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Meet Author Meryl Branch-McTiernan in Conversation with Stony Brook Professor Susan Scarf Merrel

Rockville Centre Library 221 N Village Ave, Rockville Centre

In Meryl Branch-McTiernan’s debut novel, What You Should Worry About, it’s January of 2020 and thirty-seven-year-old Layla Moody is trying to worm her way into a party at the Sundance Film Festival, trying to gain access to someone who can jump-start her stymied career as a Hollywood television writer. Branch-McTiernan is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. ... Read more

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Celebrating National Library Week: Meet Author Carol Hoenig

Freeport library 144 West Merrick Rd., Freeport

Mary Calvi, CBS News, says this: “Carol Hoenig is a behind-the-scenes force in the publishing industry.” Take this opportunity to meet Carol, who is the author of Before She Was a Finley, Without Grace, Of Little Faith and The Author's Guide to Planning Book Events. Her essays are in a number of anthologies. She is President of Carol ... Read more

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Books & a Brunch with Carol Hoenig

Oceanside Library 30 Davison Ave., Oceanside

Enjoy brunching while Carol Hoenig discusses her latest novel, Before She was A Finley. Adele, a reluctant young journalism student is assigned to "get" a story from a local nursing home where she comes across elderly Grace Finley. Over time, Grace slowly takes Adele back to the 1930s and subsequent years that follow as she ... Read more

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