Upcoming Adult Programs
Author/Historian Philippa Langley: Finding King Richard III and "Princes in the Tower"
Wednesday, January 22 | 2:00 PM (Virtual)
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nd historical sleuth, Philippa Langley, speaks about her book The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case and her discovery of the grave of King Richard III in 2012. Join us as she discusses her research methods, her team, her findings, and how solving this cold case effects our understanding of the royal monarchy (in the 1500s, of course).
About The Missing Princes Project: Following years of intensive research by Langley and her international team, she reveals the findings of The Missing Princes Project. Using investigative methodology, it places the most enduring of mysteries about what happened to the 'Princes in the Tower' under a forensic microscope, unearthing an astonishing untold story of survival and uncovering remarkable new archival discoveries of proof of life. It is the first time that police cold case investigation analysis has been applied to a centuries-old historical mystery, leaving no stone unturned, and the results are extraordinary.
Philippa Langley MBE is an historian and award-winning producer, best known for her discovery of Richard III in 2012. She is co-author of the bestselling The Lost King with Michael Jones (first published as The King's Grave, John Murray 2013), and Finding Richard III, the official account of her Looking For Richard Project. On the ten-year anniversary of discovering Richard III, her extraordinary story was released as the internationally acclaimed major feature film, The Lost King, directed by Sir Stephen Frears and starring Sally Hawkins.
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Presented in partnership with Ashland Public LIbrary.
Casual Crafting: Drop-In
Wednesday, January 22 | 6:30 PM-7:45 PM (In-person)
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Bring your current craft project and join us for a drop-in crafting group! Get inspired by other crafters in this casual space for adults to craft and socialize. If you're in-between projects or looking to try something new, we'll have some materials on hand.
No registration required- come for as much or as little of the time as you'd like! We'll be in the Community Room on the ground floor.
Questions? Email eheath@sharon.ocln.org
Encounters with Killers with True Crime Author/Professor Katherine Ramsland
Monday, January 27 | 7:00 PM (Virtual)
Dr. Katherine Ramsland recounts her most memorable interactions with serial killers over the course of her life, describing how it shaped her career in forensic psychology. A Pied Piper, two Coed Killers, a Candy Man’s handyman, and BTK, among others, have left their marks on her research and writing, both fiction and nonfiction.
Dr. Katherine Ramsland most recently taught forensic psychology and criminology at DeSales University in Pennsylvania, where she was the Assistant Provost. She has appeared as an expert in criminal psychology on more than 250 crime documentaries and magazine shows, is an executive producer of Murder House Flip, and has consulted for CSI, Bones, and The Alienist. The author of more than 1,800 articles and 73 books, including The Forensic Science of CSI, The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds, How to Catch a Killer, The Psychology of Death Investigations, The Serial Killer’s Apprentice, and Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer.
She was co-executive producer for the Wolf Entertainment/A&E four-part documentary based on the years she spent talking with Rader. Ramsland consults on death investigations, pens a blog for Psychology Today, and is currently writing a fiction series based on a female forensic psychologist who manages a private investigation agency. Dead-handed is book #3.
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Author Grady Hendrix Discusses "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls"
Friday, January 31 | 7:00 PM (Virtual)
Bestselling author Grady Hendrix will discuss his new horror novel, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls.
About Grady: Grady Hendrix is a New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of How to Sell a Haunted House, The Final Girl Support Group, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, We Sold Our Souls, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, and Horrorstör. His books have sold over two million copies and have been translated into more than twenty languages. He also writes nonfiction and his history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, Paperbacks from Hell, received the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction.
About Witchcraft for Wayward Girls: There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened. Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master."
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Author Eliot Stein Discusses "Custodians of Wonder"
Monday, February 3 | 7:00 PM (Virtual)
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive is a vivid look at 10 astonishing people who are maintaining some of the world's oldest and rarest cultural traditions! We hope you can join us for what will be a fascinating conversation.
About the book: Eliot Stein has traveled the globe in search of remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, Stein introduces readers to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan's 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make the world's rarest pasta from one of the only women alive who knows how to make it. And in India, he discovers a family rumored to make a mysterious metal mirror believed to reveal your truest self. From shadowing Scandinavia's last night watchman to meeting a 27th-generation West African griot to tracking down Cuba's last official cigar factory “readers” more than a century after they spearheaded the fight for Cuban independence, Stein uncovers an almost lost world.
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Friends of the Library Valentine's Card Workshop
Thursday, February 6 | 6:00 PM (Virtual)
Calling all high schoolers and adults! Join the Friends of the Sharon Public Library for a Create a Valentine's Day-themed card Zoom workshop with local artist, Kashmica Sarkar.
This is a fundraiser to benefit the Sharon Public Library.
Cost: $20 with supplies (supply pickup to be arranged) or $10.00 without supplies
Limit: Maximum of 20 participants.
REGISTER with the Friends of the Sharon Public Library.
Questions? Contact the Friends at info@friendsofsharonpubliclibrary.org
Author Robert Dugoni Discusses "Hold Strong"
Thursday, February 6 | 7:00 PM (Virtual)
Bestselling author Robert Dugoni, along with co-authors Jeff Langholz and Chris Crabtree, will discuss their new World War II novel, Hold Strong.
Hold Strong is an epic and inspiring novel—based on true events—about love, heroism, and resilience during the darkest chapters of World War II. Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful. Determined to use her math skills on the home front, Sarah is recruited to Washington, DC, into the covert field of code breaking. When Sarah intercepts a message about a Japanese convoy, the US Navy’s mission is clear: sink the Arisan Maru and send it to the bottom of the South China Sea. Now, the lives of the two young lovers are about to inadvertently collide in one of the most shocking acts of World War II. Anchored in an extraordinary true story and breathlessly re-created, Hold Strong is a one-of-a-kind novel that explores faith, courage, survival, and coming home against insurmountable odds.
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Tech Talk: Google Docs
Wednesday, February 12 | 6:00 PM (In-person)
Learn all about the basics of Google Docs with Information Services Librarian Emily Heath in this beginner's session. We'll go over how to access and create documents, how to save, send, and print documents, and other features of Google Docs. Participants are welcome to bring their own laptops to follow along with the program.
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Questions? Email Emily at eheath@sharon.ocln.org
Author Victoria Christopher Murray Discusses "Harlem Rhapsody"
Friday, February 21 | 7:00 PM (Virtual)
Bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray will discuss her new historical fiction novel, Harlem Rhapsody. Victoria Christopher Murray is a New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including The Personal Librarian, a Good Morning America book club pick, and The First Ladies, Target’s 2023 Book of the Year, both of which she coauthored with Marie Benedict. She is a NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work for her novel Stand Your Ground, which was also a Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Victoria holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.
She found the literary voices that would inspire the world…. The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance. In 1919, a high school teacher from Washington, D.C arrives in Harlem excited to realize her lifelong dream. Jessie Redmon Fauset has been named the literary editor of The Crisis. The first Black woman to hold this position at a preeminent Negro magazine, Jessie is poised to achieve literary greatness. But she holds a secret that jeopardizes it all. W. E. B. Du Bois, the founder of The Crisis, is not only Jessie’s boss, he’s her lover. Amidst rumors of their tumultuous affair, Jessie is determined to prove herself. She has shaped a generation of literary legends, but as she strives to preserve her legacy, she’ll discover the high cost of her unparalleled success.
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Debut Author Panel with Karissa Chen, Tara Dorabji, Laurie L. Dove, and Jakob Kerr
Monday, February 24 | 7:00 PM (Virtual)
We welcome debut authors Karissa Chen, Tara Dorabji, Laurie L. Dove, and Jakob Kerr to our virtual stage. We'll be talking all about getting into publishing, the pitfalls, challenges, and roadblocks as well as the excitement, fulfillment, and reader enthusiasm that makes it all worthwhile. Bring your questions as this will be in a Q&A format. All four of our authors have books coming out in January 2025!
Our authors: Karissa's debut novel, "Homeseeking" (January 7, 2025) is an epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland. Tara's debut novel, "Call Her Freedom" (January 21, 2025) is a sweeping family saga following one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation. Laurie's debut novel, "Mask of the Deer Woman" shines an important spotlight on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis while folding a compelling mystery into a heartfelt journey of grief, identity, and reconnection. Jakob's novel, "Dead Money" (January 28, 2025) is the story of a Silicon Valley fixer who investigates a billionaire founder’s death while pursuing her own agenda in this twisty, sharply observed debut mystery from a tech world insider.
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