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We are thrilled to present a talk in partnership with ASALH (The Association for the Study of African American Life and History) featuring Cozbi Cabrera on May 4, 2021 at 5:00 pm ET. Cozbi A. Cabrera received a BFA from Parsons School of Design. Her cloth dolls (Muñecas) have garnered the attention of collectors around the world and have been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is the illustrator of several books, including Me & Mama and Beauty, Her Basket, which Publishers Weekly called a quiet treasure in a starred review. Her work is featured in her eponymous shop and atelier in Brooklyn. She lives in New York City.

Book Review: Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert (2015) If you’ve ever seen Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED Talks Your Elusive Creative Genius and Success, Failure, and the Drive to Keep Creating, consider her book Big Magic, the director’s cut of those speeches. ... In her latest nonfiction offering, Gilbert, author of the runaway bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, encourages her readers to embrace the paradoxes, fear, and wonder of living a creative life. Gathering from her twenty years of developing a career as a writer, Gilbert invites you to create just for the heck of creating; to toss the need for the thing to be perfect to the wind; to listen to your need for wonder and drink deep of it. With her irreverently reverent prose, she lifts you up to embrace your desire to dance or write or cook or garden or do whatever flows from your creativity. Also available on Overdrive. Check out Elizabeth Gilbert's first Ted Talk here: https://bit.ly/3tcKna8

We will host trailblazing author Amy Tan in conversation with actress Tamlyn Tomita on Thursday, May 6 at 8 PM ET. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Amy Tan rejected her mother’s career expectations and chose to write fiction instead, resulting in her becoming a New York Times best-selling author. In addition to adult fiction, Tan has written two memoirs, two children’s books, numerous magazine articles, a libretto, screenplays, and was the creative consultant for Sagwa: Th...e Chinese Siamese Cat, the Emmy-winning PBS KIDS series. In addition to Tan’s most recent book Where The Past Begins: A Writers Memoir, PBS Books will be discussing her episode of AMERICAN MASTERS, Unintended Memoir. About the Moderator: The conversation will be led by actress and activist Tamlyn Tomita, who is best known for her role in Karate Kid II and The Joy Luck Club, as well as her narration of the PBS series, Asian Americans, produced by the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) and WETA, the flagship PBS station in Washington, D.C.

Thank you, US Representative Joyce for the book donations. We appreciate your support for public libraries.

Check out this opportunity! The Washington County Free Library in Hagerstown is hosting Dan Guzy talking about the Mills along the Conococheague. https://www.washcolibrary.org/news-may-2021-mccauley-lecture