For summer reading this year, we’re featuring authors who you will have an opportunity to see in person during Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures’ 2019/2020 season of the Ten Evenings lecture series.
These are the authors that literary Pittsburgh will be talking about all year — read them now, then check out Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures’ website for ticket information.
Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. You can also check out this title as an eBook or eAudio on Libby or as an eAudio on Hoopla.
“Dry, allusive and charming…the comedy here writes itself.” The New York Times
2018 National Book Award Winner
A concise and highly readable history of humanity’s understanding of God from the bestselling author of Zealot.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dorris Kearns Goodwin explores leadership using four presidents who served during challenging times.
National Book Award-winning novelist Richard Powers brings an inventive and impassioned story of humanity’s connection to the natural world.
Some Americans insist that we’re living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America–it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby, as eAudio on OverDrive/Libby or as eAudio on Hoopla.
Twelve Native American characters narrate the important moments of their lives as their connections are revealed leading up to the first Big Oakland Powwow. You can also check out this title as eBook on Overdrive/Libby or as eAudio on Overdrive/Libby.
A dramatic story set in the decade after World War II and told through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.
Unexpectedly chosen to be a family manservant, an 11-year-old Barbados sugar-plantation slave is initiated into a world of technology and dignity before a devastating betrayal propels him throughout the world in search of his true self.
