Lewes Library Partner Event | In-Person

Banned Books/Silenced Voices

HYBRID EVENT
OCTOBER 6 | 5 PM EST
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In celebration of Banned Books Week, the Lewes Public Library, ACLU of Delaware, Groome Church, and Browseabout Books welcome Del Shakes Artistic Squad.

Libraries in every state are facing an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books. In 2022 the American Library Association documented 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources, the highest number of attempted book bans since they began compiling data about censorship in libraries more than 20 years ago.

Conversation with Chasten Buttigieg | I Have Something to Tell You — For Young Adults

HYBRID EVENT
OCTOBER 21 | 6 PM
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Join us in the library or online for a conversation with Chasten Buttigieg on the young adult version of his instant New York Times bestseller, I Have Something to Tell You. This is the young adult adaptation of the hopeful and refreshingly candid bestselling memoir by the husband of a former Democratic presidential candidate about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town. Completely rewritten with new stories, it includes resources for readers, parents, and teachers.

Conversation with Heather Dune Macadam and Simon Worrall | Star Crossed

HYBRID EVENT
OCTOBER 17 | 5 PM
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Join us in the library or online for a conversation with Heather Dune Macadam and Simon Worrall, co-authors of Star Crossed: A True WWII Romeo and Juliet Love Story in Hitler's Paris. This epic story of love and resistance during World War II is part historical portrait of life during the Occupation and part valentine to The City of Light and the resilience of its people. Based on a true story, this book follows the romance between the Romeo and Juliet of war-torn Paris – a Catholic Resistance fighter and a Holocaust victim who meet at the famous Café Flore before war, prejudice, and disapproving families set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths.

Breakfast Chat with Adrienne Brodeur

IN-PERSON EVENT 
CANCELED
AUGUST 4 | 10 - 11 AM
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Join us in partnership with Rehoboth Beach Wroter's Guild at the library for a breakfast chat with Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters. 
Set in the fraught summer of 2016, and drawing on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel, Little Monsters is an absorbing, sharply observed family story by a writer who knows Cape Cod inside and out—its Edenic lushness and its snakes.
Light refreshments and coffee will be served. 

Fireside Chats: Christopher C. Gorham and The Confidante

IN-PERSON EVENT
JUNE 25 | 5 - 6 PM
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Join us by the fireplace in the library as we continue our series, Fireside Chats: Exploring the Roosevelt Legacy. This month author Christopher C. Gorham will talk about his book, The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America, the first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, the Hungarian Jewish immigrant who became FDR’s closest advisor during World War II and, according to Life, “the most important official woman in the world.”

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