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NATIONAL READING GROUP MONTH CELEBRATION AT NOVI PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Detroit Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association is pleased to present four outstanding authors for an evening of National Reading Group Month Celebration on Wednesday, October 9, 2013 beginning at 6:30 pm. The three author panel will participate in a Q & A moderated by Willetta Heising, local author and current president of the Detroit Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association. Audience members will be able to purchase all authors' works from Book Beat bookstore, who will be set up at the library for the evening.  Signing will take place from 8 to 8:45 pm.

MARJORIE CELONA earned her MFA at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her first novel, about a baby left at the doors of a YMCA, is titled Y: A Novel (Free Press). A native of Victoria, British Columbia, Celona currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

MICHAEL HARVEY is the co-creator, writer and executive producer of the Prime Time Emmy-nominated television series Cold Case Files™ and a former investigative producer for CBS in Chicago. He has won many national and international awards, including multiple Emmys and an Academy Award nomination for the Holocaust documentary Eyewitness. The Innocence Game (Knopf) is his fifth book.

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RAY ROBERTSON has written two books of essays and six novels, including his most recent, David (Biblioasis), a moving portrait of a little-known piece of Canadian history, set amidst racial tensions of life after the Underground Railroad. Robertson lives and writes in Toronto, where he is a contributing book reviewer for The Globe and Mail.

LARRY WATSON is the author of ten novels, including Montana 1948, as well as collections of poetry and short stories. His latest is Let Him Go (Milkweed Editions), set in the Northern Plains in 1951. Born and raised in North Dakota, Watson has taught writing and literature for many years, currently at Marquette University.

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Official 2013 National Reading Group Month sponsors include the Gold Level/Premier Sponsor Atria Books; Silver Sponsors: The Crown Publishing Group and Extra Libris — Great books and more to go with them, HarperCollins Publishing and its imprints Harper, Harper Paperbacks, Harper Perennial, Amistad, Ecco, William Morrow and William Morrow Paperbacks, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Other Press and Sourcebooks; Friends of National Reading Group Month: American Booksellers Association, Book Group Buzz — A Booklist Blog, Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, Kobo — A Rakuten Company, Reading Group Choices — Selections for lively book discussion, Reading Group Guides — The online community for reading groups.    

Contact:

Charli Osborne charli.osborne@gmail.com or Annette Haley annettehaley@att.net

National Reading Group Month Co-Chairs

Women’s National Book Association – Detroit Chapter

Novi Public Library

45255 W. Ten Mile Road Novi, MI

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