Ann Hood

Join us for a bit of lunch at Panera Bread Company in the Charleston Town Center Mall (Charleston, West Virginia) as we discuss our February read The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood. Our group meets from 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET in the Community Room. Books are available at the Kanawha County Public Library - Main, just mention the mall book group.

This book group is co-sponsored by the Charleston Town Center Mall and the Kanawha County Public Library. (BookDivasReads)… (més)

Ann Hood is the author of the bestselling novels THE RED THREAD, THE KNITTING CIRCLE and SOMEWHERE OFF THE COAST OF MAINE. Her memoir, COMFORT: A JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF, in which she shares her personal story of losing her 5 year old daughter Grace in 2002, was a New York Times Editor's Choice and named one of the top 10 non-fiction books of 2008. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Ann Hood will be speaking at the Billerica Public Library on Thursday, April 16 at 7pm.

Location: Billerica Public Library Street: 15 Concord Rd City: Billerica, Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Some of the best writers in New England join us for an event centered on memory, grief, history, family. Join us for discussion on these topics!

Richard Hoffman is author, most recently, of the memoir Love & Fury, a finalist for the New England Book Award from the New England Independent Booksellers Association. He is also author of the celebrated Half the House: a Memoir, and the poetry collections, Without Paradise, Gold Star Road, winner of the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club, and Emblem. A fiction writer as well, his Interference & Other Stories was published in 2009. A past Chair of PEN New England, he is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College.

Spanning the course of three wars and almost a century, An Italian Wife: A Novel by Ann Hood, best-selling author of The Obituary Writer and The Knitting Circle, is a multi-generational saga chronicling the story of the Rimaldi family, from the first generation who immigrated to the United States from Italy on the cusp of the twentieth century to their great grandchildren. This is the American experience writ small, explored through the lens of one immigrant family. Beautifully written and deeply emotional, it will thrill fans and critics alike.

Winner of the 2000 New England Book Award, which recognizes a literary body of work's contribution to the region, Suzanne Strempek Shea began writing fiction in her spare time while working as reporter for the Springfield (Massachusetts) Newspapers and The Providence (Rhode Island) Journal.

She is the author of five novels: Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, Around Again, and Becoming Finola, published by Washington Square Press. She has also written three memoirs, Songs From a Lead-lined Room: Notes - High and Low - From My Journey Through Breast Cancer and Radiation; Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama and Other Page-Turning Adventures From a Year in a Bookstore; and Sundays in America: A Yearlong Road Trip in Search of Christian Faith.

Helen Peppe returns to share Pigs Can't Swim: A Memoir, an outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir of childhood by the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family.

Location: Street: 45 S Main St Additional: City: Concord , Province: New Hampshire Postal Code: 03301 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Join us on Sunday, November 2 at 3pm, when Ann Hood reads from her most recent novel, An Italian Wife.

Ann Hood is the author of six works of fiction, including the bestseller The knitting circle and, most recently, The Obituary Writer, as well as a memoir, Comfort. She is also the editor of Knitting yarns: Writers on Knitting. The winner of two Pushcart prizes as well as Best American Food Writing, Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Spiritual Writing awards, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Location: Street: 65 Main Street City: Concord, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 01742-2503 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

The Bookworks Knitting Group takes a new shape. This time around we will center each meeting on a knitting related book. To start this pattern of read, knit, discuss purl, we will read Knitting yarns by Ann Hood. Join us for a relaxed hour or so of stitching and conversation. More info: kids@bkwrks.com

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Literary Orange A Celebration of Authors, Readers, & Libraries Keynote Speakers: Ann Hood and Marlo Thomas Presented by OC Public Libraries, Literary Orange offers attendees and fans the opportunity to listen and engage with an exciting array of authors, have books signed, ask questions, learn about the writing process, and, of course, buy books from event bookseller Mysterious Galaxy. Literary Orange 2014 will feature keynote speakers Ann Hood and Marlo Thomas, along with 15 panel discussion sessions featuring authors covering a variety of genres including Mystery, YA, Food, Media, Memoir, Poetry, and Romance. This daylong celebration of literature includes morning refreshments, a delicious lunch, and a late afternoon dessert. More information about this event can be found at www.literaryorange.org.

Ann Hood Marlo Thomas

Location: Street: Irvine Marriott Additional: 18000 Von Karman Avenue City: Irvine , Province: California Postal Code: 92612 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Why does knitting occupy a place in the hearts of so many writers? What is so magical and transformative about yarn and needles? How does knitting help us get through life-changing events and inspire joy? In Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, Ann Hood has collected original essays by twenty-seven writers including Anita Shreve, Elizabeth Berg, Ann Patchett, Barbara Kingsolver and our beloved Martha Frankel, Executive Director of the Woodstock Writers Festival. Knitting Yarns tells stories about how knitting healed, challenged, or helped these writers grow. Andre Dubus III tells how knitting a Christmas gift for his blind aunt helped him knit an understanding with his girlfriend. Kaylie Jones finds the woman who cared for her as a child by using knitting to heal old wounds. Sue Grafton writes about her passion for knitting. And knitting goddess Helen Bingham has created five original patterns for the anthology. Poignant, funny, and moving, Knitting Yarns is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike.

Ann Hood is the author, most recently, of The Obituary Writer, as well as bestsellers The Red Thread and The Knitting Circle. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Location: Street: 29 Tinker St Additional: City: Woodstock, Province: New York Postal Code: 12498 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a secure marriage or to follow the man she loves. Decades earlier, in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. The surprising connection between these two women will change Claire’s life in unexpected and extraordinary ways.

"It is a rare novelist who can summon the creative nerve to plumb the depths of grief, but that's just what Ann Hood does here with such compassion and grace."--Andre Dubus III, author of Townie and The House of Sand and Fog

"Hood's language is fine and supple, the settings are lusciously rendered, the melancholy air is seductive... and her intricate inquiry into grief, guilt and love is haunting."--Booklist

"Hood's fluent storytelling and empathy will ensure popularity."--Kirkus

Ann Hood is the best-selling author of The Red Thread, Comfort, and The knitting circle, among other works. She has been the recipient of a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Location: Street: 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW City: Albuquerque, Province: New Mexico Postal Code: 87107-3157 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Marcia De Sanctis, Ann Hood, Abbie Kozolchyk, and Carol Reichert, contributors to The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World, discuss the latest volume in the travel writing series.

Any woman whose passport has been stamped a few times knows the surest method of keeping her travel fire alive: by reading and telling stories from the road, passing them along like a torch in a relay race.

From Travelers’ Tales comes The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World, edited by Lavinia Spalding—the eighth collection in the annual best-selling, award-winning series that invites readers to ride shotgun alongside intrepid female nomads as they travel the world to discover new places, people, and facets of themselves. The stories in this year’s edition are as diverse as the geographic locations, the common thread being fresh, compelling storytelling from a woman’s perspective aimed at making readers laugh, weep, wish they were there, or be glad they weren’t.

In The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 8, readers will:
Fend off angry bulls on a mountaintop in Kyrgyzstan
Start a new life in a boat on the Ganges
Climb the Great Wall with a 9-month-old and a 91-year-old
Battle it out with an alter ego in a jungle in Mexico
Learn about survival in a slum in Rio de Janeiro
Walk the Camino de Santiago from France to Spain
Find romance in a strip club in Oman and a boat in Belize
Discover family in Sicily, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Zambia … and much more. (bostonian71)… (més)