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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Cara Black presents "Three Hours in Paris" [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.\nJoin the American Library in Paris’s Evenings with an Author series on 6 April as we host “doyenne of the Parisian crime novel” Cara Black.  During this virtual conversation with Programs Manager Alice McCrum\, Black will speak about her latest book\, Three Hours in Paris. \nNamed a Best Mystery of 2020 by the Washington Post\, Three Hours in Paris reimagines Hitler’s brief visit to Paris in June of 1940. The thriller tells the story of a young American markswoman\, Kate\, tasked with assassinating the Führer against the fall of the City of Lights to the Nazis. Miles away from her native rural Oregon\, Kate fights for her life and the fate of the world. \nThe program will draw on live questions from the audience. \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.\n \nAbout the author: Cara Black‘s affinity for France is the driving force behind her work. The attention to detail and immersive research undertaken during her trips to Paris earned the New York Times-bestselling author a Médaille de la Ville de Paris for her contributions to French culture. Best known for the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series\, Black is regarded as one of the leading names in Parisian crime novels. Visit www.carablack.com to learn more. \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-cara-black-2/
LOCATION:The American Library in Paris
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210413T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210413T203000
DTSTAMP:20260526T220122
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Amanda Dennis in Conversation with Rachel Donadio [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.\nJoin the American Library in Paris’s Evenings with an Author series as we host author Amanda Dennis. Dennis with be speaking about her debut novel\, Her Here\, in conversation with Rachel Donadio\, contributing writer at The Atlantic. In Her Here\, Dennis introduces us to a reckless and unmoored Elena\, who abandons her studies and relationship for an unconventional task proposed to her by an estranged family friend. Struggling with trauma and its various manifestations\, Elena loses herself in Thailand while looking for a woman who went missing six years earlier.  Dennis delivers an existential detective story in a hypnotic and seductive debut which demonstrates the revealing nature of narrative itself. The conversation will include live questions from the audience.\n\n  \n\nCLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.\n\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n  \nAbout the authors: Amanda Dennis is an assistant professor of comparative literature and creative writing at the American University of Paris. She earned her PhD from the University of California\, Berkeley Department of Rhetoric and was awarded a Whited Fellowship in creative writing from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Outside of her speaking engagements for Her Here\, Dennis is researching Samuel Beckett and the influence of 20th century French philosophy on his work.\n\nRachel Donadio is a Paris-based contributing writer for The Atlantic\, covering politics and culture across Europe. She was previously a correspondent at the New York Times\, including its European Culture Correspondent and Rome Bureau Chief\, and a writer and editor at the New York Times Book Review. She has reported from more than two dozen countries\, interviewed heads of state and film directors\, and profiled three Nobel laureates in literature.\n\n  \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-amanda-dennis-in-conversation-with-rachel-donadio/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210416T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210416T203000
DTSTAMP:20260526T220122
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SUMMARY:Teen Night: Blackout Poetry (ages 12-18) [Virtual Event\, Library members only; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:For ages 12–18 \n  \nUsing magazines and other supplies readily available in most homes\, participants will create their own original blackout poetry—a unique style of visual art where the artist blacks out words on a page to create a poem and/or picture. We will repurpose and reuse magazine pages and pages of books that would otherwise have ended up in the trash. To create poems\, we’ll find the words hidden in the page of text to to form our own new creations. Randomness is part of the fun! The poems can be scary\, funny\, serious\, or lighthearted. This event will be hosted virtually via Zoom by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager Celeste Rhoads. For the best experience\, we recommend that you use both video and sound. \nFor this creative workshop\, participants will need to gather the following supplies: \n\nold magazines\, or worn and damaged books (also available at the Children’s and Teens’ Services Desk)\nblack pens or markers\nscissors\nglue or a glue stick\n\n  \nAdvance registration is required for this event. Once registered\, participants will be sent an email with instructions to join the online meeting. Participation in this event is open to Library members\, and free of charge. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library. Send an email to Celeste Rhoads\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about this event: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org. \n  \nQuestions about collections and programs for teens can be sent to the Library’s Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, Celeste Rhoads: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/teen-night-blackout-poetry-ages-12-18-virtual-event-library-members-only-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210417T170000
DTSTAMP:20260526T220122
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SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Club: The Song of Achilles (ages 12–Adult) [Virtual Event\, Library members only; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:Join fantasy fans to discuss new worlds and novels with like-minded readers.\n\n  \n\nJoin us (virtually) for an animated discussion each month of the latest and greatest fantasy reads. Participants are also encouraged to prepare a cup of tea or coffee to enjoy during the meeting. This book club is facilitated by Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager (and fantasy fan) Celeste Rhoads. New members are always welcome!\n\n\n\n\nIn April\, we’ll be reading and discussing The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAdvance registration is required for this book group. Once registered\, participants will be sent an email with instructions to join the online meeting. Participation in this book group is open to Library members\, and free of charge. If you are not yet a Library member\, but would like to participate\, please join the Library before the first session. Send an email to Celeste Rhoads\, our Children’s and Teens’ Services Manager\, with questions about this event: celeste@americanlibraryinparis.org.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/fantasy-book-club-the-song-of-achilles-ages-12-adult-virtual-event-library-members-only-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210420T193000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Sanaë Lemoine [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO RSVP\nJoin the American Library in Paris’s Evenings with an Author series as we host Sanaë Lemoine to discuss her debut novel\, The Margot Affair. Margot Louve\, the novel’s protagonist\, is a secret: the child of a longstanding affair between an influential French politician with presidential ambitions and a prominent stage actress. This hidden family exists in stolen moments in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank. It is a house of cards that Margot—fueled by a longing to be seen and heard—decides to tumble. The summer of her seventeenth birthday\, she meets the man who will set her plan in motion: a well-regarded journalist whose trust seems surprisingly easy to gain. But as Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend\, she learns how one impulsive decision can threaten a family’s love with ruin\, shattering the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined. \nSanaë Lemoine \nAbout the author: \nSanaë Lemoine was born in Paris to a Japanese mother and French father\, and raised in France and Australia. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA at Columbia University. She now lives in New York. \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/lemoine21/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210424T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210424T120000
DTSTAMP:20260526T220122
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SUMMARY:Bookworms: Brown Girl Dreaming (ages 9-12) [Virtual Event\, Library members only; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:A book club for 9-12-year-olds! \n  \nCelebrate poetry month by reading a novel-in-verse\, Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson\, and then join in a discussion and related creative activities with other readers. The aim of this group is to foster discussion among our community of young readers\, and to explore the work together. Bring along your book to have on hand for the meeting. Multiple copies of Brown Girl Dreaming are available in the Library’s collections. \nDuring the meeting\, each child will be expected to participate\, and offer thoughts\, and comments about the book. \nThis book group is intended for children who read independently\, although parents are welcome to join. Parents and caregivers who participate alongside their children will be expected to have read the novel with their children. \n  \n  \nThis program requires advance registration\, and is open to Library members. Each child attending must have their own Library card\, or be covered by a family membership. Registered participants will be sent a link to join the event via Zoom. Parents and caregivers are responsible for connecting via the link provided\, and for monitoring their children’s use of the internet.\n \n  \n 
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/bookworms-brown-girl-dreaming-ages-9-12-virtual-event-library-members-only-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210427T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210427T203000
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Amanda Frost in conversation with Lauren Collins [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO RSVP\nJoin the American Library in Paris’s Evenings with an Author series on 27 April as we host Amanda Frost\, author of You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers\, in conversation with New Yorker staff writer Lauren Collins. \nThe American government has historically revoked US citizenship to suppress dissent and shape the nation’s demography. When the Supreme Court rejected the idea of Black citizenship in the case Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857\, new questions were raised about identity\, belonging\, and exclusion. Law professor Amanda Frost explores narratives of those who have struggled to be included as citizens and full members of “We the People” and exposes citizenship stripping as a fundamental tool of discrimination in America. \n  \nAmanda Frost \nAbout the speakers: Amanda Frost is the Ann Loeb Bronfman Distinguished Professor of Law and Government at the American University Washington College of Law. Professor Frost writes and teaches in the fields of constitutional law\, immigration and citizenship law\, federal courts and jurisdiction\, and judicial ethics. Her scholarship has been cited by over a dozen federal and state courts\, and she has been invited to testify before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. Her non-academic writing has been published in the Atlantic\, Slate\, the American Prospect\, the Washington Post\, the New York Times\, and USA Today\, and she authors the “Academic round-up” column for SCOTUSblog. In 2019 she was awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to complete her book\, You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers (Beacon Press)\, which was published in January 2021. \nLauren Collins \nLauren Collins began contributing to the New Yorker in 2003 and became a staff writer in 2008. She is the author of When in French: Love in a Second Language\, which the Times named as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2016. She is working on a second book\, about a coup d’état perpetrated by white supremacists in Wilmington\, North Carolina in 1898\, and its effects on the city during the past 120 years. \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-amanda-frost-in-conversation-with-lauren-collins-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210428T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210428T203000
DTSTAMP:20260526T220122
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SUMMARY:Evenings with an Author: Kristin Harmel in conversation with Lauren Elkin [Virtual Public Event; RSVP Required]
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.\nJoin the American Library in Paris’s Evenings with an Author series as we host New York Times-bestselling author Kristin Harmel. She will share her novel\, The Book of Lost Names\, in conversation with fellow author Lauren Elkin. Programs Manager Alice McCrum will draw on live questions from the audience. \nEva Traube Abrams\, a semi-retired librarian in Florida\, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. The accompanying newspaper article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II\, which Eva remembers well as a Jewish war refugee from Paris. The book in the photograph\, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war\, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library\, it appears to contain some sort of code\, but researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Eva knows the answer—but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war? \nAn engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network\, The Book of Lost Names is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of bravery and love in the face of evil. \nAbout the authors: \nKristin Harmel \nKristin Harmel is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names\, The Winemaker’s Wife\, The Room on Rue Amélie\, The Sweetness of Forgetting and a dozen other novels that have been translated into 28 languages. Her new book\, The Forest of Vanishing Stars\, will be released in July 2021. She is also the cofounder and cohost of the popular web series Friends and Fiction. She lives in Orlando\, Florida. \n  \nLauren Elkin \nLauren Elkin is the author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City\, a Radio 4 Book of the Week and a finalist for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the Art of the Essay. Her next book\, 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus will be out in September 2021 from Semiotext(e)/Les Fugitives\, as will her translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s lost novel The Inseparables (Vintage Classics). \nCLICK HERE TO RSVP and receive the Zoom login information.
URL:https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/evenings-with-an-author-kristin-harmel-in-conversation-with-lauren-elkin-virtual-public-event-rsvp-required/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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