Covering topics from artists, to social justice, to the Second World War, to a Mexican drug cartel, five authors writing diverse stories are set to give talks at the Richmond Public Library this winter.
From Sunday, Feb. 3 to Saturday, March 2, the Brighouse library branch will host four weekend events giving book lovers the chance to meet local authors.
Kicking off the event on Feb. 3 from 2:30 to 4 p.m., author Pnina Granirer will share about her book, Light Within the Shadows, a memoir about her life and journey from Romania, to Israel then to North America. Granirer is a painter, print maker and a Romanian Jew who survived the Second World War and immigrated to North America.
The following weekend, on Feb. 10, two authors will share their books. First, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., Ellen Schwartz will share her children’s book, The Princess Dolls. The story is geared towards kids aged 8 to 12 and centres on a friendship in 1942 Vancouver. Schwartz is an acclaimed author and has written 17 books for young children and teens.
Next, from 2:30 to 4 p.m. the same day, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz will share a unique story about a woman and her family’s secrets. Mouth of Truth: Buried Secrets takes place forty years after the Second World War where the woman discovers that her father was a Jewish policeman in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Closing off the winter author series at the library, Lawrence Matrick and Rose Cuddy will both present books on Saturday, March 2 from 2:30 – 4 p.m. Matrick’s The Quisling is a “medical thriller” about a psychiatrist who becomes involved with a violent Mexican drug cartel. Cuddy will share her late husband, Norman’s, book Return of the Jaguar, which she published posthumously. Return of the Jaguar is a political thriller based on a true story about the massacre of Indigenous peoples in Mexico in 1997.
All four of these events are free to the public, but require registration. For more information, visit http://rpl.yourlibrary.ca/events_calendar.
