2025 Events

Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Happy Hour: 6:00pm
Program: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Chez Zee American Bistro
Who Owns the Moon
Cynthia Levinson
A former educator, Cynthia Levinson writes and speaks on nonfiction for young readers, focusing on social justice. One of her
previous books described an Arab-Jewish
children’s circus in Israel. Her books have received recognition and awards from the NAACP, the American Library
Association, National Council of Teachers of English, and other organizations. She lives in Austin, Texas, and Boston, Massachusetts.

Wednesday, March 13th, 2025
Happy Hour: 6:00pm
Program: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Chez Zee American Bistro
We Burn Daylight
Bret Anthony Johnston
Bret Anthony Johnston is the internationally bestselling author of the novels We Burn Daylight and Remember Me Like This, and the multi-award-winning collection Corpus Christi: Stories. He also edited Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and wrote the documentary film Waiting for Lightning, which was released in theaters around the world by Samuel Goldwyn Films. Among his many honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Glasgow Prize, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award, “the world’s richest and most prestigious prize for a single short story.” His work has been widely translated and appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.

Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Happy Hour: 6:00pm
Program: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Chez Zee American Bistro
The Sinners All Bow
Kate Winkler Dawson
In The Sinners All Bow, acclaimed true-crime historian, acclaimed journalist, and podcaster, Winkler Dawson travels back in time to nineteenth-century small-town America, emboldened to finish the work Williams started nearly two centuries before. Using modern investigative advancements—including “forensic knot analysis” and criminal profiling (which was invented fifty-five years later with Jack the Ripper)—Dawson fills in the gaps of Williams’s research to find the truth and bring justice to an unsettling mystery that speaks to our past as well as our present, anchored by three women who subverted the script they were given.
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Happy Hour: 6:00pm
Program: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Chez Zee American Bistro
Not Our Daughter
Chad Zunker
Chad Zunker is a bestselling author known for his gripping thrillers, including the Sam Callahan series and An Equal Justice. A Texas native, Zunker has a background in journalism and law, which informs his fast-paced legal and crime fiction. His latest novel, Not Our Daughter, is a heart-wrenching psychological thriller about a mother’s desperate fight to protect her child after a devastating accusation threatens to tear their family apart. With his signature blend of suspense and emotional depth, Zunker continues to captivate readers with compelling narratives that explore justice, family, and resilience.
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