Experience and unforgettable afternoon where history and fiction come together. Join bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater and acclaimed historian Harvey Solomon at the iconic Moni Homestead Resort & Spa for a captivating conversation.

Discover the remarkable World War II history that inspired Stiefvater’s nationally acclaimed novel The Listeners and explore the true stories behind Solomon’s Such Splendid Prisons, which chronicles the extraordinary diplomatic internment that took place at The Homestead. Following the program, guests are invited to meet the authors during a book sale and signing.

No reservation required & open to the public.

Saturday, August 29 at 4pm.

Omni Homestead Resort & Spa - Theater 1923

ABOUT THE BOOK:

This erotic romantic thriller is about how far a man will go to “own” his internet obsession. Darrell stalks Angeline prior to meeting her. Little does he know that she is playing him and has stalked him as well. He is in total control, or is he? The story includes many plot twists and keeps the reader guessing until the end about who the “winner” really is. Set in West Virginia, Georgia, and Paris, follow twists and turns to a stunning ending.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Robin Beamer Dalton is a retired teacher from West Virginia. She taught all grade levels for 33 years, prior to her retirement. “Threads of Obsession” is her first novel. In her spare time, she enjoys exercising, listening to music, writing poetry, and traveling.  She is a certified reading specialist and served as an adjunct instructor for Marshall University.

About The Book:

A Luddite, a radical, a romantic, an atheist, and ardent freethinker, you could not simply agree with Perry Mann. He wouldn’t want you to. He would suspect the freedom of your own thinking were you to agree too easily with his. And that is the reason to read Chris Chanlett’s new publication, Renaissance Mann. Reading agreeable authors reinforces what you think you already know, while reading a true freethinker opens a world you may never have known existed.

Raised on a subsistence farm in West Virginia, Mann is no fan of the modern world, nor of urbanization in general. Nature is his source of truth and inspiration. When a groundhog raids his broccoli patch, he sides with the groundhog. “Man…” before the modern world… “lived pretty much as a groundhog does … he lived from the garden nature provided.” Urban man, alienated from his true nature, lives like “a groundhog on astroturf.”

Mann’s most penetrating thoughts are on the subject of religion. He has no patience for the conformity of religious institutions or the hypocrisy of moral belief and immoral action. He calls himself a pagan, yet his highest esteem is for people like Martin Luther King Jr., “… a man who talked like Christ and lived like Christ.” If you would like to look at the world we all live in through eyes not your own, have a seat, pick up this book, and – as Mr. Chanlett did many times – have a conversation with Perry Mann. Thought will flow both ways.