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SUMMARY:Best of the Best Book Club: "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
DESCRIPTION:The Coronado Public Library’s Best of the Best Book Club meets regularly on the fourth Wednesday of each month to discuss books that have won major awards. \nFor our September meeting\, we will read and discuss the winner of the 2022 Newbery Medal\, The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera\, a brilliant journey through the stars\, to the very heart of what makes us human. \nAbout The Last Cuentista \nHabía una vez . . . \nThere lived a girl named Petra Peña\, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller\, like her abuelita. \nBut Petra’s world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet\, and only a few hundred scientists and their children ― among them Petra and her family ― have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. \nHundreds of years later\, Petra wakes to this new planet ― and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey\, bent on erasing the sins of humanity’s past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard ― or purged them altogether. \nPetra alone now carries the stories of our past\, and with them\, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?
URL:https://coronadotimes.com/event/best-of-the-best-book-club-the-last-cuentista-by-donna-barba-higuera/
LOCATION:Coronado Public Library\, 640 Orange Ave\, Coronado\, CA\, 92118\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author talk and presention: "The Zoo Lady: How Belle Benchley Built the San Diego Zoo"
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning historian and storyteller Dr. Sandra E. Bonura for a fully illustrated presentation featuring rare vintage zoo photographs\, archival movie clips\, and historic radio broadcasts. Together\, we’ll celebrate her new 2026 book\, The Zoo Lady: How Belle Benchley Built the San Diego Zoo\, and uncover the extraordinary\, historically ignored story of Belle Benchley—a middle-aged single mother who took a temporary bookkeeping job in 1925 and transformed a struggling local menagerie into the world-renowned San Diego Zoo. \nAs the world’s first female zoo director\, “The Zoo Lady” commanded a male-dominated field for nearly 30 years. She guided the zoo through the Great Depression and World War II\, pioneered modern cageless habitats\, and revolutionized global standards for animal welfare—all right in our own backyard. \nBring your own zoo memories for an engaging\, interactive conversation on local heritage\, female leadership\, and the fierce grit that shaped modern wildlife conservation. \nThe event will include a book signing with the author\, Sandra Bonura.
URL:https://coronadotimes.com/event/259487/
LOCATION:Winn Room\, Coronado Public Library\, 640 Orange Ave\, Coronado\, CA\, 92118\, United States
CATEGORIES:books,community,entertainment
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Verdict: an author event with Jacqueline Friedland & Rosa Kwon Easton
DESCRIPTION:Join the Coronado Public Library and Adventures by the Book as two former attorneys turned bestselling writers\, Jacqueline Friedland and Rosa Kwon Easton\, share a discussion inspired by their respective novels Breathing Under Water and Red Seal. Jacqueline and Rosa will share the complexities of family dynamics and human connection as they immerse us in powerful stories about sacrifice\, displacement\, and endurance. The evening also marks the official publication day of Rosa’s Red Seal. This event will include an audience Q&A and a book signing. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come\, first-seated\, subject to availability. Limited preferred seating is available with purchase of a book through Adventures by the Book. Please visit adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/friedland-easton-10-6-26 for more information. \n\nJacqueline Friedland is the USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of both historical and contemporary women’s fiction. A graduate of NYU Law School\, she practiced as a commercial litigator for as long as she could stand it. She then returned to school to earn her Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing and has been writing ever since. Jacqueline’s books have been awarded gold medals in fiction from Readers’ Favorite. Her novels have also been named the 2021 Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Book of the Year\, the SheReads Best Book Club Pick of 2021\, and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association Star finalist for 2022. \nThe current is threatening to pull them under. Breathing Under Water is the story of two women whose paths converge in the most unexpected way: Berry is a vice principal raising a 16-year-old autistic son and McKenna is a college student caring for her grandmother with dementia while facing homelessness. They will discover that sometimes the people who need saving the most are the ones who end up saving you. \n\nRosa Kwon Easton is a Korean American lawyer\, a library trustee\, and the author of White Mulberry\, a #1 Amazon Reads bestseller in historical fiction. Rosa is a graduate of Columbia University and Boston College Law School\, an Anaphora Writing Residency Fellow\, and her work has appeared in CRAFT Literary\, Electric Literature\, Writer’s Digest\, and elsewhere. After her second child was born\, Rosa decided to set aside practicing law for a while to raise her children and become more active in her community. It was then that she started exploring writing workshops and retreats\, and attended literary programs. \nIn 1943 Japan\, the Pacific War Rages on. Red Seal tells the story of a Korean-born single mother and nurse\, Miyoung\, who defies an order to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army in 1943 and flees with her six-year-old son\, Ko-chan. Together\, the two must navigate wars\, displacement\, and identity across decades and borders in a moving multigenerational saga.
URL:https://coronadotimes.com/event/beyond-the-verdict-an-author-event-with-jacqueline-friedland-rosa-kwon-easton/
LOCATION:Winn Room\, Coronado Public Library\, 640 Orange Ave\, Coronado\, CA\, 92118\, United States
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