{"id":31741,"date":"2025-09-19T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31741\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:08:22","slug":"cant-miss-author-events-coming-up-mary-roach-and-katherine-rundell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/31741\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t-Miss Author Events Coming Up: Mary Roach and Katherine Rundell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join us next week for our exciting events for adults and for children: Mary Roach on the evening of September 25th and Katherine Rundell at 1 PM on September 27th. Both events feature author interactions, book sales and signing, as well as special collections displays from the Library of Congress treasures.<\/p>\n

These events are free, but tickets are required separately and there may be special restrictions. Click the \u201cGet your event ticket here!\u201d links below each one for more information and to secure your ticket.<\/p>\n

Live! At the Library: An Evening with Mary Roach<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thursday, September 25, 2025<\/p>\n

5:00 pm \u2013 7:00 pm Library of Congress collections display
\n7:00 pm \u2013 8:00 pm author talk
\n8:00 pm\u00a0book signing<\/p>\n

Get your event ticket here!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

We live in a technologically advanced era, but is it so advanced that replacement body parts are common, even grown from 3D printers? What does it mean to be human when body parts may come from printers or animals?\u00a0\u00a0Join bestseller Mary Roach, author of \u201cStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,\u201d among other titles, as she talks about her new book \u201cReplaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy.\u201d There will be a book signing to follow. Christina Larson, science writer for the Associated Press Global Health and Science team, will moderate.<\/p>\n

Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including \u201cGrunt,\u201d \u201cStiff,\u201d and, most recently, \u201cFuzz.\u201d Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in California.<\/p>\n

Katherine Rundell Presents \u201cThe Impossible Creatures\u201d Series<\/a><\/p>\n

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Saturday, September 27, 2025<\/p>\n

01:00 pm \u2013 02:00 pm author program
\n2:00 pm book signing and Library of Congress collections display<\/p>\n

Get your event ticket here!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Do you love a thrilling adventure, feisty characters, and a world full of remarkable creatures? Join us to hear from Katherine Rundell, author of the bestselling children\u2019s fantasy novel \u201cImpossible Creatures,\u201d as she travels from England to share the next book in the series, \u201cThe Poisoned King,\u201d with fans of all things magical. Signing to follow. Sasha Dowdy from the Library of Congress Literary Initiatives office will moderate.<\/p>\n

Katherine Rundell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of \u201cImpossible Creatures\u201d and \u201cThe Poisoned King.\u201d Her other books for children include \u201cRooftoppers,\u201d \u201cCartwheeling in Thunderstorms,\u201d \u201cThe Wolf Wilder,\u201d \u201cThe Explorer\u201d and \u201cThe Good Thieves.\u201d For adult readers, Rundell has written \u201cVanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures\u201d and \u201cSuper-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne,\u201d which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. She was the recipient of the British Book Award for Book of the Year and Author of the Year. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels and London, and is currently a Fellow of St. Catherine\u2019s College, Oxford.<\/p>\n

Will we be seeing you at these events? Let us know if you\u2019re a fan!<\/p>\n

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