77th Luncheon
October 18th, 2010
Burton Manor Banquet and Conference Center
27777 Schoolcraft Road, Livonia MI 48150
[ Detailed Directions ] - (734) 427-9110
From Points East: I-96 West to Inkster exit. Follow service drive west past Inkster Road (Schoolcraft) to Cardwell, turn left. The parking log is straight ahead across the bridge.
From Points West: I-96 East to Middlebelt exit. Follow the service drive (Schoolcraft) east. Burton Manor will be on the right, just east of Middlebelt Road.
Schedule
11:00 am - Book Sale Room OpensAuthors will be available to sign purchased books after luncheon.
12:00 pm - Lunch is Served
1:00 pm - Authors Begin to Speak
Book sales support grants. Please purchase your books at the luncheon!
**Program and speakers are subject to change.
Tickets go on sale September 1st, 2010
Cost is $30 per ticket, first come-first served.
Tables seat ten. To sit together, send for tickets together.
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Grants to be Presented
Dick Johnston Award
This award is presented at the annual fall luncheon to a public library for the purpose of establishing or improving a library collection.
The award was established to honor the late Dick Johnston, who was a member of the Metro-Detroit Book & Author Society and served as its president in 1980 and 1981. Mr. Johnston was president of the Michigan Library Association and Director of the Birmingham and Bloomfield Township Libraries.
Elaine R. Irvin Friends Award
This award is presented at the annual fall luncheon to a Friends of the Library group. The grant is awarded to support a program or project which fills a significant need that impacts the library's patrons and the community.
The award was established to honor the late Elaine R. Irvin, who was a devoted member of the Metro-Detroit Book & Author Society Board for many years. Elaine worked for the Friends of the Detroit Public Library and was dedicated to the principle that "good libraries need good Friends".
More about Grants / Past Grant Awardees
Authors Scheduled to Speak
Ayelet Waldman
Official Website:www.ayeletwaldman.com
An attorney and Harvard Law graduate, she is the author of several nonfiction books, including the controversial best-seller "The Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace," as well as seven novels about the "part-time sleuth and full-time mother" Juliet Applebaum. Her new novel is "Red Hook Road," a drama of two families. She is married to author Michael Chabon.
Karin Slaughter
Official Website:www.karinslaughter.com
The author of many international best-selling mystery/crime novels, including the Grant County and Will Trent books, she is a long-time resident of Atlanta who says she splits her time between the kitchen and the living room. Her new book is "Broken," in which her heroine Sara Linton returns to Grant County for a visit that turns ugly. Slaughter has sold over 16 million books worldwide.
Philip Caputo
Official Website:Publishers Author Page
A former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Chicago Tribune, his memoir of his service during the Vietnam War, "A Rumor of War," has become a classic with more than two million copies sold. Many of Caputo's other books have also become best-sellers. His new novel is "Crossers," a torn-from-the-headlines story of the human drama behind illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexican border.
Amanda Hesser
Official Website:www.food52.com
Hesser grew up in a family where everyone cooked. In college, she worked at a bakery and drove a truck around Boston at dawn, delivering bread. She later worked in bakeries and restaurants in Europe and wrote two books on cooking before becoming food editor of The New York Times Magazine. Now she has compiled the best recipes from 150 years of food journalism in "The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century."
Christopher Reich
Official Website:www.christopherreich.com
Espionage is the name of the game in Reich's "Rules of Vengeance," another in his riveting New York Times best-selling series featuring the sauve Dr. Jonathan Ransom and his undercover-agent wife Emma, a dangerous woman with a mysterious past. Born in Tokyo, Reich worked in banking in Switzerland before returning to the U.S. to pursue a writing career that has taken off.
This Book and Author luncheon is sponsored in partnership with:
● The Library Network ● Brodart Corporation
● Canton Public Library ● Detroit Public Library