This evenings discussion is IKE: AN AMERICAN HERO

by Michael Korda. 

Marie Bostwick returns to sign copies of A THREAD OF TRUTH. Come home to Marie Bostwick's poignant novel of new beginnings, old friends, and the rich, varied tapestry of lives fully lived... At twenty-seven, having fled an abusive marriage with little more than her kids and the clothes on her back, Ivy Peterman figures she has nowhere to go but up. Quaint, historic New Bern, Connecticut, seems as good a place as any to start fresh. With a part-time job at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop and budding friendships, Ivy feels hopeful for the first time in ages. But when a popular quilting TV show is taped at the quilt shop, Ivy's unwitting appearance in an on-air promo alerts her ex-husband to her whereabouts. Suddenly, Ivy is facing the fight of her life—one that forces her to face her deepest fears as a woman and a mother. This time, however, she's got a sisterhood behind her: companions as complex, strong, and lasting as the quilts they stitch...

After arguing with her live-in boyfriend about his inability to commit, Peggy Adams flies to a friend's bachelorette party in Las Vegas, and wakes up next to a man she can't remember. Hung-over and miserable, she sneaks out of the sleeping man's hotel room and returns home to New York, where her boyfriend apologizes for the fight and gives her a Tiffany box containing a pre-engagement ring. Not what she expected, but close enough! The next day she receives a phone call from the Las Vegas one-night stand, Luke, claiming she's already married to him¬-and he faxes her the license for proof! Both are ready for an annulment, until Peggy arrives in quaint New Nineveh, CT, where Luke cares for his Great Aunt, and the old woman makes Peggy an offer she can't refuse.

An Evening with Wally Lamb

Artist and Author Series

Presented by the Warner Theatre Center for Arts Education, A Sacred Place, Inc. and The
Hickory Stick Book Shop.

Spend an engaging evening with New York Times bestseller Wally Lamb, author
of She's Come Undone, I Know This Much is True and The Hour I First
Believed, and other guest speakers as they explore the American correctional
system.  Program will include a Q&A period and selected readings from Lamb's
nonfiction anthologies Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our
Imprisoned Sisters and I'll Fly Away, collections of autobiographical essays
which evolved from a writing workshop Lamb facilitates at Connecticut's York
Correctional Institute, a maximum-security prison for women.

Special event to benefit the Warner Theatre and A Sacred Place, Inc.

A limited number of signed books by the author will be available for
purchase at the event.

For more information go to the Warner Theater.