Authors @ the Teague
Thursday, June 17th, 2:00 PM
Velma Teague Branch Library
 Seattle author Larry Karp will discuss and sign the final mystery in his Ragtime trilogy, The Ragtime Fool, during this Authors @ the Teague event.
Brun Campbell, the former Ragtime Kid, and young pianist Alan Chandler just want the late ragtime genius Scott Joplin to receive the accolades he deserved, maybe even a museum. That's not such a simple task in 1951 Missouri, with rival factions competing for his journal, and Klansmen plotting to blow up a high school auditorium during a ceremony in his honor. Can the two keep the town of Sedalia – and Joplin’s memory – from being destroyed by racial hatred?
Larry Karp's books have been finalists for the Daphne and Spotted Owl Awards, and have appeared on the Los Angeles Times and Seattle Times fiction bestseller lists. The Ragtime Fool seems likely to receive similar honors, since "Karp handles the intricate plot well, but the best part of the book is its picture of people torn between what they want to forget and what they need to remember." (Publishers Weekly) The program is free. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please call 623-930-3439.
Thursday, June 24th, 2:00 PM
Velma Teague Branch Library
 Four “Women Who Kill!” – authors Juliet Blackwell, Sophie Littlefield, Jeanne Matthews, and Zoe Sharp – will discuss and sign their latest high-body-count books during the Authors @ the Teague “MysteryPalooza”.
In Juliet Blackwell’s Castoff Coven, second book in the Witchcraft Mystery series, witch/vintage clothing store owner Lily Ivory finds some very bad paranormal vibes – not to mention a very dead body – at the San Francisco School for the Arts.
A Bad Day for Pretty, sequel to Sophie Littlefield’s Edgar-Award-nominated A Bad Day for Sorry, features the return of Stella Hardesty, domestic violence vigilante, trying to clear a man of a cold-case murder at his wife’s request. "Crime fiction hasn't seen a character as scrappy, mean, and incredibly appealing as Stella in a long time.” (Entertainment Weekly on A Bad Day for Sorry)
Drawn to Australia by the impending physician-assisted suicide of her dying uncle, Dinah Pelerin must not only confront strange family secrets, but solve two strange murders as well in Jeanne Matthews’s debut novel, Bones of Contention.
Finally, the motorbike-riding self-defense teacher Charlotte “Charlie” Fox finds plenty of trouble in Zoe Sharp’s Killer Instinct and Riot Act. These reprints of the first two books in the series reveal why this former British Army Special Forces soldier is “one of the most enigmatic − and coolest − heroines in contemporary genre fiction.” (Chicago Tribune)
The program is free. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please call 623-930-3439.
Saturday, June 26th, 2:00 PM
Velma Teague Branch Library
 Beth Hoffman will discuss and sign her bestselling first novel, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, during our final Authors @ the Teague event for June.
This funny, touching, and uplifting tale portrays a formative summer in the life of 12-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt. After the death of her psychotic, beauty-pageant-obsessed mother and the neglect of her alcoholic father, the future looks bleak for the clever but love-starved CeeCee -- until her great-aunt Tootie whisks her away to the Southern comfort of 1960s Savannah, where a host of affectionate, eccentric, and indomitable women help her learn to live again.
This sleeper-hit first novel has received rave reviews, made The New York Times bestseller list, and was the inaugural selection for Sam’s Book Club. “Exemplifying Southern storytelling at its best, this coming-of-age novel is sure to be a hit with the book clubs that adopted Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees.” (Library Journal, starred review)
The program is free. Books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, please call 623-930-3439. |
