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VIRTUAL - Caleb Azumah Nelson | Open Water
Thu, May 13, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Megha Majumdar, bestselling author of A Burning British–-Ghanaian writer Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel Open Water is, “an intense, elegant” ( Guardian ) tale of two young Black British artists who find love as they struggle to…
VIRTUAL - Kaitlyn Greenidge | Libertie
Mon, May 24, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Salamishah Tillet, the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing and author of In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece Kaitlyn Greenidge is the author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman , a…
VIRTUAL - Book Discussion Group
Thu, May 27, 2021
2:00 P.M.
Workplace
at
Parkway Central Library
This month we will be talking about The Price of Salt , by Patricia Highsmith . Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel…
VIRTUAL – David Yoon | Vision Zero
Thu, May 27, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Karen M. McManus, author of the number one New York Times bestseller One of Us Is Lying and The Cousins David Yoon is the author of Frankly in Love , a "funny, profane and poignant” ( Wall Street Journal) tale of cultural…
VIRTUAL - Kevin Kwan | Sex and Vanity
Wed, June 2, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $10.00 ticket or $23.50-Book with Ticket and signed book plate
PURCHASE TICKETS In conversation with Nydia Han, Consumer Investigative Reporter and co-anchor of 6ABC Action News Sunday mornings Kevin Kwan is the author of Crazy Rich Asians , "a lively, generous story of shallow extravagance and human devotion” ( The Boston Globe )…
VIRTUAL - Maggie O’Farrell | Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague
Thu, June 3, 2021
5:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March , Caleb's Crossing and People of the Book With a “gift for combining intricate, engrossing plots with full-bodied characterizations” ( Washington Post ), Irish–British novelist…
VIRTUAL - Kiese Laymon | Long Division
Tue, June 8, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with Imani Perry Kiese Laymon’s Heavy , a coming-of-age memoir that begins in Jackson, Mississippi, was named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times , NPR, and the Washington Post , among other media outlets. The Hubert McAlexander…
VIRTUAL - Alex Michaelides | The Maidens
Wed, June 23, 2021
5:00 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $35.00-Signed Book with Ticket
PURCHASE TICKETS Alex Michaelides is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Silent Patient, a debut thriller that blends “Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy” ( Entertainment Weekly ) to tell the tale of a criminal…
VIRTUAL - Elias Rodriques | All the Water I’ve Seen is Running
Thu, June 24, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE In conversation with author and State Senator, Nikil Saval Co-sponsored by n+1 and Blue Stoop Elias Rodriques currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and in the fall of 2021 will start as an assistant professor of African American literature at Sarah Lawrence College.…
VIRTUAL - Joshua Cohen | The Netanyahus with Rivka Galchen | Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Mon, June 28, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: FREE
REGISTER HERE Joshua Cohen ’s acclaimed novels include Moving Kings , Witz , and Book of Numbers , “a fascinating look at the dark heart of the Web” and “one of the best novels ever written about the Internet” ( Rolling Stone ). One of Granta ’s Best of Young…