Reader Meet Writer, Okra Picks
Kristy Woodson Harvey
Let us deliver authors to your living room. The next author in the Okra Pick series is Kristy Woodson Harvey. Kristy Woodson Harvey will be talking with us about her newest book There I Am and answering your questions. Kristy Woodson Harvey is one of many authors we’ll be bringing into your living room.
From “the next major voice in Southern fiction” (Elin Hilderbrand) and the bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series comes an odd-couple tale of friendship that asks just how much our past choices define our happiness.
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Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Time: 2pm CST
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Feels Like Falling
It’s summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin’ is easy.
Unless, that is, you’ve just lost your mother to cancer, your sister to her extremist husband, and your husband to his executive assistant. Meet Gray Howard. Right when Gray could use a serious infusion of good karma in her life, she inadvertently gets a stranger, Diana Harrington, fired from her job at the local pharmacy.
Diana Harrington’s summer isn’t off to the greatest start either: Hours before losing her job, she broke up with her boyfriend and moved out of their shared house with only a worn-out Impala for a bed. Lucky for her, Gray has an empty guest house and a very guilty conscience.
With Gray’s kindness, Diana’s tide begins to turn. But when her first love returns, every secret from her past seems to resurface all at once. And, as Gray begins to blaze a new trail, she discovers, with Diana’s help, that what she envisioned as her perfect life may not be what she wants at all.
In her warmest, wisest novel yet, Kristy Woodson Harvey delivers a discerning portrait of modern womanhood through two vastly different lenses. Feels Like Falling is a beach bag essential for Harvey fans—and for a new generation of readers.
Marie Benedict
Let us deliver authors to your living room. The next author in the Okra Pick series is Marie Benedict. Marie Benedict will be talking with us about her newest book The Other Einstein and answering your questions. Marie Benedict is one of many authors we’ll be bringing into your living room.
“The Other Einstein takes you into Mileva’s heart, mind, and study as she tries to forge a place for herself in a scientific world dominated by men.”—Bustle
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Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Time: 4pm
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The Other Einstein
In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein’s enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein’s wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight.
Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. And then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage.
Donald J. Palmisano
Let us deliver authors to your living room. The next author in the Okra Pick series is Donald J. Palmisano. Donald J. Palmisano will be talking with us about her newest book A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech and answering your questions. Donald J. Palmisano is one of many authors we’ll be bringing into your living room.
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Date: Thursday, April 30, 2020
Time: 3pm
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A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech
A good leader must be intelligent, charismatic, strong, and inspiring. A good leader must stir passion and instill knowledge in the minds of followers, whether in the field of business, medicine, politics, sports, or entertainment. A memorable speech is a powerful tool for demonstrating leadership and inspiring listeners for years to come. You can give a stirring, memorable speech, and be seen as a real leader, and Donald J. Palmisano can help you.
Here Palmisano shares proven tips on delivering an inspiring and motivating speech. Drawing from his popular seminar at Tulane University School of Medicine and over 1,000 speeches and interviews, Dr. Palmisano teaches readers how to:
- Use rhetorical devices effectively
- Stay on message
- Practice delivery
- Glean lessons from great speeches of powerful leaders from the past, such as Cicero, Winston Churchill, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ronald Reagan
- Organize speeches to emphasize the message
- Weave in stories that are unforgettable
- And more!
If you are a professor or teacher, if you are a CEO or manager, if you are thinking of running for office or trying to raise money, then A Leader’s Guide to Giving a Memorable Speech belongs on your bookshelf. It’s a great gift for anyone with aspirations of teaching, leading, or managing.
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