All patrons, residents and library lovers are invited to the Friends Annual Meeting this Sunday at 2:00 pm, in the Library. We are very excited this year to be able to host Nancy Wright Beasley, the author of Izzy’s Fire and Reflections of a Purple Zebra. She has also been a frequent contributor to Richmond Magazine, and is known throughout the region as a gifted writer and speaker. Limited copies of her books will be available for sale, and she will of course be signing them.

Izzy’s Fire, a People’s Choice award winner, is the moving story of Edna Ipson, her family and five other families as they struggled first to escape from the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust and then to survive in hiding until their miraculous emergence into freedom. Some of the surviving members of the Ipson family still live in Richmond, and their story formed the genesis of the

Reflections of a Purple Zebra is a collection of Ms. Beasley’s favorite articles and essays that she has written for Richmond Magazine. Humorous and poignant in turns, these stories present life as we all know it in vibrant and eloquent words. Each offering is like a new present to be opened and savored.