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Jul 21
7:00 PM

"Ben Wikler is one of the most strategic and respected leaders of his generation. If we do what this book says, we will win."-Nancy Pelosi From one of the most successful Democratic strategists o...

Jul 21
7:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 22
7:00 PM

A call for unity in the face of growing dehumanization of marginalized people-from a powerful voice in the dialogue on racism today. The walk back on a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion...

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Jul 22
7:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 23
7:00 PM

From a New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping debut that defies all expectations—a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a friendship pushed to the edgeEmily is unmoored as...

Jul 24
7:00 PM

Around the world, antidemocratic forces are taking aim at women leaders. Misogynistic authoritarianism has entered the mainstream, seeking to reverse decades of progress. Weaponized digital technol...

Jul 24
7:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 25
5:00 PM

Sandwich meets The Wedding People in this irresistible comedy of manners as three generations of a family—a snail scientist, a soon-to-be divorcée, her teenage daughter, a hapless con man, and t...

Jul 25
5:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 26
5:00 PM

Born to Run meets Why We Swim and Breath in a globe-spanning work of immersive narrative nonfiction that dives into the hidden world of cold water plunging and swimming—and what it reveals about ...

Jul 26
5:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 27
7:00 PM

“Seldom do writers on the Holocaust have access to diaries from both a mother and her daughter. With these materials in hand, Pauline Steinhorn crafted a wonderful book about her mother and grand...

Jul 27
7:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 28
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Why do some fights for justice hit a wall while others succeed? What does it take to win social change, especially now? It comes down to understanding one thing: the difference between presence and...

Jul 28
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Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 29
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The highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted. To know the name Judy Blume is to k...

Jul 29
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Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 30
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When the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team competes in the Ohio High School Athletic Association state gymnastics meet, they're expected to win. That's because they've won e...

Jul 31
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In 1970s Ethiopia, 13-year-old Elen, determined to escape her arranged marriage, secretly abandons her tiny village hoping to find her aunt living in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. Meanwhile, Girm...

Aug 1
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From Annie Jacobsen, the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario, a book on a subject that has long orbited her reporting: biological warfare. A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandem...

Aug 2
3:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Aug 3
7:00 PM

Shakespeare's most powerful female character, her historical inspiration, and her reinventions in performance through the centuries. She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia...

Aug 4
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From George Pelecanos, bestselling author and Emmy-nominated writer for HBO’s The Wire and Treme: private investigator Derek Strange returns, in a riveting drama about revenge, greed, and redemption.

Aug 5
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A remarkable account of the kidney and the scientific, medical, and health evolution tied to our understanding of it. The kidney is an extraordinary organ - in many ways the regulator, the metronom...

Aug 6
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This event will be co-sponsored by the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.) A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life an

Aug 7
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Reissued for the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, A Burning Hunger reveals how one family’s courage ignited resistance and forever changed South Africa.

Aug 10
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The 2024 nomination of Donald Trump was both predictable and wildly unusual. Parties almost never nominate someone who has previously lost the presidency - let alone a candidate who helped organize...

Aug 11
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From critically acclaimed podcaster and bestselling author Aaron Mahnke comes this engrossing and macabre exploration of the folklore and early medical practices that led to the New England Vampire...

Aug 12
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A practical road map to become a more empowered patient and reclaim agency over your health. As a primary care physician with her own healthcare struggles, Dr. Lucy McBride knows what it’s like to...

Aug 13
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence. A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confus...

Aug 14
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Thirteen-year-old Maggie lives in a trailer on the edge of a rural New Hampshire town, where her brother barely speaks, her father works double shifts at the gun factory, and her mother disappeared...

Aug 17
7:00 PM

A Ms. Magazine "Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026" Pick. Gives voice to the Black women whose lives were devastated by the carceral system and sheds powerful light on its slavery-based roots to...

Aug 18
7:00 PM

A marriage cracks apart as a near-future United States redraws its borders in this penetrating and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland. Natalie and Asher’s marri...

Aug 19
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Peter J. Ortiz’s path to becoming the most battle-decorated member of America’s first spy agency—and one of the most decorated Marines of World War II—was unlike any other. Born in New York...

Aug 20
7:00 PM

An eye-opening look at how Republican policies have affected health outcomes in rural communities and why poor, rural white voters are turning to the Republican Party―not despite this harm, but because of it.

Aug 21
7:00 PM

A gay Christian's behind-the-scenes account of evangelical megachurches and eight years in conversion therapy before finding wholeness and authenticity. Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez was an invisible...

Aug 24
7:00 PM

What do you do when someone you love, maybe the person you love most in the world, is in trouble—even drowning? Do you jump in to save them?

Aug 25
7:00 PM

From doing our taxes to applying for financial aid, housing assistance, unemployment, disability, or Medicaid, dealing with government bureaucracy can be a nightmare. The hoops we must jump through...

Aug 25
Aug 26
7:00 PM

Skye Perryman—TIME 100 honoree and CEO of Democracy Forward—offers an urgent, inspiring blueprint for how ordinary people can fight for freedom in extraordinary times.

Aug 27
7:00 PM

From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi—a gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power.

Aug 31
7:00 PM

The history and meaning of one of the most controversial words in American English Few words in English are as charged as "nigga" and "n*gger." While the slur "n*gger" is universally recognized as ...

Sep 1
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How the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire exposed New York City elites and laid the foundations for modern charity Fire in the Heart of the City details the riveting story of what happened when a tr...

Sep 2
7:00 PM

A gripping historical account about the harrowing struggles of Japanese immigrants in the US during the years leading to World War II. In 1872, a new Japanese government’s first diplomatic delegat...

Sep 3
7:00 PM

The definitive story of Dominion v. Fox, the battle over election lies that changed the future of democracy Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network is the watershed media case of the century.

Sep 5
3:00 PM

Following on the success of Tough Cases, called "A law buff's dream" by headbutler.com, Challenging Cases collects judges' firsthand stories of deciding cases when the world is watching.

Sep 5
5:00 PM

From the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and enriches our understanding of the ancient world. Drawing on twenty years of scholarship...

Sep 6
5:00 PM

A unique look at Washington's landmark hotels and its cultural history. Any large city's marquee hotels are a great barometer of its social and cultural life. Washington DC, is exceptional in this r...

Sep 8
7:00 PM

An exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond. In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues tha...

Sep 9
7:00 PM

An urgent case that the survival of democracy depends on reinventing the press, with ten pioneering reforms to help journalism better serve the public—from the co-author of the classic The E...

Sep 10
7:00 PM

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of American Prometheus, inspiration for the Oscar-winning sensation Oppenheimer, comes a biography of Roy Cohn—arguably the mastermind behind the current arc ...

Sep 12
3:00 PM

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The End of History and the Last Man and other books on the most important political questions of our time, comes a strikingly personal int...

Sep 12
5:00 PM

From internationally acclaimed historian Timothy W. Ryback, the chilling chronicle of how Adolf Hitler overturned a constitutional democracy in less than eight weeks On September 25, 1930, Adolf Hi...

Sep 13
3:00 PM

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and ...

Sep 13
5:00 PM

From Congressman Jared Huffman, a behind-the-scenes look at the shocking extent of Christian nationalism’s reach in our government—and the fight to defend church-state separation.

Sep 14
7:00 PM

From award-winning health and science correspondent for NPR News and contributor to CBS Sunday Morning comes an illuminating road map to reclaim your physical and emotional health in midlife.

Sep 14
Sep 15
7:00 PM

Matilda loves logic and order, and now her structured world is falling apart—in a bookstore. Former economics major Matilda is moving back to her hometown of Washington D.C. to care for her ailin...

Sep 16
7:00 PM

Grief, the transformative power of art, the meaning of family, and housing affordability are the subjects of this story about a young theater director returning to her childhood home after her moth...

Sep 17
7:00 PM

A call to courage and connection from prize-winning poet and champion for the arts and humanities Elizabeth Alexander. “We send signals across vast distances, hoping to connect.” In luminous pr...

Sep 18
7:00 PM

From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields.

Sep 19
3:00 PM

From the leading political advisor and best-selling author, a revelatory account of how power is built and a blueprint for Democrats in 2026 and beyond. Supermajorities used to be the norm in Ameri...

Sep 19
5:00 PM

An inside account of the extraordinary effort by The New York Times to evacuate more than 200 Afghans after the fall of Kabul, highlighting four exceptional young women as they forge a new life.

Sep 21
Sep 22
Sep 23
7:00 PM

This event is in partnership with New America. In the spirit of American cultural prophecy—from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Rebecca Solnit—acclaimed writer Casey Gerald offers a groundbreaking work of ...

Sep 24
7:00 PM

The outspoken liberal voice on the Fox News show The Five shows us how to stay true to our values, find common ground, and communicate with confidence when engaging across political and social divi...

Sep 25
7:00 PM

Drawing on deep, exclusive reporting, a veteran national security correspondent reveals how a new military-industrial complex is arising from the cradle of Silicon Valley, with vast implications for the future of warfare.

Sep 25
Sep 26
3:00 PM

The definitive, sure to be headline-making, investigation into how Putin successfully mounted a decade-long covert war on the United States and how Donald Trump aided and abetted the operation and ...

Sep 26
5:00 PM

A gripping, major new history of the explosion of the “Titanic of the Skies,” the rise of Nazism and the beginning of World War II. For thirty-seven seconds on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg lit up ...

Sep 27
3:00 PM

From the New York Times best-selling author, a tragic history of the United States’ war on terror across four presidential administrations. 2026 is the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, the most ...

Sep 27
5:00 PM

From the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: the story of a Russian spy.

Sep 28
7:00 PM

In a lyrical and profoundly moving memoir, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad reclaims her extraordinary journey from the embers of devastation to a fight for freedom—and for what comes next.

Sep 30
7:00 PM

“I can’t teach you, but I can show you.” With these words, Kentucky balladeer Doc Hopkins shared his musical knowledge with a willing student, summoning an independent streak deeply embedded ...

Sep 30
Oct 1
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From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation.

Oct 2
7:00 PM

An inspiring account of how the US government built a start-up development program to fight AIDS called PEPFAR, which saved more than twenty-six million lives and created a new blueprint for result...

Oct 3
3:00 PM

A passionate and illuminating account of soul, the hard-won wisdom shepherded by Black people throughout generations How did enslaved Africans turn America’s infamous failure into the greatest mo...

Oct 4
5:00 PM

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought...

Oct 4
Oct 5
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At the funeral of Charles Maddox, Theo Brown hears testimonies about his dead best friend’s full, rich, glamor-filled life— stories that make Theo wonder if he really knew Charles, and if Theo...

Oct 6
7:00 PM

The chilling and revelatory story of how Russia’s confrontation with the West went global. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 produced a rupture with the United States and Europe not seen sinc...

Oct 7
7:00 PM

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the untold story of the pioneering Black women artists and activists who were seen, but barely heard, at the 1963 March on Washington.

Oct 8
Oct 9
7:00 PM

A searing exploration of American violence, interweaving memoir, history, and reportage to reveal the wound at the heart of our nation—and to offer hope that the country, and we, might be healed.

Oct 10
3:00 PM

This richly illustrated volume evokes the early history of the US postal system with 130 new full-color images of artifacts and historical documents from the Smithsonian's ...

Oct 10
5:00 PM

A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, whose “great body of work . . . has so much in it, more of life and of the world than that of almost any other poet now writing” (T...

Oct 11
3:00 PM

A fascinating and intimate inquiry into the shadowy life and horrifyingly compelling work of Edgar Allan Poe and why we are drawn to darkness in artSince Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in 184...

Oct 11
5:00 PM

The first biography of a preeminent postwar architect who championed the cause of freedom through architecture and transformed Black history and modernism J. Max Bond Jr. (1935-2009) was a civil ri...

Oct 12
7:00 PM

From Venetian canals to Vatican conclaves, New York Times correspondent Jason Horowitz takes you on a tour of the real Italy. Italy’s deep history, stunning landscapes and glorious food have uniqu...

Oct 13
7:00 PM

A spiritual guide to creating hope and healing in American civic life. We live in a time of fracture and lost faith. But most Americans don’t want this feeling. Most of us, the exhausted majority,...

Oct 14
7:00 PM

"Raj Panjabi is one of the smartest people around on health issues... and one of the best-placed people to guide us through this terrain and keep us safe." —Nicholas Kristof The essential guide f...

Oct 15
7:00 PM

A vivid, intimate biography of Ethel Kennedy written by her daughter Kerry Kennedy, who takes us inside the life of an American icon through her firsthand memories and exclusive access to her mother.

Oct 16
7:00 PM

What drove a few thousand men from the deserts of western China to the front lines of Syria's war? In Our Hearts Burned for Home, journalist Emily Feng unearths the untold story of Uyghur exiles.

Oct 17
3:00 PM

Disney Legend and Imagineer Joe Rohde unlocks the secrets of creativity in this powerful exploration of imagination, innovation, and life lessons for turning vision into reality.

Oct 17
5:00 PM

Since the second half of the 19th century, live entertainment in the United States has been governed by monopolies and powerful business cartels who together through power and greed controlled who ...

Oct 18
3:00 PM

On the morning a powerful U.S. senator is accused of a long-buried sexual scandal, his son Harris wakes to a world suddenly unrecognizable. A journalist, husband, and father, Harris has built his li...

Oct 18
7:00 PM

The legal case that changed psychiatry and forced a reckoning within the profession. In 1979, Dr. Raphael Osheroff admitted himself to Chestnut Lodge, a prestigious psychiatric hospital, expecting ...

Oct 19
7:00 PM

This event is in partnership with PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Figures of the past find new life in Yiyun Li’s thrillingly imagined saga following two musicians as they mature, study, travel, love, g...


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Jul 22
7:00 PM

A call for unity in the face of growing dehumanization of marginalized people-from a powerful voice in the dialogue on racism today. The walk back on a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion...

Jul 22
7:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 23
7:00 PM

From a New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping debut that defies all expectations—a story of feverish obsession, new motherhood, and a friendship pushed to the edgeEmily is unmoored as...

Jul 24
7:00 PM

Around the world, antidemocratic forces are taking aim at women leaders. Misogynistic authoritarianism has entered the mainstream, seeking to reverse decades of progress. Weaponized digital technol...

Jul 24
7:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 25
5:00 PM

Sandwich meets The Wedding People in this irresistible comedy of manners as three generations of a family—a snail scientist, a soon-to-be divorcée, her teenage daughter, a hapless con man, and t...

Jul 25
5:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 26
5:00 PM

Born to Run meets Why We Swim and Breath in a globe-spanning work of immersive narrative nonfiction that dives into the hidden world of cold water plunging and swimming—and what it reveals about ...

Jul 26
5:00 PM

Since the advent of smallpox inoculation in the eighteenth century, the idea that a disease introduced to the body in some lesser, weakened form might prevent full-blown infection has been one of t...

Jul 27
7:00 PM

“Seldom do writers on the Holocaust have access to diaries from both a mother and her daughter. With these materials in hand, Pauline Steinhorn crafted a wonderful book about her mother and grand...