CARA BLACK
Murder on the Champ de Mars
Tuesday, March 17 at 7 PM
Cara Black is back to read her latest Aimee Leduc mystery. As Aimee deals with sleep deprivation and single motherhood, the last thing she wants is to take on a personal investigation for a poor "manouche" (Gypsy) boy. But he insists his dying mother has an important secret she needs to tell Aimee, something to do with Aimee's father's unsolved murder a decade ago. How can she say no? But when she arrives at the hospital, the boy’s mother has disappeared.
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JACQUELINE WINSPEAR
A Dangerous Place
Thursday, March 19 at 7 PM
It's a
pleasure to welcome back Jacqueline Winspear, who will read from her new book, featuring the unflappable Maisie Dobbs. On a spiritual quest in India, Maisie receives a letter informing her that her father is fading. On her way home, she finds herself investigating the murder of a local Sephardic Jew in Gibraltar.
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CAREY PERLOFF
Beautiful Chaos: A Life in the Theater
Tuesday, March 24 at 7 PM
Meet this award-winning playwright, theater director, and artistic director of the legendary American Conservatory Theater, who will share her lively and revealing memoir.
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C.W. GORTNER
Mademoiselle Chanel
Thursday, March 26 at 7 PM
C.W. Gortner returns to read from his latest book, a stunningly imagined novel about the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel.
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JANE HIRSHFIELD
The Beauty: Poems and Ten Windows
Tuesday, April 7 at 7 PM
We are pleased to welcome Jane Hirshfield, current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, who will read from her latest poetry collection, The Beauty, and Ten Windows, a collection of essays.
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BRUCE HENDERSON
Rescue at Los Banos
Tuesday, April 14 at 7 PM
Bestselling author Bruce Henderson (Hero Found) shares the incredible true story of one of the greatest military rescues of all time: The 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines.
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SAM QUINONES
Dreamland
Thursday, April 30 at 7 PM
In his fascinating new book, Sam Quinones chronicles how sugar cane farmers on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin - the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate - to people across the United States.
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