Cuyahoga Falls graduate, Patrick Parr, will be at the Learned Owl Book Shop Sun. April 29th from 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. to discuss his book, The Seminarian.  The Seminarian: Martin Luther King Jr. Comes of Age (Chicago Review Press; April 1, 2018) by Patrick Parr is a groundbreaking look at King’s three years at Crozer—how they shaped his views and expanded his horizons. Never before has a book closely examined this pivotal time in King’s life when he began to see America in a new light. 

Margot Kahn, co-editor of This is the Place: Women Writing About Home, will discuss her anthology in which 30 women explore the concept of home and how it makes, breaks and shapes us in personal essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, sentimental objects, homelessness, domestic violence, solitude, immigration, gentrification, geography and more. 

Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun, returns to the Hudson Library & Historical Society to discuss her latest book, Love and Ruin. McLain revisits the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn—a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson will discuss his latest book, To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration, about the daring expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctica and the Himalayas. Larson will be speaking as part of a series of educational events to commemorate the completion of a conservation work on a mammoth tusk in the collection of the Hudson Library & Historical Society.

Author Robert Kurson, bestselling author of Shadow Divers, will discuss his latest book, Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon. Rocket Men tells the story of NASA’s most audacious mission and the astronauts who risked everything to make it possible.