August 31 (Tuesday 6:30pm) Architect Louis Roberts signs & discusses MAN BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY: A Symbolic Awareness of Architecture Through a Process of Creativity. The author envisions architecture as a restatement of nature – of the earth and the sky. The language of this architecture has a universal appeal originating from visual codes accumulated over eons of time in the human unconscious. It puts us back in touch with our primordial roots. This is an architecture of belonging – to the earth, to the place, to the human spirit. Louis Roberts is a registered architect in California and previously in Connecticut. He has Bachelor and Master degrees in architecture from the University of Illinois, and was for a number of years a professor of architecture in the United States and abroad. He lives with his wife Nancy on the Monterey Peninsula in California.
Thank you to all who have participated in recent events - it has been a wonderful summer so far!
• JUNE 10 (Thurs. 2:00pm) Terry Grosz is the author of eight books about his 32-year career in wildlife law enforcement, including SLAUGHTER IN THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY, DEFENDING OUR WILDLIFE HERITAGE: The Life & Times of a Special Agent and GENESIS OF A DUCK COP. Signing and Discussion.
• JUNE 15 (Tues. 6:30pm) in his latest book, Hiking Nevada’s County High Points, Bob Sumner shares his favorite scenic hikes to the highest mountain summits in each of Nevada’s 16 counties. Includes driving instructions, camping and lodging locations, additional points of interest and historic background for each high point.
• JUNE 17 - 26 Come see us at the Reno Rodeo! We’ll have an outpost of books and music indoors at the Reno Rodeo Livestock Events Center, and the company of authors Terri Farley of the Phantom STALLION SERIES, Suzanne Williams of Bull Rider, Chris Platt of storm chaser, Guy Clifton and others. Yee-Haw!
• JUNE 24 - 27 (Thurs-Fri 7:30am) (Sat-Sun 8:30am) Join us for Coffee with the Chautauquans (Public Legends Private Lives). Characters from the events of the previous evening will be here for coffee, presentations, and Q&A. Visit nevadahumanities.org for more information on the Chautauqua festivities.
• JUNE 26 (Sat. 4:00pm) Struck by Living is a memoir of Julie K. Hersh’s journey through clinical depression. Hersh is a mother, corporate wife, survivor and advocate for mental health awareness. Proceeds from this book will be donated to programs and research to battle mental illness.
• JULY 8 (Thurs. 6:30pm) Jim Dwyer, author of the just released WHERE THE WILD BOOKS ARE: A Field Guide to Ecocriticism, and Scott Slovic, author of GOING AWAY TO THINK: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility lead a discussion on ecologically themed fiction.
• JULY 10 (Saturday 10am) Commemorating the 100th anniversary of The Prize Fight of the Century, Ray Hagar and Guy Clifton discuss Johnson-Jeffries Dateline Reno. The title fight marked one of the most significant events in the history of race relations in the United States.
• JULY 17 (Sat. 2:00pm) Adam Fortunate Eagle, an acclaimed activist best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, discusses and signs PIPESTONE: My Life in an Indian Boarding School. He lives and writes on the Stillwater Reservation in Fallon. He will be accompanied by his daughter, the poet Nila NorthSun, who will read from her work.
•JULY 21 (Weds 6:30pm) Author, teacher and Reno resident Brad Summerhill signs his debut novel Gambler’s Quartet, set in Reno and described as part Dostoyevsky and part crime noir.
JULY 22 (Thurs 6:30pm) Richard Moreno, author of Roadside History of Nevada and the Nevada Trivia Book, signs his newly released Mysteries and Legends of Nevada.
• JULY 24 (Sat. 11:00am) Support Our Local Authors! Join B. Delbert Williams, SILENT STEEDS OF RENO; Dr. Steven Rubin, Autumn Leaves: Aging With and Without Dementia; Steven Frederick, The Last Great Prizefight: Johnson vs. Jeffries; Michael J. Richmond, The Run; Andrew Hill and Michael B. Kitson, authors of Smoke Signals from the Universe: A Path to Fulfillment at Work.
JULY 31 (Sat 11:00am) Todd Borg signs and reads from his new mystery Tahoe Heat, the eighth installment in his Owen McKenna mystery series.
JULY 31 (Sat 3pm-5pm) Radhanath Swami discusses & signs his memoir, The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami. "Within this extraordinary memoir, Radhanath Swami weaves a colorful tapestry of adventure, mysticism, and love. Readers follow Richard Slavin from the suburbs of Chicago to the caves of the Himalayas as he transforms from young seeker to renowned spiritual guide. The Journey Home is an intimate account of the steps to self-awareness and also a penetrating glimpse into the heart of mystic traditions and the challenges that all souls must face on the road to inner harmony and a union with the Divine."
