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The best-selling author will kick off the 2022 Nick Linn Lecture Series on Tuesday, Jan. 4, at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in North Naples, Florida.

BOOK OF LOST NAMES by Kristen Harmel

Bestselling author Katherine Reay discusses the purpose and appeal of split-time novels, as well as recommending titles for both readers and writers.

Jewish Ledger WHAT’S HAPPENING – April 20 – June 17 Jewish organizations are invited to submit their upcoming events to the our What’s Happening section. Events are placed on the Ledger website on Tuesday afternoons. Deadline for submission of calendar items is the previous Tuesday. Send items to: judiej@jewishledger.com. TUESDAY, APRIL 20 How digital platforms and spaces can enable hate and bias “Social Media and Extremism” is the focus of a panel discussion ...

Plainview librarian named vice chair of state library association committee Staff reports The City of Plainview Unger Memorial Chief Librarian Cynthia Peterson was chosen to serve as the Vice-Chair of the Texas Library Association Lariat Committee. Peterson currently completed her first year of a three-year board term, according to a news release from the city. The committee is tasked with creating the Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List. Since 2009, the goal of the List is to highlight outstandi...

While in-person author events and book conferences are on hold, virtual events move ahead with authors including Edwidge Danticat, George Saunders, Bruce Feiler and others.

A New York Times article about Nazis looting books during World War II and the fact that German libraries are still full of those stolen books was the catalyst for Kristin Harmel’s newest novel. I’m Betty Martin with "Martin’s Must Reads" and The Book of Lost Names is Harmel’s fifth WWII historical novel. The story opens in 2005 when eighty-six year old Eva Traube Abrams sees a photo of a book that she hasn’t seen in sixty years. Chapter Two begins in July 1942 in German occupied Pa...