Bestselling author Lisa Jewell will discuss her book, The Family Upstairs, a page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light. Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author raves, “Lisa Jewell has done it again—rich, dark and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunnit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.” Register through the Hudson Library website. 

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. 

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."

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.”