NewsBlue Ridge Thrillers
Three debut Crime Wave authors find the seamy underbelly lurking below the cool silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
NewsStanding Up to Hate: August 2017
Firsthand accounts of members of the Charlottesville Clergy Collective recalling their experiences in resisting white supremacist violence in Standing Up to Hate: The Charlottesville Clergy Collective and the Lessons from August 12, 2017.
NewsBlue Hour
A Black Japanese woman recovering from the emotional scars of a miscarriage ponders questions of motherhood when a boy in her community becomes a victim of police brutality.
NewsSoul in Celebration
Three poets celebrate Black womanhood, weaving joy and elegy together in their verse.
NewsBlack Women’s Collectives
Authors Ethel Morgan Smith and Courtney Thorsson explore how the bonds of Black women shaped America today.
NewsDark Imaginations
Across time and genre, four authors explore the dark side of their imaginations.
NewsSame Page Community Read: Florence Adler Swims Forever
Each year, the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library invites all book lovers to participate in the Same Page Community Read, providing local residents with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their community.
NewsScandalous Ladies of the 19th Century
Hear from Besty Prioleau, author of Diamonds and Deadlines and Sarah Horowitz, author of The Red Widow.
NewsThe Sound of the Future
In The Sound of the Future: The Coming Age of Voice Technology, WillowTree CEO Tobias Dengel proposes that voice is the next technology, with profound potential to alter our modern landscape.
NewsSouthern Fried Crime
Two novelists explore the ties that bind and the binds that they can get us into.
NewsAgainst Technoableism
In her novel Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement, Ashley Shew examines the often harmful intersection of technology and disability.
NewsPatrick Henry’s Final Political Battle
For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle tells the remarkable story of how the most eloquent public speaker of the American Revolutionary era once again changed history.
NewsExpansive Frontiers
The spirit of adventure travels through The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration and The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West.
