• Virtual Author Talk: The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks

    The Burnham Library 62 Main Street South, Burnham Library, Bridgewater, CT, United States
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    REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind…

  • Virtual Author Talk: Nature, Art, and Service as Medicine with Journalist Julia Hotz

    The Burnham Library 62 Main Street South, Burnham Library, Bridgewater, CT, United States
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    REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging. The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success…

  • Virtual Author Talk: Secrets and Second Chances with Liz Moore

    The Burnham Library 62 Main Street South, Burnham Library, Bridgewater, CT, United States
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    REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand We are thrilled to welcome Liz Moore to discuss her latest work, The God of the Woods, an instant New York Times bestseller and one of NPR’s 2024 “Books We Love” highlights. Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van…

  • Virtual Author Talk: Swashbuckling Heroines and High Seas Adventures with Novelist Vanessa Riley

    The Burnham Library 62 Main Street South, Burnham Library, Bridgewater, CT, United States
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    REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Join us for an unforgettable experience as we chat online with Vanessa Riley about her newest book, Fire Sword and Sea, based on the folk story of the female pirate Jacquotte Delahaye. The Caribbean Sea, 1675. Jacquotte Delahaye is the mixed-race daughter of a wealthy…

  • Virtual Author Talk: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic with Dr. Lindsey Stewart

    The Burnham Library 62 Main Street South, Burnham Library, Bridgewater, CT, United States
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    REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Feminist philosopher Dr. Lindsey Stewart’s book, The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic, tells the stories of Negro Mammies of slavery; the Voodoo Queens and Blues Women of Reconstruction; and the Granny Midwives and textile weavers of the…

  • Virtual Author Talk: Smithson’s Gamble: The Incredible History Behind the World’s Largest Museum with Smithsonian Curator Emeritus Tom Crouch

    The Burnham Library 62 Main Street South, Burnham Library, Bridgewater, CT, United States
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    A Library Speakers Consortium and Smithsonian Institution Collaboration REGISTER & SUBMIT QUESTIONS HERE via Digital Livestream or on Demand Tom D. Crouch, a Smithsonian veteran of almost 45 years, paints a robust picture of a unique American establishment and its lasting legacies in his book Smithson’s Gamble. Follow the fascinating growth and development of the world's…