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Washington-Centerville Public Library Presents...

Some great authors will visit the Library during 2010 to help celebrate our bicentennial!


Anne Perry - March 26, 2010, 2 PM, Centerville Library

Reserve one of Anne Perry's books.

Anne Perry, an international, best selling historical novelist has penned more than 50 novels and been selected by the Times as one of the "100 Masters of Crime". After a sickly childhood that resulted in missing several years of formal education, Perry held various jobs including retail selling, air stewardess, limousine dispatcher and insurance underwriter. These were just means of income, however and she confesses "there was never anything I seriously wished to do except write."

In 1979, when Perry was in her late thirties, her first book, The Cater Street Hangman, was published. This mystery, set in Victorian London, was the first book in the series to feature Victorian policeman Thomas Pitt and his well-born wife Charlotte. Perry says, "I have continued with the Victorian mysteries because I have come to love both the characters and the period. I have loved the whole series because it is in a way the end of history and the beginning of the modern world, a time in Europe of unprecedented challenge and change, a test of who we are, and who we wish to be." The Pitt Series is arguably the longest sustained crime series by a living writer.

In 1990, Anne started a second series of detective novels with The Face of a Stranger. These are set about 35 years before and features the private detective William Monk and volatile nurse Hester Latterly. The most recent of these (15th in the series) is The Dark Assassin (February 2006) which appeared in the New York Times Bestsellers List.

None of her books has ever been out of print, and they have received critical acclaim and huge popular success: over 20 million books are in print world-wide. Her books have appeared on bestseller lists in a number of foreign countries, where she has also had excellent reviews.

Anne is now working on more titles in the Pitt and Monk series. Here newest book The Sheen on the Silk (March 2010) is a stand-alone epic set in the exotic and dangerous world of the Byzantine Empire.

Read more on Anne Perry's Web site.


Jay Asher - Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Reserve one of Jay Asher's books.

Jay Asher, author of Thirteen Reasons Why, will be a part of Teen Read Week in October. Stay tuned! More information will be coming soon.











Sarah Rickman - December 1, 2010, 12:30 PM, Hithergreen Center

Reserve one of Sarah Rickman's books.

After a career as a journalist and editor of local newspapers, Rickman was challenged by a feisty lady named Nancy Batson to write the story of Nancy Love and the original WAFS (Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) -- the first 28 women to fly for the Army in World War II. Included in the challenge was an invite to a reunion of the nine living WAFS, the "Originals" as they became known.

Rickman tributes that week with those nine ladies as a life changing experience, one which set her on a writing path from which she has not since deviated. In the last ten years, she has published The Originals (2001), Flight from Fear (2002), and Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II (2008) published -- thus fulfilling Nancy Crews' wish.

Most recently, Rickman published the biography Nancy Batson Crews: Alabama's First Lady of Flight, as a biographical tribute to her friend, mentor, and inspiration.



See What You Missed!
The Library wishes to thank these fine authors for visiting the Library for our 200th Celebration.

Tami Hoag - January 8, 2010, 2 PM, Centerville Library

Reserve one of Tami Hoag's books.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag began her writing career at the age of nine with the self-published, self-illustrated third-grade hit Black Pony. The school project, a tale of two children sharing a pony named Smoky, sparked Hoag's love for storytelling.

With thirteen consecutive Times bestsellers to her credit, including The Alibi Man, Prior Bad Acts, Dark Horse, and Kill The Messenger, Hoag is a favorite of readers and critics alike, Hoag began her career writing for Bantam's Loveswept line of romance novels, penning sixteen titles in five years. Never wanting to be pigeonholed, the novels ranged from romantic comedy to romantic suspense, with richly drawn characters and sharply written dialogue the hallmarks of Hoag's style. These traits carry through to her thrillers, along with fast-paced plots and dead-on police procedure.

Born in Iowa, raised in Minnesota, Tami Hoag left the frigid north for the warmer climate of Los Angeles in 1998. An avid competitive equestrian in the Olympic discipline of dressage, Tami divides her time between Los Angeles and Palm Beach County, Florida where she competes her horses on the prestigious winter circuit.

Her newest book, Deeper than the Dead was released December 29, 2009.

Read more on Tami Hoag's Web site.

A Gathering With Tami Hoag


Martha Moody - February 10, 2010, 7 PM, Centerville Library

Reserve one of Martha Moody's books.

Martha Moody was born and raised in Ohio. She graduated from Oberlin College and received her MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, where she also completed her residency training in internal medicine. She went on to spend 15 years in private practice. Her life-long love of reading and writing crystallized when she read Mario Vargas Llosa's Conversation in the Cathedral. Martha credits that book with the inspiration to try writing fiction.

After publishing her first novel, Best Friends, she retired from private practice. Since then she has written two more books, The Office of Desire and Sometimes Mine. When Moody isn't writing she volunteers as medical director at a clinic for the working poor and as a writing teacher in the local public school system. Moody is also involved in a long-term project teaching English to elementary school students in the Arab village of Deir al Assad, Israel. She has been married since 1985 to Dr. Martin Jacobs; they have four teenage sons and live in Dayton, Ohio.

At her Library visit on February 10, Moody stated that two of her favorite authors are Mary Alice Monroe and Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Yiddish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

Read more on Martha Moody's Web site.

Author Visit - Martha Moody