Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
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Book
We were eight years in power : an American… [2017]
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The warmth of other suns : the epic story of… [2010]
Isabel Wilkerson
Homegoing : a novel [2016]
Yaa Gyasi
Large print book
The Black book [2009]
M A Harris
Stony the road : Reconstruction, white… [2019]
Henry Louis Gates
Juneteenth : a novel [1999]
Ralph Ellison
The fire next time [1963]
James Baldwin
Washington Black [2018]
Esi Edugyan
Negroland : a memoir [2015]
Margo Jefferson
The underground railroad : a novel [2016]
Colson Whitehead
The water dancer : a novel [2019]
There will be no miracles here [2018]
Casey Gerald
Conjure women : a novel [2020]
Afia Atakora
The nickel boys : a novel [2019]
The Nickel boys : a novel [2019]
Beloved : a novel [1987]
Toni Morrison
The Harlem Renaissance : a very short… [2016]
Cheryl A Wall
eBook
hoopla Instant
Cane [2019]
Jean Toomer
Harlem Renaissance : five novels of the 1920s [2011]
Rafia Zafar
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation [2016]
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Freedom is a constant struggle : Ferguson,… [2016]
Angela Y Davis
Tears we cannot stop : a sermon to white America… [2017]
Michael Eric Dyson
Between the world and me [2015]
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive… [2016]
Ibram X Kendi
Picturing Frederick Douglass : an illustrated… [2015]
John Stauffer