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Greer Macallister Author Talk: GIRL IN DISGUISE: Dragonfly Books is pleased to announce the return visit of bestselling author Greer Macallister with her new book Girl in Disguise. Inspired by the true story of Kate Warne, the first female private detective in America, Girl in Disguise follows the detective’s rise during one of the nation’s times of crisis. Macallister will be featured at two events on Tuesday, April 11. At 5:00 pm, Macallister will join the Happy Hour Book Club at Decorah Public Library to discuss Girl in Disguise (Sourcebooks 2017). At 7:00 pm Macallister will give an author talk at Dragonfly Books. Both events are free and open to the public.
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DMACC Celebration of the Literary Arts: One of our favorite events here at Beaverdale Books! Student winners of the DMACC Creative Writing Contest will begin reading their work at 6:30 p.m. After that, a fantastic lineup of national poets and fiction writers. Get here early to get a seat! Featuring:
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Meet the Author: Catherine Haustein: Catherine Haustein has spent most of her life as a chemistry professor in the small town of Pella, Iowa. She attended the University of Iowa where she got degrees in both chemistry and creative writing. She’s a mother and grandmother who took a fifteen-year hiatus from writing when her children were at home. She enjoys walking, beaches, and public service. She blogs and has been a regular contributor to Sheros of History. Her favorite beers are ales and stouts. Her students say that she has the world’s lightest footfall.
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Meet the Author: Joyce Rupp: a pioneer in the hospice movement who twice chronicled her work as an oncology nurse in the popular books May I Walk You Home? and Now That You've Gone Home, reveals her own journey with lung cancer as her death approaches in On My Way Home. Hutchison shares not only the heartbreak and pain she experienced in these last years of her life, but also her continued sense of God walking with her during these challenging times.
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Meet the Author: Loren Olson: Loren A. Olson, MD is a board certified psychiatrist in practice for more than forty years. A nationally recognized expert on mature gay men, he has spoken to groups across the country and appeared on ABC-TV’s Good Morning America, in addition to giving numerous national, local, and regional television, radio, and print interviews. He is a regular blogger for HuffingtonPost.com and Psychology Today. Dr. Olson lives in Iowa with his partner of thirty years, Doug, who became his husband in 2009 after the Iowa Supreme Court
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Meet the Author: Joe Starita: Joe Starita was the New York Bureau Chief for Knight-Ridder newspapers and a veteran investigative reporter for The Miami Herald. His stories have won more than two dozen awards, one of which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for local reporting. For the last nine years, he has held an endowed chair at the University of Nebraska’s College of Journalism. The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge won the MPIBA Award and received a second Pulitzer nomination. He is also the author of “I am a Man.”
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Meet the Author: Catherine Team and Beverly Smirnis: Catherine Team has enjoyed several careers--from owning an ad agency for many years, to college instructor, and now author. Team, was inspired to write Anna From Atlanta based on her 95-year-old father's reflections of his youth growing up in Marshalltown, Iowa. After writing a first draft storyline, Team asked her friend Beverly Smirnis to put her editing and publishing skills to task to help get Anna to print. Together they further developed the storyline and characters to create the book. As a publicist and journalist, Smirnis has enjoyed a long career producing private specialty magazines, and is now happy to add book publishing to her resume. The co-authors, both from Fort Worth, Texas, are also anticipating a movie that will be inspired by Anna and its soon-to-be released sequel, Letters From Hope.
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Meet the Author: Rustin Larson: Rustin Larson’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry East, and The American Entomologist Poet's Guide to the Orders of Insects. He is the author of The Wine-Dark House (Blue Light Press, 2009), Crazy Star (selected for the Loess Hills Book’s Poetry Series in 2005), Bum Cantos, Winter Jazz, & The Collected Discography of Morning, winner of the 2013 Blue Light Book Award (Blue Light Press, San Francisco), and The Philosopher Savant (Glass Lyre Press, 2015).
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Meet the Author: Craig Shives: Craig Shives is a graduate of Cornell College and The University of Iowa College of Law. During a career as an employee benefits attorney, he wrote long documents using long sentences full of long words of technically complex significance. Today he is making amends by writing short stories with short sentences.
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AViD Presents Nathan Hill: Nathan Hill is the author of the best-selling novel The Nix. His debut novel, The Nix was recognized as one of 2016’s best books by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Library Journal, and Entertainment Weekly, among others. A native Iowan, Hill received a BA in English and Journalism at the University of Iowa before attaining his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Hill has taught writing at Florida Gulf Coast University and is an Associate Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He currently resides in Naples, Florida.
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