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Authors!
Presented by the Library Legacy Foundation. Presenting Media: The Blade and Buckeye Broadband. Supporting Sponsors: Buehrer Group and HCR ManorCare. Community Sponsor: Friends of the Library. For questions or to inquire about being a featured author, call 419.259.5196.
Kenn Kaufman
(Th) March 12 | 7 p.m. | Main Library
Every spring, billions of birds sweep north, driven by instinct to return to their breeding grounds. This vast parade often goes unnoticed—except in a few places where these small travelers concentrate in big numbers. One such place is along the Lake Erie shoreline just east of Toledo, Ohio. There, the peak of spring migration is so spectacular that it attracts bird watchers from around the globe, culminating in one of the biggest bird festivals anywhere. In this program based on A Season of the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration,Ohio naturalist and author Kenn Kaufman will describe the science and magic of spring bird migration throughout this region.
Kaufman spent several years as a professional tour leader, taking birding groups to all seven continents. Today, he is a writer, editor and illustrator. He has written a dozen books, including his own field guide series, Kaufman Field Guides and is field editor for Audubon magazine. Kaufman is the only individual to receive the American Birding Association's Lifetime Achievement Award twice.
Free: RSVP requestedDr. Neal Barnard
(M) March 30 | 7 p.m. | Main Library
Nutrition researcher and New York Times best-selling author Neal Barnard, MD, demonstrates how foods affect our hormones—and our health—in his new book, Your Body in Balance (released Feb. 4, 2020). Dr. Barnard shares the science behind how common conditions—like infertility, weight gain, menopausal symptoms, breast and prostate cancers, thyroid problems and acne—are fueled by hormones that are hidden in or influenced by the foods we eat.
Dr. Barnard is president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a faculty member of the George Washington University School of Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. In 2016, he founded Barnard Medical Center in Washington, D.C., to create a new model that integrates nutrition into conventional medical care. His federally funded diabetes research revolutionized the nutritional approaches to type 2 diabetes, and he now aims to empower readers with life-changing information on hormones and health. He has written 19 books on nutrition and health.
Free: RSVP RequestedPAST AUTHORS!
Authors! Collection
Explore more than 20 years of bringing noted authors to the local area. Authors! has featured some of the world's most prolific writers, journalists and activists including Gloria Steinem, David McCullough, Anna Quindlen, Isabel Allende, Neil Gaiman, Sebastian Junger, Nicholas Sparks, Bob Woodward, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Ray Bradbury, John Updike, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., P.J. O'Rourke, Sherman Alexie, Zadie Smith, Henry Winkler, Sue Grafton, Cokie Roberts, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sandra Cisneros, Jacques Pepin and many more!
