YA First Chapter Fridays
Trying to find your next awesome read? Listen to the first chapter of some great books recommended for teens and tweens by library staff. We hope you get hooked and want to read the rest!
Teen & Tween Gaming
On the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month, join us for some virtual gaming. We'll play games like Among Us, Quiplash, Drawful, and Murder Trivia Party. Wit, weirdness, and hijinks are encouraged.
Make sure to register with an email to receive the Zoom link. Two devices are recommended: one for Zoom and one to use as a game controller. Intended for ages 10 to 18.
Trivia Mondays
Register with an email address to receive the link to a trivia game and test your knowledge! The game is multiple choice questions and speed matters!
Registration for each week ends at 5 p.m. on Mondays. After 5 p.m., registrants will be emailed a link to that week's trivia. You will have until Thursday at 5 p.m. to complete the game, then you'll receive an email with the full results. Trivia uses Kahoot, accessible through any internet browser, no account needed.
Introduction to Library eBooks and Streaming
Learn about eBook, eAudiobook, eMagazine, and streaming options available free with your Library card at this virtual presentation and Q&A session!
Trivia Mondays
Register with an email address to receive the link to a trivia game and test your knowledge! The game is multiple choice questions and speed matters!
Registration for each week ends at 5 p.m. on Mondays. After 5 p.m., registrants will be emailed a link to that week's trivia. You will have until Thursday at 5 p.m. to complete the game, then you'll receive an email with the full results. Trivia uses Kahoot, accessible through any internet browser, no account needed.
Teen & Tween Gaming
On the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month, join us for some virtual gaming. We'll play games like Among Us, Quiplash, Drawful, and Murder Trivia Party. Wit, weirdness, and hijinks are encouraged.
Make sure to register with an email to receive the Zoom link. Two devices are recommended: one for Zoom and one to use as a game controller. Intended for ages 10 to 18.
Trivia Mondays
Register with an email address to receive the link to a trivia game and test your knowledge! The game is multiple choice questions and speed matters!
Registration for each week ends at 5 p.m. on Mondays. After 5 p.m., registrants will be emailed a link to that week's trivia. You will have until Thursday at 5 p.m. to complete the game, then you'll receive an email with the full results. Trivia uses Kahoot, accessible through any internet browser, no account needed.
Writers LIVE! George Takei: In Conversation with Steven Leyva
George Takei will be in conversation with Steven Leyva about his life and work. The program is presented by the Enoch Pratt Free Library as part of the Maryland Libraries Together series.
George Takei is known around the world for his founding role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise, in the acclaimed television series Star Trek. But Takei's story goes where few stories have gone before. From a childhood spent with his family wrongfully imprisoned in Japanese American internment camps during World War II, to becoming one of the country's leading figures in the fight for social justice, LGBTQ rights, and marriage equality, Mashable named Takei the #1 most-influential person on Facebook, with 10.4 million likes and 2.8 million followers on Twitter.
Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 2 Bridges Review, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, Vinyl, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish and author of The Understudy’s Handbook which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House. Steven holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he is an assistant professor.
Order copies of George Takei's books from the Ivy Bookshop.
ASL interpretation will be available for attendees.
Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.
Register beginning September 14 for the Zoom Webinar link. The conversation will also be broadcast on the Enoch Pratt Free Library Facebook page. It will not be available after the live broadcast.
Meet the Author - Angie Kim! : A Conversation with Edgar Award winning debut novelist
Angie Kim will join us in a Zoom Meeting to discuss her very first book, Miracle Creek. Register to receive the links to submit questions and for the Zoom meeting.
We are pleased to host local DMV writer and resident Angie Kim for a free flowing Q&A discussion. We will discuss how she incorporated her own experiences as a Korean-American, former trial lawyer, and mother of a “miracle submarine” patient into her debut novel.
You can find Miracle Creek in our catalog!
You will receive a link to submit questions for Mrs. Kim once you are registered.
Due to the high number of expected attendees, we may not get to every question but we will do our best!
The link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed at least a day before the event.
About the Author:
Angie Kim is the debut author of the international bestseller and Edgar winner Miracle Creek, named a “Best Book of the Year” by Time, The Washington Post, Kirkus, and The Today Show, among others. A Korean immigrant, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, and one of Variety Magazine’s inaugural “10 Storytellers to Watch,” Kim has written for Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Glamour, and numerous literary journals. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three sons.
About the Book:
How far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies?
“My husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn’t even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first . . .”
In a small town in Virginia, a group of strangers come together at a special treatment center, where they enter the Miracle Submarine, an experimental oxygen chamber that may cure a range of conditions—from fertility to autism. Then the chamber explodes and two people die. Who is responsible? Was it the exhausted mother of a patient? The owners, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protestor, trying to prove that the treatment isn’t safe? An ensuing murder trial uncovers unimaginable secrets and lies.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ♦ NATIONAL BESTSELLER ♦ A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ♦ MOST ANTICIPATED 2019 BOOK
2020 Edgar Award for First Novel ♦ 2020 ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel ♦ 2020 Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel ♦ 2020 Pinckley Prize for Debut Novel
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