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Fridays at The Book Loft 10am-4pm

Sketches of Amelia Island and Fernandina Beach, The Mark of William Maurer is now in its second printing since 2007. The first printing of 2500 copies has just about sold out. This 13 inch, beautiful hard cover coffee table book depicting the artist’s original sketches and beautiful watercolors of Amelia Island is being well received. Among those are visitors to the island, new brides for their guests to sign, realtors welcoming new comers, and art lovers as well. Unlike a photo album, this book is a collection of his past ten years of teaching sketching and original paintings throughout the island.

The perfect gift!

Saturday, April 27th 10:00-12:30

Sunday, April 28th 1pm-4pm

Book Signing with Terri Bechtold

Mothers love their daughters unconditionally, and daughters love their mothers just the same. They have an extraordinary, almost magical bond that flourishes and

strengthens as life happens

every second,

of every minute,

of every hour,

of every day.

Enjoy this remarkable story of a mother's enduring love for her daughters and their sincere gratitude for a rich life filled with amazing ordinary experiences and time spent together creating lifelong memories.

Discover how this boundless love and gratitude is passed to the next generation and For Infinity and Beyond.

May it inspire Mom's and children everywhere,

to always remember and never forget

to be grateful for and embrace all life experiences and to say "I Love You" every morning and every night!

Saturday, May 18th

1pm-4pm

Book Signing with May Simpson

How did the demons become your best buddies? You invited them into your life with open arms. My life was in shambles as far as my spiritual woman. On the outside, I seemed in control but inwardly, the darkness was etching itself into my DNA and I had no control over the death that was happening to my soul. The Holy Ghost found me that day on that back pew. A battle of light and darkness consumed me and this is described as much as human words will let me. It is a journey of losing myself and all the attached evilness and finding myself and the Father I was meant to follow.

Saturday, June 8th

1pm-4pm

What do a dog and a butterfly have in common? A pit bull and a shiny-winged butterfly both know what it's like to not be liked and to be judged by their outside appearance. After a strange meeting, these two mismatched characters discover they have more in common than uncommon. Follow along the true story of Chance, a rescued pit bull, who learns about Fletcher, a monarch butterfly. This book was created as a way to share information to create a more compassionate world for people and animals. It includes talking points and questions to be discussed in a classroom or at home with children and adults. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book help to support the work being done by EPIC Outreach, a nonprofit that focuses on teaching kindness for people, animals, and the environment to include providing resources to help keep pets and people together. Learn more about them at www.epicoutreach.org

Saturday June 22nd

1-4pm

During an arts festival, a couple drifts into Colleen Grey’s kiosk and makes a chilling discovery: One of her paintings bears a striking, eerie resemblance to their daughter, who disappeared without a trace several months ago. Colleen disavows any knowledge, insisting that the haunted, anguished faces in her paintings come not from models or photos but a distant muse deep in her imagination. The couple is unconvinced. The police are curious. Then a second set of parents has a similar harrowing encounter in a different venue: the spitting image of their missing daughter in another of Colleen’s paintings. One likeness may be a coincidence; two suggest something more sinister. The police have no choice but to assume the worst as a tense debate rocks Amelia Island: Are they paintings fired by the imagination of an artist, or macabre signposts left by a serial killer?

Saturday June 29th

1-4pm

Winner of 2 Gold Awards from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association in the categories of Young Adult Fiction and Young Adult Fiction: Paranormal and Sci-Fi

Laura, who died thirty years ago, enlists the help of a tenacious high school reporter named Rebecca, who is very much alive. Rebecca, although skeptical and conflicted by her supposed encounters with a spirit, determines to learn the truth about Laura’s tragic death. As the clues unravel and their worlds collide, Rebecca finds herself at a dangerous crossroads.

Laura, now pulled back into everything she left behind when she died – her old high school and memories of her life and death—has been in training for this exact moment. And nothing means more to her than succeeding at her assignment.
It is her one chance to make sure that what happened to her does not happen to anyone else, and especially not to her new friend, Rebecca.

An intriguing, mystical tale about friendship, fate, and the courage to believe.