Douglas Trevor readings highlight Book of Wonders in Iowa City Cedar Rapids
Author Douglas Trevor promotes his short story collection The Book of Wonders with readings at Prairie Lights in Iowa City and Barnes & Noble in Cedar Rapids. He discusses themes of connection, loneliness, and how books shape perception, and his role at the University of Michigan.
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Douglas Trevor
Iowa City
Prairie Lights Books
S. Dubuque St
Cedar Rapids
Barnes & Noble
Collins Rd
Trevor
Prairie Lights
Detroit
University of Michigan
Paul’s Book Club
The
Lobster
Stewart O’nan
Tommy Murray
Murray
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters in a Young America
Historian Catherine Kerrison retells the lives of Martha Ann Gwinn Maria Jefferson Eppes and Harriet Hemings with diaries letters and records. Martha travels with Jefferson to Paris Philadelphia and Virginia guiding a vast estate while Maria resists leaving Virginia and Harriet vanishes into Washington as a nearly white enslaved person who passed. The book centers on Thomas Jefferson as much as his daughters offering a sober portrait of a founder and his hidden family.
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Martha
Maria
Martha Wayles Jefferson
Harriet Hemings
Sally Hemings
Jefferson
America
Catherine Kerrison
Harriet
Madison Hemings
Sally
Ohio
Kerrison
Villanova University
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Virginia
Paris
Philadelphia
Atlantic
Monticello
White House
Maria Jefferson Eppes
Washington, D.C
Patricia Foster reads from Girl from Soldier Creek at Prairie Lights
Patricia Foster, author of All the Lost Girls and Just Beneath My Skin, reads from her latest novel Girl from Soldier Creek at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City. Foster, a University of Iowa MFA professor, has taught internationally and published over 50 essays and stories in major quarterlies.
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Iowa
Patricia Foster
Soldier Creek
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa City
Katherine Soldier
Jit
Amanda
Ala
Foster
Jeff Porter
Yaddo
Florida Arts Council
Iowa Arts & Humanities
Ploughshares
S. Dubuque St
Bone Music: Charlotte Rowe Becomes Burning Girl
Christopher Rice introduces Charlotte Rowe who after ingesting a dangerous drug gains superhuman strength. The hero learns to trust, builds allies, and faces blurred lines between good and evil while a romance brews. A strong setup for a comic book style series. Burns with pacing and character depth.
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Christopher Rice
Charlotte Rowe
Rowe
Rice
Anne Rice
Charlotte
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Notre Dame Review
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Uglastrevor
A Young America
Mary Ann Gwinn
Newsday
Patricia Foster Author
Rcreek Ses
Bone Music
Beo Nek
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