Virtual Event

Bestselling author Jennifer Weiner will chat about the signature emotional depth of her books that have been inspiring readers toward self-discovery for decades. Her latest, The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits, is set in the world of pop music and is about sisters, motherhood, young love, and the dreams we chase. March 26th 6 pm Virtual…

Clara Bingham’s The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the inside story of what it felt like to be working at Shirley Chisholm’s presidential campaign, at Billie Jean King’s Battle of the Sexes, and…

Journalist and author Lee Hawkins will share the examination of his family’s legacy of post-enslavement trauma and resilience in this riveting memoir, I Am Nobody's Slave. To their suburban Minnesotan neighbors, the Hawkinses were an ideal American family, embodying success. However, behind closed doors, they faced the legacy of enslavement and apartheid. This event will…

In Reset, Dan Heath explores a framework for getting unstuck and making the changes that matter. The secret is to find “leverage points”: places where a little bit of effort can yield a disproportionate return. This event will be recorded and people who register will be emailed a link to the recording. Register now. This…

The bestselling author will chat about his newest book Moon of the Turning Leaves. In the book, Evan and his 15-year-old daughter, Nangohns, are elected to lead a small scouting party on a trip to their traditional home on the north shore of Lake Huron—to seek new beginnings and discover what kind of life—and what…

Smithsonian curator Sabrina Sholts will talk about how the very fact of being human increases our pandemic risks—and gives us the power to save ourselves. With its expansive, evolutionary perspective, the book explains how humanity will continue to face new pandemics because humans cause them, by the ways that we are and the things that…