The highly successful Book Fair organized last year by the NSLM will become an annual event with the second scheduled as part of the 53rd Hunt Country Stable Tour on Saturday, May 26th, Memorial Day weekend.

The NSL&M Book Fair opens at 10 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Book signings and scheduled brief lectures by five authors will take place in the Library's lecture hall, the Founders' Room and in a duplicate book sale on the upper level.

The Book Fair will offer book signings and scheduled brief lectures by five authors in the Library's lecture hall and the Founders' Room. A duplicate book sale to benefit the Book Acquisition Fund will be organized on the upper level.

Author book signings and lectures will be scheduled as follows:

11 a.m.: Kathryn Masson – Hunt Country Style; Stables: Beautiful Paddocks, Horse Barns, and Tack Rooms; Historic Houses of Virginia: Great Plantation Houses, Mansions, and Country Places.

12 noon: Patrick Smithwick – Flying Change: A Return to Steeplechasing; Racing My Father: Growing up with a Riding Legend

1 p.m.: Elizabeth Letts with guest Harry de Leyer – The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse that Inspired a Nation, debuted on the New York Times Hardcover Non-fiction Bestseller list

2 p.m. Anne Hambleton – Raja: Story of a Racehorse, a book for young readers 11 & older

3 p.m. F. Turner Reuter, Jr. – Animal & Sporting Artists in America.