Spring is here! Coming up in the next few months, we have some exciting Tuesday Book Talks for FFAPL!
Tuesday Book Talks will be presented online via Zoom. Please visit https://albanypubliclibrary.libcal.com/ to register for the talks on LibCal. Zoom rooms open at 11:55. All lectures begin at 12:15 pm, except for April 6th, which will begin promptly at 12 noon.
Apr 6 NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK. Sapphire joins us for our annual National Library Week Distinguished Author Lecture to read from her work. Sapphire’s books include Push, The Kid, Black Wings & Blind Angels, and more. Push was adapted into the motion picture Precious (2009), which won two Academy Awards. Sapphire’s award-winning work addresses the crucial social and public health issues of violence, sexual abuse, obesity, trauma and discrimination in its many forms. Register here and request Sapphire’s work from our catalog through the links above!
Additionally, you may call the Book House in Stuyvesant Plaza and mention Albany Public Library to order her books with the book club discount, or to pre-order signed copies of Push (Revised) which will be published this June.
Apr 20 Book Review—Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, by Emmanuel Acho (2020). Reviewer: Yvonne Abunau, retired high school history teacher & community activist. From the publisher: “Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask–yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever.” Register here and Request It.
May 4 Book Review—The Ministry for the Future, a novel by Kim Stanley Robinson (2020). From his webpage, Robinson’s work “has been described as ‘humanist science fiction’ and ‘literary science fiction'”. It can also be classified as among the growing genre of climate fiction. Reviewer: Alexis Bhagat, Executive Director, Friends and Foundation of the Albany Public Library. Register here and Request It.
May 18 Book Review—America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present by John Ghazvinian. Ghazvinian, with a “grasp and a storyteller’s ability,” shows us why the two powers evolved from having heartfelt admiration for each other to being committed enemies, showing us that it did not have to turn out this way. – PenguinRandomHouse. Reviewer: Jeannette Gottlieb, president, Peace Corps Iran Association. Register here and Request It.
Jun 1 Book Review—Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M. M. Blume. In Fallout, Blume details how New Yorker reporter John Hershey bravely humanized the true deadliness of the atomic bomb and exposed the world-wide attempt to cover it up. Reviewer: Lawrence S. Wittner, PhD, scholar, activist, author. Register here and Request It.
Jun 15 Book Review—Pelosi by Molly Ball. Pelosi is described as “A riveting inside account of the unprecedented rise to power and unmatched political legacy of the first woman Speaker of the House.” – MacMillan. Reviewer: Marggie Skinner of the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza. Register here and Request It.
