Upcoming Author Signings and Events

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (7:00 PM) KEVIN O’HARA KEVIN O’HARA visits to sign and discuss his new memoir, A LUCKY IRISH LAD, at 7:00 PM. In this volume O’Hara recreates his boyhood with these wonderful stories of growing up in Massachusetts in the 1950s and 60s as one of eight children. His parents, born in Ireland, came to this country for their children’s sake. His family struggled against grinding poverty but they never gave up and never lost their faith that God had a plan for them. This book will tug at your heart and make you cry tears of both sorrow and joy. It is a story about the Irish-American experience but it is much more – it’s the story of a generation growing up in the shadow of the Second World War and the start of a new age of hope and promise, a time when people believed that anything was possible as long as you dare to dream and had faith in yourself. Tuesday, March 16, 2010 (6:30 PM) LISA SCOTTOLINE Patron and staff favorite LISA SCOTTOLINE visits to sign and discuss her latest thriller, THINK TWICE, at 6:30 PM. After her evil twin sister, Alice, drugs her, leaves her for dead and steals her life, Bennie Rosato must convince everyone she's ever cared about that she is the real Bennie, and not the deranged twin, all the while facing the shocking truth that she just may be more like Alice than she ever realized. Wednesday, March 17, 2010 (7:00 PM) HOWARD FRANK MOSHER HOWARD FRANK MOSHER visits to sign and discuss his latest, WALKING TO GATLINBURG, at 7:00 PM. A stunning and lyrical Civil War thriller, this novel is a spellbinding story of survival, wilderness adventure, mystery, and love in the time of war. Morgan Kinneson is both hunter and hunted. The sharp-shooting 17-year-old from Kingdom County, Vermont, is determined to track down his brother, a doctor who has gone missing from the Union Army. Along the way, Morgan encounters a fantastical array of characters, including a weeping elephant, a pacifist gunsmith, a woman who lives in a tree, a blind cobbler, and a beautiful and intriguing slave girl named Slidell. Magical and wonderfully strange, WALKING TO GATLINBURG is both a thriller of the highest order and a heartbreaking odyssey into the heart of American darkness. For our event Howard has prepared a wonderful slideshow called “Transforming History into Fiction: The Story of a Born Liar.” It’s an account of how Howard wrote WALKING TO GATLINBURG, along with a travelogue of some of the stranger and more interesting places he visited while researching the book. This presentation should appeal to history buffs, Civil War enthusiasts, aspiring writers, as well as book discussion groups. Sunday, March 21, 2010 (1:00 PM) ALAN GORDON ALAN GORDON, the author of a highly praised mystery series based on the characters from William Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT, visits to sign and discuss his new volume, THE PARISIAN PRODIGAL, at 1:00 PM. In 1205, Theophilos – a fool by trade, a family man by choice, and a spy by design – belongs, along with his family, to the Fools’ Guild, a group that secretly maintains the fragile order of society. In Toulouse, that order is threatened when, unexpectedly, a man claiming to be a full brother of the ruling count is found one morning in a local bordello next to a dead whore, killed with his own sword. Now, Theophilos and his family must uncover the truth. Please note that this event was scheduled for an earlier date but was TWICE postponed due to winter storms. We hope that you can join us on this new date. Hopefully, the third time will be the charm! Saturday, March 27, 2010 (11:00 AM) RANDY MILLER RANDY MILLER visits to sign and discuss his new book, HARRY THE K: THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF HARRY KALAS, at 11:00 AM. Sports fans will be delighted with this full account of the life of "Harry the K", the celebrated play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia Phillies and the narrator for NFL Films productions and HBO's Inside the NFL. Monday, April 05, 2010 (6:30 PM) CHRISTOPHER MOORE That madcap CHRISTOPHER MOORE visits to thoroughly entertain us with a signing and discussion of his new book, BITE ME: A LOVE STORY, at 6:30 PM. Hip vampires Jody, Tommy, Abby and Steve have to find Chet – Abby’s vampiric cat, who is stalking the streets with his meowing minions and getting bigger, and more like a human, every day – but first they must contend with three very old vampires with a bone to pick. Tuesday, April 13, 2010 (7:00 PM) LISA LUTZ LISA LUTZ visits to sign and discuss the fourth and final entry in her wonderfully zany series starring a highly dysfunctional family of private detectives, THE SPELLMANS STRIKE AGAIN, at 7:00 PM. At the ripe old age of thirty-two, former wild child Isabel “Izzy” Spellman has finally agreed to take over the family business, and the transition will be anything but smooth. First among her priorities as head of Spellman Investigations is to dig up some dirt on the competition, slippery ex-cop Rick Harkey – a task she may enjoy a little too much. Next, faced with a baffling missing-persons case at the home of an aging millionaire, Izzy hires an actor friend, Len, to infiltrate the mansion as an undercover butler – a role he may enjoy a little much. Meanwhile, Izzy is being blackmailed by her mother (photographic evidence of Prom Night 1994) to commit to regular blind dates with promising professionals – an arrangement that doesn't thrill Connor, an Irish bartender on the brink of becoming Ex-boyfriend #12. At Spellman headquarters, it's business as unusual. Doorknobs and light fixtures are disappearing every day, Mom's been spotted crying in the pantry, and a series of increasingly demanding Spellman Rules (Rule #27: No Speaking Today) can't quite hold the family together. Izzy also has to decipher weekly "phone calls from the edge" from her octogenarian lawyer, Morty, as well as Detective Henry Stone's mysterious interest in rekindling their relationsh...well, whatever it was. Just when it looks like things can't go more haywire, little sister Rae's internship researching pro bono legal cases leads the youngest Spellman to launch a grassroots campaign that could spring an innocent man from jail – or land Rae in it. THE SPELLMANS STRIKE AGAIN is hands down the most hilarious, thrilling, and moving book in this bestselling, award-nominated series.