The Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation (HMCLF) offers several author events each year to bring awareness to the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. These events are great opportunities for our community to be entertained by, learn from, and engage in meaningful conversation with best-selling authors of every genre. Author events typically consist of a reading or talk by the author, a question & answer period, and end with a book signing.
Some favorite authors from the recent past include Chris Whitaker, Joshilyn Jackson, Tayari Jones, Terah Shelton Harris, and Andy Weir. The Library Foundation loves connecting authors to the great reading community here in Madison County, all while supporting the HMCPL with proceeds from these events.
Join us for Live From the Stacks at South Huntsville Public Library with local newsmen and lifelong readers Steve Johnson and Greg Screws.
Steve and Greg are bringing their love of books to the library for an evening of conversation about the stories they’ve loved, the books they’re reading now, and the ones that have stayed with them over the years. Come listen, share in the conversation, and find a few books to take home from the library.
Tickets are $15, and proceeds benefit YOUR library.
Join us at Madison Public Library on October 19 at 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the release of Up From the Ashes with author Sharon Cameron!
Sharon will share the story behind her newest novel and how she brought this powerful new story to life. Up From the Ashes is a young adult novel, making this a wonderful opportunity for younger readers, families, and longtime fans of Sharon’s work to meet the author and celebrate her new book.
The event is free, but we ask for registration so we can track our headcount.
Want to take home a copy? A $22 ticket includes a copy of Up From the Ashes. Blue Apple Books will also be on site with copies of Sharon’s new release and a selection of her backlist titles available for purchase.
This event is hosted in partnership with Blue Apple Books.
About the Book:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron’s Up From the Ashes is a powerful story of love and survival, based on the true story of Selma Wijnberg and Chaim Engel, two Jewish prisoners at the Sobibor death camp during the Holocaust. Despite unimaginable circumstances, Selma and Chaim fall in love and find hope in one another.
When the prisoners plan a daring escape, Selma and Chaim must fight for their lives. Based on the true story of the Sobibor revolt and escape, Up From the Ashes is a story of courage, survival, and the enduring power of hope.
About the Author:
Sharon Cameron is the #1 NYT bestselling author of seven award-winning novels, including The Light in Hidden Places (2020), Bluebird (2021), and Artiface (2023). Sharon’s books have won the Parents’ Choice Gold Award, the Westchester Fiction Award, the Junior Library Guild’s Gold Standard Award, earned starred reviews from Booklist, SLJ, Book Page and Kirkus, and have been chosen for Indie Next Top Ten, YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults, Audible Best Books, and numerous state award nominations. The Light in Hidden Places was a 2020 Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and has been sold in 19 countries. Please visit Sharon at sharoncameronbooks.com, on Instagram @sharoncameronbooks, facebook.com/sharoncameronbooks, and @CameronSharonE on X.
We’re thrilled to welcome Tayari Jones to the Clyde Foster Multipurpose Room on the campus of Alabama A&M University this October to celebrate her new novel, Kin. Because Kin has been released, we’re opening event tickets now so you can secure your seat and start reading right away.
About Kin:
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood, but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that takes her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life.
About the Author:
Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list and his year-end roundup. It won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award and has been published in two dozen countries. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta.
