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Today, we have some beautiful pictures to share. These are from Winterthur, the Dupont Estate in Delaware’s Brandywine Valley. It’s the Enchanted Garden. It might be fun to share the photos with the children in your life, and talk about this enchanted world. Pictures are courtesy of Barbara Peters.
We hope you enjoyed the enchanting tour of Winterthur’s gardens.
Ace Atkins is the current author of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels. He recently appeared at The Poisoned Pen to discuss the latest book in the series, Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn.
The audience turned out to hear Atkins talk about writing about the beloved character, Spenser.
Ace Atkins and bookstore owner Barbara Peters discussed the books, and fielded questions from the audience.
One man who came for the signing seems particularly happy to get Ace Atkins’ signature.
If you’d like a signed copy as well, they’re available through the website –https://bit.ly/1snVRIX
Elevengedden is coming June 1, a multi-author SciFi event hosted by Kevin Hearne. Here are the details. https://bit.ly/1TDjXFq
So, if you’re excited about that event, you may be interested in the 2015 Nebula Awards, presented today in Chicago. Here are the winners.
Novel:
Winner: Uprooted, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
Novella:
Winner: Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (Tor.com)
Novelette:
Winner: “˜”˜Our Lady of the Open Road”, Sarah Pinsker (Asimov’s 6/15)
Short Story:
Winner: “˜”˜Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”, Alyssa Wong (Nightmare 10/15)
Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Winner: Mad Max: Fury Road, Written by George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy:
Winner: Updraft, Fran Wilde (Tor)
C. J. Cherryh is the 32nd Damon Knight Grand Master.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Intrigued by the title? What does L. Frank Baum, the author of the Oz books have to do with mysteries featuring girl detectives? You’ll have to read the article, “The Secret History of the Girl Detective”, from Smithsonian, to find the answers. https://bit.ly/26oRSv2
Have you heard the podcast Unknown History yet? Quick and Dirty Tips now brings us Unknown History, a new podcast for history buffs and those of us who appreciate a fun, quirky story. One of those stories is “The Mysterious Disappearance of Agatha Christie”, https://bit.ly/1VVE2fY
The story is excerpted from When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain by Giles Milton, which is the basis for the Unknown History podcast. We can order the book, if you’re interested. https://bit.ly/1NTAaEF
“Agatha Christie never spoke about the missing eleven days of her life and over the years there has been much speculation about what really happened. What did Christie tell reporters about her disappearance?” To find out the answer, listen to the full episode of the new podcast, Unknown History, on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. – See more at: https://bit.ly/1SKkWWW
This is just too good not to share. Playbill recently ran an article by Talaura Harms and David Gewirtzman called “An Illustrated Guide to Methods of Murder in Musical Theatre”. It’s a fun tour through ten musicals, everything from “Sweeney Todd” to the recent hit, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”. Check it out!
You may have noticed that Camille Perri’s The Assistants was the most recent Hot Book of the Week.
Perri was here, and we have autographed copies of the book available.
Perri was joined by LS Hilton. You might have heard of her latest book, Maestra. Naturally, we have autographed copies of that as well.
We hope you take time to watch some of the Livestream events from the bookstore. This was another program that’s available.
Robyn Carr, New York Times best-selling author, recently appeared at The Poisoned Pen, where she was interviewed by John Charles. She was here to talk about What We Find, her latest book.
In case you missed it, the event was taped for Livestream.
https://livestream.com/poisonedpen/events/5279063
We still have autographed copies of the book, if you’d like to buy one.
You won’t want to miss the final season of Wallander, airing on PBS, beginning Sunday, May 8 and running until May 22. Starring Kenneth Branagh, the show is based on the late Henning Mankell’s Swedish crime series. Check it out.
You can order Mankell’s books through The Poisoned Pen.
Great pictures from The Poisoned Pen’s event in which KC Dyer and Diana Gabaldon talked about Dyer’s tribute to Gabaldon’s Outlander series, Dyer’s own book, Finding Fraser.
You might want to get your copy of Finding Fraser, signed by both KC Dyer and Diana Gabaldon, while they’re still available.
If you want to feel as if you were there for the event, check out the Livestream, and you can see the entire program.