THIS WEEK IN JULY

  1. Monday Mar 1 LISA MCMANN MONDAY, MARCH 1; 7 PM @ The Greene LISA MCMANN, author of Wake and Fade will introduce her newest novel for teens, Gone, the final book in her bestselling paranormal teen trilogy.  Readers of the series know that 17- year-old Janie...
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  • SEAWORTHY: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea by Linda Greenlaw

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LISA MCMANN

MONDAY, MARCH 1; 7 PM @ The Greene

LISA MCMANN, author of Wake and Fade will introduce her newest novel for teens, Gone, the final book in her bestselling paranormal teen trilogy.  Readers of the series know that 17- year-old Janie is a Dream Catcher, having inherited the ability to enter into other peoples’ dreams.  She learns that Dream Catching is destined to be her future, not something she can outlive.  She thought she “had made peace with it. But she can’t handle dragging Cabel down with her.  She knows he will stay with her, despite what she sees in his dreams.  He’s amazing.  And she’s a train wreck.  Janie sees only one way to give him the life he deserves—she has to disappear.   And it’s going to kill them both.  Then a stranger enters her life—and everything unravels.  The future Janie once faced now has an ominous twist, and her choices are more dire than she’d ever thought possible.  She alone must decide between the lesser of two evils.”    

LISA MCMANN