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01.18: Kids' Storytime
2013-12-17 00:35:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
Join us for kids' storytime. Today we're reading How to Hide a Lion by Helen Stephens.
01.18: Congressman John Lewis
2013-12-17 00:35:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
Congressman John Lewis is an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African American president. Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March (Top Shelf), a graphic novel trilogy (in collaboration with cowriter Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell). March is a vivid firsthand account of Lewis's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Book One spans John Lewis's youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.
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01.18: Kids' Storytime
2013-12-17 00:35:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
Join us every Saturday for kids' storytime. Today we're reading Rock-a-Bye Room by Susan Meyers.
01.18: Nick Bruel
2013-12-17 00:35:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
Zombies! Talking turnips! Puppy! Kitty takes 'em all on in her newest chapter book. But her mettle is really tested when she encounters her creator. In Bad Kitty Drawn to Trouble (Roaring Brook Press), the seventh installment of Nick Bruel's New York Times-bestselling series, Kitty encounters what may be her most formidable foe yet: her creator! Kitty soon learns that feline manipulation works both ways — especially when you're at the wrong end of your author's pencil. Along the way, Nick shows kids how a book is created, despite the frequent interruptions from you-know-who.
01.18: Gary Shteyngart
2013-12-17 00:35:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
After three acclaimed novels (including Super Sad True Love Story), Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a hilarious, candid, and deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is Little Failure (Random House), a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic, intimate, and distinctly his own. A serious exploration of what it means to be an immigrant, a grown-up, a son, an American — this is the most personal work yet from one of his generation's most celebrated writers.
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