Category: Author Signing
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Keith Gilyard author of John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism
FRIDAY, MAY 7, 7pm – NON-FICTIONArt Sanctuary, The Brothers Network & Moonstone Arts PresentKEITH GILYARDauthor John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism ($39.95 University of Georgia Press) “John Oliver Killens is a genius of the South, and Keith Gilyard has honored this youngblood, civil rights and union activist, novelist, dramatist, and screenwriter in…
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Scott Chrisitianson author of Freeing Charles
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 7pm – NON-FICTIONArt Sanctuary & Moonstone PresentSCOTT CHRISTIANSONauthor of Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War ($24.95 University of Illinois Press) Freeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet…
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Visions of Exile Ligia Rave author of Hanah’s Paradise & Mark Lyons author of Espejos y Ventanas/ Mirrors and Windows
THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 7pm – AUTHOR SIGNINGVISIONS OF EXILELIGIA RAVÉ author of Hanah’s ParadiseMARK LYONS author of Espejos y Ventanas/ Mirrors and Windows: Oral Histories of Mexican Farmworkers and Their Families Praise for Hannah’s Paradise Like Scheherazade, the narrator of Ligia Ravé’s beautifully rendered novel, HANAH’S PARADISE, has to tell stories—in this case her family’s…
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Lisa Tracy author of Objects of Our Affection: Uncovering My Family’s Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 7pm – NON-FICTIONLISA TRACYauthor of Objects of Our Affection: Uncovering My Family’s Past, One Chair, Pistol, and Pickle Fork at a Time ($25.00 Random House) After their mother’s death, Lisa Tracy and her sister, Jeanne, are left to contend with several households’ worth of furniture and memorabilia, much of it accumulated during…
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L.A. Banks – Vampires, Werewolves, and Romance in America
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 7pm – FICTIONArt Sanctuary and Moonstone PresentL.A. BANKSVampires, Werewolves, and Romance in America: Myth and Reality in the Fiction of L.A. Banks New York Times Best-selling author, L.A. Banks has penned over 35 novels and 12 novellas in a wide range of genres and is the recipient of the 2008 Essence Magazine…
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Dr. Patti Feuereisen author of Invisible Girls: The Truth about Sexual Abuse
MONDAY, APRIL 12, 7pm – NON-FICTIONDR. PATTI FEUEREISENauthor of Invisible Girls: The Truth about Sexual Abuse ($16.95 Seal Press)April is Sexual Abuse/Assault Month and The Statistics Are Staggering You are invited to join us for an enlightening and compelling discussion and reading to hear voices of sex abuse survivors as you’ve never heard before while…
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Lisa Levenstein
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 7pm – NON-FICTIONLISA LEVENSTEINauthor of A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia ($45.00 University of North Carolina Press) “A Movement Without Marches offers a subtle and illuminating portrait not only of political and civic activism, but also of social and economic citizenship in the…
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Monday at 7pm – An Evening with SONIA SANCHEZ
MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 7pm – POETRYMoonstone and Art Sanctuary Present:SONIA SANCHEZReading from her new book Morning Haiku ($19.95 Beacon Press) This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: a collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of…
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Thursday – 11/19 – 7pm – Rachel Simon Author of Riding the Bus with My Sister and Building a Home with My Husband
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 7pm – FICTION/NON-FICTION/LECTURE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A WRITER RACHEL SIMON author of Riding The Bus With My Sister ($15.00 Penguin), Building a Home With My Husband ($24.95 Penguin) “I met Rachel years ago when she was a fiction writer with a wonderful novel, The Magic Touch, and a book of short…
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Wednesday, 11/4 – 7pm – Dylan Landis and Joanna Smith Rakoff
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 7pm – FICTIONDYLAN LANDIS and JOANNA SMITH RAKOFF Dylan Landis author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This ($15.00 Persea Books) “Delicious writing…Evocative, lyrical prose, and vivid imagery coupled with a subtle fictional approach, mysterious references, and ambiguities. Buy this for your literary fiction readers and short story fans – they’ll appreciate…