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ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY'S AUTHORS @ YOUR LIBRARY APRIL LINEUP

The St. Louis Public Library's Authors @ Your Library series is proud to present An Afternoon With Blank Slate Press Authors, children's author Chris Grabenstein, Amy Goodman With Denis Moynihan, Robert L. Tiemann and Ron Jacober With Special Guest Ed Koehler, Robert L. Tiemann and Ron Jacober With Special Guest Ed Koehler, and the 9^th Annual Author Shout Out!.

All events are FREE and open to the public.

Authors Cynthia Graham, Steve Wiegenstein, and John Joseph Ryan discuss the craft of writing and read excerpts from their current works published by St. Louis publisher Blank Slate Press at Central Library, 1301 Olive St., on April 2 at 2 p.m.

        Graham is the author of two novels, Beneath Still Waters and Behind Every Door. Her short stories have appeared in both university and national literary publications along with flash fiction published in the anthology Water's Edge.

Since learning about an 1840s-era commune situated among the Comanches in north Texas,Wiegenstein has been fascinated by Utopian societies. His first two novels in his Daybreak series, In Slant of Light and This Old World, combine his academic interest with his passion for history, fiction writing, and his long family heritage deep in the Missouri Ozarks.

Ryan writes unusual tales, verse noir, and crime fiction. His poetry has appeared in River Styx, Noir Riot, Black Buzzard Review, Delmar,and Locuspoint. His short fiction has appeared in Out of the Gutter, Suspense Magazine, Shotgun Honey, and Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. His novel, A Bullet Apiece, was released in 2015.

        Blank Slate Press (BSP )was established in 2010 to discover, nurture, publish, and promote emerging writers from the greater St. Louis area.  In 2015, BSP officially joined with Walrus Publishing and a subsidiary imprint, Treehouse Publishing Group, to form Amphorae Publishing Group. BSP is continually looking for literary and genre fiction with "literary sensibility" focusing on historical fiction, mystery/crime, and contemporary/literary fiction. To learn more about the publisher or how to submit your work, please visit Amphorae Publishing Group.

         Books available for sale courtesy of the authors.

Children's author Chris Grabenstein and his book, Escape for Mr. Lemoncello's Library, have been chosen as the spring 2016 author and title for the popular kids reading initiative, Reading Pays---Pass It On!The event takes place at Buder Branch, 4401 Hampton Ave., on April 5 at 6:30 p.m.

Kids in Grades 3-5 can get a FREE copy at any St. Louis Public Library location (while supplies last). All we ask is that you share it with a friend or two, or maybe three. 

Grabenstein also wrote the New York Times bestseller The Island of Dr. Libris.  His newest book, Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics, was published in January 2016. He is the co-author of James Patterson's bestselling I Funny, House of Robots, and Treasure Hunters series. 

Books available for sale courtesy of Left Bank Books.

Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan sign and discuss their book, Democracy Now!:  Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America.  They share stories of the progressive heroes the whistleblowers, the organizers, the protestors who have brought about remarkable, often invisible, change over the last two decades in seismic ways. The event takes place at Schlafly Branch, 225 N. Euclid Ave., on April 9 at Noon.

In 1996, Goodman started the radio show, Democracy Now, to focus on the issues that are underreported or ignored by mainstream news coverage. Today, it is the only public media in the U.S that airs simultaneously on satellite and cable television, radio, and the Internet.

Reservations required at left-bank.com/democracynow. 

Co-sponsored by Left Bank Books.

Books available for sale courtesy of Left Bank Books.

Robert L. Tiemann and Ron Jacober sign and discuss their book, Immortal Moments in Cardinals History, a magnificent collection of St. Louis Cardinal highlights that revive the greatest moments in franchise lore from the forgotten victories of four consecutive pennant winners in the 1880s right through the 2014 National League Championship. The events takes place at Central Library on April 16 at 2 p.m.

Illustrator Ed Koehler collaborated with author Carolyn E. Mueller, to create a rich graphic telling of a St. Louis legend, Dizzy Dean and the Gashouse Gang, which takes readers back in time to a simpler era in Major League Baseball when the St. Louis Cardinals ruled the roost.

         Attendees have the chance to win one of three pairs of General Admission tickets to a St. Louis Cardinals home game. You must be present to win.

Books available for sale courtesy of the authors.

Home-grown, self-published authors discuss their work at the 9^th Annual Author Shout Out at the Schlafly Branch on April 30 at 2 p.m.

Visiting authors include: Dave Baugher, Wilma Chestnut, Lydia M. Douglas, Argentina Duncan, William Flowers III, Zabrina Hamilton, Dennis Lane, Twyla Lee, Sheree Nielsen, Ben Noble, Candy Pettiford, Charles Pointer, Christy Smith, William Stage, Lesa Taylor, and Elizabeth Crouch Zelman

Books available for purchase courtesy of the authors.

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