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VIRTUAL - Book Discussion Group
Thu, October 28, 2021
2:00 P.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center
at
Parkway Central Library
This month we will be talking about Women Talking , by Miriam Toews . “A feminist manifesto that delicately unwraps the horror, but also bubbles with the love and wry humor that has endeared Toews to her readers . . . Toews' celebrated novels are haunted by her upbringing,…
VIRTUAL - Glory Edim | On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
Wed, November 3, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $23.95-Book with ticket and signed book plate
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BECOME VIRTUAL ALL EARLIER REGISTRANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED VIA EMAIL REGISTER In conversation with Christine Kendall, author of Riding Chance , nominated for a NAACP Image Award, and The True Definition of Neva Beane Glory Edim is the creator of Well-Read Black…
VIRTUAL - Uwem Akpan | New York, My Village with Kirstin Valdez Quade | Five Wounds
Wed, November 10, 2021
7:30 P.M.
VIRTUAL
Cost: Free or $30.95/31.95-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER Uwem Akpan ’s Say You’re One of Them , “a startling debut collection” ( The New York Times ) of short stories was a Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, the 2009 Oprah Book Club Selection, and is was translated in to 12 languages. It was named to several…
IN-PERSON | Nikole Hannah-Jones | The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Wed, November 17, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $40.00 Auditorium ticket w/book*; 38.00 In-house simulcast w/book*
TICKETS In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition, and Dr. Anthea Butler, Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and Chair of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania Introduced by Sonia Sanchez Nikole Hannah-Jones won the…
VIRTUAL - Rabih Alameddine | The Wrong End of the Telescope with Claire Vaye Watkins | I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness
Tue, November 23, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $31.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER Rabih Alameddine was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for An Unnecessary Woman , a “paean to the transformative power of reading” ( LA Review of Books ). His many other works include the novels The Angel of History…
Amor Towles | The Lincoln Highway
Mon, April 4, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15 ticket or $30 book with ticket
DETAILS TO COME The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska…