This Week in Des Moines – 1929

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Native Iowan on AVID Author Schedule!

Monday, September 12 | 7:00 PM
Hoyt Sherman Place Theater | 1501 Woodland Avenue

Native Iowan John Shors returns to Des Moines on tour for his fifth novel, Cross Currents, the story of a trio of Americans and a local family on an island in Thailand whose personal dramas play out against the tsunami of 2004. This award-winning author spent many years traveling across the globe, traveling in Asia, the South Pacific, Europe, Africa, and North America.

Shors has received multiple awards for his four other novels, Beneath a Marble Sky, Beside a Burning Sea, Dragon House, and The Wishing Trees which have been translated into twenty-five languages.  Now a full-time novelist, John spends his days writing and going on family outings with his wife, Allison, and their two young children.

Cross Currents isn’t out yet, but check back with DMPL in the future and place your reserve!

For the full AVID (Authors Visiting In Des Moines) schedule, click here.  All author visits are free, open to the public, and seating is on a first come first served basis.

For previous AVID authors, click here.

Girls From Ames

 
Join us at the Des Moines Public Library, Central location, for a discussion of the book, The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women & a Forty-Year Friendship, by Jeffrey Zaslow.  Available in large print, audio book, or electronic resource.  Discussion will be held in Study Room One from 6-7 PM, Tuesday, February 15, 2011.  Preregister.

 
 
Description from publisher:

The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow

The instant New York Times bestseller, now in paperback: a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became, from the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The Last Lecture

As children, they formed a special bond, growing up in the small town of Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eighth different states, yet they managed to maintain an extraordinary friendship that would carry them through college and careers, marriage and motherhood, dating and divorce, the death of a child, and the mysterious death of the eleventh member of their group. The girls, now in their forties, have a lifetime of memories in common, some evocative of their generation and some that will resonate with any woman who has ever had a friend. Capturing their remarkable story, The Girls from Ames is a testament to the enduring, deep bonds of women as they experience life’s challenges, and the power of friendship to overcome even the most daunting odds.

With both universal events and deeply personal moments, it’s a book that every woman will relate to and be inspired by.

If you missed our chat with Jeffrey Zaslow and some of the Girls from Ames you can read the complete transcript here.

More Resources:

The Girls from Ames website.

Book Discussion Guide

Publisher interview with the author, Jeffrey Zaslow