Events-Adults

Former Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, will his book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump. The book offers a dramatic and candid account of his own career along with an impassioned defense of the FBI's agents and the institution's integrity and independence in protecting America and upholding our Constitution. 

New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands returns to discuss his latest book, Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants.

Therese Anne Fowler, delves into the world of Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York in her latest novel, A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts. Publishers Weekly called the book, "Genius....Though the novel's lavish sweep and gorgeous details evoke a vanished world, Fowler's exploration of the way powerful women are simultaneously devalued and rewarded resonates powerfully."

Come visit Terry Pluto at the Girard Free Library on April 4!

Award-winning environmental journalist Andrew Reeves discusses his book, Overrun: Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis. In his book, Reeves traces the carp’s explosive spread throughout North America from an unknown import meant to tackle invasive water weeds to a continental scourge that bulldozes through everything in its path and now threatens to reach the Great Lakes.

To commemorate the centennial of women’s suffrage in Ohio, award-winning journalist Elaine Weiss will tell the nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote. NPR called her book, The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, “stirring, definitive, and engrossing…Weiss brings a lucid, lively, journalistic tone to the story…The Woman’s Hour is compulsory reading.”

James Beard award winner and author Chef Jonathon Sawyer returns to demonstrate recipes from his latest book, House of Vinegar: The Power of Sour, with Recipes, which expounds the virtues of cooking with vinegar.

In House of Vinegar, Sawyer utilizes acid to revolutionize dishes by enhancing and balancing flavor. Starting with the history of vinegar, he describes how to make your own vinegars at home, followed by preparations for use in vinaigrettes, sauces, marinades, braises, desserts, and drinks.

Please join us in welcoming Matthew Ferrence in the shop on Saturday, February 16th, from 1-3.  Appalachia North is the first book-length treatment of the cultural position of northern Appalachia--the portion of the official Appalachian Regional Commission zone that lies above the Mason-Dixon line. For Matthew Ferrence this region fits into a tight space of not-quite: not quite "regular" America and not-quite Appalachia.