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Best Selling Author Baldacci to Headline SWFL Reading Festival
Nov 2, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Best-Selling Author Baldacci to Headline Southwest Florida Reading Festival Fort Myers, FL (November 2, 2006) – Thriller writer David Baldacci's latest release, The Collectors, hit the New York Times bestseller list at #2 this week, just two weeks after its release on October 17. Baldacci is scheduled to headline the Lee County Library System's eighth annual Southwest Florida Reading Festival on March 17, 2007. Fans will be able to hear him speak, purchase books and have them signed at the Harborside Event Center in the Fort Myers River District. A lawyer for nine years in Washington, D.C., Baldacci began his writing career with the publishing of Absolute Power in 1996. According to his online biography, "All of his books have been national and international bestsellers, translated into over 38 languages and sold in more than 80 countries. Nearly 50 million copies of Baldacci's books are in print worldwide." The Southwest Florida Reading Festival is a free community event presented by the Lee County Library System with the mission of inspiring attendees to read, write, and use their local public library. In addition to Baldacci, the March 2007 event will include novelist Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate), Florida favorite Les Standiford, a panel of audio book narrators, and more than twenty others who write for adults, teens and children. Other libraries and non-profit organizations in Lee and surrounding counties are invited to become a part of the Southwest Florida Reading Festival. Sanctioned event status is open to these organizations for planning and implementing smaller events that support the mission of the festival and fall within the week after the March 17, 2007 main event. For more information, please call the Lee County Library System at 239-479-INFO (4636) or visit the Lee County Library System online at www.lee-county.com/library and click on "Reading Festival."
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