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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.
Upcoming events
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Author Talk | Karen White
Gwinnett County Public Library - Duluth Branch, 3180 Main Stree, Duluth, GA, USJoin New York Times bestselling author Karen White on book tour as she discusses The Lady on Esplanade, her newest thriller in the Royal Street series.
Books will be available for sale and signing from Poe & Company Bookstore.
For more information, visit https://gwinnettpl.libnet.info/event/14666284
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Author Talk | Raymond Santana of the Central Park Five
Gwinnett County Public Library - Duluth Branch, 3180 Main Stree, Duluth, GA, USJoin Raymond Santana, one of the Central Park Five, as he discusses his young adult illustrated memoir, Pushing Hope, which reflects on his wrongful conviction and tireless fight for his 2002 exoneration.
Raymond Santana’s story is an example to teens of the power of hope and resilience—and the importance of fighting injustice to stand up for what’s right. When Raymond Santana was just 14, he was accused of a crime he didn’t commit. The 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park was pinned on Santana and four other young teens, a tragedy that would change their lives forever.
In this powerful illustrated memoir, Raymond Santana takes readers on a journey from his move to Harlem, to his arrest and trial, and from his time in prison to his ongoing fight for justice. Exonerated in 2002, Santana has made it his mission to fight wrongful convictions and injustice. What has sustained him and given him the strength for that fight, is his creativity—art and fashion have always been a refuge and a source of hope. Teaming up with celebrated artist Keith Henry Brown, Raymond Santana shows in vivid color how one can survive by pushing a message of hope.
Books will be available for sale and signing from Charis Books & More.
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Raymond Santana is an author, designer, and activist. He currently travels around the country telling his story of hope and overcoming obstacles as he continues to fight against the inequities of the American justice system. Santana also owns the clothing company Park Madison NYC (ParkMadisonNYC.com), named after his hometown of New York.
Moderator Carl Suddler is an associate professor of history at Emory University. His publications, teaching, and public scholarship have placed him among a small number of African American scholars who study the intersections of Black life, crime, and sports since the late nineteenth century. Suddler’s first book, Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the Justice System in Postwar New York, is widely used in college and graduate classrooms across the country.
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Author Talk | Jeannine A. Cook
Gwinnett County Public Library - Duluth Branch, 3180 Main Stree, Duluth, GA, USJoin Jeannine A. Cook as she discusses her debut novel, It's Me They Follow, where a modern-day Alchemist meets The Never Ending Story, set in a world where a book shopkeeper becomes a reluctant matchmaker, bringing soulmates together through books.
It’s Me They Follow is an allegorical love story set in a not so distant past. It follows The Shopkeeper, a bookseller and reluctant matchmaker. Helping others find love through books comes easily for The Shopkeeper, until it is time for her to find love for herself.
She secretly yearns for her first customer, ME, who took both her most prized book and a piece of her heart when he left. But just when she begins to lose hope, she discovers that she may hold the key to her own happily ever after as well.
Real life Shopkeeper and author Jeannine A. Cook has conjured a magical story that is a book within a book within a book. Soon, readers will find themselves falling under the same love spell as her customers and characters. In this magical bookshop where the line between fiction and reality blurs, stories and real life intertwine in an enchanting and moving narrative about human connection, the power of storytelling, and the spirit of love.
Books will be available for sale and signing from The Book Cellar.Jeannine A. Cook is the founder and owner of three avant-garde bookshop concepts, Harriett’s in Philadelphia; Ida’s in South Jersey; and Josephine’s, a literary installation in Paris. She holds an MFA from Drexel University. It’s Me They Follow is her first novel.
Moderator Gabrielle M. Dudley is the Assistant Director of Public Services at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. She is the co-curator of the exhibition “At the Crossroads: Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Walker” and the curator of “She Gathers Me: Networks Among Black Women Writers.”
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