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SUMMARY:Banned Bookathon 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate Banned Books Week\, October 4 – 10\, 2026.  This year’s theme is “Let Books Be. Protect the Freedom to Read.” \n“Banned Books Week is a celebration of the freedom to read and the joy that comes from discovering stories that expand our understanding of ourselves and one another\,” said American Library Association President Sam Helmick. “Every person has the right to seek information and choose books without censorship. When we say ‘Let Books Be\,’ we’re showing up for readers everywhere and reaffirming that libraries are for everyone.” \nOn Tuesday\, October 6\, Lenox Library invites you to proclaim your joy of reading during our all-day Banned Bookathon. Sign up for a 15-minute timeslot(s) to read from your favorite banned book. \nNeed inspiration? Check out this list of the top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books: 2010-2019 or one of our banned books displays. \nAll bookathon readers will be entered into a raffle to win a Banned Book Bundle with some of our librarians’ favorite “banned” items! \nWe hope you’ll join us in standing up for – and celebrating – our freedom to read!
URL:https://lenoxlib.org/event/banned-bookathon-2026/
LOCATION:Sedgwick Reading Room\, 18 Main Street\, Lenox\, MA\, 01240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adult Program,Family & Children,Teen
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SUMMARY:Kenneth R. Rosen\, Author of Polar War: Submarines\, Spies\, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic
DESCRIPTION:Lenox Library is delighted to welcome author Kenneth R. Rosen to talk about his new book\, Polar War: Submarines\, Spies\, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic.  An international bestseller\, Polar War is a gripping blend of travelogue and frontline reporting that reveals how climate change\, military ambition\, and economic opportunity are transforming the Arctic into the epicenter of a new cold war\, where a struggle for dominance between the planet’s great powers heralds the next global conflict.  Books will be available for purchase and signing\, courtesy of The Bookstore. \nRussian spies. Nuclear submarines. Sabotaged pipelines. Undersea communications severed in the dark of night. The fastest-warming place on earth—where apartment buildings\, hospitals\, and homes crumble daily as permafrost melts and villages get washed away by rising seas—the Arctic stands at the crossroads of geopolitical ambition and environmental catastrophe. As climate change thaws the northern latitudes\, opening once ice-bound shipping lanes and access to natural resources\, the world’s military powers are rushing to stake their claims in this increasingly strategic region. We’ve entered a new cold war—and every day it grows hotter. \nIn Polar War\, Kenneth R. Rosen takes readers on an extraordinary journey across the changing face of the far north. Through intimate portraits of scientists\, soldiers\, and Indigenous community leaders representing the interests of twenty-one countries across four continents\, he witnesses firsthand how rising temperatures and growing tensions are reshaping life above and below the Arctic Circle. He finds himself on the trail of Navy SEALs training for arctic warfare\, embarks on Coast Guard patrols monitoring Russian incursions\, participates in close-quarter-combat training aboard foreign icebreakers in the Arctic sea ice\, and visits remote research stations where international cooperation is giving way to espionage and the search for long-frozen biological weapons. \nDrawing on hundreds of interviews and three years of reporting from the frontlines of climate change and great power competition\, Rosen blends incisive analysis with the vivid immediacy of a travelogue. His deeply researched and personal accounts capture the diverse landscapes\, people\, and conflicted interests that define this complex northern region. The result is both an elegy for a vanishing landscape and an urgent warning about how the race for Arctic dominance could spark the next global conflict. \nCredit: Fondation Jan Michalski\, Tonatiuh Ambrosetti \nAbout the author: Kenneth R. Rosen is the recipient of a Kurt Schork Award\, a Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents\, and was a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award for his work in Syria and Iraq. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and WIRED. He divides his time between Western Massachusetts and Northern Italy with his wife and their three children.
URL:https://lenoxlib.org/event/kenneth-r-rosen-author-of-polar-war-submarines-spies-and-the-struggle-for-power-in-a-melting-arctic/
LOCATION:Sedgwick Reading Room\, 18 Main Street\, Lenox\, MA\, 01240\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Jazz Barn by John Gennari Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:The Lenox Library is pleased to launch the latest release by John Gennari\, Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Vermont. \nThe Jazz Barn: Music Inn\, the Berkshires\, and the Place of Jazz in American Life tells the story of what happened in the 1950s in a barn\, an icehouse\, and a greenhouse in the verdant Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Gennari explores how Lenox\, a predominantly white New England town became a haven for African American musicians\, and reveals the Berkshires as an important incubator not just of American literature and classical music but also of the Modern Jazz Quartet and Ornette Coleman’s “new thing.” \nIllustrations for the book include iconic photos by Clemens Kalischer (1921-2018)\, whose works will be on exhibit in the Welles Gallery. \nBooks will be available for purchase at the launch.
URL:https://lenoxlib.org/event/book-launch-the-jazz-barn-by-john-gennari/
LOCATION:Sedgwick Reading Room\, 18 Main Street\, Lenox\, MA\, 01240\, United States
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