Past Author Events
For a list of all upcoming author events, go here. They are listed in chronological order. NOTE: the program times listed are Eastern Time.
Below are some of our recent author visits.
We invite you to support the author by purchasing a signed copy of their book from our local independent bookstore, Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach. Call-in orders are accepted or you can stop by the store to purchase a copy. For store hours, please visit their website.
You also may borrow a copy of the book from the Delaware Library Catalog.
Susan Abulhawa | Against the Loveless World
Jennifer Ackerman | Birds by the Shore
Neal Allen | Shapes of Truth
Devery Anderson | Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
Lisa Dawn Angerame | The Vegan ABCs Cookbook
John Archibald | Shaking the Gates of Hell
Emily Austin | Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell, and L Fury | Run: Book One
Neal Bascomb | Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best *
Anne Corley Baum | Small Mistakes, Big Consequences for Interviews
Derek Baxter | In Pursuit of Jefferson
Rachel Beanland | Florence Adler Swims Forever
Richard Bell | Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
Mitch Benjamin | BBQ Revolution
Susan Berfield | The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J. P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism *
Stacie Billis | Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner
L. Annette Binder | The Vanishing Sky
Kolbie Blume | Stunning Watercolor Seascapes
Ralph Blumenthal | The Believer
Katie Booth | The Invention of Miracles *
Marie Bostwick | The Restoration of Celia Fairchild
Anne Boylan | Votes for Delaware Women
John O. Brennan | Undaunted
Jeffrey Breslow | A Game Maker’s Life
Candace Cameron Bure | Candace’s Playful Puppy
V.M. Burns | A Tourist’s Guide to Murder
Chasten Buttigieg | I Have Something to Tell You
Sam Calagione, Mariah Calagione, and Andrew C. Greeley | The Dogfish Head Book: 26 Years of Off-Centered Adventures
Kathryn Canavan | True Crime Philadelphia
Peter S. Canellos | The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero
Sean Carroll | The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself **
Zach Carter | The Price of Peace *
Casey Cep | Furious Hours *
Katarina Cermelj | Baked to Perfection
Eric Cervini | The Deviant’s War *
Erwin Chemerinsky | Presumed Guilty *
Richard Chizmar | Chasing the Boogeyman
Catherine Chung | The Tenth Muse: A Novel
Jack Clemons | The Outliers
Robert Corn-Revere | The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder
Ellis Cose | The Short Life & Curious Death of Free Speech in America
Steve Cottrell and Ashley Kennedy | National Audubon Society Guides for Birds and Trees of North America
Lynne Cox | Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog
Peter Cozzens | Tecumseh and the Prophet *
William F. Crandell | Let’s Say Jack Kennedy Killed the Girl
emily m. danforth | Plain Bad Heroines
Fiona Davis | The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Scott DeLisi and Jane Lillian Vance | The Ambassador’s Dog
David DeSteno | How God Works
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin | Blood & Treasure **
Ellen Carol DuBois | Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote *
Fred Dylla | Scientific Journeys **
Janet Evanovich and Steve Hamilton | The Bounty
Siân Evans | Maiden Voyages
Pam Fessler | Carville’s Cure *
Christopher Finan | How Free Speech Saved Democracy
Jay Fleming | Island Life
Angus Fletcher | Wonderworks
Sean Flynn | Why Peacocks?
Esther Safran Foer | I Want You to Know We’re Still Here
Kelli Jo Ford | Crooked Hallelujah *
Brooke Lea Foster | Summer Darlings
Charles Foster | Being a Human
Dikla Levy Frances | Baking Science
Patry Francis | All the Children Are Home
Howard W. French | Born in Blackness *
Caseen Gaines | Footnotes *
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. | Begin Again
Jillian Glenn | Easy Low-Cal Vegan Eats
M. Leona Godin | There Plant Eyes
Stanley Goldman | Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream
Debra H. Goldstein | Four Cuts Too Many
Jason Goldstein | The Happy Sandwich
Dr. Jane Goodall | The Book of Hope
Nancy Thorndike Greenspan | Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
John Grisham | A Time for Mercy
Puja Guha | Sirens of Memory
Valerie Hansen | The Year 1000 *
Kristin Harmel | The Book of Lost Names and The Forest of Vanishing Stars
Kristy Woodson Harvey | Feels Like Falling and Under the Southern Sky
Donna Hay | One Pan Perfect
Annelise Heinz | Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
Peter Heller | The Guide: A Novel
Robin Marantz Henig |The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics **
Joshua Henkin | Morningside Heights
Madeleine Henry | The Love Proof
Eleanor Herman | Sex with Presidents *
Christine Heyrman | Doomed Romance *
Tony Hiss | Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth
Josh Hitchens | Haunted History of Delaware
Jonathan Horn | Washington’s End
Kathy Hunt | Luscious, Tender, Juicy
Michael F. Jacobson | Salt Wars
Elizabeth Gonzalez James | Mona At Sea
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois *
Lisa Jewell | The Night She Disappeared
Dean Jobb | The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream *
Andrea J. Johnson | Poetic Justice
J. Chester Johnson | Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and A Story of Reconciliation *
Pamela Gail Johnson | Practical Happiness
Sadeqa Johnson | Yellow Wife
Brian Jay Jones | Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination *
Jonathan Kaufman | The Last Kings of Shanghai
Bettye Kearse | The Other Madisons *
Charles Kenny | The Plague Cycle *
Lily King | Writers and Lovers
Ross King | The Bookseller of Florence *
Rachel Kipp and Dan Shortridge | 100 Things to Do in Delaware Before You Die
Eben Kirksey | The Mutant Project
Keith Kopka | Count Four
Gina Rae La Cerva | Feasting Wild *
Anne Lamott | Dusk Night Dawn
Neil Lanctot | The Approaching Storm
Erik Larson | The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz *
Amy Latta | Hand Lettering Off the Page and Practice Makes Progress: My Creative Journal
Meghan Leahy | Parenting Outside the Lines
Laura Arnold Leibman | Once We Were Slaves *
Carol Leonnig | Zero Fail *
Bill Lester | Winning in Reverse *
E. J. Levy | The Cape Doctor *
Shawn Levy | In On the Joke
Chris Lindsley | Land of Fun
Margaret Livingstone | Vision and Art **
Joan Lunden | Why Did I Come Into This Room?: A Candid Conversation about Aging
Deborah Madison | An Onion in My Pocket
Kerri Maher | The Paris Bookseller
Michael Mann and The New Climate War
Melissa M. Martin | Mosquito Supper Club
Sujata Massey | The Bombay Prince *
John Mather | The Very First Light
Joy McCullough & Sheyda Abvabi Best | Champ and Major
Kevin McGonegal | Wicked Wilmington, Delaware
William McKeever | Emperors of the Deep
Susan Meissner | The Last Year of the War *
Donald L. Miller | Vicksburg *
Lynn C. Miller | The Unmasking
Jacqueline Mitton | Vera Rubin: A Life
Mary Alice Monroe | On Ocean Boulevard and The Summer of Lost and Found
Charles Moore | The Black Market
Virginia Morell | Animal Wise
Erin Mylroie | 101 Greatest Cookies on the Planet
Lisa Napoli | Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie
TaraShea Nesbit | Beheld *
David Nicholls | Sweet Sorrow
Susan Page | Madam Speaker
Alison M. Parker | Unceasing Militant *
Tamara Payne | The Dead Are Arising *
Bradford Pearson | The Eagles of Heart Mountain
Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan | Mad Honey
Andrea Pitzer | Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Dea Poirier | After You Died
Douglas Poore | Abandoned Railroads of Delmarva
Jennifer Probst | The Secret Love Letters of Olivia Moretti
Kate Quinn | The Rose Code
Nathan Raab | The Hunt for History
Congressman Jamie Raskin | Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy
Bryan Reardon | Let Her Lie
Rochelle Riley | That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World and The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
Abbey Rodriguez and Jennifer Kurdyla | Root & Nourish
Carl Rollyson | The Life of William Faulkner: The Past is Never Dead (1897-1934) *
Gwen Romack | How To Train Your Hooman
A.E. Rooks | The Black Joke
David Ross | Tarot & Tequila
Nan Rossiter | Promises to Keep
Ed Ruggero | Blame the Dead * and Comes the War
Ericka Sanchez | ¡Buen Provecho!
Miguel Sancho | More Than You Can Handle
Constance Sayers | The Ladies of the Secret Circus
Abby Schneiderman, Adam Seifer and Gene Newman | In Case You Get Hit By a Bus
Kathryn Schulz | Lost & Found: A Memoir
Lisa Scottoline | Eternal
Francesca Serritella | Ghosts of Harvard
Jeff Shaara | The Eagle’s Claw
Christopher Shockey and Kirsten K. Shockey | The Big Book of Cidermaking
Sonia Shah | The Next Great Migration *
Melissa Shapiro | Piglet
Johnny Shaw | The Southland
David Sibley | What It’s Like to Be A Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing
Matt Siegel | The Secret History of Food *
Ciarra Siller | Vegan Chocolate Treats
David J. Silverman | This Land Is Their Land *
Suzanne Simonetti | The Sound of Wings
Jonathan C. Slaght | Owls of the Eastern Ice
Zhanna Slor | At the End of the World, Turn Left
Timothy Jay Smith | Fire on the Island
Rodney A. Smolla | Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer
Sabrina Snyder | Dinner Then Dessert
Gretchen Sorin | Driving While Black *
Tom Standage | A Brief History of Motion
Alexander Starritt | We Germans
Geoffrey R. Stone | National Security, Leaks and The Freedom of the Press
Jeffrey S. Sutton | The Essential Scalia
Christopher Swann | Never Turn Back
Julia Sweig | Ladybird Johnson
Nancy Thayer | Girls of Summer
Laura Thompson | Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
Bob Tjaden | Beneath the Canopy: A Historical View of Forestry in Delaware
Alex Tresniowski | The Rope
Laurence Tribe | American Constitutional Law | view video recording
Ellen Marie Wiseman | The Orphan Collector *
Jia Lynn Yang | One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965 *
Helene Wecker | The Hidden Palace
Sylvie Weil | At Home with André and Simone Weil
Tamara Winfrey-Harris | Dear Black Girl
Alan A. Winter | Sins of the Fathers
Robert Zaretsky | The Subversive Simone Weil
Carl Zimmer | Life’s Edge: The Search For What It Means To Be Alive
Amy Zitelman | The Tahini Table
* this author was presented in partnership with the History Book Festival
** this author was presented as part of the library’s Science and Society – Making Sense of the World Around Us lecture series
