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Selections from opera favorites performed by The Living Opera & dedication of The Susan Hirsch Opera Collection.

For teens in 6th through 12th grades. Bring your favorite realistic fiction title f or a fun book discussion. Find out who enjoys your favorite authors or stories.

Noted local author Carol J. Adams will speak about her forthcoming book How to Eat Like a Vegetarian Even if You Never Want to Be One: More than 250 shortcuts, strategies and simple solutions.

I will be signing Courage in Patience. Hope to see you there!

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Children in kindergarten through 4th grade can read aloud to Heart of Texas Therapy Dogs. Bring a book from home or borrow one from the library. For more information, call the Children's Department at 972-744-4358. No registration is required.

Macavity-award-winning mystery author Deborah Crombie will speak and sign autographs at the Grand Prairie Main Library at 7 pm on Thursday, September 25. Author of 11 mystery novels, she is currently at work on her 12th, from her home in McKinney, Texas. Deborah's topic will be "Why a Nice Girl from ... (more)Texas Writes Brit Lit". She will discuss her life-long love affair with Britain, and the mystery novels that allow her to indulge that passion, with a special emphasis on Where Memories Lie, the twelfth book in the acclaimed Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series." The Dallas Morning News said Deborah has an uncanny affinity for the English detective genre…Her characters are three-dimensional and are drawn with compassion and sensitivity.

Summary of Story: After six years of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse from her stepfather, 15-year-old Ashley finally finds the courage to reveal the painful details of her experiences with her mother, who refuses to acknowledge the problem and turns her back on her daughter. After confiding ... (more)in her teacher—the only adult whom Ashley can trust—she is removed from her home and sent to live with her father and his second wife, Beverly, an English teacher. Nurtured by Beverly, an extraordinarily positive influence in her life, Ashley and a summer school class of troubled teens learn to face their fears and discover who they really are. Short Bio: Beth Fehlbaum, an experienced English teacher, drew on her experiences as a teacher and as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse to craft the fictional story of a teen girl's first foray into recovery from sexual abuse. She wrote Courage in Patience to give hope to anyone who has to face their greatest fears and find out what they're made of. Author Websites & Contact Info: http://courageinpatience.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/bethfehlbaum beth@bethfehlbaum.com