LBB & Schlafly Public Library Present: Lindsay Ellis with Ann Leckie - Apostles of Mercy

Left Bank Books and Schlafly Public Library present Hugo nominated and best selling author Lindsay Ellis to celebrate her highly anticipated third book in the Noumena series, "Apostles of Mercy"! Join us as we discuss the new installment in a staff favorite series. Left Bank Books' staff member Alicia says of the series, "I am definitely putting it on my 'read over and over' shelf." Ellis will be in conversation with St. Louis award-winning author Ann Leckie! Ellis will personalize and sign copies after the presentation! Personalized and signed copies will be available to be mailed anywhere in the country. For personalized copies, please order before noon on June 5th. Join us at Schlafly Public Library 225 N. Euclid Ave St. Louis, MO 63108 Please RSVP for this event: https://forms.gle/JbELaBowC96dwVGMA Order the Book: https://www.left-bank.com/book/9781250274564 This is an in-person event only. About the Speakers: Lindsay Ellis is an author, media critic, and Hugo-nominated video essayist. She also was the co-host of the PBS digital series "It's Lit, ." After earning her bachelor's in Cinema Studies from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she earned her MFA in Film and Television Production from USC's School of Cinematic Arts with a focus in documentary and screenwriting. She lives in Long Beach, CA. Apostles of Mercy is her third novel. Ann Leckie is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, and British Science Fiction Award-winning "Imperial Radch" series as well as the critically acclaimed fantasy novel "The Raven Tower." She has worked as a waitress, a receptionist, a rodman on a land-surveying crew, and a recording engineer. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri. About "Apostles of Mercy": "Apostles of Mercy" is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant "New York Times," "Wall Street Journal" and "LA Times" bestselling Lindsay Ellis. First Contact has not been going well. The nations of Earth are rapidly militarizing against the arrival of the Superorganism, an alien civilization that promises to destroy humanity before it can develop into a real threat. The Superorganism has done it before-to their distant transient relatives-and they could easily do it again. But the alien Ampersand and his human interpreter Cora Sabino are done with trying to save humanity from both the Superorganism and itself; to them, this is a civilization that does not deserve to be saved. When a strange new form of communication between the two of them reveals to Cora how alien Ampersand truly is, she begins to question her blind devotion. But she soon learns of a danger that may force them to leave Earth before either of them are ready: a group of superorganism enemies that have been wreaking havoc on Earth for decades. Existence on the margins has made them desperate and bent on revenge against any of Ampersand's race whose path they cross. Before Cora and Ampersand can make their final escape, these hostile aliens stage an attack, and take that which is most dear to both of them. Ampersand's enemies will not consider any form of truce; the greatest threat to them is not from the Superorganism, but from an increasingly fearful and violent human civilization newly aware of their existence. Cora and Ampersand must go to extreme measures to take back what was stolen and prevent wholesale human extermination-but in doing so they may be no better than the civilizations they are trying to escape.

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