Warren VanOverbeke will launch this year’s summer series with a presentation about his novel Tholocco’s Wake. The lyrical and moving love story opens in Bemidji, Minnesota with the story of a high school romance and chronicles two lives changed forever after the United States entered World War II. It is the first of his books in a three-part series.

VanOverbeke left his Minnesota hometown and enlisted in the United States Air Force after high school. He completed 29 years of military service, including several combat missions in Afghanistan, and now lives in Michigan.