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Evening with the Author: Kate Quinn
Spend an intimate evening with author Kate Quinn.
Doors will open to ticket holders at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. The event will start at 7 p.m. with a champagne reception to follow featuring light hors d’oeuvres and a book signing opportunity.
You must present a physical ticket to Library staff to enter the event.
How to Obtain Tickets:
The Sanibel Public Library will continue to utilize a “lottery system” ticketing procedure to meet high demand and to ensure as many as possible have the opportunity to attend an Author Series event. Tickets are distributed at no charge to Sanibel Public Library cardholders; one card per person; up to two tickets per card.
Registration for a chance to obtain Kate Quinn's Author Series Evening tickets open on Friday, December 13, 2024 at 9 a.m. and close on Friday, December 20, 2024 at 5 p.m. *Requests made before or after the date range listed above cannot be honored.*
You may register for a chance to obtain tickets here: Ticket Lottery Registration for Kate Quinn's Author Series Evening
Names of those requesting tickets will be placed in a lotterNames of those requesting tickets will be placed in a lottery and selected at random. If you are selected to receive tickets you will be notified by email. Tickets must be picked up by Tuesday, January 7, 2025. *Tickets not picked up by Library closure on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 will automatically be redistributed to individuals on the waiting list.*
If you would like assistance using the online registration form or are unable to access it, please call the Sanibel Public Library at (239) 472- 2483.
About the Author:
Kate Quinn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. A native of southern California, she attended Boston University where she earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Classical Voice. She has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga, and two books in the Italian Renaissance, before turning to the 20th century with The Alice Network, The Huntress, The Rose Code, The Diamond Eye, and The Briar Club. She is also a co-author in several collaborative novels including The Phoenix Crown with Janie Chang, and Ribbons of Scarlet with Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, Eliza Knight, Sophie Perinot, and Heather Webb. All have been translated into multiple languages. Kate and her husband now live in Maryland with three rescue dogs.
About the Author Series:
For more than a decade, the Library, partnering with the Sanibel Public Library Foundation, has connected local readers to award-winning authors by bringing in high caliber writers for an intimate evening, followed by a champagne reception. Past guests include Joyce Carol Oates, Sue Monk Kidd, Jodi Picoult, David Baldacci, Dennis Lehane, Amor Towles, Erik Larson, Margaret Atwood and many more. Funding for the Author Series is provided by the Sanibel Public Library Foundation and its generous donors.
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Related Programing - Book Club Discussion:
On Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 2 p.m. readers are invited to discuss "The Briar Club" by Kate Quinn:
A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.
Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; police officer’s daughter Nora, who is entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Bea, whose career has ended along with the women’s baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy’s Red Scare.
Grace’s weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears apart the house, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: Who is the true enemy in their midst?
The Book Club Discussion is lead by Library staff.
Quinn's book is offered in a variety of formats:
Click here to place a hold or to borrow The Briar Club
Click here to place a hold or borrow The Briar Club on the Libby app
Click here to borrow other Kate Quinn books with no waiting on the hoopla digital app
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Photography During Programs
While attending library programs, visitors may be photographed by library staff. Photographs become library property and may be used in library promotions. Individuals who do not want to be photographed or recorded are responsible for removing themselves from the area or notifying the photographer of their opt-out status.