At the Library

Harvey Sloane, former Mayor of Louisville, is an exemplary public servant whose career took him from Yale to Vietnam, from Kentucky to Washington, D.C. In his memoir Riding the Rails: My Unexpected Adventures in Medicine, City Hall and Public Service, Sloane takes the reader through his life as a surgeon and public health official, and his political career in his adopted state. Starting with an up...

Acclaimed poet, essayist, and novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers visited LFPL's Main Library to discuss her bestselling novel, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, was longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction, and was included in “Ten Best Books of 2021” by The New York Times and The Washington Post . Jeffers is the recipient of...

Adam Rubin , the #1  New York Times  bestselling children’s author of  Dragons Love Tacos ,  The Ice Cream Machine , and the new book,  The Human Kaboom.

In her acclaimed memoir,  Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time , debut author and violinist  Natalie Hodges  explores the science of time and consciousness through the lens of her own experiences. A young Korean American and an aspiring concert solo violinist, she was forced to give up her dream due to performance anxiety. Anchoring her story with illumin...

Housing policy expert and author  Leah Rothstein  visited the Main Library on Wednesday, October 25, for a discussion of her new book,  Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law , co-written with her father Richard Rothstein. The book is a follow-up to her father’s bestseller,  The Color of Law , which examined institutionally-created segregation in America.  Just Ac...

Join local author Jermaine Fowler, host of the top-rated history podcast, "The Humanity Archive", for the launch of his new book of the same name. This sweeping survey of Black history challenges dominant perspectives and goes outside the textbooks to reveal America’s hidden history. Presented in partnership with Carmichael’s Bookstore. #blackhistory #thehumanityarchive #podcast

For lovers of The Big Chill and Four Weddings and a Funeral , Rowley’s latest book, The Celebrants, explores and celebrates decades-long friendships with a deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us going. NY Times bestselling author Steven Rowley is the New York Times bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, The Edi...

Celeste Ng is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels, Everything I Never Told Yo u and Little Fires Everywhere . Just released in paperback, Little Fires Everywhere was Amazon's #2 best book and best fiction book of 2017, and was named a best book of the year by over 25 publications. This complex suburban saga was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and is currently being adapted f...