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    Immigrant Heritage Month: Maria Hinojosa

    In collaboration with Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB), we are honored to host this virtual engagement event with author Maria Hinojosa as part of Immigrant History Month. Maria Hinojosa’s nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award–winning show Latino USA, distributed by Futuro Media and PRX. She is a frequent guest on MSNBC, and has won several awards, including four Emmys, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club. In 2010, she founded [...]

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    Annette-Gordon Reed: Juneteenth

    In collaboration with WETA, PBS Books is honored to rebroadcast this virtual engagement event with author Annette Gordon-Reed. Also available on Facebook or Youtube. About Annette Gordon-Reed Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2008). In addition to articles and reviews, her other works include Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy(UVA Press, 1997), Vernon Can Read! A Memoir, a collaboration with Vernon Jordan (PublicAffairs, 2001), [...]

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    Pinkalicious – All Together Now with Victoria Kann

    Celebrate our Earth with New York Times best-selling author and illustrator Victoria Kann, who is also the Co-Executive and Co-Executive Producer of the hit PBS Kids series, “Pinkalicious & Peterrific." Also available on Facebook or Youtube. ABOUT THE SHOW: “PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC” Launched February 2018, “Pinkalicious & Peterrific” has five seasons and seventy episodes. It is the go-to children’s series for creativity and arts. Pinkalicious Pinkerton is unique, one of a kind, and pinkatastic (an original word by an original kid)! Together with their friends and neighbors in Pinkville, Pinkalicious and her younger brother Peter get into all kinds of artful [...]

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    Visions of America: All Stories, All People, All Places

    Visions of America HomeEpisodes PBS Books partnering with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal government cultural grant-making agency, to produce “Visions of America: All Stories, All People, All Places," a digital-first series of videos and conversations that explores our nation with a renewed interest in the places, people, and stories that have contributed to the America we live in today.  PBS Books is proud to present an interview with IMLS Director Crosby Kemper in anticipation of “Visions of America,” which airs on PBS fall 2023. PBS Books host Heather Montilla sits down with Kemper to discuss America [...]

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    Iconic America: Reading Challenge #1 – DAVID RUBENSTEIN

    PBS Books, in collaboration with WETA, is honored to present "Iconic America's" Host and Executive Producer David M. Rubenstein, author of "The American Experiment."  This book is part of the Iconic America Summer Reading Challenge and has been designated as recommended reading for June. Join PBS Books to learn about "The American Experiment" and Rubenstein’s extraordinary work to explore America’s democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas. He will also share special insights into his series, "Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories."  This series challenges us as individuals to think about our nation's enduring symbols that speak to what a society values and how [...]

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    Grantchester Filmmaker Talk: Daisy Coulam

    The Magic of Masterpiece PBS Books, in collaboration with MASTERPIECE, is pleased to host a conversation with creator, writer and executive producer of Grantchester Daisy Coulam discussing the much anticipated Season 8 of Grantchester.    Originally based on a series of books by James Runcie, Grantchester has become a summer viewing staple. Grantchester Season 8 will air on MASTERPIECE Mystery! on PBS, beginning on Sunday, July 9 at 9pm ET. Set in Cambridgeshire, vicar Will Davenport and detective Geordie Keating continue to solve mysteries and fight crime. Gain insights into Daisy’s writing process and the riveting 8th season of Grantchester.    ABOUT THE [...]

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    Filmmaker Talk: Southern Storytellers with Craig Renaud

    PBS Books, in collaboration with Arkansas PBS and PBS, is pleased to host this conversation with award-winning filmmaker Craig Renaud with inspirational comments by Arkansas PBS Executive Director and CEO Courtney Pledger to discuss SOUTHERN STORYTELLERS, which celebrates Southern identity through the eyes of contemporary creators of literature, music, TV and film. This documentary series features: authors Angie Thomas, Michael Twitty, Jesmyn Ward and David Joy, poets Jericho Brown and Natasha Trethewey, musicians Lyle Lovett, Amanda Shires, Jason Isbell, Adia Victoria, Thao Nguyen and Justin Moore, actress-turned-songwriter Mary Steenburgen, screenwriter/songwriter Billy Bob Thornton and screenwriters Qui Nguyen and Michael Waldron. Gain insights into the series before you tune in on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, Tuesday, July 25, 2023, and Tuesday, [...]

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    Our Founding Documents | Visions of America: All Stories, All People, All Places

    Visions of America HomeEpisodes   PBS Books, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), hosts the virtual program: “Visions of America: All Stories, All People, All Places” focusing on Our Founding Documents. Led by IMLS Director Crosby Kemper, scholars Danielle Allen, Ph.D. and Yuval Levin, Ph.D. engage in a conversation exploring America’s founding documents, its promises, American society and our crucial citizen responsibilities. Both authors of outstanding books, Allen and Levin are considered to be among the foremost thinkers about American history, especially the Constitution, as it relates to contemporary society. Also available on Facebook and Youtube. [...]

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    LOC National Book Festival – Claribel A. Ortega

    PBS Books, in collaboration with The WNET Group in New York, hosts Claribel A. Ortega, a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author who writes middle grade and young adult fantasy novels inspired by her Dominican heritage.  Every year, in the magical town of Ravenskill, Witchlings who participate in the Black Moon Ceremony are placed into covens and come into their powers as full-fledged witches. And twelve-year-old Seven Salazar can't wait to be placed in the most powerful coven with her best friend! But on the night of the ceremony, in front of the entire town, Seven isn't placed in one [...]

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    The Importance of Artful Lives: Supporting Healthy Individuals and Communities Through the Arts

    "The Importance of Artful Lives: Supporting Healthy Individuals and Communities Through the Arts,” features Omari Rush, Executive Director of CultureSource, and Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. Together, they will delve into the transformative power of the arts and its impact on personal well-being and community development in metro-Detroit and beyond. Viewers will gain valuable insights into living artfully, integrating creativity into daily life, and understanding the intrinsic value of the arts. The discussion will explore how the arts foster empathy, personal growth, and social change, ultimately supporting healthier individuals and building vibrant communities. It [...]

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    Iconic America: Reading Challenge #2 – Jack Davis

    In The Bald Eagle, Jack E. Davis pays magnificent tribute to the national symbol, weaving a richly layered story that spans the centuries and bridges patriotism, Native spirituality, environment carnage and, against all odds, ecological redemption that brought the eagle back to America’s skies. Also available on Facebook and Youtube.

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    LOC National Book Festival – Shelby Van Pelt

    After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s [...]