Kansas Author Phil E. Quinn

Posted by on February 24, 2013

Kansas Author Phil Quinn

Join us in the Topeka Room (204) on Sunday, March 3, 2:00-3:00pm to hear Kansas Author Phil E. Quinn talk about his debut novel Release Point. Female athletes are an underserved literary market. Their participation in sports has increased dramatically over the past several decades in most countries while literary efforts to represent, document and [...]

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Remembering “Peggy of the Flint Hills”

Posted by on December 4, 2012

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December 8, 2012 at 3 pm in Marvin Auditorium In Topeka, few people are remembered more fondly than Zula Bennington Greene, the longtime columnist for the Topeka Capital-Journal. Now, nearly a quarter-century after her death, Woodley Press is publishing Peggy of the Flint Hills, a beautiful memoir of her childhood and young adulthood that Greene [...]

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Honoring Our Veterans Nov. 12

Posted by on November 3, 2012

Attend Honoring Our Veterans Nov. 12 at the library

Monday, November 12 marks the finale of a series commemorating our veterans, Kansans on the Front Lines. The program starts at 7pm and will be in Marvin Auditorium in the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. A Marine in Vietnam Presenter Tad Pritchett, a veteran and author, served 13 months in Vietnam, starting in 1968. [...]

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KS Author Pamela Dawes-Tambornino

Posted by on April 27, 2012

Author talk Maggies Story

Join Kansas author Pamela Dawes-Tambornino in the Topeka Room (Room 204) on Sunday, May 6, 2012, 2-3pm as she shares wisdom from her Cherokee grandmother in Maggie’s Story: Teachings of a Cherokee Healer.   Maggie would tell Pamela what was right and let her do it wrong in order to learn the lesson.  She often said [...]

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Kansas Author George Ismael Feliu, Jr.

Posted by on February 7, 2012

Guardians of Havenshire

Guardians of Havenshire is 9-11 meets the Alamo. It’s an edge-of-your-seat action-packed novel you won’t want to put down. Join the author, George Ismael Feliu, Jr. in the Topeka Room (204) on Sunday, February 12 from 2-3pm to learn more about the process of writing a novel in 30 days with the NaNoWriMo challenge each November [...]

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Sunday Afternoon with Kansas Author Helen Alley-Taylor

Posted by on November 6, 2011

East Toward Home by Helen Alley-Taylor

Join Kansas Author Helen Alley-Taylor as she talks about her fictional memoir East Toward Home on Sunday, November 13, 2011, 2:00-3:00pm in the Topeka Room (204). This fictional account of the lives of Eddy & Jessie who lived in Melvern, KS looks back over their relationship beginning during the great depression and lasting for almost [...]

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Author Chris Crutcher Visits Topeka

Posted by on October 13, 2011

Chris Crutcher comes to the library Oct. 19

The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library will host award-winning young adult author Chris Crutcher Oct. 19. Crutcher will discuss his writing success – 11 novels, 2 short story collections and 1 autobiography – during a public talk at 10:30am and 1pm in Marvin Auditorium. Earlier in the day, he will visit Highland Park High [...]

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Ghosts of Kansas with Beth Cooper

Posted by on October 3, 2011

Beth Cooper talks about Ghosts of Kansas Oct. 12

Find out about the Ghosts of Kansas in Beth Cooper’s book and this talk about ghosts and paranormal events in Kansas.  Do you think your house is haunted?  Learn about ways to research and document your experiences.  The book tells the stories of Ghosts in Atchison, Holton, Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Manhattan, Shawnee, and Topeka. [...]

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