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Upcoming Events
August 12 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Shugri Said Salh
Shugri Said Salh discusses her book, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert. Another hot one, this memoir provides a “fascinating look at a disappearing culture” and has been called “brilliant and riveting.”
This event is free. Registration on the Zoom platform is required.
About The Last Nomad
“I am the last nomad. My ancestors traveled the East African desert in search of grazing land for their livestock,
September 23 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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An Evening with Kristin Hannah
Come join us! Sign up to participate in the next event in Macmillan’s Book + Author series: a virtual book club event with Kristin Hannah for her #1 bestseller The Four Winds. We’ve partnered with Macmillan to bring this opportunity to book club members across the country, who can tune in to hear a discussion with fellow author Christina Baker Kline and participate in the live Q&A.
This event will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Free registration is required.
October 23 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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Charles Yu
Charles Yu is the author four novels, including Interior Chinatown, which won the 2020 National Book Award for fiction. The book is a satirical novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play. Author Emily St. John Mandel calls it “…wrenching, hilarious, sharp, surreal, and above all, original.”
His novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe was a New York Times Notable Book and a Time magazine best book of the year.