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SUMMARY:Emily Dufton for Addiction\, Inc.
DESCRIPTION:How the war on drugs created the gold standard treatment for addiction—until America’s opioid crisis got privatized for profit\, to the detriment of patients. \nDespite epidemic levels of overdoses in the United States\, by 2020\, only twenty percent of Americans suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) received medication-assisted treatment (MAT)\, the gold standard of addiction treatment\, which uses methadone\, buprenorphine\, or naltrexone to reduce illicit drug use and curb the symptoms of withdrawal. While MAT is the most effective treatment available for OUD\, it’s also the most controversial\, the most expensive\, and the most difficult to access. And yet\, the medications at the center of this treatment—and the private industries that distribute them—generate roughly sixteen billion dollars each year\, on par with national sales of coffee and pet food. \nIn Addiction\, Inc.\, historian Emily Dufton explains how this promising avenue of treatment emerged during President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs in 1971 as a radical experiment in public health\, when hundreds of federally-funded treatment clinics opened nationwide. Dufton then explores how these nationalized clinics gave way to an immensely profitable private industry that offers poor care at high costs to an insufficient number of people. Drawing on original research and over a hundred interviews with policymakers\, medical experts\, pharmaceutical lobbyists\, and patients and their families\, she tells a gripping story of squandered potential and missed opportunities\, as MAT transformed from a revolutionary political project launched from the White House itself into a commercial success—and a public health disaster. \nUrgent\, eye-opening\, and deeply human\, Addiction\, Inc. reveals how\, over the past fifty years\, the United States built an addiction treatment system that made recovery harder instead of easier\, and what it will take to change its course. \nEmily Dufton is the author of Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America. The recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant\, her writing has appeared in the Washington Post\, Smithsonian magazine\, and other publications. She lives with her husband and children outside Washington\, DC. \nRSVP HERE. 
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/addiction-inc/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:Andy Beta for Cosmic Music: The Life\, Art\, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
DESCRIPTION:The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane\, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband\, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age\, ambient\, and electronic music that would follow. \nAlice Coltrane (1937-2007) was one of the most misunderstood artists of the last sixty years. For most of her life—and even in the decades since her passing—she was primarily known as the widow of the late John Coltrane. John Coltrane is widely seen as being one of the greatest tenor saxophonists and composers of the 20th century\, with a fervor and devotion approaching sainthood. Yet ever so slowly\, that level of love and appreciation is also being bestowed upon pianist\, organist\, harpist\, and composer Alice Coltrane. \nCosmic Music: The Life\, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane is the first full biography of this remarkable\, groundbreaking artist\, and is an elegant\, deeply researched corrective to the historical—and critical—record. It elevates Alice Coltrane to her proper place\, both alongside her husband as one of the greatest musical visionaries of the 20th century\, and also as a singular artist in Western music\, one who became a spiritual leader in her lifetime. \nIn the years since her passing\, she has become a great influence on a new generation of musicians\, especially women\, people of color\, and artists who seek to combine jazz with other musical forms\, be it modern classical\, electronic\, Indian music\, and more. Cosmic Music also unearths previously unknown connections between Alice Coltrane and other generational icons\, from Stevie Wonder\, Carlos Santana\, and Nina Simone to Mother Teresa and Doja Cat. \nIn Alice Coltrane’s music\, one can perceive the transformation of Black American music in microcosm\, the gospel roots giving rise to jazz and bebop\, then intermingling with soul and R&B\, and then onto rock\, modern classical\, psychedelia\, and new age. Cosmic Music\, based on extensive research and scores of new interviews by music journalist Andy Beta\, is the definitive account of a visionary whose influence is only just beginning to be appreciated in full. \nAndy Beta is an award-winning arts and music writer. His writing on rock\, jazz\, experimental\, and electronic music has appeared in the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Pitchfork\, Rolling Stone\, the Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, Texas Monthly\, NPR\, We Jazz Magazine\, and many more. He currently lives in New York City with his family. \nRSVP HERE.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/cosmic-music/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:Storytime: Joe Cantlupe for Dr. Einsteinorous Becomes a Dentist
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Einsteinorous just graduated\, and he has a varied parade of prehistoric patients visiting him in his new dental office! With smarts\, kindness\, and just a little bit of nerves\, Dr. Einsteinorous teaches his patients—most with hundreds of teeth—how to be healthy. \nBut some of the biggest dinosaurs are . . . scared. Dr Einsteinorous gently teaches them to choose wisely between healthy and junk food. He also shows that while a dentist’s tools might look scary\, they are actually here to help. \nBlending heart and humor\, Dr. Einsteinorous Becomes a Dentist uses vibrant illustrations and playful prose to teach both kids and dinos the importance of healthy teeth. \nJoe Cantlupe is the father of two\, a  prize-winning journalist and artist who loves to tell stories\, portray with paint the world around us\, and has a quirky sense of humor. Cantlupe is a former senior editor for HealthLeaders Media Magazine and contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning team at Copley News Service\, The San Diego Union-Tribune. He is the author of Dr. Einsteinorous Becomes a Dentist\,” a children’s book\, and co-author of Badge of Betrayal\, a non-fiction book about a family’s fight for justice after her daughter was slain by a California Highway Patrol officer.  He is a longtime Montgomery County MD\, resident. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9798891387478 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/dentist-storytime/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christopher Kondrich for Tread Upon
DESCRIPTION:Bold\, incisive\, and wholly original\, Christopher Kondrich’s Tread Upon explores the social\, political\, religious\, and economic drivers behind the chronic devaluation of the living world. In this book-length sequence\, in which each section unravels a word or phrase of the prefatory poem\, Tread Upon sprawls from suburbia to the Southern Ocean\, from the Cape Fear River to the phones in our hands. Kondrich juxtaposes the intimate with the epic\, integrating climate research and reporting to dismantle narratives of anthropocentrism and our individual responsibility amid corporate misinformation. What is the price of our (in)actions and who must pay the cost? In this world where “even one blade is a place\,” the sequence reveals that the violence done to the living world is violence done to ourselves. \nChristopher Kondrich is the author of Contrapuntal and Valuing\, which won the National Poetry Series and was named a best book of 2019 by Library Journal. His poems have appeared widely in such venues as The Atlantic\, The Believer\, The Kenyon Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, New England Review\, The New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry London\, and The Yale Review\, and he has received fellowships from MacDowell\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and Yaddo. He is also the coeditor of Creature Needs: Writers Respond the Science of Animal Conservation and an associate editor for 32 Poems. He is currently Visiting Poet in Residence for the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Maryland. \nTaylor Johnson is proud of being from Washington\, DC. They’ve received fellowships and scholarships from CALLALOO\, Cave Canem\, Lambda Literary\, Tin House\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Yaddo\, the Conversation Literary Festival\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference\, among others. In 2017\, Taylor received the Larry Neal Writers’ Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Their poems appear in The Baffler\, Indiana Review\, Scalawag\, and the Paris Review\, among other journals and literary magazines. Their first book\, Inheritance\, will be published in Fall 2020 with Alice James Books. Taylor lives in southern Louisiana where they listen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP HERE.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/tread-upon/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Lori Rader-Day for Wreck Your Heart
DESCRIPTION:From award-winning author Lori Rader-Day\, Wreck Your Heart is an engaging crime novel\, about a country and midwestern singer out to catch her big break before family—or murder—wrecks everything. \n\n\nDahlia “Doll” Devine had the kind of hardscrabble beginning that could launch a thousand broken-hearted country songs. Now she’s the star of her own stage at McPhee’s Tavern. As part of Chicago’s—yes Chicago’s—country music scene\, Dahlia is an up-and-coming singer in spangles and boots of classic country tunes. That is\, until her boyfriend up and went\, taking the rent money with him. \nDahlia is back to square one\, relying on Alex McPhee—again. Alex helped her out of a bad situation when she was a kid living rough with her mother. Now he’s part landlord\, part band booster\, all-around rescuer. Dahlia just wishes she didn’t keep giving him reasons to have to do it. \nJust as Dahlia suspects she’s scraped rock bottom\, the mother she hasn’t spoken to in twenty years shows up. The next morning\, a distraught young woman arrives at the bar\, asking after her missing mother—Dahlia’s mother\, too\, even if the missing suburban mom the girl describes sounds different from the one who let Dahlia down all those years ago. \nThough no one is using the word sister anytime soon\, Dahlia is drawn into reuniting the family that might’ve been hers. But when a body is discovered outside McPhee’s Tavern\, the crime threatens not just the place Dahlia has made into a home\, but everything she’s believed about her past\, her dreams for the future\, and the people she was\, maybe\, beginning to let into her heart. \n\n\nLori Rader-Day is the author of eight novels including Wreck Your Heart\, The Death of Us\, Death at Greenway\, The Lucky One\, and Under a Dark Sky. She has been nominated for crime fiction’s highest award\, the Edgar Award\, and has won the Mary Higgins Clark Award\, the Agatha Award\, three Anthony Awards\, and an Indiana Author Award. She has also been nominated for Thriller\, Barry\, and Macavity awards. Lori is a former national president of Sisters in Crime and a former national board member of Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Chicago\, where she co-chairs the crime fiction readers’ event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. Visit her at www.LoriRaderDay.com.\n\nCatriona McPherson (she/her) was born in Scotland and immigrated to the US in 2010. A former linguistics professor\, she is now a full-time fiction writer and has published: preposterous 1930s private- detective stories; realistic 1940s amateur-sleuth stories; and contemporary psychothriller standalones. These are all set in Scotland with a lot of Scottish weather. She also writes modern comic crime capers about a Scot-out-of-water in a “fictional” college town in Northern California. Her novels have won Agathas\, Anthonys\, Leftys and Macavitys and been finalists for an Edgar\, a CWA Dagger and three Mary Higgins Clark awards. Catriona is a proud lifetime member and former national president of Sisters in Crime. Visit her at www.catrionamcpherson.com\n\nJennifer J. Chow writes cozies filled with hope and heritage. She’s been a finalist for the Agatha\, Anthony\, Lefty\, and Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award. Her newest series is the Magical Fortune Cookie mysteries; the first book is Ill-Fated Fortune\, which Booklist said “will appeal to fans of Jenn McKinlay\, Eve Calder\, or Joanne Fluke.” The most recent book\, Tell-Tale Treats\, was called “a charming cozy with a touch of magic” by Kirkus Reviews. Her previous series include the L.A. Night Market Mysteries and the Sassy Cat Mysteries. Jennifer served as a past president on the board of Sisters in Crime and blogs at chicksonthecase.com. She is an active member of Crime Writers of Color and Mystery Writers of America.\n\nRSVP HERE
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/wreck-your-heart/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Enrich for Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID
DESCRIPTION:A civil servant discovers his breaking point when the Trump administration’s cruelty and indifference threaten to violate the oath he swore to uphold. \nNicholas Enrich had finally achieved his lifelong dream: becoming USAID’s lead official for global health. But that dream turned out to be a nightmare in the tumultuous time after President Trump’s second inauguration. \nIn the months that followed\, USAID became the first target of Elon Musk’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The mission to which Enrich had dedicated his career was being dismantled before his eyes—even the name of the agency was removed from the building’s facade. Enrich witnessed firsthand the Trump administration’s lies\, how it systematically prevented USAID from providing lifesaving foreign aid\, and the death and suffering around the world that resulted from careless decisions. Finally determining he could no longer keep quiet\, and risking the career that he loved deeply\, Enrich released a set of whistleblowing memos exposing the administration’s illegal and destructive actions. \nEnrich was put on administrative leave\, yet his memos went viral and had a sustained impact. In the days following their release\, hundreds of canceled aid projects were revived\, and the documents were cited in a Supreme Court case on the legality of USAID’s dissolution. While his memos were too late to save USAID\, Enrich was one of the first government officials to publicly blow the whistle on DOGE’s reckless destruction\, sounding an early alarm bell for other federal agencies that would soon find themselves in the crosshairs. \nUrgent and profoundly human\, Enrich’s story offers an astonishing behind-the-scenes look at a federal agency under siege\, from the early days when Enrich and his team were unaware of what was to come to the shockingly ignorant\, callous\, and bigoted conversations they witnessed. Enrich reveals in this detailed\, no-holds-barred account what was truly at stake when DOGE set out to dismantle one of America’s most effective humanitarian institutions\, and how millions of lives hung in the balance. \nNicholas Enrich is a former civil servant who worked at USAID under four administrations. He served as the Bureau of Global Health’s director of policy\, programs\, and planning until January 2025\, when he was designated as USAID’s acting assistant administrator for global health. On March 2\, 2025\, he was placed on administrative leave for exposing the Trump administration’s illegitimate and dangerous dismantling of USAID. \nRSVP HERE. 
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/wood-chipper/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Children's Acoustic Concert & Storytime: Grace Semler Baldridge for The Love That Made You
DESCRIPTION:Parents and kids of all ages are invited to join singer-songwriter Grace Semler Baldridge as they celebrate the publication of their picture book The Love That Made You. Grace will read the book and play an acoustic set of child-friendly songs from and beyond their albums.\n\nThe Love That Made You is a nondenominational book introducing the concept of a divine presence that will appeal to spiritual parents and families\, the exvangelical and queer communities\, and fans of Grace Semler Baldridge.\n\n\n\n“Though I don’t have each answer\, I hope that you know\, there’s meaning to find wherever you go.” \nThe Love That Made You is a wonder-filled\, empowering picture book introducing children to the idea of a higher power called Love that connects us and carries us through life. \nWith gentle\, rhyming text\, The Love That Made You helps grown-ups find the words to share the comfort\, encouragement\, and wonder of God or the Universe with a young heart\, without suggesting that the grown-up knows all the answers. Grace Semler Baldridge\, an alt-Christian singer-songwriter\, brings their characteristic thoughtfulness into this poetic invitation to think broadly about love as a force that connects all of us\, and plants the seeds for a child building their own concept of the divine. Award-winning illustrator Fran Alvarez weaves a compelling visual story of a young child and their family on a camping trip\, interacting with fellow hikers and enjoying the wonders of nature while contemplating the big questions children are wont to ask. \nPerfect for fans of Matthew Paul Turner’s When God Made You\, Savannah Guthrie’s Mostly What God Does Is Love You\, and Jennifer Grant’s Maybe God Is Like That Too. \nGrace Semler Baldridge is an LA-based musician known as Semler who made history as the first openly queer artist to hit Number 1 on the Christian music charts with the release of their EP\, Preacher’s Kid. Following this success\, Semler released another chart-topping EP and toured the country with Relient K. They have amassed more than 238\,000 followers on TikTok\, and Semler’s music has been featured on NPR and Apple Radio\, as well as in the Washington Post and Rolling Stone. After three headline tours and two more EPs\, Semler released their debut album\, Revival in My Mind\, in February 2025. When they’re not on the road or in the studio\, they love to read with their daughter Frances and their wife Elizabeth. \nRSVP HERE
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/love-made-you/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Children's Events
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SUMMARY:Storytime: Ashley Belote for Little Red and Big\, Bad Fred
DESCRIPTION:Little Red Riding Hood like you’ve never seen before! This fractured fairy-tale will have kids in stitches as Little Red optimistically befriends Fred (who may or may not try to EAT Little Red)\, reminding readers to always see the best in others\, even when they have sharp teeth and are definitely the big\, bad wolf. \nOnce upon a time. . . . Little Red loves to visit his great-grandfather. He makes the trip through the woods any time of year! The best part is when Little Red meets Fred along the way. Fred is the bestest\, fluffiest\,  most amazing KITTY in the whole wide world (nevermind that Little Red is completely oblivious to the fact that Fred is\, in fact\, a very hungry wolf that is trying to EAT HIM). When Fred gets hurt (from a trap HE set for Little Red)\, Little Red takes his injured friend to Great Grandfather’s house. That’s when Great Grandfather tells Little Red that Fred is actually … a DOG?! EVEN BETTER. (Poor Fred.) \nLittle Red’s positive outlook is contagious in this picture book about an unlikely friendship\, the power of kindness\, and keeping an open heart from the creator of Witch & Wombat and Sheepwrecked.\n\nAshley Belote is the author/illustrator of LITTLE RED AND BIG\, BAD FRED (PRH 2025)\, WITCH & WOMBAT (PRH 2023)\, SHEEPWRECKED (PRH 2024)\, DON’T WASH WINSTON (Feiwel & Friends 2024)\, LISTEN UP\, LOUELLA\, THE ME TREE\, and A PARTRIDGE IN THE WE TREE. She is also the illustrator of FRANKENSLIME and VALENSLIME by Joy Keller (Feiwel & Friends\, 2021). Her debut graphic novel\, Squirrel Lock Holmes: The Pet Rock Mystery\, will be released by Random House in March of 2026!\n\nAshley studied traditional animation under the direction of Don Bluth. She is a West Virginia native and earned her BA from Alderson Broaddus University. She earned her MA in Arts Administration from the University of Kentucky. Her graduate study included a children’s literature and illustration course\, The Whole Book Approach\, through Simmons College at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She also serves as the Illustrator Coordinator for the Carolinas chapter of SCBWI. Ashley is represented by Moe Ferrara of Triada US Literary Agency. To learn more and see her work\, please visit AshleyBelote.com.\n\nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below:\nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9780593902431\n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/red-and-fred-storytime/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jade Floyd for The Leadership Labyrinth
DESCRIPTION:The Leadership Labyrinth is not a roadmap to the corner office—it’s a compass for women navigating the winding journey of leadership. This journey is not a neat ladder of promotions and accolades\, but rather a labyrinth of bold choices\, resilience\, and reinvention. \nThrough powerful storytelling and practical exercises\, Jade offers more than reflection. She equips women with tools to pause\, recenter\, and move forward with intention. Her signature “Endeavors” illuminate the challenges women in the C-suite from global brands like Rare Beauty\, JP Morgan Chase\, and ESPN\, have faced\, including the weight of being “the only” in the room\, the tension of balancing ambition with family\, and the sting of being underestimated. \nWhether you are building a career\, navigating a pivot\, raising a family\, or finding your place in spaces not built for you\, this book affirms that you deserve a seat at the table. Your path\, however winding\, is not a detour. It is the way. \nThe Leadership Labyrinth is a companion for every season of leadership: climbing\, resting\, rebuilding\, or rising again. It is both permission and provocation to lead with a full heart\, to reimagine the rooms we enter\, and to leave a legacy not just in titles\, but in the lives we influence and touch. \nJade Floyd has elevated women in leadership across Fortune 500 brands\, investment firms\, professional sports teams\, and global philanthropies. As Executive Vice President of Communications & Public Affairs at Global Strategy Group\, she has secured hundreds of media stories for women in the C-suite in outlets like The New York Times\, Fortune\, Bloomberg\, The Wall Street Journal\, Fast Company\, Forbes\, Tech Crunch\, CNBC\, and more. She has placed her clients on global stages at gatherings like Fortune Most Powerful Women\, the Forbes Women’s Summit\, Wall Street Journal Future of Everything\, and more. \nJade is a frequent speaker on national stages and an adjunct professor at George Washington University where she teaches the next generation how to lead with intention and purpose. She has served on the board and as an advisor to nearly a dozen organizations and startups across the country. Jade is a recipient of the PR News People of the Year\, the Washington Business Journal‘s “40 Under 40\,” and Huffington Post‘s IGNITEGood Millennial Impact Challenge Award. \nShe resides in Maryland with her husband\, Charles\, and daughters Jasper and Georgina. The Leadership Labyrinth is her first book. \nRSVP HERE. 
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/leadership-labyrinth/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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SUMMARY:Martin Dickinson for I am That Road
DESCRIPTION:Dickinson’s road is an assembly of lines\, of geometries and definitive materials in search of eternity\, built to withstand time — prefabricated lines stretched across the plane\, awaiting a wanderer. The immigrant walks among the verses and scrap metal. At this point\, language intersects\, and Dickinson’s Spanish opens a slit for introspection — for circular memories like slices of lemon\, and divine journeys that end in floral flames. The relentless path remains; the lines lead forward\, but also upward — a poetic pilgrimage that drags the asphalt and fuses it with a jacaranda tree in a bilingual space. \n—Daniela Hernádez Rodríguez\, Johns Hopkins Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. \nMartin Dickinson is the author of four poetry collections: I Am That Road (Beltway Editions\, 2025)\, Life List Notes (Sligo Creek\, 2021)\, together with his wife\, poet Nancy Allinson\, What a Windstorm Teaches (Sligo Creek\, 2019) and My Concept of Time (Finishing Line\, 2014). He was poet of the month for May 2015 for the online journal Blue Heron Review. Dickinson’s poems have appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, California Quarterly\, Innisfree Poetry Quarterly\, Nth Position and the Russian language weekly Kontinent (in translation) and several other print and online journals. He and Nancy live in Silver Spring\, Maryland. \nCLICK TO RSVP
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SUMMARY:Paul Prescod and Dustin Guastella for Rustin's Challenge
DESCRIPTION:There was no more trenchant and substantive critic of the Left from the Left in the 1960s and 1970s than Bayard Rustin. Some liberals and leftists today valorize Rustin on the basis of his multiple oppressed identities and civil rights organizing. On the other hand\, many others dismiss him for being compromised by his commitment to the Democratic Party or by his deep suspicion of the new forms of left activism that appeared in the mid-1960s. \nWhile Rustin certainly made some strategic mis-steps later in life\, his challenges to the New Left\, Black Power\, and a regressing liberal establishment from 1964 until his passing in 1987 were insightful\, cutting\, and often quite prescient. At a time when the Left is in dire need of self-reflection and reorientation\, Rustin’s work has gained a new relevance and urgency. \nThis new collection of Rustin’s writings from this period features articles and speeches that represent Rustin’s Challenge to the Left of his day. Some of the pieces of Rustin’s writing chosen for inclusion have been published before\, but only in pamphlets or newspapers from many decades ago. Some will be published for the first time here. Damage Magazine is excited to bring Rustin’s views forth for a new generation\, in the hopes that they will spark a wide-ranging reconsideration of left politics. \nPaul Prescod is a labor organizer and a Jacobin Magazine contributing editor. Formerly he was a Philadelphia public school teacher and organizer with Teamsters for a Democratic Union.  \nDustin Guastella is director of operations for Teamsters Local 623 in Philadelphia and a research associate at the Center for Working-Class Politics. \nCLICK TO RSVP. 
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Deborah Zalesne for Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this event has been cancelled.\n  \nA devastating case against the inhumane practice of solitary confinement. \nThe injustice and cruelty of the US carceral system find their barbaric apogee in the practice of solitary confinement. Once deemed a form of torture by the US Supreme Court\, “the hole” is still wrongly used as a solution to prison overcrowding and violence. But locking someone in a cell the size of a parking space for months or years causes profound psychological harm. For Christopher Blackwell\, it was a harrowing ordeal that changed his life forever. Ending Isolation weaves Chris’s vivid account with other stories from solitary confinement\, alongside insights from legal and medical experts. Through these narratives and undeniable research\, the book makes a powerful case for abolishing this cruel and unusual punishment. \nDeborah Zalesne is a tenured professor of law at the City University of New York School of Law. She has published extensively in the areas of criminal justice\, race and gender justice\, legal pedagogy\, and issues relating to the use of contracts to empower disenfranchised communities. She has authored or co-authored three books and more than fifty scholarly articles\, published in journals such as the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism\, the Columbia Journal of Race and the Law\, and the Harvard Women’s Law Review. Her work has been cited as legal authority hundreds of times in law journals\, books\, and state and federal court opinions. \nDeborah’s current scholarship focuses on the harms of solitary confinement. In 2025\, she co-wrote Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement with incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell (Pluto Press). She is currently co-writing a book called “Finding Oneself in Solitary\,” that provides mindfulness training and practices for people in solitary confinement\, and co-editing a book entitled “Dear Teenage Me: Voices from Beyond the Barbed Wire\,” that includes essays by incarcerated people in the form of letters to their younger selves. Deborah co-founded and runs a Writers Development Program that pairs aspiring incarcerated writers with inside and outside volunteer mentors who support their writing and help pitch it to media outlets. \nChristopher William Blackwell is an award-winning journalist currently serving a 45-year prison sentence in Washington State for taking a human life during a drug robbery. He has been incarcerated since 2003 and was incarcerated for the first time at the age of 12. While incarcerated\, Chris earned a college degree in political and social sciences\, created multiple mentor programs\, and became a facilitator for restorative justice circles. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of Look2Justice\, a grassroots organization of system-impacted organizers and researchers who work to cultivate justice\, fairness\, and accountability in Washington State’s criminal legal system. With co-author Deborah Zalesne\, he founded and runs a Writers Development Program that uplifts the voices of incarcerated writers in the mainstream media. \nChris co-wrote Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement\, published with Pluto Press in 2025. He has published well over 100 essays and articles in outlets such as the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Boston Globe\, including many articles about the harms of solitary confinement. He is a contributing writer with Jewish Currents and a contributing editor with The Appeal\, where he writes a monthly newsletter. He was awarded the Galaxy Leader Fellowship in 2024 with his wife\, Dr. Chelsea Moore\, he was the Grand Prize winner of Narratively’s prestigious 2023 Memoir Contest\, and he was awarded the 2024 Incarcerated Journalist of the Year award by Prison Journalism Project through their Stillwater Awards. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9780745351278 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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SUMMARY:Linda Pentz Gunter for No to Nuclear
DESCRIPTION:Debunks the enduring myth that nuclear power is safe and green\n\n\n\nThere is no silver bullet for the climate crisis—but that hasn’t stopped people searching. Seizing its chance\, the nuclear power industry wants us to believe that theirs is the only technical fix for our deliverance. The public\, politicians and the media have been easily swayed. \nThis should come as no surprise. After all\, the pro-nuclear PR campaign is richly funded and has an army of lobbyists sowing myths while the industry reaps the rewards of taxpayer-funded subsidies. \nNo To Nuclear calls the industry’s bluff. Blasting aside its claims to be safe and green\, Linda Pentz Gunter makes the irresistible case that nuclear power is too slow\, too expensive\, too dangerous and too integrally connected to the nuclear weapons complex\, to serve as a rational energy choice. \nThe book also delves into the lives of Indigenous peoples and communities of colour\, who have been harmed the most by the nuclear sector\, and questions whether the way we devalue nature and the environment is costing us the chance of a genuinely just energy transition. \n\n\nLinda Pentz Gunter is the founder of the US-based non-profit Beyond Nuclear and serves as its international specialist. Previously\, she was a journalist at USA Network\, Reuters\, and The Times. She launched\, and writes for Beyond Nuclear’s online magazine\, Beyond Nuclear International.\n \n\nAuthor and activist Bob Musil is President and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council and Chairman of the Board of Beyond Nuclear. A respected advocate on Capitol Hill\, Musil has also been a leader in campaigns against nuclear weapons – their production\, testing and proliferation — as well as nuclear power and nuclear waste. Musil has also been an award-winning radio producer of documentary series like Shadows of the Nuclear Age: American Culture and the Bomb. He is Treasurer and Past President of the Council for a Livable World\, the former head of the SANE Education Fund\, the Professionals Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control\, and the longest-serving CEO of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Social Responsibility.\n\nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below:\nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9780745352107\n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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SUMMARY:Rhae Lynn Barnes for Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
DESCRIPTION:A groundbreaking history\, decades in the making\, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally\, financially\, and racially for nearly two centuries.\nNever before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. With Darkology\, Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes meticulously unravels the complex\, subterranean\, and all-too-often expunged history of “Darkology”—the insidious study\, commodification\, and dehumanization of Black life\, through which performers caricatured the enslaved and formerly enslaved for their supposed subservience and happy demeanor. \nGiven the extraordinary research reflected in Darkology\, it’s not surprising that Barnes spent twenty years tracking down “fading photographs\, old movies\, bureaucratic detritus\, moldy scripts\, and living witnesses\, assembling an impressive archive that allowed her to demonstrate the astonishingly broad reach of blackface minstrelsy” (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich). Painstakingly piecing together these scattered shards of evidence\, Barnes reveals the shocking extent to which blackface took center stage in every era of American history. \nThis was not a fringe activity. By 1830\, as political resistance to slavery grew\, blackface exploded from a niche performance into a venomous national export. Within a decade\, hardly a theater in the country didn’t put on minstrel shows. Following the Civil War\, this grotesque entertainment soared\, seeping from professional theaters into everyday amateur shows\, print\, and advertisements. It was everywhere: Elks Clubs\, religious institutions\, battlefields\, universities\, and schools. It wasn’t just in the Jim Crow era; it defined it. The very name “Jim Crow” derives from minstrelsy’s founding character. \nDarkology dismantles the myth that blackface was a fleeting\, post–Civil War phenomenon. Even in eras known for liberal progressivism\, it flourished. Barnes unearths the startling fact that four-term president Franklin D. Roosevelt was a devotee who died hours before a blackface show he had commissioned at Warm Springs. It permeated U.S. military bases and was even used in World War II Japanese American concentration camps and German POW camps as a bizarre tool of “Americanization.” \nAfter WWII\, the tide began to turn as Black veterans and mothers in places like suburban California protested the practice in schools. Still\, blackface performances proved resilient\, surfacing as late as 1969 at the University of Vermont. Even as the Civil Rights movement fought for equality\, blackface remained present in American politics and white supremacist organizing through the Nixon and Ford administrations\, its legacy still percolating in variable forms today. \nBy tracing minstrelsy’s evolution through oral histories\, material culture\, and a wide range of multimedia sources\, Barnes’s “masterpiece” (David Blight) forces us to reckon with the myriad ways the American Dream wore blackface. Recasting this American story with “vivid and engaging storytelling” (Howard French)\, Darkology is a landmark work that peers beneath the boulders deliberately obscuring our past—illuminating a path toward a more just and equal society in America’s future.\n\nDr. Rhae Lynn Barnes is an award-winning historian and Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University. Her highly anticipated new book\, Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment (Liveright/W.W. Norton)\, offers a searing and definitive examination of how racism is woven into the very fabric of American political life. Hailed for its narrative power and rigorous research\, Darkology was named a “masterpiece” by Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight and earned a Kirkus Star for its exceptional literary merit. A leading expert on the globalization of American popular culture\, Dr. Barnes explores the intersections of music\, film\, and material culture. She previously served as the senior advisor and on-screen talent for the PBS documentary series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War with Henry Louis Gates Jr.\, and is the founder of the digital education platform U.S. History Scene\, which serves 20\,000 public schools nationwide. \nRebecca Brenner Graham is a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University and the author of Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany. Her work has been supported by a Cokie Roberts Fellowship from the National Archives Foundation\, a Rubenstein Center Research Fellowship from the White House Historical Association\, and most recently\, a Yearlong Hybrid Fellowship from the International Center for Jefferson Studies for her current project on the American Revolution in female millennial popular culture. Her writing has been published in The Washington Post\, Smithsonian Magazine\, Politico Magazine\, Slate\, and Ms. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9781631496349 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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SUMMARY:Halsey Berryman for Pests & Other Friends
DESCRIPTION:Pests and so-called nuisance animals get a bad rap… \n…but each and every one of them serves a purpose in their ecosystem. Learn how helpful\, intelligent\, and fascinating these creatures can be in this lushly illustrated exploration of North American wildlife. \nArmadillos dig holes in backyards\, but did you know that  they also consume many troublesome species like fire ants\, yellowjackets\, and cockroaches? Or that prairie dog burrows provide other animals with much needed shelter? From the deserts of the Southwest to the city streets of the East Coast\, Pests & Other Friends celebrates the unique ways in which these underappreciated animals benefit their individual environments. \nHalsey Berryman’s beautifully detailed\, whimsical  artwork captures the distinctive traits of these regularly slandered critters\, ensuring you’ll never look at  pigeons\, skunks\, or alligators the same way again. \nHalsey Berryman (she/her) is an illustrator and lettering artist from Washington\, DC\, who grew up between DC\, Harvard\, Massachusetts\, and Taos\, New Mexico. Halsey received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2014 from the Corcoran College of Art + Design\, where she studied painting and drawing. Some of her clients include the Washington Post\, AOC for Congress\, Sleater-Kinney\, Austin City Limits Music Festival\, PBS\, Bird Collective\, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Halsey’s work explores the interaction between the human and natural world\, and what these often humorous exchanges and commonalities can teach us during the Anthropocene. Drawn to the most maligned creatures\, Halsey’s work is often centered around the underdogs of the animal world\, underscoring social and political parallels with animal behavior and cultural signifiers through visual satire. As a dedicated realist\, she is inspired by vintage nature illustrations\, but as a fan of color\, her north star is risograph printing. Halsey lives in Takoma Park\, Maryland with her wife\, two dogs\, three cats\, and a collection of plants. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9798217128136 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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SUMMARY:Brian Bouldrey for The Good Pornographer
DESCRIPTION:Walace Weiss\, a famous fantasy novelist struggling with drug addiction\, sets himself on a twofold quest: to finish his first book in more than a decade and\, like the immortal elves of his stories\, to try to remember what\, in his long life\, he should not have forgotten. While many have come to view Walace as a bad influence on children\, literature\, and himself\, his impact sweeps across worlds both fantastic and real\, resulting in the establishment of a new kingdom in his neglected McMansion\, Summerheim. The result is a mock-epic in rehabilitation\, starring such friends and enemies as Cal\, Walace’s dealer and private jester; Dragon\, a porn star turned guidance counselor; Epiphany\, a lunch lady and stripper in recovery; her son\, Tuffy\, planning everyone’s funerals at age nine; Jackal\, newly sober and in touch with his emotions for the first time; and Wolf\, Walace’s socially withdrawn twin brother and reluctant doppelgänger. \nBrian Bouldrey piles on the laughs and absurdity alongside dollops of humanity and sobriety. With brilliant recklessness\, he praises and pokes fun at genres\, conventions\, fandoms\, and critics\, offering a Deadpool-like exploration of an upside-down world filled with epic quests\, epic mistakes\, and epic characters. \nBrian Bouldrey is a senior lecturer of English at Northwestern University. The recipient of a Lambda Literary Award\, among other honors\, he is the author of\, most recently\, Good in Bed: A Life in Queer Sex\, Politics\, and Religion and the editor of Inspired Journeys: Travel Writers in Search of the Muse. He has published three previous novels\, including The Boom Economy. \nMaud Casey is the author of five works of fiction\, most recently City of Incurable Women\, and a nonfiction book\, The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions. Her work has received the Italo Calvino Prize\, the St. Francis College Literary Prize\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Washington\, DC\, and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Maryland. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9780299355845 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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SUMMARY:Esther Goldenberg for The Song of the Blue Bird
DESCRIPTION:Who is Blue\, the seemingly immortal young woman who does not age? \nIn the tribe of Israel\, she is known as Serrah\, daughter of Asher\, but to those who love her\, she has always been Blue. As a girl raised by her mother\, grandmother\, great-grandmother\, and aunties\, she carries with her the teachings of matriarchs that emphasize love\, kindness\, and compassion. \nAs time passes\, and generations\, also\, Blue holds the history and the memory of her tribe’s past. With her wisdom\, she’s prepared to lead her people out of Egypt and into the future. But can a woman hold that role? Will the nation follow her? \nIn the final book of the Desert Songs Trilogy\, Blue chronicles her extraordinary life so that her experiences and those of other women of her tribe can at last be known. From the early days of tribal life in her homeland to the famine that drives the Israelites to Egypt\, a descent into slavery\, the monumental Exodus\, wanderings in the wilderness\, and finally a nation of people returning home\, Blue’s voice is the thread that weaves through the heart of this epic journey. \nThe Song of the Blue Bird is a story of community\, cooperation\, and the struggles and triumphs of striving for freedom. The reader is invited into the heart of one woman’s unique life—a woman whose commitment and love leave a legacy that will echo for generations to come. \nEsther Goldenberg is a sister\, mother\, daughter\, and friend who loves gazing at the moon. No matter the night\, it reminds her that everything is just a phase. In this phase of Esther’s life\, she’s reminding herself to keep breathing\, keep dreaming\, and keep singing her song. Her work is inspired by her lifelong love of daydreaming and her short excursions into nature. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9781967182084 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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SUMMARY:Hoangmai Pham for Bridge from Saigon
DESCRIPTION:As a young Vietnamese refugee\, Hoangmai Pham suddenly lost her sense of safety and belonging when her family fled Saigon at the end of the war. But her later success in navigating life in America as a physician and health policy leader at the top of her profession paradoxically triggered a psychological unraveling during middle age. \nBridge from Saigon depicts Hoangmai’s struggle in confronting her hidden multiple personalities to heal\, luring the reader into parallel slipstreams of discovery—one of family secrets and epic history before and during the Vietnam War\, the other of traumas masked behind a child’s vivid imagination. Hoangmai’s final triumph crystallizes the immense price that immigrants pay for a chance at a better life\, and their resilience in achieving every sense of integration. \nStories of ghostly ancestors\, a fraught return to Vietnam as an adult\, and her kaleidoscopic inner characters unfurl in a voice that is at once dreamlike and brutally honest in a memoir that incisively depicts an immigrant story like no other. \nHoangmai (Mai) Pham is a Vietnamese American refugee\, physician\, artist\, mother\, and debut memoirist. Bridge from Saigon\, her first memoir\, was shortlisted for Black Spring Press’ International Beverly Prize for Literature. \nAt six\, Mai fled with her family from Saigon on a cargo plane at the end of the war to the United States. She went on to earn degrees from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She pursued answers to mysteries about her family and her own psychological journey with interviews\, voyages back to Vietnam\, and a scientific healer’s eye on her traumas. \nMai was the first Chief Innovation Officer for Medicare and Medicaid. When not making changes in American healthcare\, she hosts a baking club and relishes in her “Zoomagogue” Jewish community. She lives and works in Washington\, D.C. \nLawrence Macdonald began his career as a reporter in Asia\, where he saw first-hand how U.S. policies affected poor people in the developing world. Expelled from China for reporting on the student democracy movement\, he became an expert in public policy communications\, with a focus on poverty reduction and the environment\, working at the World Bank\, and serving as vice president of the Center for Global Development and the World Resources Institute\, a global environmental think-and-do tank. \nHe is now a writer\, public speaker\, and volunteer climate organizer who has been arrested several times in non-violent direct action to call attention to the climate emergency. In addition to supporting CCAN’s work\, he is active in Th!rdAct\, experienced Americans working to protect democracy and a livable planet; Dayenu\, a Jewish call to climate action; and ClimateDefiance\, a youth-led group that stages surprise actions disrupting powerful people who are slowing the transition to a low-carbon economy. You can follow Lawrence on Twitter (X) @ClimateBoomer and read new articles at Medium.com/@ClimateBoomer His new website is: www.ClimateBoomer.org \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9781476698496 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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SUMMARY:Eric Goldstein for Taught
DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled from the January 28th date! \nAs protests flare across Washington\, DC\, veteran teacher Jerry Brown is running out of faith—in his classroom\, his marriage\, and himself. When a viral video surfaces showing police brutality against his former student\, Malik Drummond\, their uneasy reunion sparks an impulsive road trip through Appalachia. From the streets of Southeast DC to the civil rights landmarks of Harpers Ferry and the forests of the Appalachian Trail\, their uneasy journey becomes a reckoning\, each mile revealing new fault lines between past and present\, teacher and student\, guilt and grace in a provocative story about redemption within a divided nation. \nAs a middle and high school teacher\, Eric Goldstein founded the Washington\, DC-based nonprofit organization\, One World Education. Through programs that teach writing skills through social justice\, the organization has transformed more than 65\,000 students into writers with voice\, knowledge\, and purpose. Inspired by two decades of listening to students tell their stories\, Eric’s debut novel\, TAUGHT\, will be released in January 2026. \nDr. Michaele C. Samuel is a psychotherapist\, educator\, and author whose work bridges mindfulness\, mental health\, and education. She is the author of The Art of You: Cultivating Confidence and Self-Esteem for Girls and Harmony Within: A Guided Journey Through Empowering Affirmations\, both designed to nurture emotional wellness\, confidence\, and self-awareness through reflection and mindfulness. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9798218813017 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/taught/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T190000
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SUMMARY:Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney for Lake Effect
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades. \nIt’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester\, New York\, a place long fueled by the booming fortunes of Kodak and Xerox and\, for some\, the mores of the Catholic church. When Nina Larkin is given a copy of The Joy of Sex by her newly divorced friend\, she can no longer dismiss the nearly nonexistent intimacy of her marriage. Just as her oldest child\, Clara\, is falling in love for the first time\, Nina finds herself longing for the forbidden: a midlife awakening. An intoxicating fling with a prominent neighbor brings Nina a freedom she never thought possible—but also risks the reputations of both families and unravels Clara’s world\, just as she stands on the threshold of adulthood. \nYears later\, Clara\, now a successful food stylist in New York City\, has never been able to move past the long-ago scandal. Drawn back home by the pull of a family wedding and wrestling with her own demons\, she makes a pivotal decision that turns her life upside down. Written with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s signature humor and insight\, Lake Effect is a wise and probing look at love and desire\, mothers and daughters\, loss and grief\, and what we owe the people we love most. \nCynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling novels The Nest (named a best book of the year by People\, the Washington Post\, and NPR) and Good Company (a Read with Jenna selection). She has been a guest on Today\, Late Night with Seth Meyers and NPR’s All Things Considered. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-eight languages\, and The Nest is in development as a limited series with AMC Studios. Sweeney holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She and her husband live in New York City. \nDan Kois is the author of the novels Hampton Heights and Vintage Contemporaries\, as well as five nonfiction books\, including a collection of essays forthcoming in 2027. He co-hosts the Martin Chronicles\, a podcast about Martin Amis. Dan lives in Arlington\, Virginia with his family. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9780063377684 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/lake-effect/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260304T193000
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SUMMARY:Marian Mitchell Donahue for Backstitch
DESCRIPTION:Two sisters\, Violet and Marigold\, reunite at a retrospective of their troubled mother’s art. Together they must confront the consequences of her ambition and the difficult\, private reality of the family’s public narrative. Moving through the gallery’s rooms and through time to arrive at the truth of her life and death\, the daughters unravel their family ties\, the gift and cost of artistic talent\, and the legacy that they must carry. \nMarian Mitchell Donahue is a writer and teacher in Brooklyn\, NY. She graduated from Stony Brook University with an M.F.A in Creative Writing and Literature\, where she was awarded the Deborah Hecht Memorial Prize in Fiction. Her debut novel\, Backstitch\, is forthcoming from Galiot Press in March\, 2026. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9798998954764 \nThis is an in-person\, after hours event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/backstitch/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T190000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Hartigan for Lost: Amelia Earhart's Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life
DESCRIPTION:Unravel one of history’s greatest mysteries in this spellbinding narrative exploring three leading theories of Amelia Earhart’s tragic disappearance. \nWhen Amelia Earhart’s plane disappeared in 1937\, the clues poured in\, attracting wild conspiracies about her tragic fate. \nIn Lost\, former National Geographic reporter Rachel Hartigan delves into Earhart’s disappearance\, introducing a host of eccentric characters who have become obsessed with finding the truth. Did the great aviator crash land near the Marshall Islands\, only to be captured by Japanese soldiers? Did she manage to land on Nikumaroro Island but die of injury or starvation? Or did she run out of fuel and crash into the ocean? \nInterspersed with the search for Earhart is the story of her extraordinary life: her unstable childhood\, her itinerant early career\, and how a PR-savvy publisher transformed her into an aviation icon and became her husband in an unconventional marriage. \nIn the spirit of nonfiction blockbusters like The Lost City of Z\, Hartigan draws us into the world of Earhart’s devotees and unspools a beguiling tale. The theories lead Hartigan from the pilot’s birthplace of Atchison\, Kansas to an expedition on a remote Pacific Island\, where forensic dogs attempt to recover a potential sample of Earhart’s DNA. \nAs tantilizing new evidence mounts\, Hartigan and her fellow investigators descend deeper into a world of conspiracy and obsession. Through its irresistible characters and prodigious research\, Lost reveals not just why we remember Amelia Earhart as a trailblazer and adventurer\, but why unsolved mysteries keep us forever searching for answers. \n  \nRachel Hartigan has written about everything from the genetics of persimmon trees to the long road to women’s suffrage for National Geographic\, where she worked as a writer\, reporter\, and editor from 2012 to 2024. A former editor of the Washington Post’s Book World\, she also covered education and culture for U.S. News & World Report. Her stories about the 2017 and 2019 National Geographic–funded expeditions to Nikumaroro Island each generated more than a million unique views. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9781426222542 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/lost-earhart/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T180000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Suzan Song for Why We Suffer and How We Heal
DESCRIPTION:A psychiatrist who has dedicated her life to treating global survivors of unspeakable horrors shares the three keys to resilience that we can use to weather stress\, loss\, and trauma in our own lives. \nSome survivors are unflappable\, yet it’s not their optimism or grit or mindfulness that carries them forward – it’s that they acknowledge and internalize the inherent instability in their lives. They are using the three tools that allow us to weather life’s stormiest seasons: narrative\, ritual\, and purpose. In her debut book\, Harvard- and Stanford-trained child and adult psychiatrist Suzan Song draws from her clinical practice\, patient stories\, research\, and public health work to help readers release their unrealistic longing for stability\, and open them up to a new\, heathier mindset. \nWhile most of us will not experience the horrors of torture or being held hostage\, there are countless uncertainties and dangers that are common in everyday life. From the challenges of tumultuous relationships\, work\, parenting and personal finances\, to upheavals like the pandemic and climate disasters\, we find ourselves lost and confused each time our lives are upended. How we cope is shaped by an intricate daisy chain of choices and experiences. \nFrom her clinical practice in the United States to her global work over two decades with survivors of human rights violations\, Dr. Song has uncovered three keys to resilience: Narrative\, Ritual\, and Purpose. Whatever you’re going through\, these three tools can help you weather the winters of life. \nProfoundly insightful and beautifully written\, Why We Suffer and How We Heal offers a groundbreaking new path to deep healing and finally feeling alive again. \nDr. Suzan Song is a Harvard- and Stanford-trained psychiatrist\, humanitarian researcher and adviser. For more than two decades\, she has dedicated her work to building resilience in individuals and communities affected by adversity. Dr. Song has advised the United Nations\, multiple U.S. federal agencies and Ministries of Health\, shaping systems of care for children and families in crisis to bridge clinical innovation with systems reform. She has a private practice in Washington D.C.\, is a professor of psychiatry at George Washington University\, and is a sought-after speaker on the science of healing. \nNadia Hashimi is a pediatrician turned internationally bestselling author. Her novels for adults and children are inspired by the people and history of Afghanistan\, and have been translated into 18 languages. She serves on the boards of Sahar Education for Girl\, Aschiana Foundation\, as an advisory board member to the Afghan-American Foundation\, and is a member of the US Afghan Women’s Council. Originally from New York\, she lives with her husband and four children in Potomac\, Maryland. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9780593581537 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/how-we-heal/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T180000
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SUMMARY:Max Huffman for Dogtangle
DESCRIPTION:A satirical comedy about an ambitious power couple in a bleak corporate landscape who defy God and nature to create a modern Cerberus for their time.\n\nDogtangle opens with a town hall meeting in a Taco Bell nestled in the bland corporate environment of Business Park. A man\, bleating to anyone who will listen about the evils of current zoning laws\, meets a woman who works in pharmaceutical marketing. They begin a relationship. They get married. From their union springs the idea of the Hypermutt: a many-headed mass of dogs that absorbs each new dog it encounters.This debut graphic novel from Chicago cartoonist Max Huffman\, about an awful power couple who defy God and nature in creating a hound of hell for our times\, is at turns a rich satirical fable\, a white-collar black comedy\, and a stylistic tour de force blending elements of abstraction\, cubism\, mid-century modernism\, and visual sight gags. One of the most visually distinctive and funny graphic novels in recent memory\, Dogtangle is also underpinned with a deep mistrust of corporate and cultural hegemony\, cementing its relevance in our increasingly oligarchal times. \nMax Huffman is a Chicago-based cartoonist whose work synthesizes absurd comedy\, retro illustration and geometric abstraction into a frenzied\, writhing mass. His comics Them-Shaped Clouds and Cover Not Final have been nominated for Small Press Expo’s Ignatz Awards. As an illustrator\, his commercial clients include Doughboys\, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard\, and The New York Times. Dogtangle is his first graphic novel. \nAdam Griffiths is a cartoonist and arts administrator based in the Washington\, DC area.  Between exhibiting his art at various DMV region galleries and tabling his comics around the country\, he authored “Washington White\,” a surrealistic graphic novel reimagining his grandmother’s landmark Civil Rights case as a science-fiction spy thriller. In 2022\, Griffiths opened DwightMess\, a comics ‘compound’ in his Silver Spring\, MD home that includes several  gallery spaces\, screen-printing workshop\, Riso studio\, and an extensive library of comics\, zines and periodicals. DwightMess has mounted over 25 exhibitions since opening\, sponsors an annual artist residency program\, hosts a regularly-convening comic book readers’ club\, organizes an artists’ summer retreat program in West Virginia and has thrice hosted the StoryBox Comics Fair\, a 2-day mini-convention for area creators to showcase their artwork to the general public. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \n\nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9798875001291 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/dogtangle/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T193000
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Shonekan for Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Sorrow Tears and Blood
DESCRIPTION:Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social\, cultural\, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria.\n\nThough Nigeria is the most populous African country\, and sometimes called the “Giant of Africa\,” Fela’s album sheds a sharp light on the reasons why Nigeria has not lived up to its potential. While the text primarily hovers over 1977 (the year of the album’s release) as a critical cultural moment in Nigerian history\, it also explores the album in the context of a wider look at how colonialism and its aftermath impacted the social\, political\, and economic environment in Nigeria\, and how Western imperialism continues to affect Nigerian identity and life. As we reflect on Nigeria’s turbulent post-independent political and social history\, Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a rich sonic and lyrical landscape in which to interrogate the potency of Fela’s message for generations to come. \nStephanie Shonekan is Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities and professor of ethnomusicology  at the University of Maryland. Previously she was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Missouri and the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. Shonekan earned a doctorate in ethnomusicology and folklore with a minor in African American studies in 2003 from Indiana University. She has published articles and book chapters on afrobeat\, Fela Kuti\, Nigerian and African American hip-hop\, soul music and country music. Her publications explore the nexus where identity\, history\, culture and music meet. Her books include The Life of Camilla Williams: African American Classical Singer and Opera Diva (2011)\, Soul\, Country\, and the USA: Race and Identity in American Music Culture (2015)\, Black Lives Matter & Music (2018)\, Black Resistance in the Americas (2018)\, Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation (2023)\, and Sorrow\, Tears and Blood (2025). \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9798765113097 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/sorrow-tears/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260223T180000
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SUMMARY:Jason G. Green for Too Precious to Lose
DESCRIPTION:A moving and inspiring memoir from a former Obama White House staffer\, about his rural Maryland family’s untold history\, the merger of three churches—one Black\, two white—and how a radical embrace of community became their salvation\, and his. \nJason Green was raised on fellowship—literally. Fellowship Lane\, the once unpaved road he grew up on\, served as a spiritual metaphor throughout his coming of age. A precocious preacher’s kid\, Green felt a call to the ministry but ultimately devoted himself to the people in a different way—through public service. After working on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign\, he spent four and a half years working in the White House as special assistant to President Obama. \nHowever\, Green’s government career was cut short by a devastating call that it appeared his ninety-five-year-old grandmother was on her presumptive deathbed. At her side\, he listened while she detailed her life story dating back to her 1918 birth in Quince Orchard\, a town that no longer exists. He was preoccupied with disbelief; how could he have never known the true legacy of his tiny community? How could a whole town’s existence be erased but for the memory of a few surviving elders? Green’s historical research uncovered a surprising trove of tales about the determination of his newly freed ancestors to build an African American house of worship\, and how generations later\, on the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.’s assassination\, their progeny would be at the center of a brave decision to create an integrated church. Quince Orchard’s lost story is part of what Green calls the texture in the American fabric: the moral leadership of the Black church\, the longstanding resilience of the Black community\, and the transformative love of the Black family. \nFueled by a new understanding of where he comes from\, Green traces one family through a century of life in a single community\, asking deeply personal questions about belonging and finding answers from the compassionate\, communal-led lives of his forebears. \nJason G. Green is a Maryland-born community organizer\, attorney\, storyteller and entrepreneur. Green served as special assistant to the president\, and associate White House Counsel to President Obama\, advising on economic and domestic policy matters. Green co-founded SkillSmart\, a company that reshapes how communities measure economic impact\, and is CEO of EverGreen Labs\, where he supports visionary organizations working to expand economic opportunity and strengthen community. Green serves as trustee to the Pleasant View Historic Association and supports its efforts to preserve the historic site. His award-winning documentary\, Finding Fellowship\, explores the rich history of Quince Orchard and the fight to preserve its legacy. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Yale Law School\, Green remains rooted in the work of truth and justice\, investing in stories that remind us who we are. He currently spends time between Maryland and Dallas\, Texas\, with his wife Ritu and son Aidan. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9780593731710 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/too-precious/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T163000
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Alisa Kriegel for From Sexless Marriage to Sex Goddess
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Messy! Sexy? Midlife. Book Club at 3pm\, where we will be discussing From Sexless Marriage to Sex Goddess by psychologist Alisa Kriegel\, or come afterwards for the book signing with the author. \nFrom Sexless Marriage to Sex Goddess recounts a therapist’s midlife sexual awakening\, as she bravely explores relationships\, sex\, and pleasure—and learns that it’s never too late to desire and be desired. At forty-eight years old\, after her husband announced he was in love with someone else\, Alisa Kriegel was determined to finally figure out this essential part of herself. As a psychologist\, she had the tools to help others; now\, it was time to help herself. Letting go of decades of shame and giving herself permission for pleasure was just the beginning of jumping into a series of adventures in online dating\, sex\, and romance. From sex clubs in New York City to a canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness\, this memoir offers readers an insight-filled journey into one woman’s mid-life discoveries about sex\, love\, and relationships—and a behind-the-scenes\, in-depth analysis of women’s sexuality.\n\nAlisa Kriegel is a psychologist with a thriving private practice in New York City working with adults and couples. She is on a mission to give people permission to seek pleasure and believes everyone deserves to experience incredible\, mind-blowing sex. This is her first memoir. Her podcast\, Let’s Talk About Sex\, Really\, is on all platforms. She lives in New York\, NY.\n\n\nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/98269/9798896360063\n\nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/signing-kriegel/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260201T093000
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SUMMARY:Storytime: Lisa Galioto for Owen the Busy Groundhog
DESCRIPTION:In Owen the Busy Groundhog\, you can join this lovable furry friend on a bustling adventure! Endlessly curious\, Owen is always on the go\, digging burrows\, munching on delicious peaches or figs\, or diving into the creek. But when winter arrives\, he knows it’s time to hibernate. He curls up in his cozy burrow until the first signs of spirng. When the warmer weather awakens Owen\, he peeks his head out\, ready to start a new round of adventures–and perhaps get into some mischief! \nDr. Lisa Crim Galioto is a pediatrician who has been taking care of children and adolescents for over thirty-five years. She and her husband of thirty-one years split their time between Potomac\, MD and their creek house at Colton’s Point\, MD (where Stella\, Henry\, and Owen live). Lisa enjoys spending time with family and friends\, as well as traveling\, cooking\, playing piano\, and knitting. After publishing Stella the Mama Osprey in 2023\, she decided to continue the series based on the animals in her own yard by sharing Owen the groundhog’s story with the world! \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781964934846 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
URL:https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/groundhog-storytime/
LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events,Children's Events
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SUMMARY:Melanie D.G. Kaplan for Lab Dog
DESCRIPTION:The “remarkable” (Dr. Jane Goodall) story of a beagle’s past\, and the future of animal research  \nWhen journalist Melanie D.G. Kaplan adopted her beagle Hammy\, all she knew was that he had spent nearly four years in a research lab. Curious to know more about this gentle creature’s past\, as well as the broader world of animal research\, Kaplan—with Hammy in tow—embarks on a quest for answers. How did Hammy end up in a research facility? Why are we still using millions of animals a year in experiments? What have we learned from them? Is there another way? \nIn Lab Dog\, Kaplan investigates the breeding and use of beagles for biomedical research\, drug and product testing\, and education. She takes readers on a journey\, peeking behind laboratory doors and visiting with researchers\, activists\, ethicists\, veterinarians\, lawmakers\, and innovators. Along the way\, she finds thoughtful and caring humans on all sides of the debate\, explores promising developments in nonanimal testing\, and discovers puzzle pieces from Hammy’s past. Equal parts journalism and love story\, Lab Dog offers a nuanced view on our relationship with a species that we both love and exploit\, and a reason to hope for a better future for all. \nMelanie D. G. Kaplan is a longtime independent journalist whose travel and science writing has appeared in the Atlantic\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, and National Parks magazine. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School\, a 2021–2022 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow\, and a third-generation Washington\, DC\, native. Kaplan has lived most of her life with hounds. \nMike Tidwell is a longtime Takoma Park author and climate activist. His previous six books include Bayou Farewell (2003) about the disappearing wetlands in south Louisiana. As a contributing writer for The Washington Post\, he has won four Lowell Thomas Awards\, the highest prize in American travel journalism. In 2002 he founded the Chesapeake Climate Action Network\, where he has led local and national campaigns for clean energy. He lives on Willow Avenue in Takoma Park with his wife Beth and their cat Macy Gray. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781541604988 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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SUMMARY:Bob Dover for Bridges of Washington\, D.C.
DESCRIPTION:Explore the history of our nation’s capital through this history of its bridges. \nIn the late 1700s\, the first bridges\, now completely gone\, connected the new Federal City to the outside world. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries\, more and bigger crossings arose to support industry\, allow the expansion of suburbs\, commemorate cultural and civic leaders\, and enhance the aesthetics of the District’s waterfronts and parks. Although the city abandoned civic-minded\, commemorative\, and monumental constructions for utilitarian highway monoliths in the mid-twentieth century\, a recent renaissance has seen a welcome shift to walkability and beauty instead of brute utility. \nUsing the city’s bridges as an index of the times\, author and D.C. native Bob Dover tracks the growth\, decay\, and rebirth of the District from the 1750s to today. \nBob Dover is a geologist with 37 years of experience in environmental impact assessment. A Washington\, DC native\, he is a graduate of Beloit College and the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. His primary geologic interest is the role of geology and topography in influencing human settlement patterns\, architecture\, and historical events. In 2022\, he published Bridgespotting: A Guide to Bridges that Connect People\, Places\, and Times\, a book that examined uses of bridges for tourism and recreation. He is a contributor of bridge photos and documentation to the historicbridges.org website\, and an active participant in the Vermont Covered Bridge Society. Recently retired\, he lives just outside of Washington in Columbia\, Maryland. \nIf you’d like to purchase this title online and still support People’s Book\, follow the link below: \nhttps://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781467170048 \nThis is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People’s Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come\, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.
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LOCATION:People’s Book\, 7014-A Westmoreland Ave.\, Takoma Park\, MD\, 20912\, United States
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