EVENTS
Meet the Author/Songwriter
Zaq Baker | Unspectacular
@Beaverdale Books
Join us for a cross-dimensional presentation by songwriter and novelist, Zaq Baker, as he shares his music and his writing. It's all part of his debut book tour for Unspectacular: A Novel.
DSM BOOK FESTIVAL
Saturday, March 22, 2025
@Franklin Event Center
Don’t miss this free, fun-filled festival, dedicated to books and booklovers. We are hard at work planning and want to ensure that we produce the exciting, high-quality event’s you have come to expect.
Meet the Author
Chris Offutt | The Reluctant Sheriff
@Beaverdale Books
The Reluctant Sheriff is Chris Offutt's fourth book featuring Mick Hardin. Back in the familiar setting of the Kentucky hills, Mick Hardin returns standing in as the sheriff while the previous sheriff, his sister Linda, recuperates from a gunshot wound sustained in the line of duty.
Meet the Author
Helen Miller | I Don’t Swim
@Beaverdale Books
Retired state representative Helen Miller shares the events of her life in the context of the Civil Rights Movement and beyond, during the times when Blacks were finding and projecting their voices onto the tapestry that was and is America.
AViD presents – Amina Luqman-Dawson
Amina Luqman-Dawson | Freewater & Images of America: African Americans of Petersburg
@Central Library
Amina Luqman-Dawson is the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning and bestselling author of Freewater and the pictorial history book Images of America: African Americans of Petersburg.
Special Ticketed Event
Jennifer Weiner | The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits
@Franklin Event Center – 4801 Franklin Avenue
One of the most anticipated books of the year, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, a glimmering novel set in the world of pop music about sisters, motherhood, young love, and the dreams we chase.
Tickets at: https://www.eventcombo.com/e/meet-the-author----jennifer-weiner-74032
Meet the Authors
Donald Quist, Kali White VanBaale, & Bailey Gaylin Moore | The Past Ten & Thank You for Staying With Me
@Beaverdale Books
Join us for an evening of anthologies featuring three fascinating authors, Dr. Donald Quist, Kali VanBaale, and Bailey Gaylin Moore, as they share their new writings featured in The Past Ten.
Meet the Author
Kurt Burmeister | Twilight of the Gods
@Beaverdale Books
Twilight of the Gods is satire and alternate history on an operatic, cinematic, and cosmic scale, with a cast that transcends time and space.
AViD presents – David Baldacci
David Baldacci | Strangers in Time
@Franklin Event Center
David Baldacci's newest book, Strangers in Time, is a historical fiction novel set during the London Blitz. The book follows two recently orphaned teenagers and a book store owner that must learn to trust each other to survive each day. It is being published on Tuesday, April 15.
Meet the Author
Amy Wilson | Happy to Help: Adventures of a People-Pleaser – Essays
@Beaverdale Books
Happy to Help is a collection of essays about how you can be the one everyone else depends on and still be struggling―how you can be “happy to help,” even when, for your own sake, you shouldn’t.
Meet the Author
Michelle Herman | If You Say So
@Beaverdale Books
“Funny, self-effacing, heartbreaking, and wise, Herman shows us that life, in all of its choreography and improvisation, really is like ballet: Press down and rise at the same time. Descend and lift.” —Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place
Beautiful and Good Bones
Meet the Author
Bill R. Douglas | The People Are Kind: A Religious History of Iowa
@Beaverdale Books
What religion would the newly opened, recently indigenous, territory of Iowa become? German Lutherans, Austrian and French Catholics, and New England Congregationalists all funded projects that proved no match for the myriad of choices Iowans had.