Carroll Community College

Mary Jo Salter

One of the major poets of her generation gives us superb new poems along with a selection of the best from her previous award-winning collections. Mary Jo Salter’s poetry offers a unique blend of domestic drama with the grittier, wider world. In the title poem, she re-imagines the technological simplicities and humanistic verities of the past with a brilliantly disorienting detachment. Her poems are imbued with the violence of modern life—from the slapping of a child on the subway to the Iraq war—and others that bring a witty luminosity to peacocks in the park, shoe-shine “thrones” at the airport and poetry itself. A tender elegy for the poet Anthony Hecht is followed by poems about the baroque sculptor Bernini and the German Expressionist painter August Macke. And, although Salter looks back wistfully at what is lost, she also sets her sights on the future: “Lord, surprise me with even more to miss,” she writes in Wake-up Call .

Lisa Gardner

With the enormously successful publication of last year’s New York Times bestselling Hide, Lisa Gardner received some of the most impressive reviews of her career. The Chicago Tribune called it her “best book yet.” The Wall Street Journal said “the crises are gripping, the protagonists earn quick sympathy and the pages turn with speed” and in a starred review, Booklist said it “takes your breath away…head and shoulders above anything else Gardner’s written, this riveting novel represents the author at the height of her powers.” With nine consecutive New York Times bestselling thrillers and nearly ten million copies of her books in print, Gardner returns this summer with Say Goodbye, her most complex and explosive thriller to date. Say Goodbye was published as a Bantam Books Hardcover on July 15, 2008 and reintroduces characters made popular in her previous novels - The Third Victim, The Next Accident, The Killing Hour and Gone.

Dan Yaccarino

Presentation and Book Signing
Saturday, March 7, 11:45 a.m.
Room L287

Dan Yaccarino is a critically acclaimed artist, writer and producer who has created many children’s books as well as his own animated television series. He is the author of Who Will Sing a Lullaby?, Unlovable, Dan Yaccarino’s Mother Goose and I’m Off to the Moon! In 2001 his animated television series, Oswald, premiered on the Nickelodeon network and received much praise and a Parent’s Choice Award recommendation. His new animated series, Willa’s Wild Life, will soon air on the Discovery Channel. His latest books include Little Boy with a Big Horn and The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jaques Cousteau.