On Saturday, March 15th starting at 10:00am you will get to see your favorite literary authors at Nova Southeastern University, Davie Campus. FREE ADMISSION!!
The Modern Authors that you will get to meet and hear from are in the list below along with their books they wrote!
Tasha Alexander - Blending romance and historical mystery
in her delightful Victorian-era novel, A Poisoned Season
features Lady Emily Ashton, every inch a lady but one with
fondness for port and cigars.
Steven Alford and Suzanne Ferriss - The symbol of
adolescent longing, defiance, middle-aged rebellion, cheap
transportation and now where popular culture meets
academia in a new book, Motorcycle.
Gigi Anders - Desire, elusive outfits, the search for love, a
sold-out little pink raincoat and a discontinued Chanel red
lipstick all in Men May Come and Men May Go, But I’ve Still
Got My Little Pink Raincoat: Life and Love In and Out of
My Wardrobe.
James Brady - From New York Times best-selling author
of The Scariest Place in the World and The Coldest War,
Brady’s latest in a collection of works on the military Why
Marines Fight includes firsthand accounts from the front line.
Terri Cheney - Manic depression, also known as bipolar
disorder, affects more than 5.7 million adult Americans every
year. Manic: A Memoir is the intimate story of Cheney’s
own harrowing, decades-long struggle with this often
misunderstood disease.
Amy Cohen - Expect comedy in unexpected places in this
engaging memoir, The Late Bloomer’s Revolution, as Cohen
recounts her seemingly never-ending search for love, her
evolving relationship with her widowed dad and her own
almost unintentional growth.
Lauren Groff - A new voice in American fiction, The
Monsters of Templeton spans two centuries and tells its
story through a panoply of voices, from Templeton ghosts
to residents, masters to servants, natives to interlopers, and
historical figures to literary characters.
James Hall - Hell’s Bay is the latest mystery from this
popular South Florida author featuring Thorn, a fly-fishing,
reluctant investigator who lives in Key Largo. Hall has been
celebrated as the master of Miami noir for his fifteen books.
Brendan Halpin – How Ya Like Me Now “folds plenty of
funny, fresh-mouthed peer banter into this tale of a teen
who comes to the end of a years-long nightmare when his
widowed mom finally checks into rehab” according
to Booklist.
John Hart - Booklist says Down River is “a beautifully
constructed story of personal redemption, family secrets,
and murder – a small-town epic, if there is such a thing”
wonderfully told by Hart, a former lawyer.
Cecil Hayes - Ranked by Architectural Digest as one of
the 100 top interior designers worldwide, and one of
Broward County’s own shares her latest, Cecil Hayes Art of
Decorative Details: Creative Ways to Design the Home of
Your Dreams.
Stephen Hunter - The latest military thriller, The 47th
Samurai, brings together two of Hunter’s frequent
protagonists, the father and son duo, Earl and Bob Lee
Swagger, featured separately in a number of his books.
Chip Kidd - Associate art director at Alfred A. Knopf,
Kidd’s second novel is The Learners. Publishers Weekly
described his book jackets as “creepy, striking, sly, smart,
unpredictable covers that make readers appreciate books as
objects of art as well as literature.”
Ann Liguori - A Passion for Golf – Celebrity Musings about
the Game collects interviews on the golf course with some
of the most successful celebrities in sports, Hollywood,
music and business. Liguori broadcasts the award-winning
Sports Innerview with Ann Liguori nationwide.
Alfred McLaren – Unknown Waters is a firsthand account of
the officers and men of the nuclear attack submarine, USS
Queenfish, who at the height of the Cold War explored the
uncharted, ice-covered waters of the Siberian continental
shelf for the first and only time in history.
Chris Rice – The author of three best-selling novels and a
regular columnist for The Advocate magazine, Rice’s work
has been compared to the work of writers Brett Easton Ellis
and Stephen King. His latest is Blind Fall.
James Scurlock - Critically acclaimed Maxed Out: Hard
Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
began as a feature-length film before being published as a
book this year. Scurlock attended the Wharton School of
the University of Pennsylvania, before beginning
his documentaries.
Kevin Sessums - Known for chronicling the lives of
celebrities as a contributing editor at Allure and Vanity
Fair, and previously executive editor for Warhol’s Interview
magazine, Sessums’ memoir Mississippi Sissy is about the
conflicted life of a self-aware gay youth growing up in
the South.
Jennifer Valoppi – A multi-Emmy Award winning journalist,
her first novel is Certain Cure, a medical/religious thriller.
Valoppi founded Women of Tomorrow, which mentors
thousands of at-risk young women in South Florida and
helps to provide them with college scholarships.
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Free shuttle service is available from the Main Library, Downtown Fort Lauderdale to Nova Southeastern University. Shuttles depart at 9:15 A.M. and 10:15 A.M. and return at 1:15 P.M. and 2:30 P.M.
For more information on Literary Feast call or visit: www.BPLFoundation.org
For reservations, call (954) 357-5954
