Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
CLOSURE: Central Library will be closed Tuesday, July 21, through Saturday, July 25, while emergency repairs are made to the building’s cooling system. We expect to reopen Monday, July 27. Click for more details on holds, program schedules, and returns during the closure.
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Book
Parting the waters : America in the King years,… [1988]
Taylor Branch
Pillar of fire : America in the King years,… [1998]
At Canaan's edge : America in the King years,… [2006]
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of… [2010]
Isabel Wilkerson
The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. [1998]
Martin Luther King
Waking up white : and finding myself in the… [2014]
Debby Irving
"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in… [2003]
Beverly Daniel Tatum
The souls of black folk [2014]
W E B Du Bois
Understanding and dismantling racism : the… [2007]
Joseph R Barndt
Lies my teacher told me : everything your… [1995]
James W Loewen
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American… [2016]
Matthew Desmond
America's original sin : racism, white… [2016]
Jim Wallis
White awake : an honest look at what it means to… [2017]
Daniel Hill
The other side of the river : a story of two… [1998]
Alex Kotlowitz
Writings on the wall : searching for a new… [2016]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Toxic charity : how churches and charities hurt… [2011]
Robert D Lupton
The wars of Reconstruction : the brief, violent… [2014]
Douglas R Egerton
White fragility : why understanding racism can… [2022]
Robin DiAngelo
A people's history of the United States [2003]
Howard Zinn
Truth has a power of its own : conversations… [2019]
The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age… [2010]
Michelle Alexander
The origin of others [2017]
Toni Morrison
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption [2014]
Bryan Stevenson
Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America [2017]
Michael Eric Dyson
Unhinged : an insider's account of the Trump… [2018]
Omarosa
Fear : Trump in the White House [2018]
Bob Woodward
Tattoos on the heart : the power of boundless… [2010]
Greg Boyle
Barking to the choir : the power of radical… [2017]
Becoming [2018]
Michelle Obama
The sun does shine : how I found life and… [2018]
Anthony Ray Hinton
The hate U give [2017]
Angie Thomas
Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo" [2018]
Zora Neale Hurston
How to be an antiracist [2019]
Ibram X Kendi
So you want to talk about race [2018]
Ijeoma Oluo
Dying of whiteness : how the politics of racial… [2019]
Jonathan Metzl
Killing rage : ending racism [1995]
bell hooks
When they call you a terrorist : a Black Lives… [2018]
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Me and white supremacy [2022]
Layla F Saad
The end of White Christian America [2016]
Robert P Jones
The soul of America : the battle for our better… [2018]
Jon Meacham
The broken road : George Wallace and a… [2019]
Peggy Wallace Kennedy
The 1619 Project : a new origin story [2021]
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Race against time : a reporter reopens the… [2020]
Jerry W Mitchell
Carry on : reflections for a new generation [2021]
John Lewis
Testimony : inside the evangelical movement that… [2023]
Jon Ward
It's OK to be angry about capitalism [2023]
Bernard Sanders
The great white bard : how to love Shakespeare… [2023]
Farah Karim-Cooper
The kingdom, the power, and the glory : American… [2023]
Tim Alberta
