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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Aliza Hava: Into the Light: Ten Songs & Stories Transforming Trauma to Triumph
DESCRIPTION:Thursday September 17th\, 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nJoin award-winning singer-songwriter and author Aliza Hava for an intimate evening centered around her debut book\, Into the Light: Ten Songs & Stories Transforming Trauma to Triumph\, the companion book to her #1 charting album\, Into the Light. \nPart memoir and part guidebook\, the book follows Aliza’s deeply personal journey of healing from severe childhood abuse. Through ten songs and the stories behind them\, she explores trauma\, self-discovery\, empowerment\, and the process of reclaiming your voice. The evening will include readings and reflections from the book\, along with live solo performances on keyboard and vocals. \nTogether\, the music and storytelling offer an honest and hopeful exploration of moving from pain toward healing\, self-love\, sovereignty\, and triumph. \n 
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/author-talk-with-aliza-hava-into-the-light-ten-songs-stories-transforming-trauma-to-triumph/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Josh Weil discusses his new novel "What Came West"
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday September 23rd  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nA gripping tale of murder and pursuit set against the shifting Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush\, where ambition\, violence\, and destiny collide. \n“What Came West is astonishing. Unraveling the mythology of the Western with a genius for insight and description\, Weil tells the story anew: a beautiful\, ruminative\, bloody\, terrifying and brilliant book about a chapter in the life of one man and in the life of our country. Unmissable.” –Andrew Sean Greer\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less \nSierra Nevada\, 1840s\, just before the Gold Rush ignites. Silas Hall has never belonged anywhere except the wild. Bullied as a child and uneasy even within his own family\, he finds brief solace in love and fatherhood before the pull of the frontier overwhelms him. One day he heads west\, chasing a life that might finally make sense. \nWhat follows is a swift\, pulse-pounding journey into the mountains\, where Silas becomes one of the first white settlers to cross into the Sierra Nevada. He forges a precarious peace with the Indigenous people who live there–until the Gold Rush crashes in with violent force. As thousands flood the region\, the balance shatters\, and Silas commits murder\, a desperate act that alters the course of every life around him\, including his own. \nTaut and propulsive\, What Came West is told in two parallel voices–one a tense\, third-person account of Silas on the run\, and the other a confessional letter from Silas to the son he left behind–and confronts many different forms of American inheritance\, in all its danger\, emotional voltage\, and mythic momentum. Weil’s masterpiece is a fierce\, heart-driven portrait of an outsider racing toward belonging and barreling headlong into consequence.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/josh-weil-discusses-his-new-novel-what-came-west/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Two Poets - Anna Elkins and Jacalyn McNamara
DESCRIPTION:Thursday October 1st 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nEnter a forest of poems about patience\, grace\, and wonder. About discovering the code of abiding life already within us. When We Become Trees cultivates the tension of becoming: rooting down while reaching up and trying to see heaven on earth—trying to find the divine even among the rocks around us. This is a book for those who\, like trees\, are willing to grow “ring-slow but steady.” \nAnna Elkins is a poet and painter. She earned a BA in art and English\, an MFA in poetry\, and a Fulbright Fellowship to write in Germany. She has written\, painted\, and taught on six continents\, exhibiting paintings and publishing books along the way\, including her poetry collection\, Hope of Stones\, which won an Oregon Book Award. Anna now lives in a small town on a big river with her husband and many trees. For more\, visit: annaelkins.com. \nPainter and writer Jacalyn McNamara has worked as a freelance journalist\, college writing teacher\, and manager of California’s oldest art center\, always attending to the poetry and music woven through the world. Her poems move through the personal\, cultural\, historical\, and mythological\, exploring thin places where spirits slip through and territories that are unstable or paradoxical. Her work has appeared in Clackamas Literary Review\, Midwest Poetry Review\, Jefferson Journal\, and elsewhere. Most recently\, she has been writing poems to accompany artist Betty LaDuke’s Turtle Wisdom exhibit. \n 
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/an-evening-with-two-poets-anna-elkins-and-jacalyn-mcnamara/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:4th Annual Ashland Mystery Fest!
DESCRIPTION:October 8-11th 2026 \nJoin us for the 4th Annual Mystery Fest! All Around Ashland! \nFriday October 9th and Saturday October 10th  10 am – 12 pm  \nHere at Bloomsbury Books \n\nStory Clinic: Drop in with Rogue Writers Collective\n\n\nThe doctors are in! Story Clinic is a new offering by Rogue Writers Collective that gives writers an opportunity to have their work reviewed by experienced editors in-person and on-demand. Freelance editor Scout Cox and author Shelly King will be reviewing works up to 1500 words on a first-come\, first-served basis. Get advice on what is working and what can be improved in your story. Bring an excerpt or short story\, sign up\, enjoy a coffee\, and learn from two industry pros! Story Clinic is free to attend\, but donations to their organization are greatly appreciated.\nIncluded in Event Registration Package – First come\, first serve*\n*Limited Capacity – Badge Holders Prioritized
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/4th-annual-ashland-mystery-fest/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Erratica: On Climbing\, Language\, and Touching Stone" with author Brian Laidlaw
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 12th\, 7:00 to 8:00 pm \nPart adventure narrative\, part philosophical inquiry\, and part love letter to climbing and natural spaces\, Erratica is a radiant exploration of what happens when a human body meets the earth with full attention. \nAfter Brian Laidlaw climbed El Capitan\, Yosemite’s iconic stone monolith\, he found himself facing a repeated question: “So\, what was it like up there?” It isn’t enough\, he knows\, to just to describe the sensation of the rock beneath his hands and feet—a climb is so much more than physical movement. \nThis seemingly simple question initiates Brian’s poetic quest for the perfect metaphor\, traveling from the erratics of his youth in California to the towers of his current home in Moab\, Utah. He traces lines up moon-washed faces in Indian Creek and edits his body language under boulders in Joe’s Valley. He lives parallel lives and dies parallel deaths on free solos in Colorado\, and eventually\, back in his childhood stomping grounds in the Sierra Nevada\, he writes and revises routes of his own. \nAlong the way\, he beckons us into a community bound as much by narrative as by rope. They exchange gear\, chalk\, and advice as they test each foothold and fissure. Kindred strangers knit into traveling bands of belayers\, swapping snacks and cautionary tales. Here\, any passing climber holds the ability to shift “spontaneously into the best coach I’ve ever known.” \nExhilarating and lyrical\, approachable yet profound\, Erratica invites us to share a rope with this community of climbers\, to measure our humanity against the expanse of stone.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/erratica-on-climbing-language-and-touching-stone-with-author-brian-laidlaw/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr John Daggett talks about his short story "Aloha in a Parking Lot"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday October 15th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nALOHA in a PARKING LOT: \nHow one man’s passion builds human connection and why this is what our country needs now. \nThe policrisis shocking our sense of wellbeing is leaving many of us feeling helpless. But there are actions we might consider to help us and the larger community. \nDr. John Daggett\, former superintendent of Ashland Public School 1988-2000\, returns to us October 15th to talk about his recently published short story in book form. In his over 40 years in education\, and 84 years of life\, John has observed  a wide array of human experiences. This story centers on the behaviors of a retired truck driver on the island of Hawai’i who brings people together in joy and connection and challenges the toxic masculinity and impotence many of us may feel in these troubled times.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/dr-john-daggett-talks-about-his-short-story-aloha-in-a-parking-lot/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Udo Gorsch-Nies Writing as Jerry L Niece talks about his new book "The Borderline Curse: Talks with Alter Ego"
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 19th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nAfter twenty-five years of marriage\, I divorced my wife. \nI had tried in vain to save my marriage during the last years. The failure damaged my self-image remarkably. Thoughts of suicide wafted through my brain. \nAbout a decade later my ex-wife was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). I read several books about this mental illness. There is no cure. \nI met acquaintances and friends in Europe and the USA whose mothers\, wives\, husbands or children showed borderline or bipolar behavior. Listening to the stories of their unbearable pain and loneliness encouraged me to write this booklet. Maybe it will help some readers to overcome their loneliness.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/udo-gorsch-nies-writing-as-jerry-l-niece-talks-about-his-new-book-the-borderline-curse-talks-with-alter-ego/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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SUMMARY:Louisa Morgan talks about her New Novel - "The Faerie Handmaid"
DESCRIPTION:Thursday November 5th  7:00 to 8:00 pm \nWhen it’s revealed that the new king of Camelud is cursed\, Braithe\, handmaid to the most powerful priestess in the realm must travel to the land of the fae to break the curse\, but to do so Braithe must step out of her mentor’s shadow and into her power\, in this bewitching coming of age tale from Louisa Morgan. \nWhen Braithe was left as an acolyte on the Isle of Apples\, she never dreamed she’d become handmaid to Morgana\, the most powerful priestess in all of Camelud\, but now she is content to live out her days in service to the Priestess. But when a powerful mage comes to Morgana and Braithe with concerns that the new king of Camelud is being cursed by powerful magic\, the two must journey to the White City deep in fae country to investigate.\nThe magical city is nothing like Braithe imagined and the fae are cold and callous toward humans and quick to bewitch. Despite the constant threat of danger\, Braithe just may be the key to discovering who is cursing the king\, but to do so she will have to step into her own power. \nThis is a sequel to Faerie Morgana one of our favorites!  Louisa Morgan lives in Southern Oregon and is the author of many novels including The Secret History of Witches.
URL:https://bloomsburyashland.com/event/louisa-morgan-talks-about-her-new-novel-the-faerie-handmaid/
LOCATION:Bloomsbury Books Ashland\, 290 East Main Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520\, United States
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