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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/
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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
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CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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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
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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/
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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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SUMMARY:Scarlet Carnation: a virtual Fireside Adventure featuring bestselling author Laila Ibrahim
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIn an early twentieth-century America roiling with racial injustice\, class divides\, and WWI\, two women fight for their dreams. . . \nJoin award-winning author Laila Ibrahim on Fireside as she discusses her galvanizing new historical novel\, Scarlet Carnation. Grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Laila to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Laila. With other devices\, you can still listen live here to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of Scarlet Carnation\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Laila\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nLaila Ibrahim grew up in Whittier\, California on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County\, and moved to Oakland\, California to attend Mills College where she studied Psychology and Child Development. After getting a Master’s Degree in Human Development\, she realized she wanted to do more hands-on work with children\, and opened up her own preschool: Woolsey Children’s School. Her education and experiences as an educator and parent provide ample for her writing – especially her study of Attachment Theory and multiculturalism. \nShe identifies as a devout Unitarian Universalist – which is sort of like being a radical moderate – and worked as the Director of Children and Family Ministries at the First Unitarian Church of Oakland for five years. She lives in a small co-housing community in Berkeley with her wife\, Rinda\, a public school administrator. She is the proud mother of wonderful young adult daughters. \nIn her newest novel\, Scarlet Carnation\, it’s 1915. May and Naomi are extended family\, their grandmothers’ lives inseparably entwined on a Virginia plantation in the volatile time leading up to the Civil War. For both women\, the twentieth century promises social transformation and equal opportunity. \nMay\, a young white woman\, is on the brink of achieving the independent life she’s dreamed of since childhood. Naomi\, a nurse\, mother\, and leader of the NAACP\, has fulfilled her own dearest desire: buying a home for her family. But they both are about to learn that dreams can be destroyed in an instant. May’s future is upended\, and she is forced to rely once again on her mother. Meanwhile\, the white-majority neighborhood into which Naomi has moved is organizing against her while her sons are away fighting for their country. \nIn the tumult of a changing nation\, these two women―whose grandmothers survived the Civil War―support each other’s quest for liberation and dignity. Both find the strength to confront injustice and the faith to thrive on their chosen paths. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/laila-ibrahim-4-20-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Ukraine Fundraising Luncheon: an Authors for Peace Adventure featuring renowned authors Kaylie Jones and Elizabeth Cobbs
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!\nAbout the Event\nAdventures by the Book was founded eleven years ago with the goal of connecting people and communities\, one book at a time. In a world that is often divided and disconnected\, this is our way of bringing people together in unique\, interesting\, and adventurous ways through the power and magic of books. \nSo when we recently heard disturbing news that Pushkin Restaurant (where we previously held a sold out dinner Adventure with New York Times bestselling author Martha Hall Kelly) has been the target of mean spirited and hateful attacks that have caused them much distress and loss of business (having already suffered from the economic effects of Covid)\, how could we turn our backs on these lovely people who are so passionate about books that they named their restaurant after the famous Russian author\, Alexander Pushkin. \nWe hope you will join us for this special fundraising Adventure where our goals are to (1) show our solidarity and support of this fabulous restaurant\, (2) raise much needed funds for Pushkin’s Ukrainian based staff and other Ukrainian families in need\, and (3) unite in our support for Ukraine. As you indulge in an authentic feast prepared by their Ukrainian head chef\, hear from two award winning authors\, Kaylie Jones and Elizabeth Cobbs\, who will share their insightful and brilliant thoughts on the situation in Ukraine. \nYour event includes a deliciously authentic multi-course luncheon created by Pushkin’s Ukrainian head chef\, and served by their Ukrainian staff\, from appetizers\, to entrees\, to desserts\, all served family style to allow you a taste of many traditional dishes. Cost includes the luncheon feast\, tax\, and a soft beverage\, but DOES NOT include gratuity\, and we have a good reason for that! \nWe kindly ask you to bring cash for tipping\, so that you can donate as much or as little as you are able. There will be two tip jars available\, one of which will be divided amongst the Ukrainian staff to send home to their families\, and one of which will provide donations to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) for emergency supplies of food and medical care to refugee families. Donate your tips to one or to both and let’s show Ukraine that we Adventurers by the Book are indeed changing the world\, one book at a time! \nCan’t attend the event\, but want to help? Click on one of the donation options below and we will make sure to add your generous donation to support the Ukrainian people. \nNOTE: Adventures by the Book is volunteering our services for this event. All proceeds from the event will be divided between the Ukrainian staff at Pushkin and the IRC. \n\n\nAbout the Authors and Books\nElizabeth Cobbs is an award-winning historian who brings fresh\, unexpected perspectives to our understanding of the past and present. Building upon worldwide research and extraordinary life experiences\, Elizabeth writes bestselling fiction and non-fiction that is both scholarly and witty. Her path-breaking books\, articles\, and documentary films reveal a world that is as intriguing and surprising as it is real. \nElizabeth earned her Ph.D. in American history at Stanford University. She now holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair at Texas A&M University. Her books have won four literary prizes\, two for American history and two for fiction\, and she has won four prizes for documentary filmmaking. Elizabeth has been a Fulbright scholar in Ireland and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington\, D.C. She has served on the Historical Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department and on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History. \nHer book\, American Umpire\, offers a powerful new framework for reassessing the country’s role over the past 250 years. Amid urgent questions about future choices\, this book asks who\, if not the United States\, might enforce these new rules of world order? \nCommentators frequently call the United States an empire: occasionally a benign empire\, sometimes an empire in denial\, and often a destructive empire. Elizabeth Cobbs asserts instead that\, because of its unusual federal structure\, America has performed the role of umpire since 1776\, compelling adherence to rules that gradually earned collective approval. \n\n  \nKaylie Jones is the author of seven critically-acclaimed and award-winning books\, including a memoir\, Lies My Mother Never Told Me\, and her most recent novel\, The Anger Meridian. Her novel\, A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries\, was adapted as a Merchant Ivory film in 1998. Kaylie studied Russian language and literature for many years and spent a total of seven months at the Pushkin Institute in Moscow\, during the summer of 1984 and winter/spring of 1987. \nKaylie has been teaching for more than twenty-five years\, and is a faculty member in the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program and in Wilkes University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. She is the author of Speak Now and the editor of Long Island Noir. Her newest endeavor is her publishing imprint with Akashic Books\, Kaylie Jones Books. \nIn her riveting memoir\, Lies My Mother Never Told Me\, Kaylie—the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right—tells the poignant story of her relationship with her famous father and her alcoholic mother\, and of her own struggles with the disease. A true story of privilege\, loss\, self-discovery\, and redemption\, Lies My Mother Never Told Me is Jones’s unforgettable account of a not-quite-fairy-tale childhood and adulthood defined by two constants: literature and alcohol. \n\n\n\nAbout Pushkin Restaurant\n \nPushkin Russian Restaurant proudly bears the name of the great Russian author Alexander Pushkin (1799 – 1837) – the poet\, playwright\, and prose writer who is credited with establishing modern Russian literature through his reinvention of classical Russian poetry. Since our opening in October 2015\, we have focused on bringing out the authenticity and deep history of cuisines from all across the former Soviet nations\, which had a tremendous impact on dishes that are popular in Russia today. \nOffering classic Russian/Ukranian cuisine with French and modern touch\, the main idea for their dishes comes from classic recipes but is modernized in a new and unique way. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/ukraine-fundraiser-4-3-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:The Diamond Eye: a virtual Zoom Adventure featuring NYT bestselling author Kate Quinn
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nDiamonds may be a girl’s best friend\, but New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn’s protagonist is anything but a girl’s best friend. Join us\, in partnership with HarperCollins\, as Kate launches her new novel\, The Diamond Eye\, an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. \nYour Adventure includes a moderated author discussion\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to meet this bestselling author virtually via Zoom! The event is FREE and open to the public. \nHowever\, if you are a die-hard Kate Quinn fan (and who isn’t!!)\, check out the Diamond VIP Event option below\, which includes an autographed hardcover copy of The Diamond Eye\, tax\, and shipping within the US\, as well as an extra 30 minutes of Zoom time with the author prior to the event. \nDiamond VIP Event: 3:30pm Pacific time/4:30pm Mtn/5:30pm Central/6:30pm Eastern \nGeneral Admission: 4:00pm Pacific time/5:00pm Mtn/6:00pm Central/7:00pm Eastern \n*This event will be held virtually via Zoom. Event access is provided via Zoom link provided directly to you via HarperCollins. \n  \n\nAbout the Author and Book\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. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/kate-quinn-3-31-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:The Hello Girls: a Fireside Virtual Adventure with award-winning historian and author Elizabeth Cobbs
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nJust in time to commemorate the centennial of WWI\, award-winning historian and author Elizabeth Cobbs\, Ph.D.\, has written The Hello Girls\, the defining account of the first women to serve in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. So grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Elizabeth to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Elizabeth. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of The Hello Girls\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.\, a live Fireside chat with Elizabeth\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nAward-winning historian Elizabeth Cobbs brings fresh\, unexpected perspectives to our understanding of the past and present. Building upon worldwide research and extraordinary life experiences\, Elizabeth writes best-selling fiction and non-fiction that is both scholarly and witty. Her path-breaking books\, articles\, and documentary films reveal a world that is as intriguing and surprising as it is real. \nElizabeth earned her Ph.D. in American history at Stanford University. She now holds the Melbern Glasscock Chair at Texas A&M University. Her books have won four literary prizes\, two for American history and two for fiction\, and she has won four prizes for documentary filmmaking. Elizabeth has been a Fulbright scholar in Ireland and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington\, D.C. She has served on the Historical Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department and on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History. \nHer book\, The Hello Girls\, tells the untold story of how America’s first women soldiers helped win World War I\, earned the vote and fought the US Army. \nIn 1918\, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing’s explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote\, these courageous young women swore the army oath and settled into their new roles. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers wooed\, mocked\, and ultimately celebrated them. \nThe army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920\, the year Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. When they sailed home\, they were unexpectedly dismissed without veterans’ benefits and began a sixty-year battle that a handful of survivors carried to triumph in 1979. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/the-hello-girls-a-fireside-virtual-adventure/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Live Ukrainian Refugee Stories: a Virtual Fundraising Adventure featuring REFUGEES/EVACUEES REPORTING LIVE FROM BULGARIA
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual Fundraiser: Reporting Live from Bulgaria\nAs the horror of the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolds\, and we have been watching the devastating images and statistics telecast from Ukraine\, we certainly cannot imagine what it must be like for individual Ukrainians to survive on a daily basis\, where one day they are living and loving in their beloved homes\, and the next they are fleeing to nearby countries like Poland and Bulgaria\, and worrying about their loved ones and where they will live and how they will eat. \nBecause Adventures by the Book was founded with the goal of connecting people and communities\, one story (or book) at a time\, we felt compelled to share some of these very personal Ukrainian stories with you. Through the magic of Zoom\, we will be bringing to you LIVE some of those very stories. \nMeet some of the Ukrainian refugees and evacuees personally affected by the war\, and hear their personal stories. Translated from Bulgaria by Mexican citizen Luis Alejandro Figueroa\, who moved to Ukraine this past year to reunite with his girlfriend after a two-year Covid separation\, Luis and others* will share their personal stories with you of their own love story and evacuations. \nWith the recent invasion of Ukraine\, there isn’t a better opportunity to show the world what the power of stories and personal connection can do. Please join these brave Ukrainian refugees and evacuees for this virtual fundraising event to benefit the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in their important work of aiding Ukrainian refugees who need urgent medical\, housing\, and food assistance. \nLet’s show our solidarity and support of the Ukrainian people while raising much needed funds for the IRC. Donate below because Adventurers by the Book are indeed changing the world\, one story at a time! \nClick on one of the donation options below and we will make sure to add your generous donation to support the Ukrainian people. \nNOTE: Adventures by the Book is volunteering our services for this event. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the IRC. If you have already made a donation through Adventures by the Book\, an additional donation is not needed (unless you so desire) to join this virtual event. You will receive a Zoom invite shortly. \n*Due to the dire situation\, we are unsure how many or whom will be attending our Zoom event. \n\nAbout the In-Person Fundraiser\nIf you are in the San Diego or SoCal area\, you can join our live and in-person fundraising lunch at Pushkin Restaurant on Sunday\, April 3\, featuring renowned authors Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman and Kaylie Jones. \n\n\n  \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/ukraine-fundraising-3-28-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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DTSTAMP:20260526T012035
CREATED:20220113T060036Z
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SUMMARY:A Ballad of Love and Glory: a Live and In-Person Adventure with Award-Winning Author Reyna Grande
DESCRIPTION:About the FREE In-Person Event\n  \n\nAfter nearly a two-year COVID hiatus\, we are thrilled to announce that live and in-person events with the Carlsbad City Library continue! Please join us live and in-person for another fun Adventure featuring award-winning author\, Reyna Grande\, as she discusses her sweeping new historical saga\, A Ballad of Love and Glory. \nThis FREE Adventure includes a book discussion\, Q&A\, author signing\, and an opportunity to meet Reyna Grande. \nBooks are available for pre-order (below) to be delivered at the event for signing\, or you may purchase your book at the event. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n  \nWriting about immigration\, family separation\, language trauma\, the price of the American Dream\, and her writing journey\, Reyna Grande’s work has appeared in The New York Times\, the Dallas Morning News\, CNN\, The Lily at The Washington Post\, Buzzfeed\, among others. In March 2020\, she was a guest in Oprah’s Book Club. Reyna has received an American Book Award\, the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award\, and the International Latino Book Award. In 2012\, she was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards\, and in 2015 she was honored with a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. \nHer latest novel\, A Ballad of Love and Glory\, follows a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight\, at first for their survival and then for their love\, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War. The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas\, the US Army marches south to provoke war with México over the disputed Río Grande boundary.​ \nXimena Salomé is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead\, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband’s memory and defend her country\, Ximena uses her healing skills as an army nurse on the frontlines of the ravaging war. \nMeanwhile\, John Riley\, an Irish immigrant in the Yankee army desperate to help his family escape the famine devastating his homeland\, is sickened by the unjust war and the unspeakable atrocities against his countrymen by nativist officers. In a bold act of defiance\, he swims across the Río Grande and joins the Mexican Army—a desertion punishable by execution. He forms the St. Patrick’s Battalion\, a band of Irish soldiers willing to fight to the death for México’s freedom. \nWhen Ximena and John meet\, a dangerous attraction blooms between them. As the war intensifies\, so does their passion. Swept up by forces with the power to change history\, they fight not only for the fate of a nation but for their future together. \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. Please contact the Library directly for questions regarding the event. While admission is free and open to the public\, seating is offered on a space-available basis and is first-come\, first-served.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/a-ballad-of-love-and-glory/
CATEGORIES:Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:A Ballad of Love and Glory: a San Diego Brunch Adventure with Award-Winning Author Reyna Grande
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In Person\, Event\n\nWho doesn’t love a beautifully written ballad? Leave it to award-winning author Reyna Grande to create A Ballad of Love and Glory\, her sweeping new historical saga set during the Mexican-American War. \nJoin one of our favorite authors at one of our favorite restaurants\, Café Coyote in Old Town for this special morning Adventure that includes a delicious Mexican brunch\, chips and salsa\, a soft beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, author presentation\, book signing\, and the opportunity to engage in meaningful and intimate conversation with Reyna as she discusses her new book. \nAnd if you want to enjoy the full VIP experience\, make sure to select the VIP Event option below\, which includes brunch\, together with a margarita (or mimosa or bloody mary)\, priority seating\, and a hardcover copy of A Ballad of Love and Glory. \nPLEASE NOTE: Only books purchased below or at the event will be eligible for signing. \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\nWriting about immigration\, family separation\, language trauma\, the price of the American Dream\, and her writing journey\, Reyna Grande’s work has appeared in The New York Times\, the Dallas Morning News\, CNN\, The Lily at The Washington Post\, Buzzfeed\, among others. In March 2020\, she was a guest in Oprah’s Book Club. Reyna has received an American Book Award\, the El Premio Aztlán Literary Award\, and the International Latino Book Award. In 2012\, she was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Awards\, and in 2015 she was honored with a Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. \nHer latest novel\, A Ballad of Love and Glory\, follows a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight\, at first for their survival and then for their love\, amidst the atrocity of the Mexican-American War. The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas\, the US Army marches south to provoke war with México over the disputed Río Grande boundary.​ \nXimena Salomé is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead\, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband’s memory and defend her country\, Ximena uses her healing skills as an army nurse on the frontlines of the ravaging war. \nMeanwhile\, John Riley\, an Irish immigrant in the Yankee army desperate to help his family escape the famine devastating his homeland\, is sickened by the unjust war and the unspeakable atrocities against his countrymen by nativist officers. In a bold act of defiance\, he swims across the Río Grande and joins the Mexican Army—a desertion punishable by execution. He forms the St. Patrick’s Battalion\, a band of Irish soldiers willing to fight to the death for México’s freedom. \nWhen Ximena and John meet\, a dangerous attraction blooms between them. As the war intensifies\, so does their passion. Swept up by forces with the power to change history\, they fight not only for the fate of a nation but for their future together. \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!
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/reyna-grande-brunch/
CATEGORIES:Brunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220315T170000
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SUMMARY:Conversations in Race: a 5-part virtual Fireside Adventure with Emmy award winning TV director and award winning author Jeffrey Blount
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nNever before have we hosted a five-part Adventure based on one book. However\, award-winning author Jeffrey Blount’s powerful novel\, The Emancipation of Evan Walls\, has inspired us to do just that. \nOur Conversations in Race virtual Fireside Adventure by the Book series\, featuring the author in conversation with Adventures by the Book founder Susan McBeth\, will focus on five different characters (or sets of characters) who offer a different perspective on race\, allowing us a unique opportunity to have a meaningful\, educational\, and respectful dialogue that opens our minds\, our hearts\, and our world. \nWhile not necessary to participate in the event\, we strongly encourage you to read a copy of The Emancipation of Evan Walls so you have a deeper and richer understanding of the characters and their inherent challenges as we chat live on our virtual stage. We hope you will join us for this important series\, and make sure to bring your questions\, your open mind\, and your heart. \nUpcoming Conversations in Race Schedule\nSERIES 1: Tuesday\, February 15\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 2: Tuesday\, February 22\, 4:00pm Pacific/7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 3: Thursday\, March 3\, 4:00pm/ Pacific7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 4: Friday\, March 11\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\nSERIES 5: Tuesday\, March 15\, 4:00pmPacific/7:00pm Eastern\n\n\nTo join any part of this series on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply register for event(s) admission(s) below. You can also purchase a signed copy of The Emancipation of Evan Walls to be shipped directly to you. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Jeffrey and Susan. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nJeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of three novels — Almost Snow White\, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards. Hating Heidi Foster\, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature. The Emancipation of Evan Walls\, winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Award for African American fiction\, winner of the 2019 Readers Favorite Book Award\, winner of the 2019 American Bookfest Best Book Award\, and a Shelf Unbound 2019 Notable Book. \nHe is also an Emmy award-winning television director and a 2016 inductee to the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. During a 34-year career at NBC News\, Jeffrey directed a decade of Meet The Press\, The Today Show\, NBC Nightly News\, and major special events. \nIn his book\, The Emancipation of Evan Walls\, Evan Walls has been married to his wife Izzy for years\, yet she knows nothing about half of his life. That part of him he put away long ago and they have lived peacefully alongside the dead spot it has left in their love. However\, the birth of their first child changes everything. Evan\, fearful of a reincarnation of his childhood in the life of his new daughter\, finally finds the courage to tell his wife. Desperate\, he hopes that she can help him protect their child. \nIt is June 1968. The Civil Rights movement is winding down after the death of Martin Luther King\, Jr. Negroes in the town of Canaan\, Virginia has been used to acting the same\, thinking the same and sharing in the unadulterated hatred of a common enemy. Evan is ten years old and\, in the jargon of the times\, young\, gifted and black. In the presence of his parents and a summer porch gathering of their friends\, he makes a startling declaration. From that moment on\, the central question of his life is born. Is he black enough? \nEvan has a dream that will turn the sleepy town of Canaan upside down\, forcing him to walk the slippery and angry slope between blacks and whites. In time\, his dream disintegrates a family\, a marriage\, countless friendships and a dramatic first love. Only his great-grandmother\, Mama Jennie and mentor\, Bojack\, help him fight to keep his dream alive. And only Izzy can help him come to grips with what he learns from telling his traumatic life story. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/conversations-in-race-a-5-part-fireside-adventure/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220309T170000
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CREATED:20220127T031438Z
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SUMMARY:The Next Ship Home: a virtual Ellis Island Adventure featuring NYT bestselling author Heather Webb in conversation with Susan Meissner
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nToday\, Ellis Island is a poetic symbol of the American Dream\, but it wasn’t always that way. . . Join New York Times bestselling author Heather Webb\, in conversation with USA Today bestselling author Susan Meissner as they unravel Ellis Islands’ important history through their respective novels\, The Next Ship Home and A Fall of Marigolds. \nGrab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and join us for a virtual Fireside Adventure on Ellis Island\, where you can chat live with the authors to discuss their books\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual Adventure on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase event admission below or\, better yet\, purchase Heather’s book (or a discounted two-pack) and receive FREE event admission. Prior to the event\, we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Heather and Susan. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \n\n\nAbout the Authors and Books\nHeather Webb is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of seven historical novels. In 2015\, Rodin’s Lover was a Goodread’s Top Pick\, and in 2018\, Last Christmas in Paris won the Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award. Meet Me in Monaco\, was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Goldsboro RNA award in the UK\, as well as the 2019 Digital Book World’s Fiction prize. To date\, Heather’s books have been translated into over a dozen languages.  She lives in New England with her family and one feisty rabbit. \nHeather’s novel\, The Next Ship Home\, is inspired by true events and reveals the dark secrets of Ellis Island as two unlikely friends challenge a corrupt system\, altering their fate and the lives of the immigrants that come after them. \nA young Italian woman arrives on the shores of America\, her sights set on a better life. That same day\, a young American woman reports to her first day of work at the immigration center. \nBut Ellis Island isn’t a refuge for Francesca or Alma\, not when ships depart every day with those who are refused entry to the country and when corruption ripples through every corridor. While Francesca resorts to desperate measures to ensure she will make it off the island\, Alma fights for her dreams of becoming a translator\, even as women are denied the chance. As the two women face the misdeeds of a system known to manipulate and abuse immigrants searching for new hope in America\, they form an unlikely friendship—and share a terrible secret—altering their fates and the lives of the immigrants who come after them. \n  \n \n\nSusan Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with more than three-quarters of a million books in print in 18 languages. Her novels include The Last Year of the War\, named to Real Simple magazine’s list of best books for 2019; As Bright as Heaven\, which earned a starred review in Library Journal; Secrets of  Charmed Life\, a Goodreads finalist for Best Historical Fiction 2015; and A Fall of Marigolds\, named to Booklist’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction titles for 2014. \n\nIn her compelling\, emotional novel\, A Fall of Marigolds\, a beautiful scarf connects two women touched by tragedy. \nSeptember 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor\, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning to Manhattan\, where the man she loved fell to his death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Then\, while caring for a fevered immigrant whose own loss mirrors hers\, she becomes intrigued by a name embroidered onto the scarf he carries…and finds herself caught in a dilemma that compels her to confront the truth about the assumptions she’s made. What she learns could devastate her—or free her. \nSeptember 2011. On Manhattan’s Upper West Side\, widow Taryn Michaels has convinced herself that she is living fully\, working in a charming specialty fabric store and raising her daughter alone. Then a long-lost photograph appears in a national magazine\, and she is forced to relive the terrible day her husband died in the collapse of the World Trade Towers…the same day a stranger reached out and saved her. But a chance reconnection and a century-old scarf may open Taryn’s eyes to the larger forces at work in her life. \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/heather-webb-3-9-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T173000
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SUMMARY:The Women of Chateau Lafayette: a Reading Between the Vines virtual Adventure with NYT bestselling author Stephanie Dray & wine presentation by Chateau Lafayette Reneau
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nWe are thrilled to announce the launch of our new series\, Reading Between the Vines\, offering fun pairings of books and wines. And we couldn’t be more pleased than to launch with New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray to celebrate the paperback release of The Women of Chateau Lafayette\, her epic saga based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy. \nAnd since at the heart of this extraordinary novel are three extraordinary women\, Chateau Lafayette Reneau has selected three wines that complement each of our heroine’s unique sense of spirit. \nThe Women of Chateau Lafayette is recommended by Oprah Magazine ∙ Cosmo ∙ PopSugar ∙ SheReads ∙ Parade ∙ and more! \n Grab a glass of wine and join us and New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray\, as she discusses her novel\, The Women of Chateau Lafayette\, the story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy. Stephanie’s moving\, beautifully written story unflinchingly describes the toll that war and the fight for democracy takes on us all. And perhaps more poignantly\, it reminds us that we are forever connected to our past. \nEvent admission includes a paperback copy of The Women of Chateau Lafayette\, tax\, shipping within the U.S.and Canada\, author discussion\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to meet this bestselling author virtually via Zoom! Wine pairing offered by Chateau Lafayette Reneau is optional and sold separately (click here to learn more). \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 Author and Book\nStephanie Dray is a New York Times\, Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author of historical women’s fiction\, including blockbusters America’s First Daughter and My Dear Hamilton. Her award-winning work has been translated into eight languages and tops lists for the most anticipated reads of the year. She lives in Maryland with her husband\, cats\, and history books. \nHer historical novel\, The Women of Chateau Lafayette\, now out in paperback\, is an epic saga based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy. Most castles are protected by men. This one by women. \nA founding mother…\n1774. Gently-bred noblewoman Adrienne Lafayette becomes her husband\, the Marquis de Lafayette’s political partner in the fight for American independence. But when their idealism sparks revolution in France and the guillotine threatens everything she holds dear\, Adrienne must renounce the complicated man she loves\, or risk her life for a legacy that will inspire generations to come. \nA daring visionary…\n1914. Glittering New York socialite Beatrice Chanler is a force of nature\, daunted by nothing–not her humble beginnings\, her crumbling marriage\, or the outbreak of war. But after witnessing the devastation in France firsthand\, Beatrice takes on the challenge of a lifetime: convincing America to fight for what’s right. \nA reluctant resistor…\n1940. French school-teacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an orphan’s self-reliance and wants nothing to do with war. But as the realities of Nazi occupation transform her life in the isolated castle where she came of age\, she makes a discovery that calls into question who she is\, and more importantly\, who she is willing to become. \nIntricately woven and powerfully told\, The Women of Chateau Lafayette is a sweeping novel about duty and hope\, love and courage\, and the strength we take from those who came before us. \n\nAbout the Winery\n \nWe are grateful for the opportunity to partner with Adventures By the Book to celebrate the re-release of The Women of Chateau Lafayette. Inspired by the book\, our women-led management team designed a 3-pack of our Estate wines for readers to enjoy during our virtual happy hour with author Stephanie Dray\, or anytime while reading The Women of Chateau Lafayette. \nFeatured event 3 pack of wines (click here to learn more and to order) \nFor over 35 years\, since 1985\, Chateau LaFayette Reneau has produced Estate-grown vinifera wines. Our 110-acre family owned and operated Estate is located in New York’s Finger Lakes and provides the optimal sun exposure and air flow necessary to produce aromatic white wines and rich\, full-bodied red wines. \nOur commitment to quality and integrity in grape growing and winemaking results in the finest wines. In addition to countless awards and Gold medals\, we are home to three highly acclaimed Governor’s Cup Awards and five Jefferson Cups. \n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/stephanie-dray-3-2-22/
CATEGORIES:Event,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T170000
DTSTAMP:20260526T012035
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231113T185806Z
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SUMMARY:The First\, the Few\, the Only: an ABTB Means Business Fireside Adventure with nFormation's Deepa Purushothaman and Fireside's Falon Fatemi
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nFor over ten years\, Adventures by the Book has been offering our signature one-of-a-kind\, multi-sensorial events and travels with authors. That’s because when it comes to connecting people and communities with books\, we mean business! \nAnd now\, we are taking that mission quite literally and are thrilled to welcome you to join the next in our new Adventures by the Book Means Business series\, offering you the opportunity to meet some of the greatest minds in the business world. \n \nAnd speaking of the greatest minds in business\, we are thrilled to celebrate the first day of Women’s History Month with Deepa Purushothaman\, co-founder of nFormation professional community for women of color\, as she discusses her inspiring new book\, The First\, the Few\, the Only\, with Fireside co-founder and CEO Falon Fatemi. \nHere is your chance to join the live conversation between Deepa and Falon\, on the exciting new platform that Falon co-founded\, to discuss The First\, the Few\, the Only.  Learn how to support their deeply personal call to action for women of color to find power from within and to join together in community. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of The First\, the Few\, the Only (with signed bookplate)\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside discussion with Deepa and Falon\, Q&A\, and the unique opportunity to converse live* with these brilliant creative artists and innovators. \n*Admission to this event is unique\, as Fireside is open by invite only. Simply purchase a book below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. Use your iPhone or iPad to chat live with the authors on the virtual stage; however\, or listen to the live broadcast on all other devices. Event access is provided via instructions emailed to you the week of the event. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nDeepa Purushothaman is the author of The First\, The Few\, The Only: How Women of Color can Redefine Power in Corporate America and the co-founder of nFormation\, a company that provides a brave\, safe\, and new space for professionals who are women of color. \nPrior to this\, Deepa spent more than twenty years at Deloitte and was ‘a first’: an Indian American woman and one of the youngest people to make partner in the company’s history. In her time there\, she helped grow Deloitte’s Social Impact Practice\, served as a National Managing Partner of Inclusion\, and served as the Managing Partner of WIN—the firm’s renowned program to recruit\, retain\, and advance women. \nThe First\, The Few\, The Only is a deeply personal call to action for women of color to find power from within and to join together in community\, advocating for a new corporate environment where we all belong—and are accepted—on our own terms. \nWomen of color comprise one of the fastest-growing segments in the corporate workforce\, yet often we are underrepresented—among the first\, few\, or only ones in a department or company. For too long\, corporate structures\, social zeitgeist\, and cultural conditioning have left us feeling exhausted and downtrodden\, believing that in order to “fit in” and be successful\, we must hide or change who we are. \nAs a former senior partner at a large global services firm\, Deepa Purushothaman experienced these feelings of isolation and burnout. She met with hundreds of other women of color across industries and cultural backgrounds\, eager to hear about their unique and shared experiences. In doing so\, she has come to understand our collective setbacks—and the path forward in achieving our goals. \nBusiness must evolve—and women of color have the potential to lead that transformation. We must begin by pushing back against toxic messaging—including the things we tell ourselves—while embracing the valuable cultural viewpoints and experiences that give us unique perspectives at work. By fully realizing our own strengths\, we can build collective power and use it to confront microaggressions\, outdated norms\, and workplace misconceptions; create cultures where belonging is never conditional; and rework corporations to be genuinely inclusive to all. \n  \n\n\nAbout the Moderator\n\n\nFalon Fatemi co-founded interactive entertainment platform Fireside with Mark Cuban and Mike Ihbe. Previously she was the Founder of Node\, the first horizontal AI-as-a-service platform that enables users of business applications to see into the future by putting the power of prediction into third-party applications with 4 simple API calls. Node had raised $40M from top tier investors and was acquired by SugarCRM in Aug of 2020. \nIn September 2020\, Falon was listed as Fortune’s 40 under 40 as one of the most influential people in Technology: https://fortune.com/40-under-40/2020/falon-fatemi/. \nPreviously\, at age 19\, Falon was the youngest employee at Google and has spent over a decade focused on go-to-market strategy\, global expansion\, and strategic partnerships at Google\, YouTube\, and the startup world. \nIn her free time\, Falon writes a column for Forbes covering company building in Silicon Valley and how AI is impacting the future of work forbes.com/sites/falonfatemi/. In 2019 she was recognized as Goldman Sachs top 100 intriguing entrepreneurs and in Inc Magazine as a Science Pioneer in the top 100 Women Building America’s Most Innovative and Ambitious Businesses. \nIn 2018 she was recognized in Fast Company as one of the top 100 Most Creative People in Business and in SFBusiness Times as one of the 40 under 40 visionaries changing the bay area and the world. In 2017\, Falon was deemed “The Rainmaker” as one of the 50 women on Marie Claire’s New Guard list comprised of “female visionaries changing the world we live in.” She is also a contributor for Entrepreneur Magazine\, and has written articles for Wired\, Business Insider\, Fast Company\, Venturebeat\, Re/Code\, TechCrunch\, Huffington Post and more. \n\n  \n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. \nDuring the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n\n\n\nSave
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CATEGORIES:ABTB Means Business,Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:All the Ways We Said Goodbye: a Southwestern Yacht Club Lunch Adventure with NYT bestselling authors Karen White and Beatriz Williams
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nIt’s time to sail forward with our 2022 Adventures by the Book live and in-person events\, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to set course with the second in our exciting new author series to be held at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club. \nThe New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s. You won’t want to miss this opportunity to have lunch at the esteemed Southwestern Yacht Club in the beautiful Point Loma residential area within the Shelter Island Yacht Basin with NYT bestselling authors Karen White and Beatriz Williams as they discuss their novel\, All the Ways We Said Goodbye.  \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of All the Ways We Said Goodbye to be delivered and signed at the event\, lunch\, beverage\, tax\, gratuity\, and the opportunity to meet Karen and Beatriz live and in-person. \n  \n\nAbout the Authors\nKaren White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 29 books\, including the Tradd Street series\, The Last Night in London\, Dreams of Falling\, The Night the Lights Went Out\, Flight Patterns\, The Sound of Glass\, and A Long Time Gone. She is the co-author of All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. \nNot entirely convinced she wanted to be a writer\, Karen first pursued a career in business and graduated cum laude with a BS in Management from Tulane University. Ten years later\, in a weak moment\, she wrote her first book. In the Shadow of the Moon was published in August\, 2000. Her books—referred to as “grit lit” (Southern Women’s Fiction)—have since been nominated for numerous national contests including the SIBA (Southeastern Booksellers Alliance) Fiction Book of the Year. \nShe grew up in London but now lives with her husband near Atlanta\, Georgia. \n  \n\n \nBeatriz Williams is the New York Times\, USA Today\, and internationally bestselling author of Our Woman in Moscow\, The Summer Wives\, Her Last Flight\, The Golden Hour\, The Secret Life of Violet Grant\, A Hundred Summers\, and several other works of historical fiction\, including three novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. \nA graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University\, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before she turned her attention to writing novels that combine her passion for history with an obsessive devotion to voice and characterization. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards\, have been translated into more than a dozen languages\, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world. \nBorn in Seattle\, Washington\, Beatriz now lives near the Connecticut shore with her husband and four children\, where she divides her time between writing and laundry. \n\n  \n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\nIn All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, three women’s fates are joined by one splendid hotel… \nFrance\, 1914. As war breaks out\, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father\, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate\, using it as their headquarters\, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp\, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer first met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. Despite their conflicting loyalties\, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love\, but betrayal will shatter them both\, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz—the home of her estranged American heiress mother\, with unexpected consequences. \nFrance\, 1942. Raised by her indomitable\, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz\, Marguerite “Daisy” Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband\, a Nazi collaborator\, after France falls to Hitler. At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother’s Resistance efforts\, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand\, who creates identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees. But as Daisy is drawn ever deeper into Legrand’s underground network\, committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake of the country—and the man—she holds dear\, she uncovers a devastating secret … one that will force her to commit the ultimate betrayal and to confront at last the shocking circumstances of her own family history. \nFrance\, 1964. For Barbara “Babs” Langford\, her husband\, Kit\, was the love of her life. Yet their marriage was haunted by a mysterious woman known only as La Fleur. On Kit’s death\, American lawyer Andrew “Drew” Bowdoin appears at her door. Hired to find a Resistance fighter-turned traitor known as “La Fleur\,” the investigation has led to Kit Langford. Curious to know more about the enigmatic La Fleur\, Babs joins Drew in his search\, a journey of discovery that takes them to Paris and the Ritz—and to unexpected places of the heart…. \n\n  \n\nAbout Southwestern Yacht Club\nSouthwestern Yacht Club is one of the largest\, oldest\, and most prestigious yacht clubs in San Diego\, California. SWYC was formed in 1925 by visionary yachting enthusiasts looking for ways to enjoy each other’s company and to share their passion for boating. Since then\, the Club has developed into a full-service operation with more than 800 members embracing all forms of yachting\, fishing\, and social activities\, all while earning a reputation as being the friendliest club in the area. \n \n\n\n\n\nSave
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/all-the-ways-we-said-goodbye-a-southwestern-yacht-club-lunch-adventure/
CATEGORIES:Event,Lunch Adventures,San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:A Girl From Africa: a Fireside Virtual Adventure with U.N. Special Advisor and Humanitarian Elizabeth Nyamayaro
DESCRIPTION:  About the Event\nImagine a little African girl who has a near-death experience\, yet somehow manages to empower herself and spark a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world. Well\, imagine no more\, because that is exactly the remarkable story that award-winning humanitarian Elizabeth Nyamayaro shares in her victorious memoir\, I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment\, Community\, and Hope.  \nIn our Fireside chat with Elizabeth\, you will learn about her vivid life and her extraordinary story of persevering through incredible odds to find her true calling—while delivering an important message of hope\, empowerment\, community support\, and interdependence. \nYour Adventure features a live conversation with the author on the exciting new virtual storytelling platform Fireside\, where you can converse live with Elizabeth on our virtual stage about her profound book\, I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment\, Community\, and Hope.  \nTo join our virtual event\, simply purchase a book below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Elizabeth. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment\, Community\, and Hope\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Elizabeth\, and Q&A. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\n  \nElizabeth Nyamayaro is an award-winning humanitarian and Special Advisor at the United Nations World Food Programme. Born in Zimbabwe\, Elizabeth has worked at the forefront of global development for over two decades improving the lives of underserved populations and has held leadership roles at the World Bank\, World Health Organization\, UNAIDS\, and UN Women. \nRecognized as Apolitico’s 100 Most Influential People in Gender Policy 2018 & 2019\, Elizabeth is a leading gender expert and recipient of the Feminist Majority Foundation’s prestigious Global Women’s Rights Award for her work on behalf of women and girls globally. Elizabeth is a Political Scientist by training and holds a MSc in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. \nHer book\, I Am a Girl from Africa: A Memoir of Empowerment\, Community\, and Hope\, is a profound and soul-nourishing memoir from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world. \nWhen severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe\, Elizabeth Nyamayaro\, then only eight\, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life’s purpose. Unable to move from hunger and malnourishment\, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her life—a transformative moment that inspired Elizabeth to dedicate herself to giving back to her community\, her continent\, and the world. \nIn the decades that have followed\, Elizabeth has been instrumental in creating change and uplifting the lives of others: by fighting global inequalities\, advancing social justice for vulnerable communities\, and challenging the status quo to accelerate women’s rights around the world. She has served as a senior advisor at the United Nations\, where she launched HeForShe\, one of the world’s largest global solidarity movements for gender equality. In I Am a Girl from Africa\, she charts this “journey of perseverance” (Entertainment Weekly) from her small village of Goromonzi to Harare\, Zimbabwe; London; New York; and beyond\, always grounded by the African concept of ubuntu—“I am because we are”—taught to her by her beloved grandmother. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\n  \nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\nSave
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CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Sainted in Error: a Wine & Cheese Garden Adventure with award-winning writer Glenda Winders
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\n\nWhat do you wear when you testify against your best friend as she goes on trial for murder? You might just want to sit down with a glass of wine and nibbles to hear how award-winning author Glenda Winders delves into this question and the tenacity of friendship in her new novel\, Sainted in Error. \nYour relaxing Garden Adventure includes wine\, cheese\, a paperback copy of Sainted in Error to be delivered at the event for signing\, and the opportunity to meet the award-winning author. Seating is limited\, so make sure to register soon to guarantee your seat. \nAdditional books will be available for purchase and signing at the event\, or pre-order your paperback copy of Sainted in Error to be shipped directly to you if you are unable to attend in person. \nPan’s Outdoor Garden:\nPan’s Outdoor Garden is a private residence near downtown San Diego; the address will be emailed to you a week prior to the event.  \n  \nAbout the Author and Book\n \nGlenda Winders is an award-winning fiction writer\, editor\, and journalist whose work has appeared in major magazines and newspapers nationwide. Her first novel\, The Nine Assignments\, was published in 2016. She lives with her husband in Columbus\, Indiana. \nHer book\, Sainted in Error\, delves into the tenacity of friendship and the damage that the stigma still attached to mental illness can do. \nAs Maggie Patterson runs her hand over the clothes in her closet and muses about the prosaic details of preparing for a shockingly personal murder trial\, she is catapulted into the memories that led her to this moment. Piece by piece\, she assembles the fragments of her past to make sense of a violent crime\, the echoes of which ripple through her recollections. \nMaggie and Cynthia meet as college freshmen and are seemingly destined to be best friends for life. As the years pass\, however\, Maggie’s marriage and career lift her to success and wealth while Cynthia’s jealousy and untreated mental illness cause their relationship to disintegrate. As the stories of the two women’s lives unfold\, Cynthia’s paranoia and anger sour every relationship she has and turn even the people who have loved her most against her\, ultimately bubbling over into an event that Maggie never sees coming.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/glenda-winders-sainted/
CATEGORIES:San Diego Adventures
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SUMMARY:Book Bingo (The Heart of History): a Virtual Adventure featuring Bryn Turnbull\, Lucy Sanna\, Florence Reiss Kraut\, Howard Jay Smith\, Loretta Ellsworth\, Kathi Diamant
DESCRIPTION:About the Virtual (Zoom) Event\nWe are pleased to announce another fun Book Bingo (The Heart of History): A Virtual Adventure! If you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. Pivoting to virtual events has made this not only possible\, but offers up fun opportunities for exciting partnerships\, participation by more of our over 150 book club favorite authors\, and space to accommodate many more readers! \nWith Valentine’s Day right around the corner\, it’s the perfect time to take a deep dive into the heart of history! This free event features presentations by book club favorite authors: Bryn Turnbull\, Lucy Sanna\, Florence Reiss Kraut\, Howard Jay Smith\, Loretta Ellsworth\, and Kathi Diamant\, an interactive virtual game of bingo\, and fun prizes. All you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about these great new reads! \nWhile this event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below (to be shipped to you within the U.S.) provides much-needed support to these authors whose book tours and events have been canceled due to COVID-19. \nYour Adventure includes a book discussion with all six authors\, an interactive virtual game of Book Bingo\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors via Zoom. Books may be ordered below for shipping within the U.S. and will include a signed bookplate. See below for registration information. \n  \nAbout the Authors\nBryn Turnbull is a writer of historical fiction. Equipped with a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of St. Andrews and a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from McGill University\, Bryn\, who resides in Toronto\, writes books intended to drive readers to similar levels of distraction – to transport them into different eras and different worlds. \nHer novel\, The Last Grand Duchess\, takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Nikolaevna Romanov\, the first daughter of the last tsar \nGrand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe. But even as unrest simmers in the capital\, Olga is content to live within the confines of the sheltered life her parents have built for her and her three sisters: hiding from the world on account of their mother’s ill health\, their brother Alexei’s secret affliction\, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin\, the priest on whom the tsarina has come to rely. Olga’s only escape from the seclusion of Alexander Palace comes from the grand tea parties her aunt hosts amid the shadow court of Saint Petersburg—a world of opulent ballrooms\, scandalous flirtation\, and whispered conversation. \nBut as war approaches\, the palaces of Russia are transformed. Olga and her sisters trade their gowns for nursing habits\, assisting in surgeries and tending to the wounded bodies and minds of Russia’s military officers. As troubling rumors about her parents trickle in from the front\, Olga dares to hope that a budding romance might survive whatever the future may hold. But when tensions run high and supplies run low\, the controversy over Rasputin grows into fiery protest\, and calls for revolution threaten to end three hundred years of Romanov rule. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Bryn or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nLucy Sanna\, novelist and science writer\, has found success in venues ranging from novels and short stories to feature science articles and personal growth books. With an education in English literature\, a nose for research\, and a passion for sensual detail\, Lucy easily moves through time\, place\, and voice\, bringing both creative fancy and authenticity to her work. \nThe Cherry Harvest is a memorable coming-of-age story and love story\, laced with suspense\, which explores a hidden side of the home front during World War II\, when German POWs were put to work in a Wisconsin farm community . . . with dark and unexpected consequences. \nThe war has taken a toll on the Christiansen family. With food rationed and money scarce\, Charlotte struggles to keep her family well-fed. Her teenage daughter\, Kate\, raises rabbits to earn money for college and dreams of becoming a writer. Her husband\, Thomas\, struggles to keep the farm going while their son\, and most of the other local men\, are fighting in Europe. \nWhen their upcoming cherry harvest is threatened\, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade local authorities to allow German war prisoners from a nearby camp to pick the fruit. \nBut when Thomas befriends one of the prisoners\, a teacher named Karl\, and invites him to tutor Kate\, the implications of Charlotte’s decision become apparent—especially when she finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Karl. So busy are they with the prisoners that Charlotte and Thomas fail to see that Kate is becoming a young woman\, with dreams and temptations of her own—including a secret romance with the son of a wealthy\, war-profiteering senator. And when their beloved Ben returns home\, bitter and injured\, bearing an intense hatred of Germans\, Charlotte’s secrets threaten to explode their world. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Lucy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nFlorence Reiss Kraut is a native New Yorker\, raised and educated in New York City. She holds a BA in English and a master’s in social work. She worked for thirty years as a clinician\, a family therapist\, and CEO of a family service agency while writing stories and essays for publication. Then she retired to devote herself to writing and traveling widely. She has published personal essays for the New York Times and her fiction has appeared in journals such as The Evening Street Press\, SNReview\, The Westchester Review and others. \nHer novel\, How to Make a Life\, is an engaging and heartfelt portrayal of intergenerational trauma and hope. \nWhen Ida and her daughter Bessie flee a catastrophic pogrom in Ukraine for America in 1905\, they believe their emigration will ensure that their children and grandchildren will be safe from harm. But choices and decisions made by one generation have ripple effects on those who come later―and in the decades that follow\, family secrets\, betrayals\, and mistakes made in the name of love threaten the survival of the family: Bessie and Abe Weissman’s children struggle with the shattering effects of daughter Ruby’s mental illness\, of Jenny’s love affair with her brother-in-law\, of the disappearance of Ruby’s daughter as she flees her mother’s legacy\, and of the accidental deaths of Irene’s husband and granddaughter. \nA sweeping saga that follows three generations from the tenements of Brooklyn through WWII\, from Woodstock to India\, and from Spain to Israel\, How to Make a Life is the story of a family who must learn to accept each other’s differences―or risk cutting ties with the very people who anchor their place in the world. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Florence or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nHoward Jay Smith is an award-winning writer from Santa Barbara\, California. Beethoven in Love: Opus 139 and Meeting Mozart: From the Secret Diaries of Lorenzo da Ponte are respectively his third and fourth books along with Opening the Doors to Hollywood and John Gardner: an Interview. \nHe was recently awarded a John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts\, Literature Division Scholarship\, The James Buckley Excellence in Writing Award. Smith is a former Bread Loaf Scholar & Washington\, D.C. Commission for the Arts Fellow\, who taught for many years in the UCLA Extension Writers Program and has lectured nationally. His articles and photographs have appeared in the Washington Post\, the Beethoven Journal\, Horizon\, the Journal of the Writers Guild of America\, the Ojai Quarterly\, and numerous trade publications. \nWhile an executive at the ABC Television\, Embassy TV\, and Academy Home Entertainment he worked on numerous film television\, radio and commercial projects. He serves on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Symphony and is a member of the American Beethoven Society. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Howard or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nLoretta Ellsworth earned a master’s degree in Writing for Children from Hamline University. She’s the author of four young adult novels: The Shrouding Woman\, a Rebecca Caudill nominee; In Search of Mockingbird\, which won the Midwest Bookseller’s Choice Honor Award\, was a Teen’s Top Ten finalist\, an IRA Notable\, and was named to the New York Library’s List of Books for the Teen Age; In a Heartbeat\, which was named a spring Midwest Connection’s Pick and an ALA Notable; and Unforgettable\, which was a Kirkus Pick of the Month. \nMesmerizing and romantic\, Stars Over Clear Lake transports readers to the Surf Ballroom\, where musical acts became legends in the 1940s and which holds the key to one woman’s deepest secret. \nLorraine Kindred’s most cherished memories are of the Surf Ballroom\, the place where youth lost themselves to the brassy sounds and magnetic energy of the big band swing\, where boys spent their last nights before shipping off to war―and where Lorraine herself was swept away by a star-crossed romance. \nReturning to the ballroom for the first time in decades\, Lorraine enters a dazzling world she thought long vanished. But as the sparkling past comes to life\, so does the fateful encounter that forced her to choose between her heart and her duty all those years ago―and Lorraine must face the secret she’s buried ever since. Along the way\, she’ll rediscover herself\, her passion\, and her capacity for resilience. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Loretta or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nKathi Diamant is an award-winning author\, actor\, broadcaster and adjunct professor at San Diego State University\, where she leads the Kafka Project\, the official international search to recover a lost literary treasure\, the missing writings of Franz Kafka. \nKathi’s award-winning book\, Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant has been reviewed by more than 60 publications and websites\, internationally lauded for its original research and revelations into Dora and Kafka’s lives. It has been published in the US\, UK\, and in translation in Spain\, France\, Russia\, China and Brazil\, with excerpts published in literary arts journals and in other books. \nHer new book\, Heart of the Zoo: How San Diego Zoo Director Chuck Bieler Earned His Stripes\, is publishing just in time for Valentine’s Day. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kathi or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Bryn Turnbull\, Lucy Sanna\, Florence Reiss Kraut\, Howard Jay Smith\, Loretta Ellsworth\, and Kathi Diamant are all members of our wonderful community of over 150 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Bryn Turnbull\, Lucy Sanna\, Florence Reiss Kraut\, Howard Jay Smith\, Loretta Ellsworth\, Kathi Diamant\nor any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here.
URL:https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/book-bingo-2-16-22/
CATEGORIES:Book Bingo,Event,Library Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:The Power of Regret: a live and in-person Adventure featuring New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink
DESCRIPTION:About the Live\, In-Person\, Adventure\n  \n\n“No regrets.”  How many of us have embraced this philosophy of life? Now\, New York Times bestselling author\, Daniel Pink\, boldly proclaims in his new book\, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward\,  that this philosophy is nonsense\, and perhaps even dangerous. Everyone has regrets\, he says\, but if we reckon with them in fresh and imaginative ways\, we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions\, perform better at work and school\, and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose. \n Join us\, together with the San Diego Central Library\,  for a live and in-person afternoon presentation by Daniel about his bold new book and his own World Regret Survey\, which has collected regrets from more than 16\,000 people in 105 countries. In The Power of Regret\, Daniel identifies the four core regrets that most people have. By understanding what people regret the most\, we can understand what they value the most. And by following the simple\, science-based\, three-step process that he sets out\, we can transform our regrets in a positive force for working smarter and living better. \nYour Adventure includes author presentation\, a hardcover copy of The Power of Regret\, tax\, Q&A\, book signing\, and the opportunity to meet New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink. Your book will be conveniently delivered to you at the event for signing. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n  \nDaniel H. Pink is the New York Times bestselling author of 7 books about business\, work\, creativity\, and behavior\, including When\, A Whole New Mind\, Drive\, and To Sell is Human\, which have won multiple awards\, have been translated into 42 languages\, and have sold millions of copies around the world. \nDaniel was host and co-executive producer of “Crowd Control\,” a television series about human behavior on the National Geographic Channel that aired in more than 100 countries. He has appeared frequently on NPR\, PBS\, ABC\, CNN\, and other TV and radio networks in the US and abroad. \nIn his forthcoming work\, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward\, Daniel Pink explains that everybody has regrets\, which are a universal and healthy part of being human\, but by understanding how regret works\, we can make smarter decisions\, perform better at work and school\, and bring greater meaning to our lives. \nDrawing on research in social psychology\, neuroscience\, and biology\, Pink debunks the myth of the “no regrets” philosophy of life. And using the largest sampling of American attitudes about regret ever conducted as well as his own World Regret Survey—which has collected regrets from more than 15\,000 people in 105 countries—he lays out the four core regrets that each of us has. These deep regrets offer compelling insights into how we live and how we can find a better path forward. \nAs he did in his bestsellers Drive\, When\, and A Whole New Mind\, Pink lays out a dynamic new way of thinking about regret and frames his ideas in ways that are clear\, accessible\, and pragmatic. Packed with true stories of people’s regrets as well as practical takeaways for reimagining regret as a positive force\, The Power of Regret shows how we can live richer\, more engaged lives. \n  \nAbout the San Diego Central Library\nThe San Diego Central Library is a popular destination that connects our diverse community to free educational and cultural resources that will enrich their lives.
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SUMMARY:The Ones We Keep: a Virtual Fireside Adventure with debut novelist Bobbie Jean Huff
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nOne family. One tragedy. One incredible decision to change their fate. What would you do? This is the question that debut novelist Bobbie Jean Huff explores in her emotional new book\, The Ones We Keep\, and one which you will be able to discuss live with the author in our next virtual Fireside Adventure. \nGrab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Bobbie Jean to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book or register below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Bobbie Jean. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a paperback copy of The Ones We Keep\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Bobbie Jean\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to experience the debut of her emotional book. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\n \nCanadian-American Bobbie Jean Huff studied music in the United States and France\, but it wasn’t until she moved to Canada that she began writing. Since childhood she had wanted to write a novel\, but for decades wrote only short stories\, poetry\, and essays. \nThe plot for The Ones We Keep was sparked when she was returning to a Vermont family resort where she and her family had been staying. She looked across the lake to the dock\, where children were playing\, and asked herself\, What if? The Ones We Keep took three years to write. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Dzanc Prize for Fiction and was a semi-finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom 2019 Creative Writing Competition. \nIn her emotional debut\, for fans of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler\, The Ones We Keep follows the splintered lives of four family members in the years following an unthinkable tragedy\, and the choices they must make to find their way back to each other. One family. One tragedy. One incredible decision to change their fate. \nA quiet lakeside resort in Vermont seems like the perfect summer getaway for Olivia and Harry Somerville and their three young boys. But in a single moment\, their idyllic family retreat becomes a mother’s worst nightmare. Returning from a solo hike one afternoon\, Olivia learns from a passing stranger that one of her sons has drowned—but not which one. In that moment\, Olivia makes a panicked decision that will change her family forever. \nAn emotional and heartfelt meditation on the nature of loss\, the gift of recovery\, and the bonds of love\, The Ones We Keep tells the story of one family as they learn to face their grief and fight for hope. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. \nWhile once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \nSave
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CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Secrets of the Sprakkar: an Exclusive Virtual Adventure with Eliza Reid\, the First Lady of Iceland
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nCan you imagine living in a gender-equal world? If so\, you may be intrigued by Iceland which\, for the past twelve years\, has been ranked by the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report as number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women’s experiences there so positive? \nWell\, Eliza Reid knows a thing or two about that. As First Lady of Iceland\, she has delved into what a more gender-equal world would look like\, and why it’s worth striving for. In her new book\, Secrets of the Sprakkar (“extraordinary women”)\, she examines her adopted homeland’s attitude toward women—the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness\, the influence of current and historical role models\, and\, crucially\, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement. \nWe invite you to join us for a very special Adventure\, where you can chat live with this extraordinary First Lady of Iceland about her new book\, Secrets of the Sprakkar. Grab a glass of wine or hot cocoa\, curl up in your favorite chair\, and get ready to chat live with Eliza to discuss her book\, ask questions\, and converse live “on stage.” \nTo join our virtual event on the exciting new storytelling platform\, Fireside\, simply purchase a book below and we will send you a private VIP link to attend the virtual event. If you have an iPhone or iPad\, you can be part of the virtual audience to chat live with Patti. With other devices\, you can still listen live to the broadcast. \nYour Adventure includes a hardcover copy of Secrets of the Sprakkar\, tax\, shipping within the U.S. and Canada\, a live Fireside chat with Eliza\, Q&A\, and the opportunity to experience the pre-launch of Eliza’s fascinating book. \n\nAbout the Author and Book\nEliza Reid\, the First Lady of Iceland\, was born in 1976 in Ottawa\, Canada. She moved to Iceland in 2003. Madame Reid holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations from Trinity College\, University of Toronto\, where she held the position of Head of College in her final year. She holds a Master of Studies degree in modern history from St. Antony’s College\, Oxford University. She speaks French and Icelandic. \nMadame Reid is  co-founder of the acclaimed Iceland Writers Retreat\, an annual event that combines small-group writing workshops with cultural tours to introduce visitors to Iceland’s unique literary heritage. In this capacity\, she has been active in helping to promote Icelandic writers and literary heritage abroad\, especially in North America. \nShe also served on the jury of the 2018 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction\, one of Canada’s largest literary prizes. She was previously an editor for Icelandair’s in-flight magazine\, a staff writer at Iceland Review\, and has been published in Monocle\, The Globe and Mail\, and several other newspapers and magazines. Prior to becoming First Lady\, Madame Reid was also a frequent commentator on Icelandic current affairs for foreign media. \nIn her book\, Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World\, Reid charts her personal journey from a Canadian farm to Iceland’s Presidential Residence and along the way proves to be the best possible guide to the historical\, geographical and cultural factors that helped women thrive and built a vibrant modern society. \nReid’s own experience as an immigrant from small-town Canada who never expected to become the first lady is expertly interwoven with interviews with dozens of sprakkar (“extraordinary women”) to form the backbone of an illuminating discussion of what it means to move through the world as a woman\, and how the rules of society play more of a role in who we view as “equal” than we may understand. Secrets of the Sprakkar is a powerful and atmospheric portrait of a tiny country that could lead the way forward for us all. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Fireside\nWe are thrilled to announce that Adventures by the Book has been invited to host a literary series on Fireside which will include book discussions\, author talks\, book clubs\, special presentations\, and much more. During the course of WWII\, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt instituted a series of “fireside chats” on the radio\, as a way to regularly communicate self-assurance and calm during times of despair and uncertainty in our country. While once a thing of the past\, thanks to the brilliant collaboration of billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank TV star\, Mark Cuban\, and Falon Fatemi\, former CEO and Founder of Node.ai\, Fireside Chats are back\, bigger and better than ever\, and in a technological format that allows YOU to actively participate! \n \nFireside Chat is the exclusive\, invite-only new podcast platform for the next generation – a socially responsible space for us to come together in real-time to collaborate and create meaningful conversations. Together\, we will engage in discussion\, debate\, and discourse in a public forum and make it a thing of celebration and beauty. We are ready to share our microphone with you and hope you’ll join us as we collaborate in the world’s most dynamic auditorium. \n\n  \n\n\n\n  \nSave
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CATEGORIES:Event,Fireside Chat,Happy Hour Adventures,San Diego Adventures,Virtual Adventure
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SUMMARY:Woodrow on the Bench: a Free Julian Library Adventure
DESCRIPTION:About the Event\nFor anyone who has ever loved a dog (or even if you haven’t had the pleasure)\, you won’t want to miss this opportunity to meet New York Times and international bestselling author Jenna Blum at the Julian Public Library\, as she discusses her heartfelt memoir\, Woodrow on the Bench.  \nThis event is free and open to the public. Copies of Woodrow on the Bench will be available for purchase and signing at the event or preorder a copy below to be delivered to the event for signing. \n\n\nAbout the Author and Book\nJenna Blum is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us (a New York Times bestseller\, the # 1 bestselling novel in Holland in 2011\, and the winner of the 2005 Ribalow Prize\, awarded by Hadassah Magazine and adjudged by Elie Wiesel)\, The Stormchasers (an international bestseller\, a Borders Book Club Selection\, a feature in French Elle\, and a Target Pic) and The Lost Family (a Target Pick and received starred reviews from all four trades: Kirkus\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Booklist\, and Library Journal)\, as well as the novella “The Lucky One” in the anthology Grand Central. Jenna is also one of Oprah’s Top 30 Women Writers and CEO/ CoFounder of literary social media company A Mighty Blaze. \nJenna is based in Boston\, where she teaches master novel and marketing workshops for Grub Street Writers\, where she has been an instructor for over 20 years. Jenna earned her B.A. in English at Kenyon College and her M.A. in Creative Writing at Boston University\, where she was the fiction editor for AGNI Literary Magazine and taught creative writing and journalism. The daughter of a CBS newswriter and producer\, Jenna interviewed Holocaust survivors for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation from 1993-1997. \nFor anyone who has ever loved a dog\, Woodrow on the Bench\, Jenna’s first memoir\, pays tribute to her beloved black Lab\, Woodrow\, that recalls the last six months of his life and the ways in which he taught her to live. Since she adopted him as a puppy fifteen years earlier\, Jenna Blum and Woodrow have been inseparable. Known to many as “the George Clooney of dogs” for his good looks and charm\, Woodrow and his “Mommoo” are fixtures in their Boston neighborhood. \nBut Woodrow is aging. As he begins to fail\, the true nature of his extraordinary relationship with Jenna is revealed. Jenna may be the dog parent\, but it is Woodrow\, with his amazing personality and trusting nature\, who has much to teach her. A divorcée who has experienced her share of sadness and loss\, Jenna discovers\, over the months she spends caring for her ailing dog\, what it is to be present in the moment\, and what it truly means to love. Aided by an amazing group of friends and buoyed by the support of strangers\, Jenna and Woodrow navigate these precious final days together with kindness\, humor\, and grace. Their unforgettable love story will reaffirm your belief in kindness\, break your heart\, and leave your spirit soaring. \n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration\nRegistration for this event is not required\, as it is free and open to the public. More information is available through the Julian Public Library. Tickets below are to purchase a copy of Woodrow on the Bench to be delivered at the event for signing. \n  \n\n\n\n\nSave
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SUMMARY:Carlsbad Library Book Bingo: A Live and In Person Adventure
DESCRIPTION:About the Live and In Person Event\nAre you ready for a fun afternoon of live\, in-person Book Bingo? Well\, get out your bingo cards\, then\, because it’s time to join New York Times and international bestselling author Jenna Blum\, together with nine more book club favorite authors at the Carlsbad City Library to do just that!  If you are already familiar with our popular Southern California series that features NovelNetwork® authors\, you will understand why we receive so many requests to expand the program nationwide. This is the first time in over two years that we have hosted a live and in-person bingo\, and we can’t wait to play with you! \n This FREE event features presentations by book club favorite authors: Jenna Blum\, Georgie Blalock\, Rich Farrell\, Nicola Harrison\, Aimee Liu\, Jan Moran\, Isla Morley\, Kaira Rouda\, Judith Teitelman\, and Wendy Voorsanger\, an interactive game of book bingo\, and fun prizes\, and all you have to do is show up (and why not invite your book club friends and fellow readers to join in as well) to learn about great new reads to add to your to be read list). \nWhile this event is free\, your book(s) purchase provides much-needed support to these authors whose book tours and events have been cancelled due to COVID-19. Books will be available for purchase at the event or\, better yet\, why not pre-order your book(s) below to receive a 10-20% discount\, and we will deliver your books to you at the event for signing! \nYour Adventure includes a keynote presentation by Jenna Blum\, three panels with all nine other book club favorite authors\, an interactive game of Book Bingo (bingo cards provided at event)\, Q&A\, prizes\, and the opportunity to meet the authors in person. Pre-order your book(s) below for pickup at the event and receive a 10-20% discount\, or purchase your book(s) at the event. Only books pre-ordered below or at the event are eligible for signing. \nAbout the Keynote Author and Book\nJenna Blum is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us (a New York Times bestseller\, the # 1 bestselling novel in Holland in 2011\, and the winner of the 2005 Ribalow Prize\, awarded by Hadassah Magazine and adjudged by Elie Wiesel)\, The Stormchasers (an international bestseller\, a Borders Book Club Selection\, a feature in French Elle\, and a Target Pic) and The Lost Family (a Target Pick and received starred reviews from all four trades: Kirkus\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Booklist\, and Library Journal)\, as well as the novella “The Lucky One” in the anthology Grand Central. Jenna is also one of Oprah’s Top 30 Women Writers and CEO/ CoFounder of literary social media company A Mighty Blaze. \n\nFor anyone who has ever loved a dog\, Woodrow on the Bench\, Jenna’s first memoir\, pays tribute to her beloved black Lab\, Woodrow\, that recalls the last six months of his life and the ways in which he taught her to live. Since she adopted him as a puppy fifteen years earlier\, Jenna Blum and Woodrow have been inseparable. Known to many as “the George Clooney of dogs” for his good looks and charm\, Woodrow and his “Mommoo” are fixtures in their Boston neighborhood. \nBut Woodrow is aging. As he begins to fail\, the true nature of his extraordinary relationship with Jenna is revealed. Jenna may be the dog parent\, but it is Woodrow\, with his amazing personality and trusting nature\, who has much to teach her. A divorcée who has experienced her share of sadness and loss\, Jenna discovers\, over the months she spends caring for her ailing dog\, what it is to be present in the moment\, and what it truly means to love. Aided by an amazing group of friends and buoyed by the support of strangers\, Jenna and Woodrow navigate these precious final days together with kindness\, humor\, and grace. Their unforgettable love story will reaffirm your belief in kindness\, break your heart\, and leave your spirit soaring. \n\n\nTo schedule a book club visit with Jenna or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nAbout the Authors and Books\nGeorgie Blalock is an award-winning author of historical fiction\, whose passion for history and movie allows her to combine her different passions through historical fiction\, and a healthy dose of period piece films. When not writing\, she can be found prowling the non-fiction history section of the library or the British film listings on Netflix or in the dojo training for her next karate black belt rank. Georgie also writes historical romance under the name Georgie Lee. \nIn her new book\, The Last Debutantes\, they danced the night away\, knowing their world was about to change forever. They were the debutantes of 1939\, laughing on the outside\, but knowing tragedy— and a war—was just around the corner. When Valerie de Vere Cole\, the niece of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain\, makes her deep curtsey to the King and Queen of England\, she knows she’s part of a world about to end. The daughter of a debt-ridden father and a neglectful mother\, Valerie sees firsthand that war is imminent. \nNevertheless\, Valerie reinvents herself as a carefree and glittering young society woman\, befriending other debutantes from England’s aristocracy as well as the vivacious Eunice Kennedy\, daughter of the U.S. Ambassador. Despite her social success\, the world’s troubles and Valerie’s fear of loss and loneliness prove impossible to ignore. How will she navigate her new life when everything in her past has taught her that happiness and stability are as fragile as peace in our time? For the moment she will forget her cares in too much champagne and waltzes. Because very soon\, Valerie knows that she must find the inner strength to stand strong and carry on through the challenges of life and love and war. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Georgie or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nRichard Farrell is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work\, including fiction\, memoir\, essays\, interviews and book reviews\, has appeared or is forthcoming in The Forge\, Potomac Review\, Hunger Mountain\, New Plains Review\, Upstreet\, Descant\, Contrary\, Newfound\, Numéro Cinq\, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Grossmont College and at San Diego Writers\, Ink. \nIn The Falling Woman\, it’s rumored one person may have survived the midair explosion of a passenger jet on a cross-country course from Washington\, DC\, to San Francisco. But soon she becomes a national media sensation when “the Falling Woman\,” as the press dubs her\, is said to have been taken to a Wichita hospital—and then to have disappeared without a trace. \nFast-paced and full of twists and surprises\, The Falling Woman is a story of the irony of fate\, and of which conflicting factor will prevail: the need of the government and its people to know the truth\, or the right of a woman to determine how her personal story will play out. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Rich or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nNicola Harrison is the author of two historical fiction novels\, Montauk and The Show Girl (August 10\, 2021). Born and raised in England\, she moved with her family to Southern California when she was 14. She is a graduate of UCLA and received her MFA from Stony Brook. Prior to writing novels she worked as a fashion journalist in New York City and now lives in Manhattan Beach\, California with her husband\, two sons and a high-maintenance chihuahua named Lola. \nThe Show Girl\, her new novel\, gives a glimpse of the glamorous world of the Ziegfeld Follies\, through the eyes of a young midwestern woman who comes to New York City to find her destiny as a Ziegfeld Follies star. It’s 1927 when Olive McCormick moves from Minneapolis to New York City determined to become a star in the Ziegfeld Follies. Extremely talented as a singer and dancer\, it takes every bit of perseverance to finally make it on stage. And once she does\, all the glamour and excitement is everything she imagined and more―even worth all the sacrifices she has had to make along the way. \nThen she meets Archie Carmichael. Handsome\, wealthy―the only man she’s ever met who seems to accept her modern ways―her independent nature and passion for success. But once she accepts his proposal of marriage he starts to change his tune\, and Olive must decide if she is willing to reveal a devastating secret and sacrifice the life she loves for the man she loves. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Nicola or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nAimee Liu is the author of numerous bestselling novels as well as nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Ms.\, and many other publications. She is on the faculty of Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program at Port Townsend\, WA. \nIn her novel\, Glorious Boy\, it’s 1942 and the Japanese have invaded Burma and are closing in on India. After five years\, aspiring anthropologist Claire Durant and her husband Shep\, a civil surgeon\, must evacuate with their beloved but mysteriously mute four-year-old\, Ty. They cannot\, however\, take Naila\, the local girl whose ability to communicate with Ty has made them dangerously dependent on her. In the desperate odyssey that follows\, Claire\, Shep\, and Naila will all take unimaginable risks while drawing deeply from their knowledge of these unique islands to save their beloved “glorious boy.” \nGlorious Boy is a tale of war and devotion\, longing and loss\, and the power of love to prevail. A memorable and original novel\, Aimee evokes every side in a multi-cultural conversation with sympathy and rare understanding. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Aimee or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nJan Moran is an Amazon All-Star Author and Rizzoli Bestselling author of 20th-century historical novels and heartfelt contemporary series. The Chocolatier\, The Winemakers\, and Scent of Triumph are stylish historical novels published in more than a dozen languages\, while her Summer Beach: Seabreeze Inn is a beloved beach read series. \nIn Seabreeze Wedding\, at the historic Seabreeze Inn\, sisters Ivy and Shelly Bay are busier than ever with wedding plans of their own\, although challenges threaten to derail the special events. New guests are also throwing a wedding at the inn\, bringing a host of trials and chaos. As Ivy prepares the old beach house for a season of weddings\, surprising discoveries from decades past arise that could change even the best of plans. RSVP now and join the party on the beach. \nSeabreeze Wedding is a favorite in the beloved Summer Beach series that may also be read as a stand-alone novel. The heartwarming story is set on the sunny Southern California coastline. Visit the small town of Summer Beach now\, where the bonds of friendship and love prove unbreakable. Available in ebook\, paperback\, hardcover\, large print\, and audiobook. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Jan or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nIsla Morley grew up in South Africa during apartheid\, the child of a British father and a South African mother. During the country’s State of Emergency\, she graduated from Nelson Mandela University with a degree in English Literature. By 1994\, she was one of the youngest magazine editors in South Africa\, but left her career\, country\, and kin when she married an American and moved to California\, where she pursued a career in non-profit work\, focusing on the needs of women and children. Her debut novel\, Come Sunday\, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Prize and has been translated into 7 languages\, and her novel\, Above\, was an IndieNext Pick\, a Best Buzz Book and a Publishers Weekly Best New book. \nHer most recent novel\, The Last Blue\, is a luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of “the Blue People of Kentucky\,” in which Isla probes questions of identity\, love\, and family in 1937 Appalachia. \nWhen two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati\, Ohio—a writer and photographer—are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration\, they happen upon Jubilee Buford\, a woman whose skin is a shocking and unmistakable shade of blue. From this happenstance meeting between a woman isolated from society and persecuted her whole life\, comes a mesmerizing story in which the dark shades of betrayal\, prejudice\, fear\, and guilt\, are refracted along with the incandescent hues of passion and courage. Panning across the rich rural aesthetic of eastern Kentucky\, The Last Blue is a captivating love story and an intimate portrait of what it is like to be truly one of a kind. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Isla or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nKaira Rouda is an accomplished business leader\, entrepreneur\, national speaker and internationally bestselling and award-winning author. A former magazine editor\, and society columnist\, Kaira won the Stevie Award for Women in Business for creating the first female-focused residential real estate brand\, Real Living\, and growing the brand to more than 22 states before its sale to Berkshire Hathaway. Her first book\, Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs\, led to a national speaking tour where she inspired thousands. She lives in Southern California with her husband\, Congressman Harley Rouda\, and her four twenty-something children. \nIn her soon-to-be-released novel\, Somebody’s Home\, Julie Jones has left her suffocating marriage. With her teenage daughter\, Jess\, she’s starting over. Their new house in Oceanside is the first step toward a new life. Even if it does come with the unexpected. The previous owners\, a pastor\, and his wife have left something―or rather someone―behind… \nTom Dean has a bitter hatred for the father who considers him a lost cause\, and for the woman who’s moved into their family’s house. The only home he’s ever known. He’s never going to leave. She thinks he’ll be gone in three days\, but Tom has the perfect plan. For a newly single mother and her daughter\, a fresh start is the beginning of a nightmare. Before the weekend is over\, somebody is going to get exactly what they deserve. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Kaira or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \nJudith Teitelman has straddled the worlds of art\, literature\, and business since she was a teenager and worked her first job as a salesperson at a B. Dalton / Pickwick Bookstore. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in Art History\, she opened and managed Art and Architecture Books of the Twentieth Century. She began her career in the nonprofit sector in 1983\, and in 1990 launched her arts and business management consulting firm working nationally with grassroots and mid-sized organizations and large institutions. She is also a mentor\, trainer\, and professional advisor to artists working in all disciplines\, and is on the Theater School faculty at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) co-teaching Entrepreneurship. She is a regular trainer at the Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership and the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)\, among others\, and was a trainer for more than 20 years at Los Angeles’ Center for Nonprofit Management. \nGuesthouse for Ganesha\, a tale of love\, loss\, and spirit reclaimed\, weaves Eastern beliefs and perspectives with Western realities and pragmatism. In 1923\, seventeen-year-old Esther Grünspan arrives in Köln “with a hardened heart as her sole luggage.” Thus begins a twenty-two-year journey\, woven against the backdrops of the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the “Age of Darkness” when human civilization degenerates spiritually)\, in search of a place of sanctuary. \nThroughout her travails\, using cunning and shrewdness\, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her Jewish heritage\, navigate war-torn Europe\, and emigrate to India. Esther’s traveling companion and the novel’s narrator is Ganesha\, the elephant-headed Hindu God worshipped by millions for his abilities to destroy obstacles\, bestow wishes\, and avenge evils. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Judith or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n  \n Born and raised on the American River\, author Wendy Voorsanger has long-held an intense interest in the history of women in the West. Her debut historical novel\, Prospects of a Woman\, has won 10 indie literary awards\, including the Independent Press Award for Western Fiction\, the National Indie Excellence Award for Western Fiction\, the International Book Award for Best New Fiction\, the IPPY Award for Regional Fiction\, and the NexGen Indie Book Awards for Regional Fiction. She earned a BA in journalism from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Castro Writers’ Cooperative\, the Lit Camp Advisory Board\, the San Mateo Public Library Literary Society\, and the Historical Novel Society. \nA gripping and illuminating window into life in the Old West\, Prospects of a Woman tells the story of one woman’s passionate quest to carve out a place for herself in the liberal and bewildering society that emerged during the California gold rush frenzy. \nElisabeth Parker comes to California from Massachusetts in 1849 with her new husband\, Nate\, but soon realizes he’s not the man she thought. As Nate struggles with his sexuality\, Elisabeth is forced to confront her preconceived notions of family\, love\, and opportunity. She finds comfort in corresponding with her childhood friend back home\, writer Louisa May Alcott\, and spending time in the company of a mysterious Californio. Armed with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance\, she sets out to determine her role in building the West\, even as she comes to terms with the sacrifices she must make to achieve independence and happiness. \nTo schedule a book club visit with Wendy or any of our authors on NovelNetwork: \n				Connect with this Author on NovelNetwork®\n			\n\nAbout the Carlsbad City Library\n \n\n\nCarlsbad City Library provides community members of all ages with convenient access to high-quality resources and services to inform and enrich individual and community life. Carlsbad City Library is the destination for information\, enjoyment of reading\, lifelong learning\, and cultural enrichment for those who live\, work and play in Carlsbad. \n\n\n\nFor Book Clubs or Author Live Chats\n \nAre you in a book club\, library reading group\, or is your group of friends\, colleagues\, family members seeking fabulous authors who are excited and available to meet with you? Then you will be delighted to know that Jenna Blum\, Georgie Blalock\, Rich Farrell\, Nicola Harrison\, Aimee Liu\, Jan Moran\, Isla Morley\, Kaira Rouda\, Judith Teitelman\, and Wendy Voorsanger are all members of our wonderful community of over 150 NovelNetwork authors available to meet with small groups via video chat. \nNovelNetwork is the nation’s first and only match(dot)com for authors and book clubs to find each other\, so check it out today. Book clubs join for free and gain access to our database of dozens of authors\, from NYT and international bestsellers to debut authors\, cookbook authors\, mystery and non-fiction authors\, and representing various regions of the United States\, and even Alaska and Hawaii\, all of whom want to meet with you! \nTo schedule a visit with Jenna\, Georgie\, Rich\, Nicola\, Aimee\, Jan\, Isla\, Kaira\, Judith\, Wendy\, or any of our authors\, join FOR FREE  here. \nEvent Registration\nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required\, but seating is limited and available on a first-come\, first-served basis only. For more information\, contact the Carlsbad City Library. \nWhile the event is free\, your purchase of a book(s) below or at the event offers support to these authors whose book tours and events have been canceled during COVID. \n  \n  \n 
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