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Join the Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s, is proud to host bestselling author Clare Leslie Hall. She'll discuss her new novel "Broken Country"—her U.S. debut and a Reese’s Book Club pick—in conversation with Jason Blitman. A celebrated journalist and novelist, her latest work is a sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller full of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love. A book-signing will follow. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served, subject to availability. Limited preferred seating is available with purchase of "Broken Country" through Warwick's bookstore. Please visit https://www.warwicks.com/clare-leslie-hall-2025-reserved-seat or call the store at 858-454-0347 for more information. About "Broken Country" Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth's brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn't realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident. As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel's life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become. About Clare Leslie Hall Clare Leslie Hall is a novelist and journalist. She published two domestic noir novels "Him" and "Mine" under the name Clare Empson and has turned to book group fiction with her third novel "Broken Country." "Broken Country" is set to be published in over 30 territories and, since UK and US publication, is a Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller. It was also Reese’s Book Club Pick and Fearne Cotton’s The Happy Place Book Club pick for March 2025. It has been optioned by 3000 pictures with Hello Sunshine producing. About Jason Bittman Jason Blitman is an arts professional who currently hosts and produces the podcast Gays Reading. Recent guests include Ann Patchett, Dylan Mulvaney, Jonathan Adler, Kaveh Akbar, Rumaan Alam, Dolly Alderton, Margaret Cho, Roxane Gay, TJ Klune, Nnedi Okorafor, Torrey Peters, Elif Shafak, and many more. As an arts and culture producer, Jason produced two seasons of the Books That Changed My Life Festival for JCC Manhattan and the Palm Springs Readers’ Festival in Palm Springs. Jason is also a theatre director and producer currently working on projects around Southern California. Clare Leslie Hall on Instagram

A special screening of the film that brought reggae music to the world and made the late Jimmy Cliff a global icon. Blessed with one the best soundtracks ever put on film, "The Harder They Come" is a gritty and razor sharp vision of working class life in Jamaica, a ground-breaking film that demonstrated that music and art can change the world. Jimmy Cliff who died in 2025 plays Ivan, a young songwriter who leaves the country for the big city to find his fortune. His dreams of making it in the music business and his battles with crooked promoters, religious conservatives and criminals on both sides of the law make him a folk hero. Shot in 1972 at the dawn of the blaxpoitation era in American movies following the success of Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Shaft, and Super Fly, this Jamaican film is a significant achievement in the development, in the 1970s, of both an international Black popular culture and worldwide Black independent film movement. Professor Mychal Odom of Mesa College will facilitate a Q&A session after the film Register now

Baby Reindeer was an unexpected hit on Netflix in 2024. Now its creator and star is back, with a series about two boys who become brothers after their mothers fall in love in 1980s Scotland.

An internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press states immigration officers can now forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant. That marks a dramatic shift that could upend the legal advice given to immigrants for decades.

The exchange of strikes comes as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Iran to make a deal to end the conflict.

The U.S. military announced strikes against Iranian positions just hours after President Trump says more countries should normalize ties with Israel in any Iran deal, tempering expectations of peace.

As a classics professor, Beard has spent her career pondering life in the ancient world. The central question of her latest book is: What on earth was it like to be there?

La temporada de declaraciones fiscales en Estados Unidos ya está en marcha, y el Servicio Interno de Impuestos prevé que 164 millones de personas presentarán la suya antes del 15 de abril.

The festival runs through Feb. 4 in person at Dave & Dorothea Garfield Theatre, with virtual screenings starting Feb. 5.

Saturday's event doubles vendors, adds panels and films and celebrates Filipino American culture.