“Empire Knights: The Legendary Aubrey Durrell” by Tony Glyn Byram was displayed at the 2023 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (LATFOB) – Book Gallery
“Empire Knights: The Legendary Aubrey Durrell” by Tony Glyn Byram was among the books displayed by Author Reputation Press during the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2023 at the University of Southern California on April 22-23, 2023. This book is about a young man who grew up in Empire Georgia, a small community in central Georgia.
The much-anticipated annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2023 was held on April 22–23, 2023. It was attended by nearly 500 authors and hundreds of exhibitors. The festival was launched to connect individuals who read books with those who write them. The range of book genres exhibited at the festival captivated readers of all ages. Witness musical performances, readings from authors, exciting exhibits, and much more!
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Author Reputation Press is committed to connecting readers and authors through books. ARP participated in the book gallery organized by LATFOB. In line with this, ARP exhibited some of its spectacular books to the festival audience. The wide selection of genres made the gallery more enticing.
Tony Glyn Byram was raised in the small community of Empire, Georgia, in the 1970s and left in the fall of 1979 to attend college at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Upon graduating from Mercer in 1983, he began a teaching and coaching career that lasted for 36 years. He was a successful high school football and baseball coach for three different high schools in Georgia. No matter where he worked or lived, he never forgot the values of hard work and honesty that were instilled in him at Empire.
He is married, a father of two grown children, and a proud grandfather to one so far. It is his sincerest hope that by writing this story, he can relate to small towns everywhere and pay tribute to his own upbringing and sense of belonging to someplace special.
“Empire Knights: The Legendary Aubrey Durrell” by Tony Glyn Byram follows the story of Aubrey Durrell, a great young athlete and singer who cherishes his hometown and brings the virtues of hard work, faith, and devotion to his family and friends with him wherever he travels. The story follows Aubrey and his friends as they battle for athletic dominance against other tiny towns, notably Union Hill, their main adversary.
Following him from his university days until his marriage to a girl he met there. Along the way, he fell in love with his high school sweetheart, who shattered his heart, and coped with life’s trials and temptations in Empire, Georgia, while remaining true to his parents’ ideals.
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