CFA Mystery Night 2022
Concord Main Library Concord, MA, United StatesCFA Mystery Night 2022 moderated by Kate Flora Join us for this popular annual event with mystery authors Edwin Hill, Edith Maxwell and Carolyn Marie Wilkins.
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Concord Festival of Authors: Keynote Speaker Jennifer De Leon, author of Borderless
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United StatesAuthor Jennifer De Leon will kick off the 2023 Concord Festival of Authors with a discussion of her new book Borderless! Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the YA novels, Borderless, featured on the TODAY show, and Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. She is also the author of White Space: Essays on […]
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Concord Festival of Authors: The Robbins House presents Ray Shepard, author of A Long Time Coming
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United StatesThe Robbins House, Concord’s African American History Museum, presents author Ray Anthony Shepard. Shepard discusses A Long Time Coming, his new biography-in-verse of six impactful Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicling their diverse ways of fighting racism. Shepard […]
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Concord Festival of Authors: Ruth Ratner Miller Memorial Award for Excellence in American History
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United StatesMiller Memorial address and award presentation to Robert A. Gross A specialist in the social and cultural history of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War, Robert A. Gross focuses particularly on New England. His first book, The Minutemen and Their World received the Bancroft Prize in American History. His latest book, […]
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Concord Festival of Authors : The Leslie Riedel Memorial Lecture for Young People
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United StatesAuthor/Illustrator Chris Van Dusen will be honored with the 11th Leslie Riedel Memorial Award for his impressive body of literary work for young people. The in person program will take place in the Forum of the Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main Street, Concord MA on Sunday, October 22 at 4 pm. The Riedel Lecture […]
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Concord Festival of Authors – The Stories of Us: LIVE STORYTELLING at CFPL
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United StatesLike listening to in-person live storytelling on platforms like The Moth? Curious about the stories you have not yet heard in our community? Join us in the CFPL Goodwin Forum on Wednesday, October 25 for THE STORIES OF US, a collaborative Inclusive Storytelling project that provides a platform to share and interpret unforgettable personal narratives. […]
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Concord Festival of Authors : The CFPL Corporation Presents Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United StatesJoin the Concord Free Public Library Corporation for an evening with author Elizabeth Graver, in celebration of the library's 150th anniversary. Elizabeth Graver’s fifth novel, Kantika, was inspired by her grandmother, Rebecca née Cohen Baruch Levy, who was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Istanbul, and whose tumultuous and shape-shifting life journey took her […]
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Family Halloween Fun!
Bradford Mill 23 Bradford Street, 2nd floor, concord, MA, United States“Family Halloween Fun” featuring Mariana Llanos, children’s author of Benita and the Night Creatures Sunday, October 29 11:00 am Barefoot Books 23 Bradford Street, Floor 2 West Concord, MA Come for Halloween Fun at Barefoot Books! We’ll have spooky tales from acclaimed children’s book writer Mariana Llanos (reading her two Barefoot titles, Benita and Night Creatures […]
Concord Festival of Authors: Poetry Panel
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United StatesAccounting the Migration Experience and America’s Inequities: Oliver de la Paz and Jill McDonough Oliver de la Paz, recipient of multiple prizes and grants, a founding member of Kundiman, and author of six collections, including The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, reads from The Diaspora Sonnets (Liveright Publishing Corporation, […]
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Concord Festival of Authors: Mystery Night 2023
Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United StatesThe Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present CFA Mystery Night 2023, moderated by Kate Flora! This year's event features authors Gledé Browne Kabongo, John Nardizzi, and Sharon Healy Yang. Kate Flora's fascination with people's criminal tendencies began in the Maine attorney general's office. Deadbeat dads, child abusers, and employment discrimination aroused her curiosity […]
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