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SUMMARY:Sidekick: Reading\, Signing and Conversation with Naomi Kritzer
DESCRIPTION:Join Sidekick Coffee & Books for a reading from author Naomi Kritzer on Wednesday\, August 19th at 7 pm in conversation with author Katie Runde and Doctor Stephanie Radke. \nOne book purchase admits one person. \nAbout the book: Doctor Liz has just been acquitted for performing the last abortion in North Dakota when she’s kidnapped. \nThey’re not just any kidnappers\, but a fundamentalist cult\, deep in the rural west\, without respect for law or decency\, and in desperate need of an OB/GYN. \nGuarded\, isolated\, without access to the outside world\, Liz nevertheless is treated with respect as the only doctor on the compound\, but she is very aware of what happened to the last obstetrician they kidnapped. \nShe must escape\, and bring help to the girls trapped at the compound\, if it’s the last thing she does. \nAbout the Author: \nNaomi Kritzer has been re-reading favorite books since childhood\, and probably still has passages from A Wrinkle in Time memorized. She writes for both adults and teens\, including Catfishing on CatNet and Chaos on CatNet from Tor Teen and Liberty’s Daughter from Fairwood Press. Her writing has won the Hugo Award\, the Nebula Award\, the Edgar Award\, the Locus Award\, and the Minnesota Book Award. Naomi lives in St. Paul\, Minnesota\, with her family and three cats. The number of cats is subject to change without notice.
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LOCATION:Sidekick Coffee & Books\, 1310 1/2 Melrose Avenue\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
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SUMMARY:SideKick – reading and signing with Paige Towers and Sarah Elgatian
DESCRIPTION:Join Sidekick Coffee and Books for the launch of “What they Stole: Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption” by Paige Towers in conversation with Sarah Elgatian. \nAbout the book: In 1955\, following the devastation of the Korean War\, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical convictions and emboldened by a spacial act of Congress\, the couple founded the Holt Adoption Program\, which would facilitate migration of tens of thousands of Korean children to the United States over the following decades. The Sueppels were among the families profoundly shaped by the legacy of the Holt Adoption Program\, until 2008\, when Steven found himself facing federal embezzlement and money laundering chargers\, he murdered Sheryl and their adopted children before ending his own life. What They Stole traces the interwoven histories of the Holts and the Sueppels\, Meticulously researched and sensitive to its storytelling\, Paige Towers examines how goos intentions can coexist with systemic harm- and how the consequences of systems like the Holt’s can reverberate across generations. \nOne book purchase admits two people
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/sidekick-reading-and-signing-with-paige-towers-and-sarah-elgatian/
LOCATION:Sidekick Coffee & Books\, 1310 1/2 Melrose Avenue\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sidekick: Conversation and signing with author Grant Faulkner
DESCRIPTION:Join Sidekick Coffee and Books for an evening with author Grant Faulkner in conversation with Yasmina Din Madden for his new book Something Out There in the Distance on September 24th at 7 pm. \nOne book purchase admits two people. \nAbout the book: Flash-fiction master Grant Faulkner and photographer Gail Butensky have partnered to create this unique narrative made up of stories alongside edge-of-the-world photography. The book tells of two lovers taking a reckless\, searching road trip through the American West. Dawn is a photographer who captures desert landscapes. Jonny drives just to drive\, running away from the end of time or running toward the end of time\, looking for a home even as his restlessness overtakes him. By turns funny\, poignant\, and heartbreaking\, something out there is in the distance is big in emotions while brief in words. An extraordinary collaboration between word and image\, Dawn and Jonny’s journey transports us to a place\, achingly familial\, populated by love\, loss\, and wonder. \nAbout Yasmina Din Madden: \nYasmina Din Madden is the author of the story collection You Know Nothing\, Northwestern University Press (2026)\, and her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Electric Literature\, The Idaho Review\, The Fairy Tale Review\, and other journals. She is the winner of the Oxford Flash Prize and was a finalist for the Iowa Review Award. She teaches creative writing and literature at Drake University. \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/sidekick-conversation-and-signing-with-author-grant-faulkner/
LOCATION:Sidekick Coffee & Books\, 1310 1/2 Melrose Avenue\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sidekick – Reading and signing with Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
DESCRIPTION:Join Sidekick Coffee and Books for a reading by author Tatiana Schlote-Bonne for her new book “What Feeds Below.” Purchase of one book admits two guests. \nAbout the book: \nThe darkness isn’t empty. It’s hungry. \nAt the edge of the City of the Void\, a massive chasm extends miles into the earth\, its treacherous terrain overrun with vicious monsters and carnivorous plants. For orphaned best friends Petra and Jade\, guiding treasure-seeking tourists down into the Void is the only way to earn enough to pull themselves up out of the slums for good. \nPetra prefers to play it safe and take jobs only in the Void’s upper levels\, where the dangers are better understood\, while Jade wants to risk a decent to the deepest and most mysterious Sixth Layer. Because the deeper they go\, the better the payout\, and the sooner their dreams can become reality. Their friendship is Petra’s whole world\, and Jades approval means everything – so Petra agrees to do it Jade’s way. \nWhen their job goes wring and Jade is lost in the Void\, Petra must plunge deeper than she’s ever dared to save her friend. But she doesn’t know the truth of the Void… or what really waits for her in its depths.
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