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In This Newsletter:
C.W. Gortner - Thursday, June 14 at 7 PM
Michele Bigley - Tuesday, June 19 at 6 PM
Alan Furst - Friday, June 22 at 7 PM
More Upcoming Events

C.W. GORTNER
The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella Castile
Thursday, June 14 at 7 PM

Meet the author of the acclaimed historical novels The Last Queen and The Confessions of Catherine de Medici.

Gortner's latest novel depicts the turbulent early years of Queen Isabella – the woman who united a fractured country, whose reign gave rise to the Inquisition, and who sent Columbus to discover a New World.

Gortner avoids romanticizing and sentimentalizing and presents a believable account of a woman determined to control her own fate and shape Spain into a great country. - Booklist

Next week:

MICHELE BIGLEY
Backroads & Byways of Northern California
Tuesday, June 19 at 6 PM*
*please note earlier time

Join us for an evening with local author Michele Bigley, who shares the "other" Northern California, with its rugged beauty, small-town ambiance - and all that great wine. Take a drive, a day-trip or a weekend and explore the best spots and the most interesting routes to reach them. Bigley, who also wrote An Explorer's Guide: Northern California, provides the inside knowledge of a local and the keen eye of a seasoned travel writer.

ALAN FURST
Mission to Paris
Friday, June 22 at 7 PM

Meet the New York Times bestselling author of Spies of the Balkans - and "modern-day master of the genre" (New York's Newsday). Furst will read from his latest novel, a gripping story of espionage and deception.

Furst is one of the finest spy novelists working today, and, from boudoir to the beach, Mission to Paris is perfect summer reading. - Publishers Weekly

More upcoming events:

• JONATHAN TROPPER
  One Last Thing Before I Go
  Saturday, August 25 at 7 PM



• LAURIE KING
  Garment of Shadows
  Thursday, September 6 at 7 PM

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about these and other upcoming events.

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