Cottage Grove All Community Read with Jessie Garcia

Name: Cottage Grove All Community Read with Jessie Garcia
Start: 2026-02-03T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-02-03T20:00:00-06:00
Location: 4500 Buss Rd, Cottage Grove, WI 53527-9606, United States

Schedule

Tue Feb 03 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

4500 Buss Rd, Cottage Grove, WI 53527-9606, United States | Cottage Grove, WI

Join the Village of Cottage Grove Library Board and Friends of the Cottage Grove Library for the third annual ALL Community Read with local Wisconsin Author, Jessie Garcia. Jessie will be joining us in person for an author talk regarding her book "The Business Trip." We may be able to sneak in a few questions regarding her newest book, "The Fair Weather Friend."
Your complimentary copy of "The Business Trip" can be picked up from 210 Progress Drive (main lobby) NOW and while supplies last. Books are also available after hours during scheduled library programs (see calendar of events).
Thank you to Friends of the Cottage Grove Library for purchasing 100 copies of "The Business Trip" for the community!
ABOUT THE BOOK: IT WAS THEIR CHANCE TO GET AWAY, NOT GO AWAY . . . FOREVER.
Stephanie and Jasmine have nothing and everything in common. The two women don’t know each other but have boarded the same plane. Stephanie is on a business trip and Jasmine is fleeing an abusive relationship.
After a few days, they text their friends the same exact messages about the same man―soon, the messages become stranger and more erratic. And then the two women vanish. The texts go silent, red flags go up, and panic sets in.
When Stephanie and Jasmine are each declared missing and in danger, it begs the question: Who is Trent McCarthy? What did he do to these women―or what did they do to him?
Twist upon twist, layer upon layer, nothing is as it seems. The Business Trip takes you on a descent into the depths of a mastermind manipulator. But who is playing whom?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jessie Garcia is an award-winning sports journalist who has risen the ranks in television news, first as an anchor/reporter, then to newsroom management.
She is the News Director at the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee. Her non-fiction books, “My Life with the Green and Gold: Tales from 20 Years of Sportscasting” and “Going for Wisconsin Gold: Stories of our State Olympians” won Midwest Book Awards, and her documentary “Leaps and Bounds: The Men Who Changed Track and Field” was featured in over a dozen film festivals. She also taught journalism at four universities. A native of Madison, WI, Jessie has two adult sons and resides in Milwaukee with her husband, dog and cat.