“Not Your Time to Die,” the fourth novel by 40-year resident Ron Stock, was released last December.
Stock, a longtime insurance broker and track and field athlete, penned a novel about a 70-year-old sprinter who enters the 2016 Rio Olympics with the help Leslie, his guardian angel.
His first novel, “Moses, God’s Blessed Donkey,” recently received a top rating among self-published books by Writer’s Digest. His “Marblehead, Home of an Americana Medicine Show Family,” fictionalizes the true store of his family’s involvement in medicine shows, vaudeville and circuses.
“My grandmother’s sister was the first woman in America to own a circus that was actually larger than Ringling Brothers and featured Joe Louis, heavy weight champion of the world, as a celebrity sideshow,” Stock said in a statement.
Stock’s books are available from Amazon or ronaldstock.com.
Methodists Will Study Bonhoeffer Book
Small groups of Laguna Beach United Methodist Church members will study “Life Together” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer during Lent, meeting weekly at participant’s homes. Members of the community are welcome to join by contacting the church at 499-3088.
Bonhoeffer was a leading spokesman of German Protestant resistance to Nazism. In “Life Together,” he recounts his unique fellowship in an underground seminary during the Nazi era in Germany.
Top Children’s Author Visits Newport Library
Children’s author Doreen Cronin will be at the Newport Beach Central Library for a special presentation and book signing at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17.
Cronin is the author of bestselling picture books, including the Caldecott awarded, “Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.”
She will be introducing her newest picture book “Bloom,” about how an extraordinary “ordinary” girl can save a kingdom with the help of a mud fairy. The event is free. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Books will be available for purchase and signing, courtesy of Whale of a Tale Children’s Bookshoppe .
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