Writers & Readers

Writers & Readers: An OWL Book Club

New, fresh, and engaging, OWL's Writers & Readers Book Club promises to connect you with celebrated authors who will lead us in a discussion of a selected book title. 

Throughout the year, a high-profile author will engage and explore their work with us...LIVE and IN PERSON! We will have extra copies of the book available for you to borrow from OWL at least one month prior to the event. Read the book--then discuss it with the author! 

We hope you will share our excitement about this new initiative to connect readers with writers!

 

 

 

 

Anthony Marra Discusses Mercury Pictures Presents

Zoom Participants:  Zoom Link - click here at 7 PM on September 28 to Zoom to the Event.

Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by:
NPR, The Guardian, Booklist and The Sunday Times.

Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction

About Mercury Pictures Presents: 

Mercury Picture Presents is the epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini’s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles - a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning author Anthony Marra.

ANTHONY MARRA is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award.  

Books to purchase will be available that evening. 

 

Martha Hall Kelly Discusses The Golden Doves

Zoom Participants:  Zoom Link - click here at 7 PM on October 26 to Zoom to the Event.

Sensational...a must-read for all readers who love history - Adriana Trigiani

About The Golden Doves: 

The Golden Doves brings us into the aftermath of World War II as two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor.  With The Golden Doves, Martha Hall Kelly has crafted an unforgettable story about the fates of Nazi fugitives in the wake of World War II—and the unsung female spies who risked it all to bring them to justice.

MARTHA HALL KELLY is the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls, Lost Roses, and Sunflower Sisters. More than two million copies of her books have sold and her books have been translated in fifty countries.

Books to purchase will be available that evening. 

 

 

Tom Clavin Discusses The Last Hill

Join us for a special evening as national bestselling author Tom Clavin leads the discussion of his book The Last Hill: The Epic Story of a Ranger Battalion and the Battle that Defined WWII.

About The Last Hill: 

They were known as “Rudder’s Rangers,” the most elite and experienced attack unit in the United States Army. In December 1944, Lt. Col. James Rudder's 2nd Battalion would form the spearhead into Germany, with two objectives: Take Hill 400 . . . and hold the hill by any means possible.

Castle Hill, the imposing 1320-foot mini-mountain the American Rangers simply called Hill 400, was the gateway to a desperate Nazi Germany. For Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, there was only one solution: Call in Rudder's Rangers. Of the 130 special operators who stormed, captured, and held the hill that December day, only 16 remained to stagger back down its frozen slopes. The Last Hill is replete with unforgettable action and characters?a rich and detailed saga of what the survivors of the 2nd Ranger Battalion would remember as “our longest day.”

TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include the bestselling Frontier Lawmen trilogy: Wild Bill, Dodge City, and Tombstone, and Blood and Treasure with Bob Drury.  Visit his website at tomclavin.com

Books will be available at OWL to borrow at least one month prior to the event.

Want an autographed copy? The Hickory Stick Bookshop of Washington will be present at the event to sell copies of The Last Hill and other Clavin books. 

 

Victoria Christopher Murray Discusses The First Ladies

This impeccably researched, relevant novel is a must-read and destined to be a book-club favorite.
- Booklist (starred review)

Historical fiction at its best. - Good Morning America

About The First Ladies: 

The First Ladies is about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world. This is the story of two different, yet equally formidable, passionate, and committed women, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.

VICTORIA CHRISTOPHER MURRAY trailblazed the literary scene penning more than 30 novels and co-writing others, and was dubbed a Christian Fiction writer because no one else was writing novels filled with drama but with God in the center. Her first novel, Temptation, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in Outstanding Literature. Victoria has received numerous awards including the Phyllis Wheatley Trailblazer Award for being a pioneer in African American Fiction. African American Literary Award Show Best Christian Fiction and NAACP Image Award in Outstanding Literary Work. Several of her books have been made into Lifetime TV movies. 

Books to purchase will be available that evening.