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1455 A Place for Writers Author Series at Handley Regional Library System continues with author Nathan Leslie on January 18^th at 3PM. Leslie will read from his award-winning series, Hurry Up and Relax. Leslie is the recipient of the 2019 Washington Writers Publishing House Fiction Award. Leslie’s nine previous books of fiction include Three Men, Root and Shoot, Sibs, and The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice. He is also the author of a collection of poems, Night Sweat.

Our next author talk will be on October 14^th at 6;30PM at Handley Library. Author Sue Jaffarian will talk about her recent book Finding Zelda and about writing on the road full-time. Jaffarian is the author of three critically acclaimed mystery series:  The Odelia Grey, the Ghost of Granny Apples, and the Madison Rose Vampire Mysteries. She also writes the Winnie Wilde romance series, as well as general fiction and short stories. The program is free and open to the public.

Our next author talk is Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers on September 14^th at 2PM at Handley Library. Author James J. Broomall will show the crisis of the war and a forced a reconfiguration of the emotional worlds of the men who took up arms for the South. The talk will also focus on returning to civilian life and how Southern veterans questioned themselves as never before, sometimes suffering from terrible self-doubt.

Handley Regional Library System and Friends of the Handley Regional Library announce an upcoming author talk  by Ken Woodley, author of A Road to Healing:  A Civil Rights Reparations Story in Prince Edward County, Virginia.  The program is free and open to the public, taking place in the Robinson Auditorium at Handley Library at April 27^th at 2PM.  Books provided for purchase by Winchester Book Gallery.  The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Hand