Appel Salon Programming : Toronto Public Library

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Tue Mar 10, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Donna Leon, winner for the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, discusses the twenty-ninth in her Brunetti mystery series. In Trace Elements, a woman's cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lea...

The Other Shelf. Niviaq Korneliussen: Last Night in Nuuk

Tue Mar 10, 2020 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Niviaq Korneliussen was dubbed her country's "unlikely literary star" by the New Yorker. Hear her discuss her highly acclaimed debut novel, Last Night in Nuuk, which follows the lives of five young Greenlanders exploring...

Yuval Taylor: Zora & Langston

Tue Mar 17, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Yuval Taylor discusses his book, Zora and Langston, about Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. They were best friends, collaborators and the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. While their relationship with frui...

The Other Shelf. Novuyo Rosa Tshuma: House of Stone

Tue Mar 17, 2020 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma talks about her debut work that's been called "one of the greatest-ever novels about Zimbabwe," about a family wrestling with ghosts of the past and trying to find their way in a country charting a new...

Kathy Reichs: A Conspiracy of Bones

Mon Mar 23, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Kathy Reichs' talks about her latest riveting novel featuring the beloved forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan, who must discover the identity of a faceless corpse and why the dead man had her cellphone number....

Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other

Tue Mar 31, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Winner of the 2019 Man Booker prize, Bernardine Evaristo discusses her latest novel, Girl, Woman, Other, and essential text on race and feminism. Filled with wit and emotion, Girl, Woman, Other centres the voices we ofte...

Star Talks: Emily St. John Mandel

Wed Apr 01, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

The bestselling author of Station Eleven, which the New York Times called "ingenious" discusses her fifth novel. The Glass Hotel paints a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts...

Michael Arceneaux: I Don't Want to Die Poor

Tue Apr 14, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

New York Times bestselling author, Michael Arceneaux, talks about his latest insightful collection of essays that explores the financial and emotional cost of chasing your dreams. I Don't Want to Die Poor is an unforgett...

Kate Kirkpatrick: Becoming Beauvoir

Tue Apr 21, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Kate Kirkpatrick discusses her book which draws on Simone de Beauvoir's never-before-published diaries and letters to tell the fascinating story of how she became the iconic figure we know her as today. Q&A an...

Jan Stocklassa: The Man Who Played With Fire

Mon May 25, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Toronto Reference Library

Swedish journalist Jan Stocklassa talks about being given exclusive access to the archive that Stieg Larson was working on when he died, uncovering the story of the 1986 assassination of Sweden's prime minister....

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