Sara Gruen

Wednesday Write-Ins Where: Off the Beaten Path Bookstore, 68 9th Street When: every Wednesday through November From: 5-7pm (although you are welcome anytime we are open) Why: to help you focus, focus, focus and finish your novel for NaNoWriMo! Published NaNoWriMo Authors Erin Morgenstern— The night circus (Doubleday Books 2011) Sara Gruen— Flying Changes (HarperCollins, 2005), Water for Elephants (Algonquin, 2007) and Ape House (Spiegel & Grau, 2010) Hugh Howey— Wool (Random House, 2012) Jessica Burkhart— Take the reins (Simon & Schuster, 2007). Five free paperback copies of a finished book for NaNoWriMo winners! CreateSpace is proud to support NaNoWriMo participants. We invite you to explore easy and rewarding independent publishing; take advantage of free services or choose from our everyday low priced professional service offerings. Get started here. In addition, NaNoWriMo winners can get 5 Free paperback copies of their finished book; details will be posted at CreateSpace after November 1. Visit www.nanowrimo.org to see all of the special offers to the participants of the 2012 November writing event.

Location: Street: 68 9th Steet City: Steamboat Springs, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 80487 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Sara Gruen reads from Ape House.

Enjoy an evening with Sara Gruen [http://www.saragruen.com], New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and the upcoming novel Ape House (see Ms. Gruen discuss Ape House on Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m2A73Y45UMX64I). Event location: Aurora Theatre [http://www.auroratheatre.com/new/], 128 Pike Street, Lawrenceville, GA 30045. 5:30 - 6:30 pm: Special Ticketed Event, Tickets: $45.00 / couple, $35.00 / single guest. Ticket cost includes a signed copy of her newly released novel Ape House, reserved seating, and light refreshments. For tickets: call (770) 978.5154 or visit your local Gwinnett County Public Library branch. 6:30 pm: Doors open to the public (no ticket required). Author discussion & book signing are free, seating is limited. Books for signing will be available for purchase provided by Eagle Eye Book Shop [http://www.eagleeyebooks.com/]. ABOUT SARA GRUEN: Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants has become one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of our time. Readers fell in love with Water for Elephants and its story of Jacob, a young man tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth and Rosie, the untrainable elephant. Published in 2006, Water for Elephants spent 15 weeks in the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list and four years later is still on the best seller list. It is now available in 44 languages with over 3 million copies in print worldwide. The movie version is in the works, starring Reese Witherspoon, Christophe Waltz, and Robert Pattinson (holiday 2010 release). Sara Gruen moved to the United States from Canada in 1999 for a technical writing job. When she got laid off two years later, she decided to try her hand at writing fiction. A devoted animal lover, her first novel, Riding Lessons, explored the intimate and often healing spaces between people and animals and was a USA Today bestseller. She wrote a second novel, Flying Changes, also about horses. In September 2010, Spiegel and Grau / Random House will publish Sara’s next book, Ape House, which features the amazing Bonobo ape. When the apes are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 98.7% of our DNA. Gruen has had a life-long fascination with human-ape discourse, with a particular interest in Bonobo apes. She has studied linguistics and a system of lexigrams in order to communicate with apes, and is one of the few visitors to be allowed access to the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa, where the apes have come to love her. In bringing her experience and research to bear on this novel, she opens the animal world to us as few novelists have done. Ape House is a riveting, funny, compassionate, and, finally, deeply moving new novel that secures Sara Gruen’s place as a master storyteller who allows us to see ourselves as we never have before. Sara Gruen’s awards include the 2007 Book Sense Book of the Year Award, the Cosmo Fun Fearless Fiction Award, the Bookbrowse Diamond Award for Most Popular Book, the Friends of American Literature Adult Fiction Award and the ALA/Alex Award 2007. Sara Gruen lives in the south with her husband, sons, horses, dogs, cats and a goat. “With a showman's expert timing, she saves a terrific revelation for the final pages, transforming a glimpse of Americana into an enchanting escapist fairy tale.” --- The New York Times (jasbro)… (more)

Sara Gruen reads from Ape House.

Sara Gruen, the bestselling author of Water for Elephants, returns with another engaging novel in which a family of apes teaches us what it means to be human. When a family of Bonobo apes are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA. Ape House is a deeply moving new novel that secures Sara Gruen’s place as a master storyteller who allows us to see ourselves as we never have before. (jasbro)… (more)

Byron Public Library discusses Water for Elephants.

This month the book club will be reading the book Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen. Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope. Discussion is open to any and all interested. To reserve your copy, stop at the circulation desk or call the Library. (bookjones)… (more)