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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Colleen Oakley 
LOCATION:Duluth Branch\nDuluth Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Join bestselling author Colleen Oakley in conversation with au
 thor Mary Kay Andrews\, as they discuss Oakley's newest book\, "Jane and D
 an at the End of the World.".\nhttps://gwinnettpl.libnet.info/event/127688
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Date night goes off the rails in this hila
 riously insightful take on midlife and marriage when one unhappy couple fi
 nds themselves at the heart of a crime in progress\, from the USA Today be
 stselling author of <em>The Mostly True Story of Tanner &amp\; Louise</em>
 .</p>\n<p>Jane and Dan have been married for nineteen years\, but Jane isn
 &rsquo\;t sure they&rsquo\;re going to make it to twenty. The mother of tw
 o feels unneeded by her teenagers\, and her writing career has screeched t
 o an unsuccessful halt. Her one published novel sold under five hundred co
 pies. Worse? She&rsquo\;s pretty sure Dan is cheating on her. When the cou
 ple goes to the renowned upscale restaurant La Fin du Monde to celebrate t
 heir anniversary\, Jane thinks it&rsquo\;s as good a place as any to tell 
 Dan she wants a divorce.</p>\n<p>But before they even get to the second co
 urse\, an underground climate activist group bursts into the dining room.&
 nbsp\;Jane is shocked&mdash\;and not just because she&rsquo\;s in a hostag
 e situation the likes of which she&rsquo\;s only seen in the movies. Nearl
 y everything&nbsp\;the disorganized and bumbling activists say and do is r
 ight out of the pages of her failed book. Even Dan (who Jane wasn&rsquo\;t
  sure even read her book) admits it&rsquo\;s eerily familiar.</p>\n<p>Whic
 h means Dan and Jane are the only ones who know what&rsquo\;s going to hap
 pen next. And they&rsquo\;re the only ones who can stop it. This wasn&rsqu
 o\;t what Jane was thinking of when she said &ldquo\;&rsquo\;til death do 
 us part&rdquo\; all those years ago\, but if they can survive this\, maybe
  they can survive anything&mdash\;even marriage.<br />&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n
 <p style="text-align: center\;"><strong>Registration is recommended. </str
 ong></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;">Books will be available for purc
 hase and signing from <span style="color: #00b2dd\;"><a href="https://www.
 thebookcellar.shop/" style="color: #00b2dd\;">The Book Cellar</a></span>.&
 nbsp\;</p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;">The <span style="color: #0fa9f
 c\;"><a href="https://www.duluthfineartsleague.org/" style="color: #0fa9fc
 \;"><span style="color: #00b2dd\;">Duluth Fine Arts League</span></a></spa
 n> will provide refreshments.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><img src="https://sta
 tic.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/gwinnettpl/Copy_of_The-Book-Cellar_
 logo.jpg" width="99" height="194" alt="" />&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;<img src=
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 th_Fine_Arts_logo_.jpg" width="187" height="105" alt="" /></strong></p>\n<
 p></p>\n<hr />\n<p><strong>Colleen Oakley</strong> is the USA Today bestse
 lling author of <em>The Invisible Husband of Frick Island\, You Were There
  Too\, Close Enough to Touch\, and Before I Go</em>. Her books have been t
 ranslated into more than 20 languages around the world and won multiple aw
 ards including Georgia Author of the Year and The French Reader&rsquo\;s P
 rize. A former magazine editor for <em>Women&rsquo\;s Health &amp\; Fitnes
 s</em> and <em>Marie Claire</em>\, Colleen lives in Atlanta with her husba
 nd\, four children\, three chickens\, and a mutt named Baxter.</p>\n<p><im
 g src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/gwinnettpl/BMiles
 _MaryKayAndrews.jpg" width="83" height="125" alt="" style="float: left\; m
 argin: 0px 20px 20px 0px\;" />Moderator <strong>Mary Kay Andrews </strong>
 is the&nbsp\;New York Times&nbsp\;bestselling author of 30 novels (includi
 ng&nbsp\;<em>The Homewreckers\;&nbsp\;The Santa Suit\; The Newcomer\; Hell
 o\, Summer\;&nbsp\;Sunset Beach\;&nbsp\;The High Tide Club</em>\; and more
 . A native of St. Petersburg\, Florida\, she earned a B.A. in journalism f
 rom The University of Georgia. After a 14-year career working as a reporte
 r at newspapers including&nbsp\;<em>The Savannah Morning News</em>\, <em>T
 he Marietta Journal</em>\,&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;<em>The Atlanta Journal-Constit
 ution</em>\, where she spent the final 10 years of her career\, she left j
 ournalism in 1991 to write fiction. She and her family divide their time b
 etween Atlanta and Tybee Island\, GA\, where they cook up new recipes in t
 hree restored beach homes\, The Breeze Inn\, Ebbtide\, and Coquina Cottage
 &mdash\;all named after fictional places in Mary Kay&rsquo\;s novels\, and
  all available to rent through Tybee Vacation Rentals.&nbsp\;</p>\nhttps:/
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