October 2024
WI Book Festival Author Event: Barons (Austin Frerick)
10/17/24 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Central Library - Community Room 302 Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. In Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry, agricultural and antitrust expert Frerick tells the stories of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture, where school…
Find out more »WI Book Festival Author Event: There Are (No) Stupid Questions…in Science (Leah Elson)
10/17/24 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Central Library - Community Room 302 Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. There Are (No) Stupid Questions … in Science was born from Elson’s popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, wherein her avid followers, from all around the world, suggest topics to be explained within sixty seconds. In the vein of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and The Complete Manual of Things That Might Kill You: A Guide to Self Diagnosis…
Find out more »WI Book Festival Author Event: Frostbite (Nicola Twilley)
10/19/24 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Central Library, Community Room 302 Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. How often do we open the fridge or peer into the freezer with the expectation that we’ll find something fresh and ready to eat? It’s an everyday act—but just a century ago, eating food that had been refrigerated was cause for both fear and excitement. The introduction of artificial refrigeration overturned millennia of dietary history, launching a new chapter in human nutrition. We…
Find out more »WI Book Festival Author Event: The Inner Clock (Lynne Peeples)
10/20/24 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Central Library - Community Room 302 Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. How the groundbreaking science of circadian rhythms can help you sleep better, feel happier, and improve your overall health. Your body contains a symphony of tiny timepieces that are synchronized to the sun and subtle signals in your environment. But modern insults like artificial light, contrived time zones, and late-night meals can wreak havoc on your internal clocks. Misaligned circadian rhythms…
Find out more »WI Book Festival Author Event: Night Magic (Leigh Ann Henion)
10/20/24 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Central Library - Community Room 302 Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival. On this imperiled planet, nature’s magic still exists, often in the places we least expect it. Night Magic is a glorious celebration of the dark! New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion makes the case for embracing night as a profoundly beautiful part of the world we inhabit—and she invites us to leave our well-lit homes and step outside. It turns out…
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