New York Times best-selling author J.A. Jance will appear at University Place Pierce County Library on Thursday, July 26 at 7 p.m. for a free talk and book signing.
New York Times best-selling author J.A. Jance will appear at University Place Pierce County Library on Thursday, July 26 at 7 p.m. for a free talk and book signing.
Jance joins a list of over 20 authors who have given talks and book signings at the University Place library since it opened in its new location last year.
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Pierce County residents will have an opportunity to participate in the Pierce County READS program by reading “The Paris Wife,” written by internationally known author Paula McLain.
She was shy, old-fashioned, a little dowdy. She’d had a traumatic youth, and no particular passion or work other than playing the piano. And she was just the first of four wives for writer Ernest Hemingway who, when Hadley Richardson met him, was a struggling Chicago journalist.
The holidays are coming, and many people will unwrap Kindles and other e-readers. Good luck getting an e-book from your public library to download to your new gift. Meet the ghost of Christmas past and present: publishers – the modern-day Scrooge.
Marissa Meyer, author of “Scarlet,” will be at the Anna Lemon Wheelock Library in Tacoma’s Proctor District for a book talk and signing at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 16.
It all started with a cyborg Cinderella. Now, the sequel to Tacoma author Marissa Meyer’s futuristic fantasy “Cinder” is in bookstores. “Scarlet” is the second book in Meyer’s young adult “The Lunar Chronicles” series, which take fairy-tale characters and reboots them in a sci-fi/fantasy setting. There’s romance, intrigue and villains.
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