Friends of the Turlock Public Library’s Library Presents! program will welcome bestselling author Katherine Center to the Carnegie Arts Center on Saturday, October 10th, 2026 at 2 pm! 

Tickets will go on sale August 1st here (or follow the QR code below). Don’t miss our incredible author speaker! 

BookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She’s the New York Times bestselling author of over half a dozen books, including How to Walk Away, Things You Save in a Fire, What You Wish For, and her just-released novel The Shippers. Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down—and how we get back up. She’s been compared to both Jane Austen and Nora Ephron, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” Katherine lives in her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her husband, two kids, and their fluffy-but-fierce dog. Find out more about Katherine, her novels, and their movie adaptations at her website here!