Saturday
Sept 25, 2010
2:00pm

Come hear

SARAH CULBERSON

This is the true story by Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas in A PRINCESS FO20l

This is the true story by Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas in A PRINCESS FOUND (St. Martin’s Griffin; May 11, 2010; $16.99) – a powerfully emotional memoir of an adopted woman who travels across the world to meet her long lost biological father who survived the brutal eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone.

Growing up, Sarah Culberson struggled with issues of identity during her adolescence and especially in college. She would never have guessed what the truth of her past would unfold for her future. Sarah discovered that she was related to African royalty, a ruling Mende family in Sierra Leone, and that she was considered a mahaloi, the grandchild of one of Sierra Leone's 149 Paramount Chiefs with the status of a princess.

What followed is an unforgettably emotional journey of self-discovery. As Sarah forges a relationship with her father, she also begins to connect the people of Bumpe, Sierra Leone, with communities throughout North America. A PRINCESS FOUND is an intimate revelation of her quest to find her biological father, a search that takes her across the world to meet him, and the chiefdom she could one day call her own.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

SARAH CULBERSON grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. She won an acting scholarship to attend West Virginia University where she earned a B.A. in theater. She graduated from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco with a Masters in Fine Arts and joined the Los Angeles acting community. Sarah has acted on the stage as well as in TV and films. She dances with CONTRA-TIEMPO, a professional dance company. As co-founder of the Kposowa Foundation in Los Angeles, she leads fundraising efforts with the goal of improving the lives of people in Sierra Leone by rebuilding schools, digging wells, and connecting students internationally through educational projects. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

TRACY TRIVAS, a graduate of Dartmouth College, won a Dartmouth Graduate Fellowship to study Victorian Literature at Oxford University, England. She received her Masters in English from Middlebury College. Her middle-grade fiction book, The Wish Stealers, will be released in January 2010. She lives in California with her family.

 

Date & Time to be determined

Come Hear Best-Selling Author

Victor Villaseñor

Victor will be speaking and signing books purchased at our store

Please note: Only the first 100 guests to arrive
can be guaranteed a seat for this exciting event. Don't miss out!

Some of Victor's books:

BURRO GENIUS 2004 HarperCollins Publishing imprint RAYO.
BURRO GENIUS, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and a Nationally Acclaimed Best Seller, was included in the 2005 New York Public Library Books Teen Age List, 12 to 18 years old.
also available in Spanish
»Publishers Weekly Review

BURRO GENIUS continues the Villaseñor family story and goes into Victor Villaseñor’s own youth and education. With his signature of bold vitality, and his own incredible life-story, BURRO GENIUS takes the reader into the soul of a young boy full of confusion . . . . and yet encouraged by the love for his brother and a sense of artistic destiny and magic.

RAIN OF GOLD 1991 Arte Público Press
(Hard Cover)

RAIN OF GOLD is a true-life saga of love, family and destiny, pulsing with bold vitality, sweeping from the war-ravaged Mexican mountains of Pancho Villa's revolution to the Prohibition days of California. Bursting from the pages with real-life characters and passionate drama, RAIN OF GOLD is a major work by a Mexican-American writer of extraordinary power, Victor Villaseñor. In RAIN OF GOLD, Victor Villaseñor weaves the parallel stories of two families and two countries...bringing us the timeless romance between the volatile bootlegger who would become his father and the beautiful Lupe, his mother - men and women in whose lives the real and the fantastical exist side by side...and in whose hearts the spirit to survive is fueled by a family's unconditional love.

CRAZYLOCO LOVE 2008 Arte Publico Press
Crazy Loco Love is Best-Selling Author’s Very Personal, Passionate New Book

HOUSTON, TX—September 2008 From Victor Villaseñor, one of America’s most beloved writers, author of Rain of Gold and Burro Genius, comes Crazy Loco Love (Arte Público Press, September 2008, $26.95, 416 pages, clothbound, ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-315-7), a compelling memoir of his adolescent search for meaning and identity. In this new work, Villaseñor deftly undermines the macho stereotype so often associated with Latinos, while exposing the tender vulnerability and naiveté of a young man grappling with his own sexuality and spirituality. Kirkus Reviews says, “Readers will find Crazy Loco Love a departure in a new direction, for now the author, revisiting his late-adolescent self, becomes exceedingly interested in matters of the flesh.”

THIRTEEN SENSES 2001 HarperCollins Publishing imprint RAYO.
(Hard Cover or Quality Paperback)
Nationally Acclaimed Best Seller
also available in Spanish

THIRTEEN SENSES, the sequel to RAIN OF GOLD, continues the powerful family epic as told by master storyteller Victor Villaseñor. Set in the colorful backdrop of Southern California amidst the bygone era of Prohibition and the Great Depression, this memoir recalls the story of Salvador and Lupe's first years of marriage. Filled with thrilling action, gut-wrenching suspense, ancestral wisdom, and timeless love, this adventure never lets up. Embracing unconditional love, profound grit, and the tenacity of two spirits which transcend all obstacles, THIRTEEN SENSES demonstrates the strength of women, the power of magic, and eliminates the narrow boundaries set by Euro-American five sensory world.

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