{"id":214,"date":"2018-05-08T22:47:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T22:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.douglascountylibraries.org\/press\/?p=214"},"modified":"2018-05-08T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T22:47:14","slug":"douglas-county-libraries-welcomes-bestselling-inspirational-author-karen-kingsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dclblog.org\/press\/douglas-county-libraries-welcomes-bestselling-inspirational-author-karen-kingsbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas County Libraries Welcomes Bestselling Inspirational Author Karen Kingsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFor immediate release May 8, 2018:<\/p>\n<p>Douglas County Libraries (DCL) is pleased to present Karen Kingsbury, a No. 1 New York Times bestselling novelist and one of America\u2019s favorite inspirational storytellers, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 6, at CU South Denver in Parker (10035 Peoria St.). Kingsbury will talk about and sign her new book in the Baxter Family series, \u201cTo the Moon and Back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited about bringing authors of different genres to Douglas County every year,\u201d said Kerri Morgan, department head special events at Douglas County Libraries. \u201cKaren Kingsbury is a master of inspirational, uplifting stories that focus on faith and family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DCL is hosting the author in partnership with Tattered Cover Book Store. The $29 ticket price includes reserved seating at Kingsbury\u2019s presentation, a hardcover copy of \u201cTo the Moon and Back,\u201d a place in the book signing line, and dessert bites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kingsbury has more than 25 million copies of her award-winning books in print. Her last dozen titles have topped bestseller lists and many of her novels are under development with Hallmark Films and as major motion pictures. She is best-known for her faith-based Baxter Family series, a collection of more than 20 books that follow the Baxters through love, loss, laughter and life. Kingsbury\u2019s Baxter Family books are being developed for a scripted drama series for TV with Roma Downey, Mark Burnett, and MGM Studios. The author is also an adjunct professor of writing at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to purchase tickets, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcl.org\/karen-kingsbury\/\">DCL.org\/karen-kingsbury<\/a> or call 303-791-7323.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas County Libraries elevates our community by inspiring a love of reading, discovery and connection.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For immediate release May 8, 2018: Douglas County Libraries (DCL) is pleased to present Karen Kingsbury, a No. 1 New York Times bestselling novelist and one of America\u2019s favorite inspirational storytellers, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 6, at CU South Denver in Parker (10035 Peoria St.). Kingsbury will talk about and sign her new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dclblog.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dclblog.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dclblog.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dclblog.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dclblog.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dclblog.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dclblog.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dclblog.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dclblog.org\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}