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| | Local author Glover will read from her debut novel,
a darkly humorous tale of ghostly encounters, intrigue and
rock-and-roll romance set in San
Francisco.
Andrew Hayes is a brilliant but
troubled musician, haunted since childhood by memories of his
muse. He spots her one night from a San Francisco stage, but before he
can reach her, she vanishes. He moves
into a dilapidated Victorian in the city, with the hopes of finding her. Soon his life becomes more
chaotic with the arrival of martini-swilling ghosts and a troupe of
flesh-and-blood stoner spiritualists bringing bad tidings from the Great
Beyond. | | | | | WENDY MCCLURE
The Wilder Life
Tuesday, April 10 at 7pm
After her mother's death, children's book editor and memoirist McClure (author of I'm Not the New Me),
rediscovered Laura Ingalls Wilder and her Little House books. McClure
embarks on an engaging road trip in search of a remembered "Laura World"
as she calls it, and discovers a whole culture and tourism industry
based on Wilder and her books. McClure's recounting of projects, such as
churning butter
or visiting Wilder's homes, are highly entertaining, and her research
into Wilder's
life, literary controversies and social history is equally engaging. At
one point, she wonders,"What kind of person would I become if I just
went with this, let my calico-sunbonnet freak flag fly?"
"The Wilder Life is a tribute to the Little House books that's both
reverent and irreverent - in a thoughtful, hilarious way. I couldn't put
it down." - Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project
| | | | | JACQUELINE WINSPEAR
Elegy for Eddie
Tuesday, April 17 at 7pm
In the latest in the acclaimed, bestselling
mystery series - “less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than
Agatha Christie” (USA Today) - Maisie Dobbs takes on her most
personal case yet: an investigation into the brutal killing of a
street peddler that will take her from the working-class neighborhoods
of her childhood into London’s highest circles of power. Full of
intrigue and ingenuity, intimate
descriptions and beautifully painted scenes from between the World Wars.
Fans and readers new to the series will not be disappointed. | | | | | | | | June | | | | | | C. W. GORTNER
The Queen's Vow
Thursday, June 14 at 7pm
"No one believed I was destined for greatness."
So begins Isabella's
story in this evocative, vividly imagined novel about one of history's
most famous and controversial queens by the author of the acclaimed historical novels The Last Queen and The Confessions of Catherine de Medici.
Queen Isabella was the warrior who united a fractured
country, the champion of the faith whose reign gave rise to the
Inquisition, and the visionary who sent Columbus to discover a New
World. Gortner envisages the turbulent early
years of a woman whose mythic rise to power would go on to transform a
monarchy, a nation and the world. | |
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