Native Rights and Culture in Fiction–A Conversation with Mona Susan Power You’re invited to join us as Mona Susan Power chats about her newest novel A Council of Dolls. This conversation highlights how her work explores Native Rights and Native American culture, in particular using an important symbol that anchors comfort and companionship in Native life: dolls. From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota ... Read More

On Childhood Migration from Central America--In Conversation with Javier Zamora Tune in for a special conversation with New York Times bestselling author Javier Zamora as he chats with us about his riveting tale of survival and perseverance as told in his award-winning memoir Solito. Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents ... Read More

Liberating Latin American Genre Fiction: In Conversation with Bestselling Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia You’re invited to free your mind with the highly acclaimed Silvia Moreno-Garcia, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of several novels including Mexican Gothic, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Gods of Jade and Shadow, and many more! Moreno-Garcia’s most recent novel, The Seventh Veil of Salome, is set in 1950s Hollywood. Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingénue, has just won a star-making role ... Read More

A Journey into the Hidden World of Tropical Bats with Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Join us in kicking off October as we welcome three Smithsonian-affiliated scientists to teach us about the remarkable world of tropical bats! For decades, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute have studied the remarkable biodiversity of bats on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, where an astonishing seventy-six species coexist. Now, for the ... Read More

Liane Moriarty, A Deep Dive in Character Development, Saturday, September 21st If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny? Join us as we chat with mega-bestselling author Liane Moriarty about her newest novel Here One Moment. Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a brilliantly ... Read More

Nate Klemp, Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World, Wednesday, September 18th Join us as New York Times bestselling author and philosopher Nate Klemp helps us explore pathways back to openminded living when he talks to us about the core tenets in his new book Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World. In this climate of distraction and division, Nate Klemp’s Open offers a path ... Read More