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Celebrate Authors and Reading at the Hoboken Library Festival

4 Sep

On September 21 2024 from 11 AM-3 PM, the library will have our annual Hoboken Library Festival in Church Square Park across from the Hoboken Public Library’s Main Branch. We will have music and a tent full of local authors who you can meet and purchase their works to have them signed. We will also be featuring author talks from Lauren E. Rico, Nathalie Alonso, and Rudy Gutierez. We hope you can join us for a fabulous and fun event celebrating the joy of reading!

Familia
by Lauren E. Rico
A great choice for the upcoming Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15) is Lauren E. Rico’s Familia. Isabella Ruiz has been desperate to reunite with her sister who disappeared as a baby from San Juan over twenty years ago. But when a genealogy test finds a match in Gabby DiMarco, Gabby seems in denial that they could be related, though she is willing to come to Puerto Rico to try and solve the mystery between them. New York Times Bestselling Author, Abby Jimenez, describes it as “a masterfully woven tale of mystery, reconciliation, and familial love.” Residing in the NY metro area, Lauren Rico is an award-winning author and a top classical music broadcaster. She is scheduled to be at the Church Square Park Gazebo at noon.

Call Me Roberto!
written by Nathalie Alonso
illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez
Nathalie Alonso is a NY based, Cuban American writer and journalist whose writing has appeared in National Geographic, Outside, and Refinery29, among other publications. Rudy Gutierrez is an award winning artist and children’s book illustrator. Their inspirational picture book, Call Me Roberto!, tells the story of Roberto Clemente, the Puerto Rican, Major League Baseball player who despite racism and discrimination became one of the greatest baseball players. The book includes a mix of English and Spanish and explains Clemente’s importance to Black, Latino, and American history. School Library Journal describes Call Me Roberto as “an appealing and beautifully illustrated biography.” They are scheduled at the Gazebo at 2 PM.

Local authors currently scheduled to be in attendance at the local author’s tent include: Miriam Allenson, Ken Altabef, Russ Colchamiro, Mary Fan, Amy Gash, Catherine Greenfeder, Elise Howard, Caryl Janis, Jeremiah Kleckner, Penny Lane, Linda Parisi, Joan Ramirez, Eileen Sanchez, Ken Schept, Alex Shvartsman, Peter B. Stone, and Nidhi Thakur.

Local Authors from the Mystery Writers of America NY Chapter who will be rotating being in the local author’s tent: Carole Bugge, David Bushman, Philip Cioffari, Peggy Ehrhart, Mariah Fredericks, Jim Fusilli, Elle Hartford, V.S. Kemanis, Tom Lubben, James McCrone, Patrice McDonough, Sarah-Jane McKenna, John O’Rourke, and Theasa Tuohy.

Local Authors from NJ Romance Authors joining us in the local authors tent: Maria Alexander, Beck Erixson, M. Flagg, and Carol Hende.

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Aimee Harris
Information and Digital Services Librarian

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History’s Mysteries: The Naturalist’s Daughter and Witchmark

28 Aug

The Naturalist’s Daughter
by Tea Cooper
The Naturalist’s Daughter is about two Australian women who have a hundred years between them but share similar curious natures and adventurous constitutions. Rose Winton grows up in Agnes Banks, NSW in 1808 assisting her naturalist father Charles Winton on his research of the platypus, sometimes referred to as mallangongs by the native inhabitants. Tamsin Alleyn is a librarian who travels from Sydney to find out if an old sketchbook may have been Charles’s work. Both women must use all their courage to uncovers their respective mysteries. There is also a charming romance between Tamsin and a lawyer assisting with the estate sale the sketchbook is part of. At one point Rose travels to England and her story takes a bit of a gothic turn, but the story overall has a core of sweet wholesomeness and the quaint old-fashioned language and vivid descriptions of the past will intrigue those who enjoy historical fiction. Tea Cooper is also the author of a variety of other historical novels including The Butterfly Collector, The Fossil Hunter, The Girl in the Painting, and The Women in the Green Dress.

Witchmark
by C.L. Polk
We read Witchmark by C.L. Polk for the Hoboken Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Discussion in August. I had enjoyed several of Polk’s previous works so was intrigued to check out this genre spanning work set in a world similar to Edwardian England after a World War and hear what the book discussion group thought of their work. The book mixes together mystery, fantasy, romance, and historic fiction into a delightful concoction. Wealthy families use their power to control the weather and society around them. Miles is trying to hide from his magical destiny, first as a soldier and now as a doctor at a military hospital. But someone from his past turns up and then he meets a charming gentleman straight out a fairy story and his days of hiding come to a dramatic end. Can Miles solve the mystery of a murdered patient whose life he tried to save? This is the first in the Kingston Cycle Series.

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Aimee Harris
Information and Digital Services Manager

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