Shannon Hale ~ Palace of Stone

August 23, 2012 ~ 7pm
Alamosa Books welcomes
Shannon Hale
for a book talk & signing at
(venue change) Alamosa Books
for the followup to her Newbery Honor winner
Princess Academy,
Palace of Stone.
 
Tickets are $18.18 for two people and include one copy of Palace of Stone.
Buy tickets now!
 

We are also hosting a
Meet-and-Greet Tea
with Shannon!
3:30 pm, August 23rd @ the Downtown Flying Star
 
Tickets are $30 for one admission, tea and snacks, and one copy of Palace of Stone.
Buy tea tickets now!
 

Coming down from the mountain to a new life in the city seems a thrill beyond imagining. When Miri and her friends from Mount Eskel set off to help the future princess Britta prepare for her royal wedding, she is happy about her chance to attend school in the capital city. There, Miri befriends students who seem so sophisticated and exciting . . . until she learns that they have some frightening plans. They think that Miri will help them, that she should help them. Soon Miri finds herself torn between loyalty to the princess and her new friends’ ideas, between an old love and a new crush, and between her small mountain home and the bustling city.

Picking up where Princess Academy left off, this incredible stand-alone story celebrates the joys of friendship, the delight of romance, and the fate of a beloved fairy tale kingdom.

New York Times best selling author Shannon Hale started writing books at age ten and never stopped, eventually earning an MFA in Creative Writing. After nineteen years of writing and dozens of rejections, she published The Goose Girl, the first book in her award-winning Books of Bayern series. She has two standalone books for young readers--Book of a Thousand Days, a Cybils award winner, and Princess Academy, a Newbery Honor Book. Her books for the adult crowd are Austenland (soon to be a major motion picture), Midnight in Austenland, and The Actor and the Housewife. With her husband Dean, Shannon wrote two graphic novels: Rapunzel's Revenge, winner of the Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award, and its acclaimed sequel, Calamity Jack. Shannon's next book is the long-awaited sequel to Princess Academy, Palace of Stone. She spends her days as a fulltime mom to four young children near Salt Lake City, Utah.