Category: EBRPL Author Focus

Virtual Author Talk: Rebecca Serle

The Library continues its Author Talk Series with three new authors in January! Each live, virtual event features a different bestselling author, along with an interactive Q&A session where participants can ask questions directly to the author. See January selections and dates/times below. Visit here to register for these virtual events, learn about other upcoming conversations with bestselling authors, and view previous author talk recordings. For more information about these and other virtual events, visit here

Wednesday, January 10 at 7 p.m. – Join us as we kick off the New Year talking to Rebecca Serle about her journey writing epic love stories to span generations. Learning the love story formula with Serle, we’ll chat with the author about her New York Times bestselling novels, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and many more. Serle will also briefly discuss her forthcoming novel, Expiration Dates (due out on March 5, 2024) . Told with her signature warmth and insight into matters of the heart, Rebecca Serle has finally set her sights on romantic love. The result is a gripping, emotional, passionate, and (yes) heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love, and ultimately how we define each of them for ourselves. Expiration Dates is the one fans have been waiting for. Start your year with love and register now!

Prayers for Married Couples

Darlene Anita Moore invites you to a book sharing and book signing event on Monday, December 18, 5-8:30 p.m., at the Main Library at Goodwood. She will premiere her new book, Prayers for Married Couples, vol. III. Light refreshments will be served, and there will be a door prize drawing. The event is free; signed books may be purchased for $20 (cash only).

Virtual Author Talk Series: Stephanie Land

Tuesday, December 12 at 1 p.m. – You’re Invited to an afternoon chat with New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Land as she talks to us about her new memoir, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education. When Stephanie Land set out to write her first book, a memoir titled Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was later adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix’s fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Stephanie’s escape from poverty and abuse in search of a better life inspired millions. Class paints an intimate and heartbreaking portrait of motherhood as it converges and often conflicts with personal desire and professional ambition. In clear, candid, and moving prose, Class offers a searing indictment of America’s educational system and an inspiring testimony of a mother’s triumph against all odds. Register here for this virtual event!

Virtual Author Talk Series: Victoria Aveyard

Tuesday, December 5 at 6 p.m. – Join us as the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Queen and Realm Breaker series, Victoria Aveyard, chats with us about YA fantasy fiction, a strange darkness grows in Allward; even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it in her small town at the edge of the sea. The long lost heir to an ancient lineage, Corayne meets a rag-tag group of companions that teaches her how to wield the magic slumbering in her blood-and how together they might stop what’s coming. Irresistibly action-packed and full of lethal surprises, this stunning fantasy series promises breakneck adventure and impossible thrills! Register now to join the adventure. Register here for this virtual author talk.

Meet the Authors of A Louisiana Christmas to Remember

You’re invited to meet the authors of A Louisiana Christmas to Remember, a book including three heartwarming, interconnected stories of faith, love, and restoration brought to you by three Louisiana-native authors. Will a rare snowy Louisiana Christmas bring hope to the hometown and hearts of three women from the town’s founding family? Join Morgan Tarpley Smith, Betsy St. Amant, and Lenora Worth at the Main Library at Goodwood on Saturday, December 2 at 10 a.m. as they discuss their stories: A Louisiana Snow, Restoring Christmas, and A Christmas Reunion. Learn about their individual journeys as authors and how this one book of three stories came together.

 

Virtual Author Series: Naomi Alderman November 30, 2023 2 PM

Thursday, November 30 at 2 pm -Bestselling and award-winning author, Naomi Alderman will join us to talk about her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender, and always piercingly brilliant, The Future unfolds at a breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here. What are
you waiting for? Register now!

Virtual Author Talk: Joy Harjo – November 16, 2023 at 3 PM

Thursday, November 16 at 3 PM – United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light, and to discuss her rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet. In Catching the Light, Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing. In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Harjo insists the most meaningful poetry is birthed through cracks in history from what is broken and unseen.

Home of the Happy: Murder on the Cajun Prairie

In 1983, in Mamou, Louisiana, local businessman and community leader Aubrey LaHaye was mysteriously kidnapped from his home and murdered. Forty years later, his great-granddaughter, Jordan told in her forthcoming book, Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie. She will talk about her experience interviewing family and community members, and the many theories that have emerged around how and why this tragedy took place ranging from the Cajun Mafia, to a hit job, to just a random act of violence. Jordan is the Managing Editor of Country Roads Magazine and a co-host of their podcast, Detours. Come meet Jordan and hear this extraordinary story at the Main Library at Goodwood on Wednesday, November 15 at 6 p.m. as part of the Library’s Special Collections Series.

Virtual Author Talk: Tiffany Aliche November 9, 2023 1 PM

Thursday, November 9 at 1 p.m. – We all want to live within our means, save for retirement, invest a little, and yet still have some left over each month for fun. But as most people know, real life can get in the way of even our best intentions! To help us set realistic goals and keep us on track to meeting them, Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche has an invaluable 10-step action plan: Made Whole. With her signature down-to-earth style, her new workbook offers worksheets,
checklists, clear explanations of intimidating financial terminology, simple instruction on calculating our present situation and future needs, and handy hacks for increasing your credit score, making savings “hard to access,” and finding support to stay on track to your goals.

Virtual Author Talk Series: John Stamos – November 1, 2023 7 PM

Wednesday, November 1 at 7 p.m. Join us for an intimate conversation with Full House star, John Stamos, as he leads us through his incredibly moving and vulnerable memoir, If You Would Have Told Me. A universal story about friendship, love, loss, and the courage to embrace love once more, John Stamos’s memories is filled with some of the most memorable names in Hollywood, both old and new. Funny, deeply poignant, and brutally honest, If You Would Have Told Me is a portrait of a boy who went from believing in Disney magic to a man who learns that we have to create our own magical moments in life.