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Capital City Pride Book Club

Capital City Pride Book Club | You Should See Me In a Crown

@ Beaverdale Books

Beaverdale Books 2629 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

Join members of Capital City Pride as they discuss You Should See Me in a Crown, by Leah Johnson. 

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Steve Dunn | ‘Pug,’ ‘Fireball,’ and Company: 116 Years of Professional Baseball in Des Moines, Iowa

@ Beaverdale Books

Beaverdale Books 2629 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

Seven years of research has culminated in author Steve Dunn’s latest book on the history of professional baseball in Des Moines., 'Pug’ ‘Fireball’ and Company: 116 Years of Professional Baseball in Des Moines, Iowa.

Special Event – CANCELLED

Marianne Williamson | A Politics of Love  CANCELLED

@ Beaverdale Books

Beaverdale Books 2629 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

Join author and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson for a spirited discussion about her vision for creating an America that works for everyone.

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Timothy Grover | Barnstorming Babe: A Slugger’s Bumpy Trek Across Small-Town America

@ Beaverdale Books

Beaverdale Books 2629 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

After losing the World Series in 1922, Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel left the harsh glare of New York for an eighteen-game Great Plains barnstorming tour.

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Chris Arnone | Necropolis Alpha

@ Beaverdale Books

Beaverdale Books 2629 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

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

Beaverdale Books 2629 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

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.  

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Joshalyn Hickey-Johnson | Susie Clark: The Bravest Girl You’ve Ever Seen!

@ Beaverdale Books

Beaverdale Books 2629 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

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.

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Carol Roh Spaulding | Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories

@ West Des Moines Public Library

West Des Moines Library 4000 Mills Civic Pkwy, West Des Moines, IA, IA, United States

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.

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Sugar & Spice & Everything In-Between | Romance Panel with Denise Williams, Chloe Angyal, & Rachelle Chase 

@ Beaverdale Books

Beaverdale Books 2629 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

Meet authors Denise Williams and Chloe Angyal as they share their newest romance novels.

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Nick Hupton | What I Am to You

@ Beaverdale Books

Beaverdale Books 2629 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

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

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James Pease | Tending Iowa’s Land: Pathways to a Sustainable Future

@ Izaak Walton League – 4343 George Flagg Parkway

Izaak Walton League 4343 George Flagg Parkway, Des Moines, IA, United States

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

Beaverdale Books 2629 Beaver Avenue, Des Moines, IA, United States

A candid, unforgettable, and often hilarious memoir of two dads daunting quest for fatherhood.