Author talk, Beer and a Book

by Jennifer Keeton
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FLORENCE-There are a couple of really fun “Book” events coming up in October at the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library.

South, America by Rod DavisBook Talk/Signing: South, America by Rod Davis
Tuesday, October 14
Signing begins at 5:30 pm
Talk begins at 6:00 pm
Florence-Lauderdale Public Library

Meet award-winning author Rod Davis as he talks about his new Southern noir novel South, America. This mystery book, set in pre-Katrina New Orleans, is in the vein of the works of James M. Cain and Mickey Spillane.

Rod Davis

Rod Davis

On an early Sunday morning walk through the empty streets of the Faubourg Marigny downriver of the French Quarter, maverick journalist and Big Easy transplant Jack Prine discovers the body of a well-dressed black man with a bashed-in skull. Soon Jack is drawn into a web of violence threatening Elle Meridian, the victim’s beautiful, complicated sister, burdened with a past she can barely confess. They begin a dangerous, desperate flight through Alabama, the Delta, and back to New Orleans, searching and evading goons, racists, voudou, and family secrets.

Rod Davis is the recipient of the inaugural Fiction Award of the PEN/Southwest Book Awards in 2005 for Corina’s Way, also published by NewSouth Books. He also is author of American Voudou: Journey into a Hidden World, selected as one of the “Exceptional Books of 1998” by Bookman Book Review Syndicate.

Books will be available for purchase at the event. For more information, call 256-764-6564, ext. 28.

Life on the Line by Grant AchatzBeer and a Book: Life on the Line by Grant Achatz
Tuesday, October 21, 6:00 pm
Rivertown Coffee Company

Beer and a Book, sponsored by Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, is a book club focusing on food-themed memoir and

 Grant Achatz

Grant Achatz

literature. This book club meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:00 pm at Rivertown Coffee Company. Enjoy beer, wine, or coffee while discussing some great books!

For this meeting, the group will discuss Life on the Line by Grant Achatz.

Beer and a Book is led by Amy Collins, who writes “The Vine” wine column for No’Ala magazine, and about food and wine on her blog Pig&Vine.

If you have any questions about this event, call 256-764-6564, ext. 28.

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