Enrich Your Summer Reading -- Enjoy an Author Series at the Library
May 26, 2015 — Enrich your reading pleasure this summer – meet these published authors to chat about everything from traveling the Mississippi River road to the Beatles. Events are for adults unless noted. Authors will conduct a Q&A and sell and sign their books.
Thursday, June 25, 6:30 p.m., Library Center meeting rooms A&B -- Travel photographer and author Gayle Harper’s 6:30 book signing and 7 p.m. multimedia presentation about “Roadtrip with a Raindrop,” her 90-day road trip following the Mississippi River from its headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico.
Monday, June 29, 7 p.m., Republic Branch Library -- Nancy Allen talks about “The Code of the Hills,” and how her work as a Missouri prosecutor inspired this dark tale set in the Ozarks. To register call 732-7284.
Thursday, July 2, 6-8 p.m., Library Center auditorium -- Aaron Krerowicz, one of two professional Beatles scholars and author of “The Beatles & the Avant-Garde,” will give a multimedia tour following the Beatles through the 1960s – from Hamburg to Beatlemania to “Abbey Road.” Sponsored by Friends of the Library.
Thursday, July 16, 6-8 p.m., Library Station Frisco Room -- “Here’s the Skinny On a Big Fat Me,” says Erik Chase, in his book about his struggles with food addiction and weight loss.
Saturday, July 18, 2 p.m., Brentwood Branch Library -- Joshua Becker visits via Skype in Conquer Your Clutter. Learn why he made the decision to minimize his lifestyle and the benefits and chat during the Q&A.
Saturday, July 25, 2:30 p.m., Library Center auditorium, for grade 6 and older. An author panel during the fandom celebration LibraryCon features authors Chris T. Acadian, Bethany Hagen and Holly Schindler.
Saturday, Aug. 1, Brentwood Branch Library – Miyoko Hikiji, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, talks about how to find your inner warrior and the inspiration for her book, “All I Could Be: My Story as a Woman Warrior in Iraq.”
Thursday, Aug. 13, Library Station Frisco Room – Susan Croce Kelly, an expert on Route 66 history, talks about the Mother Road and her latest book, “Father of Route 66: The Story of Cy Avery.”
Monday, Aug. 17, Library Center auditorium – Dr. Jeremy Neely, Missouri State University history professor and author of “The Border Between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line,” considers the legacies of the Civil War for Missourians. Sponsored by Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield.