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Author Talk: Heather Raffo with Special Guest Laith Nakli

PBS Books celebrates Arab-American Heritage Month in conversation with award-winning actor and playwright Heather Raffo, author of “Iraq Plays: The Things That Can't Be Said: 9 Parts of Desire; Fallujah; Noura” and British-Syrian actor and producer Laith Nakli. Join us to learn about Heather Raffo’s important work about the lives of Iraqi women as she returns to the subject on film and through a distinctly American lens, setting a new version in Michigan after the U.S. invaded Iraq 20 years ago. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Heather Raffo Heather Raffo is a singular and outstanding voice in the American theater whose work has been [...]

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Celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month: Self-Love with Vashti Harrison

PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation with New York Times bestselling author and award-winning creator Vashti Harrison, who recently wrote and illustrated “BIG.” This program is offered to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month, promoting self-love, self-acceptance, and self-empowerment for the young and the young-at-heart. Join us to learn about the story and Vashti’s creative process, hear Vashti read an excerpt of her book, and learn about the importance of self-love. AUTHOR: VASHTI HARRISON Vashti Harrison is the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Little Leaders, Little Dreamers, and Little Legends and the illustrator of Lupita Nyong’o’s Sulwe, Matthew Cherry’s Hair Love, Andrea Beaty's I [...]

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Celebrating Short Story Month: Zora Neale Hurston with Filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain

PBS Books, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is pleased to host a program with award winning Filmmaker, Tracy Heather Strain, who is the Director of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s ZORA NEALE HURSTON: Claiming A Space on PBS.  A celebrated novelist, anthropologist, essayist, and central figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Zora Neale Hurston wrote numerous short stories and novels, which were greatly influenced by her anthropological work.  Join us to meet filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain and to learn about AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s ZORA NEALE HURSTON: Claiming A Space, her process to [...]

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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, PBS Books is pleased to share an important conversation with award-winning author Paula Yoo, who published “From A Whisper To A Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement”. The book is a groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the case that took America’s Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. While Paula Yoo’s book was written for a YA audience after significant research, it has captivated audiences of all ages. She has crafted a suspenseful, nuanced, and authoritative [...]

Well Beings Town Hall | LGBTQIA+ Youth: Finding Wellbeing and Community

LGBTQIA+ youth make invaluable contributions to our society today. Unfortunately, staggering statistics show that LGBTQIA+ youth are especially vulnerable to mental health struggles. According to The Trevor Project, more than 1.8 million LGBTQIA+ youth seriously consider suicide each year in the U.S.—and at least one attempts suicide every 45 seconds. Recent increases in violence against trans people, especially trans women of color, and heightened politicalization and stigmatization of Queer people in the news cycle can cause significant harm to mental health. Despite this adversity, many LGBTQIA+ youth demonstrate exceptional resilience, finding well being and creating communities of support. Join Well [...]

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SUMMER READING: BEACH READS BOOKLIST READER BOOK CHAT

PBS Books is pleased to host a conversation about Summer Reading and Beach Reads with Susan Maguire, who is the Senior Editor, Collection Management and Library Outreach at Booklist.  Join us to get special insights into great books to read in an array of genres in the following categories: Big Books, Big-sized Tales, Found Families, Frigid Places, Into the Forest, and Underworld Retellings.  PBS Books is excited to announce its partnership with the American Library Association’s Booklist Reader. American Library Association (ALA) is the foremost national organization providing resources to inspire library and information professionals to transform their communities through [...]

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MASTERPIECE ENDEAVOUR: Producer Charlotte Webber

The Magic of Masterpiece PBS Books is thrilled to host a conversation about MASTERPEICE’s final season of Endeavour with producer Charlotte Webber. Hear insights into the making of the ninth season and about what you can expect to see as the series comes to an end. With characters from Colin Dexter’s books, Shaun Evans as Endeavour Morse and Roger Allam as Sam Thursday return for the ninth and final season of the critically acclaimed detective drama Endeavour, premiering Sunday, June 18, 2023, 9/8c on MASTERPIECE Mystery! on PBS. Set in the early 70s in Oxford, the final season finds Endeavour Morse [...]

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Immigrant Heritage Month: Maria Hinojosa

In collaboration with Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB), we are honored to host this virtual engagement event with author Maria Hinojosa as part of Immigrant History Month. Maria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award–winning show Latino USA, distributed by Futuro Media and PRX. She is a frequent guest on MSNBC, and has won several awards, including four Emmys, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club. In 2010, [...]

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Annette-Gordon Reed: Juneteenth

In collaboration with WETA, PBS Books is honored to rebroadcast this virtual engagement event with author Annette Gordon-Reed. Also available on Facebook or Youtube. About Annette Gordon-Reed Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2008). In addition to articles and reviews, her other works include Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy(UVA Press, 1997), Vernon Can Read! A Memoir, a collaboration with Vernon Jordan (PublicAffairs, [...]

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Pinkalicious – All Together Now with Victoria Kann

Celebrate our Earth with New York Times best-selling author and illustrator Victoria Kann, who is also the Co-Executive and Co-Executive Producer of the hit PBS Kids series, “Pinkalicious & Peterrific." Also available on Facebook or Youtube. ABOUT THE SHOW: “PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC” Launched February 2018, “Pinkalicious & Peterrific” has five seasons and seventy episodes. It is the go-to children’s series for creativity and arts. Pinkalicious Pinkerton is unique, one of a kind, and pinkatastic (an original word by an original kid)! Together with their friends and neighbors in Pinkville, Pinkalicious and her younger brother Peter get into all kinds of [...]

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Visions of America: All Stories, All People, All Places

Visions of America Home Episodes PBS Books partnering with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal government cultural grant-making agency, to produce “Visions of America: All Stories, All People, All Places," a digital-first series of videos and conversations that explores our nation with a renewed interest in the places, people, and stories that have contributed to the America we live in today.  PBS Books is proud to present an interview with IMLS Director Crosby Kemper in anticipation of “Visions of America,” which airs on PBS fall 2023. PBS Books host Heather Montilla sits down with [...]

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Iconic America: Reading Challenge #1 – DAVID RUBENSTEIN

PBS Books, in collaboration with WETA, is honored to present "Iconic America's" Host and Executive Producer David M. Rubenstein, author of "The American Experiment."  This book is part of the Iconic America Summer Reading Challenge and has been designated as recommended reading for June. Join PBS Books to learn about "The American Experiment" and Rubenstein’s extraordinary work to explore America’s democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas. He will also share special insights into his series, "Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories."  This series challenges us as individuals to think about our nation's enduring symbols that speak to what a society values and [...]

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