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SUMMARY:LOC National Book Festival - Tananarive Due
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with GPB in Atlanta\, hosts Tananarive Due\, an award-winning author who teaches Black horror and Afrofuturism at the University of California.   \nPBS Books presents an exclusive conversation with award-winning author Tananarive Due\, a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism. Her new collection\, “The Wishing Pool and Other Stories\,” showcases her mastery of the genre. With tales of horror\, science fiction\, and suspense\, Due creates an atmosphere of creeping dread and tackles important themes like racism and the human psyche. From classic horror to post-apocalyptic futures\, her stories are a testament to her versatility and skill. Join us as Due shares her creative process and discusses the power of storytelling. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with a visionary author redefining the boundaries of terrifying tales. \nThese tales of fright are both intellectually keen and psychologically bloodcurdling\, no surprise from an award-winning writer whose command of the Black horror aesthetic rivals Jordan Peele’s in originality and sheer bravado. The opening salvo\, “The Wishing Pool\,” takes a universal familial worry and paints it with shades of “The Monkey’s Paw.” The hairbreadth between acute tragedy and the blackest of humor are child’s play for the author in “Haint in the Window\,” which masterfully nods to Octavia E. Butler in the story of a bookseller facing elements out of his control. The five tales in The Gracetown Stories give a sense of Stephen King’s fictional Derry or Jerusalem’s Lot: It’s just a bad patch of ground ripe with horrors ranging from Cthulhu-like abominations in “Suppertime” to demonic possession in “Migration\,” in which a friend helpfully asks\, “Is that thing acting up again?” Another pair of stories visits a woman named Nayima whose post-apocalyptic endeavors include some light stand-up comedy in “One Day Only” and\, much later\, the necessity to protect and school her young charge even as her own mind fails in “Attachment Disorder.” A final triptych of stories labeled “Future Shock” wouldn’t go amiss as episodes of The Twilight Zone. Although the tales vary greatly in length and style\, it’s the Hitchcock-ian\, Black Mirror–tinged reveals and existential questions that stand out—a dying man’s final vow\, a teeth-grinding amount of child endangerment\, or the awful\, pedestrian confession\, “I broke my daughter’s arm.” Even in a far-off future\, Due finds that big questions endure: “Was it better to die free?” \nAlso available on Facebook and Youtube. \nExplore the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival Virtual Author Talks \nAbout Tananarive Due\nTananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black horror and Afrofuturism at University of California\, Los Angeles. A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for many years\, Due has received an American Book Award\, an NAACP Image Award and a British Fantasy Award\, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her stories have been featured on the “LeVar Burton Reads” podcast and by the Realm audio entertainment company. Due and her husband/collaborator\, Steven Barnes\, wrote for Jordan Peele’s “The Twilight Zone” and for Shudder’s anthology film “Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror.” They also co-wrote the Black horror graphic novel “The Keeper\,” illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast\, “Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!” Her latest work\, “The Wishing Pool and Other Stories\,” will be featured at the 2023 National Book Festival.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-national-book-festival-tananarive-due/
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SUMMARY:LOC National Book Festival - SA Cosby
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with WHRO in Virginia\, presents S.A. Cosby\, an Anthony\, Barry\, and Macavity Award-winning writer from southeastern Virginia. \nTitus Crowne is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County. A former FBI agent and security expert\, Titus came home to take care of his father and look out for his troubled younger brother. He ran for Sheriff to make a difference\, especially in the Black community\, which has so often been treated unfairly by the police. \nBut a year to the day after his election\, a school shooting rocks the town. A beloved teacher is killed by a former student\, and as Titus attempts to deescalate and get the boy to surrender\, his deputies fire a fatal shot. \nIn the investigation\, it becomes clear that the student they shot had been abused by the dead teacher\, as well as by unidentified perpetrators. The trail leads to buried bodies—and secrets. While Titus tries to track down a killer hiding in plain sight\, while balancing daily duties like protecting Confederate pride marchers\, he must face what it means to be a Black man wearing a police uniform in the American South. \nAlso available on Facebook and Youtube. \nExplore the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival Virtual Author Talks \n\nAbout SA Cosby\nS. A. Cosby is an Anthony\, Barry\, and Macavity Award-winning writer from southeastern Virginia. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Razorblade Tears\,” which was recommended on Barack Obama’s summer reading list and named a best book of the year by NPR\, The Washington Post\, TIME and more. His novel “Blacktop Wasteland” won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was named a best book of the year by NPR\, The Guardian and Library Journal. Both books have been optioned for film. Cosby’s short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. When not writing\, he is an avid hiker and chess player. Cosby’s newest work\, “All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel\,” will be featured at the 2023 National Book Festival.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-national-book-festival-sa-cosby/
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SUMMARY:LOC National Book Festival - Luis Alberto Urrea
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with MPT in Maryland\, hosts Luis Alberto Urrea\, bestselling author of works of nonfiction\, poetry and fiction\, including “The Hummingbird’s Daughter” and “The House of Broken Angels.” \nIn 1943\, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford\, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women\, nicknamed Donut Dollies\, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line\, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle. \nAfter D-Day\, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger\, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dorothy\, and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans\, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope\, which becomes more precarious by the day\, is for all three of them to survive the war intact. \nTaking as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service\, Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances\, Good Night\, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea’s “gifts as a storyteller are prodigious”. \n\nAlso available on Facebook and Youtube.\n\n\nExplore the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival Virtual Author Talks \n\n\nAbout Luis Alberto Urrea\nLuis Alberto Urrea is the bestselling author of many works of nonfiction\, poetry and fiction\, including “The Hummingbird’s Daughter” and “The House of Broken Angels\,” a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonfiction “The Devil’s Highway\,” now in its 34th paperback printing. Urrea is recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award\, among many other honors. He lives outside Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois\, Chicago. Urrea’s newest release\, “Good Night\, Irene: A Novel\,” will be featured at the 2023 National Book Festival.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-national-book-festival-luis-alberto-urrea/
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SUMMARY:LOC National Book Festival - Beverly Gage
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with WETA in Washington D.C.\, interviews Beverly Gage\, a professor of 20th-century American history at Yale University and author of “The Day Wall Street Exploded.”  \nWe remember him as a bulldog–squat frame\, bulging wide-set eyes\, fearsome jowls–but in 1924\, when he became director of the FBI\, he had been the trim\, dazzling wunderkind of the administrative state\, buzzing with energy and big ideas for reform. He transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater\, riddled with scandal\, into a modern machine. He believed in the power of the federal government to do great things for the nation and its citizens. He also believed that certain people–many of them communists or racial minorities or both– did not deserve to be included in that American project. Hoover rose to power and then stayed there\, decade after decade\, using the tools of state to create a personal fiefdom unrivaled in U.S. history.\n\nBeverly Gage’s monumental work explores the full sweep of Hoover’s life and career\, from his birth in 1895 to a modest Washington civil-service family through his death in 1972. In her nuanced and definitive portrait\, Gage shows how Hoover was more than a one-dimensional tyrant and schemer who strong-armed the rest of the country into submission. As FBI director from 1924 through his death in 1972\, he was a confidant\, counselor\, and adversary to eight U.S. presidents\, four Republicans and four Democrats. Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson did the most to empower him\, yet his closest friend among the eight was fellow anticommunist warrior Richard Nixon. Hoover was not above blackmail and intimidation\, but he also embodied conservative values ranging from anticommunism to white supremacy to a crusading and politicized interpretation of Christianity. This garnered him the admiration of millions of Americans. He stayed in office for so long because many people\, from the highest reaches of government down to the grassroots\, wanted him there and supported what he was doing\, thus creating the template that the political right has followed to transform its party.\n\nG-Man places Hoover back where he once stood in American political history–not at the fringes\, but at the center–and uses his story to explain the trajectories of governance\, policing\, race\, ideology\, political culture\, and federal power as they evolved over the course of the 20th century.\nAlso available on Facebook and Youtube. \nExplore the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival Virtual Author Talks \nAbout Beverly Gage\nBeverly Gage is a professor of 20th-century American history at Yale University. She is the author of “The Day Wall Street Exploded\,” which examined the history of terrorism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Gage writes frequently for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker\, among other publications. Her new biography\, “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century\,” will be featured at the 2023 National Book Festival.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-national-book-festival-beverly-gage/
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SUMMARY:Visions of America: All Stories\, All People\, All Places | Part 3
DESCRIPTION:Visions of America HomeEpisodes \nPBS Books\, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)\, hosts the third installment of their virtual program entitled: “Visions of America: All Stories\, All People\, All Places” commemorating the 75th anniversary of the desegregation of the Armed Forces. This conversation is part of the America250 celebration. \nLed by IMLS Director Crosby Kemper\, scholars Matthew Delmont\, Ph.D. and Jeffrey Sammons\, Ph.D. and Brigadier General Terry V. Williams engage in a conversation exploring the role people of color played in the armed forces from the Revolutionary War through the passage of President Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981\, which created the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services and beyond.  Connecting to our earlier conversations about our country’s promises and obligations\, this program highlights the important role of African Americans and people of color in our country’s history and wars\, which has often been overlooked. \nAlso available on Facebook and Youtube. \n\nContinue the conversation.\nWatch our additional virtual conversations featuring authors Jeffery Sammons and Matthew Delmont. \nAdditional Conversation with Jeffery Sammons\nAdditional Conversation with Matthew Delmont\nABOUT “Visions of America: All Stories\, All People\, All Places” SERIES\n“Visions of America: All Stories\, All People\, All Places” is 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. Also available on Facebook and Youtube. Beginning in fall 2023\, IMLS Director Crosby Kemper will lead a video tour through three lesser-known historical sites that symbolize an aspect of the spirit of America’s independence. The half-hour episodes include notable historians and authors who will share the tales and themes that reverberate inside the walls of these institutions. Viewers will explore the cities these organizations call home to showcase what makes each of these communities so important to America’s identity. \nBeginning in fall 2023\, IMLS Director Crosby Kemper will lead a video tour through three lesser-known historical sites that symbolize an aspect of the spirit of America’s independence. The half-hour episodes include notable historians and authors who will share the tales and themes that reverberate inside the walls of these institutions. Viewers will explore the cities these organizations call home to showcase what makes each of these communities so important to America’s identity. \nABOUT THE FEATURED GUEST: Matthew F. Delmont\, PH.D.\nMatthew F. Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights\, he is the author of the new book\, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking\, 2022)\, which was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He is also the author of four previous books: Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African American Newspapers (Stanford University Press\, 2019); Why Busing Failed: Race\, Media\, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation (University of California Press\, 2016); Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (UC Press\, 2016); and The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand\, Rock ‘n’ Roll\, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia (UC Press\, 2012). His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, and on NPR. Originally from Minneapolis\, Minnesota\, Delmont earned his BA from Harvard University and his MA and PhD from Brown University. \nABOUT THE FEATURED GUEST: Jeffrey T. Sammons\, PH.D.\nJeffrey T. Sammons is professor emeritus of history at New York University where he taught for 33 years. His first book is Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society. He is coauthor of Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality. He was a History Adviser to the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission\, and a founding member of its Valor Medal Review Task Force. He currently serves on the Medal of Honor Museum’s Advisory Panel. \nABOUT THE FEATURED GUEST: Brigadier General Terry V. Williams\nBrigadier General Terry V. Williams is a dynamic and accomplished leader currently serving as the Senior Vice President\, Global Fixed Assets at PenFed Credit Union. Prior to joining PenFed\, Terry founded Van Williams LLC\, a successful consulting company specializing in Facilities Management\, Logistics Innovation\, Disaster Preparedness & Resiliency\, and Executive Coaching. \nBefore his ventures in the corporate world\, Terry’s distinguished career spanned over three decades in the U.S. Marine Corps\, where he achieved the prestigious rank of Brigadier General. His military service shaped him into a versatile leader\, equipped with expertise in logistics\, city management\, strategic communication\, and resource management. Terry’s remarkable background in leading multifunctional\, highly complex organizations makes him an invaluable asset in optimizing efficiency and effectiveness across PenFed’s global fixed assets. Terry earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the esteemed University of California\, Los Angeles\, and Master’s Degrees in National Security from both the Naval War College and the National War College. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR: Crosby Kemper\nCrosby Kemper is the sixth director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. He was commissioned by the White House on January 24\, 2020\, following his confirmation by the United States Senate. IMLS\, an independent government agency\, is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s museums and libraries. \nKemper is a dedicated advocate for education and learning for people of all ages and backgrounds. He came to IMLS from the Kansas City Public Library\, where as director\, he established the library as one of the city’s leading cultural destinations and a hub of community engagement. Beginning his IMLS tenure at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic\, Kemper provided exceptional support and leadership to communities by elevating issues of pandemic impact\, poverty\, race\, and the digital divide as part of the IMLS grantmaking process. \nAlong with leaders of fellow cultural agencies the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Kemper is a member of the re-established President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities\, as well as the congressionally mandated Information Literacy Taskforce. He is an ex officio member of the US Semiquincentennial Commission. As such\, he has engaged museum\, library\, and arts leaders in deep conversations about American history and the Semiquincentennial. He also launched IMLS’s 250 initiative\, “IMLS 250: All Stories. All People. All Places.”
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/visions-of-america-all-stories-all-people-all-places-part-3/
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SUMMARY:LOC National Book Festival - Matthew Desmond
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with WTTW in Chicago\, hosts Matthew Desmond\, a professor of sociology at Princeton University to discuss his latest release “Poverty\, by America.”  \nThe United States\, the richest country on earth\, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities\, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets\, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?\n\nIn this landmark book\, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history\, research\, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor\, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty\, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities\, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.\n\nElegantly written and fiercely argued\, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists\, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and\, at last\, true freedom.\n\nAlso available on Facebook and Youtube. \nExplore the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival Virtual Author Talks \nAbout Matthew Desmond\nMatthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During professor of sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab\, a lab that studies housing insecurity and evictions in the United States. His previous book\, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City\,” won a Pulitzer Prize\, a National Book Critics Circle Award and a PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award\, among others. The recipient of a MacArthur fellowship\, Desmond is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. His latest release\, “Poverty\, by America\,” will be featured at the 2023 National Book Festival.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-national-book-festival-matthew-desmond/
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SUMMARY:LOC National Book Festival - TJ Klune
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with South Florida PBS\, presents TJ Klune\, the bestselling author of “The House in the Cerulean Sea\,” “Into This River I Drown” and “Under the Whispering Door.”  \nIn a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees\, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson\, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine\, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson\, a human\, lives there too. They’re a family\, hidden and safe.\n\nThe day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP\,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans.\n\nWhen Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts\, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together\, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission\, or worse\, reprogramming.\n\nAlong the way to save Gio\, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap\, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?\n\nAlso available on Facebook and Youtube. \nExplore the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival Virtual Author Talks \nAbout TJ Klune\nTJ Klune is the bestselling author of “The House in the Cerulean Sea\,” “Into This River I Drown” and “Under the Whispering Door.” He is also the author of multiple fantasy series\, including Green Creek and Tales from Verania\, as well as the young adult series The Extraordinaries. Klune has won a Lambda Literary Award and an Alex Award\, and has been nominated for a Locus Award. Being queer himself\, Klune believes it’s important—now more than ever—to have accurate\, positive queer representation in stories. His latest novel\, “In the Lives of Puppets\,” will be featured in the 2023 National Book Festival.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-national-book-festival-tj-klune/
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SUMMARY:Richard Florida: Exploring American Cities
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with DPTV\, is pleased to host a program with best-selling New York Times author Richard Florida in conversation with journalist Zoe Clark.  Florida discusses the importance of cities and Urbanism trends in the 21st century post-pandemic.  Join us to gain important insights into the future of American cities and how creativity and innovation drives urban growth.  \nAlso available on Facebook and Youtube.  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Richard Florida \nHe is a researcher and professor\, serving as University Professor at University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management\, and a Distinguished Fellow at NYU’s Schack School of Real Estate.  \nRichard Florida is a writer and journalist\, having penned several global best sellers\, including the award winning The Rise of the Creative Class and his most recent book\, The New Urban Crisis. He is co-founder of CityLab\, the leading publication devoted to cities and urbanism.  \nHe is an entrepreneur\, as founder of the Creative Class Group which works closely with companies and governments worldwide.  \n 
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/richard-florida-exploring-american-cities/
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SUMMARY:LOC National Book Festival - Héctor Tobar
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with PBS SoCal\, interviews Héctor Tobar\, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist. Tobar is the author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller “Deep Down Dark” as well as “The Barbarian Nurseries\,” “Translation Nation” and “The Tattooed Soldier.”   \n“Latino” is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar’s personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino people. Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of “Latino” as a racial and ethnic identity in the modern United States\, and seeks to give voice to the angst and anger of young Latino people who have seen latinidad transformed into hateful tropes about “illegals” and have faced insults\, harassment\, and division based on white insecurities and economic exploitation. \n\nAlso available on Facebook and Youtube.\nExplore the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival Virtual Author Talks \nAbout Héctor Tobar\nHéctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed bestseller “Deep Down Dark” as well as “The Barbarian Nurseries\,” “Translation Nation” and “The Tattooed Soldier.” Tobar is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California\, Irvine. He has written for The New Yorker\, The Los Angeles Times and other publications. Tobar’s short fiction has appeared in the Best American Short Stories anthology series\, “Los Angeles Noir\,” Zyzzyva and Slate. The son of Guatemalan immigrants\, he is a native of Los Angeles\, where he currently lives with his family. His newest release\, “Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino\,’” will be featured at the 2023 National Book Festival.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-national-book-festival-hector-tobar/
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SUMMARY:Angeline Boulley and Trang Thanh Tran
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books\, in collaboration with Kansas City PBS and KERA in Dallas\, Texas\, interviews Angeline Boulley followed by Trang Thanh Tran.    \nAlso available on Facebook and Youtube. \nExplore the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival Virtual Author Talks \nAbout “Warrior Girl Unearthed”\nPerry Firekeeper-Birch has always known who she is – the laidback twin\, the troublemaker\, the best fisher on Sugar Island. Her aspirations won’t ever take her far from home\, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. But as the rising number of missing Indigenous women starts circling closer to home\, as her family becomes embroiled in a high-profile murder investigation\, and as greedy grave robbers seek to profit off of what belongs to her Anishinaabe tribe\, Perry begins to question everything.\nIn order to reclaim this inheritance for her people\, Perry has no choice but to take matters into her own hands. She can only count on her friends and allies\, including her overachieving twin and a charming new boy in town with unwavering morals. Old rivalries\, sister secrets\, and botched heists cannot – will not – stop her from uncovering the mystery before the ancestors and missing women are lost forever.\n\nAbout “She Is a Haunting”\nWhen Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father\, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She’s always lied to fit in\, so if she’s straight enough\, Vietnamese enough\, American enough\, she can get out with the college money he promised. \nBut the house has other plans. Night after night\, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls exude a thrumming sound\, while bugs leave their legs and feelers in places they don’t belong. She finds curious traces of her ancestors in the gardens they once tended. And at night Jade can’t ignore the ghost of the beautiful bride who leaves her cryptic warnings: Don’t eat.\n\nNeither Ba nor her sweet sister Lily believe that there is anything strange happening. With help from a delinquent girl\, Jade will prove this house—the home her family has always wanted—will not rest until it destroys them. Maybe\, this time\, she can keep her family together. As she roots out the house’s rot\, she must also face the truth of who she is and who she must become to save them all.\nAbout Angeline Boulley\nAngeline Boulley\, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians\, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She is a former director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Boulley lives in southwest Michigan\, but her home will always be on Sugar Island\, Michigan. Her debut novel\, “Firekeeper’s Daughter\,” received many awards\, including a Michael L. Printz Award\, William C. Morris Award\, Walter Dean Myers Award and an American Indian Youth Literature Honor. Her newest release\, “Warrior Girl Unearthed\,” will be featured at the 2023 National Book Festival. \nAbout Trang Thanh Tran\nTrang Thanh Tran is a Vietnamese-American author who writes emotional\, speculative stories that highlight food\, belonging and the Vietnamese diaspora. They’re an alum of the Writing Barn’s Rainbow Weekend and Tin House’s Young Adult Fiction Workshop. When not writing\, they are busy trying new food and watching zombie movies. Tran’s debut novel\, “She Is a Haunting\,” will be featured at the 2023 National Book Festival.
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