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It's our pleasure to welcomePadgett Gerler to Wonderland Book Club
Friday, June 28, 2024!
Padgett will present her book She's the Same.
We start at 10:15 a.m. (Quail Ridge Books opens at 10 a.m.) and will end by noon with a group photo (be sure to stick around for that!).
Padgett's book, She's the Same,
is available at Quail Ridge Books, and is eligible for a discount, 919-828-1588.
All Wonderland news is available at the Wonderland Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/WonderlandBookClub. We'll continue to send two monthly NCWN/Wonderland Book Club emails.
Please RSVP on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/WonderlandBookClub so Quail Ridge has a good count.
Please invite your friends to come to this meeting. It's free and they don't have to be a member of the NC Writers' Network or Wonderland Book Club to join us—we welcome all interested folks!
Meet Padgett Gerler, author of She's the Same, at Wonderland Book Club
co-sponsored by the NC Writers’ Network
Location: Quail Ridge Books
4209-100 Lassiter Mill Rd · Raleigh, NC
Friday, June 28, 2024
Time: 10:15 a.m. to noon (Quail Ridge Books opens at 10 AM)
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
We will be meeting UPSTAIRS.
ABOUT THE BOOK: She's the Same
Pregnant teen Kate O’Conner purchases a ticket to the end of the line on the next bus leaving the local Greyhound bus station. She has never heard of Palmetto, North Carolina, but it’s as far from her judgmental hometown and disappointed parents as her boarding pass will take her.
Rescued by Al Riley, Palmetto’s beloved doctor, and his housekeeper, Comfort, Kate settles into this idyllic town on the Pamlico Sound to await the birth of her child. Even Kate says she feels as though she has fallen into a Hallmark movie. But the movie ends abruptly when Kate gives birth to twins, Riley and Bailey.
Bailey has Down syndrome.
Kate wants desperately to be the perfect mother for her children, but it is the innocence and wisdom of six-year old Riley that teaches Kate all the really important things she needs to know about parenting: A child’s grasp is only as far as she is allowed to reach.
…a heart for compassion, forgiveness, and grace.
--Kirkus Reviews
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Padgett Gerler
Padgett Gerler was born in South Carolina, where her family lived in the quaint, picturesque coastal town of Georgetown. When she was a child, her family relocated to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, nestled in the majestic Appalachian Mountains.
Her husband Ed calls her childhood home Dick and Jane country.
Leaving the Virginia mountains for college, Padgett graduated from North Carolina State University with an accounting degree. After earning her CPA certificate, she practiced accounting until, in 2010, she left her career to pursue fiction writing.
Padgett is the award-winning author of seven published novels: Getting the Important Things Right (2012), Lessons I Learned from Nick Nack (2014), The Gifts of Pelican Isle (2016), What Does Love Sound Like?(2017), Invisible Girl (2019), The Summer the Air Changed (2021), and She's the Same (2023). The Girl Who Feared Trains (2022) is a work of historical fiction based on the author’s mother’s childhood. Lessons I Learned from Nick Nack and Invisible Girl were awarded the indieBRAG Medallion, while Lessons I Learned from Nick Nack also received honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest Self-published Book Awards. The Gifts of Pelican Isle was a Finalist in the 2018 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest. Padgett’s short story “The Art of Dying” won first place in the Southwest Manuscripters Awards. Her short story “I Know This Happened ’Cause Somebody Seen It” is featured in the anthology Self-Rising Flowers, published by Mountain Girl Press.
Padgett and Ed live on pastoral and inspirational Lake Winchester in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Padgett writes the southern voice, from the mountains to the coast. For more information about Padgett, visit Padgettgerler.com
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Quail Ridge Books, 4209 Lassiter Mill Rd., Ste. 100, Raleigh, United States
