Youree to Speak at Bentonville Library October 6

Barbara Youree, author of Courageous Journey, will speak at Bentonville Public Library 405 S. Main, Bentonville, at 6 p.m.

Youree will tell how she came to write the book about two refugees from Sudan whom she mentored during their first year in the United States.

In addition to her talk she will conduct a writing workshop on building suspense and showing rather than telling.