St. Louis Public Library

The St. Louis Public Library has announced its outstanding lineup of authors in April. All events are FREE and open to the public.

Gwendolyn Heasley discusses and signs her debut novel, Where I Belong. The event takes place at the Buder Branch, 4401 Hampton Ave., on April 6 at 6 p.m. In Where I Belong, Corrinne lives the good life until her dad loses his job. Suddenly, the days of shopping, parties, and fancy boarding school are over, and she finds herself being sent to Broken Spoke, Texas, to live with her hard-nosed grandparents. Corrinne is a character you’ll love to hate and come to love as she learns life’s lessons.

A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, Heasley is working on a second novel for Harper Collins while teaching at a New York college.

Books available for purchase courtesy of Pudd’nHead Books.

 

Missouri’s Poet Laureate David Clewell reads poetry from his new book, Taken Somehow by Surprise. The event takes place at the Schlafly Branch, 225 N. Euclid Ave., on April 14 at 7 p.m. Clewell is an English professor at Webster University. He has published eight collections of poems and has received the Pollak Poetry Prize for Now We’re Getting Somewhere and the Lavan Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

Books available for purchase courtesy of Left Bank Books.

 

James Rygelski and Robert L. Tiemann discuss and sign their new book, 10 Rings: Stories of the St. LouisCardinals’ World Championships. The event takes place at the Kingshighway Branch, 2260 S. Vandeventer Ave., on April 16 at 11 a.m.  10 Rings tells 10 diverse tales with the same happy ending: a World Series triumph for the St. Louis Cardinals. The book goes beyond the hits, runs, and errors to examine the human drama of those special Fall Classics.

Rygelski is a former newspaper reporter and editor. A life-long baseball fan, he is a past president of the Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and co-authored the book, The I-55 Series: Cubs vs. Cardinals.

Tiemann is a baseball historian who has contributed numerous articles and edited journals for SABR as well as written books on both the Cardinals and the Dodgers.

Books available for purchase courtesy of Reedy Press.

 

Lois Lowry discusses and signs her Newbery-winning novel, The Giver. The event takes place at the Schlafly Branch, 225 N. Euclid Ave., on April 16 at 2 p.m. Jonas’ world is perfect. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. When he turns 12, Jonas is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who holds the memories of life’s true pleasure and pain. Now, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth, and there is no turning back.

Lowry’s appearance is part of Read St. Louis, a community-wide reading initiative. Visit readstlouis.org to learn more.

Books available for purchase courtesy of Pudd’nHead Books.

 

Wendy McClure discusses and signs her nonfiction book, The Wilder Life. The event takes place at the Schlafly Branch, 225 N. Euclid Ave., on April 18 at 7 p.m. McClure recounts her quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder. She retraces the pioneer journey of the Ingalls family: looking for the Big Woods among the medium trees in Wisconsin, wading in Plum Creek, and enduring a prairie hailstorm in South Dakota. She is always in pursuit of “the Laura experience.”

McClure lives in Chicago, where she is the senior editor at the children’s book publisher Albert Whitman & Company.

Co-sponsored by Pudd’nHead Books. Books available for purchase courtesy of Pudd’nHead Books.

For more information, call (314) 206-6779 or visit the Library's website.