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Choosing College with Michael Horn

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2020/01/03/choosing-college-with-michael-horn/

Tuesday, Jan 21, 7:30 pm – Cut through the noise and make better college and career choices. This book is about addressing the college-choosing problem. The rankings, metrics, analytics, college visits, and advice that we use today to help us make these decisions are...

The Lamps of Albarracín with Edith Scott Saavedra

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/11/25/the-lamps-of-albarracin-with-edith-scott-saavedra/

Video of this program Weds, Dec 11, 7:30 pm – The Lamps of Albarracín is a fictional first person narrative by a Sephardic girl that recounts the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition into the Kingdom of Aragon in the 1480s. It is based on...

Young Castro with Jonathan Hansen

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/11/05/young-castro-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-with-jonathan-hansen/

Video of this program Thurs, Nov 7, 7:30pm – This book will change how you think about Fidel Castro.  Until now, biographers have treated Castro’s life like prosecutors, scouring his past for evidence to convict a person they don’t like or don’t understand. This...

The Dog Went Over the Mountain with Peter Zheutlin

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/10/30/the-dog-went-over-the-mountain-with-peter-zheutlin/

Video of this program Wednesday, November 6, 7:30 PM – Join Peter Zheutlin, The New York Times bestselling author of Rescue Road as he embarks on a cross-country journey to take the measure of America with a loyal friend. On the cusp of turning sixty-five, Peter...

Race Amity: America’s Other Tradition with William H. Smith

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/10/01/race-amity-americas-other-tradition-with-william-h-smith/

Sunday, Oct 20, 2:30pm – This book seeks to impact the public discourse on race – to move it from the “blame/grievance/rejection” cycle to one of “amity/collaboration/access and equity.” Most discussions focus exclusively on racist traditions, we look at the always present moral counterweight...

Everything Here Is Beautiful with Mira T. Lee

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/10/01/everything-here-is-beautiful-with-mira-t-lee/

Video of this program Wednesday, Oct 16, 7:30pm – Come meet author Mira T. Lee! Books will be available for purchase. Two sisters: Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister’s protector; Lucia, the vibrant, headstrong, unconventional one, whose impulses are huge and,...

Growing up in Post-War Korea with Choi Kyung-Shin

https://waylandlibrary.org/blog/2019/09/25/growing-up-in-post-war-korea-with-choi-kyung-shin/

Video of this program Weds, Oct 2, 7:30pm – Author Choi Kyung-Shin will discuss her memoir: A Doll for a Day: Growing up in Post-War Korea. It is the story of a girl, born in the Year of the Ox, growing up in post-war...