring traffic\, instant coffee\, roaring subways\, and ultra-modern TVs\, and a city that daily re-invents itself to meet a perpetually unfolding future. \n\n\nBut in a certain walk-up in Chelsea\, the past is as close as the present. Rachel came to Manhattan in a wave of displaced Jews who managed to survive the horrors of war. Fleeing with her Uncle Fritz\, Rachel hoped to find freedom from her pain in New York — and in the arms of her new American husband\, Aaron. \n\n\n\n\nThis child of Berlin and daughter of an artist cannot seem to outrun her guilt\, even in her new role as a “normal American housewife\,” not until she can shed the ghosts of her past. And when Uncle Fritz discovers\, in a dreary midtown pawn shop\, the most shocking portrait that her mother had ever painted\, Rachel’s memories begin to terrorize her\, forcing her to face the choices she made to stay alive―choices that might be her undoing.\n​\nFrom the cafes of war-torn Germany to the frantic drumbeat of 1950’s Manhattan\, Shadows of Berlin dramatically explores survival\, redemption and the way we learn to love and forgive across impossible divides.. \n\n\n\n\n  \nBestselling author Audrey Blake has a split personality–because she is the creative alter ego of writing duo Jaima Fixsen and Regina Sirois\, two authors who met as finalists of a writing contest and have been writing together happily ever since. They share a love of history\, nature\, literature and stories of redoubtable women. Both are prairie girls: Jaima hails from Alberta\, Canada\, and Regina calls the wheatfields of Kansas home. . \nWomen’s work is a matter of life and death. \nIn Audrey Blake’s new book\, The Surgeon’s Daughter\, Nora Beady\, the only female student at a prestigious medical school in Bologna\, is a rarity. In the 19th century women are expected to remain at home and raise children\, so her unconventional\, indelicate ambitions to become a licensed surgeon offend the men around her. \nEverything changes when she allies herself with Magdalena Morenco\, the sole female doctor on-staff. Together the two women develop new techniques to improve a groundbreaking surgery: the Cesarean section. It’s a highly dangerous procedure and the research is grueling\, but even worse is the vitriolic response from men. Most don’t trust the findings of women\, and many can choose to deny their wives medical care. \nAlready facing resistance on all sides\, Nora is shaken when she meets a patient who will die without the surgery. If the procedure is successful\, her work could change the world. But a failure could cost everything: precious lives\, Nora’s career\, and the role women will be allowed to play in medicine. \n  \nJulia Bryan Thomas (no website) is is the author of the new work of the heartbreaking\, thought-provoking\, and uplifting historical novel\, For Those Who Are Lost. She is married to mystery novelist Will Thomas.. \nInspired by true events\, For Those Who Are Lost begins on the eve of the Nazi invasion of the island of Guernsey\, when terrified parents have a choice to make: send their children alone to England\, or keep the family together and risk whatever may come to their villages. \nAva and Joseph Simon reluctantly put their 9-year-old son\, Henry\, and four-year-old daughter\, Catherine\, in the care of their son’s teacher\, who will escort them on a boat to mainland England. Just as the ferry is about to leave\, the teacher’s sister\, Lily appears. The two trade places: Helen doesn’t want to leave Guernsey\, and Lily is desperate for a fresh start. \nLily is the one who accompanies the children to England\, and Lily is the one who lets Henry get on a train by himself\, deciding in a split second to take Catherine with her and walk the other way. That split-second decision lingers long after the war ends\, impacting the rest of their lives. \nTracey Enerson Wood \nTracey Enerson Wood has always had a writing bug. While working as a Registered Nurse\, starting her own Interior Design company\, raising two children\, and bouncing around the world as a military wife\, she indulged in her passion as a playwright\, screenwriter and novelist. She has authored magazine columns and other non-fiction\, written and directed plays of all lengths\, including Grits\, Fleas and Carrots\, Rocks and Other Hard Places\, Alone\, and Fog. \nOther passions include food and cooking\, and honoring military heroes. Her co-authored anthology/cookbook Homefront Cooking\, American Veterans share Recipes\, Wit\, and Wisdom\, was released in May\, 2018\, and all authors’ profits will be donated to organizations that support veterans. \nShe asked dozens of young women to lay their lives on the line during the Great War. Can she protect them? Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson must recruit sixty-five nurses to relieve the battle-worn British\, months before American troops are ready to be deployed. She knows that the young nurses serving near the front lines will face a challenging situation\, but nothing could have prepared her for the challenges that await when they arrive at British Base Hospital 12 in Rouen\, France. The primitive conditions\, a convoluted supply system\, and horrific battle wounds are enough to discourage the most hardened nurses\, and Julia can do nothing but lead by example―even as the military doctors undermine her authority and make her question her very place in the hospital tent. \nWhen trainloads of soldiers stricken by a mysterious respiratory illness arrive one after the other\, overwhelming the hospital’s limited resources\, and threatening the health of her staff\, Julia faces an unthinkable choice―to step outside the bounds of her profession and risk the career she has fought so hard for\, or to watch the people she cares for most die in her arms. Based on a true story\, The War Nurse is a sweeping historical novel by international bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood that takes readers on an unforgettable journey through WWI France. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Tracey or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nChat with Authors for Free\nAre you in a book club\, or do you have a group of friends\, colleagues\, or other social group who are seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Tracey Enerson Wood is just one of the members of our wonderful community of nearly 150 NovelNetwork® authors\, available to meet with book clubs via video chat\, and you can even do so via Zoom (for free) from the safety and comfort of your own homes. \n \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 Tracey\, or any of our authors\, join for free here. \n 
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/gillham-blake-thomas-wood-5-11-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Darling Girl: a Virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling author Liz Michalski
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nAll you need is faith\, trust\, and a little pixie dust . . . \nWith that bit of magic\, bestselling author Liz Michalski has created her new novel\, Darling Girl\, a beautiful\, grounded\, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J. M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan. So grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Liz to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Liz. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Darling Girl\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Liz\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nLiz Michalski is a former reporter and editor. As a college student\, she spent a semester interning with a member of English parliament\, an experience that made her fall in love with London and also taught her how to make a proper cup of tea. (Her first attempt\, which involved a tea bag and microwave\, almost caused an international incident. When she’s not writing\, you can find her hiking\, walking\, or running in the magical outdoors. She lives in Massachusetts with her family\, a hive of bees\, two chickens\, and the world’s best dog. \nIn her newest book\, Darling Girl\, to save her daughter’s life one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan—who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be . . . \nLife is looking up for Holly Darling\, granddaughter of Wendy—yes\, that Wendy. She’s running a successful skincare company; her son\, Jack\, is happy and healthy; and the tragedy of her past is well behind her . . . until she gets a call that her daughter\, Eden\, who has been in a coma for nearly a decade\, has gone missing from the estate where she’s been long tucked away. And\, worst of all\, Holly knows who must be responsible: Peter Pan\, who is not only very real\, but more dangerous than anyone could imagine. \nEden’s disappearance is a disaster for more reasons than one. She has a rare condition that causes her to age rapidly—ironic\, considering her father is the boy who will never grow up—which also makes her blood incredibly valuable. It’s a secret that Holly is desperate to protect\, especially from Eden’s half-brother\, Jack\, who knows nothing about his sister or the crucial role she plays in his life. Holly has no one to turn to—her mother is the only other person in the world who knows that Peter is more than a story\, but she refuses to accept that he is not the hero she’s always imagined. Desperate\, Holly enlists the help of Christopher Cooke\, a notorious ex-soldier\, in the hopes of rescuing Eden before it’s too late . . . or she may lose both her children. \nDarling Girl brings all the magic of the classic Peter Pan story to the present\, while also exploring the dark underpinnings of fairy tales\, grief\, aging\, sacrifice\, motherhood\, and just how far we will go to protect those we love. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/liz-michalski-5-10-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:I'll Be You: a Southwestern Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with New York Times bestselling author Janelle Brown
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s time to sail onward with our 2022 Adventures by the Book live and in-person events\, and we are staying on course with another exciting author lunch to be held at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club. \nTwo identical twin sisters and former child actors have grown apart—until one disappears\, and the other is forced to confront the secrets they’ve kept from each other… Join us for lunch at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club in the beautiful Point Loma residential area within the Shelter Island Yacht Basin with New York Times bestselling author Janelle Brown as she discusses her twisty new suspense novel\, I’ll Be You.  \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of I’ll Be You to be delivered and signed at the event\, lunch\, beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and the opportunity to meet Janelle live and in-person. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nJanelle Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Pretty Things\, Watch Me Disappear\, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything\, and This Is Where We Live. Her books have been sold in two dozen countries around the world. Pretty Things – named a Best Book of 2020 by Amazon – is currently being adapted for television by Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films. \nHer journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Vogue\, Elle\, Wired\, Self\, RealSimple\, The Los Angeles Times\, and numerous other publications. Previously\, she worked as a senior writer at Salon\, and began her career as a staff writer at Wired during the dotcom boom years\, working on seminal Web sites like HotWired and Wired News. In the 1990s\, she was also the editor and co-founder of Maxi\, an irreverent (and now\, long-gone) women’s pop culture Webzine. A native of San Francisco and graduate of UC Berkeley\, she has since defected to Los Angeles\, where she lives with her husband Greg and their two children. \nHer upcoming novel\, I’ll Be You\, shows Janelle at the top of her game: a story packed with surprising revelations and sharp insights about the choices that define our families and our lives—and could just as easily destroy them. \nAs children\, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn’t even tell them apart. And once Hollywood discovered them\, they became B-list child TV stars\, often inhabiting the same role. But as adults\, their lives have splintered. After leaving acting\, Elli reinvented herself as the perfect homemaker; meanwhile\, Sam has never recovered from her failed Hollywood career\, or from her addiction to the pills and booze. \nSam hasn’t spoken to her sister since her destructive behavior finally drove a wedge between them. So when her father calls out of the blue\, Sam is shocked to learn that Elli’s life has been in turmoil. Now she’s stopped answering her phone and checked in to a mysterious spa in Ojai. Is her sister just decompressing\, or is she in trouble? Could she have possibly joined a cult? As Sam works to connect the dots left by Elli’s baffling disappearance\, she realizes that the bond between her and her sister is more complicated than she ever knew. \n\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\n\n\n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/janelle-brown-4-29-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Spring 2022 Literary Tea Adventure featuring NYT Bestselling Author Patti Callahan
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nRegistration is now open!\n\nIt was called “The Titanic of the South.” The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with the elite on board; through time\, their fates were forgotten–until the wreck was found\, and now their story is finally being told… \nWe are thrilled to announce the return of our popular Literary Tea Adventures\, featuring New York Times and international bestselling author Patti Callahan! Please join us for a decadent afternoon tea at the historic Westgate Hotel. Over books\, bubbly\, and delectable tea treats like dainty sandwiches\, scones\, and seasonal berries\, you will enjoy an afternoon presentation by Patti as she discusses her novel\, Surviving Savannah. \n \nYour Adventure includes an elegant tea in the historic heart of San Diego\, book discussion\, Q&A\, author signing\, and an opportunity to meet the author up close and personal in an intimate and luxurious setting. Seating is limited due to current COVID restrictions\, so you will want to register soon to guarantee a seat. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing during the tea\, or pre-order your paperback copy of Surviving Savannah and your hardcover copy of Once Upon A Wardrobe below for delivery and signing at the event. \n  \nEvent Registration\nRegistration for this Literary Tea Adventure is ONLY available through the Westgate Hotel. Please register* HERE. \n* If you have problems registering for this event\, please call McKenna Wecker at 619-238-1818. * \nThe shopping cart below is to pre-order a signed paperback copy of Surviving Savannah and/or a hardcover copy of Once Upon a Wardrobe (to be delivered at the event for signing) only and will not register you for the tea. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\nPatti Callahan Henry is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of sixteen novels and the recipient of The Christy Award\, A 2019 Winner “Book of the Year”; The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year for 2020 and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for 2019. She is the co-host and co-creator of the popular weekly online Friends and Fiction live web show and podcast\, as well as a contributor to the weekly life lesson essay column for Parade Magazine. \nGrowing up in Philadelphia as the daughter of a Presbyterian minister\, Patti learned early the value of storytelling. At the age of twelve\, her family moved to South Florida where Patti found the sanctuary of libraries and began her slow but steady journey into understanding the power of story to navigate confusing times in life. A full-time author and mother of three children\, she now resides in both Mountain Brook\, Alabama\, and Bluffton\, South Carolina with her husband. \nHer latest novel\, Surviving Savannah\, is a compelling story of survival about the “Titanic of the South.” When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski\, she’s shocked. The ship sank after a boiler explosion in 1838\, and the wreckage was just discovered\, 180 years later. Everly can’t resist the opportunity to try to solve some of the mysteries and myths surrounding the devastating night of its sinking. \nEverly’s research leads her to the astounding history of a family of eleven who boarded the Pulaski together\, and the extraordinary stories of two women from this family: a known survivor\, Augusta Longstreet\, and her niece\, Lilly Forsyth\, who was never found\, along with her child. These aristocratic women were part of Savannah’s society\, but when the ship exploded\, each was faced with difficult and heartbreaking decisions. This is a moving and powerful exploration of what women will do to endure in the face of tragedy\, the role fate plays\, and the myriad ways we survive the surviving.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/patti-callahan-4-24-22/
CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures,Tea Adventures
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SUMMARY:Book Bingo (Make New Friends\, But Keep The Old): a Virtual Adventure featuring Susan Meissner\, Lian Dolan\, Marie Bostwick\, Robin Oliveira\, Janie Chang\, and Kristina McMorris
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nWe are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (Make New Friends\, But Keep The Old): A Virtual Adventure\, this month in partnership with the Tulsa City-County (Oklahoma) 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! \nThey say that true friends are never apart\, maybe in distance\, but never in heart… Join us for some fun book bingo and a heartfelt discussion about what friendship truly means. This free event features presentations by book club favorite authors: Susan Meissner\, Lian Dolan\, Marie Bostwick\, Robin Oliveira\, Janie Chang\, and Kristina McMorris\, 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. \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 \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. Her 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. \nIn her novel\, The Nature of Fragile Things\, a massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak\, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost\, lives are shattered\, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. \nSophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat\, Martin’s silent five-year-old daughter\, but Martin’s odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn’t right. \nThen one early-spring evening\, a stranger at the door sets in motion a transforming chain of events. Sophie discovers hidden ties to two other women. The first\, pretty and pregnant\, is standing on her doorstep. The second is hundreds of miles away in the American Southwest\, grieving the loss of everything she once loved. \nThe fates of these three women intertwine on the eve of the devastating earthquake\, thrusting them onto a perilous journey that will test their resiliency and resolve and\, ultimately\, their belief that love can overcome fear. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Susan or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nLian Dolan is a writer and talker. She’s the author of three best-selling novels\, The Sweeney Sisters\, Helen of Pasadena\, and Elizabeth the First Wife. Her  most  recent  book is  Lost and Found in Paris. She’s a regular humor columnist for Pasadena Magazine and has previously written monthly columns for O\, The Oprah Magazine and Working Mother Magazine. She’s also written for TV\, radio and websites. \nFast-paced and colorful\, Lost And Found In Paris sparkles like the City of Light itself…. Joan Blakely had an unconventional childhood: the daughter of a globe-trotting supermodel and a world-famous artist. Her artist father died on 9/11\, and Joan—an art historian by training—has spent more than a decade maintaining his legacy. Life in the art world is beginning to wear on her—and then one fateful afternoon her husband drops a bombshell: he’s fathered twins with another woman. \nFurious but secretly pleased to have a reason to blow up her life\, Joan impulsively decides to get out of town\, booking a last-minute trip to Paris as an art courier: the person museums hire to fly valuable works of art to potential clients\, discreetly stowed in their carry-on luggage. Sipping her champagne in business-class\, she chats up her seatmate\, Nate\, a good-looking tech nerd who invites her to dinner in Paris. He doesn’t know she’s carrying drawings worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. \nBut after a romantic dinner and an even more romantic night together\, Joan wakes up next to her new lover to discover the drawings gone. Even more shocking is what’s been left in their place: a sketch from her father’s journals\, which she thought had been lost when he died on 9/11\, and a poem that reads like a treasure hunt. \nWith Nate as a sidekick\, Joan will follow the clues all over Paris—from its grand cathedrals to the romantic bistros to the twisty side streets of Monmarte—hoping to recover the lost art\, and her own sense of adventure. What she finds is even better than she’d expected. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Lian or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nMarie Bostwick is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of uplifting historical and women’s fiction\, including the popular Cobbled Court Quilt and Too Much\, Texas series of books. Her standalone books have also found a passionate following among lovers of women’s fiction. When not curled up with a good book\, Marie can usually be found in her office\, trying to write one. \nThe Restoration of Celia Fairchild is a wise\, witty\, and utterly compelling novel about a fired advice columnist who discovers lost and found family members in Charleston. \nCelia Fairchild\, known as advice columnist “Dear Calpurnia”\, has insight into everybody’s problems – except her own. Still bruised by the end of a marriage she thought was her last chance to create a family\, Celia receives an unexpected answer to a “Dear Birthmother” letter. Celia throws herself into proving she’s a perfect adoptive mother material – with a stable home and income – only to lose her job. Her one option: sell the Charleston house left to her by her recently departed\, estranged Aunt Calpurnia. \nArriving in Charleston\, Celia learns that Calpurnia had become a hoarder\, the house is a wreck\, and selling it will require a drastic\, rapid makeover. The task of renovation seems overwhelming and risky. But with the help of new neighbors\, old friends\, and an unlikely sisterhood of strong\, creative women who need her as much as she needs them\, Celia knits together the truth about her estranged family – and about herself. \nThe Restoration of Celia Fairchild is an unforgettable novel of secrets revealed\, laughter released\, creativity rediscovered\, and waves of wisdom. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Marie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nRobin Oliveira grew up just outside Albany\, New York in the town of Loudonville. She holds a B.A. in Russian from the University of Montana\, and studied at the Pushkin Language Institute in Moscow\, Russia. She worked for many years as a Registered Nurse\, specializing in Critical Care and Bone Marrow Transplant. In 2006 she received an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives outside of Seattle\, Washington\, with her husband\, Andrew Oliveira. She has two children\, Noelle Oliveira and Miles Oliveira. All three are the loves of her life. \nIn her novel\, Winter Sisters\, it’s New York\, 1879\, and an epic blizzard descends on Albany\, devastating the city. \nWhen the snow finally settles\, two newly orphaned girls are missing. Determined not to give up hope\, Dr. Mary Sutter\, a former Civil War surgeon\, searches for the two sisters. When what happened to them is finally revealed\, Dr. Sutter must fight the most powerful of Albany’s citizens\, risking personal and public danger as she seeks to protect the fragile\, putting at risk loves and lives in her quest to right unimaginable wrongs. \nAs contemporary as it is historic\, Winter Sisters is part gripping thriller\, part family saga\, and ultimately a story of trauma and resilience that explores the tremendous good and unspeakable evil of which humans are capable. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Robin or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n \nJanie Chang writes historical fiction with a personal connection\, drawing from a family history with 36 generations of recorded genealogy. She grew up listening to stories about life in a small Chinese town in the years before the Second World War and tales of ancestors who encountered dragons\, ghosts\, and immortals. She is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. She was the founder and main organizer of Authors for Indies. Her first novel\, Three Souls\, was a finalist for the 2014 BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. \nBased on true events\, rich in Chinese history and lore\, The Library of Legends is both an illuminating exploration of China’s recent past and an evocative tale of love\, sacrifice\, and the extraordinary power of storytelling. \nChina\, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking\, nineteen-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than a hundred students\, faculty\, and staff must walk a thousand miles to the safety of China’s western provinces\, a journey marred by hunger\, cold\, and the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just the student refugees who are at risk: Lian and her classmates have been entrusted with a priceless treasure\, a 500-year-old collection of myths and folklore known as the Library of Legends. \nHer family’s past has made Lian wary of forming attachments\, but the students’ common duty to safeguard the Library of Legends forms unexpected bonds. Lian finds friendship and a cautious romance with the handsome and wealthy Liu Shaoming. But after one classmate is murdered and another arrested\, Lian realizes she must escape from the convoy before a family secret puts her in danger. Accompanied by Shao and the enigmatic maidservant Sparrow\, Lian makes her way to Shanghai\, hoping to reunite with her mother. \nOn the journey\, Lian learns of the connection between her two companions and a tale from the Library of Legends\, The Willow Star and the Prince. Learning Shao and Sparrow’s true identities compels Lian to confront her feelings for Shao. But there are broader consequences too\, for as the ancient books travel across China\, they awaken immortals and guardian spirits to embark on an exodus of their own\, one that changes the country’s fate forever. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Janie 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 published by Sourcebooks Landmark\, Penguin Random House\, HarperCollins\, and Kensington Books. Her 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. \nInspired by an actual newspaper photograph that stunned the nation\, Sold on a Monday is a powerful novel of love\, redemption\, and the unexpected paths that bring us home. \nThe sign is a last resort. It sits on a farmhouse porch in 1931\, but could be found anywhere in an era of breadlines\, bank runs and broken dreams. It could have been written by any mother facing impossible choices. \nFor struggling reporter Ellis Reed\, the gut-wrenching scene evokes memories of his family’s dark past. He snaps a photograph of the children\, not meant for publication. But when it leads to his big break\, the consequences are more devastating than he ever imagined. \nKristina McMorris’s poignant historical novel will capture fans of Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate and The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly\, and inspire any book club. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kristina or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nAbout the Tulsa City-County\nWith more than 6 million items in its collections and a variety of programs\, the Tulsa City-County Library has something for everyone. \n \n  \nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Susan Meissner\, Lian Dolan\, Marie Bostwick\, Robin Oliveira\, Janie Chang\, and Kristina McMorris 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 Susan Meissner\, Lian Dolan\, Marie Bostwick\, Robin Oliveira\, Janie Chang\, and Kristina McMorris\,\nor any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/book-bingo-4-21-22/
CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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