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What to Read in 2024 with Booklist Reader
Join PBS Books and experts from Booklist Reader to discover some of the great new book releases of 2024. Find your next read, right here!
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Author Talk with Yolanda Renee King – We Dream A World
PBS Books invites you to hear from the next generation that is building on the legacy of Dr. Martain Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King. Heather-Marie Montilla sits down with Author Yolanda Renee King and Illustrator Nicole Tadgell to discuss Miss King’s debut book Carrying the Light from My Grandparents Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King: We Dream a World.
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PBS Books Readers Club – Horse and All Creatures Great & Small
Join the PBS Books Readers Club hosts Fred, Lauren, Heather, and Princess as they sit down with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geraldine Books to discuss her bestselling novel HORSE.
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Soheap Pich | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. Sopheap Pich is widely considered to be Cambodia’s most internationally prominent contemporary artist. In 1979, when the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia led to the ousting of the Khmer Rouge régime, he fled with his family to Thailand, spending four years in refugee camps before immigrating to the United States. Memories of traveling vast distances on foot and witnessing the devastation of war — broken bodies, ravaged landscapes, abandoned artillery, ruined buildings, and the breakdown of social and cultural institutions — underpin his early [...]
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Author Talk with Cheryl Wills
PBS Books sits down with Cheryl Wills to discuss her book "Isn't Her Grace Amazing!".
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Nkeiru Okoye | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
This speaker event was recorded live on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 5:30 pm in the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI. Nkeiru Okoye is an American-born composer of African American and Nigerian ancestry. After studying composition, music theory, piano, conducting, and Africana Studies at Oberlin Conservatory, she pursued graduate studies at Rutgers University and became one of the leading African American women composers. An activist through the arts, Okoye creates a body of work that welcomes and affirms both traditional and new audiences. Nkeiru Okoye’s new commission When the Caged Bird Sings premieres on Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 7:30 PM at UM’s Hill Auditorium, as a collaboration between UMS and the U‑M [...]
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Kelli Anderson | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
Kelli Anderson delivers her presentation "The Hidden Talents of Everyday Things" at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, MI.
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PBS Books Readers Club – Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
PBS Books welcomes author, scholar, filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to discuss his novels "The Black Box" and "The Black Church".
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Visions of America: African American Family Stories and Genealogy – Visiting the International African American Museum and Exploring Connections
Uncovering African American Stories and Genealogy: Visiting the International African American Museum and Exploring Connections.
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Ken Aptekar | The Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
Artist Ken Aptekar toys with historical paintings by using the history of art as his playground. He time-travels works from the past into the present by his repainting joined to his own texts. Here’s the idea: Paintings are nothing on their own, they start meaning something only when you start talking back to them.
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“Housewife” Author Talk with Lisa Selin Davis
PBS Books sits down with Lisa Selin Davis to discuss her book "Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead".
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“Sorry Snail” Author Talk with Tracy Subisak
PBS Books sits down with author-illustrator Tracy Subisak to discuss her book "Sorry, Snail".
