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Upcoming Author Events The Lewes Library partners with Browseabout Books to host in-person, hybrid and virtual author events. These events are FREE, but registration is required. The link to register can be found in each book description. These books are available in the Delaware Library Catalog. Click on the book cover to place a hold. |
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Good People
by Patmeena Sabit
Thursday, February 12, 5 PM ET
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The Sharaf family is the picture of success. They came to this country as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighborhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools. Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father's eye. When an unthinkable tragedy strikes, everyone is left reeling and the family is thrust into the court of public opinion.
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The Last Dekrepitzer
by Howard Langer
Wednesday, February 25, 7 PM ET
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A Hasidic rabbi, saved by Black soldiers at the conclusion of the war, engages in a spiritual journey through the Jim Crow south and racially divided New York. Music--blues, gospel and Hasidic niggunim--become the means of pursuing his quest.
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Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship
by L. M. Elliott
Wednesday, March 18, 5 PM ET
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This program is part of Lewes 250, a commemoration of America's 250th anniversary, honoring our town's rich past and bright future.
Elliott will discuss the life and times of proto-feminist Peggy Schuyler, her sisters, and other women patriots in her circle, as well as expand on topics and "bottom-up" perspectives Burns touched on: the heartache and daily danger of loyalists vs. patriots; our Native allies; the British invasion from Canada; the espionage ring her father ran from their home; yeoman spies; GW's aides-de-camp and some dazzling French officers.
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The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended
by Thomas Richards
Thursday, March 19, 5 PM ET
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This program is part of Lewes 250, a commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary, honoring our town’s rich past and bright future.
Who gets to claim the legacy of the American Revolution and the mantle of patriotism that goes along with it? In a sharp, irreverent, deeply informed account of the nation's founding moment and its enduring legacies, historian Thomas Richards Jr. invites us to see the Revolution not just as a one-time fight for political freedom from Britain but as an ongoing struggle for equality, justice, and social and political independence for all Americans.
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Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech
by Stephen D. Solomon
Thursday, April 23, 6 PM ET
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This program is part of Lewes 250, a commemoration of America's 250th anniversary, honoring our town's rich past and bright future.
Revolutionary Dissent brings alive a world of colorful and stormy protests that included effigies, pamphlets, songs, sermons, cartoons, letters and liberty trees. Solomon explores through a series of chronological narratives how Americans of the Revolutionary period employed robust speech against the British and against each other--
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