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DAVIS VETERANS MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM. Come join us for the launch of Jessica Guerrieri’s debut novel, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Winner of the UC Davis Maurice Prize for Fiction, Guerrieri will be in conversation with New York Times bestselling author and Oprah’s Book Club Pick, Lara Love Hardin. Together, they will discuss the novel’s themes of motherhood, family, and addiction. Each ticket includes a signed copy of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. 7p – 9p. $25

AVID READER. Lisa G. Materson is a professor of modern US women’s political history at the University of California at Davis. She documents the lives of women who challenged institutional power and its abuse, often at great cost to themselves, in order to assert the promises of US democracy. Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor is a specialist in early American and women’s history. In addition to her appointment in the History Department at at the University of California at Davis, she is Associate Dean for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars. 6p—8p. Free