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Mallory M. O’Connor, first author to present in new “Local Author Series”

Alachua County Library Headquarters, Meeting Room A 4th Floor, Rm. A, 401 E Univ. Ave., Gainesville, FL

Mallory M. O’Connor is first on the program for the Alachua County Library's new Local Author Series. On September 16, O'Connor will discuss her debut novel, American River: Tributaries, which follows the entwined lives of three immigrant families as they settle along this river in Northern California during the turbulent … Read More

2017 Bacopa Literary Review Readings

Millhopper Library, Meeting Room A 3145 NW 43rd St,, Gainesville, FL, United States

WAG members, local authors with works in the 2017 journal, and Bacopa editors read excerpts from winning entries: FLASH STORY "Excerpts From The Trakl Diaries" by Stephanie Emily Dickinson; CREATIVE NONFICTION "Caregiver’s Journal: How to Survive, or Not" by Raphael Helena Kosek; FICTION "Ignis Fatuus, and More, at Eleven" by … Read More

Susie H. Baxter, Local Author Series

Alachua County Library Headquarters, Meeting Room A 4th Floor, Rm. A, 401 E Univ. Ave., Gainesville, FL

On Sunday, November 19, Susie H. Baxter was the featured speaker in the Alachua County Library’s Local Author Series. She discussed her recently published book, Pumping Sunshine. Believing that everyone has a story to tell, Baxter also encouraged those in the audience to write about their own lives. An Alachua … Read More

Children Books . . . Readings at Local Author Series

Story Woods Room, Children's Department, Alachua County Library Headquarters 401 East University Avenue, Gainesville, FL

On Saturday, December 9, authors Bonnie T. Ogle and Judith A. Barrett discussed their new children's books in the Story Woods room of the Alachua County Library Headquarters. Bonnie Ogle reading from Arthur the Arthropod Arthur the Arthropod by Ogle. Feeling quite vulnerable when his shell comes off, the young … Read More