In 2026 the Speakers Bureau is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Twenty years in, what stands out most isn’t just the scale of what we’ve done, it’s the community behind it.
From literary powerhouses to investigative journalists, these motivational speakers educate, connect, and inspire audiences on the Latino/a experience.
Libraries have always been places where communities come together around ideas, stories, and conversation. Author events are a natural extension of that mission. Here are some tips from our team as you plan your next event with a speaker.
We asked some of our speakers to reflect on what the 250th anniversary of the United States means to them.
Searching for a new book and speaker for your community reading program? Here are some suggestions.
A true page-turner, Under the Falls is at once a propulsive thriller, a gut-wrenching portrait of a tight-knit rural community undone by the sins of its past, and an unflinchingly honest depiction of how porous the line between right and wrong, good versus evil, can become.
A Tender Age captures a family and community in striking distance of the American dream, and a young person on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away—then thinking about it for the rest of his life.
This final volume of Whitehad’s Harlem Trilogy is an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings 1980s New York to life. Cool Machine shows that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead’s vivid characters, it’s what’s below the surface that reveals the truth.
With the compulsive readability of a thriller, Catch the Devil tells the riveting true story of a con man whose false testimony helped send an innocent man to death row, where he has spent more than 30 years for a gruesome murder he did not commit.
From one of the most electric figures to emerge from the contemporary American labor movement, When The Revolution Comes is a remarkable story of Smalls's battle to create the first Amazon union in the U.S. and a powerful call to arms on behalf of the working class.
With Kiernan's signature journalistic rigor and narrative flair, Obstinate Daughters is a sweeping chronicle challenging the traditional mythology of the nation’s beginnings and championing the unsung women behind the American Revolution.