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AViD presents Maureen Corrigan
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The Des Moines Public Library is excited to announce this year’s full lineup for our Authors Visiting in Des Moines (AViD) lecture series! Now in its 17th year, AViD is a highly acclaimed, free lecture series that connects world-famous authors with an audience from across the state.
Maureen Corrigan will take part in AViD in conjunction with the Wonder of Words Festival on Saturday, April 22. Corrigan is best known as the book critic of the popular NPR Radio program Fresh Air.
Maureen Corrigan is an American journalist, author, and literary critic. Corrigan has served as the book critic for the award-winning NPR program Fresh Air for more than 25 years. She also serves as a reviewer and columnist for The Washington Post’s Book World. Her literary memoir, Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading! was published in 2005. In 2014, she released her book So We Read On, covering why The Great Gatsby remains so captivating and influential in American life.
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Wonder of Words Festival
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You can celebrate the written word in Downtown Des Moines at the Wonder of Words Festival on Saturday, April 22! The festival, hosted by the Downtown Community Alliance, will take place at the Des Moines Public Library’s Central Library with local and national renowned authors and interactive activities. The festival will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., so join for all or part of the day. Bring family and friends and open your mind to the power of reading and writing!
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Greer Macallister Author Talk: GIRL IN DISGUISE
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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