St. Louis Public Library

ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS MARCH AUTHORS @ YOUR LIBRARY SERIES LINEUP

The St. Louis Public Library is proud to present Jennifer Brown; Clara Moore and Matt Sorrell; andWilliam Stage as part of the March installment of its popular Authors @ Your Library series. The events are FREE and open to the public.

* Jennifer Brown is the Spring 2014 Read It Forward author. She discusses and signs her novel Hate List.  The event takes place at the Central Library, 1301 Olive St., on March 12 at 7 p.m.

When Valerie Leftman helps her boyfriend, Nick, create a hate list, she has no idea that it will be used as a list to target victims in a school shooting. Although the police absolve Valerie as a co-conspirator, the people in her community think differently.

Brown is the author of acclaimed young adult novels, Hate List, Bitter End, Perfect Escape, and Thousand Words. Her debut novel, Hate List, received three-starred reviews and was selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a VOYA "Perfect Ten," and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.

E-mail readitforward@slpl.org, find "SLPL Teens" on Facebook, or call 314.539.0332 for details

Books available for purchase courtesy of Left Bank Books.

* St. Louis chef Clara Moore and St. Louis food and beverage writer Matt Sorrell discuss and sign their new book, Shop Like a Chef: A Food Lover's Guide to St. Louis Neighborhoods.  The event takes place at the Schlafly Branch, 225 N. Euclid Ave. on March 13 at 6 p.m.

Shop Like a Chef tells non-professional chefs where they can get the ingredients and equipment they need or want, then nudges them outside of their normal food gathering habits to explore the rich market culture of the St. Louis region. With Moore and Sorrell's help, grocery shopping is exciting again, and the unfamiliar is more accessible.

Moore is a native St. Louisan who has worked at a wide variety of restaurants—from a 24-hour diner to haute cuisine—since she was fifteen.

Sorrell is a freelance writer based in St. Louis whose work has appeared in local and national publications including USA Today, Sauce, DRAFT Magazine, ALIVE Magazine, and FEAST Magazine. He writes a weekly column on local food and restaurant news, "Spicy Bits," for Ladue News.

Books available for purchase courtesy of the authors.

* William Stage discusses and signs his book Fading Ads of St. Louis. The event takes place at the Schlafly Branch, 225 N. Euclid Ave., on March 26 at 7 p.m.

Some call them "ghost signs," apparitions visible under certain light conditions when their painted letters rise from the wall to herald a forgotten flour or tobacco. In this muted light, colors become tinted again. Sometimes portions of different signs appear; their letters jumbled and overlapped like a cup of alphabet soup. Yet with patient gaze the letters reform into a recognized order. These are the wall signs of a lost civilization—America's early supergraphics.

Stage arrived in St. Louis in 1978. Soon after, he began moonlighting as a feature writer for local newspapers and magazines. In 1982, he devoted himself to journalism and photography.

Books available for purchase courtesy of Subterranean Books.

For more information, call 314-880-8759.

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