March 5, 2016 - Library Foundation of Martin County

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Martin County Library System
March 5, 2016
Jensen Beach High School
Performing Arts Center
2875 NW Goldenrod Rd. l Jensen Beach
Library Foundation
of Martin County
Schedule of Events
Jensen Beach High School Performing Arts Center
(See map on page 8)
Dear Friends,
8:15 a.m.
Welcome and Opening
Remarks
8:30 a.m.
Les Standiford
Water to the Angels: William
Mulholland, His Monumental
Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los
Angeles
Welcome to BookMania!
We are delighted that you
are a part of this exciting
community event, now in
its 22nd year. The Library
Foundation of Martin County,
Inc. is pleased to once again
sponsor this annual free
event.
Book Signing 9:30 a.m.
10:00 a.m. Historical Fiction
Jackie Williams, moderator
Kim van Alkemade, Orphan #8
Meg Waite Clayton, The Race for
Paris
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Balm
Katy Simpson Smith, Free Men
Special thanks to the staff
of the Martin County Library
System for producing this
year’s program and the staff
of Jensen Beach High School
and the Martin County School
District for their support and
assistance.
Since 1995, BookMania! has
showcased the literary talent
of over 300 authors. This year,
we are pleased to welcome
10 exceptional authors from
around the country. They
now join the ranks of an
impressive constellation of
talented writers who have
enriched our lives. To each
of them, we extend a heartfelt
thank you for sharing their
time and talent with us today.
Enjoy!
With appreciation,
Book Signing 11:00 a.m.
11:15 a.m. Thriller/Suspense
Joanna Campbell Slan, moderator
Alafair Burke, The Ex
Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season
Phillip Margolin, Violent Crimes
Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You
Book Signing: 12:15 p.m.
12:30 p.m. Paula McLain
Circling the Sun
Noreen Fisher
President
Book Signing: 1:30 p.m.
Dennis Fruitt
Executive Director
www.library.martin.fl.us
Martin County Library System •
The Library Foundation of Martin County, Inc.
For more info visit www.LibraryFoundationMC.org
Individual Authors
Les Standiford
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland,
His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise
of Los Angeles
Les Standiford is the bestselling author of 20 books
and novels, including the John Deal mystery series, and
the works of narrative history, The Man Who Invented
Christmas; a New York Times Editor’s Choice; and Last
Train to Paradise. He is the director of the creative
writing program at Florida International University
in Miami, where he lives with his wife, Kimberly, a
psychotherapist and artist. Visit his website at www.
les-standiford.com.
photo credit: Garry Kravit
8:30 a.m.
Notes:
Book Signing
9:30–10:00 a.m.
Paula McLain
Circling the Sun
photo credit: Nina Subin
12:30 a.m.
Notes:
Book Signing
1:30–1:45 p.m.
Paula McLain was born in Fresno, California in 1965.
After being abandoned by both parents, she and her
two sisters became wards of the California Court
System, moving in and out of various foster homes for
the next 14 years. When she aged out of the system,
she supported herself by working as a nurse’s aid in
a convalescent hospital, a pizza delivery girl, an autoplant worker, a cocktail waitress–before discovering
she could (and very much wanted to) write. She
received her MFA in poetry from the University of
Michigan in 1996.
She is the author of The Paris Wife, a New York Times
and international bestseller, which has been published
in 34 languages. Paula McLain is the recipient of
fellowships from Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, the
Cleveland Arts Prize, the Ohio Arts Council and the
National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the
author of two collections of poetry, a memoir, Like
Family, Growing up in Other People’s Houses, and a
first novel, A Ticket to Ride. She lives with her family
in Cleveland.
BookMania!
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Historical Fiction
Kim van Alkemade
Orphan #8
Kim van Alkemade was born in New York. Her creative
nonfiction has appeared in literary journals including
Alaska Quarterly Review, So to Speak, and CutBank.
She teaches writing at Shippensburg University of
Pennsylvania.
photo credit: Margaret Evans
10:00 a.m.
Notes:
Book Signing
11:00–11:15 a.m.
Katy Simpson Smith
Free Men
photo credit: Elise Smith
10:00 a.m.
Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson,
Mississippi. She attended Mount Holyoke College
and received a Ph.D. in history from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.F.A. from the
Bennington Writing Seminars. She has published a
study of early American motherhood, We Have Raised
All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835, as
well as the novel, The Story of Land and Sea. She lives
in New Orleans.
Notes:
Book Signing
11:00–11:15 a.m.
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Meg Waite Clayton
The Race for Paris
photo credit: Adrienne Defendi
Photography
10:00 a.m.
Book Signing
11:00–11:15 a.m.
Notes:
Meg Waite Clayton is the New York Times bestselling
author of four novels: The Four Ms. Bradwells;
The Wednesday Sisters (recently named one of
Entertainment Weekly’s “Essential Best Friends
Novels”); The Language of Light (a finalist for the
Bellwether Prize); and The Wednesday Daughters.
She has written for the Los Angeles Times, The New
York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle,
Forbes, Writer’s Digest, Runner’s World, and public
radio. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law
School, she lives in Palo Alto, California.
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Balm
photo credit: Gianni Neiviller
10:00 a.m.
Book Signing
11:00–11:15 a.m.
Notes:
Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the author of The New
York Times bestselling novel Wench. O, The Oprah
Magazine, chose it as a Top Ten Pick of the Month,
and NPR named it a top five book club pick of 2010.
She wrote the introduction for Twelve Years a Slave
by Solomon Northrup, the book that inspired the
major motion picture, and her fiction has appeared in
The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, StorySouth, and
elsewhere. In 2011, she was a finalist for two NAACP
Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
for fiction. She was also awarded the First Novelist
Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library
Association and has received a DC Commission on
the Arts Grant. Dolen teaches in the Stonecoast
MFA program. A graduate of Harvard and a former
University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
at UCLA, she lives in Washington, DC with her family.
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Thriller/Suspense
Alafair Burke
The Ex
photo credit: Deborah Copaken
Kogan
Alafair Burke is the bestselling author of ten previous
novels, including the standalone thrillers Long Gone
and If You Were Here, and the Ellie Hatcher series: All
Day and a Night, Never Tell, 212, Angel’s Tip, and Dead
Connection. She is also the co-author of the Under
Suspicion series with Mary Higgins Clark. A former
prosecutor, she is now a professor of criminal law and
lives in Manhattan.
11:15 a.m.
Notes:
Book Signing
12:15–12:30 p.m.
Phillip Margolin
Violent Crimes
photo credit: Anthony Georgis
11:15 a.m.
Notes:
Book Signing
12:15–12:30 p.m.
Phillip Margolin has written 20 novels, many of
them New York Times bestsellers. They include
his forthcoming Amanda Jaffee series novel, Violent
Crimes (Harper, February 2016), Woman with a Gun,
Worthy Brown’s Daughter, Sleight of Hand, and his
Washington trilogy (Executive Privilege, Supreme
Justice and Capitol Murder). Each displays a unique,
compelling insider’s view of criminal behavior, which
comes from his long background as a criminal defense
attorney who has handled 30 murder cases. Winner
of the Distinguished Northwest Writer Award, Margolin
lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Tami Hoag
The Bitter Season
Tami Hoag is the #1 international bestselling author of
more than 30 books. There are more than 40 million
copies of her books in print in more than 30 languages.
Renowned for combining thrilling plots with characterdriven suspense, Hoag first hit the New York Times
bestseller list with Night Sins, and each of her books
since has been a bestseller. She lives in Florida.
photo credit: Jan Cobb
11:15 a.m.
Notes:
Book Signing
12:15–12:30 p.m.
Lisa Unger
Crazy Love You
photo credit: Jeff Unger
11:15 a.m.
Book Signing
12:15–12:30 p.m.
Notes:
Lisa Unger is an award-winning New York Times
and internationally bestselling author of 13 novels,
including her latest thrillers Crazy Love You and In
The Blood (2014 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee
for Best Book, Amazon Best Book of the Month, Indie
Next Pick, Suspense Magazine and Sun Sentinel Best
Books of 2014).
Additional accolades include selections as a finalist
for International Thriller Writers Best Novel Award, a
winner of the Florida Book Awards, a finalist for Prix
Polar International Award, Bookspan’s International
Book of the Month, and a Target “Emerging Author.”
Her books have been named top picks by The Today
Show, Good Morning America, Walmart Book Club,
Harper’s Bazaar, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping,
Washington Life, Publishers Weekly, New York Daily
News, Indie Next and Amazon (Top Ten Thriller of the
Year). She lives in Florida.
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Directions
March 5, Saturday l 8:15 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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Jensen Beach High School
2875 NW Goldenrod Rd.
Jensen Beach, FL 34957
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Jensen Beach Boulevard
Barnes
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Goldenrod Road
U. S. Highway #1 (US 1)
Treasure Coast
Square Mall
Jensen Beach
High
School
Britt Road
Best Buy
Author Appearances
Performing Arts Center
Book Sales and Signings
Nutrition Center
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Meet Our Moderators
Joanna Campbell Slan
Back by popular demand, Joanna Campbell Slan is an award-winning writer with
more than 30 books to her credit including the Cara Mia Delgatto series, the KiKi
Lowenstein Mysteries (Agatha Finalist), and the Jane Eyre Chronicles (Daphne du
Maurier Award). RT Book Reviews has called Joanna, “one of mystery’s rising stars.”
Go to http://www.booklaunch.io/joannaslan/teardownanddie to claim a free copy of
one of her locally-based mysteries.
11:15 a.m. Thriller/Suspense panel with
Alafair Burke, The Ex
Tami Hoag, The Bitter Season
Phillip Margolin, Violent Crimes
Lisa Unger, Crazy Love You
Jackie Williams
Jackie Williams retired as a writer/producer from MCTV Channel 20 in 2008. She continues, as a volunteer, to produce and host the station’s “Pets on Parade” show, done
in collaboration with the Humane Society of the Treasure Coast. She now works as a
freelance writer. For 25 years, Williams has been and continues as the senior writer for
the Jupiter Island News, that is distributed to residents of the Town of Jupiter Island.
She is the author of one book, Playing from the Rough: The Women of the LPGA Hall
of Fame. She shares her home with Lily, an 11-year-old border collie she adopted from
the Humane Society.
10:00 a.m. Historical fiction panel with
Kim van Alkemade, Orphan #8
Meg Waite Clayton, The Race for Paris
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Balm
Katy Simpson Smith, Free Men
Please v
isit
the Barn
Noble C es &
afé in th
e
Nutritio
n Center
for
coffee, t
ea, and
snacks!
Book Drive at BookMania! 2016
The Martin County School District
will be collecting books for their
K-12 book drive. Please bring
new or gently used books with
you to BookMania! 2016.
Barnes & Noble will have the
school’s Young Adult book club
books for sale so attendees who
have none to bring may purchase
books and donate them directly.
BookMania!
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Membership Invitation
Founded in 1992, The Library Foundation of Martin County, Inc., is a notfor profit organization that acquires and administers funds from the private
sector to enrich library services and facilities not met by public funding and
to endow the library system for future generations.
JOIN NOW! Your membership will enable us to support a range of
educational and cultural programs, touching the lives of thousands of
Martin County residents.
Membership levels
include:
Name
Address
Foundation Member
($35 Individual / $60 Family)
• The library’s monthly
newsletter, mailed to your
home
• Invitations to all special
events
City
State
Zip
Telephone
Email
Sustaining Member
I/We wish to become a member at the following level:
($100 - $499 annually)
o Foundation Member ($35 Individual / $60 Family)
• All benefits offered
above plus:
• Library cards for
everyone in the family
• Your name on a book
plate in a new book
President’s Circle
($500 - $999 annually)
above plus:
• 2 reserved seats at
BookMania!
Benefactor
($1,000 and above annually)
above plus:
• A guided tour of your
favorite branch library
with the Library Director
o Sustaining Member ($100 - $499 annually)
o President’s Circle ($500 - $999 annually)
o Benefactor ($1,000 and above annually)
o Check Amount $
Make check payable to:
and mail to:
2351 S.E. Monterey Road, Stuart, FL 34996
o Credit Card Amount $
o Visa o MasterCard o Amex
Account #
Expires
CVC
(3 or 4 digits)
Signature
o I/we wish to remain anonymous. Do not include
this gift in any published lists.
Thank You!
BookMania!
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BARNES & NOBLE
Thank you to Barnes & Noble for their support of BookMania! Please present this voucher or
mention BookMania! prior to making your purchase. A percentage of net sales will be donated
to The Library Foundation of Martin County, Inc.
From Sunday, February 28 to Friday, March 11, 2016
Jensen Beach Store, 3001 NW Federal Highway
Phone 772-692-2270
www.bn.com/bookfair
11762986
Shop online at www.bn.com/bookfair and use BookFair Event
ID Number 11762986. Valid February 28–March 11, 2016
THE GAFFORD
Downtown Stuart, 47 SW Flagler Avenue, is pleased to support BookMania!
February 28–March 5, 2016.
Join us for dinner and present this voucher or mention BookMania! and a portion of
your dinner bill will be donated to The Library Foundation of Martin County, Inc.
For reservations phone 772-221-9517 l www.thegafford.com
Bar opens at 4 p.m. – Dinner 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Sunday to Thursday), 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.
(Friday and Saturday)
Please help support this community event by becoming a Friend of BookMania! with a
$100 donation that includes an individual membership.
Checks are payable to the Library Foundation of Martin County.
Please note Friend of BookMania! on the memo line. Thank you!
PRESENTED BY
Admission to all BookMania! events on March 5 is FREE.
For detailed information please contact The Library Foundation
of Martin County at 772-221-1409 or by e-mail at
[email protected]
www.libraryfoundationmc.org

March 5, 2016 - Library Foundation of Martin County

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