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Behind The Story: Author Talk with Liane Moriarty

A CCPL Virtual Author Speaker Series Program

2024-09-21 19:00:00 2024-09-21 20:00:00 America/New_York Behind The Story: Author Talk with Liane Moriarty Virtual -

Saturday, September 21
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-09-21 19:00:00 2024-09-21 20:00:00 America/New_York Behind The Story: Author Talk with Liane Moriarty Join us for a deep dive into character development with Liane Moriarty, author of "Big Little Lies" and recent release "Here One Moment"! Virtual -

Join us for a deep dive into character development with Liane Moriarty, author of "Big Little Lies" and recent release "Here One Moment"!

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny? Join us as we chat with mega-bestselling author Liane Moriarty about her newest novel Here One Moment. Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world.  

In Here One Moment, aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.

How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.” Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable. 

A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.

A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can’t-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel. Be sure to register now!


About the Author: Liane Moriarty is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Truly Madly Guilty, Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, What Alice Forgot, Apples Never Fall, and Here One Moment. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children.


The views expressed by presenters are their own and their appearance in a program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Charles County Public Library.

Charles County Public Library events are accessible for all. If you have an accessibility request, please contact programs@ccplonline.org three business days prior to the event.

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Mon, Oct 07 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Oct 08 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Oct 09 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Oct 10 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Oct 11 1:00PM to 5:00PM
Sat, Oct 12 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Oct 13 Closed

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Wed, Oct 09, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Join us for a discussion on Latin American genre fiction and her latest novel, "The Seventh Veil of Salome," with author Silvia Moreno-Garcia!
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Sat, Oct 12, 11:00am - 1:00pm
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Tue, Oct 22, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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Tue, Oct 29, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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Sat, Nov 02, 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Mon, Nov 04, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Wed, Nov 06, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
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Thu, Nov 07, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Join us for an evening with Stanley Milford, Jr. to discuss his book "The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained."