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Author Visit: Stephanie Lehmann

Amanda Rosenbloom, proprietor of Astor Place
Vintage, thinks she's on just another call to appraise and possibly
purchase clothing from a wealthy, elderly woman. But after discovering a
journal sewn into a fur muff, Amanda gets much more than she anticipated.
The pages of the journal reveal the life of Olive Westcott, a young woman
who had moved to Manhattan in 1907. Olive was set on pursuing a
career as a department store buyer in an era when Victorian ideas,
limiting a woman's sphere to marriage and motherhood, were only beginning
to give way to modern ways of thinking. As Amanda reads the journal, her
life begins to unravel until she can no longer ignore this voice from the
past. Despite being separated by one hundred years, Amanda finds she's
connected to Olive in ways neither could ever have imagined.

Lehmann has published five novels and has taught for Mediabistro.com and
Salon.com. She lives in New York.

Haley Booksellers will be
selling copies of Astor Place Vintage at the event and light refreshments will be served at 6:30pm.

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