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SUMMARY:Word Up: Kiara Valdez's STEPPING UP with Lethy Liriano
DESCRIPTION:Word Up welcomes Kiara Valdez on her forthcoming graphic novel\, STEPPING UP (on sale 8/4/26)\, a timely and vibrant teen graphic memoir about community\, friendship\, and self-discovery told through the eyes of a high school freshman Kiara\, one of the few Black students at her predominantly white boarding school—perfect for fans of Almost American Girl and Brownstone! \nIn conversation with Kiara Valdez will be Lethy Liriano\, executive director of the Bride’s March. \nThis event is in collaboration with Dominican Writers Association. \n“Valdez’s graphic novel debut provides thoughtful glimpses into her attempts to settle into a new environment that wasn’t designed with her in mind. Readers will identify with the outsider perspective explored throughout the narrative.” – Kirkus Reviews \nThis event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with a maximum of 100 attendees. Please register in advance.  \nIn compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines\, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time. \nWord Up Community Bookshop/Libreria Communitaria is located at 2113 Amsterdam Avenue (corner of 165th Street) in Manhattan. Subways: A\, C or #1 train to 168th Street (walk south to 165th St\, turn left\, then walk east to Amsterdam Avenue). \nABOUT THE BOOK\nKiara is a long way from Washington Heights. She’s at Phillips Academy Andover—the prestigious school of her dreams. But her bulky financial aid laptop in a room full of brand-new Macs\, her classmates’ endless chatter about overseas vacations\, and everyone’s pristine North Face jackets have her feeling like she’ll never fit in. \nThen she discovers the all-star step team\, SLAM. Kiara will gladly endure long practices\, sore muscles\, and chafed palms to finally find her place on campus. That is\, until tragedy strikes and those closest to her are hurt\, and she realizes exactly what it means to be an Andover student. \nBecause at a school where her wealthy white classmates can get away with almost anything and students like her are made to feel lucky to even be at the academy to begin with\, is belonging really what Kiara wants? And is she brave enough to step up—for herself and her friends? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKiara Valdez is an Afro-Dominican writer and graphic novel editor from New York City (shout out to Washington Heights). She graduated from Williams College with a double major in English Literature and Japanese\, and spends her free time reading\, writing\, and enjoying a long list of other hobbies she can’t keep up with. She writes graphic novels\, pictures books\, and story books that include titles such as Dear Dad (with Jay Jay Patton and Markia Jenai)\, Marvel’s Little Groot\, Big Feelings and We Are Groot (both with Wendy Tan)\, and Mami’s Magic Words (Richy Sánchez Ayala). Stepping Up is her debut original graphic novel.
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SUMMARY:Fountain Bookshop Book Club Heights Whodunits: Heather
DESCRIPTION:For August we have chosen to read Heather by Caitlin Mullen. \nA small-town detective reopens an unsolved case\, sending shock waves across generations of women in this gripping new mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author of Please See Us. \n1990. In the myth-riddled woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens\, sixteen-year-old Annabelle Riley’s twin sister\, Sabrina\, has been having an affair with a mysterious older man\, and Annabelle is determined to uncover what’s going on. Then\, inexplicably\, both sisters disappear. \nIn this same town years later\, newly instated police chief Callie Hauser makes an arrest that unexpectedly resurrects details from a heartbreaking cold case. As she digs deeper\, the past and the present collide\, challenging everything Callie believes about right and wrong\, who she is\, and the town she’s always called home. \nA propulsive mystery as incisive as it is forgiving\, Heather bears a visceral reminder that the truth of a woman’s life is often complicated and unknowable—to those on the outside\, and sometimes even to herself.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/fountain-bookshop-book-club-heights-whodunits-heather/
LOCATION:Fountain Bookshop\, 803 West 187th Street (Between Pinehurst & Fort Washington)\, New York\, NY\, 10040\, United States
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SUMMARY:Word Up Recirculation: Denise Soler Cox's WHAT WILL THEY SAY?
DESCRIPTION:Word Up welcomes award-winning filmmaker and prolific public speaker Denise Soler Cox to discuss her new book\, ” What Will They Say?: Confront Cultural Taboos and Discover Your Inner Power”\, which exposes nine common Latinx cultural taboos no one dares discuss and shares her road-tested advice to blast through them and reclaim your power. \nThe Spanish edition will be available on the same publication date: “¿Qué dirán?/What Will They Say?: Enfrenta los 10 tabúes culturales y descubre tu poder interior” \nABOUT THE BOOK\nThe Latino population in the United States is over 66 million today\, with women representing approximately half that population. By 2030\, this group is projected to be one in five US residents. Yet only one percent of the C-suite is Latina\, and for every 100 men promoted to manager\, only 74 Latinas advance. The math doesn’t add up\, unless you understand the deeply embedded cultural patterns passed down through generations that remain unspoken. \nThrough raw personal stories and unflinching honesty\, Cox reveals the cultural taboos that have been quietly sabotaging Latina success\, drawing from thousands of one-on-one conversations with Latinas after her keynotes who recognize these unspoken patterns but never had language for what was holding them back. Each chapter exposes a taboo through Cox’s own vulnerability\, creating space for readers to break through their own. \nThis isn’t just another leadership book\, it’s your guide to liberation from the generational stories that have kept the fastest-growing demographic in America from claiming their power. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nDenise Soler Cox is a cultural excavator: an award-winning filmmaker\, keynote speaker and author who goes inside the cultures that shape how we lead\, belong and who we become. Her debut book\, What Will They Say? (Simon & Schuster\, August 2026)\, uncovers the ten inherited cultural rules keeping Latina leaders shrinking and sidelined and shows them\, finally\, how to stop. A sought-after voice on culture\, identity and belonging\, Denise has spoken on 400+ stages including two TEDx talks and SXSW 2026. She has partnered with Ralph Lauren\, Amazon\, Microsoft\, and L’Oréal\, among others. In 2020\, Apple Podcasts North America recognized her podcast The Self-ish Latina as both a Featured Podcast and Featured Host\, with listeners in 32 countries. She has appeared as a culture expert on NBC Nightly News\, and her work has been featured in Forbes\, CNN and PBS.
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LOCATION:Word Up Recirculation\, 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.)\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fountain Bookshop Book Club "Is It Worth The Hype?": A Perfect Hand
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Fountain Bookshop for bookclub: “Is It Worth the Hype?”  This August\, we will be reading A Perfect Hand by Ayelet Waldman. \nMiss Alice Lockey\, daughter of a tenant farmer\, has by dint of hard work\, innate intelligence\, and a cunning ability to predict the moods of her betters\, raised herself to the lofty status of lady’s maid at Alderwick Park. Though her mother has advised Alice to work only until marriage\, Alice has thus far resisted the temptations of matrimony among the neighboring widowers and pig farmers\, more content to enjoy the fruits of her labor—or at least the portion of it her father will share after it is paid to him. Alice spends her days arranging Lady Jemima Alderwick’s blond hair into the latest French styles\, chignons and plaits\, laundering her lady’s surprisingly malodorous petticoats and drawers\, and carefully sewing all manner of fripperies\, ribbons\, lace\, and silk flowers\, to her lady’s bonnets and gowns. \nBut when a visiting servant\, a valet named Charlie Wells\, catches her eye\, Alice begins to understand the constraints of her position. In a ploy to spend time with the object of her affection\, Alice attempts to arrange a romance between Lady Jemima Alderwick and Charlie’s employer\, one Baronet Sir Nigel Wynstowe. If only they would fall in love—then Alice and Charlie might live together as man and wife! Challenged by Lady Jemima’s love for another and Sir Wynstowe’s eccentric personality\, Alice must use all of her cunning to bring about this unlikely romantic union. Will this low-born servant successfully manipulate the hearts of these lords and ladies? Will Charlie and Alice ever improve their stations? Or\, as the beginning of women’s suffrage begins to percolate in the drawing rooms and salons of London\, will Alice discover a different sort of path for herself? \nA deliciously funny\, gorgeously detailed\, utter enthralling novel\, A Perfect Hand is a glorious novel of class\, gender\, and England on the cusp of enormous change.
URL:https://heightsites.com/event/fountain-bookshop-book-club-is-it-worth-the-hype-a-perfect-hand/
LOCATION:Fountain Bookshop\, 803 West 187th Street (Between Pinehurst & Fort Washington)\, New York\, NY\, 10040\, United States
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