Author and Special Speaker EventsThese couldn't happen without YOUR support!
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The Library Hosts Interesting Speakers
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Author events currently are on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As soon as it is safe to do so, the Library will begin working with authors to arrange speaking events, and the Friends will help sponsor them!
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Nicole Kear
May 20, 2015
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Once again, the Library and the Friends Two Towns-One Book committee brought an interesting speaker to our community. Nicole Kear spoke of her life-changing diagnosis that inspired her memoir, Now I See You. She is going blind because of retinitis pigmentosa within the next decade. Instead of making preparations, Kear decides to make the most of the vision she has left. She joins circus school, tears through boyfriends, travels the world, and through all these hi-jinks, she keeps her vision loss a secret.
When Nicole becomes a mother, just a few years shy of her vision's expiration date, she wants to relish every moment with her kids. And, as her world grows blurred, one thing becomes clear: no matter how hard she fights, she won't win the battle. But if she shares her secret, and comes to terms with the loss, she can still win her happy ending. [Read more] |
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The Library and the Friends Two Towns-One Book committee did it again! Jan-Philipp Sendker, author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, the book selected for the 2015 community read program, came to Clifton Park.
Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1960, Mr. Sendker was the American Correspondent for Stern from 1990 to 1995, and its Asian correspondent from 1995 to 1999. In 2000 he published Cracks in the Great Wall, a nonfiction book about China. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats is his first novel. Mr. Sendker shared share insights, signed books, and discussed his writing ventures and latest book, Whispering Shadows. Questions were answered and long lines waited for book signing. View Photos of Event
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Piper Kerman
September 22, 2014 View Photos of Event.
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Ms. Kerman wrote the #1 New York Times best-selling memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, in 2010. A Smith College graduate, Piper was bored stiff with her middle-class life. Recklessly, she got involved with an unsavory group of bohemian artists who were involved in the drug trade and money laundering. [Read more]
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Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge
January 11, 2013 |
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Jim Ryun
May 20, 2013 |
Olympic Medalist and World Record Miler Jim Ryun wrapped up the 2013 Two Towns-One Book festivities when he spoke at the library. Ryun talked about meeting Louis Zamperini, the subject of Unbroken, shared stories from his own Olympic experiences, and showed videos chronicling his rise from a skinny little kid to world record runner. [Read more]
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Matt McElligott
with avid fan. March 5, 2013 |
Math, mad scientists, and mixed-up mayhem of a piratical variety was on the library horizon when families and other children's literature enthusiasts were treated to an evening with local author and illustrator Matt McElligott. [Read more]
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Markus Zusak
April 3, 2012 |
The Two Towns-One Book 2012 author event brought a discussion with Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, using SKYPE technology via computer from his home in Australia. [Read more]
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Will Shortz
December 5, 2011 |
Have you ever heard of an Enigmatologist? If the answer is no, you are not alone, but one visited our library.
Will Shortz, puzzle editor of The New York Times since 1993 is an enigmatologist. He's the only academically accredited one in the world, having designed his own major program at Indiana University, which in 1974 led to his one-of-a-kind degree in enigmatology. [Read more] |
Alafair Burke
October 29, 2011 |
Janine Cammarata
October 17, 2011 |
Lee Child
November 3, 2010 |
Author Lee Child thrilled the capacity crowd of over 300 at the Library with his discussion of his writing process (a word at a time without outlining the entire book), noting that he doesn't "even have a plan for that paragraph." Going back to Cro-Magnon man, he noted that through storytelling, we were able to figure out a way to survive the dangers that faced us every day. [Read more]
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Margaret Peterson Haddix comes from a long line of bookworms, so it is no wonder that she became a writer. "When we went on family vacations, my parents were always saying things like, 'Would you guys stop reading for a minute and look out the window? That's the Gr [and Canyon were driving past!' [Read more]
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Scott Kellogg
April 14, 2010 |
Local author Scott Kellogg believes we can learn to be more self sufficient and tread more lightly on the world. City and suburb dwellers can have local access and control over life's essential resources: food production, water security, waste management, autonomous energy, and bio-remediation of toxic soils. And, he believes we can do these things without huge monetary investments, becoming more secure in the process. [Read more]
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Terry Trueman
April 8, 2010 |
Shawn McDaniel, a teenage boy with cerebral palsy, has a secret: he remembers everything he hears or sees. He believes he is, in fact, a genius. Unfortunately, no one but Shawn will ever know because he is unable to communicate. There is another thing: only he and his father know that his dad is planning to kill him. [Read more]
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Gordon Korman, author of more than 40 children's and young adult books will be appearing at the Clifton Park Halfmoon Public Library on April 29, 2009.
Korman, whose books have sold millions of copies, strives to write stories that provide a healthy dose of humor for his young readers. "My books are the kind of stories I wanted to read and couldn't find when I was ten, eleven, and twelve," he once remarked. "I think that, no matter what the subject matter, kids' concerns are important, and being a kid isn't just waiting out the time between birth and the age of majority. I hope other kids see that in my work." [Read more] |
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