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29 Jan
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Joe Posnanski Interview Naples Daily News Jan 29 2026

  • January 29, 2026
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A witty and entertaining storyteller, Posnanski will be the next speaker in the 2026 Nonfiction Author Series, on Monday, Feb. 2.

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15 Jan
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2026 Nonfiction Author Series Florida Weekly Naples Jan 15 2026

  • January 15, 2026
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr. is among the books in a series that begins on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Day, Monday, Jan. 19.

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08 Jan
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Taylor Adams Interview Naples Daily News Jan 8 2026

  • January 8, 2026
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Adams will be in Naples on Monday, Jan. 12, to talk about his new novel, “Her Last Breath,” and kick off the 23rd annual Nick Linn Lecture Series for the Friends of the Library of Collier County.

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05 Jan
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2026 Nick Linn Series Naples Daily News Jan 4 2026

  • January 5, 2026
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Michael Connelly, author of the immensely popular novels about LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, is one of four best-selling mystery writers who headline this winter’s Nick Linn Lecture Series.

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31 Oct
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Lew Paper Interview Naples Press Oct 31 2025

  • October 31, 2025
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People never tire of reading about icons, an agent once told author Lew Paper. Paper’s latest book took that adage one better: People never tire of reading about colorful icons.

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27 Oct
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Lew Paper Interview Naples Daily News Oct 27 2025

  • November 4, 2025
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Paper, a Harvard Law School graduate who previously published five nonfiction books, will talk about “Legacy of Lies” on Thursday afternoon, Nov. 6, as the second speaker in the Author Spotlight Series for the Friends of the Library of Collier County.

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01 Oct
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‘Divorce ranches,’ Hoffa and witchcraft author series arrives in October

  • October 1, 2025
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The three intimate talks and book signings in October, November and April are a chance to meet the authors while helping the nonprofit Friends group raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Collier County’s public libraries.

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11 Sep
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Friends of the Library’s author spotlight expands to three events, starting in October

  • September 11, 2025
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Big changes are afoot with the author spotlight series, which expands to three events headlined by best-selling writers and hosted by the Friends of the Library of Collier County.

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03 Mar
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Jamie Ford Talks New Novel at Naples Lecture Series

  • March 3, 2025
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Jamie Ford, author of such best-sellers as “The Many Daughters of Afong Moy” and “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” will speak in the Nick Linn Series for the Friends of the Library of Collier County in Naples on March 10.

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17 Feb
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‘Demon of Unrest’ Author Erik Larson to Talk Civil War in Naples

  • February 17, 2025
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It takes a historian of Erik Larson’s skill to walk us through those fraught days, in his latest work of nonfiction, “The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War.”

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