Jacqueline West

5PM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 Tween Event | Jacqueline West: Still Life LOCATION: CHANGING HANDS TEMPE

The middle-grade author visits with the fifth and final book in her New York Times bestselling Books of Elsewhere series.

Annabelle McMartin is gone for good, but something worse lurks just out of sight — watching, waiting, preparing to strike. Then a field trip to the local art museum reveals a shock. What Olive discovers will create a chain of events that propel her to discoveries she may not wish to uncover, involving Morton's vanished parents and the very deepest, darkest roots of Aldous McMartin's creepy painted world. In this fifth and final book, Olive must seek the full, complex story of Elsewhere, its magical origins, and its creator, and, in so doing, face her own fears and limitations — and possibly the destruction of Elsewhere itself. How far will Olive go to save the people and home she loves? And what will be the final cost?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jacqueline West is a two-time Pushcart nominee for poetry. She lives amid the bluffs of Red Wing, Minnesota, with her husband and their dog, Brom Bones. This is her fifth novel.

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We’re very please to welcome Jacqueline West for the release of Still Life, the final book in the award-winning The Books of Elsewhere fantasy series for young readers. Beginning with The Shadows, the series follows the adventures of eleven-year-old Olive Dunwoody as she travels to Elsewhere: the world inside the antique paintings on the walls of the old stone house on Linden Street. In Still Life, a field trip to the local art museum reveals a shock: a new painting that moves. Olive discovers it to be a pentimento—a canvas that's been painted over twice. Could the under-painting be a new portal Elsewhere? What Olive finds inside will create a chain of events that propel her to discoveries she may not wish to uncover, involving Morton's vanished parents and the very deepest, darkest roots of Aldous McMartin's painted world. In this fifth and final book, Olive must seek the full, complex story of Elsewhere, its origins, and its creator, and in so doing, face her own fears and limitations—and possibly the destruction of Elsewhere itself. How far will Olive go

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HoverDraft is a recurring live show that features published kid lit authors and illustrators sharing yet-unpublished books. Come witness the maiden flight of works-in-progress! Hosted by author and HoverDraft founder Stephanie Watson. This show is free and open to the public, and a-ok for ages 5 and up.

Featuring: Susan Marie Swanson, author of the Caldecott-winning The House in the Night Jacqueline West author of The Books of Elsewhere series, New York Times bestsellers Mike Wohnoutka, illustrator of Moo, winner of a 2014 MN Book Award

Stephanie Watson, author of The Wee Hours and Elvis & Olive

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Readers ages 8 to 13! Here's your opportunity to meet authors E.J. Altbacker, Adam Gidwitz, Charles London and Jacqueline West. Traveling the country on their Endangered Authors game show tour, they are stopping at Hicklebee's to share their tales and give us the latest scoop on their newest books.

April 24 @ 3:00 (presentation at 3:30)

A two-time Pushcart nominee for poetry, Jacqueline West (www.jacquelinewest.com) came to writing by way of opera (she studied vocal performance) and acting (she worked as an actress at a dinner theatre while earning her degree). The Books of Elsewhere were inspired by a strange old house in Jacqueline’s home town-three floors, cracking paint, sagging porches-that was owned by a professor who created all sorts of odd contraptions. Jacqueline lives with her husband and their dog, Brom Bones (of Sleepy Hollow fame).

C. Alexander London, author of Accidental Adventures, is an award-winning adult nonfiction author under the name Charles London, master SCUBA diver, and a fully licensed children’s librarian. He has watched television in 23 countries, survived an erupting volcano, a hurricane, 4 civil wars, and a mysterious bite on his little toe in the jungles of Thailand.

Adam Gidwitz won the Hicklebee's Book of the Year award for A Tale Dark & Grimm, a fabulously fun and frightening mash-up of several Grimm tales. He is an elementary school teacher in Brooklyn. Though proficient at reading others’ stories aloud, this is his first book. As well as writing the Shark Wars series, E. J. Altbacker is a screenwriter whose credits include work on various television programs including Static Shock, Justice League, Spider-Man, and Extreme Ghostbusters, as well as the upcoming animated Green Lantern. Ernie holds an MFA in screenwriting from the American Film Institute and an undergraduate degree in Marketing from the University of Notre Dame. You can find out more about him at www.SharkWarsSeries.com,

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