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  East Anaheim Library Talks & Treats  

October 26
Book discussion & Skype with author
This session will be held at Canyon Hills Library

The Other Einstein

Marie Benedict
Pages: 304
Format: Book

In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special...

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November 30
2013 Pushcart Prize, shortlisted

The Kept

James Scott
Format: Book

Set in rural New York state at the turn of the twentieth century, superb new talent James Scott makes his literary debut with The Kept - a propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Michael Ondaatje, Cormac McCarthy, and Bonnie Jo Campbell, in which a mother and her young son embark...

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December 14
2006 CNWF/FFWA Florida State Writing Prize
Holiday Potluck meeting

The Pecan Man

Cassie Dandridge Selleck
Format: Book

In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can Man their mothers call them inside whenever he appears. When the police chiefs son is found stabbed to death near his camp,...

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