Maggie Smith & Victoria Chang in Conversation Tuesday, October 26, 7 pm via Crowdcast About the Event Award-winning poets Maggie Smith and Victoria Chang discuss the objects of everyday life and family history — a hallway mirror, a marriage license, a photograph — and how we come to terms and know ourselves through them. Smith’s […]
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Breaking the Victorian Glass Ceiling Wednesday, October 27, 12 pm via Crowdcast About the Event From the medical tables to the séance parlor, two authors explore the stories of groundbreaking and norm-bending Victorian women. Emily Midorikawa’s Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice, tells the stories of influencial
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For the Thrill of it All Saturday, October 30, 12 pm via YouTube About the Event The women in Ann McCallum Staats book Thrill Seekers: 15 Remarkable Women in Extreme Sports push the boundaries of fear and physical possibilities — whether they’re surfing monster waves, dogsledding through frigid wilderness or wingsuit flying over an active
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The Global Prison Paradox Wednesday, October 27, 7 pm via YouTube About the Event In his memoir, Notorious, Raphael Rowe details the twelve years he spent wrongly incarcerated for crimes including murder. After overturning his convictions in 2000, he became the first person of mixed race with dreadlocks to report for the BBC. Rowe is
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https://fallforthebook.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Twine-Event.mp4 Choose Your Own Twine Adventure Thursday, March 25, 7 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event Did you love Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid? Then log in and learn how to make an online text adventure story with Alex Boyd, who teaches interactive fiction at the University of Central Florida. Audience members
An Evening with Kristin Hannah Thursday, April 22, 7 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event Readers have travelled to historic Paris and 1970’s Alaska with New York Times bestseller Kristin Hannah. Now visit the Great Plains during the darkest days of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression in The Four Winds as one woman makes