Friends of Crowell Library: Meet the Authors

SAN MARINO, Calif. - Aug. 25, 2015 - PRLog -- The Friends of Crowell Public Library’s Meet the Authors series continues this fall with writer Ken Oder who grew up in White Hall, Vir­ginia, a farm town of about fifty peo­ple near the Blue Ridge Moun­tains. Although he moved to Los Ange­les in 1975, prac­ticing law and serving as an exec­u­tive, White Hall’s moun­tains and its peo­ple still come out in his stories. His latest, The Closing, was voted Number 1 Best-Selling Kindle Legal Thriller and Number 6 Best-Selling Kindle Mystery novel on Amazon.com.  The story begins when two men meet in the Virginia state penitentiary and discover they have only one thing in common: they both want their lives back.  Meet Ken Oder on Tuesday, September 22 at 7:00 pm in the Library’s Barth Community Room.

Author Alice Simpson will talk about her latest title, Ballroom on Thursday, on October 22, also at 7:00pm.  A novel told in interconnecting stories, Ballroom is a poignant story about a group of strangers united by a desire to escape their complicated and unhappy lives, if only for a few hours each Sunday evening, in a dilapidated Manhattan dance hall on the verge of closure.  Kirkus Reviews wrote: “…Simpson is a master at creating realistic characters.  Readers who enjoy seeing inside the hearts and minds of others will relish sharing the lives of Simpson’s creations.”

And on Thursday, November 12, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Professor of Law at Pepperdine University Edward Larson, will present insights into his latest book, The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1789, an exacting and elegant look at the critically important, yet “forgotten” years in Washington’s distinguished life.

All programs are free and open to all.  Light refreshments will be served. With such wonderful Friends as these, the authors keep coming at Crowell Public Library!

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