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Library presents Winter Author Series
Four local authors, each with dramatically
different stories, make up the Winter Author Events series being hosted in
February and March by the Richmond Public Library.
Pnina Granirer is first up, appearing at the
main Brighouse branch (7700 Minoru Gate) fro 2:30 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3.
Granirer’s ‘Light within the Shadows: A
Painter’s Memoir’ is a lively and moving memoir recounting her life as an
artist, wife and mother starting in Romania, continuing in Israel and
concluding in North America.
On Sunday, Feb. 10 from 11 a.m. to noon,
Ellen Schwartz will appear. Her book, 'The Princess Dolls', is a tale of
friendship set in 1942 Vancouver. A highly-acclaimed author of 17 books for
young children and teens, Schwartz has also written several historic novels
dealing with social justice.
Author of ‘Mouth of Truth: Buried Secrets’,
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz will also be visiting the library that afternoon from
2:30 to 4 p.m. Nemetz’s book is the unique story about a woman trapped in a
vault of family secrets. Fourty years after the Second World War, she discovers
the truth about her beloved father, who was a Jewish policeman in the Warsaw
ghetto.
Dr. Lawrence Matrick and Rose Cuddy are
scheduled to visit during the Winter Author Events series. They’ll both be at
the library from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 2.
Matrick’s latest work is ‘The Quisling’, a
medical thriller about psychiatrist Zack Scarlatto who becomes involved with a
violent Mexican drug cartel.
‘Return of the Jaguar’ is a political
thriller Cuddy published posthumously that was written by her husband Norman
Cuddy. It is based on a true story about a massacre of Indigenous peoples that
occurred in Mexico in 1997.
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