The Seattle Public Library - Programs & Events

Looking for a road map to your next career? Join Marci Alboher, author of "The Encore Career Handbook," for a conversation about how to make a living and a difference in the second half of life.

Kincaid offers a meditation on the doomed marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Sweet, a Caribbean-born writer and gardener and a New York City composer.

The capstone to 40 years of teaching, "The True Secret of Writing" covers Goldberg's own search for truth and clarity.

In Rebecca Miller's latest novel, an 18th-century Jewish peddler is reincarnated as a fly in present-day Long Island and becomes involved in the lives of two residents.

Jodi Picoult probes ethical and moral questions from different perspectives while telling a compelling story.

Joyce Carol Oates reads from her latest novel, "The Accursed," an eerie story of possession, power and loss in early 20th century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned.

Former U.S. Secretary of State, Madeleine K. Albright, discusses "Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948."

In their young adult biography, Judy Bentley and Lorraine McConaghy tell the true story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's Underground Railroad.

"Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy" tells the inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive's quest to build libraries and promote education around the world.

Education reformer Michelle Rhee talks about her new book "Radical: Fighting to Put Students First" and the state of education in the United States.

Colleen McElroy, award-winning writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, reads from her newest poetry volume, "Here I Throw Down My Heart."

Carver Clark Gayton reads from a new "facsimile edition" of his great grandfather Lewis George Clarke's slave narrative.

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow reads from his new young adult novel "Homeland," the sequel to the multiple award-winning "Little Brother."

Aaron Dixon, author of "My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain," reads from his book and talks about his experiences and the history of the Black Panther Party in Seattle.

Humanities scholar and Chautauquan Clay Jenkinson presents a debate between Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, and Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States.