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Books by the Banks: Cincinnati USA Book Festival
Saturday, October 17th
10 am - 4pm
Duke Energy Convention Center

Books by the BanksIf you like fiction, non-fiction, cooking, sports, history, spirituality or books of any kind, you'll want to mark the third annual Books by the Banks book festival on your calendar: Saturday, October 17 at the Duke Energy Convention Center. This free event will bring together nearly one hundred authors signing and talking about their books, and participating in panel discussions.

For the kids, there is the Target Kids Corner with special readings, craft projects and more.

Some of the featured authors scheduled to appear this year are Jennifer Weiner (Best Friends Forever); Jeanette Walls (Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel); Forrest Gregg (Winning in the Trenches: A Lifetime of Football); Barbara Bradley Haggerty (Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality); Greg Hoard (Voices in My Head: The Gary Burbank Story); Will Hillenbrand (Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep!); Thane Maynard (Hope for Animals and their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued fro the Brink); and Tom Wilson (Zig-Zagging: Loving Madly, Losing Badly - How Ziggy Saved My Life).

Books by the Banks is a free event, and runs from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
For more information and an updated list of participating authors, visit www.booksbythebanks.org.

Hear authors who are scheduled to appear at the 2009 Books by the Banks:

Forrest Gregg: Winning in the Trenches
David Robertson : The Man Who Made The Blues
Julie Aronson : Sculptor of Women
Greg Rhodes : Cincinnati’s Crosley Field
Allen Winkler : To Everything There is a Reason: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
Susan Reigler : Complete Guide to Kentucky State Parks
Thrity Umrigar : The Weight of Heaven
Michael Banks: Before Oprah: Ruth Lyons, The Woman Who Created Talk TV
Tom Wilson : How Ziggy Saved My Life
Josh Katzowitz : Bearcats Rising
Thane Maynard : Hope for Animals and their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink
Peter Seidel: 2045: A Story of Our Future
Barbara Bradley Haggerty: Fingerprints of God: In Search of the Science of Spirituality
Gary Burbank/Greg Hoard: Voices in My Head: The Gary Burbank Story
Randy McNutt : The Cincinnati Sound
Jessica Hopper: The Girl’s Guide to Rocking
Roger Brucker: Grand, Gloomy, and Peculiar: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave
Patrice Watson: Books by the Banks
Jon Hartley Fox: King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records
Sandy Bolek: Books by the Banks Preview
Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Jinny Berten: Littsie and the Underground Railroad

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