The One Book One Valley (OBOV) initiative kicked off in December at The Bookworm of Edwards. The title for 2023 is “The Downstairs Girl” by Stacey Lee. In attendance to formally make the Dec. 1 announcement.
Community mourns woman killed by tree branch
The Davis woman fatally injured by a falling tree limb at Slide Hill Park on Tuesday has been identified as 44-year-old Jennifer Comey, according to Sacramento County coroner’s officials.
Comey, her husband Ted Pitts and their daughter Margaret, now 3, moved to Davis from Ohio a year and a half ago when Pitts joined UC Davis’ King Hall School of Law as its statistics and metadata librarian, according to a GoFundMe page created by the family’s friends and neighbors, Alison and Joaquin Feliciano.
Comey’s family asked for privacy when contacted by a Davis Enterprise reporter Thursday afternoon, and UCD officials also declined to release additional information.
Enter to win a physical ARC of LUCK OF THE TITANIC by Stacey Lee!
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From the critically acclaimed author of The Downstairs Girl comes Enter to win a physical ARC of LUCK OF THE TITANIC by Stacey Lee!
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From the critically acclaimed author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck, twin British - Chinese acrobats traveling aboard the Titanic on its ill fated maiden voyage.
Southampton, 1912: Seventeen-year-old British-Chinese Valora Luck has quit her job and smuggled herself aboard the Titanic with two goals in mind: to reunite with her twin brother Jamie her only family now that both their parents are dead and to convince a part-owner of the Ringling Brothers Circus to take the twins on as acrobats. Quick-thinking Val talks her way into opulent firstclass accommodations and finds Jamie with a group of fellow Chinese laborers in third class. But in the rigidly stratified world of the luxury liner, Val