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Behind the Book with Shelley Read

Author Shelley Read makes her first visit to the Carmel Clay Public Library to share her book "Go as a River." Registration is required for this free author event.

Shelley Read’s debut novel, Go as a River, is an international bestseller that has sold over a million copies worldwide, been translated into thirty-four languages, and is in development for film with the Mazur Kaplan Company. Winner of the High Plains Book Award for Fiction and the Reading the West Book Award for Debut Fiction, Go as a River is also a Sunday Times bestseller, a Goodreads Choice Award finalist, an Indie Next Pick, and a Colorado Public Radio Books We Love selection, among other national and international accolades.  

Shelley was an award-winning senior lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades, where she taught writing, literature, environmental studies, and honors. She is a mom, mountaineer, world traveler, and fifth-generation Coloradan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of Colorado’s Western Slope. 

Book sales and signing will follow the presentation. Registration is required for this event.

If you are unable to attend the event, please cancel your registration so someone on the waitlist can join. If you are on the waitlist, attend only if you get a confirmation email indicating that a spot has opened up for you.

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• Use the link and registration reference number from the "You're Registered" email you received.
• Call the library's Adult Services Department at 317.814.3988.
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