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.
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
Cane [2019]
Toomer, Jean
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
