Recorded Author Talk Series

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Liz Nugent talked to Librarian Carol Stern about Strange Sally Diamond. Strange Sally Diamond is a gripping psychological thriller that explores the complexities of identity, trauma, and the dark secrets hidden within families. This event took place online on January 14, 2025.

Glen Cove Public Library Author Talk Series: Amanda Peters talked to Librarian Carol Stern about her novel The Berry Pickers. The Berry Pickers is a beautiful and heartbreaking story that unveils a haunting tale set amidst the blueberry fields of Maine centering on the disappearance of a four-year-old girl – a tragic event that fractures many lives and leaves a haunting mystery that persists for nearly five decades. This event took place online on September 10, 2024.

Glen Cove Public Library Author Talk Series: Roxana Robinson talked to Librarian Carol Stern about her novel Leaving. Leaving delves into the affair between two former college lovers who reconnect in middle age after years of separation. Through their rekindled romance, the book navigates the complexities of moral dilemmas, the dynamics of family, and the intricacies of marriage. This event took place online on August 6, 2024.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Rachel Beanland talked to Librarian Carol Stern about The House Is on Fire. The House Is on Fire is a riveting reimagining of one of early America’s deadliest tragedies, the Richmond Theater Fire of 1811, told from the perspectives of four characters whose lives are irrevocably altered in the aftermath of the inferno. This event took place online on July 9, 2024.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Kristin Hannah talked to Librarian Carol Stern about The Women. The Women is a capitating story set during the Vietnam War, focusing on a young nurse stationed at the front lines. This event took place online on May 21, 2024.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Susan Meissner talked to Librarian Carol Stern about Only The Beautiful. Only the Beautiful is a compelling story about a mother’s fight to keep her daughter and the terrible injustice that tears them apart. This event took place online on January 23, 2024.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: John Wood Sweet talked to Librarian Carol Stern about The Sewing Girl’s Tale. The Sewing Girl’s Tale is a riveting historical drama that tells the story of the first rape trial on record in American history and the fault lines of class privilege and gender bias that it exposed, showing how much has changed over two centuries and how much has not. This event took place online on December 12, 2023.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Shelby Van Pelt talked to Librarian Carol Stern about Remarkably Bright Creatures, a poignant examination of friendship, loneliness, and hope, tracing a widow’s unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. This event took place online on October 23, 2023.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Heather Marshall talked to Librarian Carol Stern about Looking for Jane, a powerful debut historical novel about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose. It is inspired by true stories. This event took place online on September 12, 2023.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Nikki Erlick talked to Librarian Carol Stern about The Measure, a captivating story about family, friendship, and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest. This event took place online on August 15, 2023.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Jean Hanff Korelitz talked to Librarian Carol Stern about The Latecomer, a complex story of grief and guilt, generational trauma, race, and privilege. This event took place online on July 11, 2023.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Joyce Maynard talked to Librarian Carol Stern about Count the Ways, a compelling story of family, tragedy, great love, and forgiveness. It’s simply wonderful. This event took place online on May 2, 2023.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Amy Bloom talked to Librarian Carol Stern about In Love, a story about her husband Brian’s journey before and after he receives the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. It is a beautiful, tragic, and powerful memoir. This event took place online on March 22, 2023.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Brendan Slocumb talked to Librarian Carol Stern about The Violin Conspiracy. The Violin Conspiracy is an engaging, suspenseful mystery about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen at a classical music competition. The story weaves together art, betrayal and the resiliency of the human spirit. This event took place online on February 28, 2023.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Thrity Umrigar talked to Librarian Carol Stern about Honor, a story that follows an Indian-American journalist named Smita who returns to India on assignment to write a newspaper article on Meena, a woman who was assaulted by her brothers for marrying a Muslim man and subsequently filed a lawsuit against them. It is an evocative novel about love, hope, familial devotion, betrayal, and sacrifice. This event took place online on January 31, 2022.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Bonnie Garmus talked to Librarian Carol Stern about Lessons in Chemistry, a funny, thought-provoking debut novel about a young chemist in the late 1950’s who is fired from her job because she is pregnant and unwed. A clever one-of–a-kind story. This event took place online on December 6, 2022.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Lisa Barr talked to Librarian Carol Stern about Woman on Fire, a fast-paced thriller, filled with fascinating history, romance, and scandal about lost artwork and the quest to recover it. This event took place online on October 25, 2022.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Robert Dugoni talked to Librarian Carol Stern about The World Played Chess, a heartwarming coming-of-age story of three generations of men with differing perspectives on loss, grief and recovery. This event took place online on September 13, 2022.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Stephen Mills talked to Librarian Carol Stern about Chosen, an unforgettable memoir of a childhood sexual assault and its life-long consequences. This event took place online on August 23, 2022.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Etaf Rum talked to Librarian Carol Stern about A Woman is No Man, a story of three generations of Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture in the wake of shocking intimate violence in their community. It is a story of culture and honor, secrets and betrayals, love and violence. This event took place online on July 20, 2022.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Dan Grunfeld talked to Librarian Carol Stern about By the Grace of the Game, a remarkable memoir of his multi-generational family epic detailing history’s only known journey from Auschwitz to the NBA. Dan Grunfeld is the son of University of Tennessee basketball legend Ernie Grunfeld and was once a standout himself at Stanford University. This event took place online on June 21, 2022.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Jessica Anya Blau talked to Librarian Carol Stern about Mary Jane, an enjoyable novel of a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced conservative parents’ family and the progressive liberal family she babysits for in the summer. This event took place online on May 17, 2022.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: Jennifer Chiaverini talked to Librarian Carol Stern about the Women’s March, an engrossing historical novel of the women’s suffrage movement in 1913. Three courageous women risked their lives and liberty in this excellent, historic, and readable account of the women’s fight to win the right to vote. This event took place online on March 22, 2022.

GLEN COVE PUBLIC LIBRARY AUTHOR TALK SERIES: The Personal Librarian Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray talked to Librarian Carol Stern about THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN, an amazing story about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, a black woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy. A New York Times bestseller, a Good Morning America Book Club Selection, and a Bookreporter Bets On pick. This event took place online on February 22, 2022.