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SUMMARY:Author Talk | Julian Winters and Vania Stoyanova
LOCATION:Duluth Branch\nDuluth Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Come listen to Julian and Vania talk about their new book "Why
  On Earth"..\nhttps://gwinnettpl.libnet.info/event/12953118
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>With stories from NYT bestselling and debu
 t authors\, <em>Why on Earth</em> uses an accidental alien invasion to exp
 lore love and identity.</p>\n<p>What starts as a simple rescue mission for
  a crew of teen aliens to recover one of their own soon becomes an interst
 ellar encounter no one will forget.</p>\n<p>Captain Iona is organizing an 
 impromptu retrieval for her brother\, an undercover alien posing as a movi
 e star. But her efforts go awry when a technical malfunction turns her her
 oic rescue into an unintentional invasion. With tales of disguised extrate
 rrestrials stuck in theme parks\, starship engineers hitchhiking to get ho
 me\, and myth-inspired intergalactic sibling reunions\, each story in this
  multi-author anthology explores the universal desire to be loved and unde
 rstood\, no matter where you come from. After all...aliens are just like u
 s.</p>\n<p><br />Edited by beloved YA author Rosiee Thor and YA talk show 
 host and bookseller Vania Stoyanova\, the anthology crosses genre bounds t
 o bring in tropes from romance and contemporary adventure with stories fro
 m Alex Brown\, Beth Revis\, Emily Lloyd-Jones\, Eric Smith\, Julian Winter
 s\, Laura Pohl\, Maya Gittelman\, M. K. England\, Rebecca Kim Wells\, and 
 S. J. Whitby.</p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;">Books will be available
  for purchase and signing from <a href="https://www.braveandkindbooks.com/
 ">Brave + Kind Books</a></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"></p>\n<p sty
 le="text-align: left\;">Julian Winters is the author of the IBPA Benjamin 
 Franklin Gold Award-winning <em>Running With Lions</em>\; the Georgia Peac
 h Award nominated <em>Right Where I Left You</em>\; and the Junior Library
  Guild Gold Standard Selections:<em> How to Be Remy Cameron\, The Summer o
 f Everything\, As You Walk On By</em>\, and <em>Prince of the Palisades</e
 m>. His Adult romance debut\,<em> I Think They Love You</em>\, relased in 
 January 2025. A self-proclaimed comic book geek\, Julian currently lives o
 utside of Atlanta where he can be found swooning over rom-coms or watching
  the only two sports he can follow&mdash\;volleyball and soccer.</p>\n<p s
 tyle="text-align: left\;">Vania&nbsp\;Stoyanova grew up on Slavic folktale
 s from her Bulgarian homeland. At a young age\, she started telling tales 
 with her camera and later with words.&nbsp\;Vania&nbsp\;now revels in shar
 ing her favorite stories and books with readers as a bookseller at indie b
 ookshop\, Brave + Kind. When not running author events\, she is known to g
 et into shenanigans\, put authors in the hot seat for Author Truth or Dare
 s and find ways to bribe her friends to start book festivals like LOVE Y&r
 squo\;ALL Romance Book Fest or conferences like YATLCon for writers of you
 ng adult fiction. You can find her online at @yatllive.</p>\nhttps://gwinn
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