Willard Library in Battle Creek has three exciting author programs coming up. All are welcome!

"Last Seen" with Author and Researcher Dr. Judith Giesberg

Monday, June 15, 6 p.m.

"Last Seen" is Dr. Judith Giesberg's effort to collect and digitize information from wanted ads placed by formerly enslaved people looking for their loved ones lost in the domestic slave trade. Dr. Giesberg is a professor of history and the Robert M. Birmingham Chair in the Humanities at Villanova University. With this book, she draws on this archive of almost 5,000 letters and advertisements to compile individual and family stories in narrative form for the first time.

When the Declaration of Independence Was News

Wednesday, June 17, 6 p.m.

Author Emily Sneff will discuss her new book, which chronicles the extraordinarily rapid and wide distribution of the Declaration of Independence, a deliberate and perhaps unprecedented means of a government winning over public opinion and creating a national identity across the thirteen nascent states. This program is the last in the year-long "Founding Documents" series.

An Evening with Rom-Com Author Katherine Center

Tuesday, June 23, 6 p.m.

Kool Family Community Center (200 W. Michigan Ave)

Best-Selling Rom-Com author Katherine Center is stopping in Battle Creek on her tour for her newest release, The Shippers. Gather your friends, your book club, your mom… and join us for an evening of fun! New Story Community Books will be on-hand with books for purchase, and Katherine will sign books after the program.

All Willard Library programs are free and open to the public.