BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Library Market//iCal Export//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An Evening of Summer Stories featuring Three Bestselling Authors UID:44181 DTSTAMP:20260417T005400Z DTSTART:20260513T020000Z DTEND:20260513T030000Z LOCATION:640 Orange Ave., Coronado, CA 92118, United States ROOM: Winn Room DESCRIPTION:Join the Coronado Public Library for a special summer reads pr ogram 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 televisio n legend Desi Arnaz. This evening will highlight the stories behind Summer State of Mind, The Memory Gardener, and A Book by Desi Arnaz, offering in sight into the inspiration, themes, and creative process behind each work. The program includes an author conversation, audience Q&A, and book si gning. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, f irst-seated, subject to availability. Limited preferred seating is availab le with purchase of the newest release of one of the authors through Adve ntures by the Book. Please visit https://adventuresbythebook.com/calendar -event/summer-reads-5-12-26/ for more information. About Kristy Woodson H arveyKristy Woodson Harvey is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishe rs 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 ac colades, including Good Morning America’s Buzz Pick.Kristy is the co-cre ator and co-host of the hit weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fict ion with fellow New York Times bestselling authors Mary Kay Andrews, Krist in Harmel, and Patti Callahan Henry, which boasts more than three hundred thousand members. She is also the co-founder of the award-winning interior s site Design Chic, with her mom, Beth Woodson..Her new novel, Summer Stat e of Mind, proves that “Kristy Woodson Harvey is (the) go-to for eleva ted 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 g uided 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 crea tive 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 memoi r and now features exclusive new material including excerpts from Desi Arn az’s uncompleted and unpublished second memoir, a Foreword by granddaugh ter Kate Luckinbill, a new Afterword by daughter Lucie Arnaz, as well as n ew photos throughout. About Meg DonohueMeg Donohue is the USA Today best selling 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 translate d into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Tu rkish. Meg has an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Dartmouth Col lege.Her debut novel, How to Eat a Cupcake hit number 1 on the NookBook b estseller list and was a Boston Globe bestseller. Her second novel, All th e Summer Girls, was a USA Today, Amazon, and Apple Books bestseller and wa s 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, w as 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 th e 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 warmt h and humor about love, hope, family, friendship, loss, and forgiveness. S he 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 Memo ry Gardener is a cozy tale of the power of memory and the nourishing magic of gardens. URL:https://coronado.librarycalendar.com/event/hold-44181 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR