An Evening of Summer Stories featuring Three Bestselling Authors

Join the Coronado Public Library for a special summer reads program in partnership with Adventures by the Book, featuring New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey, USA Today bestselling novelist Meg Donohue, and special guest Kate Luckinbill, granddaughter of television legend Desi Arnaz. This evening will highlight the stories behind Summer State of Mind, The Memory Gardener, and A Book by Desi Arnaz, offering insight into the inspiration, themes, and creative process behind each work.

The program includes an author conversation, audience Q&A, and book signing. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-seated, subject to availability. Limited preferred seating is available with purchase of the newest release of one of the authors through Adventures by the Book. Please visit https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar-event/summer-reads-5-12-26/ for more information. 

About Kristy Woodson Harvey

Kristy Woodson Harvey is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of a dozen novels including Beach House Rules and The Peachtree Bluff Series. A Happier Life is in development for film with MGM/Amazon, The Summer of Songbirds is in development for television with Hulu, and many of her other projects are in various stages of option or development for film and television. Her work has received numerous accolades, including Good Morning America’s Buzz Pick.

Kristy is the co-creator and co-host of the hit weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction with fellow New York Times bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry, which boasts more than three hundred thousand members. She is also the co-founder of the award-winning interiors site Design Chic, with her mom, Beth Woodson..

Her new novel, Summer State of Mind, proves that “Kristy Woodson Harvey is (the) go-to for elevated beach reads,” (People) when we learn that with love, understanding – and a community theater production of Hello, Dolly! – sometimes life conspires to bring us just exactly where we belong.

About Kate Lukinbill

Kate Luckinbill has spent her life surrounded by show business and that guided her initial foray into acting. She graduated from the University of Miami Theater Conservatory and wrote and performed her own one-woman show, before retiring from the stage and entering the corporate world as a creative recruiter for the Fortune 50. She has since found the balance of both worlds, working with her mother Lucie while also creating media.

A Book by Desi Arnaz is an expanded edition of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now features exclusive new material including excerpts from Desi Arnaz’s uncompleted and unpublished second memoir, a Foreword by granddaughter Kate Luckinbill, a new Afterword by daughter Lucie Arnaz, as well as new photos throughout.

About Meg Donohue

Meg Donohue is the USA Today bestselling author of You, Me, and the Sea, Every Wild Heart, Dog Crazy, All the Summer Girls, and How to Eat a Cupcake. Her novels have been translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. Meg has an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Dartmouth College.

Her debut novel, How to Eat a Cupcake hit number 1 on the NookBook bestseller list and was a Boston Globe bestseller. Her second novel, All the Summer Girls, was a USA Today, Amazon, and Apple Books bestseller and was hailed as a great summer read by People magazine. Her third novel, Dog Crazy, was an Amazon bestseller, and her fourth novel, Every Wild Heart, was named a Top 10 Women’s Fiction Novel of 2017 by the American Library Association. Publishers Weekly called Meg’s fifth novel, You, Me, and the Sea, “first-rate women’s fiction” and Parade magazine hailed it as 1 of 12 Big Fiction Reads Every Book Club Will Love.

Meg writes with warmth and humor about love, hope, family, friendship, loss, and forgiveness. She has a deep affinity for animals, especially dogs and horses, and she’s never stepped into a garden or onto a beach she doesn’t love. The Memory Gardener is a cozy tale of the power of memory and the nourishing magic of gardens.