Author Talya Tate Boerner will be visiting with us. She is the author of our 2025 If All Baxter County Read the Same Book selection The Third Act of Theo Gruene. If All Baxter County Read The Same Book is to foster conversation in our community through discussion of the the book chosen.

Theo Gruene is comfortable with the predictable rut of his life. A seventy-year-old retired botany professor, he spends his days preserving plant specimens for the University of Arkansas Herbarium and minding his own business. When Penelope Palmer, a precocious eight-year-old, appears on his front porch during a spring thunderstorm, Theo’s life opens to unexpected possibilities.

Talya will be discussing the book with us as well as the inspiration behind it. She is also a Master Gardener and Master Naturalist and will have a workshop on Phenology starting at 1:00 PM.