In time for the 250th, Library Shop SD is excited to join Adventures by the Book for a panel discussion with three brilliant authors about the impact of women’s voices in shaping the nation. Join us on June 18 at Library Shop Mission Hills for this panel discussion, Remember the Ladies.
- Walk-ins welcome.
- Free to attend; book purchases related to this event support programming.
Seating and Signing Priority with Book Purchase:
Featuring Reyna Grande (Migrant Heart), Laura Kamoie (Founding Mother), and Elizabeth Cobbs (Fearless Women), a supporting purchase of any one of these three books guarantees your seat and gives you access to the signing line with all 3 authors. Pick up all 3 books in a bundle at a discount and receive first priority in the signing line. If you don’t want to buy the book but still want to make a $5 supporting purchase, you can do so via the book purchase link above.
Books can be picked up at 925 W. Washington Street on the day of the event, and proceeds support the San Diego Public Library.
Types of Purchase
- Book Purchase – Purchase one book by any of our featured authors to guarantee your chair at the event. Guests who make a book purchase receive access to the signing line.
- Supporting Purchase ($5) – Helps support event production costs. Appreciated, if you are able.
- Three-Book Bundle – A discounted set of all three featured titles, which includes priority placement in the signing line. You’re carrying more books, so we won’t make you wait!
While seating priority goes to readers who purchased a book, additional seating and plenty of standing room are available for walk-ins.
Additional books will be available for purchase at the event while supplies last, and all three authors will be signing following the program.
Reyna Grande is an award-winning author whose work powerfully illuminates the complexities of immigration, family separation, and the pursuit of the American Dream. Her memoirs, The Distance Between Us and A Dream Called Home, as well as her historical novel, A Ballad of Love and Glory, have been praised for their accounts of migrant resilience, determination, and heart.
Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget blends sophistication and honesty about the reality of crossing borders and living between nations, cultures, and identities, and how her journey shaped the woman she has become. While reconciling her own impoverished past with her children’s world of comfort, Grande asks: How do we turn pain into power? When memory threatens to define us, how can we use story to heal while still honoring our boundaries? How do we bridge the gap between who we were and who we have become?
Laura Kamoie is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of historical novels including Ribbons in Scarlett and My Dear Hamilton. She is also a Goodreads Readers’ Choice Awards Finalist in Historical Fiction, an Audie Award Finalist, and a former Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Naval Academy.
A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams recounts the revolutionary life of Abigail Adams and her resilience throughout the American Revolution. While her husband, John Adams, fights for the nation’s independence and forges the foundations of the new nation, Abigail fights for similar independence on her own battlefront, facing loss and plague, defending their home, and making lucrative investments crucial to their family’s future.
Elizabeth Cobbs is a San Diego-based, award-winning historian, author, screenwriter, and producer. She has a Ph.D. in American history from Stanford University and has served on the Historical Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department and on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Her works span from historical non-fiction novels and history textbooks to the film adaptations of her books, such as American Umpire and The Hello Girls.
Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé tells the stories of trailblazing women who took destiny into their own hands and how their journeys paved the way for modern-day feminists and female patriots. The stories of Abigail Adams, Susan B. Anthony, and Beyoncé, among others, who campaigned for the right to speak in public, lobby the government, and own property, along with passionate mothers and abolitionists far from the spotlight, all created the foundations for women’s rights in modern-day America.
