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Author Event with Julie Kibler

Meet bestselling author Julie Kibler as she discusses and signs Home for Erring and Outcast Girls at your Dallas Flagship Half Price Books on Thursday, July 25 at 7 p.m.

ABOUT JULIE KIBLER
Julie Kibler is the bestselling author of Home for Erring and Outcast Girls and Calling Me Home, which was an IndieNext List pick, Target Club Pick, and Ladies Home Journal Book Club Pick, published in fifteen languages. She has a bachelors degree in English and journalism and a masters degree in library science and lives with her family, including four rescued dogs and cats, in Texas.

ABOUT HOME FOR ERRING AND OUTCAST GIRLS
An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for fallen girls, and inspired by historical events.

In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between Dallas and Fort Worths red-light districts, the progressive home bucks public opinion by offering faith, training, and rehabilitation to prostitutes, addicts, unwed mothers, and ruined girls without forcibly separating mothers from children. When Lizzie Bates and Mattie McBride meet thereone sick and abused, but desperately clinging to her young daughter, the other jilted by the beau who fathered her ailing sonthey form a friendship that will see them through unbearable loss, heartbreak, difficult choices, and ultimately, diverging paths.

A century later, Cate Sutton, a reclusive university librarian, uncovers the hidden histories of the two troubled women as she stumbles upon the cemetery on the homes former grounds and begins to comb through its archives in her library. Pulled by an indescribable connection, what Cate discovers about their stories leads her to confront her own heartbreaking past, and to reclaim the life she thought shed let go forever. With great pathos and powerful emotional resonance, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls explores the dark roads that lead us to ruin, and the paths we take to return to ourselves.