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Manhattan Beach Library Speaker Series with Julia Quinn

The Manhattan Beach Library Speaker Series is pleased to invite you to their spring event, featuring bestselling romance novelist and author of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn.

Join the Manhattan Beach Library Speaker Series and the City of Manhattan Beach as they welcome best-selling romance novelist and author of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn, to the Mira Costa High School auditorium on Saturday, May 23 at 2 pm.

Sitting in conversation with LA County Librarian and Director, Dr. Skye Patrick, Julia will dive into all things swoony and steamy. What is it about romance that makes our hearts skip a beat? And as someone who has been writing in the genre for a while, what does she think the current romance renaissance says about us and our moment in time?

A book signing and reception will follow, with book sales provided by {pages}: a bookstore. 

This program is taking place in the Auditorium at Mira Costa High School, 1401 Artesia Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266. 

Books will be available for purchase as preorders and at the event from {pages} a bookstore. If you'd like to preorder and pick up your books at the event on May 23, please make a note in the "Customer Comments" section when completing your purchase. 

The Manhattan Beach Library Speaker Series is made possible by the generous support of the City of Manhattan Beach. 

#1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn loves to dispel the myth that smart women don’t read (or write) romance, and if you watch reruns of the game show The Weakest Link you might just catch her winning the $79,000 jackpot. She displayed a decided lack of knowledge about baseball, country music, and plush toys, but she is proud to say that she aced all things British and literary, answered all of her history and geography questions correctly, and knew that there was a Da Vinci long before there was a code. Her novels have been translated into 42 languages, and in March 2021, all eight Bridgerton novels were on the New York Times list at the same time, a record (at that time) for an adult fiction author.

On December 25, 2020, Netflix premiered Bridgerton based on her popular series of novels about the Bridgerton family. Julia’s newest novel is Queen Charlotte, co-written with television pioneer Shonda Rhimes. The book is a powerful and romantic novel of Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte and King George III’s great love story and how it sparked a societal shift. Queen Charlotte was inspired by the original series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, created by Shondaland for Netflix.

If you have any questions about ADA accessibility at Mira Costa High School, please reach out to Cary Jordhal, CJordahl@mbusd.org.
Any other questions can be directed to LA County Library at cmctighe@library.lacounty.gov. 

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