April 5 Coffee with award winning authors – free book readings

Book lovers!  A first-ever “Coffee with The Authors” will be held on Saturday, April 5 from 10:30 to noon in the Keys Community Room (lower level) of the Milton Library, 476 Canton Avenue in Milton. Meet four award-winning authors and discover interesting books through author readings and insights!  Syndicated columnist and author Suzette Martinez Standring will moderate the panel.  The free event, sponsored by the Friends of the Milton Library, is open to the public.  The following four authors will be featured on a panel:

Try to Remember

TRY TO REMEMBER is about an immigrant girl coming of age as her father is descending into a frightening and confusing mental illness with a larger story of the complexities that define the immigrant experience in the U.S. today.  AUTHOR IRIS GOMEZ has won praise from O, Oprah and Latina magazines. Try to Remember has been on the Boston Globe’s bestseller’s list and won 2010 and 2011 book awards for popular fiction.

San Rocco

JOURNEY FROM SAN ROCCO is a memoir about a post-World War I widow who leaves three of her four children behind in Italy to travel to America to marry a man she barely knows. Years will pass before she is reunited with her children. It’s a true story based on the author’s grandmother.  AUTHOR ROSALIND CUSHERA won an Honorable Mention at the 2013 New England Book Festival.

The bracelet

THE BRACELET is set in the Middle East where Boston nurse Abby Monroe and New York Times reporter, Nick Sinclair, are entrenched in the middle of a human trafficking ring. AUTHOR ROBERTA GATELY is a nurse, humanitarian aid worker, and writer, and has served in third world war zones ranging from Africa to Afghanistan. She has written on the subject of refugees for the Journal of Emergency Nursing and the BBC World News Online. She also wrote the acclaimed book, Lipstick in Afghanistan.

roxbury crossing

THE RISING AT ROXBURY CROSSING connects 1919’s Boston’s Irish immigrants and Ireland’s guerrilla war of independence through Willie Dwyer, a policeman haunted by his past in Ireland and a secret that his nemesis threatens to expose. AUTHOR JAMES REDFEARN said his late father-in-law once asked, “Can you do some research on my father? He was a Boston Police Officer.” The Department record for the patrolman read: “Mulvey, William J., ABANDONED HIS DUTY, September 9, 1919.” It became the basis for his book.  Mr. Redfearn served in law enforcement and criminal investigation. His stories have been published in Harvard University’s Charles River Review and the New England Writers Network.

For more information, contact Jean Hlady, Adult Services Librarian, at (617) 698-5757 or email: jhlady@ocln.org.  Visit the library’s website, www.miltonlibrary.org