Meet these authors at Nova SEU Library Fri 3/23
Meet the authors. I linked to Nova. If you click on the author it will take you to where I found this. And you'll see the cover of the book that does not show here.
Lit LIVE! (formerly the Day of Literary Lectures), Saturday, March 24.
The Alvin Sherman library will be hosting LitLIVE! when nationally acclaimed authors will be participating in talks and panel discussions. In addition, there will be book selling and book signings by the authors. LitLIVE! is open to the public, and there is no admission charge. See the preliminary list of Literary Feast authors. http://www.nova.edu/library/about/events/events.html
Events
The Alvin Sherman Library organizes events and exhibits, but also hosts events and exhibits organized by other entities from NSU, Broward County, and beyond.
Upcoming events happening at the Library are listed below. Follow the links on the right to access current or past exhibit information, or see Public Library Services Programs to see what programs are being offered this month for Adults & Seniors, Teens, and Children.
Check out our Exhibits page for current and upcoming exhibits.
Literary Feast: LitLIVE!
Saturday, March 24, 2007 Various locations in the library Come and meet your favorite authors at one of South Florida's premier literary events, Literary Feast 2007! Literary Feast 2007 offers a unique mix of literary, social and educational components including:
Novel Day for Students, Friday, March 23.
Night of Literary Feasts, Friday, March 23.
Lit LIVE! (formerly the Day of Literary Lectures), Saturday, March 24.
The Alvin Sherman library will be hosting LitLIVE! when nationally acclaimed authors will be participating in talks and panel discussions. In addition, there will be book selling and book signings by the authors.
LitLIVE! is open to the public, and there is no admission charge. See the preliminary list of Literary Feast authors. (Included below.)
Seating: Open seating; no tickets are required. Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Priority seating for Broward Public Library Foundation members will be available until 10 minutes before start time.
Parking is available in the garage adjacent to the library for $1.00 per hour.
For more information, please call the Literary Feast 2007 Hotline at (954) 357-5954.
Literary Feast is coordinated by Byblos, the special events committee of the Broward Public Library Foundation, and all proceeds benefit the Broward Public Library Foundation in its efforts to provide books and services not otherwise available to the Broward County Library system.
Events (I did not include all the books bio. Go to for the whole list.) http://www.nova.edu/library/about/events/literaryfeast2007_authors.html
Literary Feast 2007 Participating Authors
The following authors are scheduled to appear at Literary Feast 2007. To learn more about each author and their work, click on the author name.
Margaret Ahnert . Cassandra King . T. Jefferson Parker . Ishmael Beah . Brian Latell . Tom Santopietro . Andrew Carroll . Linda Francis Lee . Jeff Shaara . Susan Cheever . Daniel Levitin . Yasmin Shiraz . Jon Clinch . Sujata Massey . Adriana Trigiani . John Dickerson . Bob Mitchell . Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez . Farrah Gray . Jorj Morgan . Kate Waites . Michael Grunwald . Sam Moses
Margaret Ahnert The Knock at the Door: A Journey Through the Darkness of the Armenian Genocide
Margaret Ahnert lives and writes in Florida. She is completing an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction at Goucher College. This a book about her mother, who survived the Turkish government's genocide of the Armenians in 1915.
Ishmael Beah Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Beah tells the story of a child soldier from Sierra Leone, told from the perspective of someone who was drafted as a child soldier and lived to tell the tale. This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.
In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty. Ishmael Beah came to the United States when he was seventeen and graduated from Oberlin College in 2004. He is a member of Human Rights Watch Children’s Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the United Nations on several occasions. He lives in New York City.
Andrew Carroll Grace Under Fire and Operation Homecoming
Returning Literary Feast 2002 Author
Andrew Carroll is the executive director of the American Poetry & Literacy Project, a national nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes literacy and encourages a greater public awareness of poetry.
The first book of its kind, Operation Homecoming is the result of a major initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts to bring distinguished writers to military bases and inspire U.S. Marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen and their families to record their wartime experiences. Encouraged by such authors as Tom Clancy, Mark Bowden, Bobbie Ann Mason, Tobias Wolff, Jeff Shaara, and Marilyn Nelson, American military personnel and their loved ones wrote candidly about what they saw, heard, and felt while in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as on the home front. Taken together, these almost one hundred never-before-published eyewitness accounts, private journals, short stories, letters, and other personal writings become a dramatic narrative that shows the human side of warfare.
Grace Under Fire is an extraordinary, moving record of the importance of religion and spirituality to troops and their families from the American Revolution through the fighting in Iraq. Reflecting the writers’ thoughts, feelings, and questions about matters of faith, these correspondences offer a fascinating window on how individuals have endured the trials of separation, the fear of battle, the agony of loss, and the stresses of homecoming.
John Dickerson On Her Trail : My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star
Before Barbara Walters, before Katie Couric, there was Nancy Dickerson. The first female member of the Washington TV news corps, Nancy was the only woman covering many of the most iconic events of the sixties. She was the first reporter to speak to President Kennedy after his inauguration and she was on the Mall with Martin Luther King Jr. during the march on Washington; she had dinner with LBJ the night after Kennedy was assassinated and got late-night calls from President Nixon. She was one of President Johnson's favorite reporters, and he often greeted her on-camera with a familiar "Hello, Nancy." In the '60s Nancy and her husband Wyatt Dickerson were Washington's golden couple, and the capital's power brokers coveted invitations to swank dinners at their estate on the Potomac.
Growing up in the shadow of Nancy's fame, John Dickerson rarely saw his mother. This frank memoir -- part remembrance, part discovery -- describes a freewheeling childhood in which Nancy Dickerson was rarely around unless John was in trouble or she was throwing a party for the president and John was instructed to check the coats. On Her Trail is a fascinating picture of the early days of television and of Washington society at its most high powered, and charts a son's honest and wry search for the mother he came to admire and love.
Michael Grunwald The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise
Michael Grunwald is a reporter for The Washington Post and is a frequent contributor to Slate and The New Republic. He has won the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Award for investigative reporting, and the 2003 Society of Environmental Journalists Award for in-depth reporting on the Everglades. In Swamp, Grunwald recounts the successive generations of eager land sharks, politicians, sugar magnates, engineers, and farmers whose visions of "reclaiming" south Florida for industrious and profitable human use have transformed it into an ecosystem on life support. It is one long tale of environmental devastation, spasms of regret, and promises of repair -- most recently, the multibillion-dollar Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan passed by Congress in 2000, a complex and controversial effort led by the state and the Army Corps of Engineers that has landed in intensive care alongside the landscape it's supposed to bring back.
Brian Latell After Fidel
Brian Latell has been a Latin America and Caribbean specialist for the last four decades and lectures regularly on these subjects to university, professional, and political groups. Currently a senior associate in the CSIS Americas Program, he was an adjunct professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he taught undergraduate and upper-level courses including: Cuba and the Great Powers, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Crises in U.S.-Latin American Relations. In 1998, Latell retired after three and a half decades as a foreign intelligence officer, having served in the U.S. Air Force and for extended periods as a Latin America specialist at the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Intelligence Council. From 1994 to 1998, he served as director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence, where he managed programs in intelligence history, records declassification, and academic outreach and served as publisher and chairman of the editorial board of Studies in Intelligence, the journal of the profession. From 1990 to 1994, he was national intelligence officer for Latin America, the highest-ranking analytic position for that region in the U.S. intelligence community. Latell has consulted throughout the region with presidents, senior government officials, U.S. embassy officers, and regional leaders in diverse fields. He is frequently quoted in press coverage of political trends in Latin America, particularly of Cuba and Fidel Castro. He has written on Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, and other countries, as well as on foreign intelligence issues. He studied at universities in Mexico and Spain and has lived or traveled extensively in all but one of the Latin American countries.
Daniel Levitin This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Think of a song that resonates deep down in your being. Now imagine sitting down with someone who was there when the song was recorded and can tell you how that series of sounds was committed to tape, and who can also explain why that particular combination of rhythms, timbres and pitches has lodged in your memory, making your pulse race and your heart swell every time you hear it. Remarkably, Levitin does all this and more, interrogating the basic nature of hearing and of music making (this is likely the only book whose jacket sports blurbs from both Oliver Sacks and Stevie Wonder), without losing an affectionate appreciation for the songs he's reducing to neural impulses. Levitin is the ideal guide to this material: he enjoyed a successful career as a rock musician and studio producer before turning to cognitive neuroscience, earning a Ph.D. and becoming a top researcher into how our brains interpret music. Levitin's snappy prose and relaxed style quickly win one over and will leave readers thinking about the contents of their iPods in an entirely new way.
Bob Mitchell Match Made in Heaven
“ So…why should I save you?” That’s the question Elliott Goodman hears in the OR as he’s about to have emergency surgery following a heart attack. But it isn’t Elliott’s surgeon who’s asking. It’s God. As in The Almighty. And God has a wager for Elliott. He challenges him to an eighteen-hole golf match. If Elliott wins, he is saved; if he loses… So begins this witty, insightful, very funny, and utterly distinctive novel about golf and life and the lessons learned from both. To be fair (isn’t He always?), God sends down eighteen legendary opponents to play against Elliott and hopefully teach him a few tricks along the way. From Leondardo da Vinci (nice clubs) to Marilyn Monroe (nice…everything), Babe Ruth (pass the hot dogs), Abraham Lincoln (cheater!), and fourteen other luminaries, including Moses, John Lennon, Joan of Arc, Picasso, W.C. Fields, Socrates, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Beethoven, Gandhi, and Shakespeare, Elliott squares off against some of the most extraordinary people who’ve ever lived. As shots are analyzed, balls enter bunkers, and Freud drives the cart (control freak), Elliott has a chance to examine his life and his form, to see what he can correct or improve before facing his ultimate adversary. Bighearted and delightfully original, Bob Mitchell’s Match Made in Heaven is a grand celebration of golf and a profound parable of traveling our own personal fairways in a game where no effort is wasted, and every failure is just another chance to try again.
Mitchell studied at Williams (B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude), Columbia (M.A. in French Literature, Woodrow Wilson fellow), and Harvard (Ph.D. in French and Comparative Literature). In a former life, he spent a year teaching in France on a Fulbright fellowship and was a French professor for eleven years at Harvard, Purdue, and Ohio State, during which time he published four books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French poetry. In another former life, he entered advertising in 1981 as a copywriter, became a Creative Director at a number of New York agencies, and spent 1994 in Tel Aviv as a special consultant on commercial film writing and production.
Jorj Morgan Gorgeous! The Sum of All Your Glorious Parts
Gorgeous! The Sum of All Your Glorious Parts has been written by a team of experts—a world- renowned scientist, a food expert, and an Olympic medal-winning athlete—in an effort to coordinate all the elements that make up a glorious lifestyle. It is filled with information about the science of good health and beauty, food tips and recipes that promote wellness, and tips for stress-reducing exercise and relaxation techniques that builds on good science and good food. All of it is designed to help today’s women make the most of their minds and bodies to create a wonderful life.
Sam Moses At All Costs: How A Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Marines Reversed the Tide of World War II
At All Costs is the astonishing untold account, with original historical reporting, of how two men faced unfathomable danger to help save the island of Malta, Churchill’s crux of the war. It’s a story about the heroism of two men in battle at sea during World War II, and one woman fleeing Nazi Norway with her child. It’s about how courage can change the course of history. Two young American merchant mariners–pulled from the sea after their own ship went down in flames–boarded the ravaged tanker, repaired her guns and fought off German and Italian dive-bombers, as the sinking Ohio was towed at 4 knots toward Malta with a tiny crew of volunteers. Moses is the author of the acclaimed race-driving memoir, Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots, and a former senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He began writing as a U.S. Navy Seaman on a heavy cruiser in action off Vietnam.
Tom Santopietro Considering Doris Day
From Publishers Weekly - Following his witty overview of Streisand's career in The Importance of Being Barbra (2005), Santopietro turns to Doris Day and delivers a sharp-eyed, carefully researched career evaluation that also convincingly rebukes many modern misconceptions about her pristine screen persona and status as a singer. With the exception of That Touch of Mink ("a film nearly devoid of wit or humor"), most of Day's onscreen characters were far from eternal virgins; they were proto-feminist icons ranging from successful career women with healthy libidos to smart can-do housewives. Santopietro's sassy assessment of Day's 39 films illuminate her best (Love Me or Leave Me, Pajama Game, Thrill of It All), analyzes her worst (Tunnel of Love, Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?) and offers some surprises (he defends the KKK melodrama Storm Warning, but is more reserved about Pillow Talk). Delving into her prodigious recording career (from 1948 to 1967, she released more than 600 songs), Santopietro appraises her songs almost track-by-track with such full-blooded enthusiasm that most readers will be racing to iTunes to download her catalogue. While not intended as a full biography, there is enough biographical detail as it concerns her career choices to create a vibrant portrait of the artist and the woman. B&w photos. (Apr.)
Jeff Shaara The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II
Shaara, who has written bestselling and critically acclaimed historical novels covering the American Revolution through World War I, takes on World War II in the wonderful first volume of a planned trilogy. As the book begins, Hitler's forces control western Europe, and U.S. troops face off against the Germans in North Africa. From fall 1942 through spring 1943, the Allies battle Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps. Shaara evokes the agony of desert warfare and the utter chaos of an airborne assault through the experiences of Pvt. Jack Logan, a tank gunner, and Sgt. Jesse Adams, a paratrooper. The challenges—and frequent frustrations—of command are seen through the eyes of such luminaries as generals Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton and Rommel. The Allied victory in Africa is followed by the conquest of Sicily and the invasion of mainland Italy in 1943. With the Italian campaign sputtering, the Allies turn to planning for the decisive event of the European theater, the cross-channel invasion of France, which is where Shaara concludes this sprawling, masterful opening act.
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Make Him Look Good
Bestselling American author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez was named one of the nation's 25 most influential Hispanics by Time magazine. From Publishers Weekly- Valdes-Rodriguez (Playing with Boys) shows she can brand name–drop with the best of them in her third chica lit offering, a busy celebrity fantasy populated by six women and the "him" of the title, Latin pop sensation Ricky Biscayne. Beyond product placement for Rock & Republic jeans, Dolce & Gabbana shoes and Cristal (and that's just the first page), this Miami yarn is heavy with dramatic touchstones: an abandoned child, domestic abuse, sibling rivalry, romantic infidelities and the pregnancy of Ricky's wife, Jasminka. Narrated mostly by Ricky's new publicist, Milan, the story shifts perspectives—sometimes changing narrators without warning—among Milan's sister, nightclub entrepreneur Geneva, Ricky's high school flame Irene, fatherless teenager Sophia, the famous (and familiar) singer/actress/brand Jill Sanchez, and Jasminka…Our refreshingly imperfect and insecure heroine, Milan, shines, and there are enough reversals of fate and fortune to make this a satisfying read.
Kate Waites Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir
Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir offers a rare glimpse inside the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in the late 1960s. The young narrator arrives with gentle visions spawned by The Sound of Music, only to encounter the harshness of life in this secretive society. Her wit, compassion, and musicality foment a rebellion against rules forbidding expressions of joy and intimacy, as she struggles between allegiance to the heart and her vow of blind obedience to flawed and abusive superiors. Part mystery, part coming of age story, this narrative seeks neither to damn nor to exonerate but to uncover the truth.
Kate Waites is a faculty member in the Division of Humanities at Nova Southeastern University.
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