A Glimpse of the Past: Exploring the Lives of Women Through Fiction

Room: North Wing Music Room, 2nd Floor | Moderator: Bob Hoover | 10:15 AM - 11:15 PM

After the presentation, attendees are welcome to purchase a book and/or get their book signed by the author in the Research & Information room on the 2nd floor of the library.

Pre-registration is extremely helpful for planning purposes, but is not required. Pre-registered attendees will get priority seating in the event of limited seating. Walk-ins are welcome if capacity allows.

Description

Explore historical fiction with Marie Bostwick, Brianna Labuskes, and Ashton Lattimore as they talk about their most recent publications. Readers are invited to return to the past on their historical journeys from pre-Civil War Philadelphia, to Depression-era mining towns of Montana, to 1960s suburban Virginia.

Biography

Marie Bostwick is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than twenty works of contemporary and historical fiction. Her latest novel, The Book Club For Troublesome Women, (Harper Muse, April 22 2025, received a starred review from Library Journal and has been included on Book Bub’s “Must Read Books for Spring” list. Marie lives in Washington state.

Brianna Labuskes is the USA Today bestselling author of the historical novels The Librarian of Burned Books, The Lost Book of Bonn, and The Boxcar Librarian, as well as a dozen thrillers. For the first decade of her career, Brianna worked as a journalist for national news organizations covering politics and policy. She now resides in Pennsylvania with her dog, Jinx.

Ashton Lattimore is an award-winning author, journalist, and former lawyer. Her debut novel, All We Were Promised, was a Book of the Month Club pick, and an NPR and Washington Post best book of the year. As a journalist, she was editor-in-chief of Prism, a nonprofit news outlet whose work centers on communities of color. Her writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, Slate, and CNN.