As part of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Schlow Library will be paying homage to the art of the printed word by hosting a series of talks/ book signing at the library and around town.
Author Sara Shepard will speak at the State College Presbyterian Church at 1:00Pm on July 14th. Sara Shepard is the author of the popular PRETTY LITTLE LIARS series. THE LYING GAME is the first book in her latest series, also aimed at teen-age girls. Sometimes we forget that books published for the youth market make for good reading no matter at what age.
Emma has been shuffled from foster family to foster family. The present place is not too bad. She has worked all through high school and has plans to go on to college. All of her plans evaporate when her foster brother shows his mother a “snuff” movie of a young girl being strangled…a young girl who looks exactly like Emma. In the process of tracking down this unknown look-alike, Emma discovers that she has had a twin sister named Sutton and that nobody believes that she is not Sutton. The evidence builds that Sutton has been murdered by someone very close to her.
The fact that the book is narrated by Sutton gives a nice twist to the story. The opening book in this series will make you too curious not to pick up the rest of them.
Tawni O’Dell will be at the Presbyterian Church at 2:00 on July 14th. Ms. O’Dell hit the literary scene when her first book, BACK ROADS, was an Oprah Book Club Pick. So much has been said about this book that anything that this reviewer would add might be superfluous.
Nineteen year-old Harley has been taking care of his three younger sisters, working two jobs, and generally been in charge of everything around the house. His mother is in prison for killing their father and the town sees him and his sisters as novelties who might also be dangerous. As Harley struggles to hold himself and his family together, he finds himself being questioned about another murder that involves his family.
Harley is one of the most complex characters that literature has given us. He is far from perfect, but worthy of rooting for. The book has sold over two million copies and is to be made into a movie. It should be interesting to see Harley on screen.
Lee Stout, Librarian Emeritus and former Head of Public Services and Outreach for the Eberly Special Collection Library for the Penn State Libraries and author of A MATTER OF SIMPLE JUSTICE, will be speaking at the Hintz Alumni Center on Penn State campus at 3:00.
A MATTER OF SIMPLE JUSTICE started as an oral history project at Penn State titled “A Few Good Women” and focuses on Barbara Hackman Franklin, a staff assistant to President Richard Nixon. Nixon’s administration has been criticized for its foreign trade policies and Watergate, but it is given credit for advancing women in government positions.
Pictures of the women who have made a difference in gender equality bring these individuals to life for the reader. Some of the names were familiar, but most fall into the category of unsung heroines.
Alice Breon is scheduled to be at the Schlow Library parking lot tent between 10:00 and 5:00 to sign her GREEN GRAVY, MONSTER BREAD AND OTHER ADVENTURES. Alice now lives in the State College area after seeing a large part of the world.
Part of this memoir is a coming of age story. Alice was 16 at the beginning of World War 11. Her stories will bring back memories to some readers while giving a personal touch to that period of history that some people know only through dry history texts. The rest of the book consists of her time living in Japan after the war. Her accounts of raising her children in a foreign land are funny and touching.
The Book Fest Tent will be in the parking lot at Schlow Library at the corner of Beaver Street and Allen Street July 14, 2012. During that time local authors will be available to autograph books and answer questions.
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