The Erlanger Branch library is located at 401 Kenton Lands Road, Erlanger.
The event is free, but registration is required by visiting /events. Sepetys is considered a “crossover” novelist as her books are read by both students and adults worldwide.Ĭopies of her books will be for sale at the event. Sepetys is passionate about the power of history and story to foster global dialogue and connectivity. Born in Michigan, she was raised in a family of artists, readers, and music lovers. Sepetys is the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee. Her first novel, which chronicles the Soviet atrocities in Lithuania, has been adapted into the renowned major motion picture, Ashes in the Snow. Her books have won or been shortlisted for over forty book prizes, are included on over thirty state reading lists, and are currently in development for film and television. Winner of the Carnegie Medal, Sepetys is acclaimed for giving voice to underrepresented history and those who experienced it. And the leader gunned them down, until the military switched sides and sided with the people.” 21, who took to the streets, completely unarmed, and in some cases were attacking tanks with their bare hands. “Oftentimes what we don’t think about is that these authoritarian regimes or totalitarian regimes, they often are disassembled from within. “What I want to get across is the strength and fortitude of the Romanian people, particularly the young people,” Sepetys says.
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