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Each month Gwinnett County Public Library-Adult Services brings bestselling and award-winning authors from a variety of genres to the library, offering readers exclusive opportunities to meet in person or virtually and engage with their favorite writers. In addition, Adult Services offers a variety of programs, writing workshops, community and book discussion groups, and community outreach services.
Visit GCPL Adult Services website to see a list of all the upcoming adult programs.
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Learn how to thrive, not just survive, the special needs parenting journey, with encouragement and guidance that can easily be incorporated into daily life.
Embracing Another Normal: Resilience Stories and Strategies for Raising Children with Disabilities combines reflections, research, and insightful storytelling to support parents, educators, and others entrenched in the complex world of raising children with disabilities. It integrates the deep expertise of Kris Burbank, thought leader and parenting coach, and the wisdom and insights of Dr. Linda Hoopes, award-winning author and researcher on personal resilience. The authors provide a framework for navigating six fundamental challenges of raising children with disabilities and connect successful strategies to the key building blocks of resilience. They share intimate examples of how to thrive, not just survive, the special needs parenting journey and offer encouragement and guidance that readers can easily incorporate into daily life.
- A Q&A session will follow the talk.
Kris Burbank is a certified leadership coach, published thought leader, and passionate advocate for families with disabilities. The mother of three adult children, including one with cerebral palsy, Kris has spent nearly three decades helping parents, organizations, and communities support individuals with disabilities to reach their full potential and create lives of meaning and potential.
Dr. Linda Hoopes is a psychologist, award-winning writer, and leader of a global resilience community of practice. She has spent more than thirty years studying resilience, change, and well-being. In addition to co-authoring and publishing the Six Challenges series, she is the author of Prosilience: Building Your Resilience for a Turbulent World and Managing Change with Personal Resilience.
- Registration is required for online access.
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- Registration closes at the start of the program.
Please contact the Customer Contact Center if in need of assistance accessing the program at 770-978-5154.
- Author Stephanie EvansGwinnett County Public Library Norcross Branch, Norcross, GA
Author Stephanie Evans will discuss her book, Africana Tea: A Global History of Tea and Black Women's Health.
Africana Tea: A Global History of Tea and Black Women's Health is an illustrated tea table book that catalogs multiple narratives about Black women’s diverse experiences with tea as a tool for health, healing, and wellness. Based on research by Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans and her work on historical wellness, Africana Tea unveils the roots of Black women’s international tea culture. From hibiscus in Egypt and Jamaica to black tea in Kenya, sassafras or orange pekoe iced tea in the US South, and aromatic herbal teas of California, Black women’s wellness is steeped in tea history. This tea table book traces the historical, geographic, health, and educational traditions of collective care and offers a tea-tasting journal for self-care.
For more information and to register, please visit GCPL Adult Services
