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• Celebrate May Day with Laura Dowling

  <p>The Cedar Rapids Garden Club will welcome author and floral designer Laura Dowling to Cedar Rapids on Friday, May 1. Dowling served as White House chief floral designer from 2009-2015.</p><p>A combined lecture, luncheon, garden marketplace and book signing, “Celebrate May Day with Laura Dowling” will be held at the Cedar Rapids Country Club. The event is a fundraiser for the Garden Club and its civic beautification projects.</p><p>Early-bird luncheon tickets are $85; after April 10, the price is $100. A garden market with specialty gifts and plants will be held before the luncheon. After the luncheon, Dowling will sign her books, which will be available for purchase.</p> 2020-02-05 01:30:00 -0600

  5/01/20 2020-05-01 11:00:00 -0500

  11:00 a.m.

  Cedar Rapids Country Club

  Cedar Rapids

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• Author reading with Lori Erickson

  <p>Iowa City author Lori Erickson will read from her new book <em>Near the Exit: Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper</em>. Erickson’s book focuses on places that have helped her come to terms with mortality—and explains why one of the most life-affirming things we can do is invite death along for the ride.</p>

  2/27/20 2020-02-27 19:00:00 -0600

  7:00 p.m.

  Matthew 25

  Cedar Rapids

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• Author Event: Dennis W. Green

  <p>About Traitor<br>&nbsp;Stripped of his memories and exiled to a world filled with foes, Trav Becker fights his way through parallel universes against an adversary capable of anticipating his every move. But the Traveler will do whatever it takes to be reunited with the woman he loves.<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;Chaos sweeps through the multiverse, pushing Trav, Mary, and their loyal friends Sam and Morgan into a desperate fight for survival.<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;On the run and forced to seek help from the unlikeliest of allies, can Trav and his friends prevent the looming collapse of reality itself?<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;Dennis W. Green’s mind-bending Traveler saga races to its explosive conclusion.<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;About Dennis W. Green<br>&nbsp;Ask someone how they know Dennis Green and you might get any one&nbsp;of the following: Writer, DJ, actor, administrator, sports announcer, MC, swimmer, teacher, reporter, tech geek, husband, or dad. So it’s little wonder his favorite expression is the above quote by Robert Heinlein’s spacefaring immortal, Lazarus Long.<br><br>Dennis’s first novel, Traveler, was released in 2013, and scored in the Top Ten in the 2014 Ben Franklin Independent Publishing awards. Prisoner is the second novel in the Traveler Chronicles, and Trav Becker’s saga concludes in Hunter.<br><br>Dennis’s writing has appeared in the anthology Sadistic Shorts, magazines including Grift and Romance and Beyond, as well as his own blog at <a data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdenniswgreen.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0WPIejTPOwTZ0vI1BGdkHbg3S5mLP_ZKlbbrNnKik8aBC_G1RhaZgu3RI&h=AT3ceFXTND-4J47NLAN_XjUsH_yXv9qRaAY-RlScAo53Lwt8ow8cBFs-FAgaaWPL9ZSWUiLdcdHhmHgD6DR05-N8U3p9Ly1ajg7FWdfW7q288JqMpn9SEVg2gMmkkJU0Ax9ejcyB7Wh5ZR2BQQzi5oA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">denniswgreen.com.</a> He also writes for and edits the triathlon news site <a data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fheartofamericatri.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0C4n8CBp5nAd2C952cPfCxU-3YN72JNdu9Ekuxw6UqkUVm8MsTXiC98K0&h=AT1Ac6Bb6B6U1Ubz2DA_pmvFCchfjVIvW-HDnNSxnv3hJedaDwYasNIcwL3AwMBmPUvsd53ErE5QHcNKC6Q9xtJtJBj7_G7BPrQwDLKOfNgMY1EZE_CxPy7J5CQ_C_81M6BhzjUnNnWWDfzfbgqJXB4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">heartofamericatri.com.</a><br><br>A popular radio personality in his native Iowa, Dennis has also worked on the stage, TV, and independent film. As a DJ, his adventures were covered by newspapers from Anchorage to Los Angeles. He is one of the Midwest’s most popular MC’s, hosting dozens of events each year.<br><br> By day, he is the general manager of Iowa’s only jazz radio station, KCCK-FM. And if it’s 5:30 am, you can probably find him in the pool, working out with the Milky Way Masters swim club.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  3/12/20 2020-03-12 18:00:00 -0500

  6:00 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Write-in for Authors

  <p>In partnership with the Writers’ Room, we will be hosting a write-in for authors. We will provide a quiet space to work for authors to work on their writing and collaborate with each other from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  4/09/20 2020-04-09 17:30:00 -0500

  5:30 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Write-in for Authors

  <p>In partnership with the Writers’ Room, we will be hosting a write-in for authors. We will provide a quiet space to work for authors to work on their writing and collaborate with each other from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  6/11/20 2020-06-11 17:30:00 -0500

  5:30 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Write-In for Authors

  <p>In partnership with the Writers’ Room, we will be hosting a write-in for authors. We will provide a quiet space to work for authors to work on their writing and collaborate with each other from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  7/09/20 2020-07-09 17:30:00 -0500

  5:30 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Write-in for Authors

  <p>In partnership with the Writers’ Room, we will be hosting a write-in for authors. We will provide a quiet space to work for authors to work on their writing and collaborate with each other from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  8/13/20 2020-08-13 17:30:00 -0500

  5:30 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Write-in for Authors

  <p>In partnership with the Writers’ Room, we will be hosting a write-in for authors. We will provide a quiet space to work for authors to work on their writing and collaborate with each other from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  9/10/20 2020-09-10 17:30:00 -0500

  5:30 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Write-in for Authors

  <p>In partnership with the Writers’ Room, we will be hosting a write-in for authors. We will provide a quiet space to work for authors to work on their writing and collaborate with each other from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  10/08/20 2020-10-08 17:30:00 -0500

  5:30 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Write-in for Authors

  <p>In partnership with the Writers’ Room, we will be hosting a write-in for authors. We will provide a quiet space to work for authors to work on their writing and collaborate with each other from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  11/12/20 2020-11-12 17:30:00 -0600

  5:30 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Write-in for Authors

  <p>In partnership with the Writers’ Room, we will be hosting a write-in for authors. We will provide a quiet space to work for authors to work on their writing and collaborate with each other from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  12/10/20 2020-12-10 17:30:00 -0600

  5:30 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Author Event:

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="cut1u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="cut1u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cut1u-0-0"><span data-text="true">About The Wax Pack</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="fmm2g-0-0"><div data-offset-key="fmm2g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fmm2g-0-0"><span data-text="true">Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected—a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly thirty-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack. Absurd, maybe, but true. He took this trip solo in the summer of 2015, spanning 11,341 miles through thirty states in forty-eight days.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="id7d-0-0"><div data-offset-key="id7d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="id7d-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="3o62g-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3o62g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3o62g-0-0"><span data-text="true">Balukjian actively engaged with his subjects—taking a hitting lesson from Rance Mulliniks, watching kung fu movies with Garry Templeton, and going to the zoo with Don Carman. In the process of finding all the players but one, he discovered an astonishing range of experiences and untold stories in their post-baseball lives, and he realized that we all have more in common with ballplayers than we think. While crisscrossing the country, Balukjian retraced his own past, reconnecting with lost loves and coming to terms with his lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="ee6rn-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ee6rn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ee6rn-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="avlhu-0-0"><div data-offset-key="avlhu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="avlhu-0-0"><span data-text="true">Alternately elegiac and uplifting, The Wax Pack is part baseball nostalgia, part road trip travelogue, and all heart, a reminder that greatness is not found in the stats on the backs of baseball cards but in the personal stories of the men on the front of them.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="e90om-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e90om-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e90om-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="brt23-0-0"><div data-offset-key="brt23-0-0"><span data-offset-key="brt23-0-0"><span data-text="true">About Brad Balukjian</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="r8di" data-offset-key="7l3mq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7l3mq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7l3mq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Brad Balukjian is director of the Natural History and Sustainability Program and teaches biology at Merritt College in Oakland, California. He is also a freelance writer and has published articles in Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Slate, Discover, Smithsonian, Natural History, NOVA Next, and Islands.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 18:00:00 -0600

  5/14/20 2020-05-14 17:00:00 -0500

  5:00 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey - A Spoken Word Performance

  <p>The UUS Racial Justice Action/Study Team invites you to an evening of spoken-word performance with Caleb "The Negro Artist" Rainey. <em><u>Free-will donations from the show will benefit Neighborhood Centers of Johnson County</u></em>. Light refreshments will be available after the show.&nbsp;</p><p>Caleb Rainey is an author, performer, and producer. He hails from Columbia, MO, and holds a BA in English (Creative Writing) from the U of I. He is actively curating a community of spoken word poets in Iowa City through his creation of a high school program, IC Speaks, and producing local events like Poetry &amp; Motion. A sampling of Rainey's work can be viewed on The Negro Artist YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2ru6QamA5dS5oS5ed7b-_A">The Negro Artist</a></p><p>As a performer he is the winner of the Des Moines Poetry Slam, the Iowa City Poetry Slam, a two-time winner of the Fire &amp; Ice Poetry Slam, and a finalist for the UNESCO City of Literature Global Poetry Slam – Iowa City. His performances have taken place across the country and internationally in London, England.&nbsp;</p><p>His debut book, "<strong>Look, Black Boy</strong>," became Amazon’s #1 new release in African American poetry, and was featured on Iowa Public Radio. His second book, "<strong>Heart Notes</strong>," was published in October. He co-founded the literary magazine <strong>Black Art; Real Stories</strong>, was published in Iowa's Best Emerging Poets - 2019, the <strong>Little Village Magazine</strong>, and writes a monthly column for The Real Mainstream.</p> 2020-01-31 22:00:00 -0600

  2/22/20 2020-02-22 19:00:00 -0600

  7:00 p.m.

  Unitarian Universalist Society

  Coralville

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• Book Club: Bad Blood

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="839lr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="839lr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="839lr-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="3hlq9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3hlq9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3hlq9-0-0"><span data-text="true">The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="724im-0-0"><div data-offset-key="724im-0-0"><span data-offset-key="724im-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="6n4n5-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6n4n5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6n4n5-0-0"><span data-text="true">In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="d4a3t-0-0"><div data-offset-key="d4a3t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d4a3t-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="396l9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="396l9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="396l9-0-0"><span data-text="true">For years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Here is the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a disturbing cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="ui4v-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ui4v-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ui4v-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="en5af-0-0"><div data-offset-key="en5af-0-0"><span data-offset-key="en5af-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="cpi6d" data-offset-key="ab0ue-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ab0ue-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ab0ue-0-0"><span data-text="true">John Carreyrou is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and a nonfiction author. His first book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, chronicles Silicon Valley's biggest fraud.</span></span></div></div>

  2/27/20 2020-02-27 00:00:00 -0600

  12:00 a.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Next Page Book & Social Club

  <p>Discuss At the Wolf's Table by Italian author Rosella Postorino at Next Page Books, 1105 Third Street SE, Cedar Rapids at 6:30pm Wednesday, March 18.</p> 2020-02-17 20:00:00 -0600

  3/18/20 2020-03-18 18:30:00 -0500

  6:30 p.m.

  Next Page Books

  Cedar Rapids

  0

• An Evening with Jasmine Warga

  <p>Author Jasmine Warga will talk about her book "Other Words For Home," the story of young Jude's flight from Syria to the U.S., and her search for love, understanding, and a chance for happiness.</p><p>We always recommend confirming details before attending. We hope to see you there!</p> 2020-01-13 19:30:00 -0600

  5/14/20 2020-05-14 18:30:00 -0500

  6:30 p.m.

  Downtown Cedar Rapids Public Library

  Cedar Rapids

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• Book Club: The Library of the Unwritten

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="4q4d4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4q4d4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4q4d4-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="141cq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="141cq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="141cq-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors reside in the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, and it is up to the Librarian to track down any restless characters who emerge from those unfinished stories.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="e7oem-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e7oem-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e7oem-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="ciubh-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ciubh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ciubh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Many years ago, Claire was named Head Librarian of the Unwritten Wing—a neutral space in Hell where all the stories unfinished by their authors reside. Her job consists mainly of repairing and organizing books, but also of keeping an eye on restless stories that risk materializing as characters and escaping the library. When a Hero escapes from his book and goes in search of his author, Claire must track and capture him with the help of former muse and current assistant Brevity and nervous demon courier Leto.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="cqdj7-0-0"><div data-offset-key="cqdj7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cqdj7-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="8o3dr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8o3dr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8o3dr-0-0"><span data-text="true">But what should have been a simple retrieval goes horrifyingly wrong when the terrifyingly angelic Ramiel attacks them, convinced that they hold the Devil's Bible. The text of the Devil's Bible is a powerful weapon in the power struggle between Heaven and Hell, so it falls to the librarians to find a book with the power to reshape the boundaries between Heaven, Hell ... and Earth.&nbsp;</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="b1um9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="b1um9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b1um9-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="3oiml-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3oiml-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3oiml-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="6k223" data-offset-key="c4kqq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="c4kqq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c4kqq-0-0"><span data-text="true">A. J. Hackwith is (almost) certainly not an ink witch in a hoodie. She's a queer writer of fantasy and science fiction living in Seattle, and writes sci-fi romance as Ada Harper. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise writer's workshop and her work appears in Uncanny Magazine and assorted anthologies. Summon A.J. at your own peril with an arcane circle of fountain pens and classic RPGs, or you can find her on Twitter and other dark corners of the Internet.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  5/28/20 2020-05-28 18:00:00 -0500

  6:00 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• In Her Steps: Women's History Tour

  <p>Join us for a closer look at the remarkable women who made Brucemore and Cedar Rapids what it is today. Brucemore’s history was shaped by a series of noteworthy women. They had an impact not only on the historic estate, but in the community. From poets to landscape architects, nurses to authors, sculptors to cooks, and even a museum director, the women of Brucemore led diverse lives shaped by their passions, interests, and circumstances. Take a deeper look at their history, uncovering these rarely shared stories.</p><p><br></p> 2020-02-08 19:00:00 -0600

  3/12/20 2020-03-12 17:30:00 -0500

  5:30 p.m.

  brucemore

  Cedar Rapids

  10

• In Her Steps: Women's History Tour

  <p>Join us for a closer look at the remarkable women who made Brucemore and Cedar Rapids what it is today. Brucemore’s history was shaped by a series of noteworthy women. They had an impact not only on the historic estate, but in the community. From poets to landscape architects, nurses to authors, sculptors to cooks, and even a museum director, the women of Brucemore led diverse lives shaped by their passions, interests, and circumstances. Take a deeper look at their history, uncovering these rarely shared stories.</p><p><br></p> 2020-02-08 19:00:00 -0600

  4/02/20 2020-04-02 17:30:00 -0500

  5:30 p.m.

  brucemore

  Cedar Rapids

  10

• Book Club: These Is My Words

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="89goi-0-0"><div data-offset-key="89goi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="89goi-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="1otsk-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1otsk-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1otsk-0-0"><span data-text="true">A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon—from child to determined young adult to loving mother—she shares the turbulent events, both joyous and tragic, that molded her, and recalls the enduring love with cavalry officer Captain Jack Elliot that gave her strength and purpose.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="8gg6d-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8gg6d-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8gg6d-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="4o3h4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4o3h4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4o3h4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Rich in authentic everyday details and alive with truly unforgettable characters, These Is My Words brilliantly brings a vanished world to breathtaking life again.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="a44kq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="a44kq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a44kq-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="5acrn-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5acrn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5acrn-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="f3mus-0-0"><div data-offset-key="f3mus-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f3mus-0-0"><span data-text="true">Nancy E. Turner</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="slfq" data-offset-key="8sn99-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8sn99-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8sn99-0-0"><span data-text="true">Genre: History, Historical Fiction</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  4/23/20 2020-04-23 18:00:00 -0500

  6:00 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Book Club: The Dry

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="aalqf-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aalqf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aalqf-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="30db9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="30db9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="30db9-0-0"><span data-text="true">A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="7c44u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7c44u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7c44u-0-0"><span data-text="true">In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="6l7jq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6l7jq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6l7jq-0-0"><span data-text="true">Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="7ocfu-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7ocfu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7ocfu-0-0"><span data-text="true">But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke's death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="1dt82-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1dt82-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1dt82-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="95p8j-0-0"><div data-offset-key="95p8j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="95p8j-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="1ipjv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1ipjv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ipjv-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jane Harper is the international bestselling author of The Dry, Force of Nature and The Lost Man.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="a5u00-0-0"><div data-offset-key="a5u00-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a5u00-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="6cqj1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6cqj1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6cqj1-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jane is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and has won numerous top awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, and the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="at1k1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="at1k1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="at1k1-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="8eq2m-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8eq2m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8eq2m-0-0"><span data-text="true">Her books are published in more than 36 territories worldwide, with The Dry in production as a major motion picture starring Eric Bana.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="9pnoe-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9pnoe-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9pnoe-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="d9qu7" data-offset-key="5u76b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5u76b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5u76b-0-0"><span data-text="true">Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK, and now lives in Melbourne.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  6/25/20 2020-06-25 18:00:00 -0500

  6:00 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Book Club: Stolen Remains

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="2k87l-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2k87l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2k87l-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="fi7sn-0-0"><div data-offset-key="fi7sn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fi7sn-0-0"><span data-text="true">After establishing her reputation as one of London's most highly regarded undertakers, Violet Harper decided to take her practice to the wilds of the American West. But when her mother falls ill, Violet and her husband Samuel are summoned back to England, where her skills are as sought-after as ever. She's honored to undertake the funeral of Anthony Fairmont, the Viscount Raybourn, a close friend of Queen Victoria's who died in suspicious circumstances--but it's difficult to perform her services when his body disappears. . .</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="aoj0u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aoj0u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aoj0u-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="2jjd2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2jjd2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2jjd2-0-0"><span data-text="true">As the viscount's undertaker, all eyes are on Violet as the Fairmonts and Scotland Yard begin the search for his earthly remains. Forced to exhume her latent talents as a sleuth to preserve her good name, Violet's own investigation takes her from servants' quarters, to the halls of Windsor Castle, to the tombs of ancient Egypt--and the Fairmont family's secrets quickly begin to unravel like a mummy's wrappings. But the closer Violet gets to the truth, the closer she gets to becoming the next missing body. . .</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="cdbd-0-0"><div data-offset-key="cdbd-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cdbd-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="aunt7-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aunt7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aunt7-0-0"><span data-text="true">Wrought with both heartfelt bravery and breathtaking suspense, Stolen Remains is a captivating tale of death and deception set against the indelible backdrop of Victorian London.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="edb50-0-0"><div data-offset-key="edb50-0-0"><span data-offset-key="edb50-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="b54t1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="b54t1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b54t1-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="52q38" data-offset-key="9hr0i-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9hr0i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9hr0i-0-0"><span data-text="true">Christine Trent is the author of the Florence Nightingale Mysteries, the Lady of Ashes historical mystery series, about a Victorian-era undertaker, and three other historical novels. Christine’s novels have been translated into Turkish, Polish, and Czech. She writes from her two-story home library, where she lives with her husband, four precocious cats, a large doll collection, entirely too many fountain pens, and over 4,000 catalogued books.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  7/02/20 2020-07-02 18:00:00 -0500

  6:00 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Book Club: My Sister, the Serial Killer

  <p>About the Book<br>&nbsp;My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede's long been in love with him, and isn't prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other...<br><br>About the Author<br> OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. Following her degree, she worked as an assistant editor at Kachifo, a Nigerian publishing house, and has been freelancing as a writer and editor since. In 2014, she was shortlisted as a top-ten spoken-word artist in the Eko Poetry Slam, and in 2016 she was a finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria.</p>

  6/04/20 2020-06-04 00:00:00 -0500

  12:00 a.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Book Club: Beyond Justice by Cara Putnam

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="6833r-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6833r-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6833r-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="9c14q-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9c14q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9c14q-0-0"><span data-text="true">Hayden McCarthy is on track to become the youngest partner in her prestigious D.C. law firm . . . if the case she's just been handed doesn't destroy her first.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="2udij-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2udij-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2udij-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="2mvi2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2mvi2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2mvi2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Hayden McCarthy knows firsthand the pain when justice is not served. It's why she became an attorney and why she's so driven in her career. When she's handed a wrongful death case against the government, she isn't sure if it's the lucky break she needs to secure a partnership—or an attempt to make sure she never gets there. She keeps the case alive through sheer determination and more than a little creativity, but then she's fired by a partner with a vendetta.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="br0el-0-0"><div data-offset-key="br0el-0-0"><span data-offset-key="br0el-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="ddj9i-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ddj9i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ddj9i-0-0"><span data-text="true">Further complicating matters, Hayden keeps finding herself completely distracted by Andrew, her roommate's cousin. But his father is a Congressman and she's currently taking on the government. Could the timing be any worse?</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="63um4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="63um4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="63um4-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="fa6m8-0-0"><div data-offset-key="fa6m8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fa6m8-0-0"><span data-text="true">The longer she keeps the case active, the higher the stakes become. Unknown enemies seem determined to see either the case—or her—die. Should she fight alone for the dead young man by launching her own unfinanced firm, or abandon the case in order to save her own life?</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="46pb6-0-0"><div data-offset-key="46pb6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="46pb6-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="bv8vr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bv8vr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bv8vr-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="2of9h-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2of9h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2of9h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Cara C. Putman lives in Indiana with her husband and four children. She lectures full time in law and ethics at Purdue University's Krannert School of Managment as well as practices law. She has loved reading and writing from a young age and now realizes it was all training for writing books. She loves bringing history and legal romantic suspense to life.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="821su-0-0"><div data-offset-key="821su-0-0"><span data-offset-key="821su-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="3cl12-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3cl12-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3cl12-0-0"><span data-text="true">An honors graduate of the University of Nebraska, George Mason University School of Law, and Krannert School of Management, Cara left small town Nebraska and headed to Washington, D.C., to launch her career in public policy.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="1np27-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1np27-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1np27-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="fcqh3" data-offset-key="6025m-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6025m-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6025m-0-0"><span data-text="true">Cara is an author chasing hard after God as she lives a crazy life. She invites you to join her on that journey. She's currently writing her 32nd book with more on the way. Please check out her website to learn more about her books and read first chapters.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  3/05/20 2020-03-05 18:00:00 -0600

  6:00 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Book Club: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

  <p>About the Book<br>&nbsp;When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind. Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs—the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day marauding the store’s overwhelmed shelves.<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;But when Joey Molina, a young, beguiling BookFrog, kills himself in the bookstore’s upper room, Lydia’s life comes unglued. Always Joey’s favorite bookseller, Lydia has been bequeathed his meager worldly possessions. Trinkets and books; the detritus of a lonely, uncared for man. But when Lydia flips through his books she finds them defaced in ways both disturbing and inexplicable. They reveal the psyche of a young man on the verge of an emotional reckoning. And they seem to contain a hidden message. What did Joey know? And what does it have to do with Lydia?<br><br>As Lydia untangles the mystery of Joey’s suicide, she unearths a long buried memory from her own violent childhood. Details from that one bloody night begin to circle back. Her distant father returns to the fold, along with an obsessive local cop, and the Hammerman, a murderer who came into Lydia’s life long ago and, as she soon discovers, never completely left.<br><br>About the Author<br> Matthew Sullivan grew up in a family of eight children in suburban Denver, Colorado. He received his B.A. from the University of San Francisco, his M.F.A. from the University of Idaho, and has been a resident writer at Yaddo, Centrum, and the Vermont Studio Center. His writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and other awards, and has won the Florida Review Editor's Prize and the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize. In addition to working for years at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he has taught writing and literature at colleges in Boston, Idaho, and Poland, and currently teaches writing, literature, and film at Big Bend Community College in the high desert of Washington State. He is married to a librarian, Libby, and has two children and a scruffy dog named Ernie. They recently relocated to Anacortes, WA.</p> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  5/07/20 2020-05-07 18:00:00 -0500

  6:00 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Book Club: Nefertiti

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="eiqap-0-0"><div data-offset-key="eiqap-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eiqap-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="7ejb5-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7ejb5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7ejb5-0-0"><span data-text="true">Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries. Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful, Nefertiti is destined to marry Amunhotep, an unstable young pharaoh. It is hoped by all that her strong personality will temper the young Amunhotep's heretical desire to forsake Egypt's ancient gods, overthrow the priests of Amun, and introduce a new sun god for all to worship.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="5mldv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5mldv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5mldv-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="4rneq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="4rneq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4rneq-0-0"><span data-text="true">From the moment of her arrival in Thebes, Nefertiti is beloved by the people. Her charisma is matched only by her husband's perceived generosity: Amunhotep showers his subjects with lofty promises. The love of the commoners will not be enough, however, if the royal couple is not able to conceive an heir, and as Nefertiti turns her attention to producing a son, she fails to see that the powerful priests, along with the military, are plotting against her husband's rule. The only person wise enough to recognize the shift in political winds--and brave enough to tell the queen--is her younger sister, Mutnodjmet.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="1ttc8-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1ttc8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ttc8-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="3jd3a-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3jd3a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3jd3a-0-0"><span data-text="true">Observant and contemplative, Mutnodjmet has never shared her sister's desire for power. She yearns for a quiet existence away from family duty and the intrigues of court. Her greatest hope is to share her life with the general who has won her heart. But as Nefertiti learns of the precariousness of her reign, she declares that her sister must remain at court and marry for political gain, not love. To achieve her independence, Mutnodjmet must defy her sister, the most powerful woman in Egypt, while also remaining loyal to the needs of her family.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="9hv6h-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9hv6h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9hv6h-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="e6kea-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e6kea-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e6kea-0-0"><span data-text="true">Love, betrayal, political unrest, plague, and religious conflict, Nefertiti brings ancient Egypt to life in vivid detail. Fast-paced and historically accurate, it is the dramatic story of two unforgettable women living through a remarkable period in history.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="a93cr-0-0"><div data-offset-key="a93cr-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a93cr-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="2o4l2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2o4l2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2o4l2-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="5ul0f-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5ul0f-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5ul0f-0-0"><span data-text="true">Michelle Moran is the international bestselling author of six historical novels, including Madame Tussaud, which was optioned for a mini-series in 2011. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="2iss4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2iss4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2iss4-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="snl2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="snl2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="snl2-0-0"><span data-text="true">A native of southern California, Michelle attended Pomona College, then earned a Masters Degree from the Claremont Graduate University. During her six years as a public high school teacher, she used her summers to travel around the world, and it was her experiences as a volunteer on archaeological digs that inspired her to write historical fiction.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="9eugn-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9eugn-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9eugn-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="32v0k" data-offset-key="a5hq2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="a5hq2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a5hq2-0-0"><span data-text="true">In 2012 Michelle was married in India, inspiring her seventh book, Rebel Queen, which is set in the East. Her hobbies include hiking, traveling, and archaeology. She is also fascinated by archaeogenetics, particularly since her children's heritages are so mixed. But above all these things, Michelle is passionate about reading, and can often be found with her nose in a good book. A frequent traveler, she currently resides with her husband, son, and daughter in the US.&nbsp;</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  3/26/20 2020-03-26 18:00:00 -0500

  6:00 p.m.

  M & M Bookstore

  Cedar Rapids

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• Book Club: Murder at the Book Club

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="em76l-0-0"><div data-offset-key="em76l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="em76l-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="17hof-0-0"><div data-offset-key="17hof-0-0"><span data-offset-key="17hof-0-0"><span data-text="true">Imagine nine women meeting. Tea and cake are on the coffee table. They’ve come together to share their love of books. They are friends. They trust each other. It’s a happy gathering. What could be more harmless?</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="bs2lc-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bs2lc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bs2lc-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="bh6d5-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bh6d5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bh6d5-0-0"><span data-text="true">Then scratch the surface and look closer.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="coqad-0-0"><div data-offset-key="coqad-0-0"><span data-offset-key="coqad-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="636pi-0-0"><div data-offset-key="636pi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="636pi-0-0"><span data-text="true">One is lonely. One is desperate and one of them is a killer.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="201hv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="201hv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="201hv-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="altt1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="altt1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="altt1-0-0"><span data-text="true">When the body of a woman is discovered on a Cambridge common, DCI Barrett and DI Palmer are called in to investigate. But the motive behind the crime isn’t clear… And it all leads back to a book club.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="8fqgi-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8fqgi-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8fqgi-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="1c7vq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1c7vq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1c7vq-0-0"><span data-text="true">As the lies, volatile friendships and tension among the group rise to the surface, DCI Barrett and DI Palmer must work out the motive and track down a cold-blooded killer. But just when they think they are on the right track, a twist in the case throws them off course…</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="fp3hu-0-0"><div data-offset-key="fp3hu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="fp3hu-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="9s54b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9s54b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9s54b-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="2712u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2712u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2712u-0-0"><span data-text="true">etsy Freeman Reavley is the author of Beneath the Watery Moon and A Worm in the Bottle. Carrion, her latest psychological thriller will be released in November 2014.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="eng5q-0-0"><div data-offset-key="eng5q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="eng5q-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="50f34-0-0"><div data-offset-key="50f34-0-0"><span data-offset-key="50f34-0-0"><span data-text="true">She was born in Hammersmith, London.As a child she moved around frequently with her family, spending time in London, Provence, Tuscany, Gloucestershire and Cambridgeshire.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="1ricc-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1ricc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ricc-0-0"><span data-text="true">She showed a flair for literature and writing from a young age and had a particular interest in poetry, of which she was a prolific consumer and producer.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="1m18h-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1m18h-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1m18h-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="71ine-0-0"><div data-offset-key="71ine-0-0"><span data-offset-key="71ine-0-0"><span data-text="true">In her early twenties she moved to Oxford, where she would eventually meet her husband. During her time in Oxford her interests turned from poetry to novels and she began to develop her own unique style of psychological thriller.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="41qip-0-0"><div data-offset-key="41qip-0-0"><span data-offset-key="41qip-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="5vkqi-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5vkqi-0-0"><br></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="fik08-0-0"><br></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="c9vf1-0-0"><div data-offset-key="c9vf1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c9vf1-0-0"><span data-text="true">Reavley says "I think people are at their most fascinating when they are faced with life's real horrors." This is what I love to write about.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="3t1l8-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3t1l8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3t1l8-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4bg4k" data-offset-key="c1nuv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="c1nuv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="c1nuv-0-0"><span data-text="true">Betsy Reavley currently lives in North London, with her husband 2 children, dog, cat and chickens. You can follow her on Twitter @BetsyReavley</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  8/06/20 2020-08-06 18:00:00 -0500

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• Book Club: Liar, Liar

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="5f9l6-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5f9l6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5f9l6-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="7q8a6-0-0"><div data-offset-key="7q8a6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7q8a6-0-0"><span data-text="true">The truth is elusive in Liar Liar.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="343k6-0-0"><div data-offset-key="343k6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="343k6-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="5bllq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5bllq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5bllq-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Tough and likeable" (Foreword Reviews) Nicole Graves finds herself in the crosshairs when she reluctantly agrees to babysit a witness in a high-profile rape trial. Mary Ellen Barnes is suing her university's star quarterback for rape when the authorities won't act. In the court of public opinion, Mary Ellen appears to be the quintessential, pious, good girl. But her lies and mysterious comings and goings lead Nicole to suspect that she’s not what she seems.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="ccjs9-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ccjs9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ccjs9-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="dpq1i-0-0"><div data-offset-key="dpq1i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dpq1i-0-0"><span data-text="true">It isn't just Mary Ellen who's acting suspiciously. No one wants to own up to the truth in Liar Liar, not even Nicole, whose fiance; begs her not to look into the case. But when the witness goes missing during the trial, Nicole is caught up in a tangle of lies that turns deadly. After the investigator assigned to the case fails to do his job, Nicole is determined to find the killer on her own, no matter the risks.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="1v40g-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1v40g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1v40g-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="esmj4-0-0"><div data-offset-key="esmj4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="esmj4-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="cerv2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="cerv2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cerv2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Nancy was born in Oakland, California, and grew up with her parents and two sisters in the flatlands of East Oakland. When she was around eight—in a world that was a lot safer that today—she was allowed to roam the neighborhood by herself, and her visits to the tiny Alandale Public Library were the highlight of her week.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="id80-0-0"><div data-offset-key="id80-0-0"><span data-offset-key="id80-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="1oa8p-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1oa8p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1oa8p-0-0"><span data-text="true">She attended public schools in Oakland. Her father opposed the idea of sending girls to college, being of the opinion that they would be better off working as waitresses to prepare them for their life’s work as housewives. Nancy ignored his advice and went on to UC Berkeley, where she supported herself by working in the campus library. In addition to the pleasure of working around books, the job had an added benefit of allowing student clerks to disappear into the stacks and read when work was slow. Nancy majored in English literature and graduated from Berkeley with honors.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="bggh5-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bggh5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bggh5-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="78lnp-0-0"><div data-offset-key="78lnp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="78lnp-0-0"><span data-text="true">Her first job was as an associate editor for a small, long-vanished publishing house in San Francisco. When her two daughters were born, she stayed home and began writing freelance articles for a local paper, as well as teaming up with her husband, Bill Boyarsky, on magazine articles. They lived in Sacramento for ten years, while her husband covered the state capital and political campaigns for the Associated Press.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="2gilv-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2gilv-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2gilv-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="3l2nm-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3l2nm-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3l2nm-0-0"><span data-text="true">The family moved to Los Angeles when Bill joined the staff of the Los Angeles Times. When her girls were in their teens, Nancy gave up freelancing and returned to full-time work, first as associate editor of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine and later as communications director for political affairs for ARCO. She quit ARCO when the first of her two granddaughters was born. Since then, she has devoted herself to writing and editing. Her primary hobby is painting portraits and images from old family photos dating from the early 1900s. She loves reading fiction, the theater, films, and travel, especially to the UK where the theater and books are a national passion.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="en4ov-0-0"><div data-offset-key="en4ov-0-0"><span data-offset-key="en4ov-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="46a61-0-0"><div data-offset-key="46a61-0-0"><span data-offset-key="46a61-0-0"><span data-text="true">Nancy Boyarsky coauthored Backroom Politics, a New York Times notable book, with her husband. She has written several textbooks on the justice system and contributed to political anthologies, including In the Running, about women’s political campaigns and The Challenge of California by the late Eugene Lee. She has also written articles on a variety of subjects for the Los Angeles Times, West magazine, Forbes, McCalls, Playgirl, Westways and other publications.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="18j3b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="18j3b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="18j3b-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="ejd2n-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ejd2n-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ejd2n-0-0"><span data-text="true">She is currently working on another mystery featuring Nicole, as well as Family Recipes for Gastroenteritis, a tragicomic memoir of growing up in Oakland in a family at the far end of disfunctionality.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="13jef-0-0"><div data-offset-key="13jef-0-0"><span data-offset-key="13jef-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="jftr" data-offset-key="97oon-0-0"><div data-offset-key="97oon-0-0"><span data-offset-key="97oon-0-0"><span data-text="true">She lives in Los Angeles with her journalist husband, Bill Boyarsky.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-30 19:00:00 -0600

  9/03/20 2020-09-03 18:00:00 -0500

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• Book Club: The Murder of Mary Russell

  <div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="e0rjq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="e0rjq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e0rjq-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Book</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="5q13a-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5q13a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5q13a-0-0"><span data-text="true">Mary Russell is used to dark secrets—her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="aavom-0-0"><div data-offset-key="aavom-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aavom-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="bn67u-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bn67u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bn67u-0-0"><span data-text="true">And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart: the couple’s longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell’s faith and affection are suddenly shattered when a man arrives on the doorstep claiming to be Mrs. Hudson’s son.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="3vgal-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3vgal-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3vgal-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="1mo80-0-0"><div data-offset-key="1mo80-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1mo80-0-0"><span data-text="true">What Samuel Hudson tells Russell cannot possibly be true, yet she believes him—as surely as she believes the threat of the gun in his hand. In a devastating instant, everything changes. And when the scene is discovered—a pool of blood on the floor, the smell of gunpowder in the air—the most shocking revelation of all is that the grim clues point directly to Clara Hudson.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="6mvou-0-0"><div data-offset-key="6mvou-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6mvou-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="17ic2-0-0"><div data-offset-key="17ic2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="17ic2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Or rather to Clarissa, the woman she was before Baker Street.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="30qvc-0-0"><div data-offset-key="30qvc-0-0"><span data-offset-key="30qvc-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="5erk8-0-0"><div data-offset-key="5erk8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5erk8-0-0"><span data-text="true">The key to Russell’s sacrifice lies in Mrs. Hudson’s past. To uncover the truth, a frantic Sherlock Holmes must put aside his anguish and push deep into his housekeeper’s secrets—to a time before her disguise was assumed, before her crimes were buried away.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="s086-0-0"><div data-offset-key="s086-0-0"><span data-offset-key="s086-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="a8no7-0-0"><div data-offset-key="a8no7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="a8no7-0-0"><span data-text="true">There is death here, and murder, and trust betrayed.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="2oa6b-0-0"><div data-offset-key="2oa6b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2oa6b-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="bgk6q-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bgk6q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bgk6q-0-0"><span data-text="true">And nothing will ever be the same.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="9oa8i-0-0"><div data-offset-key="9oa8i-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9oa8i-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="bb15p-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bb15p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bb15p-0-0"><span data-text="true">About the Author</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="50lhg-0-0"><div data-offset-key="50lhg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="50lhg-0-0"><span data-text="true">Edgar-winning mystery writer Laurie R. King writes series and standalone novels. Her official forum is</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="ei5oq-0-0"><div data-offset-key="ei5oq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ei5oq-0-0"><span data-text="true">THE LRK VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB here on Goodreads--please join us for book-discussing fun.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="3e8r7-0-0"><div data-offset-key="3e8r7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3e8r7-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="dmbaa-0-0"><div data-offset-key="dmbaa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="dmbaa-0-0"><span data-text="true">King's 2018 novel, Island of the Mad, sees Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes travel from London's Bedlam to the glitter of Venice's Lido,where Young Things and the friends of Cole Porter pass Mussolini's Blackshirts in the streets. The Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series follows a brilliant young woman who becomes the student, then partner, of the great detective. The Stuyvesant and Grey series (Touchstone; The Bones of Paris) takes place in Europe between the Wars. The Kate Martinelli series follows an SFPD detective's cases on a female Rembrandt, a holy fool, and more.&nbsp;</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="8ekji-0-0"><div data-offset-key="8ekji-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8ekji-0-0"><br data-text="true"></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="98oqe" data-offset-key="bslsp-0-0"><div data-offset-key="bslsp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bslsp-0-0"><span data-text="true">King lives in northern California, which serves as backdrop for some of her books.</span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600

  4/02/20 2020-04-02 18:00:00 -0500

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  Cedar Rapids

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