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An Evening with Author Jason F. Wright-The Friends of HRLS Annual Meeting

Program Type:

Friends Events

Age Group:

Teens (12+), Adults
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Event Details

Join us for the Friends of Handley Regional Library System's Annual Meeting. After a brief business meeting and presentation by the Friends, Jason Wright will speak and his books will be available for purchase courtesy of The Winchester Book Gallery.

Jason Wright is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling novelist. His work including more than 500 columns have appeared in over 100 newspapers, magazines and web sites across the United States including The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, Deseret News, Forbes, CNN, and Fox News.

A film adaptation of his bestselling novel Christmas Jars was released in 2019. Several other novels are in various stages of film development.

He is also a popular speaker and consultant who speaks and trains on kindness habits, faith, failure, the Christmas Jars movement, the lost art of letter writing, and more. He has been seen on CBS News, CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN, and on dozens of local television stations around the country. Jason has spoken to more than 250K students in school assemblies and writing workshops.

Today Jason and his family live in Woodstock, Virginia. But he’s also lived in Missouri, Germany, Illinois, Virginia, Brazil, Oregon and Utah. He is married to Kodi Erekson Wright. They have two girls and two boys they love, and three grandchildren they love even more.

Titles:

The James Miracle (2004)
Christmas Jars (2005)
The Wednesday Letters (2007)
Recovering Charles (2008)
Christmas Jars Reunion (2009)
Penny’s Christmas Jar Miracle (2009)
The Cross Gardener (2010)
The Seventeen Second Miracle (2010)
The Wedding Letters (2011)
The 13th Day of Christmas (2012)
Picturing Christmas (2013)
The James Miracle: 10th Anniversary Edition (2014)
Christmas Jars Journey (2015)
A Letter to Mary (2016)
Christmas Jars Collector’s Edition (2017)
*Gail Miller’s Memoir — Courage to Be You: Inspiring Lessons from an Unexpected Journey (2018)
The Christmas Doll (2019)
*See, Love, Lift — How Seeing, Loving and Lifting Others Will Change Your Life (2020)
Even the Dog Knows (2022)
*Until You Find Strength: A Message of Comfort for When Your Grief Feels Too Heavy (2022)
*Rise Today: Trusting God and His Promise (2023)

*Nonfiction