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To Better suite the needs of our membership we are shifting plans for our GLIBA Virtual Spring Forum. Our bookshops are adapting to this new environment with curbside pick-up, becoming shipping centers, fundraising campaigns, online content providers and much more. Time is a priority and to accommodate this we are spreading Spring Forum out over weeks for you to participate in at your convenience. Instead of one day of Spring Forum we will be hosting online video chats for GLIBA members every Wednesday and releasing a new video from a Spring Forum author each week. All author videos will be sent to our members and hosted on the GLIBA website for future viewings. We hope that this more open virtual forum allows you to attend a chat when you are able and hear about anticipated upcoming authors at your convenience. Spring Forum author presentations will launch every Wednesday. When stay-in-place orders are lifted we will ship galleys to registered booksellers.

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SCHEDULE

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 | 9:00AM - 10:00AM CDT
Bookseller Chat with representatives from Abraham Associates, Candlewick Press, Chronicle Books, Consortium and Haymarket & Author Presentation from Kathleen Rooney, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey (Penguin)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020 | 1:00PM - 2:00PM CDT
Bookseller Chat with representative from BINC & Author Presentation from Connie Schultz, The Daughters of Erietown (Random House)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM CDT
Bookseller Chat & Author Presentation from Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion (HarperCollins)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2020 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM CDT
Bookseller Chat & Author Presentation from Mikkael Sekeres, When Blood Breaks Down (MIT Press)

Wednesday, May 20th, 2020 | 1:00PM - 2:00PM CDT
Bookseller Chat & Author Presentation from Candy J. Cooper, Poisoned Water (Macmillan)

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM CDT
Bookseller Chat & Author Presentation from Natalie Bakopoulos, Scorpion House (Tin House Books)

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FEATURED AUTHORS

Kathleen Rooney - 4/22/20

Connie Schultz - 4/29/20

Sonali Dev - 5/6/20

Kathleen Rooney is the author of the novel Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (St. Martin's Press) and the co-editor of René Magritte: Selected Writings (University of Minnesota Press). She is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. Her previous work includes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Allure, Salon, The Chicago Tribune, The Nation and elsewhere. She teaches English and creative writing at DePaul University and lives in Chicago with her spouse, the writer Martin Seay.
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Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a professional-in-residence in the journalism school at Kent State University, her alma mater. She is the author of two memoirs, Life Happens and …And His Lovely Wife. Schultz lives in Cleveland with her husband, Ohio Senator, Sherrod Brown. They have four children, seven grandchildren and two rescue dogs Franklin and Walter.
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USA Today Bestselling author Sonali Dev writes Bollywood-style love stories that let her explore issues faced by women around the world while still indulging her faith in a happily ever after. Sonali’s novels have been on Library Journal, NPR, Washington Post, and Kirkus’s Best Books of the year lists. She has won the American Library Association’s award for best romance, the RT Reviewer Choice Award for best contemporary romance, multiple RT Seals of Excellence, is a RITA® finalist, and has been listed for the Dublin Literary award. Shelf Awareness calls her “Not only one of the best but one of the bravest romance novelists working today.”
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Mikkael Sekeres - 5/13/20 Premier

Mikkael A. Sekeres, MD is Director of the Leukemia Program at the Cleveland Clinic, where he is also Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair for Clinical Research at the Taussig Cancer Institute. He writes regularly for the Well section of the New York Times.
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Candy J. Cooper & Marc Aronson - 5/20/20 Premier

Candy J. Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. She has been a staff writer for four newspapers, including the Detroit Free Press and the San Francisco Examiner. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. She is also the author of several books for classroom use.

Marc Aronson earned his PhD in American history while beginning his career as an editor and author of books for children and teenagers. The first winner of the Robert L. Sibert medal from the American Library Association and the editor of the tenth winner, he is now a full-time faculty member at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information. He and his wife and sometimes coauthor, Marina Budhos, live in Maplewood, New Jersey. marcaronson.com
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Natalie Bakopoulos - 5/27/20 Premier

Natalie Bakopoulos is the author of the novels Scorpionfish (Tin House, 2020) and The Green Shore (Simon & Schuster, 2012), and her work has appeared in Tin House, VQR, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, Granta, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Mississippi Review, O. Henry Prize Stories, and other publications. She's an assistant professor of creative writing at Wayne State University and a faculty member of the summer program Writing Workshops in Greece.
(edelweiss link)

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FEATURED AUTHORS

From the author of Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors comes another , clever, deeply layered, and heartwarming romantic comedy that follows in the Jane Austen tradition—this time, with a twist on Persuasion.

A heart-tugging and gorgeously written novel based on the incredible true story of a WWI messenger pigeon and the soldiers whose lives she forever altered, from the author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk.

Hidden desires, long-held secrets, and the sacrifices people make for family and to realize their dreams are at the heart of this powerful first novel about people in a small town. By the popular Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

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​The compelling story of the Flint water crisis, as told by Pulitzer Prize finalist Candy J. Cooper and Sibert Medalist Marc Aronson.

​A leading cancer specialist tells the compelling stories of three adult leukemia patients and their treatments, the disease itself, and the drugs developed to treat it. (New York Times)

A captivating and transporting travel novel, Scorpionfish reveals how what we leave behind may be exactly what we've been looking for all along.