LFPL's At the Library Series

World-renowned journalist Gail Sheehy's new memoir, Daring: My Passages, chronicles her trials and triumphs as a groundbreaking "girl" journalist in the 1960s to one of the premier political profilers of today.

Chris Tomlinson discusses his latest book "Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black."

Rolling Stone contributor and New York Times bestselling author Matt Taibbi discusses his new book "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap."

Hear noted Louisville personalities give first-hand accounts of the most destructive tornado in Louisville's history.

Dubbed "the funniest man in America" by the New York Times, Dave Barry explores the twin mysteries of parenthood and families in "You Can Date Boys When You're Forty." In his new release, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author tackles everything from family trips to bat mitzvah parties to accompanying his daughter to a Justin Bieber concert.

Dr. Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson's new book "Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and Life" is an unprecedented guide to helping black boys, regardless of socio-economic background, achieve success at every stage of their lives - at home, at school, and in the world.

From award-winning biographer James Tobin comes the story of the greatest comeback in American political history. A saga long buried in half-truth, distortion and myth, Tobin's latest book, "The Man He Became," explores Franklin Roosevelt's ten-year climb from paralysis to the White House. (Audio recording courtesy of MetroTV)

From the beloved award-winning author of "Native Speaker" and "The Surrendered" comes a provocative and deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. "On Such a Full Sea" takes Chang-Rae Lee's long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee transports the reader into a world of his own creation.

In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, a convicted killer of two teenagers, who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana's Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier's death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know the convicted felon, the families of his victims, and the men whose job it was to execute him. Out of Sister Prejean's experiences came the #1 national bestseller "Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States." This year marks the 20th anniversary of "Dead Man Walking." In celebration, the book has been re-released with a new preface by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and new afterwords by the author, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins.

If Allan Gurganus's first comic novel, "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All," mapped the late nineteenth-century South, his latest book, "Local Souls," brings the twisted hilarity of Flannery O'Connor kicking into the 21st century. This first work in a decade offers three novellas mirroring today's face-lifted South, a zone revolutionized around freer sexuality, looser family ties, and superior telecommunications, yet it celebrates those locals who have chosen to stay local.

Scott Turow is the author of eight bestselling works of fiction including "Presumed Innocent" and "The Burden of Proof." His latest book, "Identical," tells the story of identical twins Paul and Cass Giannis and the relationships between their family and their former neighbors, the Kronons. It is a complex web of murder, sex, and betrayal - as only Scott Turow could weave.

In his most recent book, "Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers," Frank X Walker explores the void left by the horrific slaying of the civil rights activist - taking on the voices of Evers' family, Evers' killer, and others surrounding the events in Mississippi in 1963. Join Kentucky's Poet Laureate for an evening of poetry.

From New York Times bestselling author James McBride comes "The Good Lord Bird: A Novel" -- the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown's antislavery crusade - and who must pass as a girl to survive. McBride's landmark memoir, "The Color of Water," is considered an American classic and read in schools and universities across the United States.

From Ike and Tina to Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix to Otis Redding, Marion County's famed Club 68 and Club Cherry hosted them all. Join local author James Higdon ("The Cornbread Mafia") as he tells the unique history of Lebanon, Kentucky's rock n' roll past.

Dan Vonderheide, founder of Louisville.AM and host of the podcast Startup, hosts a panel discussion featuring local tech entrepreneurs Todd Earwood from Try It Local, Zack Pennington from US Chia, and Emily Gimmel from GRACESHIP.

Harvard Law professor and bestselling author Randall Kennedy's newest book, "For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action and the Law," is a concise and deeply personal account of the policy and history of affirmative action. The book analyzes key arguments, pro and con, critiquing the impact of Supreme Court decisions, and pondering the policy's future in American society.

Jeneen Wiche, whose name is familiar to many in this region from her writing and radio programs, will talk about her experiences raising lambs and chickens. She will explore with the audience contemporary attitudes toward food -- where it comes from, where it is going and the impact along the way.

The complex relationship between mothers and daughters is brought to life in Katie Hafner's memoir, an exploration of the year she and her octagenarian mother, Helen, spent working through a lifetime of unresolved emotions - along with the author's teenage daughter. Katie Hafner is a regular contributor to The New York Times, writing on healthcare and technology, and is the author of five previous works of nonfiction.

The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country's founding. In "Revolutionary Summer," Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this historic moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain's Admiral Lord Richard Howe and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.

In his latest book, "Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East," author David Rohde examines the cardinal failing of Washington's war on terror. A distillation of eleven years of reporting for The New York Times, Reuters, and The Atlantic Monthly, the book examines the evolving nature of war and exposes how mismanagement has failed to resolve conflict in the Middle East.