Robert Goolrick (1948–2022)

Presented by the Eagle Valley Library District Multiple Author Discussion & Signing Books in Bloom Saturday, May 18 @ 2:00 p.m. Location: The Pines Lodge, Beaver Creek

Join the Eagle Valley Library District for an afternoon with celebrated authors Robert Goolrick, Laura Moriarty and Peter Heller.

Master of Ceremonies: Erik Williams will join us once again as the Books in Bloom Master of Ceremonies. Erik is a self-proclaimed bibliophile. He lives in Eagle-Vail with his wife and children, has a closet dream of one day becoming a librarian, and loves the written word in any form.

Laura Moriarty received her master’s degree from the University of Kansas and was awarded the George Bennett Fellowship for Creative Writing at Phillips Exeter Academy. The author of The Center of Everything, The Rest of Her Life, and While I’m Falling, and The Chaperone. She lives in Lawrence, Kansas. Reading List: The Chaperone, Riverhead Books, 2012 While I’m Falling, Hyperion, 2009 The Rest of Her Life, Hyperion, 2007 The Center of Everything, Hyperion, 2003

Robert Goolrick is the author of A Reliable Wife, Heading out to wonderful, and a memoir, The end of the world as we know it. O, The Oprah Magazine declared Heading out to wonderful “Deliciously dark and dangerous.” We couldn’t agree more! Reading List: Heading out to wonderful, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012 Reliable Wife , Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009 The end of the world as we know it : scenes from a life , Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007

Peter Heller is an award winning adventure writer and the author of four books of literary nonfiction. Heller’s debut novel, The dog stars, was published by Knopf in August, 2012. Reading List: The dog stars, Alfred A. Knopf, 2012 Kook : what surfing taught me about love, life, and catching the perfect wave, Free Press, 2010 The whale warriors : the battle at the bottom of the world to save the planet’s largest mammals, Free Press, 2007 Hell or high water : surviving Tibet’s Tsangpo River, Rodale, 2004 PURCHASE TICKETS AT THE BOOKWORM OF EDWARDS OR ONLINE AT http://booksinbloom.cvlsites.org/ Event will be held at The Pines Lodge in Beaver Creek. Books will be available for purchase at the event from The Bookworm of Edwards. For more information call the Avon Public Library at 970-949-6797 or visit http://booksinbloom.cvlsites.org/.

Location: Street: The Pines Lodge Additional: 141 Scott Hill Road City: Beaver Creek, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 81620 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

"The language in Goolrick's new novel is as beautiful as the romance is tragic. And it's, oh, so tragic. The star-crossed story unfolds before us in slow motion, allowing us to fall deeply in love with the hypnotic former country bumpkin Sylvan Glass, alongside the mysterious stranger, Charlie Beale, as well as Sam Haislitt and Jackie Robinson (the dog) and the entire cast of characters who populate the small town of Brownsburg, Virginia. Post-WWII peace has settled over this sleepy community, and life has returned to some sense of normal, even as it's been slightly altered. Change isn't seen as a bad thing, though it is eyed with suspicion. Neighbors are still nosy and observant, but respect each others' privacy. This reserved nature, however, may be precisely what paves the way for tragedy to strike. And when it does, nothing will be the same for anyone in Brownsburg, least of all young Sam. A powerfully refined, sublimely memorable tale for the ages." --Boswellian Stacie

A former advertising executive, Robert Goolrick is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, A Reliable Wife and the memoir, The End of the World as We Know It. He lives in Virginia with his dog, Preacher, who doesn’t care so much about reading books.

Location: Street: 2559 N Downer Ave City: Milwaukee, Province: Wisconsin Postal Code: 53211-4242 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Robert Goolrick So many of us loved A Reliable Wife, and are excited to congratulate its #1 NY Times bestselling author Robert Goolrick when he visits with his newest blockbuster, Heading out to wonderful. Life is turned on its head by a mysterious stranger when love and obsession strangle a sleepy little Virginia town. SATURDAY, JULY 28 at 2:00 p.m. Anderson's Bookshop Naperville

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We think our Smart Summer Reads program is the perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon. For one hour, you will have an opportunity to particiate in "speed dating" with the authors. At every author station you will learn about the author, their latest book, and answers to your questions. It's Fun. It's Fast. It's Fabulous!

We hope you will join us so that we can introduce you to some new authors, munch a bit, and win some free books! Please call the Redondo Beach store (310.542.6000) to let us know if you plan to attend so that we can plan accordingly. (Thank you!) Headlining our day is Robert Goolrick, the author of the acclaimed A Reliable Wife, who will be talking about his newest book, Heading out to wonderful, which takes place in Brownsburg, Virginia in the summer of 1948. This period piece is based on a true story and will engross you from page one.

For those of you who missed her launch party in May, you will love meeting local author Jill Smolinski. Her latest title, Objects of my affection, is a favorite of Terry’s and features an organizing specialist and her latest client, who is a famous recluse and a hoarder.

Pamela Ribon may be best known for her award-winning “Samanth Who” screenwriting credits, but is also the author of three previous novels. In You take it from here, Danielle Meyers promises her best friend that she will take over her life when she dies, by being a wife to her husband and a mother to her daughter, a premise that defies you to not dive right in.

Heidi Durrow is the acclaimed author of The girl who fell from the sky, the 2009 winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction. Some of you may have met Heidi when she visited the store earlier this year for our Algonquin Book Group event.

Gigi Levangie Grazer was born and raised in LA and is instantly recognizable by the titles of some of her previous work: Maneater, The Starter Wife and the movie Stepmom, for example. The after wife is her fifth novel and will be published just days before our event with her.

Terry and the staff will also be on hand to tell you about their favorite books of the season. And everyone who attends will receive a gift … customized just for them. Other surprises may be in store … so don’t miss this event!

Please contact the Redondo Beach store if you are planning to attend to make sure that we have enough goodies for everyone.

Location: Street: 2810 Artesia Blvd. City: Redondo Beach, Province: California Postal Code: 90278 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Books & Books is thrilled to welcome Robert Goolrick for his much-anticipated second novel Heading out to wonderful. Goolrick is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller A Reliable Wife, which received critical acclaim for its powerful story and has been a Books & Books bestseller year after year. Exciting and erotically charged, this is an altogether unforgettable story of love gone terribly wrong in a place where once upon a time such things could happen. You can count on Goolrick to weave a suspenseful, psychologically acute tale like no one else. Join us for a special event with one of our (and chances are, one of your) favorite authors!

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

A note from Kelly Justice, owner of Fountain:

In 23 years of bookselling, it has been my privilege to be shepherd to many books and advocate of many authors. Thousands at this point.

A small handful stand out like this author and his works.

I rejoice in his success and I look forward to introducing even more readers to Robert Goolrick into the far future.

If you are already a fan, well, I've done my job. If you are not yet...I'm not doing my job well enough.

Here's to hoping you'll join me on this very special night as I share one of the reasons why I got into this business in the first place: to bring to your attention such beautifully, beautifully written words and such a generous and gifted presenter.

My birthday is this week and I could not think of a better present!

Now let's have a party!

Location: Street: 1312 E. Cary St. City: Richmond, Province: Virginia Postal Code: 23219-4118 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

In Heading out to wonderful, an attractive and enigmatic stranger--Charlie Beale, a loner, recently home from the war in Europe--wanders into the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village of only a few hundred people nestled in the Valley of Virginia. He brings with him two suitcases: one contains all his worldly possessions, including a set of butcher's knives; the other is full of money.Charlie quickly finds a job at the local butcher shop and through his work there meets all the townspeople, most notably Sam Haislett, the five-year-old son of the shop's owner, and Sylvan Glass, the beautiful, eccentric teenage bride of the town's richest man. What no one anticipates is how the interaction of these three people will alter the town forever, and how the passion that flares between Charlie and Sylvan will mark young Sam for life.Told through the eyes of Sam, now an older man looking back on that time, this much-anticipated follow-up to "A Reliable Wife "is an exciting, erotically charged, and altogether unforgettable story of love gone terribly wrong in a place where once upon a time such things could happen.

Location: Street: 4139 Park Road Additional: Park Road Shopping Center City: Charlotte, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28209-2229 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the town of Brownsburg, a sleepy village of a few hundred people, nestled in the Valley of Virginia. Finding work at the local butcher shop, Charlie befriends the owner and his family, including the owner’s son, Sam, who he is soon treating as though he were his own flesh and blood. This last encounter sets in motion the events that gives Robert Goolrick’s powerful tale the stark, emotional impact that thrilled fans of his previous novel, A Reliable Wife. Charlie’s attraction to Sylvan Glass turns first to lust and then to a need to possess her, a need so basic it becomes an all-consuming passion that threatens to destroy everything and everyone in its path. Heading out to wonderful (Algonquin, $24.95) is a suspenseful masterpiece, a haunting, heart-stopping novel of obsession and love gone terribly wrong in a place where once upon a time such things could happen.

Presented in collaboration with The Center for Literature and Theater at Miami Dade College.

Location: Street: 265 Aragon Ave City: Coral Gables, Province: Florida Postal Code: 33134-5008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

After hosting Robert Goolrick for a two week writer's residency in February 2011, we’re excited to bring the #1 New York Times bestselling author back to present his latest novel, Heading out to wonderful, which he completed right here in Cayman. It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from the war in Europe, shows up in the sleepy village of Brownsburg, Virginia carrying two suitcases. One contains his few possessions, including a fine set of butcher knives; the other is full of money. A lot of money. When his attraction to Sylvan, the teenage bride of the town’s wealthiest citizen, turns from lust to an all-consuming passion, Charlie’s possessive nature threatens to destroy everything and everyone in its path. This much-anticipated follow-up to A Reliable Wife is an exciting, erotically charged, and altogether unforgettable story of love gone terribly wrong. Part of the Books & Books International Visiting Author Series, this free event is sponsored by Camana Bay, the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism and Sunshine Suites Resort.

Location: Street: 45 Market Street City: Grand Cayman , Country: Cayman Islands (added from IndieBound)… (more)