Rockford native and bestselling author Patricia Haley discusses latest novel.

Mothers and daughters are invited to engage in an intimate book talk with bestselling author Patricia Haley on Saturday, May 19, 2007 from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. at Rockford Public Library’s Montague Branch, 1238 S. Winnebago St. in the Connie Lane Room. Ms. Haley will talk about her latest book, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, which centers on family dysfunction, human frailty, faith and forgiveness. This program is free and open to ages 16 and older. Refreshments will be served.

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Haley’s fifth novel, is the story of two loving sisters with issues in an apparently rock-solid family. When betrayal, family secrets and an untimely death, threaten the family’s good name, the sisters test the power of faith and its influence over the family they carefully built and protected.

Ms. Haley is the national bestselling author of Nobody’s Perfect, No Regrets, Blind Faith, and Still Waters. Her self-published novel Nobody’s Perfect – debuted in 1998 – sold an astonishing 20,000 copies in an industry were 5,000 is highly regarded. Her faith-based novel was the first of its kind to repeatedly make numerous national bestsellers lists, including #1 on the Essence (African-American) bestselling list.

Patricia Haley is the cousin of well-known Rockford author Kimberla Lawson Roby. Ms. Haley is originally from Rockford, but currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband Jeffrey.

Copies of Let Sleeping Dogs Lie will be available for purchase through Barnes & Noble Books at this program, by cash or check only.

For more information, please call Staci Wright, Program Coordinator at Montague Branch Library at 815-965-7606 ext 729.

About the Library

The Rockford Public Library, founded in 1872 as the second library in Illinois, currently has six facilities, including the Main Library and five Branch Libraries. The Rockford Public Library’s mission is to enhance community life and development by informing, educating, entertaining, and providing cultural enrichment to all people of all ages by collecting information to address the diverse interests of our dynamic community.

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