“Best-selling author Traci Sorell writes inclusive, award-winning historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats for young people. She is a two-time Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus honoree and an award-winning audiobook narrator and producer. Eight of her books have received awards from the American Indian Library Association. Other accolades include Jane Addams Children’s Book Honor Award, Charlotte Huck Honor Award, Septima Clark Women in Literature Honor Award, Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, International Literacy Association’s Social Justice Literature Award Winner, and many Best-of and Notables lists.
In 2024, she shares two fiction picture books: Being Home, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade, and Clack, Clack! Smack! A Cherokee Stickball Story, illustrated by Joseph Erb, along with board books On Powwow Day and Seasons ─ both adapted from previous works. A former federal Indigenous law attorney and policy advocate, Traci is a Cherokee Nation citizen and first-generation college graduate. She lives within her tribe’s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma.“
More info: https://pittsburghlectures.org/lectures/traci-sorell/
Dec. 5, 2024, 5:00-6:00 p.m. ET In-person and Online Rediscover the beloved Christmas story this year through the words of Read more
"Emily Wilson, celebrated translator of The Iliad (2023) and The Odyssey (2018), will be visiting Pittsburgh to recite a selection of her work Read more
"More than 130 years after it occurred, the Homestead Strike of 1892 retains its capacity to shock. It was a Read more
"With more than 900 unique flights of stairs throughout the city’s 90 neighborhoods, the city steps reflect the history and Read more
"An interactive introduction to the importance of racial representation in children’s literature. Participants will learn to identify books that can Read more
"Please join us Saturday, Nov. 16th 6-8pm for a reading with Joan E. Bauer, Doralee Brooks, Fred Shaw and Michael Read more
"Riverstone Books and Mystery Lovers Bookshop are excited to bring you author Sharon Short for her next historical mystery! We Read more
"How's this for the perfect start to a new year: we'll once again host one of our faves, local romcom Read more
More info: https://www.pittsburghbookfestival.org/
LIVE ON ZOOM | November 20 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST Learn to refine setting in fiction or nonfiction using observation and Read more
LIVE ON ZOOM | Saturdays, November 9 & 16, 2-4 pm EST Learn how the three essential tools of storytelling–scene, Read more
"Children's author Kelly Conroy will join us in a celebration of the release of her new book! Come out for Read more
"Welcome one and all! Bring your readings and your talents with you to the library! It’s an inclusionary space of Read more
"Men and women risked (and sometimes lost) their lives in the 1920s to entertain crowds and push boundaries at a Read more
"Joseph O’Neill, acclaimed author of Netherland (a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the year) comes to City Read more
"What happens when we tell stories? What do we discover about ourselves—and each other—when we share? With these questions in Read more
"What happens when we tell stories? What do we discover about ourselves—and each other—when we share? With these questions in Read more
"We are delighted to host local author Jennifer Celeste Briggs for an evening at the store to celebrate the release Read more
"We are thrilled to welcome Steve Hoffman to Pittsburgh to celebrate his memoir, A Season for That: Lost and Found Read more
