All Evenings with Authors events begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. Mary Doria Russell’s latest novel, Dreamers of the Day, goes behind the scenes at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference when Winston Churchill, Lady Gertrude Bell and ... (lisää)Lawrence of Arabia invented the modern Middle East. The book follows 40-year-old schoolteacher, Agnes Shanklin, to Egypt and the Holy Land where she meets Lawrence. Telling her own story of late-life romance, Agnes finds herself drawn into geopolitical decisions that echo in our lives to this day. Russell’s novels include The Sparrow, Children of God, and A Thread of Grace, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Meet award-winning, best-selling author Mary Doria Russell.

The Ann Arbor Book Festival is proud to announce a new author series, in partnership with Shaman Drum Bookshop, American Express, and the Campus Inn. Authors at Lunch is a wonderful opportunity to meet authors over a delicious three-course lunch at The Campus Inn. Tickets include a copy of the featured ... (lisää)book and a chance to have it autographed. Tickets are $40. They include a copy of the book and a three-course lunch. Available at Shaman Drum Bookshop.

All Evenings with Authors events begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, with discounts for students and seniors. Mary Doria Russell’s latest novel, Dreamers of the Day, goes behind the scenes at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference when Winston Churchill, Lady Gertrude Bell and ... (lisää)Lawrence of Arabia invented the modern Middle East. The book follows 40-year-old schoolteacher, Agnes Shanklin, to Egypt and the Holy Land where she meets Lawrence. Telling her own story of late-life romance, Agnes finds herself drawn into geopolitical decisions that echo in our lives to this day. Russell’s novels include The Sparrow, Children of God, and A Thread of Grace, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

The author of Children of God brings us a stunning new novel, set at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, when the modern Middle East was invented. Russell often draws upon her eclectic background to bring her stunning stories to life. An A student, a Girl Scout and a virgin bride, she was 29 when she had ... (lisää)her adolescent rebellion. A paleoanthropologist, Russell is also a convert to Judaism who remains connected to her Catholic roots. Location: Club Office Time: 5:30 p.m. wine and cheese reception, 6 p.m. program, 7 p.m. book signing Cost: MEMBERS FREE, $18 non-members Also know: Underwriter: The Bernard Osher Foundation. Bookseller: Stacey's Books Location Blue Room, The Commonwealth Club

Mary Doria Russell's writing has been described in the San Francisco Chronicle as brilliant and powerful. Russell is an outstanding natural storyteller whose remarkable wit, erudition, and dramatic skills keep us turning the pages in excitement and anticipation. Join us for our Read It and Eat Luncheon ... (lisää)on March 18th. Call ahead for Reservations, Please! Book and Lunch are $30., and lunch only is $15.

Mary Doria Russell talks about her novel Dreamers of the Day. Narrated by a 40-year-old Ohio school teacher, this work presents a tale of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, where Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell met to decide the fate of the Arab world—and of our own. Russell ... (lisää)is the acclaimed author of The Sparrow and A Thread of Grace.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Doria Russell, popular with book groups for her novels including The Sparrow and Thread of Grace, a story of Jewish survival in Nazi-occupied Italy which was nominated for a Pulitzer prize, will present her latest novel. Dreamers of the Day is set at the 1921 Cairo ... (lisää)Peace Conference, during which Winston Churchill, Lady Gertrude Bell, and T.E. Lawrence invented the Middle East. Arrive early for best seating!

"Through the eyes of an Ohio teacher traveling in Egypt, this historical novel describes the decisions made at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference. Imagining the behind-the-scenes meetings of Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence, and Gertrude Bell as they invented Iraq, Syria, Israel, and Jordan, the narrative ... (lisää)glimpses the personalities behind the formation of the modern Middle East." (politics-prose.com)

Women Writers Series - MARY DORIA RUSSELL, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated A Thread of Grace, speaks about Dreamers of the Day, her historical novel featuring a heroine who illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East.

The Emily Williston Memorial Library Book Discussion Group will be discussing A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell. It is September 8, 1943 and 14 year old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling ... (lisää)over the Alps towards Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding and ordinary citizens trying to survive. Books are available for loan at the library.