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Gwenda BondGwenda Bond is the author of Girl on a Wire, a novel about a dare-devil heroine who dis-covers danger and passion lurking beneath the big top. Her previous novels include The Woken Gods and Black-

wood. She has also written for Publishers Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. Gwenda lives in a 100-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband, author Christopher Rowe, and their menagerie.

Andrea ChengAndrea Cheng is the author of 20 award-winning books for young people. Readers can follow Anna Wang in fifth grade in The Year of the Baby, and then in sixth grade in The Year of the Fortune Cookie.

Her recent title, Etched in Clay, a biography in verse of Dave the Potter, received starred reviews in both Kirkus and School Library Journal. In addition to writing, Andrea teaches ESL at Cincinnati State. She lives with her husband in Cincinnati.

Jasper Fforde Jasper Fforde’s first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written several books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series

and has begun two more independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey. He is the recipient of the Dilys Award, Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, Crawford Award. He lives in Wales.

Alan Gratz Alan Gratz began writing The League of Seven by listing all the things that 10-year-old Alan would have thought were awesome, including brass goggles, airships, tenta-cled monsters, brains in

jars, windup robots, secret societies, and super powers. (In fact, he still thinks all those things are awesome.) When not writing books like Samurai Shortstop, the Brooklyn Nine, and Prisoner B-3087, he’s usually reading other people’s books or creating an awesome new costume for science fiction/fantasy conventions.

Hampton Sides* Hampton Sides is the author of Ghost Sol-diers, Blood and Thunder, and other bestsell-ing works of narrative history. He is editor-at-large for Outside Magazine and has written for National Geographic, The New Yorker, Esquire, Preservation, and Men’s Journal. His magazine work, collected in nu-merous published anthologies, has been

twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. His latest book, In the Kingdom of Ice, was published this summer.

Featured Authors

Ann HagedornAnn Hagedorn’s latest book The Invisible Soldiers, explores the privatization of America’s national se-curity and the dramatic rise of a bold new industry of private security contrac-tors. Ann has been a staff

writer for The Wall Street Journal and has taught writing at Northwestern Universi-ty’s Medill School of Journalism and at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her previous books are Wild Ride, Ransom, Beyond the River, and Savage Peace.

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Emily Giffin* Dubbed a “modern day Jane Aus-ten” (Vanity Fair) and a “depend-ably down-to-earth storyteller” (New York Times), Emily Giffin has penned six New York Times best-sellers, Something Blue, Baby Proof, Love the One You’re With, Heart of the Matter, and Where We Belong. Her novels, all filled with endearingly flawed characters and emotional complexity, have been translated into twenty-nine languages, with eleven million cop-ies in print worldwide. Her seventh novel, The One and Only, was re-leased in the spring of 2014. Em-ily resides with her husband and three young children in Atlanta.

Kate HattemerKate Hattemer taught high school Latin for three years and now works at an independent book-store in Cincinnati. She delivered an epic poem at her university graduation ceremony. The Vigilante

Poets of Selwyn Academy , her first book, was selected as the 2014 On the Same Page title for teens.

Smith HendersonSmith Henderson is the recipient of the 2011 PEN Emerging Writer Award in fiction, and was the Phillip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University the same year. His short

story, “Number Stations” won a Pushcart Prize and his fiction has been antholo-gized and published in American Short Fiction, One Story, and the New Orleans Review. Fourth of July Creek was recent-ly shortlisted for the annual Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.

Grady HendrixGrady Hendrix is a writer and journal-ist and one of the founders of the New York Asian Film Festival. A for-mer film critic for the New York Sun, Grady has written

for Slate, the Village Voice, Time Out New York, Playboy, and Variety. A traditional haunted house story in a thoroughly con-temporary setting, Horrorstör comes pack-aged in the form of a glossy mail order catalog, complete with product illustra-tions, a home delivery order form, and a map of Orsk’s labyrinthine showroom.

Katherine Howe Katherine Howe is the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, The House of Velvet and Glass, and Conver-sion. She has hosted

“Salem: Unmasking the Devil” for the National Geographic Channel. In spring 2015 she will be the visiting writer in residence at Lenoir-Ryne University in North Carolina. A native Texan, she lives in New England and upstate New York, where she teaches at Cornell and is at work on her next novel.

Kostya KennedyKostya Kennedy, an assistant managing editor at Sports Illus-trated, is the New York Times bestselling author of 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports, winner of the 2011 Casey Award

and runner-up for the 2012 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. Pete Rose: An American Dilemma, was pub-lished in the spring of 2014.

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John Scalzi*John Scalzi is one of the most acclaimed science fiction authors to emerge in the last decade. His massively successful debut, Old Man’s War, won him science fic-tion’s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, and Redshirts, which won 2013’s Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog, The Whatever, has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.

Marc BrownMarc Brown is the creator of the bestselling Arthur Adventure book series and co-developer of the chil-dren’s PBS television series, Arthur. He has also created a second book series, featuring D.W., Arthur’s little sister, as well as numerous other books for children. Marc Brown lives with his family in Tisbury, Mas-sachusetts on Martha’s Vineyard.

Amanda KingloffAs lifestyle director at Parents magazine from 2007 to 2012, Amanda Kingloff oversaw all DIY content for the brand. Before joining Parents, Amanda worked for life-

style personality Katie Brown, producing and starring in Katie Brown Workshop on PBS and co-writing Katie Brown’s Week-ends and Katie Brown’s Outdoor Enter-taining. She has appeared on Good Morning America and Lifetime’s I Do Diaries: Beg, Borrow, and Steal. She lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York.

Teeny LamotheTeeny Lamothe has written about pie for the Huffington Post, Relish, CakeSpy, Refinery29, The Kitchen, and other print and online publi-

cations. With the dream of becoming a “Lady Baker,” Teeny eschewed traditional pastry school and instead embarked on a traveling apprenticeship, working under and learning from the country’s best bakers. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she runs her wholesale and custom pie-baking business, Teeny Pies, with the motto “eat pie. be happy. eat more pie.”

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Loren LongLoren Long is the author and il-lustrator of the New York Times bestselling picture books Otis, Otis and the Tornado,

Otis and the Puppy, and An Otis Christ-mas. He is the #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator of President Barack Obama’s picture book Of Thee I Sing, the re-illustrated edition of The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper, and Mr. Pea-body’s Apples by Madonna.

Phil NuxhallPhil Nuxhall has had a love affair with Spring Grove Cemetery & Arbo-retum since 2001 when he became its very first historian. After digging into historical records for several years, his

knowledge of Spring Grove deepened and broadened. He began giving private tours, then educated docents to give public tours, then added a tram for long-winded tours (and short-winded tourists!). His latest book, Stories in the Grove, tells the little known narratives behind those who are buried there, and often...why.

Daniel WrightDaniel Wright is an award-winning chef, restaurateur, and owner of Senate, Abigail Street and Pontiac. In 2012, he was named Peoples Best New Chef by

Food & Wine Magazine. Senate: Street & Savory, his first cookbook, features more than 160 original recipes.

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Adam WatkinsAdam F. Watkins has always had a passion for making pictures, for singing the alphabet song, and for robots. So it was no surprise

that the first picture book he wrote and illustrated is about letters and, of course, robots. Adam lives in Southern Ohio with his wife and two children. Although he has never successfully built a working robot (yet), he did master the alphabet at the age of five.

Tiphanie YaniqueTiphanie Yanique is the author of the short story collection, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, the picture book I Am the Virgin Islands, and the novel Land of Love and

Drowning. Her writing has won the 2011 BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Fiction, Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Push-cart Prize, and an Academy of American Poet’s Prize. She has been listed by the Boston Globe as one of the 16 cultural figures to watch and the National Book Foundation’s one of the 5 Under 35.

Dave ZirinNamed one of UTNE Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World”, Dave Zirin writes about the politics of sports for the Nation

Magazine. Winner of Sport in Society and Northeastern University School of Journalism’s Excellence in Sports Jour-nalism Award, Zirin is also the host of Sirius XM Radio’s popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio and a columnist for SLAM Magazine and the Progressive.

Matthew HolmMatthew Holm is the author and illustrator of more than 25 books for children. He is the co-creator (with his sister, Jennifer) of two series of graphic novels for chil-dren: the Eisner Award-winning Babymouse series and the In-diebound-bestselling Squish se-ries, both from Random House Children’s Books. He is also the co-editor of Comics Squad, a new anthology series of comics for kids. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and dog.

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Authors to MeetVisit www.booksbythebanks.org for an updated list.

Philip and Erin Stead*Philip C. Stead is the author of the Caldecott Medal-winning book A Sick Day for Amos McGee, also named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2010 and a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of 2010, illustrated by his wife, Erin E. Stead. Together with Erin, he also created Bear Has a Story to Tell, an E.B. White Read-Aloud Award honor book. Philip, Erin, and their dog, Wednesday, live in a 100-year-old barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

FICTIONDan Andriacco, The Poisoned

PenmanDavid Bell, The Forgotten GirlJohn Brackett, Suffer the Little

ChildrenDuffy Brown, Pearls and PoisonDoug Cooper, Outside InThomas J. Davis, The Devil Likes

to SingMary Ellis,The Quaker and the

RebelEmily Giffin, The One & Only*Geoffrey Girard, Cain’s BloodHeather Grothaus, Never Love a

LordMichael Wayne Hampton, Roller

Girls Love Bobby KnightJon Harrison, The Banks of Certain

RiversSmith Henderson, Fourth of July

CreekGrady Hendrix, HorrorstörAnna Lee Huber, A Grave MatterLynne Hugo, A Matter of MercyMarci Jefferson, Girl on the Golden

CoinMatt Kish, Heart of DarknessTamera Lenz Muente, The Boy at

the MuseumLaurie Loewenstein, Unmention-

ablesCatherine McKenzie, HiddenMarji Mendelsohn, Being ChristianDavid Connerley Nahm, Ancient

Oceans of Central KentuckyLori Rader-Day, The Black HourYolonda Tonette Sanders, Wages

of SinJohn Scalzi, Lock In*Ian Stansel, Everybody’s IrishCindy Thomson, Annie’s StoriesTiphanie Yanique, Land of Love

and Drowning

NONFICTIONMichael C. C Adams, Living Hell:

The Dark Side of the Civil WarJeff Alt, Four Boots, One Journey:

A Story of Survival, Awareness and Rejuvenation on the John Muir Trail

Tom Calarco, The Search for The Underground Railroad in Upstate New York

Joe Cox and Ryan Clark, Fightin’ Words: Kentucky vs. Louisville

Jerry Dowling, Drawing the Hol-lwood Book of Fame

Steven “Stevie D.”Dupin, The Trans Am Diaries: A Hillbilly’s Road Trip from Stand Up Comedy to Cancer...and Back Again

Richard Gilbert, Shepherd: A Memoir

Ann Hagedorn, The Invisible Sol-diers: How America Outsourced our Security

Brett Harper, various assorted titles

Louis Hatchett, Duncan Hines: How a Traveling Salesman Became the Most Trusted Name in Food

Peter Kaufman, Skull in the Ashes: Murder, A Gold Rush Manhunt and the Birth of Circumstantial Evidence in America

Kostya Kennedy, Pete Rose: An American Dilemma

Amanda Kingloff, Project Kid: 100 Ingenious Crafts for Family Fun

Phil Nuxhall, Stories in the GroveMark Rea, The Legends: Ohio

State Buckeyes, the Men, the Deeds, the Consequences

Susan Reigler, Kentucky Bourbon Country: The Essential Travel Guide

Brad Ricca, Super Boys: The Amaz-ing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster - The Creators of Superman

Jim Schenk and Julie Hotchkiss, Starting your Urban CSA: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Community Supported Agriculture Project in your Urban Neighbor-hood

Joshua Wolf Shenk, Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innova-tion in Creative Pairs

Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette*

Alan Sullivan, Voice of the Wild-cats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting

Michelle Taute, Fold Me Up: 100 Paper Fortune-Tellers for Life’s Pressing Questions

Jane Ann Turzillo, Murder & May-hem on Ohio’s Rails

Susan V. Vogt, Blessed by LessMarianne Walker, The Graves

County Boys: A Tale of Kentucky Basketball, Perseverance, and the Unlikely Championship of the Cuba Cubs

Maryjean Wall, Madam Belle: Sex, Money and Influence in a South-ern Brothel

David Wecker, Square Pegs: Stories about Everything and Nothing

Tamara York, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Cincinnati

Dave Zirin, Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, The Olym-pics and the Fight for Democracy

LOCAL INTERESTWendy Hart Beckman, Founders

and Famous Families of Cincin-nati

Donald Crews, Cincinnati’s Free-

masonsAmy M. Dehan, Cincinnati Silver:

1788-1940Scott E. Fowler, Fantasy Farm

Amusement ParkConnie J. Harrell, Walking the

Steps of CincinnatiJack and Joe Heffron, The Local

Boys: Hometown Players for the Cincinnati Reds

Laura Hoevener and Terri Weeks, Adventures Around Cincinnati: A Parent’s Guide to Unique and Memorable Place to Explore with your Kids

Richard O. Jones, Cincinnati’s Sav-age Seamstress: The Shocking Edythe Klumpp Murder Scandal

Steven J. Rolfes and Douglas R. Weise, Cincinnati Art Deco

COOKBOOKSTeeny Lamothe, Teeny’s Tour of PieMolly Wellmann, Handcrafted Cock-

tails: The Mixologist’s Guide to Classic Drinks for Morning, Noon and Night

Daniel Wright, Senate: Street & Savory

CHILDRENS FICTION & NONFICTION

Jinny Powers Berten, HenriTim Bowers, Memoirs of an ElfH. Michael Brewer, Brewer, Time

Crashers:Blackbeard’s RevengeMarc Brown, Marc Brown’s

Playtime Rhymes: A Treasury for Families to Learn and Play Together

Jessica Burkhart, Unicorn Magic: Bella’s Birthday Unicorn

Emma Carlson Berne, The Roar of the Falls: My Journey with Kaya

Mary Kay Carson, Park Scientists: Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in America’s Own Backyard

Andrea Cheng, The Year of the Fortune Cookie

Maria Childs and Craig Forster, Firefighters Don’t

Doug Coates, Pitching for Success: Character Lessons the Joe Nuxhall Way

Hugh G. Earnhart, The Forgotten Pumpkin

Jeff Ebbeler, Arlo Rolled Jasper Fforde, The Eye of Zoltar*Kelli Gleiner, A Day with MonsterAlan Gratz, The League of Seven Melissa Guion, Baby Penguins Love

Their Mama!Brett Harper, Charley Harper’s a

Partridge in a Pear TreeMatt Holm, Squish: Fear the

AmoebaMichelle Houts, WinterfrostLeah Busch and Dr. John Hutton,

Calm Baby, Gently*Dr. John Hutton, Sleepy Bee*Sarah Jones and Dr. John Hutton,

Play*Maria Montag and Dr. John Hut-

ton, Sherm the Germ*Marlane Kennedy, Disaster

Strikes: Earthquake ShockKaren Leet, Sarah’s Courage: A

Kentucky Frontier Kidnapping Loren Long, Otis and the Scare-

crowTammie Lyon, Good Morning, God!Casey Riordan Millard, Shark Girl

& Belly Button.*

Brandon Snider, Transformers: Kre-O Character Encyclopedia

Philip Stead and Erin, Sebastian and the Balloon, A Sick Day for Amos McGee*

Linda Leopold Straus, Best Friends Pretend!

Carmella Van Vleet, Eliza Bing is (Not) a Big, Fat Quitter

Christina Wald, Macarooned on a Dessert Island

Adam Watkins, R is for Robot

TEEN FICTION & NONFICTIONMindee Arnett, AvalonLaura Bickle, The OutsideGwenda Bond, Girl on a WireCarey Corp and Lorie Langdon,

Destined for DoonKate Hattemer, The Vigilante Poets

of Selwyn AcademyPatricia Henley, Where Wicked

StartsKerrie Logan Hollihan, Reporting

Under Fire: 16 Daring Women War Correspondents and Photo-journalists

Karen Ann Hopkins, ForeverKatherine Howe, ConversionElizabeth Kiem, Hider, Seeker,

Secret KeeperBarry Kienzle, The CrossingsMelissa Landers, AlienatedAnna M. Lewis, Women of Steel

and Stone: 22 Inspirational Archi-tects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers

Emery Lord, Open Road SummerAlex Mallory, WildMindy McGinnis, In a Handful of

DustJennifer McGowan, Maid of Decep-

tionTim Mettey, TrustBethany Neal, My Last KissTracy Richardson, The FieldEllen Schreiber, Full Moon KissesKristen Simmons, Three

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Panel Author Sessions Kids’ CornerPresented by

The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation

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VISITS WITH CHILDREN’S BOOK AUTHORS• Marc Brown, Playtime Rhymes:

A Treasury for Families to Learn and Play Together

• Philip & Erin Stead, Sebastian and the Balloon, A Sick Day for Amos McGee

• Loren Long, Otis and the Scarecrow• Adam Watkins, R is for Robot• Amanda Kingloff, Project Kid: 100

Ingenious Crafts for Family Fun

MEET STORYBOOK COSTUME CHARACTERS AND LIBRARY MASCOTS• Llama Llama• Spot• Baby Mouse• Corduroy

• Wild Thing• Curious George• Berenstain Bears• Rufus the Reading Dog• Browser• Shakespurr the Library Lion

ENJOY PERFORMANCES • Joel Caithamer, The Singing Librarian• Hands Up Puppet Troupe• Et Cetera Storytelling Troupe• Playhouse in the Park

OTHER FUN STUFF• Brain Quest Trivia Challenge• Balloon Animals• Face Painting• Make-n-Take crafts• And much more!

Stuff for TeensMUSIC PERFORMANCE• Spearpoint MAKERSPACE• Hive 13 INTERACTIVE AUTHOR EVENTS• Battleship/Pictionary SPEED DATING• Gwenda Bond• Mindee Arnett• Kristen Simmons• Katherine Howe• Laura Bickle• Jennifer McGowan

AND MORE!

The author talks and panels scheduled throughout the day are very popular features of Books by the Banks. Below is a list of this year’s sessions. Visit www.booksbythebanks.org for a complete schedule and room locations.

MEET THE AUTHOR• Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of

Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

• Dave Zirin, Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics and the Fight for Democracy

• John Scalzi, Lock In• Emily Giffin, The One & Only

LOCAL SPORTS• Kosty a Kennedy, Pete Rose: An

American Dilemma• Jack & Joe Heffron, The Local Boys:

Hometown Players for the Cincinnati Reds

• Mark Rea, The Legends: Ohio State Buckeyes, the Men, the Deeds, the Consequences

• Joe Cox & Ryan Clark, Fightin’ Words: Kentucky vs. Louisville

WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING CHILDRENS’ BOOKS• Linda Strauss, Best Friends Pretend! • Jeff Ebbeler, Arlo Rolled• Michelle Houts, Winterfrost• Tim Bowers, Memoirs of an Elf;

WORKSHOP FOR KIDS• Wordplay Creative Writing Center

PITCHING FOR PUBLICATION IN THE MAGAZINE AND ONLINE MARKETS • Jay Stowe• Grace Dobush• Amy Leibrock

WRITING CINCINNATI• Donald Crews, Cincinnati’s

Freemasons• Scott E. Fowler, Fantasy Farm

Amusement Park• Wendy Hart Beckman, Founders

and Famous Families of Cincinnati• Steven J. Rolfes and Douglas R.

Weise, Cincinnati Art Deco• Connie J. Harrell, Walking the Steps

of Cincinnati

KIDS’ CORNER MEDIA SPONSOR:

The Kids’ Corner will feature a full schedule of fun activities for the entire family to enjoy! Visit www.booksbythebanks.org for the complete list of events and activities.

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The world-famous Charley Harper was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist who died in 2007. However, his son, artist Brett Harper, and visual artist Matthew Dayler, repurposed some iconic Harper images to create a special new design exclusively for Books by the Banks.

Brett is a 1971 graduate of Finney-town High School with a BA in English from Brown University and is now the director and owner of the Charley Harper Art Studio in Cincinnati. Matthew was born in Canada and earned a BFA in printmaking from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and a MFA in studio arts from the Memphis College of Art. He’s had solo exhibi-tions around the world. He is cur-rently an assistant professor at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

This year’s poster is $15 and previ-ous years’ posters are $10.

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