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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Lally Pia @ Avid Reader
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebratig the release of local author\, Lally Pia’s new memoir- The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy. This event is on Thursday May 2 from 6:00 – 7:00 PM. \nAbout the Author \nLally Pia completed medical school at U.C. Davis. She did her psychiatry residency at San Mateo and a Child Fellowship at Davis.  As Assistant Professor she ran the psychiatry program for California Northstate University Medical School from 2017 to 2019. She currently works at River Oak Center For Children in Sacramento as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. Lally lives with her husband\, Tim in Davis\, California. When she is not writing\, Zorro\, her German Shepherd takes her for a walk.\nAbout the Book\nWhen a military coup in Ghana leads to the abrupt closure of Lally Pia’s medical school\, she is left stranded there\, thousands of miles away from her family in California\, with no educational prospects or money. Adding to her turmoil is her discovery that her American Green Card has been botched\, which means she has no country to call home. But a Sri Lankan priest told Lally that she would one day become a “Doctor of Doctors” —and she is intent on proving him right.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-lally-pia-avid-reader/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Beth Rodden @ Yolo County Library
DESCRIPTION:*SOLD OUT* Join us in celebrating the release of Beth Rodden’s highly anticipated memoir\, A Light Through the Cracks: A Climber’s Story. This event will take place at the Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library on May 6\, 2024 at 6:30PM. \nAbout the Author\nBeth Rodden is one of the best female rock climbers of all time\, and a globally recognized ambassador for the outdoor community. She has achieved a number of notable free climbs on El Capitan\, the 3\,000-foot monolith in Yosemite National Park\, and has also established the hardest first ascent of a crack climb ever done by a woman. She has been climbing for thirty years\, and she hopes to be climbing for thirty more. She lives with her family in California. \nAbout the Book\nBeth Rodden is twenty years old and already an elite rock climber when a climbing excursion in Kyrgyzstan escalates into a nightmare. Beth\, her boyfriend\, and two other climbers are kidnapped by militant rebels. After six harrowing days of hiding\, marching\, and dodging gunfire\, they miraculously escape captivity. But fear follows Beth home\, and pushing past it becomes a fixation. \nShe and her boyfriend\, Tommy\, train obsessively\, achieving rock-climbing greatness and conquering each groundbreaking goal they set\, all the while burying the terrors of Kyrgyzstan deep inside. Then comes an unexpected breaking point. For Beth\, a woman at the top of her profession\, the only way to overcome the anxiety that still controls her is to let go of the lifeline she’s been clinging to. Blowing up her successful and familiar life\, Beth clears a path to a new one—a healthy new normal beyond the anxieties of the past and the myopic pursuit of athletic perfection. \nCharting a powerful journey of ambition\, hope\, love\, physical and emotional endurance\, and the true fulfilment of being oneself\, A Light through the Cracks is Beth’s story of climbing up and through life.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-beth-rodden-yolo-county-library/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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SUMMARY:Autistic Author Talk
DESCRIPTION:Davis author Fallon O’Neill’s fifth novel\, ‘Geist Requiem’\, debuts Tuesday May 7th\, 4:30 PM\, at G Street Wunderbar\, 228 G Street\, downtown Davis. Fallon will talk about the Geist series\, as well as read from his latest urban fantasy tale. \nBooks will be available for sale and signing at the event. Fallon\, on the autism spectrum\, has written substantial parts of his five novels from his favorite barstool at the Wunderbar. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/autistic-author-talk/
LOCATION:G Street Wunderbar\, 228 G St.\, Davis\, 95616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Claire Booth and Susan Shea
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with two local mystery authors! Claire Booth and Susan Shea will celebrate the release of their two new mystery novels at The Avid Reader on May 9th from 6:30 – 7:30 PM. \nAbout Claire Booth\nFormerly a crime reporter for daily newspapers throughout the United States\, Claire Booth has used this experience to write three previous Sheriff Hank Worth mystery novels based on small-town American life. She is also the author of one non-fiction book\, The False Prophet: Conspiracy\, Extortion\, and Murder in the Name of God. She lives in California. \nAbout Susan Shea\nSusan Shea spent more than two decades as a non-profit executive before beginning her first critically praised mystery series in 2010\, featuring a professional fundraiser for an art museum. In 2017\, she debuted a new mystery series set in France\, for St. Martin’s Minotaur Books. She’s a regular on 7 Criminal Minds blog\, is past secretary of the national Sisters in Crime board\, a past board member of the Northern California chapters of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Marin County\, California\, where two cats pretty much rule the house! \nAbout Home Fires\nBranson Sheriff Hank Worth is one of the first on the scene of a mass casualty incident – a local fireworks warehouse has exploded\, killing everyone inside. As over a dozen victims are pulled from the smoldering ruins\, the painstaking identification process begins. \nChief Deputy Sheila Turley returns early from medical leave to assist in the office\, while Hank delves deeper into the increasingly complicated situation at the morgue. He discovers that the previous forensic pathologist was hasty at best and negligent at worst. What starts as an offhand request to look into the errors turns into a discovery that shakes Hank’s world off its axis . . . \nWith Hank secretly investigating his discovery at the morgue\, his short-handed team is stretched to the brink as it investigates the cause of the explosion. Then a shocking revelation leaves Sheila and her fellow deputies scrambling for answers to an unexpected crime. Just what happened in the warehouse in the moments before the blast? Can they unravel the mysteries in time to save Branson from yet more heartbreak? And can Hank\, adrift and alone\, figure out what happened before it destroys everything he holds dear? \nAbout Murder and the Missing Dog\nAriel Shepard has spent the last year renovating her beautiful French chateau\, while also ingratiating herself into the lives and hearts of the quirky locals of Noyers-sur-Serein. The shocking business of the murder of the local historian is behind her and she is finally feeling at home. \nHowever\, it’s not long before murder and mystery once again seek Ariel out\, when she and her friend Katherine find the body of the elderly Madame Toussaint in the doorway of Katherine’s flea market shop. \nWho would want to harm this lonely soul? Where is the bag the woman never leaves home without? And more importantly\, where is her loyal\, loving dog who never leaves her side? Could Raoul\, Ariel’s stoic gardener\, really have something to do with it? And could Madame Toussaint have been mixed up with the robberies increasing around the idyllic villages of France? \nDespite warnings from the rather handsome Brigadier Allard\, Ariel\, with help from Katherine and Pippa\, once again dons her sleuthing hat . . . \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-claire-booth-and-susan-shea/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Skye+Fam
DESCRIPTION:Meet the incredibly talented local children’s book author\, Skyler Farasat writing under the pen name Skye+Fam on Saturday May 11th at 1:00PM. \nAbout the Author\nSkye\, age ten\, co-authored four children’s books with her mom and dad\, Payel and Joe Farasat. Skye has been meditating with her parents since she was a baby. She shares her simple yet powerful techniques of staying mindful and grounded while forming her space in the family and finding her place in the world. \nAbout Me and the Universe \nThe Universe wants us to be happy! When we believe in ourselves and in our friendship with the universe\, it will do everything it can to help us achieve our dreams. Along with being a great listener\, the Universe also responds back to us by sending us opportunities and blessings. \nSo\, whenever you want the most amazing things to happen\, try this simple practice of reading 14 affirmations that get us thinking positive thoughts\, saying positive words\, and feeling positive vibes. \nDoes this sound too easy or too silly? Maybe it’s supposed to be just that – simple and fun! Just like a best friend\, the universe is there for you\, inspiring you to be your best self\, and happy to see you happy. \nMay embracing the Universe connect you to your own vastness and wisdom. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-skyefam/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Judith Starkston
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the book launch of Judith Starkston’s latest historical fantasy Flights of Treason. An evening in conversation with Eileen Reindahl at The Avid Reader Bookstore. May 14\, 6:30-7:30\, 617 2nd Street\, Davis\, CA \nAbout the book \nTreason threatens the thrones of the Hitolian Empire and the griffin realm. Can an unlikely ensemble of heroes save them? \nAs rulers of a vassal kingdom within the Hitolian Empire\, Tesha and her husband Hattu have propped up a treacherous Great King. But balancing on the blade of a royal dagger is only half the problem. Unknown to them\, Tesha’s blind sister is communicating with the king of the human-hating griffins. \nThen hidden foes tip their lives toward disaster\, and crises in both worlds collide. \nThe heroes fight battles with swords\, claws\, and sorcery. Will Tesha be forced to use the magic that might kill her daughter? Who truly unleashed these lethal strands of chaos? Will the empire—or Tesha’s family—survive? \nEscape into the final book of this historical fantasy series\, inspired by the true-life of a remarkable Hittite queen who ruled for decades over one of history’s most powerful empires. (Reads also as a standalone novel.) \n“Starkston wraps history and magic together in an unforgettable package.”—the Book Review Crew \nAbout the author \nJudith Starkston writes historical fantasy set in the Bronze Age world of Greeks and Hittites. Her five novels bring women to the fore—whether the Trojan War captive Briseis or a remarkable Hittite queen whom history forgot\, even though she ruled over one of the greatest ancient empires. She lives in Davis with her husband and a rambunctious garden. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-judith-starkston/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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