"Freedom's Sisters" is a compelling new interactive exhibition of twenty extraordinary women and their contributions to the struggle for equality and justice in America. Through their courageous actions, they changed the course of history. By defying their circumstances, they became American heroes.

This exhibition was created by the Cincinnati Museum Center and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Travel Exhibition Service. National tour has been made possible by the Ford Motor Company Fund.

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Journalist Mark Pendergrast turns his focus to a department of the Centers for Disease Control that investigates outbreaks of illness around the globe. Formed in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service originated during the polio years and progressed through anthrax, salmonella, rabies, smallpox, HIV, and Ebola to the present day. You name it, they identified it. Library Journal says "The zippy manga cover and engrossing tales will pull in nonfiction readers not usually up for medical history."

Ken Follett was twenty-seven when he wrote Eye of the Needle, an award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller. After several more successful thrillers, he surprised everyone with The Pillars of the Earth, about the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages, which continues to captivate readers all over the world. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

With new material retrieved from historical archives, scholar and Georgia Tech Professor Jonathan Schneer recounts in dramatic detail the public and private battles in the early 1900s for a small strip of land in the Middle East, battles that started when the governing Ottoman Empire took Germany's side in World War I. The Balfour Declaration paints an indelible picture of how Arab nationalists, backed by Britain, fought for their future as Zionists in England battled diplomatically for influence. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to either side or even to most members of the British government, Prime Minister David Lloyd George was telling Turkey that she could keep her flag flying over the disputed territory if only she would agree to a separate peace.

A book crucial to understanding the Middle East as it is today, The Balfour Declaration is a rich and remarkable achievement, a riveting volume about the ancient faiths and timeless treacheries that continue to drive global events.

Come meet President Carter and get a signed copy of White House Diary or any other book written by the 39th President. For the first time, the daily diary kept by President Carter during his years in the White House is being made public. By carefully selecting the most illuminating and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency.The book signing is free and open to the public. President Carter will only sign BOOKS he has written (no photos or memorabilia). In order to give everyone a chance to get their book signed, books cannot be personalized. If you can't attend the book signing, you can pre-order a signed book by calling the Carter Museum Gift shop at 404-865-7131 no later than noon on October 12th. For more information, call 404-865-7109.

“This brilliant, courageous, and intelligent man has stood for right and for Civil Rights for all people. In this book, we can follow the development of a young African American mind and the development of the movement which changed this country. He was brave, he was loving, and he was there. Thank God he lived to tell about it.”—Maya Angelou

A lush contemporary fable for all ages in which a young boy must battle his way through a magical world in order to save his father.

On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay, a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through The Magic World, encountering a slew of phantasmagorical obstacles along the way, to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task. Lyrically crafted and filled with frolicking word-plays, this is Salman Rushdie at his best.

Tickets to this lecture and book signing are available through A Cappella Books at (404) 681-5123. Attendees will receive a signed copy of Luka and the Fire of Life with each ticket purchased.

Please visit A Cappella Books or call (404) 681-5123 for more information.

In the wake of talk of a “post-racial America” upon the ascendance of Barack Obama as president of the United States, Michele Norris, host of National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered", set out, through original reporting, to write a book about “the hidden conversation on race” that is going on in this country. But along the way she unearthed painful family secrets—from her father’s shooting by the Birmingham police within weeks of his discharge from service in World War II to her grandmother’s peddling pancake mix as an itinerant Aunt Jemima. In what became an intensely personal and bracing journey, Norris traveled from her childhood home in Minneapolis to her ancestral roots in the Deep South to explore “things left unsaid” by her family when she was growing up. Along the way she discovers how character is forged by both repression and revelation. She learns how silence became a form of self-protection and a means of survival for her parents—strivers determined to create a better life for their children at a time when America was beginning to experiment with racial equality—as it was for white Americans who grew up enforcing strict segregation (sometimes through violence) but who now live in a world where integration is the norm.

On select Mondays, Jimmy Carter Library staff and volunteers will read from a selection of story books in our library and conduct an outdoor Garden Safari. Story time will be offered in the museum lobby, at the colorful bean bag seating area by the Book Nook sign. Themes we will include are the presidency, leadership, growing up, roles adults play, etc. Simple language and colorful illustrations are included in every book. Colorful beanbag chairs are available to sit in.

Best for ages 3-7.

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