Megan Shepherd

MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOOK GROUP

Our Mother-Daughter Book Club is aimed at daughters ages 13-16 and their moms. This time we’ll discuss The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shepherd. Read the book together, then come ready to share your thoughts. New members are welcome. Please RSVP by calling our Downers Grove store at (630) 963-2665. SATURDAY, MAY 17 at 2:00 PM Bello Tea, 5111 Main St. in Downers Grove

Location: Street: Anderson's Bookshop Downers Grove Additional: 5112 Main Street City: Downers Grove, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60515 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Young adult authors Jessica Spotswood, Megan Shepherd, Alexandra Duncan, and Tiffany Trent join us for this exciting event. Their books cover many New Worlds through steampunk,alternate history, dystopian, and historical fantasy, but all have a strong sense of place. Jessica Spotswood is the author of The Cahill Witch Chronicles: Born Wicked, Star Cursed, and Sister’s Fate (due out in August 2014!). Asheville author Megan Shepherd is the author of The Madman’s Daughter and Her Dark Curiosity. Local author Alexandra Duncan, fresh off her book launch, is the author of Salvage. Tiffany Trent is the author of The Unnaturalists and The Tinker King.

Location: Street: 55 Haywood St City: Asheville, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28801 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Fall in love with young adult literature at Malaprop’s! The lovely ladies of the The Lovestruck Tour—Megan Shepherd, Megan Miranda, Robin Constantine, and Kasie West—make a stop in Asheville to talk about their new books. Asheville’s own Megan Shepherd is the author of The Madman’s Daughter and now Her Dark Curiosity. Megan Miranda is the author of Fracture, Hysteria, and Vengeance. Robin Constantine is the author of The Promise of Amazing, and Kasie West is the author of Pivot Point, The Distance Between Us, and Split Second.

Location: Street: 55 Haywood St City: Asheville, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28801 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Megan Shepherd Stephanie Perkins Jessica Khoury

Young Adult novelists, Megan Shepherd, Jessica Khoury and Stephanie Perkins will visit City Lights Bookstore on Saturday, February 8th at 3 p.m. for a panel discussion on YA literature and to present their work. These writers are among some of the staff favorites here at the bookstore and we are excited about having them at the store. Megan Shepherd’s, Her Dark Curiosity, the second book of The Madman’s Daughter Trilogy, will be out January 28th and explores the hidden natures of those we love and how far we'll go to save them from themselves. Megan lives in Asheville. Stephanie Perkins is the author of Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door and Isla and the Happily Ever After which will be out in May. Stephanie also lives in Asheville. Jessica Khoury is the author of Origin and Vitro which will be released on January 14th. Vitro is a death-defying tropical adventure delivers a frightening message about dabbling with creation. On Skin Island, even the laws of Creation can be broken. On a remote island in the Pacific, Corpus scientists have taken test tube embryos and given them life. These beings—the Vitros—have knowledge and abilities most humans can only dream of. But they also have one enormous flaw. Jessica lives in Columbia, SC.

Location: Street: 3 East Jackson Street City: Sylva, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28779 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Join us for a reading and discussion with some of today’s most dynamic and inventive writers of books for young adults. Ellen Oh’s Warrior (Harper), part of the Dragon King Chronicles, stars Kira the slayer and Stephanie Perkins’s Lola and the Boy Next Door (Dutton) features a costume designer with complicated friends. Victoria Schwab’s Mackenzie in The Unbound (Disney-Hyperion) is a Keeper in the archive of the dead, while Megan Shepherd’s Juliet in Her Dark Curiosity (Balzer + Bray) is just returned—barely—from Dr. Moreau’s deadly island. Jessica Spotswood’s Cate in Star Cursed (Penguin) is a witch facing an impossible choice. Teens are doing amazing things in fiction these days. Ages 15 and up.

Street: Bethesda Library Additional: 7400 Arlington Rd City: Bethesda, Province: Maryland Postal Code: 20814 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Our first YA book-love fest...we mean, author event of 2014! If you want other books autographed by these authors, please place an online order and indicate your request for an autograph in the comments section. Thanks! Owner, Kelly Justice, will moderate a lively discussion on pushing boundaries in Young Adult fiction. Megan Shepherd grew up in her family's independent bookstore, Highland Books in Brevard, NC. The travel bug took her from London to Timbuktu and many places in between, though she ended up back in North Carolina with her husband and two cats, and she wouldn't want to live anywhere else. The Madman's Daughter and Her Dark Curiosity are her first novels. Inspired by The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Her Dark Curiosity--the tantalizing sequel to Megan Shepherd's gothic suspense novel, The Madman's Daughter--explores the hidden natures of those we love and how far we'll go to save them from themselves. Back in London after her trip to Dr. Moreau's horrific island, Juliet is rebuilding the life she once knew and trying to forget her father's legacy. But soon it's clear that someone--or something--hasn't forgotten her, as people close to Juliet start falling victim to a murderer who leaves a macabre calling card of three clawlike slashes. Has one of her father's creations also escaped the island? As Juliet strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness, she finds herself once more in a world of scandal and danger. Her heart torn in two, past bubbling to the surface, life threatened by an obsessive killer--Juliet will be lucky to escape alive. Victoria Schwab (www.VictoriaSchwab.com) is the author of several novels, including, "The Near Witch"-which "Kirkus" praised for its "shivery horror tang" and "extraordinary sense of place"-and "The Archived," of which "The Horn Book" said "Schwab writes of death, sorrow, and family love with a light, intelligent touch and inventive vigor, and provides romance with a pleasing edge of unpredictability." When she is not wandering through foreign countries, Victoria can usually be found tucked in the corner of a coffee shop in Nashville, sipping tea and dreaming of monsters. About The Archived series: Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Last summer, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, almost lost her life to one. Now, as she starts her junior year at Hyde School, she's struggling to get her life back. But moving on isn't easy -- not when her dreams are haunted by what happened. She knows the past is past, knows it cannot hurt her, but it feels so real, and when her nightmares begin to creep into her waking hours, she starts to wonder if she's really safe. Stephanie Perkins (www.stephanieperkins.com) lives in Asheville, North Carolina. She has always worked with books—first as a bookseller, then as a librarian, and now as a novelist. In Lola and the Boy Next Door, two teens discover that true love may be closer than they think. Budding designer Lola Nolan doesn't believe in fashion . . . she believes in costume. The more expressive the outfit—more sparkly, more fun, more wild—the better. But even though Lola's style is outrageous, she's a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And everything is pretty perfect (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the dreaded Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket, return to the neighborhood. When Cricket—a gifted inventor—steps out from his twin sister's shadow and back into Lola's life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door.

Location: Street: 1312 E. Cary St. City: Richmond, Province: Virginia Postal Code: 23219-4118 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Four talented young adult authors will share with us the secrets behind their craft and will discuss why they love writing. Meet the authors and have your books signed! April Genevieve Tucholke and her husband -- a librarian, former rare-book dealer, and journalist--live in Oregon. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is her first novel. It is a gothic thriller romance with shades of Stephen King and F. Scott Fitzgerald, set against a creepy summertime backdrop. Kirkus Reviews calls it "A rich blend of gothic horror and modern romance, studded with nods toward literary, cinematic and musical classics. A lush setting and provocative characters elevate this debut above others." Meagan Spooner has traveled with her family all over the world to places like Egypt, South Africa, the Arctic, Greece, Antarctica, and the Galapagos, and there's a bit of every journey in the stories she writes. Shadowlark is the 2nd book in Meagan's dystopian Skylark series, whichBooklist describes as "even stronger and more gripping than the debut and is sure to ensnare further loyal readers." In addition to writing The Skylark Trilogy, Meagan is the co-author of the forthcoming These Broken Stars with Amie Kaufman. Gwenda Bond is the author of the YA novels Blackwood, The Woken Gods, and the forthcoming Girl on a Wire (2014). Blackwood is currently in development as a TV series from MTV, Grammnet and Lionsgate TV. She is a contributing writer for Publishers Weekly, her non-fiction work has appeared in the Washington Post and she has been a guest on NPR's Weekend Edition. She lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband, author Christopher Rowe. Kirkus Reviews reports that The Woken Gods"...transforms mythology from a boring school subject into a tangible, engaging story."

Megan Shepherd is one of our favorite local writers! She grew up in her family's independent bookstore in North Carolina. An avid reader and world traveler who spent several years in the Peace Corps, Megan now lives with her husband in Asheville, North Carolina. The Madman's Daughter is based on H.G. Wells's "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and told from the point of view of the mad doctor's 16-year-old daughter. School Library Journal describes it as a "dark novel that blends the basic premise of the original with new insights, characters, and terror." The sequel, Her Dark Curiosity, is due out in January.

Location: Street: 55 Haywood St City: Asheville, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28801 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Beth Revis Carrie Ryan Megan Shepherd We have rescheduled this event for March 30! On Saturday, March 30 at 12:00 p.m. City Lights Bookstore will host three terrific Young Adult authors for a reading and panel discussion. Beth Revis, Carrie Ryan and Megan Hansen Shepherd will discuss their work and read from their new books.

Beth Revis is the author the Across the Universe series and will present her latest installment, Shades of Earth. Carrie Ryan is the author of the Forest of Hands and Teeth series and has also been included in some recent YA short story collections. Asheville resident, Megan Hansen Shepherd will present her first novel, The Madman’s Daughter, which is the first book of a trilogy.

These authors are among the favorites of some of the staff here at City Lights so come early to get a seat and don’t miss out on the chance to meet these talented writers. To reserve copies of their books please call City Lights Bookstore at 828-586-9499.

Location: Street: 3 East Jackson Street City: Sylva, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28779 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Lenore Appelhans is the debut author of a YA novel Level 2 (due January 15, 2013 from Simon and Schuster BFYR in the US, Usborne in the UK and Allen & Unwin in AUST/NZ) as well as a picture book CHICK-O-SAURUS REX (under the name Lenore Jennewein) with her husband, illustrator Daniel Jennewein (due Summer 2013 from Simon and Schuster BFYR).

Megan Shepherd grew up in her family's independent bookstore in North Carolina. An avid reader and world traveler who spent several years in the Peace Corps, Megan now lives with her husband in Asheville, North Carolina. The Madman's Daughter is her first novel.

Jodi Meadows lives and writes in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, with her husband, a Kippy*, and an alarming number of ferrets. She is a confessed book addict, and has wanted to be a writer ever since she decided against becoming an astronaut.

*A Kippy is a cat.

Meagan Spooner grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day, while dreaming about life as an archaeologist, a marine biologist, an astronaut. She graduated from Hamilton College in New York with a degree in playwriting, and has spent several years since then living in Australia. She’s traveled with her family all over the world to places like Egypt, South Africa, the Arctic, Greece, Antarctica, and the Galapagos, and there’s a bit of every trip in every story she writes.

She currently lives and writes in Northern Virginia, but the siren call of travel is hard to resist, and there’s no telling how long she’ll stay there.

In her spare time she plays guitar, plays video games, plays with her cat, and reads. Meagan Spooner is the author of Skylark, the first in a young adult fantasy trilogy available NOW from Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Books. She is also the co-author of THESE BROKEN STARS, the first in a young adult science fiction trilogy forthcoming from Disney Hyperion (Fall 2013).

Join us in welcoming FOUR extraordinary new talents in the young adult fiction world. Please join us for an evening of celebration of these hot new titles and their wonderful authors!!!

Location: Street: 1312 E. Cary St. City: Richmond, Province: Virginia Postal Code: 23219-4118 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)