We’ve created a community-wide initiative to read fifteen books throughout the year. Anyone can participate, although the books were chosen with adults or mature teens in mind.
Each book you've read (and reported) enters you into a monthly drawing for a prize. Any person who reads and enters fifteen or more books by the end of the year will be eligible to win the grand prize!
Why is feedback so difficult, and how can we make it easier? The idea is simple: You don't have to choose between being a pushover and a jerk.Kim Scott, New York Times bestselling author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, will explain the Radical Candor feedback framework and how you can practice it today. She'll offer practical, tactical tips for how to solicit criticism, give praise and criticism, gauge how what you're saying is landing, and build a culture of Radical Candor...
You’re invited to join us as we talk to New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott about his recent novel Hell of a Book. This magnificent work of fiction is deeply honest, at times electrically funny, and is a book that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans and America as a whole...
Join us as the #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey talks about the launch of her new super hot sports romance duology with a rom-com about a bad boy professional athlete who falls for his biggest fan in her new book Fangirl Down...
At the Ninilchik Community Library. Tribal elders and long-time locals will be invited to a book discussion and to share stories from the early days of the Ninilchik area.
February 15th, 2pm
At Ninilchik Community Library
Read with your community! Book copies of The Cold Millions and companion titles (The Big Both Ways and Wobblies!) are available for checkout at Homer Public Library. Stop by the circulation desk for the books and a calendar of Big Read events.
Michael Armstrong, retired editor of the Homer News; Jeff Meyer, a historian at Kenai Peninsula College; Megan Edge, former reporter and lawyer for the Alaska ACLU; and others.
February 9th, 6:30pm
At Kachemak Bay Campus + over Zoom
New date TBD
Joining us via Zoom? Please follow the link below:
Come to the Homer Senior Center for a book discussion facilitated by Janet Klein, followed by time for seniors to share stories about homesteading days.
February 8th, 1pm
At Homer Senior Center
Read with your community! Book copies of The Cold Millions and companion titles (The Big Both Ways and Wobblies!) are available for checkout at Homer Public Library. Stop by the circulation desk for the books and a calendar of Big Read events.
This is event is held at Bunnell Street Arts Center.
Passages Alaska is a new indigenized, arts-infused Alaska Studies Curriculum that invites students to explore Alaska histories, cultures and contemporary identities, and create artistic expressions of family and community stories that acknowledge and celebrate their own lived experiences as integral parts of Alaska’s unfolding history.
