Carla Buckley and Julie Compton Book Signings
Thursday, March 11th 2010
5:00 p.m.
The Twig Book Shop is proud to bring you two amazing authors!
Carla Buckley, author of The Things That Keep Us Here
Merging actual facts about the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the potential effect of the "bird Flu" Carla Buckley has created a work of fiction that focuses on a middle American family. She says, "The Things That Keep Us Here is less about the power of a virus to reduce humanity to a shadow, and more about the power of the human spirit to remain untouched. What images would survive from a modern pandemic, and who would be looking at them, a hundred years later?"
Julie Compton, author of Rescuing Olivia
"Julie Compton is originally from St. Louis, the setting for her internationally published debut, TELL NO LIES, a legal thriller that earned a starred review from Kirkus. In 2003 she moved to Florida, and her new home became the setting for her latest novel, RESCUING OLIVIA, which Kirkus called "a pleasing hybrid of fairy tale and contemporary thriller" and Publisher's Weekly said was an "intense, entertaining second novel" with a "super-satisfying resolution." An attorney by profession, Julie no longer practices but keeps one foot in the courthouse by volunteering as a guardian ad litem for abused and neglected children. She lives near Orlando with her husband and two daughters."
