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Napa County AAUW Authors Forum 2025
Please join us for the 2025 Authors Forum and Scholarship Fundraiser. Acclaimed authors Cara Black, Dorothy Lazard, Lauren Markham, and Nina Schuyler will discuss their newest works of fiction and non fiction. Refreshments will be served.
Doors open at 1:30 pm.
Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Napa Bookmine and the authors will be available for book signing.
Proceeds will go to scholarships for Napa County girls and women. This event is sponsored by the Napa County AAUW Scholarship Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation, tax ID number 68-0133579.
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About Murder at La Valette - This is Cara Black's 21st in her Aimeé Leduc mystery series. Each one introducing us to a different neighborhood of Paris. Cara is the recipient of the 2024 Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel. She has received multiple nominations including the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, and the Médaille de la Ville de Paris, awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture.
Murder at La Valette Murder at La Valette
About What You Don't Know Will Make A Whole New World - Dorothy Lazard, acclaimed Oakland Library Head Librarian and archivist, has written a memoir covering her childhood migration from a St. Louis orphanage to coming of age in Oakland and San Francisco in the late '60s to '70s. The memoir is described as underscoring the power of witnessing history through a personal lens (Hannah Bae, San Francisco Chronicle).
What You Don't Know Will Make A Whole New World What You Don't Know Will Make A Whole New World
About A Map of Future Ruins - In 2021, Lauren Markham went to Greece in search of her own heritage and to cover the aftermath of a fire that burned down the largest refugee camp in Europe. The New York Times calls the book “An expansive meditation on the roles of myth and politics in the stories we construct about our origins.”
A Map of Future Ruins - A Map of Future Ruins -
About In This Ravishing World - Nina Schuyler's work is a series of short stories, all of which take place in the Bay area, connected by the theme of climate change. The Chronicle describes the stories as engrossing and eloquently linked. The book was awarded the W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature.
In This Ravishing World - In This Ravishing World -
Doors open at 1:30 pm.
Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Napa Bookmine and the authors will be available for book signing.
Proceeds will go to scholarships for Napa County girls and women. This event is sponsored by the Napa County AAUW Scholarship Foundation, a 501(c)(3) corporation, tax ID number 68-0133579.
68-0133579
About Murder at La Valette - This is Cara Black's 21st in her Aimeé Leduc mystery series. Each one introducing us to a different neighborhood of Paris. Cara is the recipient of the 2024 Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel. She has received multiple nominations including the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, and the Médaille de la Ville de Paris, awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture.
Murder at La Valette Murder at La Valette
About What You Don't Know Will Make A Whole New World - Dorothy Lazard, acclaimed Oakland Library Head Librarian and archivist, has written a memoir covering her childhood migration from a St. Louis orphanage to coming of age in Oakland and San Francisco in the late '60s to '70s. The memoir is described as underscoring the power of witnessing history through a personal lens (Hannah Bae, San Francisco Chronicle).
What You Don't Know Will Make A Whole New World What You Don't Know Will Make A Whole New World
About A Map of Future Ruins - In 2021, Lauren Markham went to Greece in search of her own heritage and to cover the aftermath of a fire that burned down the largest refugee camp in Europe. The New York Times calls the book “An expansive meditation on the roles of myth and politics in the stories we construct about our origins.”
A Map of Future Ruins - A Map of Future Ruins -
About In This Ravishing World - Nina Schuyler's work is a series of short stories, all of which take place in the Bay area, connected by the theme of climate change. The Chronicle describes the stories as engrossing and eloquently linked. The book was awarded the W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature.
In This Ravishing World - In This Ravishing World -
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