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Simon Van Booy in conversation with Roda Ahmed

Friday, August 20 | 6:00 p.m. (PT)

Hosted ONLINE by Vroman’s Books

Simon Van Booy discusses his new novel, Night Came with Many Stars with Roda Ahmed.

In a rave review, the Boston Globe writes “Kindness and raw luck undergird Night Came with Many Stars… And like Dickens’s young heroes, Van Booy’s determined souls act with their whole hearts—as does this brave, fierce novel—to earn what good may come.”

Roda Ahmed is a Norwegian author born in Hargeisa, Somalia. Roda is the bestselling author of Forberedelsen (The Preparations) and in 2018 she published first bestselling children’s book Mae Among the Stars (HarperCollins) about the first African American woman in space.

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Meredith Hall in conversation with Larry Watson

Tuesday, August 24 | 7:00 p.m. (CT)

Hosted ONLINE by Magers & Quinn Booksellers

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback) with acclaimed author Larry Watson.

The Wall Street Journal writes “As organically as it traveled to heartbreak, Beneficence progresses to the place of wisdom that lies beyond it, where we learn that a home is part of the ‘vast world of innocence and harm,’ not an island beyond it.”

Watson’s latest novel is The Lives of Edie Pritchard.

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Meredith Hall

Wednesday, August 25 | 7:00 p.m. (EST)

Hosted ONLINE by Books & Books

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback).

Publishers Weekly writes, “Powerful…Hall’s meticulous prose convincingly captures the daily realities—sometimes beautiful, sometimes cruel—of agricultural life, and offers insight into the ways calamity fractures family bonds…readers will be rewarded.”

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Meredith Hall in conversation with Joyce Maynard

Thursday, August 26 | 6:00 p.m. (EST)

Hosted ONLINE by Northshire Books

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback).

The Wall Street Journal writes “As organically as it traveled to heartbreak, Beneficence progresses to the place of wisdom that lies beyond it, where we learn that a home is part of the ‘vast world of innocence and harm,’ not an island beyond it.”

Joyce Maynard’s latest novel, Count the Ways—the story of a marriage and a divorce, and the children who survived it—has just been released.

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Meredith Hall in conversation with Jillian Medoff

Tuesday, August 31 | 7:00 p.m. (ET)

Hosted ONLINE by Literati Bookstore

Meredith Hall discusses her novel Beneficence (new in paperback).

Publishers Weekly writes, “Powerful…Hall’s meticulous prose convincingly captures the daily realities—sometimes beautiful, sometimes cruel—of agricultural life, and offers insight into the ways calamity fractures family bonds…readers will be rewarded.”

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