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Writer's Night Monthly
<p>This monthly writer's night is an opportunity for you to network and read your writings to an audience of fellow writers. Each participant will have 10 minutes.<br><br>Writing prompts were also introduced in Dec. So, bring a paper and pen and get writing.<br><br>All are welcome!<br><br>Location: Mount Vernon Creates 121 1st ST NW Mount Vernon IA<br>Coordinators: Joe Jennison and Marianne Taylor<br><br>Mount Vernon Creates has wine, beer, sparkling water and tea selections as well as popcorn and chocolates for purchase. We also have complimentary coffee. <br><br>Co-sponsored by MVAAC and Mount Vernon Creates </p> 2019-12-28 20:30:00 -0600
1/23/207:00 p.m.Mount Vernon CreatesMount Vernon -
Spiritual Art Journaling at Prairiewoods
<p>Read and reflect on passages from various spiritual writers including Annie Dillard, Christine Valters Paintner and Caitlin Mathews. We will use the process of art journaling as a creative way to further contemplate and explore our spirituality. Join facilitator Angie Pierce Jennings at Prairiewoods (120 East Boyson Road in Hiawatha) for this monthly time of contemplation, journaling and sharing. We are invited to bring a journal or mixed media tablet, colored pencils or water color paints, and some art supplies will be available. Artists of all experience levels, including beginners, are welcome. Feel free to enjoy this as a series or as individual sessions. The cost is $10 per session, and registration is requested by the previous day. For more information or to register, contact Prairiewoods at www.Prairiewoods.org or 319-395-6700.</p> 2019-12-18 14:30:00 -0600
1/28/201:00 p.m.Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality CenterHiawatha -
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Write-in Club
<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
2/13/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Write-In Club
<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
3/12/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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
4/09/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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
5/14/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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
6/11/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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
7/09/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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
8/13/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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
9/10/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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
10/08/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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
11/12/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar 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
12/10/205:30 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Spiritual Art Journaling at Prairiewoods
<p>Read and reflect on passages from various spiritual writers including Annie Dillard, Christine Valters Paintner and Caitlin Mathews. We will use the process of art journaling as a creative way to further contemplate and explore our spirituality. Join facilitator Angie Pierce Jennings at Prairiewoods (120 East Boyson Road in Hiawatha) for this monthly time of contemplation, journaling and sharing. We are invited to bring a journal or mixed media tablet, colored pencils or water color paints, and some art supplies will be available. Artists of all experience levels, including beginners, are welcome. Feel free to enjoy this as a series or as individual sessions. The cost is $10 per session, and registration is requested by the previous day. For more information or to register, contact Prairiewoods at www.Prairiewoods.org or 319-395-6700.</p> 2019-12-19 14:30:00 -0600
2/18/201:00 p.m.Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality CenterHiawatha -
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. </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
5/28/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Book Club: My Sister, the Serial Killer
<p>About the Book<br> 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> <br> 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>
6/04/2012:00 a.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
The Marshall Tucker Band with Pure Prairie League
<p>The Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young, hungry, and quite driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1972, having duly baptized themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it inscribed on a key to their original rehearsal space — and they’ve been in tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small all across the globe ever since. Plus, the band’s mighty music catalog, consisting of more than 20 studio albums and a score of live releases, has racked up multi-platinum album sales many times over in its wake. A typically rich MTB setlist is bubbling over with a healthy dose of indelible hits like the heartfelt singalong “Heard It in a Love Song,” the insistent pleading of “Can’t You See” (the signature tune of MTB’s late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy Caldwell), the testifying travelogue warning of “Fire on the Mountain,” the wanderlust gallop of “Long Hard Ride,” and the unquenchable yearning pitch of “Ramblin’,” to name but a few.</p><p>From their beginnings in mid-Sixties Ohio as a group of friends playing cover tunes to the present-day unit featuring founding member/pedal-steel innovator John David Call, veteran bassist Mike Reilly, propulsive drummer Scott Thompson and guitar ace Donnie Clark, <strong>Pure Prairie League</strong> continues to embellish the rich 43-year history of one of Country-Rock’s pioneering forces.</p><p>Their eponymous first album has been hailed as a “major early influence in the emerging popularity of Country-Rock music”. Their second effort, the multi-platinum “Bustin’ Out” brought us the Craig Fuller-penned classic “Amie”, along with other gems of the genre. With “Two Lane Highway”, nine more albums and countless shows, a legacy has been forged and enriched during the ‘70s and 80’s, highlighting contributions from several noteworthy members, including original co-founder George Ed Powell, Cincinnati’s legendary Goshorn Brothers, Country Hall of Famers Gary Burr and Vince Gill, award-winning writer Jeff Wilson (3 Top-20 singles) and a host of other guest appearances from Chet Atkins, Johnny Gimble, Emmy Lou Harris, David Sanborn, Eagle Don Felder, Nicolette Larson, and many more.</p> 2019-11-22 22:00:00 -0600
4/25/208:00 p.m.Riverside Casino & Golf Resort®Riverside -
Book Club: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
<p>About the Book<br> 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> <br> 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
5/07/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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. </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
4/02/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
Tallgrass Conversations Book Reading & Discussion at Prairiewoods
<p>Prairiewoods played a significant role in the inspiration for <em>Tallgrass Conversations: In Search of the Prairie Spirit, </em>a book of short writings and photographs, and much of its content—in both word and image—reflects co-author Thomas Dean’s Prairiewoods experience. Poetic, beautiful, meditative and informative, <em>Tallgrass Conversations</em> (co-authored with Cindy Crosby) encourages experiencing the prairie through the heart, mind and spirit, as well as sight, sound and other senses. With a special focus on Prairiewoods, Tom will discuss how the book came together, including how the idea of “conversations” with the living world informs the writing and photos. In this afternoon at Prairiewoods (120 East Boyson Road in Hiawatha), he will read selections from the book and share photos that accompany the short writings. After the reading, all are welcome to sow seeds in the prairie. A free-will offering will be accepted, and registration is requested by the previous day. For more information or to register, contact Prairiewoods at www.Prairiewoods.org or 319-395-6700.</p> 2019-12-19 15:30:00 -0600
2/15/202:00 p.m.Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality CenterHiawatha -
Iowa City Genealogical Society
<p align="center"><strong>The Quest: Seeking a Lost Heritage- topic of Genealogical Society Meeting</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>At the January 25<sup>th</sup> meeting of the Iowa City Genealogy Society, Sandra Hudson will take us on some <em>Armchair Travel</em>. She will share the tale of a young man’s transformative journey to the Czech Republic following the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Surprisingly, as he seeks to discover his heritage, he also discovers a part of yours—of every American’s heritage. Anyone with an interest in architecture, decorative art, fine art, guns and armaments, literature, music, or even unique business plans, will see images to enliven their imagination.</p><p><br></p><p>Sandra Hudson received a master’s in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard. Since retiring to Iowa City with her husband 22 years ago, Sandra has been involved in the arts at both the local and state level. Her hobbies are research and writing.</p><p><br></p><p>Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting, which will begin at 9:30 a.m. January25th, at the LDS Family History Library, <a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=2730+Bradford+Drive,+Iowa+City&entry=gmail&source=g">2730 Bradford Drive, Iowa City</a>. A wheelchair accessible entrance is available from the east parking lot.</p> 2020-01-10 10:30:00 -06001/25/209:30 a.m.LDS Family History CenterIOWA CITY -
Digital Minimalism discussion
<p>Let's talk about our relationships with our smartphones! If you've noticed that you spend more time on your phone than socializing, lamented a change in your attention span, or fought to beat a Candy Crush addiction, you're not alone. </p><p>"Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology," according to Cal Newport, author of <em>Digital Minimalism: choosing a focused life in a noisy world</em>.</p><p>Library staff will summarize the main ideas found in <em>Digital Minimalism</em> among other sources, and we'll have an informal discussion about the impact of technology on our lives. You'll leave with ideas for improving your phone habits.</p><p>There's no required reading before the discussion, but participants may be interested in checking out Cal Newport's book <a href="https://catpro.icpl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1551737"><em>Digital Minimalism</em></a>, listening to <a href="http://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/stop-using-your-smartphone-fight-loneliness-it-s-not-working#stream/0">his appearance on Iowa Public Radio</a>, or reading his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opinion/sunday/steve-jobs-never-wanted-us-to-use-our-iphones-like-this.html">editorial to the New York Times</a>. There are many other people writing on this topic, too, so feel free to bring ideas from other sources to share.</p><p>Registration is optional. Join us for a potentially life-changing talk!</p> 2020-01-14 20:30:00 -0600
1/23/207:00 p.m.Iowa City Public LibraryIowa City -
Darryl Van Leer Presents The Norm of Greatness: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
<p>This stirring performance, based on the essential writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., opens with narration describing the tribulations of the Montgomery bus boycott. Dr. King’s testimony of these events is given in his passionate sermon “Early Days.” Next, the audience is transported to 1963 to witness Dr. King’s historical speech “I Have A Dream.” The Norm of Greatness also includes “The Drum Major Instinct,” “The Eulogy,” and “I See the Promised Land.”</p>
3/16/207:30 p.m.University of Dubuque Heritage CenterDubuque -
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
3/05/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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
8/06/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar 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
7/02/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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
9/03/206:00 p.m.M & M BookstoreCedar Rapids -
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. </span></span></div></div> 2019-12-26 19:00:00 -0600
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