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Agle, Ruth
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I write what I know and what I love. "Hazel Twigg" combines three things that fall into both those categories.
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House, Katherine L.
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Chalupsky, Mary
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Jensen-Kimball, Laura E.
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Eastman, Michelle R.
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Join the Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries for an evening with Michael Blanding, author of the best selling book THE MAP THIEF.
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Join the Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries for an evening with Michael Blanding, author of the best selling book THE MAP THIEF.
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Des Moines - Beaverdale Books Author Visit: Sparkle Abbey
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Discover a New Adventure with Raiders of the Lost Bark
Readers looking for a new adventure will want to stop by Beaverdale Books on Friday, May 13 at 6:00 PM for a free program by a popular local writing duo. Sparkle Abbey is the pseudonym of two mystery authors (Mary Lee Woods and Anita Carter) who are friends and neighbors as well as co-writers of the Pampered Pets Mystery Series. The pen name was created by combining the names of their rescue pets—Sparkle (Mary Lee’s cat) and Abbey (Anita’s dog). They reside in central Iowa, but if they could write anywhere, you would find them on the beach with their laptops and, depending on the time of day, with either an iced tea or a margarita.
In their newest book, amateur sleuth and Bow Wow Boutique owner Melinda Langston finds herself "Glamping Under the Stars” with a blackmailer who turns out to be Orange County’s hottest new gourmet pet chef, Addison Rae. Before Mel can put an end to Addison’s strong-arming, the chef is found dead. Mel is just one of many suspects who had motive to snuff out the demanding chef. Was it Redmond, the angry sous chef who detested working for Addison? What about rival chef, Pepper Maddox? The glamping chef gig was hers until Addison blackmailed her way into the job. And then there’s Asher, a charming fellow camper whose past relationship with Addison isn’t the only secret he’s guarding. Mel’s not one to tuck tail and run, even when it looks like she may be the next victim.
Raiders of the Lost Bark is the eighth book in the series. Additional titles include, Desperate Housedogs, Fifty Shades of Grey Hound, and Downton Tabby. They will be happy to sign copies of their books.
For more information, call 279-5400, stop by Beaverdale Books, located at 2629 Beaver Avenue, Suite 1, or visit www.beaverdalebooks.com.
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Des Moines - Artisan’s Gallery 218: Jen Wilson "Water Story Shares Some Serious Science"
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Water Story Shares Some Serious Science
Enjoy a fun evening with Des Moines author Jen Wilson at Artisan’s Gallery 218 on Tuesday, May 24 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. Sample some wine, enjoy refreshments, and get your book signed! Artisan’s Gallery 218 is located in Valley Junction at 218 Fifth Street. For more information about this and other events, visit www.artisangallery218.com or call 255-0218. There is plenty of parking available.
Published by the folks at the RAYGUN t-shirt store in Des Moines, WATER is a fictional story from award-winning author Jennifer Wilson that features Freja Folsom, a city reporter who wants nothing to do with the environmental story she’s been assigned. But a man who illegally dropped a well into the city’s aquifer leads Freja to the passionate showdown between farmers, government workers, worried citizens, and the sexy head of the Water Works utility. Suddenly, the poisoned water of Iowa seems like the story that might save Freja’s life — and revive the spirit of the state she loves, before it gives up and becomes Mississippi. Okay, so maybe it’s not that fictional.
Jennifer Wilson has been writing for more than fifteen years for publications, including, Esquire, National Geographic Traveler, Better Homes & Gardens, Budget Travel, Bon Appetit, Parents, Midwest Living, Iowa Outdoors, the Chicago Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, (the dearly departed) Gourmet and many others. Wilson’s first book, Running Away to Home, was a roots travel journey back to the Croatian mountain village of her ancestors. It received the Best Nonfiction of 2011 Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Des Moines Public Library Foundation’s Emerging Iowa Author Award in 2012. Water was her first release with local iconoclast RAYGUN and she claims that every minute of the process was unicorns and rainbows.
Beaverdale Books will have books available for sale. For more information about purchasing a book, call 279-5400 or visit www.beaverdalebooks.com
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Des Moines - Artisan’s Gallery 218 - Author Visit: Kali Van Baale
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Meet the author, enjoy refreshments, and view the artwork, as Kali VanBaale launches her newest midwest novel.
Set in the lush countryside of Wisconsin, Jean Krenshaw is the ideal 1960’s dairy farm wife. She cooks, sews, raises children, and plans an annual July 4th party for friends and neighbors. But when her brother-in-law Tommy, who lives next door, marries leery newcomer Liz, Jean is forced to confront a ten-year-old family secret involving the unresolved death of a young woman. With stark and swift prose, The Good Divide explores one woman’s tortured inner world, and the painful choices that have divided her life, both past and present, forever.
Kali VanBaale’s debut novel, The Space Between earned an American Book Award, the Independent Publisher’s silver medal for general fiction, and the Fred Bonnie Memorial First Novel Award. She is also the recipient of a State of Iowa Arts Council major project artist grant. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Milo Review, Northwind Literary, The Writer and several anthologies.
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Wonders of Words Festival - Downtown Des Moines
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The Wonder of Words Festival is a celebration of the written word. The outdoor festival will feature presentations and book signings by authors of both national and local acclaim, as well as workshops, conversation panels, literary exhibitors, books sales, children’s entertainment & activities, and food trucks.
JUNE 18-19, 2016
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Free Admission
Downtown Des Moines
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