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Presented by LPL: Jacqueline Woodson in conversation with Giselle Anatol

The Lawrence Public Library's Ross & Marianna Beach Author Series Presents: Jacqueline Woodson in conversation with Giselle Anatol

Before the Ever After By Jacqueline Woodson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780399545443
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - September 6th, 2022

WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD

WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.


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The World Belonged to Us By Jacqueline Woodson, Leo Espinosa (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jacqueline Woodson, Leo Espinosa (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9780399545498
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - May 10th, 2022

Two children’s book superstars—#1 New York Times bestseller Jacqueline Woodson, the author of The Day You Begin, and Leo Espinosa, the illustrator of Islandborn­—join forces to celebrate the joy and freedom of summer in the city, which is gloriously captured in their rhythmic text and lively art.


The Year We Learned to Fly By Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9780399545535
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - January 4th, 2022

Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López's highly anticipated companion to their #1 New York Times bestseller The Day You Begin illuminates the power in each of us to face challenges with confidence.


Red at the Bone By Jacqueline Woodson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781663620415
Published: Turtleback - February 1st, 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off. -Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, in The Atlantic


Harbor Me By Jacqueline Woodson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525515142
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - April 21st, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.


This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration By Jacqueline Woodson, James Ransome (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jacqueline Woodson, James Ransome (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9780425288948
Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - August 1st, 2017

Jacqueline Woodson--New York Times Bestselling, National Book Award and Newbery Honor winning author--writes a rich story of a family adapting to change as they hold on to the past and embrace the future. With Coretta Scott King Award–winning illustrator James Ransome.


Another Brooklyn: A Novel By Jacqueline Woodson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780062359995
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Published: Amistad - May 30th, 2017

A Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award

New York Times Bestseller

A SeattleTimes pick for Summer Reading Roundup 2017

A Bustle Fall Roundup pick for 2017


Brown Girl Dreaming By Jacqueline Woodson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780147515827
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - October 11th, 2016

Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.

A President Obama "O" Book Club pick


Pecan Pie Baby By Jacqueline Woodson, Sophie Blackall (Illustrator) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780147511287
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - October 17th, 2013

A sweet addition to the family is coming! Written by National Book Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson. Illustrated by Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Sophie Blackall.


Topeka Links Black Diversity Celebration with Author Rita Woods

Taking Back Our Stories

A Conversation with Rita Woods Moderated by Darren Canady

The Last Dreamwalker By Rita Woods Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250805614
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Published: Forge Books - September 20th, 2022

From Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-winning author Rita Woods, The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separated by nearly two centuries yet inextricably linked by the Gullah-Geechee Islands off the coast of South Carolina—and their connection to a mysterious and extraordinary gift passed from generation to generation.


On Emilie Loring: An Evening with Loring Biographer Patti Bender

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"After all, living is the greatest thing we'll ever do. Why not make an art of it?" —Emilie Loring

Happy Landings: Emilie Loring's Life, Writing, and Wisdom By Patti Bender, Ph.D Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781947951624
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Published: City Point Press - March 14th, 2023

Rom coms, meet cutes, mystery men, courageous women, and the happy endings of today draw a direct line to the words between the covers of Emilie Loring’s romance novels.

With a career spanning 40 years, Emilie Baker Loring saw millions of her books sold during her lifetime.


Book Launch for "I Am My Country and Other Stories" by Kenan Orhan

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I Am My Country: And Other Stories By Kenan Orhan Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593449462
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Published: Random House - April 25th, 2023

A fiercely imaginative debut story collection by “a startling talent who can seemingly do anything” (Anthony Marra) explores the lives of ordinary people in Turkey to reveal how even individual acts of resistance have extraordinary repercussions.


Chaos & Flame: A YA Fantasy Book Launch with Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland

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Political intrigue and bloody betrayals. A dark and twisting fantasy world. Two star and sword-crossed lovers. One new fantasy novel we can’t wait to get our hands on.

Chaos & Flame By Tessa Gratton, Justina Ireland Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780593353325
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Published: Razorbill - March 28th, 2023

From New York Times bestselling author Justina Ireland and Tessa Gratton comes the first book in a ferocious YA fantasy duology featuring ancient magic, warring factions, and a romance between the two people in the world with the most cause to hate one another.


Story Time with Children's Writer Jenn Bailey, Author of "Henry, Like Always"

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Henry wants to invite you to Classroom Ten’s normally scheduled Share Time.

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Henry, Like Always: Book 1 By Jenn Bailey, Mika Song (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jenn Bailey, Mika Song (Illustrator)
$14.99
ISBN: 9781797213897
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Published: Chronicle Books - March 21st, 2023

A beginning chapter book series based on the award-winning picture book, A Friend for Henry!

Henry likes Classroom Ten. He likes how it is always the same. But this week, Henry's class will have a parade, and a parade means having Share Time on the wrong day. A parade means playing instruments that are too loud.


A Friend for Henry: (Books About Making Friends, Children's Friendship Books, Autism Awareness Books for Kids) By Jenn Bailey, Mika Song (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jenn Bailey, Mika Song (Illustrator)
$16.99
ISBN: 9781452167916
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Published: Chronicle Books - February 26th, 2019

A heartwarming picture book that explores the experience of autism and the power of friendship.
 
A 2020 Schneider Family Honor Book

In Classroom Six, second left down the hall, Henry has been on the lookout for a friend. A friend who shares. A friend who listens. Maybe even a friend who likes things to stay the same and all in order, as Henry does.


Jacqueline Holland, Author of "The God of Endings," in Conversation with KU's Dr. Giselle Anatol

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The God of Endings: A Novel By Jacqueline Holland Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250856760
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Published: Flatiron Books - March 7th, 2023

“A new kind of vampire story, and the result is a surprising and spellbinding tale.” —Laura Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author of The Chaperone

“Great for fans of Interview with a Vampire and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.” —Library Journal


The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora (Critical Caribbean Studies) By Giselle Liza Anatol Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780813565736
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Published: Rutgers University Press - February 16th, 2015

The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag—an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night’s darkest hours in order to fly about her community and suck the blood of her unwitting victims.


Poetry Reading Featuring Courtney Faye Taylor in Conversation with Mercedes Lucero

Concentrate: Poems By Courtney Faye Taylor Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781644452103
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Published: Graywolf Press - November 1st, 2022

Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths


Juliet Patterson, author of "Sinkhole," in conversation with Nikita Imafidon

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Content warning: Suicide and suicidal ideation, domestic violence

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Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide By Juliet Patterson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781571311764
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Published: Milkweed Editions - September 13th, 2022

Finalist for the 2023 Minnesota Book AwardA sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family.In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family.


Threnody By Juliet Patterson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781937658557
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Published: Nightboat Books - November 1st, 2016

Part lamentation, part ode, Threnody (the word originates from the Greek, threnos, "wailing" and oide "ode."), examines the beauty and violence of our present ecological moment with a lyric and meditative eye.


The Truant Lover: Poems By Juliet Patterson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780976718529
Published: Nightboat Books - March 15th, 2006

Poetry. Juliet Patterson incorporates the voices of Emily Dickinson, Lorine Niedecker, and Wallace Stevens, drawing into her stunning debut a fascination with the difficult, the improbable, and the uneasy. There is a quiet ferocity to mourn the world's injustice and a passion in her work expressing the perplexities of love, grace, and consciousness.


RESCHEDULED: Kenneth Spencer Lecture: An Evening With Ross Gay at Liberty Hall

This event has been rescheduled to April 24 at 7:00 p.m. Thank you for your patience!


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The Raven Book Store is partnering with The Commons at the University of Kansas for the Kenneth Spencer Lecture featuring Ross Gay! Book sales will be made available at this event by the Raven Book Store. This event is in-person only. Masks are recommended.

Inciting Joy: Essays By Ross Gay Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781643753041
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Published: Algonquin Books - October 25th, 2022

“BRILLIANT.” —Ada Limón, U.S.


The Book of Delights: Essays By Ross Gay Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781643753287
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Published: Algonquin Books - August 16th, 2022

The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observant writers, award-winning poet Ross Gay.

As Heard on NPR's This American Life


“Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small mir


Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series) By Ross Gay Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780822963318
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Published: University of Pittsburgh Press - January 7th, 2015

Winner, 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award, poetry category
Winner, 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize

Finalist, 2015 National Book Award, poetry category
Finalist, 2015 NAACP Image Awards, poetry category


Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—


Be Holding: A Poem (Pitt Poetry Series) By Ross Gay Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780822966234
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Published: University of Pittsburgh Press - September 8th, 2020

Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Award
Winner, 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry
Winner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry
Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia ‘76ers.


Bringing the Shovel Down (Pitt Poetry Series) By Ross Gay Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780822961352
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Published: University of Pittsburgh Press - January 23rd, 2011

Bringing the Shovel Down is a re-imagination of the violent mythologies of state and power.


Against Which By Ross Gay Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781933880006
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Published: CavanKerry Press - October 31st, 2006

An exploration of the various ways language can help us transcend both the banal and unusual cruelties which are inevitably delivered to us, and which we equally deliver unto others. These poems comb through violence and love, fear and loss, exploring the common denominators in each.


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