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\nAbout Cathy Marie Buchanan: \;
\nNew York Times bestsel ler and book club favourite Cathy Marie Buchanan is the author of three no vels. Her most recent\, Daughter of Black Lake\, was chosen as Best Fictio n for Fall by Entertainment Weekly and Parade magazine. Her previous novel \, The Painted Girls\, was a New York Times bestseller\, a #1 national bes tseller in Canada\, and was named a best book of the year by NPR\, Good Ho usekeeping and Goodreads. Her debut novel\, The Day the Falls Stood Still\ , was a New York Times bestseller\, a Barnes &\; Noble Recommends selec tion and a Canada Reads Top 40 Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade. He r work has been translated into nine languages. Buchanan holds a BSc (Hono urs Biochemistry) and an MBA from Western University\, and recently became a certified yoga instructor. She lives in Toronto.
\nAbout Daughter of Black Lake:
\nIt's the season of Fallow\, in th e era of iron. In a northern misty bog surrounded by woodlands and wheat f ields\, a settlement lies far beyond the reach of the Romans invading hund reds of miles to the southeast. Here\, life is simple--or so it seems to t he tightly knit community. Sow. Reap. Honor Mother Earth\, who will provid e at harvest time. A girl named Devout comes of age\, sweetly flirting wit h the young man she's tilled alongside all her life\, and envisions a futu re of love and abundance. Seventeen years later\, though\, the settlement is a changed place. Famine has brought struggle\, and outsiders\, with the ir foreign ways and military might\, have arrived at the doorstep. For Dev out's young daughter\, life is more troubled than her mother ever anticipa ted. But this girl has an extraordinary gift. As worlds collide and peril threatens\, it will be up to her to save her family and community.
\nSimcoe Eight Author's Talk Series: The Barrie Public Lib rary has joined literary forces with seven other libraries (Collingwood\, Essa\, Innisfil\, Penetanguishene\, Ramara\, Springwater\, and Wasaga) to offer a 2021 virtual author talk series. \; \;
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