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2009/10 Season
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A Night at
the Tropicana

Brian Moote:
Stand Up Comedy

Nancy Pearl

"The Many Moods
of Christmas"

Holiday Stories

Beverly Graham

Tingstad and
Rumbel

Firesign
Theatre

SWHS Jazz
Ensemble

The Vagina
Monologues

Simple Gifts:
The Music
of America

Shane Mauss with
Brian Moote

Youth in Arts

The Rural
Characters

"Beauty and
the Beast"

Libana

This Body of Death.
While Lynley works in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest. There, they discover a beautiful and strange place where animals roam free, the long-lost art of thatching is very much alive, and outsiders are not entirely welcome. What they don’t know is that more than one dark secret lurks among the trees, and that their investigation will lead them to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.

Running time: TBA
Recommended for ages 18 and above.

On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. His former team doesn’t trust the leadership of their new department chief, Isabelle Ardery, whose management style seems to rub everyone the wrong way. In fact, Lynley may be the sole person who can see beneath his superior officer’s hard-as-nails exterior to a hidden -- and possibly attractive -- vulnerability.





The Author

Elizabeth George was born Susan Elizabeth George in Warren, Ohio . She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the small town of Mountain View . There, she was educated at St. Joseph 's Grammar School and Holy Cross High School by the Sisters of the Holy Cross.

She began her university education at Foothill Community College in Los Altos Hills, and from there she transferred to and graduated from the University of California in Riverside , California . She also attended California State University at Fullerton , where she was awarded a master's degree in Counseling/Psychology and UC Riverside again where she received a lifetime secondary teaching credential. In 2004, she was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by California State University at Fullerton .

Professionally, she started out as a high school teacher and was selected Orange County Teacher of the Year, a tribute in part to the work she'd done with remedial students for nearly a decade. She left education after thirteen and a half years when she sold her first novel, A Great Deliverance, to her longtime publisher Bantam Books.

She returned to teaching at the community college level, where she taught creative writing at Coastline Community College . She has also taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver , at the University of California in Irvine , at Irvine Valley College , and through Edinboro University 's summer program at Exeter College in Oxford University .

Elizabeth George has lived in Langley, Washington for the past four years with her husband, Tom McCabe, a retired fire fighter.