Local Author Spotlight
Local Author Spotlight
Join us for a special evening celebrating our community’s literary talent! The Curtis Memorial Library is proud to host three local authors. Come hear the stories behind the stories, ask questions, and connect with fellow book lovers. This event is part of our ongoing effort to connect readers with the voices that inspire and reflect our community.
This month, we will be joined by the following local authors:
Gabriele Acalde- "What your Comfort Costs" - What Your Comfort Costs Us offers essential reading and transparent advice for leaders who are ready to address structural inequity at work. How to uplift women of color, transform cultures of complicity, and upend white supremacy culture at work
Brian Lee Houseal- "Choosing Sides - One Family's Revolutionary War Tale" - Written for middle- to high-school audiences, Choosing Sides is a creative nonfiction account of the real-life story of Michael Bernard Houseal and his family, all immigrants from Germany who lived in the Colonies during the Revolution.
Jennifer Comeau- "A Moon in All Things" - tells the story of an unbridled young woman in remote 1820s County Galway, Ireland. She is unusual in her desire to captain boats but bonded to her people’s ancient Celtic ceremonies. a web of mysterious otherworldly connections in a land under siege by dominating powers, where stories of the past clash with premonitions of the future, revealing the truth about Morrigan’s destiny through the objects her great-grandmother left behind