We hope you'll join us at the library or from home while we zoom live with historical fiction author Amanda Skenandore (The Undertaker's Assistant,The Nurse's Secret, The Second Life of Mirielle West...). Amanda will be discussing her new release "The Medicine Woman of Galveston". If you plan to zoom, you must register in order to receive the zoom invite.

Thank you to Robert Hayes of Tewksbury for handling the zoom side of this program for us! We also welcome Chelmsford & Groton's Libraries for partnering with us!

About the book: Caught in the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a female doctor who’s joined a traveling medicine show to support her disabled son is forced to weather the storm and its aftermath in a town hostile to the troupe’s unconventional ways but desperate for their help. Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn’t touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option—to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his traveling medicine show. Her medical license lends the show a pretense of credibility, but the cures and tonics Tucia is forced to peddle are little more than purgatives and bathwater. Loathing the duplicity, even as she finds uneasy kinship with the other misfit performers, Tucia vows to leave as soon as her debts are paid and start a new life with her son—if Huey will ever let her go.

About the author: Amanda Skenandore is the award-winning author of three historical novels, The Second Life of Mirielle West, The Undertaker’s Assistant, and Between Earth & Sky. She’s also a registered nurse and certified infection preventionist. When she’s not writing or chasing germs, Amanda spends her time curled up on the couch with a book and cup of tea or tending to her many houseplants. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband Steven and their pet turtle Lenore.

*Langley-Adams Library hosted Amanda in June of 2022. Because everyone enjoyed her talk & have become fans of her books, we invited her back!

Please CLICK HERE to register on zoom and receive the link.