Howard County Library System’s author events are a key component of the HCLS curriculum. Notable, best-selling, and local authors provide customers with enlightening experiences throughout the year. Bringing the community together to celebrate the literary arts is a hallmark of HCLS customer service. Join us for these opportunities to meet one of your favorite authors or discover someone new!
Author Salon: Alafair Burke
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Branch: Miller
Description:
Best-selling novelist Alafair Burke has her finger on the pulse of domestic noir fiction. With her new book, The Better Sister, she presents a high-octane premise: two estranged sisters who have been married to the same man must join forces to save the teenaged boy accused of murdering him. The family dynamics are even more complex than the premise suggests as their reunion threatens to unearth secrets.
Burke is a New York Times bestselling author whose most recent novels include The Wife and The Ex, which was nominated for the Edgar Award for best novel. She also co-authors the bestselling Under Suspicion series with Mary Higgins Clark. A former prosecutor, she now teaches criminal law and lives in Manhattan and East Hampton.
"Alafair Burke is a master at ramping up the suspense and her legal and police references are spot-on." - Harper Collins
*Registration is required. Register online or by calling 410-313-1950.
Download to CalendarMeet the Author: Richard Rothstein and The Color of Law
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2019
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Branch: Miller
Description:
Richard Rothstein discusses his book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, a critically acclaimed exploration of segregation as the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels. The Color of Law was designated one of ten finalists on the National Book Awards' long list for the best nonfiction book of 2017.
Richard Rothstein is a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California, where is a Fellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California-Berkeley.
Books available for purchase and signing.
"Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law is one of those rare books that will be discussed and debated for many decades. Based on careful analyses of multiple historical documents, Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation."
- William Julius Wilson, author of The Truly Disadvantaged
"Essential...Rothstein persuasively debunks many contemporary myths about racial discrimination... Only when Americans learn a common-and accurate-history of our nation's racial divisions, he contends, will we then be able to consider steps to fulfill our legal and moral obligations. For the rest of us, still trying to work past 40 years of misinformation, there might not be a better place to start than Rothstein's book."
- Rachel M. Cohen, Slate
Presented in partnership with the Horizon Foundation.
*Registration is required. Register online or by calling 410-313-1950.
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