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SUMMARY:"The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride - Library of Congress National Book Festival 2024
DESCRIPTION:LOC National Book Festival 2024 \nEpisode Description:\nIn partnership with WHYY and other local PBS stations\, PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla is joined by author James McBride to discuss his latest book The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival author featured this week by PBS Books. \nBringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store\, McBride shows us that even in dark times\, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us. \nThe 24th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington\, D.C.\, on Saturday\, August 24\, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. \nAbout the Book:\nIn 1972\, when workers in Pottstown\, Pennsylvania\, were digging the foundations for a new development\, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill\, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him\, it was Chona and Nate Timblin\, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill\, who worked together to keep the boy safe. \nAs these characters’ stories overlap and deepen\, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white\, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it\, McBride shows us that even in dark times\, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us. \nBringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store\, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird. \nGuest Biography:\nJames McBride\nJames McBride is the author of The New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club selection Deacon King Kong; The Good Lord Bird\, winner of the National Book Award; The Color of Water; Song Yet Sung; the story collection Five-Carat Soul; and the James Brown biography Kill ’Em and Leave. His debut novel\, Miracle at St. Anna\, was turned into a 2008 film. In 2016\, McBride was awarded the National Humanities Medal. He is also a musician\, a composer and a current distinguished writer-in-residence at New York University. McBride’s most recent New York Times bestselling novel\, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store\, is featured at the 2024 National Book Festival.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-bookfest-2024-mcbride/
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SUMMARY:"Just for the Summer" by Abby Jimenez - Library of Congress National Book Festival 2024
DESCRIPTION:LOC National Book Festival 2024 \nEpisode Description:\nIn partnership with VPM and other local PBS stations\, PBS Books presents a conversation hosted by VPM’s Keyris Manzanares with author Abby Jimenez to discuss her latest book Just for the Summer as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival author featured this week by PBS Books. \nAre things too good to be true when a Reddit thread post leads to an intentional quick fling? It’s not long before this couple is suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected — including catching real feelings for each other. What if this time fate has actually brought the perfect pair together? \nThe 24th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington\, D.C.\, on Saturday\, August 24\, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. \nAbout the Book:\nJustin has a curse\, and thanks to a Reddit thread\, it’s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem\, they come up with a plan: They’ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out\, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives. It’s a bonkers idea… and it just might work. \nEmma hadn’t planned that her next assignment as a traveling nurse would be in Minnesota\, but she and her best friend agree that dating Justin is too good of an opportunity to pass up\, especially when they get to rent an adorable cottage on a private island on Lake Minnetonka. \nIt’s supposed to be a quick fling\, just for the summer. But when Emma’s toxic mother shows up and Justin has to assume guardianship of his three siblings\, they’re suddenly navigating a lot more than they expected–including catching real feelings for each other. What if this time Fate has actually brought the perfect pair together? \nGuest Biography:\nAbby Jimenez\nAbby Jimenez is a No. 1 New York Times bestselling romance author. Her novels have sold over 1.5 million copies and been translated into 28 languages. She has received a Good Morning America Book Club pick\, a Book of the Month’s Book of the Year Award and a Minnesota Book Award. Before her writing career\, Jimenez was in the national spotlight as a Cupcake Wars champion and founder of Nadia Cakes bakery\, which has gone on to win numerous Food Network competitions and amass an international following. Her latest novel\, “Just for the Summer\,” is featured at the 2024 National Book Festival. \nHost Biography:\nKeyris Manzanares\, Multimedia Reporter at Virginia Public Media\nKeyris Manzanares is a dynamic\, bilingual\, 2x Emmy-award winning multimedia journalist at VPM\, Virginia’s Home for Public Media. Passionate about stories that impact underserved communities\, she previously worked at WRIC ABC 8News\, where she created and anchored HOY EN RVA to inform Central Virginia’s Latino community. A Virginia Commonwealth University alumna\, she’s covered major issues like health disparities\, housing\, education\, immigration\, COVID-19\, and justice reform. Keyris was born and raised in Virginia.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-bookfest-2024-jimenez/
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SUMMARY:"Night Flyer" by Tiya Miles - Library of Congress National Book Festival 2024
DESCRIPTION:LOC National Book Festival 2024 \nEpisode Description:\nIn partnership with Maryland Public Television and other local PBS stations\, PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla is joined by author Tiya Miles to discuss her latest book Night Flyer as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival author featured this week by PBS Books. \nWith her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius\, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries\, and thanks to Miles\, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past\, one that can help us to find a more just and sustainable path. \nThe 24th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington\, D.C.\, on Saturday\, August 24\, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. \nAbout the Book:\nHarriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history\, almost a comic-book superhero. Despite being barely five feet tall\, unable to read\, and suffering from a brain injury\, she managed to escape from her own enslavement\, return again and again to lead others north to freedom without loss of life\, speak out powerfully against slavery\, and then become the first American woman in history to lead a military raid\, freeing some seven hundred people. You could almost say she’s America’s Robin Hood\, a miraculous vision\, often rightly celebrated but seldom understood. \nTiya Miles’s extraordinary Night Flyer changes all that. With her characteristic tenderness and imaginative genius\, Miles explores beyond the stock historical grid to weave Tubman’s life into the fabric of her world. She probes the ecological reality of Tubman’s surroundings and examines her kinship with other enslaved women who similarly passed through a spiritual wilderness and recorded those travels in profound and moving memoirs. What emerges\, uncannily\, is a human being whose mysticism becomes more palpable the more we understand it—a story that offers us powerful inspiration for our own time of troubles. Harriet Tubman traversed many boundaries\, inner and outer. Now\, thanks to Tiya Miles\, she becomes an even clearer and sharper signal from the past\, one that can help us to echolocate a more just and sustainable path. \nGuest Biography:\nTiya Miles\nTIYA MILES is the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University\, the author of five prize-winning works on the history of slavery and early American race relations\, and a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She was the founder and director of the Michigan-based ECO Girls program\, and she is the author of the National Book Award–winning\, New York Times best-selling All That She Carried. She lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and Bozeman\, Montana.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-bookfest-2024-miles/
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SUMMARY:"Music and Mind" by Renée Fleming - Library of Congress National Book Festival 2024
DESCRIPTION:LOC National Book Festival 2024 \nEpisode Description:\nIn partnership with WETA and other local PBS stations\, PBS Books Heather-Marie Montilla is joined by World-Renowned Soprano and Arts/Health Advocate\, Renée Fleming to discuss her latest book “Music and Mind” as the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival author featured this week by PBS Books. \nA compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions\, including providing pain relief\, alleviating anxiety and depression\, regaining speech after stroke or traumatic brain injury\, and improving mobility for people with disorders that include Parkinson’s disease and MS. “Music and Mind” is a groundbreaking book\, the perfect introduction and overview of this exciting new field. \nThe 24th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington\, D.C.\, on Saturday\, August 24\, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. \nAbout the Book:\nA compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions\, from providing pain relief and alleviating anxiety and depression to regaining speech after stroke or traumatic brain injury\, and improving mobility for people with disorders that include Parkinson’s disease and MS. \nIn Music and Mind Renée Fleming draws upon her own experience as an advocate to showcase the breadth of this booming field\, inviting leading experts to share their discoveries. In addition to describing therapeutic benefits\, the book explores evolution\, brain function\, childhood development\, and technology as applied to arts and health. \nMuch of this area of study is relatively new\, made possible by recent advances in brain imaging\, and supported by the National Institutes of Health\, major hospitals\, and universities. This work is sparking an explosion of public interest in the arts and health sector. \nFleming has presented on this material in over fifty cities across North America\, Europe\, and Asia\, collaborating with leading researchers\, policy-makers\, and practitioners. With essays from notable musicians\, writers\, and artists\, as well as leading neuroscientists\, Music and Mind is a groundbreaking book\, the perfect introduction and overview of this exciting new field. \nGuest Biography:\nRenée Fleming\nRenée Fleming is an acclaimed soprano and health/arts advocate who has performed at events ranging from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Super Bowl. She has received many honors and awards\, including five Grammys\, the National Medal of Arts and a Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Award. A prominent advocate for research at the intersection of the arts\, health and neuroscience\, Fleming serves as an artistic advisor to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\, where she launched the first ongoing collaboration between the Kennedy Center and the National Institutes of Health. She is also a 2023 Kennedy Center Honoree and serves as a World Health Organization goodwill ambassador for arts and health. Fleming is the editor of the new essay collection\, “Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness\,” which is featured at the 2024 National Book Festival.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/loc-bookfest-2024-fleming/
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SUMMARY:PBS Books Readers Club - "The Hunter" by Tana French
DESCRIPTION:Readers Club HomeEpisodes \nEpisode Description:\nThe PBS Books Readers Club Welcomes Bestselling Irish Crime Fiction Writer Tana French to discuss her books The Searcher and The Hunter. \nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher and “one of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (VOX)\, comes a spellbinding new tale set in the Irish countryside. \nIt’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. \nFans of PBS crime dramas D.I. Ray and Grantchester will be drawn into this nuanced\, atmospheric tale that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones\, what we’ll do for revenge\, and what we sacrifice when the two collide. \nDon’t miss the PBS Books Readers Club on August 28 at 8:00 pm (ET) as Tana French shares her inspiration behind her novels\, her writing process\, favorite books\, and more. \nAbout the Books:\nGet the E-BookDONATE NOW and download your e-book copy. \n\n“Hailed as the queen of Irish crime fiction\, French spins a taut tale of retribution\, sacrifice\, and family.”—TIME\n\nIt’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. \nCal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it\, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman\, Lena\, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears\, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland\, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey\, but Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge. \nFrom the writer who is “in a class by herself\,” (The New York Times)\, a nuanced\, atmospheric tale that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones\, what we’ll do for revenge\, and what we sacrifice when the two collide. \n\nGet the E-BookDONATE NOW and download your e-book copy. \n\n“This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet . . . Its own kind of masterpiece.” –Maureen Corrigan\, The Washington Post \n“A new Tana French is always cause for celebration . . . Read it once for the plot; read it again for the beauty and subtlety of French’s writing.” –Sarah Lyall\, The New York Times \nCal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce\, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating\, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat\, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets. \n“One of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (Vox) weaves a masterful\, atmospheric tale of suspense\, asking how to tell right from wrong in a world where neither is simple\, and what we stake on that decision. \n\nGuest Biography:\nTana French\nTana French is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books\, including In the Woods\, The Likeness\, and The Searcher. Her novels have sold over eight million copies worldwide and won numerous awards\, including the Edgar\, Anthony\, Macavity\, and Barry awards\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller\, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family. \nReaders Club Hosts:\nHeather Marie Montilla\nHeather-Marie Montilla\, a dynamic integrative leader\, is an educator and nonprofit manager. She has worked in the nonprofit sector and libraries for over two decades\, making a positive impact in arts\, cultural\, educational\, and community-building arenas. \nHaving joined the PBS Books team as their Library Bureau Chief in Fall 2018\, Montilla is now the National Director of PBS Books and has interviewed more than 150 writers. In addition\, she is a faculty member at Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University for their Arts and Cultural/Entertainment Management Programs. Having been an Executive Director for 8 years\, Heather has a wide range of experience in management\, finance\, strategic planning\, marketing\, and fundraising. Heather holds a MPA From Columbia University\, a MLIS from Wayne State University\, and a bachelor’s from Duke University. She lives in Chicagoland\, and is married with four children\, a dog\, and a bird. \nPrincess Weekes\nPrincess Weekes is an award winning writer and video essayist who works at breaking down the intersections between race\, gender\, and pop culture. Formally an Assistant Editor at The Mary Sue\, co-host of Netflix’s The Geeked Podcast\, and co-host and co-writer on the PBS Digital Series It’s Lit. On weekends she works as a bookseller at a local bookstore. When not reading or writing she can be found playing TTRPGs of cuddling with her cat\, Lola. \nLauren Smith\nExecutive Producer and host of national PBS programming at Detroit Public TV\, Lauren develops content for PBS and other distributors of public media for broadcast\, streaming\, and other digital channels and has executive-produced and/or produced over 60 national broadcast and programs. Her passion is to develop inspiring\, entertaining\, and educational content alongside the best national and international talent\, and to engage important content with communities across the country. Lauren loves to read and has worked to develop and produce PBS Books content for nearly ten years! \nFred Nahhat \nFred Nahhat is an Emmy Award-winning producer\, host\, and presenter for Detroit’s PBS station\, where he serves as Sr. VP of Production. A 30-year broadcast veteran\, Fred has hosted and produced numerous programs for Public TV – including music specials from Il Volo\, Celtic Gold and the New Divas – as well as other series and specials “New Year’s Eve with the DSO”\, “The Detroit Dream Cruise\,” “The PBS Books Readers Club” and “Get Up\, Get Out\,” among others. \nHe is a graduate of Wayne State University and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Michigan Chapter\, USA Hockey\, and Leadership Detroit.
URL:https://www.pbsbooks.org/event/readers-club-108/
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