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Have you ever wondered how an author wrote her book? Why she wrote it?
Come listen to three award-winning and bestselling authors discuss what they wrote, why they wrote it, and how they chose their respective subjects at “First Person, Inside Story,” presented by AHA!
SouthCoast bookworms are invited for an intimate evening of coffee, sweets and books at Tia Maria’s European Café in downtown New Bedford on Tues., May 13 from 6:30 to 9 p.m.
The event will be sponsored hosted and moderated by Massachusetts Book Award winner and Westport resident Dawn Tripp, author of the Boston Globe Local Bestseller “Game of Secrets.” Baker Books will have copies of all books available for purchase and signing at the event.
“I’m head-over-heels about the three authors we have this time. They’re all tremendous talents whose latest books have taken the literary world by storm,” said Lee Heald, director of AHA!
Award-winning author Elizabeth Graver’s “The End of the Point” was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2013 by the New York Times Book Review, a favorite Book of 2013 by Publisher’s Weekly, and was long-listed for the National Book Awards for Fiction among other honors.
Jan Stuart of The Boston Globe called it, “a work of uncommon gracefulness.” Lauren Daley of The Standard-Times called it “a paean to the rocky shores and gray Atlantic coastline we all so love, a love song to SouthCoast in general and Buzzard’s Bay in particular.”
It’s the story of Ashaunt Point—a tiny finger of land jutting into Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts—which has provided sanctuary and anchored life for generations of the Porter family. But in 1942, the U.S. Army arrives on the Point, bringing havoc and change As the decades pass, the Porters can only attempt to seek refuge from the chaos at Ashaunt.
Amy Brill’s “The Movement of Stars” was praised Vanity Fair, People, USA Today, Book Reporter and Oprah.com, which called Brill’s debut novel “gorgeous… The book sings with insights about love, work and how we create our own families.”
It’s 1845 and Hannah Price, 24, has lived all her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised, where simplicity and restraint are valued above all. But up on the rooftop each night, Hannah pursues a very different goal: astronomy.
When she meets Isaac, a young Azorean whaler, she’s drawn to his intellectual curiosity and agrees to take him on as a student. But when their shared interest in the stars develops into something deeper, Hannah’s standing in the community begins to unravel…
Canadian poet Maria Mutch, now of Rhode Island, has an outstanding debut novel with “Know the Night” (2014.) Mutch deftly twins her memoir of spending night awake with her Autistic son with the story of artic explorer Admiral Richard Byrd’s story of struggling alone in continual night at the South Pole.
Just released in March, it’s already been named one of the Best Reads of 2014 by Maclean’s Magazine and Most Anticipated Spring 2014 Nonfiction Preview, by 49th Shelf.
BookList called it a “poetic, elegant, and intense account.” Lynn Kern Koegel, Ph.D., author of “Overcoming Autism,” called it a “fascinating thought-provoking book… should be required reading for anyone who works with a child with disabilities and recommended reading for everyone else.”
There are a limited number of tickets available. Call (508) 996-8253 ext. 205 for tickets, or buy them from the night’s sponsors: Baker Books, 2 McCabe Street, Dartmouth or at subtext on Union Street in New Bedford.
All proceeds will benefit AHA!, a free celebration of Arts, History and Architecture held the second Thursday of each month in downtown New Bedford. Tickets are $35. Cash or check only please. For more information, visit www.ahanewbedford.org. or call 508 996-8253, x205 to reserve, or buy them in person at Baker Books, 2 McCabe St., Dartmouth.
