Local Author Night - featuring JERRY BUTLER & M. E. PATTERSON

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Adult Event

Start: 01/23/2012 7:00 pm

We love our local authors here at BookPeople, and tonight we're pleased to have with us two local Austin writers who will present their work.

Jerry Butler will present Wine and Spirit: A Christian's Guide to Enjoying Wine. With passion and a light-hearted spirit, WINE & SPIRIT is a quick, basic guide for everyone who wants to know what the Bible really says about wine. Jerry Butler calls it oenotheology! Oenotheology combines oenology-the science of wine and winemaking, and theology-the study of God, the attributes of God, and the divine relationship to the universe. Oenotheology reminds that "wine cheers both God and human," and "gladdens the heart of all."

M. E. Patterson will present Devil's Hand. A Las Vegas poker ace with supernatural luck is swept into a world-ending conflict between fallen angels and otherworldly shades, in this thrilling new novel. The lone survivor of a tragic plane crash, Trent Hawkins inherited a mysterious lucky streak that made him famous, and hated, in the poker circles of the City of Sin. It wasn’t long before the eyes in the sky threw him on the blacklist and chased him out of town. Now, after years away, Trent returns to Las Vegas, and walks right back into trouble. As a serial kidnapper terrorizes the city, Trent and his wife, Susan, rescue a strange, thirteen year-old girl, only to find themselves caught in a fallen angel’s plot to cleanse Las Vegas with an unholy blizzard. As the neon dims and the city freezes, Trent is forced to make terrible sacrifices in order to protect his new charge, and learns dark truths about himself and the creatures plotting against mankind.