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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Jessica Joyce
DESCRIPTION:About the Author \nJessica Joyce lives happily-ever-ongoing with her husband and son in the Bay Area. When she’s not writing character-driven\, realistic and relatable tales of millennials who are just Doing Their Best while falling in love\, you can find her listening to one of her dozens of chaotically curated Spotify playlists\, trying out a new skincare face mask\, crying over cute animal TikToks\, or watching the 2005 version of Pride & Prejudice. \nJoyce’s debut You\, With a View was USA Today Bestselling novel. \nAbout The Ex Vows \nEstranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disasters in this swoony and steamy second-chance romance from the USA Today bestselling author of You\, with a View.Georgia Woodward lives by her lists\, none more so than the one about her ex\, Eli Mora. It’s full of the ironclad dos and don’ts they’ve been following since she returned to the Bay Area after their cataclysmic breakup five years ago. \nWith the wedding of their mutual best friend\, Adam\, looming\, and them about to step into their roles as best woman and man\, Georgia’s never needed it more. She refuses to threaten their tight-knit friend group with her messy—and still very present—feelings. The rules on that list will keep her cool\, calm\, and compartmentalized. \nWhat’s not on her list? Eli arriving from New York with a new rule-breaking attitude or the all-inclusive venue burning to the ground\, leaving the bride and groom in dire straits. Nor does she anticipate Adam asking her and Eli to help him make a miracle happen. Together. \nAs Georgia and Eli rush up to Napa Valley to pull off the perfect wedding\, their old chemistry comes back in technicolor. Somewhere between cake tastings gone wrong\, disastrous DJ auditions\, and Eli’s heated attention\, Georgia starts recognizing the man she fell in love with before. And if she lets herself break her rules\, she might find what they’re building isn’t the something old that ruined them—it’s a chance at something new. \n 
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LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Vicki Valosik
DESCRIPTION:Avid Reader is thrilled to celebrate the release of Vicki Valosik’s debut book: Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water. \nAbout the Author \nVicki Valosik is a masters synchronized swimmer whose writing has appeared in publications such as the Atlantic\, Smithsonian magazine\, and Slate. She is an editorial director and teaches writing at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service\, and lives in Silver Spring\, Maryland. \nAbout the Book \n“If you’re not strong enough to swim fast\, you’re probably not strong enough to swim ‘pretty\,’” said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century\, tensions between beauty and strength\, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of female swimmers—none more so than synchronized swimmers\, for whom Williams is often considered godmother. In this revelatory history\, Vicki Valosik traces a century of aquatic performance\, from vaudeville to the Olympic arena\, and brings to life the colorful cast of characters whose “pretty swimming” not only laid the groundwork for an altogether new sport but forever changed women’s relationships with water. Williams\, who became a Hollywood sensation for her splashy “aquamusicals\,” was just one in a long\, bedazzled line of swimmers who began their careers as athletes but found greater opportunity\, and often social acceptance\, in the world of show business. Early starlets like Lurline the Water Queen performed “scientific” swimming\, a set of moves previously only practiced by men—including Benjamin Franklin—that focused on form and exhibited mastery in the water. Demonstrating their fancy feats in aquariums and water tanks rolled onto music hall stages\, these women stunned Victorian audiences with their physical dexterity and defied society’s rigid expectations of what was proper and possible for their sex. Far more than bathing beauties\, they ushered in sensible swimwear and influenced lifesaving and physical education programs\, helping to drop national drowning rates and paving the way for new generations of female athletes. When a Chicago physical educator matched their aquatic movements to music in the 1920s\, young girls flocked to take part in “synchronized swimming.” But despite overwhelming love from audiences and the Olympic ambitions of its practitioners\, “synchro” was long perceived as little more than entertaining pageantry\, and its athletes would face a battle against the current to earn a spot at the highest echelons of sport. Now\, on the fortieth anniversary of synchronized swimming’s elevation to Olympic status\, Swimming Pretty honors its incredible history of grit\, glamor\, and sheer athleticism. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-vicki-valosik/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
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