Share: 

Browseabout, Lewes library continue virtual author events in August

August 3, 2020

Browseabout Books and the Lewes Public Library continue their partnership as hosts for a series of virtual author events with some of the country’s bestselling authors, which they started in June after in-person literary events had to be canceled. The August lineup is a mix of fiction, nature and science writing, and biography. All discussions are live, interactive, and free to attend.

Birding superstars David Allen Sibley and Jennifer Ackerman start off the month Tuesday, Aug. 4, with a conversation about the intelligence and astounding behaviors of birds. Both authors had new books come out this spring. Sibley’s book, “What It’s Like to be a Bird,” is also illustrated by him. “The Bird Way” is Ackerman’s latest work. Ackerman’s “Birds By the Shore” was Lewes library’s selection for Lewes Loves Books last summer. 

USAToday bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series, Kristy Woodson Harvey, will talk about her latest book “Feels Like Falling” Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 5 p.m. The book is set on North Carolina’s coast and tells an odd-couple tale of friendship that asks just how much one’s past choices define happiness.  Woodson Harvey delivers a discerning portrait of modern womanhood through two vastly different lenses. “Feels Like Falling” is a beach bag essential for Harvey fans - and for a new generation of readers.

Brooke Lea Foster’s debut novel “Summer Darlings” is set in 1960s Martha’s Vineyard and pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny - a college student who, while falling in love on the elegant island, is also forced to reckon with the dark underbelly of privilege. Foster is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and HuffPost, among others, and is the author of three nonfiction books. The Summer Darlings discussion takes place Monday, Aug. 10, at 5 p.m.

Cold War villain Klaus Fuchs is the subject of  biographer Nancy Thorndike Greenspan’s latest book. “Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs” tells the story of a German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb. Greenspan worked as a health economist before turning to writing, where she co-authored four books with her husband, the late child psychiatrist Stanley Greenspan. She has written one other biography: “The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born.”

Novelist Fiona Davis, who appeared at last year’s History Book Festival, will be back (virtually this time) to talk about “The Lions of Fifth Avenue,” a historical novel set in the New York Public Library. Other books by Davis include “The Dollhouse,” “The Address” and “Chelsea Girls.” Davis will present Wednesday, Aug. 19, at 5 p.m. 

Owls residing in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia is the topic of the discussion Monday, Aug. 24, at 5 p.m. with field scientist and conservationist Jonathan Slaght. In “Owls of the Eastern Ice,” Slaght tells about the journey he and his devoted team made over the span of five years to locate one of the most mysterious birds on Earth, which is also endangered. The quest to find the owls sends Slaght and his team on all-night monitoring missions in freezing tents, mad dashes across thawing rivers, and free-climbs up rotting trees to check nests for precious eggs.

Internationally bestselling author Susan Abulhawa will discuss her sweeping and lyrical novel, “Against the Loveless World.” The novel follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East. The event will take place Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 5 p.m. Abulhawa is a Palestinian-American writer and political activist. She is the author of “Mornings in Jenin,” translated into 30 languages, and “The Blue Between Sky and Water.”

To register for any of these virtual events, visit the Lewes library’s website at lewes.lib.de.us or Browseabout Books at www.browseaboutbooks.com. Books featured in these events are for sale at Browseabout Books and available to borrow through the Delaware Library system.

Subscribe to the CapeGazette.com Daily Newsletter