Rochester Reads 2019 Presented by by Omar El Akkad Reading and Book Signing by the Author rd Wednesday, March 27 33 Annual Sokol 12 noon – 1:30pm High School Literary Awards Kate Gleason Auditorium SPRING Offered in partnership with Writers& Books. Reception and Ceremony

Omar El Akkad was born in , and grew up in Thursday, May 2 • 4pm Programs 2019 Kate Gleason Auditorium, Central Library Doha, until he moved to Canada with his family. He is an award-winning journalist and author who has traveled around the world to cover many of the most Hear winning poetry, prose and featuring important news stories of the last decade. His reporting performance entries from Monroe County includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan, students in grades 9 – 12. ndw the military trials at Guantànamo Bay, the Sa iche revolution in Egypt and the Black Lives Matter movement ks d Monroe County students in grades 9 – 12 may o in Ferguson, Missouri. He lives in Portland, Oregon. o In His debut novel, American War, was published to critical enter original poetry and/or prose, either written B acclaim in the Spring of 2017. or performed, to be judged by nationally-known authors for cash prizes.

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In recognition of HUGE USED the organization’s significant role in BOOK SALE this area, the New York Library Thursday–Saturday Association honored FFRPL Executive CENTRAL LIBRARY OF ROCHESTER March 14-16, 2019 Director Ned Davis & MONROE COUNTY with NYLA's 115 SOUTH AVENUE • ROCHESTER, NY KATE GLEASON AUDITORIUM 2018 Intellectual 585.428.8350 Central Library Freedom Award. www.ffrpl.org Books Sandwiched In • SPRING 2019 • Tuesdays 12:12-12:52pm • Kate Gleason Auditorium, Central Library • 115 South Avenue Books Sandwiched In video archive on YouTube at ‘Rochester Public Library NY’ March 26 April 16 May 7 Becoming Educated Lincoln’s Last Trial: By Michelle Obama by Tara Westover The Murder Case That Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s #1 New A child of survivalists living in the mountains York Times bestselling memoir gives readers of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen when Propelled Him To The a forthright, authentic view of the early years she first sat in a classroom. Her memoir of her marriage; her approach to balancing Presidency recounts how she pursued a formal education, by Dan Abrams work and family in her increasingly public navigated her way through college, and Abrams has written a compelling account roles; and her time in the White House. eventually earned a PhD in history. of the true story of Abraham Lincoln’s last Reviewer: Dr. Daniele Lyman-Torres Reviewer: Daniel J. DeMarle, PhD great case as a lawyer, defending 22 year Commissioner, Department of Recreation and President/Education Specialist, DeMarle Inc. old Peachy Quinn Harrison in Springfield, Youth Services, City of Rochester Illinois against murder charges for the April 23 killing of Greek Crafton. April 2 Reviewer: Sanford R. Shapiro, Esq. The Most Dangerous Senior Litigation Counsel, Forsyth, Howe, Dopesick: Dealers, Branch: Inside the O’Dwyer, Kalb & Murphy, P.C. Doctors, and The Supreme Court’s Assault Drug Company That on The Constitution May 14 Addicted America by David A. Kaplan The Perfect Weapon: Based upon exclusive interviews with Justices by Beth Macy and their law clerks, The Most Dangerous War, Sabotage, and New York Times bestselling author and Branch provides an incisive look into how both journalist Beth Macy has written the only Fear in the Cyber Age conservative and liberal Supreme Court Justices by David E. Sanger book that comprehensively charts America’s undermine the role of the other branches of From the White House Situation Room opioid crisis, providing portraits of families government to the detriment of our society. and first responders impacted across to the dens of Chinese government geographic and class lines. Reviewer: Dr. Timothy W. Kneeland hackers to the boardrooms of Silicon Professor and Chair of History & Political Science; Valley, New York Times national security Reviewer: Dr. Michael Mendoza Director, Center for Public History, Nazareth College correspondent David E. Sanger outlines Commissioner of Public Health for how cyberweapons transformed world Monroe County April 30 politics more than any other threat since Little Dancer Aged the atomic bomb. April 9 Reviewer: Benjamin Banta, PhD Fourteen: The True Assistant Professor, Department of Political The Library Book Story Behind Science, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester by Susan Orlean Institute of Technology While showcasing the importance of libraries, Degas’s Masterpiece award-winning New Yorker reporter and New by Camille Laurens York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean Against the backdrop of late nineteenth-century spins a captivating account of the disastrous Parisian life, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen draws on 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Public Library, extensive historical material to create a portrait of which remains a mystery thirty years later. the teenager who modeled for Edgar Degas and Reviewer: Kathryn Nixon became an iconic figure in the art world. Former Executive Director of the Rundel Reviewer: Marlene Hamann-Whitmore Library Foundation (now FFRPL) McPherson Director of Academic Programs at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

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