John Stamos, If You Would Have Told Me, Wednesday, November 1st
Join us for an intimate conversation with Full House star, John Stamos, as he leads us through his incredibly moving and vulnerable memoir, If You Would Have Told Me.
A universal story about friendship, love, loss, and the courage to embrace love once more, John Stamos’s memoir is filled with some of the most memorable names in Hollywood, both old and new. Funny, deeply poignant, and brutally honest, If You Would Have Told Me is a portrait of a boy who went from believing in Disney magic to a man who learns that we have to create our own magical moments in life.
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Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche, Get Good With Money, Thursday, November 9th
We all want to live within our means, save for retirement, invest a little, and yet still have some left over each month for fun. But as most people know, real life can get in the way of even our best intentions! To help us set realistic goals and keep us on track to meeting them, Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche has another invaluable 10-step action plan: Made Whole. With her signature down-to-earth style, her new workbook offers worksheets, checklists, clear explanations of intimidating financial terminology, Simple instruction on calculating our present situation and future needs, and handy hacks for increasing your credit score, making savings “hard to access,” and finding support to stay on track to your goals
A masterclass in taking charge of your money, “The Budgetnista” has what every reader needs to achieve financial savvy, stability, and security.
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Joy Harjo, Catching the Light, Thursday, November 16th
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for a chat about her most recent memoir, Catching the Light and to discuss her rewarding lifetime as a writer and poet.
In Catching the Light, Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing. In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory.
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Naomi Alderman, The Future, Thursday, November 30th
Bestselling and award-winning author Naomi Alderman will join us to talk about women in science fiction and writing dystopian worlds featuring her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender, and always piercingly brilliant, The Future unfolds at a breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them. The future is coming. The Future is here. What are you waiting for?
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