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“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride – Library of Congress National Book Festival 2024

LOC National Book Festival 2024 Episode Description: In partnership with WHYY and other local PBS stations, PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla is joined by author James McBride to discuss his latest book The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival author featured this week by PBS Books. Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us. The 24th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will [...]

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“Just for the Summer” by Abby Jimenez – Library of Congress National Book Festival 2024

LOC National Book Festival 2024 Episode Description: In partnership with VPM and other local PBS stations, PBS Books presents a conversation hosted by VPM’s Keyris Manzanares with author Abby Jimenez to discuss her latest book Just for the Summer as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival author featured this week by PBS Books. Are things too good to be true when a Reddit thread post leads to an intentional quick fling? It’s not long before this couple is suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected — including catching real feelings for each other. What [...]

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“Night Flyer” by Tiya Miles – Library of Congress National Book Festival 2024

LOC National Book Festival 2024 Episode Description: In partnership with Maryland Public Television and other local PBS stations, PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla is joined by author Tiya Miles to discuss her latest book Night Flyer as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival author featured this week by PBS Books. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries, and thanks to Miles, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past, one that [...]

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“Music and Mind” by Renée Fleming – Library of Congress National Book Festival 2024

LOC National Book Festival 2024 Episode Description: In partnership with WETA and other local PBS stations, PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla is joined by World-Renowned Soprano and Arts/Health Advocate, Renée Fleming to discuss her latest book “Music and Mind” as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival author featured this week by PBS Books. A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, including providing pain relief, alleviating anxiety and depression, regaining speech after stroke or traumatic brain injury, and improving [...]

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PBS Books Readers Club – “The Hunter” by Tana French

Readers Club Home Episodes Episode Description: The PBS Books Readers Club Welcomes Bestselling Irish Crime Fiction Writer Tana French to discuss her books The Searcher and The Hunter From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher and “one of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (VOX), comes a spellbinding new tale set in the Irish countryside. It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. [...]

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Moonflower Murders | Masterpiece Filmmaker Talk

Episode Description: Join PBS Books in conversation with award-winning novelist and screenwriter, Anthony Horowitz to discuss MASTERPIECE Mystery!, Moonflower Murders. This new six-part series sequel continues where the smash hit Magpie Murders left off with editor turned amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland (Manville) and world-famous fictional detective Atticus Pünd (McMullan). Learn fun insights directly from Anthony Horowitz prior to the release of the PBS show! Moonflower Murders premieres Sunday, September 15th at 9 PM ET | 8PM CT Before you watch Moonflower Murders, go behind the story of the hit series Magpie Murders on PBS Books!  You can [...]

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Highlights – 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival

LOC National Book Festival 2024 Episode Description: If you missed any of the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival or want to learn more behind the books of the over 90 featured authors, poets, and illustrators, join PBS Books in collaboration with the Library of Congress as we highlight the memorable moments of the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival. Featured Speakers, in order of appearance: "A Confident Cook" Featuring: Tamron Hall, Lish Steiling, Dr. Carla Hayden Full Discussion Celebrating James Baldwin's Centennial Featuring: Ayana Mathis, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Eric [...]

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Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children’s Series

Episode Description: PBS Books explores the stories behind the beloved PBS children’s program, Reading Rainbow, with Barbara Irwin, Tony Buttino, Sr. and Pam Johnson, who are the authors of Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children’s Series. Join us as we discover the early history of this groundbreaking innovation of learning media that still holds a special place in the lives of many. Guest Biograpies: Barbara Irwin, Tony Buttino Sr., Pam Johnson, Ph.D. Barbara Irwin, Author & Reading Rainbow Project Assistant, Educational Services, WNED-TV Barbara Irwin, [...]

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Assessment of Nixon Pardon | Policy Talks @ The Ford School

Policy Talks @ The Ford School Talk streams on Monday, Sept. 23 at 8:00 PM EDT Policy Talks @ the Ford School Presents: September marks the 50th anniversary of President Gerald R. Ford's pardon of former President Richard Nixon. Over the past five decades, that act has been both vilified and then lionized as a great act of patriotism. Five decades later, what is the significance of that unique, historical pardon? PBS Books is delighted to share a discussion with four legal experts on the significance of the Nixon pardon, in an appearance recorded at the Gerald R. Ford School [...]

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PBS Books Readers Club – “The Cemetery of Untold Stories” by Julia Alvarez

Readers Club Home Episodes Episode Description: Literary icon and great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, joins the PBS Books Readers Club to discuss a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. Readers will be excited to pair this novel with the September 2024 release of American Masters: Julia Alvarez on PBS, chronicling the life and work of one of the most critically and commercially successful Latina writers of her generation. Don’t miss the PBS Books Readers Club [...]

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Kelly Church – Sustaining Traditions | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series

Kelly Church is an Ottawa and Pottawatomi artist belonging to the Matchi-be-nash-she-wish tribe in Hopkins, MI. A member of the Gun Lake Band in Michigan and a Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Ojibwe descendent, she comes from an unbroken line of black ash basket makers and from the largest black ash weaving family in the Great Lakes region. Her artistic journey is deeply intertwined with the woodlands and forests of Michigan, where she harvests and works with a variety of natural fibers including black ash, birch bark, cedar bark, spruce roots, and basswood. These materials serve as the foundation for her distinctive woven sculptures, [...]

Mike Ford & Jason Carter to Speak: How DO we Run Fair, Safe Elections? | Policy Talks @ The Ford School

Policy Talks @ The Ford School Policy Talks @ the Ford School Presents: Join the Ford Presidential Foundation and their partners, The Carter Center, More Perfect, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at University of Michigan, as they examine the inner workings of the election process as well as expectations for staff conduct around elections. This series has been developed in partnership with Principles for Trusted Elections and More Perfect's Sustainable Democracy Goals. Co-chaired by Mike Ford (son of President Ford) and Jason Carter (grandson of President Carter), the Principles for Trusted Elections is an effort to bring [...]

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