AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT!

Meet Alabama author, Valerie Fraser Luesse.

We are thrilled to welcome Southern novelist Valerie Fraser Luesse to our library. She has authored six novels set in the South: Christy Award winner Missing Isaac (2018), Almost Home (2019), The Key to Everything (2020), Under the Bayou Moon (2021) which was honored by the Alabama Library Association, Letters from My Sister (August 2023), and The Light on Horn Island (2025), all published by Revell Books. An award-winning magazine writer, Luesse is perhaps best known for her feature stories and essays in Southern Living, where she retired as senior travel editor in 2022. The Alabama native is a graduate of Auburn University and Baylor University. She and her husband, Dave, live in Harpersville.

Join us as we celebrate her words, her wisdom, and the Southern legacy woven through every story she tells.

To find out more about Valerie visit her website: https://www.valeriefraserluesse.com

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• This Wednesday, 23rd July, 11:00 am, MEET THE AUTHOR: AMBER SKIDMORE in Clanton
• Next month, 14th August, 10:00 am, BOOK CLUB in Clanton

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