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Multiple Award Winning Authors
Nancy
Werlin Kristin
Cashore Annie Hartnett
Friday, June 24, 2016
7:30 PM
Upstairs @ The General
1 Still River Road, Harvard Massachusetts
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Nancy Werlin is the author of nine young adult novels in the
genres of realistic fiction, fantasy, and suspense. Her novel The Rules of
Survival was a finalist for the National Book Award, her novel The Killer’s
Cousin won the Edgar award for best mystery, and her novel Impossible was a New
York Times bestseller. She lives with her husband in Melrose, and is currently
working on a suspense thriller to be published in 2017. Visit her website at nancywerlin.com for
more.
Kristin Cashore wrote the New York Times bestsellers Graceling, Fire, and Bitterblue, all of which have been named
ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Graceling
is the winner of the 2009 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, Fire is the winner of the Amelia
Elizabeth Walden Award, and Bitterblue is a New York Times Book Review Notable
Children’s Book. Graceling is
currently scheduled to be published in thirty-three languages. Cashore
currently has a realistic YA novel and a cross-genre YA novel in revisions. A
native Pennsylvanian, she now lives in the Boston area.
Annie Hartnett's debut novel RABBIT CAKE is forthcoming from Tin
House Books in 2017. She was the 2013-2014 winner of the Writer in
Residence Fellowship for the Associates of the Boston Public Library. Annie's
stories and essays have appeared in Salon magazine, Indiana Review, Unstuck
magazine, and PANK magazine, among others. Annie has an MFA in Fiction from the
University of Alabama and has received awards and honors from the Bread Loaf
School of English, Indiana Review, and McSweeney's. Annie teaches classes on the
short story and the novel at Grub Street, an independent writing center in
Boston, and is currently at work on her second novel.
A 2006 National Book Award Finalist
Matt has long since put himself in charge of protecting his
younger sisters from their enemy.
Who is their enemy? It's their mother, Nikki O'Grady Walsh.
Matt's done okay. But secretly, inside, he's growing tired and
hopeless. Then, suddenly, there's a possible ally on the horizon. Murdoch, his
mother's ex-boyfriend, who maybe can help him get rid of his mother—for good.
“The Rules of Survival spoke to me. I was there for every
minute, reverse-wish-fulfilling as I read. The outcome made knots in my chest
come undone.” —Tamora Pierce
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Lucy Scarborough is seventeen when she discovers that the women of her family have been cursed through the generations, forced to attempt three seemingly impossible tasks or to fall into madness upon their child's birth. But Lucy is the first girl who won't be alone as she tackles the list. She has her fiercely protective foster parents beside her. And she has Zach, whose strength amazes her more each day. Do they have enough love and resolve to overcome an age-old evil?
Inspired by the ballad “Scarborough Fair,” the New York Times bestseller Impossible combines suspense, fantasy, and romance to tell a story of love and family conquering all.
“A haunting, thrilling romantic puzzle.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked
In Bitterblue,
eighteen-year-old Bitterblue is the queen of a kingdom still in recovery from
the reign of its previous king, her father. The influence of Bitterblue's
father—a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities—lives on in Monsea, in
ways Bitterblue hasn't yet learned the extent of. Feeling hemmed in by her
over-protective and controlling staff, Bitterblue begins sneaking outside the
castle to walk the streets of her own city at night—and meets two thieves who
hold a key to the truth of her father’s reign.
Rabbit Cake is a darkly comic coming of age novel narrated by
12-year-old
Elvis Babbitt. Elvis is reeling from the loss of her
mother, who recently
drowned in a sleepwalking episode. Elvis can't
escape the feeling that her
mother’s death was suspicious somehow, and
worries that her family won’t ever
escape the pull of their mother's
death.
Book signings and sales to follow. For more information contact rich.marcello@gmail.com
