EVENTS
Meet the Author
Chris Arnone | Necropolis Alpha
@ Beaverdale Books
Chris M. Arnone's cyberpunk science fiction Necropolis Alpha is the exciting follow-up to The Hermes Protocol, following an Intel Operative with cybernetic enhancements as she tries to stop a plot to tear apart everything.
Local Author Fair
Local Author Fair
@ Beaverdale Books
Join us as we celebrate books by four local authors! Our community is lucky to have so many talented writers and this is a great chance to hear about their lives, their writing experience, and how they came to create such fascinating books.
Meet the Author
Joshalyn Hickey-Johnson | Susie Clark: The Bravest Girl You’ve Ever Seen!
@ Beaverdale Books
This picture book, Susie Clark: The Bravest Girl You've Ever Seen!, beautifully simplifies for young readers a decades-long struggle for civil rights in a period before, during, and after the Civil War.
Meet the Author
Carol Roh Spaulding | Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories
@ West Des Moines Public Library
West Des Moines Library will host an evening with author Carol Roh Spaulding, an Iowa-based author, whose new book, Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories spans four generations of a Korean-American family, centering on the life of a character named Gracie Song.
Meet the Authors!
Sugar & Spice & Everything In-Between | Romance Panel with Denise Williams, Chloe Angyal, & Rachelle Chase
@ Beaverdale Books
Meet authors Denise Williams and Chloe Angyal as they share their newest romance novels.
Meet the Author
Nick Hupton | What I Am to You
@ Beaverdale Books
A moving take on a coming-of-age story that questions who we call family and who we let write the soundtrack to our lives." Carolyn Boehlke Youngbauer; author of Literaria
Meet the Writer
James Pease | Tending Iowa’s Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future
@ Izaak Walton League – 4343 George Flagg Parkway
In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa’s premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state’s human and wild residents.
Book Launch!
Mark Daley | Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family
@ Beaverdale Books
A candid, unforgettable, and often hilarious memoir of two dads daunting quest for fatherhood.
Meet the Author
Sidney Thompson | The Bass Reeves Trilogy
@ Beaverdale Books
Thompson’s award-winning trilogy of historical fiction: Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One and Hell on the Border: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Two will be the basis for the Paramount+ miniseries "Lawmen: Bass Reeves."
Meet the Author
Joseph LeValley | Three Weeks of Winter
@ Beaverdale Books
Joseph LeValley is the author of a series of award-winning mystery/thriller novels. Featuring a young newspaper reporter based in Iowa, the six published novels have won a dozen awards and honors from competitions in the U.S. and Canada.
Meet the Author
Dr. Bonne Doron | Welcome Home: Narratives of Hope, Cat Tales of Clanton Creek, Dianna’s Daring Journey: A Cat’s Search for Home, & The Circle of Gifts
@ Beaverdale Books
Meet local author Bonne Doron, a retired literature professor, animal lover, and author of four books, including her newest work, Welcome Home: Narratives of Hope.
Meet the Author
Lyz Lenz | This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
@ Beaverdale Books
A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot—from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz