SEASIDE – The Friends of the Seaside Library will host Honey Perkel, author of “A Thousand Summers” and “Secrets at the Cove,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6. The event will take place in the Community Room. Perkel will have her books for sale and there will be refreshments.

In the first part of “A Thousand Summers,” Perkel tells the tale of an Idaho girl and her family who spend their summers in a quaint cottage in Seaside during the 1960s. The second half is about a woman whose life falls apart and, in an attempt to save herself, moves with her daughter and a friend to the same cottage in Seaside. With charm and quirky characters, we find out how the two eras connect and get a glimpse of lives coming full circle.

The sequel, “Secrets at the Cove,” was recently released, and the third book in the trilogy, “A Place Called Paradise,” is in the works.

Perkel lives in the hills above Seaside, where she is a full-time writer.

Seaside Library is located at 1131 Broadway. For more information call 503-738-6742 or visit www.seasidelibrary.org and www.facebook.com/seasidepubliclibrary