A book signing event with a fine collection of northern Nevada authors. 

Richard L. Cheng

The Day the Cricket Stopped Signing

Author Richard L. Cheng gathers his wife and children around the backyard fire pit to tell his family's story, in both ancient and recent times. His journey takes us from China 3000 years ago to present-day Nevada, with special emphasis on the years during World War II in the Philippines. In this well-told story, he expertly weaves his parents' and eight siblings' recollections of World War II events in with his own to create a portrait of family survival. We learn of their adventures, told in their own words--some funny, some tragic, some heroic--all engaging and charming.

Valley of Peace - Richard L. Cheng

Ancient Chinese wisdoms come alive it these traditional and original stories. Richard Cheng invites you to gather around and enjoy this insightful look at Chinese customs and history, and share the many wisdoms with your family.

Kellie Christine Lee 

Over the Mountains and Into Our Lives: A Woman's Hiking Guide to LIfe

More than just a physical activity, hiking can accent a lifestyle and open doors to personal fulfillment. In Over the Mountains and Into Our Lives: A Woman’s Hiking Guide to Life, Kellie Lee explores the connection between her physical trials and the struggles of her everyday life. During some of her most important hikes, Lee discovered valuable life lessons that she brought from the mountain slopes and intertwined into her daily routine. By experiencing Lee’s parallel journeys of career changes and challenging hikes, readers can also discover ways to foster their own personal growth through hiking the boundless outdoors.

I. McKeachie

Idols of Dust

After the death of his sister, Paul Prince embarks on an ill-fated journey of self-discovery that takes him on a dangerous descent into madness. Unable to determine what is real and what lies within his imagination, Paul is forced to acknowledge his failures, question his own morality, and face a pair of unsettlingly insightful ghosts as he drifts farther and farther away from reality and into the treacherous depths of his own mind. His journey takes him to the barren deserts of Afghanistan, the eerie halls of a Veterans Administration hospital, and eventually to the brightly lit Sin City of Las Vegas, where he must face, once and for all, the demons hiding within himself.

Mary Ann Ricciardi

Screaming through the Silence

"It happens quickly. I'm not in that house ten minutes before my world stops making sense." From victim to survivor, Mary Ann Ricciardi pens from a most honest and heartfelt point of view, sharing what she knows to be true about the emotional ruin that trails behind the silence and myths surrounding intimate violence. In Screaming Through the Silence: Memories, Truths and a Hope Toward Understanding, Ricciardi writes with a purpose and desire to end the harmful silence of generations past and present. Presenting the issues simply and logicaIly, Ricciardi's "gentle rant" comes from years of social observations, her own personal struggle as victim turned survivor and her ongoing work with victims of intimate assault. Included are the voices of intimate assault and abuse survivors who so willingly share their truths in hopes of encouraging better understanding and awareness. "Society cannot understand because victims don't tell; victims don't tell because society does not understand."