Tickets are now on sale for theFriends of the Island Libraryauthor luncheon featuring Susannah Marren on Friday, May 17, at noon at the Bisque restaurant, 2020 Long Beach Blvd. in Ship Bottom. Marren is the pen name of gender and relationship expert Susan Shapiro Barash, a Long Beach Island native who will discuss her second novel, A Palm Beach Wife, where she hasdrawn aportrait of spousal loyalty, female rivalry and the complicated mother-daughter bond.

Tickets are $30 per person, and luncheon includes a choice of Chicken Française with roasted potatoes and green beans, or Vegetable Risotto;…