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Jennifer Nielsen, "History: Acutally Kind of Cool!"

Author Event
2024-10-07 19:00:00 2024-10-07 20:30:00 America/Denver Jennifer Nielsen, "History: Acutally Kind of Cool!" In Partnership with the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Brigham City Library - Rooms 1&2 (Combined), Room 3

Monday, October 07
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-10-07 19:00:00 2024-10-07 20:30:00 America/Denver Jennifer Nielsen, "History: Acutally Kind of Cool!" In Partnership with the Utah Humanities Book Festival. Brigham City Library - Rooms 1&2 (Combined), Room 3

Brigham City Library

Rooms 1&2 (Combined), Room 3

In Partnership with the Utah Humanities Book Festival.

Jennifer Nielsen  Book Cover for Uprising: Girl throwing rocks over a barb wire fence

Author Bio:

#1 New York Times Bestselling author, Jennifer Nielsen, was born and raised in northern Utah, where she still lives today with her family. She is the author of The Ascendance series, beginning with THE FALSE PRINCE; the TRAITOR’S GAME series, the historical novels, ICEBERG, A NIGHT DIVIDED, WORDS ON FIRE, LINES OF COURAGE and several other titles. She loves chocolate, old books, and lazy days in the mountains.

Author Website: jennielsen.com

Additional Event Information

 Author book signing and book sales information: A book signing will follow this event. Many thanks to Three Goats Gruff book store for providing book sales for this event.

 Book Drawing: A drawing will be held at this event to give several copies of Jennifer's books to kids and teens ages 0-17. Adults do not qualify for the drawing. Limit one book per person. Winners must be present at the time of the drawing. Those attending virtually via Zoom webinar must be logged in to the Zoom event at the time of the drawing to win. Virtual attendees must pick up their book at the library by Tuesday, 15 October 2024. In-person attendees must pick up their book that night.

 Registration: Registration for this event is not required, however, if you register you will receive an event reminder via e-mail, and if you opt-in to a text message, also a text reminder.

 Access information: If you would like to attend via Zoom, please use this link to register for the "Brigham City Library Book Festival Events" Zoom recurring webinar. This link will work for all four of the Library's 2024 Festival events.

 Credits & Partnerships: Part of the Brigham City Library Book Festival: Celebrating Books, Ideas, and Imagination.

Utah Humanities Book Festival

This event is made possible in Partnership with Utah Humanities as part of the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival.

For other Utah Humanities Book Festival programs and events around the state visit the Utah Humanities website to view the Festival calendar.

  

This event counts toward the NaNoWriMo challenge, and word counts may be included in your weekly totals. To join NaNoWriMo or learn more, CLICK HERE!

 

AGE GROUP: | General |

EVENT TYPE: | Writing | Special Event | Book Sale | Authors |

TAGS: | Book Festival |

Brigham City Library
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