Book Calendar

  • Friday, August 8, 2014 5:23pm
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Signings

Mary Daheim: The Seattle native plans to read and sign copies of her new book “Clam Wake — A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery” at 7 p.m. Aug. 13 at University Bookstore, 15311 Main St., Mill Creek. With more than 50 mysteries in her popular Bed-and-Breakfast series, Daheim is back, this time sending innkeeper and amateur sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn off on a housesitting-assignment-turned-murder-investigation in a beachside retirement community.

What will she and her loyal sidekick, cousin Renie, dig up along with their clams? Join a reading and signing with Daheim for chance to meet the prolific author and catch up on the latest happenings with the whip-smart and wily owner of the Hillside Manor.

Jennifer K. Stuller: The author will talk about the significance of superwomen, cinematic warriors and heroines in modern-day mythology at 7 p.m. Aug. 11 the Marysville Library, 6120 Grove St., and at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 23 at the Granite Falls Library, 815 E. Galena St., as part of the Mini Comic Con celebration. Both events are free. Stuller is the author of the 2010 book “Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology.”

To submit information about local book signings, readings and literary news to The Herald’s book calendar, email features@heraldnet.com.

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