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- Art projects
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Wine & Sign: Peggy Lantz
This June, Bookmark It’s Friday Wine & Sign series invites you to Discover Florida with 3 local non-fiction authors whose unique books each deliver a fascinating perspective of our state through food, fauna and four-wheeled adventures!
Beginning on Friday, June 12th, Peggy Lantz, author of Florida’s Edible Wild Plants, Young Naturalist’s Guide to Florida, and The Florida Water Story, a children’s educational series, will be serving up insight on exploring and foraging our state’s natural environment. In addition to sharing her 50+ years of experience, Peggy promises to bring a selection of Florida’s finest edible ‘weeds’ for identification and taste-testing! Come by and see what delicacies lie in your own unruly backyard!
- When: Friday, June 12, from 6pm-8pm
- Where: East End Market – Downstairs in Bookmark It
2301 Corrine Drive
Orlando, FL 32803 - Cost: FREE
- Wine: Free sampling provided by Quantum Leap Winery
Author titles will be available for purchase. For additional information on event or for author information, please contact Kim@bookmarkitorlando.com
Wine and Conversation with Cate McGowan
Join Cate McGowan for wine and conversation to celebrate her debut collection, True Places Never Are, at Writer’s Block (124 Welbourne Ave, Winter Park) from 6pm-8pm on Friday, July 10th.
In her debut collection, Cate McGowan introduces us to a passenger manifest, an assortment of characters voyaging through loss and salvation. The book’s title borrows from Melville’s Moby Dick: “It is not down on any map; true places never are.” McGowan’s characters are off the chart; they venture into wondrous worlds as knotty and distressing as the places they aim to leave.
Summer Reading of The 6:41 To Paris
At 7pm on Tuesday, July 7th, Writer’s Block Bookstore (124 Welbourne Ave, Winter Park) will be hosting Jean-Philippe Blondel, Author of The 6:41 To Paris, for another summer reading.
Cecile, a stylish 47-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she’s exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it’s soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation 30 years ago. In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, their express train hurtles towards the French capital. Cécile and Philippe undertake their own face to face journey—In silence? What could they possibly say to one another?—with the reader gaining entrée to the most private of thoughts. This is a psychological thriller about past romance, with all its pain and promise.