Author Talk

As part of the DC Public Library Read-In "From The Stone Age To The Digital Age" Celebration, come hear Eleanor Hargis Gordon, the author of "But Mom, I Rode the Yellow School Bus," and "As I Remembered: A Farmer's Daughter as a White House Volunteer." Come hear her unique perspective on growing up in the D.C. area.

Author Talk and Book Signing: The SmartBrains Guide to Brain Fitness expands on the concept of neuroplasticity that recent works such as The New York Times bestseller, The Brain that Changes Itself, and the PBS Brain Fitness Program have introduced to the world. 

Brain research proves that at any age, what we do in our lives influences how our brains and mental abilities evolve.  We are never too old to learn, nor do we need to accept decline as inevitable!  

Dr. Elsa Barkley Brown, professor of history at the University of Maryland College Park, will discuss her latest book, Clothes, Class, and Travel: Rewriting Black Women's Domestic Tradition.

Join renowned author Blair A.

A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston’s color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.