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FCBF official booksellers:
The 2013 Fox Cities Reads is underway! Pick up a copy of Last Child in the Woods and the Nature Priniciple by Richard Louv at your local library and join in community-wide discussions about the book. The author will visit the Fox Cities April 22-24 during the Fox Cities Book Festival.
There is no word in English to describe the special closeness that sometimes binds a man and a woman who are never lovers, but more than friends. Roger was my husband’s best friend, but I loved him too. Had we met decades earlier, I would have jumped on the back of his Harley and ridden off with him. As it was, what grew between us was something much subtler. But because there is no word for it, it stayed mysterious in my mind, to be brought to light only in the course of my becoming Roger’s memoirist.
This session will be held in Perry Hall at UW-Fox Valley.. See the campus map for location. The closest exit to the Communication Arts Center is Exit 13S.
Tags: This session will be held in the Student Union. See the campus map for location. The closest exit to the Union is either Exit 1W or 5W.
Anne Strainchamps from WPR will introduce Rachel Simon, author of Riding the Bus with My Sister. Simon will read from and discuss the writing of The Story of Beautiful Girl and Riding the Bus With My Sister.
Karp delivers a heartwrenching and darkly funny memoir about her experience becoming homeless after losing her corporate job in the Great Recession.
Karp delivers a heartwrenching and darkly funny memoir about her experience becoming homeless after losing her corporate job in the Great Recession.
This session will be held in the UW-Fox Valley Student Union. See the campus map for location.
Jean Feraca is an award-winning poet and creative nonfiction writer. Her memoir, I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio, was selected as the winner of the 2007 Kingery/Derleth Booklength Nonfiction Award, sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers.
Deeply compassionate and darkly funny, Brianna Karp's unforgettable memoir, The Girl's Guide to Homelessness, celebrates the courage and creativity of lives society would otherwise stigmatize. Karp began her journey as a homeless person terrified and ashamed. Fear turned to awe as she connected with other homeless people whose remarkable stories inspired her to become an activist for the homeless community.
Rachel Simon is an award-winning author and nationally known public speaker. She is best known for her critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir Riding The Bus With My Sister, which was adapted for a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie of the same name. Her recent book, The Story of Beautiful Girl, is an unforgettably moving love story about the improbable odds faced by a couple with disabilities and a lost child.
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Big thanks go to Atlas Coffee Mill for hosting monthly meetings for the Fox Cities Book Festival Board! We appreciate your support of the Festival and just can't thank you enough for providing a welcoming meeting space for us to plan and dream.