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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 (4+)
See all- Author Terah Shelton HarrisGwinnett County Public Library - Duluth Branch, Duluth, GA
Author Terah Shelton Harris discusses her newest book Long After We Are Gone, an explosive and emotional story of four siblings each fighting their own personal battle in the midst of their fathers' death.
For more information and to register, please visit GCPL Adult Services.
- Grief Writing WorkshopGwinnett County Public Library - Lawrenceville Branch, Lawrenceville, GA
Join author Zoe Fishman, who lost her husband in 2017, for a workshop designed to explore the good, bad, and ugly of your hard-won identity.
Grief: unpredictable; dysfunctional; heart-breaking; isolating. But also liberating, because with grief comes new knowledge. New emotions. A new outlook on life as you know it.
- Bring a computer or pen and paper, you’ll be writing a letter to the one(s) you’ve lost.
For more information and to register, please visit GCPL Adult Services.
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Author Lara Love Hardin discusses her new book, The Many Lives of Mama Love, the March 2024 Oprah Book Club Pick.
Registration is required. Please register at: Lara Love Hardin tickets
OPRAH’S MARCH 2024 BOOK CLUB PICK - The Many Lives of Mama Love is a heartbreaking and tender journey from shame to redemption, despite a system that makes it almost impossible for us to move beyond the worst thing we have ever done.
New York Times bestselling author Lara Love Hardin recounts her slide from soccer mom to opioid addict to jailhouse shot caller and her unlikely comeback as a highly successful ghostwriter in this harrowing, no-holds-barred memoir.
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Lara Love Hardin is a literary agent, author, prison reform advocate, and president of True Literary. She has an MFA in creative writing and is a four-time New York Times bestselling collaborative writer, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life, and 2018 Oprah Book Club pick, The Sun Does Shine, which she co-authored with Anthony Ray Hinton about his 30 years as an innocent man on Alabama’s death row. In 2019, she won a Christopher Award for her work “affirming the highest values of the human spirit,” nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and short-listed for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Lara is also the co-founder of The Gemma Project, a gender-responsive organization serving incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women with integrity and compassion. Love Hardin lives in La Selva Beach, California, with her husband, Sam. She has four children, two stepchildren, five dogs, three cats, twenty-one chickens, and four ducks.
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