Start Stockpiling Your Summer Reads at Book Festival

Just in time to build your list of beach reads, the Annapolis Book Festival will return on April 13, with an all-day roster of discussions and activities. 

The Key School in Annapolis will host the event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

There will be dozens of speakers, including: 

• CNN host Jake Tapper, author of Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor
• Ralph Eshelman, author of Full Glory Reflected: Discovering the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake
• Gary Krist, author of City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Chicago that Gave Birth to Modern Chicago.
• Susan Coll, events and programs director at Politics & Prose Bookstore and author of four novels.
• Corey Olsen, author of Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit

Scheduled discussion sessions center around the war in Afghanistan, fantasy novels, comic books, the role of women in society and American politics.