Upcoming Event
Find your spark at the 2024 L.A. Times Festival of Books, April 20-21 on the USC campus. It’s the country’s largest literary festival and admission is FREE. Stay tuned — the full schedule is coming soon.
Check out last year’s highlights.
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Book Signing Schedules
April 20 - Saturday Schedule
10:00 am to 11:00 am - Author
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11:00 am to 12:00 pm - Author
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12:00 pm to 2:00 pm - Penny Clauss
Author : Penny Clauss
Book : Time Stealers
Book Summary :
Even after hundreds of years as a Time Keeper, Grant Stone still doesn’t know much about his charges, the shadowy aliens known as Time Wraiths who live in clockwork clocks. Like the other Keepers in the world, he is only aware that these mysterious beings can devastatingly affect humanity by altering the perception of time. Because of this, their jobs are to keep mechanical clocks working for the good ones to live in and trap the bad ones in clockwork vaults to protect the world. This all changes when someone enters Grant’s life. A type of Keeper that had never existed before reveals more about the Time Wraiths than they had ever known, and uncovers a danger that lurks nearby that threatens wraiths and humans alike. Can Grant convince the other Keepers of this approaching danger as he observes a sudden change in the wraith’s behavior after centuries of living with them?
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm - Barry I. Gold
Author : Barry I. Gold
Book : We’re Overdosed
Book Summary :
We’re Overdosed looks at the history of opium and the drug’s spread throughout the world. It traces the origin of morphine from opium, the subsequent synthesis of opioids, and the birth of the global pharmaceutical industry. From Barry I. Gold’s point of view as a scientist, he offers thoughts about gaining control of prescription opioids through Federal legislation. With the tragic epidemic of deaths from overdose, chiefly from illicit sources, he shares how the U.S. could lead in eradicating world trade of illicit drugs. The story also looks forward and asks how new treatments offer hope in treating addiction.
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm - Enrico Miguel Thomas
Author : Enrico Miguel Thomas
Book : My Magic Dreadlocks
Book Summary :
My Magic Dreadlocks is about an explorative and planetary journey through the universe. Join Malik on his spiritual journey as he rediscovers himself, regaining newfound confidence through the cosmic downloads from his dreadlocks!
April 21 - Sunday Schedule
10:00 am to 11:00 am | Author
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11:00 am to 12:00 pm - Author
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12:00 pm to 1:00 pm - Author
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1:00 pm to 2:00 pm - Edwin Torres
Author : Edwin Torres
Book : Soul Dates
Book Summary :
Soul Dates is a book of 50 love and romance poems full of so much passion and sentiment that it will touch the heart and soul of the reader.
This book is a celebration of love in all its forms and is perfect for anyone looking to connect with their emotions or find inspiration for their own creative endeavors. I believe that “Soul Dates” will provide a touching and memorable reading experience for all who indulge in its pages.
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm - Simon I. Perlsweig
Author : Simon I. Perlsweig
Books: Coffee Shops Musing
Front Porches to Front Lines
Book Summary:
Coffee Shops Musing – Without a great deal of difficulty, it is safe to surmise that most people in this world have on at least one occasion engaged in the timeless and noble art of people watching. Whether it be at the airport during a long layover, in a restaurant while waiting for that overdue meal to show up, in a classroom while your classmates and instructor file in after you’ve been there already for at least ten minutes or somewhere else, it’s moments like these that little thoughts begin to float across your mind.
Front Porches to Front Lines – World War One and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic. Two events which will always define the 1910s, a decade which saw great political and social change; a long list of disasters and a realignment of the global stage, something which would help define many of the subsequent events of the twentieth century. When the United States declared war on Germany on April 2, 1917, it was just the first of two major calamities which would in someway impact just about every American man, woman and child during the latter half of the 1910s.
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm - Enrico Miguel Thomas
Author : Enrico Miguel Thomas
Book : My Magic Dreadlocks
Book Summary :
My Magic Dreadlocks is about an explorative and planetary journey through the universe. Join Malik on his spiritual journey as he rediscovers himself, regaining newfound confidence through the cosmic downloads from his dreadlocks!
April 20-21 at 10am to 7pm
University of Southern California
3351 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089
