Multimedia Meetup!

Join us for wonderful discussion and company, even if you haven’t read the book, watched the program, or listened to the podcasts!

2022 Selections:

March — Documentary (Math): Coded Bias

April — Book (Geological History…): Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

June — Standup Comedy Special (Humor): Sam Jay: 3 in the Morning

July — Book (Community): How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong

September — Documentary (Space): Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know

October — Book (Ancestors): The Family Tree

Past Reads

2022 Selections

• JANUARY 2022 – For Small Creatures Such are We:  Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World by Sasha Sagan

2021 Books

• JANUARY 2021 – Embracing Hopelessness by Miguel A. de la Torre
• FEBRUARY 2021 – Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
• MARCH 2021 – Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
• APRIL 2021 – My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
• MAY 2021 – The Emotional Lives of Animals by Marc Bekoff and Jane Goodall
• JUNE 2021 – Your Art Will Save Your Life by Beth Pickens
• JULY 2021 – Run for Something by Amanda Litman
• AUGUST 2021 – From Here to Equality… by William A. Darity, Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen
• SEPTEMBER 2021 – The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
• OCTOBER 2021 – The Death & Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017 Documentary)
• NOVEMBER 2021– BIG FRIENDSHIP: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
• DECEMBER 2021– 4 Podcasts: Katherine May — How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes, If Your New Years Resolutions Don’t Work, #265: How to Avoid the Wellness Diet in the New Year with Harri Rose of Anti-Diet Riot Club, and Thinking Critically About Elimination Diets with Guest Co-Host Ayana Habtemariam, and There and Back Again.

2020 Books

• JANUARY 2020  – Sissy: A Coming of Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
• FEBRUARY 2020 – The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers Paperback by Maxwell King
• MARCH 2020 – Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
• APRIL 2020 – Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
• MAY 2020 – Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg
• JUNE 2020 –  Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing by David A. Treleaven
• JULY 2020  – The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer 
• AUGUST 2020  – The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• SEPTEMBER 2020  – Teaching Community – A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks
• OCTOBER 2020  – Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler
• NOVEMBER 2020 – The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• DECEMBER 2020 – The Hogfather by Terry Pratchet

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* Buy local…this service is provided by our friends at White Whale Bookstore, Pittsburgh!

**This service is provided by our friends at Allegheny County Library Association, Pittsburgh! You must have an ACLA or Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh card to borrow.