{"id":18097,"date":"2012-10-09T10:13:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=18097"},"modified":"2012-10-23T10:26:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T14:26:22","slug":"join-uc-libraries-at-books-by-the-banks-october-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2012\/10\/join-uc-libraries-at-books-by-the-banks-october-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Join UC Libraries at Books by the Banks October 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2012\/10\/09\/join-uc-libraries-at-books-by-the-banks-october-20\/4cpossmcropped2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18098\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-18098\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"4cpossmcropped2\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/4cpossmcropped2-191x190.jpg\" alt=\"Join UC Libraries at Books by the Banks October 20\" width=\"191\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/4cpossmcropped2-191x190.jpg 191w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/4cpossmcropped2-155x153.jpg 155w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/4cpossmcropped2.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>Join UC Libraries and celebrate the joy of reading and books at the 6th annual <strong>Books by the Banks: Cincinnati USA Book Festival<\/strong>, Saturday, October 20, from 10am to 4pm at the Duke Energy Convention Center downtown. <!--more-->The day-long festival will feature over 100 regional and national\u00a0 authors, book signings, author panels and book talks, plus activities for the entire family to\u00a0 enjoy in the Kids&#8217; Corner presented by The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr.\/U.S. Bank Foundation. <strong>All events are free and open to the public<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At the\u00a0 festival, attendees will have the opportunity to meet authors and to purchase\u00a0 signed copies of their books. Books by the Banks features writers in various\u00a0categories including fiction, non-fiction, cooking, children&#8217;s literature, local\u00a0 travel, sports, and more. Nationally known authors such as Gillian Flynn (<em>Gone Girl<\/em>), Karl Marlantes (<em>What It Is Like to Go to War<\/em>), Katherine Howe (<em>The House of Velvet and Glass<\/em>), and Robert &amp; Cortney Novogratz (<em>Home by Novogratz) <\/em>will join local favorites Loren Long (<em>Nightsong<\/em>), Robert Flischel (<em>Messages of Glory: The Narrative Art of Roman Catholocism<\/em>), and Ellen Schreiber (<em>Immortal Hearts<\/em>) in the Author Pavilion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2012\/10\/09\/join-uc-libraries-at-books-by-the-banks-october-20\/bbtbposterimage\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-18099\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"bbtbposterimage\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bbtbposterimage-142x190.jpg\" alt=\"Join UC Libraries at Books by the Banks October 20\" width=\"142\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bbtbposterimage-142x190.jpg 142w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bbtbposterimage-116x155.jpg 116w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bbtbposterimage.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><\/a>Three University\u00a0 of Cincinnati authors will be among the 100+ authors at\u00a0the festival. The UC authors are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joel B. Peckham, Jr.<\/strong>,\u00a0associate professor of English, UC Clermont College. His book,<em> Resisting Elegy: On Grief and Recovery, <\/em>is a collection of narratives that explore the transformative power of emotional and physical pain from the vantage point of a husband and parent who lost his wife and a child in an accident that left him in chronic distress. Along the way, Peckham fills a need for a brutally honest, literary examination of not only grief and suffering, but also of recovery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leah Stewart<\/strong>,\u00a0associate professor of English in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences. Stewart will interview author Gillian Flynn in an open book discussion at 2:30pm. In addition, a limited number of galley copies of Stewart&#8217;s upcoming book <em>The History of Us<\/em> will be given away.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Luke Geddes<\/strong>, PhD student in the English and\u00a0Comparative Literature Department in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences. Geddes&#8217; publishing debut, <em>I Am A Magical Teenage Princess<\/em>, is a collection of 17 short stories that take a cracked-lens look at the past five decades of troubled teens, American pop culture, and media mania. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uc.edu\/profiles\/profile.asp?id=16170\">Read more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other participating authors with ties to UC include: <strong>Dan Andriacco<\/strong>, author of <em>Holmes Sweet Holmes<\/em>, UC graduate; <strong>David Bell<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<em>The Hiding Place<\/em>, attended UC; <strong>Edward Paxton<\/strong> and <strong>Jerry Glenn Harris<\/strong>, authors of <em>Straight White Shield: A Life and Works of John Hauser 1859-1913<\/em>, both retired UC professors, <strong>Nancy Herriman<\/strong>, author of <em>The Irish Healer<\/em>, UC graduate; and <strong>Christopher Bennett<\/strong>, <em>Only Superhuman<\/em>, UC graduate.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0 commemorative Books by the Banks poster by local artisit Marlene Steele will be available for purchase at the festival\u00a0for $15.<\/p>\n<p>Books by\u00a0the Banks is organized by UC Libraries, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnatilibrary.org\/\">Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercantilelibrary.com\/\">The Mercantile Library<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephbeth.com\/Landing.aspx\">Joseph-Beth Booksellers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.nku.edu\/\">Northern Kentucky University Library<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clermontlibrary.org\/\">Clermont County\u00a0Library<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midpointelibrary.org\/\">Midpointe Library System<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lanepl.org\/\">Lane Libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Books by the Banks website has information\u00a0on the authors scheduled to appear at the event, a schedule of panel sessions,\u00a0activities scheduled in the Kids&#8217; Corner, as well as directions and parking information for Duke Energy Convention Center. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksbythebanks.org\">www.booksbythebanks.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join UC Libraries and celebrate the joy of reading and books at the 6th annual Books by the Banks: Cincinnati USA Book Festival, Saturday, October 20, from 10am to 4pm at the Duke Energy Convention Center downtown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,13],"tags":[45,21,814,27,35,37],"class_list":["post-18097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uc","category-uclibraries","tag-books-and-more","tag-cincinnati","tag-events","tag-information","tag-just-interesting","tag-library-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}