On September 8, 2022, the Dougherty County Public Library System will kick off the next Virtual Author Talks series, featuring an Internationally Renowned Educational Psychologist, New York Times Best Selling Author, and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. As with the July and August pilot series, each event will include the opportunity for participants to ask the featured author questions after the virtual presentations.
Launching the September series on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at 2 p.m., the first featured author will be Bestselling Author and Internationally Renowned Educational Psychologist, Dr. Michele Borba, author of Raising Thrivers: Parenting Tips and Tools to Help Kids Thrive in an Uncertain World. With data demonstrating that today’s youth are the loneliest, most stressed, and risk-averse on record, Borba poses the question of how we can teach them to be mentally strong and more successful. She empowers educators and parents to help kids thrive in today’s fast-paced, digital-driven, often uncertain world and through her research, has found the difference between those who struggle and those who succeed comes down to the personal traits that set Thrivers apart and set them up for happiness and a greater potential later in life. Borba teaches practical, actionable ways to develop these Thrivers traits for kids and shows readers how to teach them to cope today so that they can flourish tomorrow in school and in life, lessons that will last a lifetime.
On September 20, 2022, at 2 p.m., New York Times Bestselling Author, Simon Winchester, presents on four of his works The Professor and the Madman, The Perfectionists, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa. A Prolific British-American writer, journalist, and consummate adventurer, Winchester will cover many aspects of his work across myriad fields of
history, technology, and geology, as well as his personal expeditions, including his path to becoming the acclaimed best-selling author he is story. As a master storyteller, Winchester’s narrative is like a journey through time and his keen intellect and ability to precisely and expertly weave everyday life into historical examination, leaves his readers feeling awestruck at the world surrounding them.
The final series for September will be held on September 27, 2022, at 4 p.m. featuring Pulitzer Prize Finalist and PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance and Trust. Set during the roar of the 1920’s around the Wall Street tycoon Benjamin Rask and his wife, Helen, Trust opens to readers a novel within a novel. Together, they have risen to the top of the world of seemingly endless wealth – all as a decade of excess and speculation draw to an end. But, at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is exactly the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read, yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. By placing competing narratives into conversation with one another and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, Diaz’s Trust results in a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.
All books are available for checkout at Dougherty County Public Library branches. In order to attend any of these Virtual Author Tours, participants are required to register in advance at libraryc.org/docolib.
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