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events BOOKS AND AUTHORS 20 Eva Etzioni-Halevy Author of the recently published novel The Triumph of Deborah, Etzioni-Halevy is professor emeritus of political sociology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and lives in Tel Aviv. She is the author of two additional novels that tell the stories of biblical women, The Song of Hannah and The Garden of Ruth. A native of Vienna, Etzioni-Halevy is a child Holocaust survivor and spent World War II in Italy, partly in an Italian concentration camp and partly in hiding. She is the author of 14 academic texts and numerous articles. Monday, June 2, 7:30 p.m. Anne Martindell The 93-year-old Princeton resident’s memoir, Never Too Late, chronicles her transformation from socialite to powerful politician and diplomat. Martindell did not become politically active until she was in her 50s, when she observed firsthand the injustices of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. After a stint as a no-nonsense politico in the New Jersey Senate, she became involved at the national level during the Carter administration, serving as director of the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Relief and as the first female ambassador to New Zealand. She is a former vice chairperson of the New Jersey Democratic Party and has an honorary doctor of laws degree from Smith College. Sunday, June 22, 3 p.m. connections THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWSLETTER Stuart Nachbar In his debut novel, The Sex Ed Chronicles, Nachbar tells the story of a young journalist who fights to save a teacher’s career in the emotionally charged arenas of sex education and student free press r i g h t s in a New Jersey public school in 1980. The author has been involved with education politics for more than four decades as a student, urban planner, government affairs manager, software executive and now as a writer. He produces Educated Quest, a blog that offers and invites commentary on education politics, policy and technology. Tuesday, June 10, 7:30 p.m. Debbie Lee Wesselmann Captivity, the author’s second novel, is set in a South Carolina chimpanzee sanctuary, where a primatologist and her troubled brother struggle to make sense of their childhood and the direction that their lives have taken. Wesselmann is the author of a previous novel, Trutor and the Balloonist, and a collection of short fiction, The Earth and the Sky. Her short stories have appeared in Other Voices, The Literary Review, Orchid, Florida Review and many others. She teaches English at Lehigh University. Tuesday, June 24, 7:30 p.m. Fireplace area, second floor book discussion In the Conference Room, second floor, unless otherwise noted mystery LED BY GAYLE STRATTON Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris A transplanted media executive who has started a gardening business finds a mummified body while working in the garden of a local landmark. Monday, June 2, 7:30 p.m. contemporary fiction LED BY KRISTIN PEHNKE The Ice Queen by Anne Hoffman As an 8-year-old, the narrator makes a terrible wish that comes true. Remorseful for 30 years, she shuts down emotionally until lightening strikes (literally). Thursday, June 12, 10:30 a.m. talking politics LED BY JOAN GOLDSTEIN The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby — With America addicted to infotainment, an increasingly ignorant public square is dominated by debased media-driven language and received opinion. Wednesday, June 18, 7:30 p.m. Quiet Room, first floor www.princetonlibrary.org
THE ALL-EVANOVICH NIGHT IN TRIBUTE TO THE GARDEN STATE CJ Critt A Cable Ace-award winner and Audie-award nominee, Critt has narrated more than 150 titles of popular fiction, including 17 books for best-selling author Janet Evanovich. Critt will share a behind-thescenes peek at the world of audiobook performance along with several excerpts from the zany world of Stephanie Plum. From her family’s misguided attempts to play Cupid to a near-riot in a Vegas showroom, Critt will bring to life the Jersey characters that have made Evanovich and her creations a hit. Monday, July 21, 7 p.m. MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM IN THE GARDEN Rosemary Harris A master gardener and the author of the bestselling mystery Pushing Up Daisies, Harris will offer a fun look at mischief and mayhem in the garden, from the first garden pest (the serpent) to her own book, using examples from art, history, movies and books. Pushing Up Daisies is the first in the Dirty Business series featuring master gardener/amateur sleuth Paula Holliday. The next book, Dirt Nap takes place in a Connecticut casino and the third, Sub-Rosa, is set at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has been a bookstore manager in Lawrence, a video producer and a television executive. She and her husband split their time between New York City and Fairfield County, Conn. Monday, June 23, 7 p.m. thinking allowed A new series highlighting books, authors and other materials published by the Princeton University Press Worshipping Walt Michael Robertson’s book is believed to be the first to focus on Walt Whitman’s disciples, the fascinating, eclectic group of 19th-century men and women who regarded Whitman not simply as a poet but as a religious prophet. Long before Whitman was established in the canon of American poetry, feminists, socialists, spiritual seekers and supporters of same-sex passion saw him as an enlightened figure who fulfilled their religious, political and erotic yearnings. To his disciples Whitman was variously an ideal husband, radical lover, socialist icon or bohemian saint. In this transatlantic group biography, Robertson, a professor of English at the College of New Jersey, explores the highly charged connections between Whitman and his followers, who included Canadian psychiatrist R.M. Bucke, American nature writer John Burroughs, British activist Edward Carpenter and Oscar Wilde. Robertson is the author of the award-winning Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature and the coeditor of Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present. A former freelance journalist, he has written for The Village Voice, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and numerous scholarly journals. Monday, June 9, 7:30 p.m. Unless otherwise noted, all progamming is in the Community Room, first floor connections THE PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWSLETTER 21
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