Join us for an online presentation from Kim Scott, New York Times bestselling author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. During the free online event, she’ll offer practical, tactical tips for how to solicit criticism, give praise and criticism, gauge how what you’re saying is landing, and build a culture of Radical Candor. She’ll also discuss ensuring that bias, prejudice, and bullying don’t masquerade as feedback.
Scott was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies before co-founding a company that helps leaders put the ideas in her books into practice. She lives with her family in Silicon Valley.
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Join us for an online discussion with New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott about his recent novel Hell of a Book. This magnificent work of fiction is deeply honest, at times electrically funny, and is a book that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans and America as a whole.
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Join us online as the #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey talks about the launch of her new super hot sports romance duology with a rom-com about a bad boy professional athlete who falls for his biggest fan in her new book Fangirl Down.
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Learn how to get help for your small business with the U.S. Small Business Administration. During the free event, SBA St. Louis District Office staff will present an overview of how it helps businesses start and grow, as well as answer any questions you might have about SBA programs. Find out about:
- SBA’s resource partner network for counseling and technical assistance
- SBA loan programs
- Government contracting programs
- Export assistance
- SBA disaster programs
- Other SBA programs available to your small business
This event is intended for adults, and is free and open to all. Call 314-727-3150 or email reference@ucitylibrary.org for more information
Join us for a special discussion of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride led by UCPL Director Patrick Wall at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21 in the auditorium. For more information, email pjwall@ucitylibrary.org.
Join us for a free online discussion with Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science. Dr. Lustig’s book, Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society. Making the case that food is the only lever we have to affect biochemical change to improve our health, Dr. Lustig explains what to eat based on two novel criteria: protect the liver, and feed the gut.
Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. He has dedicated his retirement from clinical medicine to help fix the food supply in any way he can, to reduce human suffering, and to salvage the environment.
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Start your New Year off right and learn how to avoid the hidden traps in retirement planning advice! Elder law attorney and bestselling author Rajiv Nagaich will showcase his 20-plus years of experience in United States elder law in a free online program, offering a step-by-step guide to retirement planning by connecting the various dots of the retirement planning process.
Rajiv Nagaich is the author of Your Retirement: Dream or Disaster, and hosts two popular public television specials and the AgingOptions Radio Show, where he has been dispensing retirement planning advice to people in the Pacific Northwest for 20 years.
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Join us for a free online talk with romance author Rebecca Serle, as we discuss her journey writing epic love stories to span generations. Learning the love story formula with Serle, we’ll chat with the author about her New York Times bestselling novels, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and many more.
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Join us for an evening with local author Rebecca Copeland, as she reads from and discusses her book, The Kimono Tattoo. This free, in-person event will take place in the UCPL auditorium.
The Kimono Tattoo takes readers on a journey into Kyoto’s intricate world of kimono design, and into a mystery that interweaves family dynamics, loss, and reconciliation. The novel follows translator Ruth Bennett as she returns to her childhood home in Kyoto to translate a novel by a long-forgotten Japanese writer, but she soon finds herself attempting to find the killer of a woman covered in tattoos of kimono motifs. Using her intimate knowledge of both kimono and Kyoto, Ruth must confront a vicious killer along with her own painful family secrets.
A University City resident, Copeland was born in Japan to missionary parents before moving to North Carolina, where she spent glorious childhood days listening to her older sisters relay their stories about Japan. As a junior in college, Copeland had the opportunity to spend a year in Japan, where she studied traditional dance, learned to wear a kimono, and traveled, making ridiculous mistakes in the Japanese language. Afterwards she earned a PhD in Japanese literature at Columbia University. She is now a professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis.
Copies of The Kimono Tattoo will be available for purchase from Subterranean Books. For more information, call 314-727-3150 or email reference@ucitylibrary.org.
Join us for a lively discussion of Holly by Stephen King at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 in the auditorium. For more information, email pjwall@ucitylibrary.org.
