Check out our authors' upcoming events and book signings! The Four of Us by Monica Foley Author Book Signing Event 5/17/08, afternoon Tale of Two Sisters Tea Room Red Wing, MN Friendships are important when we are little and as we grow up. There are many ways we share friendship, as shown to us in The Four of Us. People enjoy spending time with each other, playing together, sharing tears, telling stories, and laughing with one another. The Pimple: Pimple for the World to See by Pierce Ronberg Author Book Signing Event and Speaking Engagement 5/10/08--Washington State Young Authors Conference Frank Wagner Elementary 115 Dickinson Road Monroe, WA 98272-2104 Ben’s life had always been scarred with his illness. No matter what he did, people, including family members, turned from him in disgust. At last he found one true friend who stood by him and tried to help him out. But life had more twists and turns for poor Ben. Some of the questions that had haunted Ben from birth would be answered, and others would change his life forever. Which path would he follow? Would he embrace his illness and find new power or shy away and lose his only friend forever? Who Is Sambo? A Journey of Life Lessons by Stephen Mackey Book signing--5/18/08, 3:00 - 5:00 PM Soul Vegetarian Restaurant 879-A Ralph Abernathy Blvd SW Atlanta, GA 30310 Phone: (404) 752-5194 www.obafemi.org Who Is Sambo? A Journey of Lessons reveals diversities, social stereotypes, and negative attitudes African-Americans have toward one another. The core of the story lets us revisit and understand the genesis of self-hate harbored deep within our minds. Written not just out of need to expose injustices and horrors that occurred in African-American ancestry during chattel slavery, Who Is Sambo? A Journey of Lessons offers an opportunity for blacks and non-blacks to view the conscious and unconscious self-hate African-Americans struggle and overcome in order to prosper and allow a genuine and sincere respect for self as well as others. American Born: A Biography of Joseph John Brozena by Theresa M. Zuba Buckley Author Talk 5/21/08, 7:00 PM Pittston Library 47 Broad Street Pittston, PA 18640 Phone: 570-654-9565, Fax: 570-654-6078 American Born: A Biography of Joseph John Brozena embodies the spirit of the immigrants in early America, as it follows the life of Joseph John Brozena and his family throughout the 1900s in Poland and the United States. One Sista's Pain and Glory by Olynthia Stewart Author Book Signing and Speaking Event 5/24/08, 10:00 AM Women's Conference Houston University Campus This is a true story about a woman whose life went from being a child to having a child in a short amount of time. Olynthia was raped and molested and even had a baby by her own cousin. She entered a world of drugs and alcohol and all the lifestyles that went with it. Find out what happened to her.