📚🎤The Reading - Love this passage that Hanae reads from her book, when both the poet and critical thinker in her come out! Note how she realizes that the tools from which she draws strength are not necessarily western but indigenous, ancient, from her own North African roots.📚

📚❓The Q&A - That's Maya, who bravely joined Hanae on stage.👏🏿During their conversation, Hanae discusses her beginnings as a writer; her mother was a major influence! Writing has helped her to make sense of difficulties in life, such as grief, to the point of being lifesaving.📚

📚🙏🏿More moments to enjoy + TYs: To @beehane for including @adfrntbooklist on your #BeingOther book tour, Maya for joining the conversation, and Julie who ventured out to a book launch for the first time! All best Hanae Bezad with your forthcoming English-Arabic poetry collection!📚

📚🗣️FRIDAY! Join author H.H. Leonards for a presentation on her book ROSA PARKS BEYOND THE BUS: LIFE, LESSONS, AND LEADERSHIP, 6pm at the Blackhurst CC. In this book, the author, who knew Rosa Parks, advocates for that which Ms. Parks stood up:The courage to fight for others.✊🏿📚

Don’t miss my book launch at A Different Booklist

📚🚀🏃🏿‍♀️SEPT 28: Still feeling the thrill of the 2024 Olympics? A Different Booklist is excited to present the launch of Micha Powell's SPRINTING THROUGH SETBACKS, 2pm. Please, join her - a track athlete and medalist (🥇#Birmingham2022), Micha has lots to teach about achieving goals!📚

📚🗣️Tomorrow's event will be special as American author H.H. Leonards brings her book tour for ROSA PARKS: BEYOND THE BUS to A Different Booklist! Not every day you hear stories, memories, about a civil rights icon, Rosa Parks in this case, from one who knew them, so join us, 6pm!📚

📚🗣️TODAY!👇🏿📚

📚🚀🎉Awesome events lined up for you next week! Check out this trio of book talks and launches.👇🏿Please, attend, depending on what you fancy - #CaribLit, #AfricanVoices. We're even launching a Nigerian-authored novel set in Brampton about a Punjabi family. Will be interesting!📚

📚🩷🙏🏿It was an honour to host you, H, at the Blackhurst CC last night. TY for introducing your book ROSA PARKS:BEYOND THE BUS to Toronto. Keep on educating the world about Ms. Parks's life and legacy - the world needs it, especially from one who embodies Ms. Parks's lessons.✊🏿📚

📚🗣️H delivering remarks on Ms. Parks's personality and on her life beyond the bus. In the 1930s, well before her famous act of resistance on the Montgomery bus,Ms. Parks was documenting the stories of Black victims of rape in Alabama. Her life was devoted to activism early on.📚

📚🗣️More from H.H. on Rosa Parks, incl. her little idiosyncrasies, what she adored (gospel music, cookies), her lessons. She believed that fear was the origin of racism. Also on the moments that Lady H and Ms. Parks shared - having tea, going to church, hosting gospel brunches.📚

📚❓The Q&A - Some Sunday inspiration from Friday's presentation. Rosa Parks loved gospel music, was a deacon at her church, and she learned about other religions including Judaism and Hinduism. As H puts it, "She didn't just read a book; she actually went to the churches."📚

📚🗣️👏🏿More to enjoy - Miguel's intro and beef with the usual comparison between Canada's Viola Desmond and Rosa Parks, how Ms. Parks became a resident hero at the OM, the signing. If you missed out, catch author H tomorrow at 11am at the Blackhurst CC! #RosaParksBeyondtheBus📚

📚🚀👳🏾TOMORROW - REMINDER: Please, join author Onyeka Nwelue for his launch of HOW TO SPEAK PUNJABI IN BRAMPTON, 6pm at the Blackhurst C.C.📚

📚🚀📢***CANCELLED EVENT: Please, note that Dez's book launch for his new title DEZ IN JAMAICA, which was scheduled for this Saturday, has been regretfully postponed. Rescheduled date TBA! #ReadDifferently📚

📚🚀SEPT 21:Second Story Press and A Different Booklist invite you to the launch of Morgan Christie & Marley Berot's new book I, TOO, AM HERE, 6:30pm at the Blackhurst CC. Inspired by Langston Hughes's poem "I, Too," Christie's book which explores racism will speak to children in Canada.📚

Up for a trip to Barbados without the hassle of going through customs? Come and join Barbadian authors Andie Davis (LET ME LIBERATE YOU) and Claudia Clarke (CIRCLESQUARE) for an evening of Barbadian fiction at A Different Booklist on Friday, Sept. 13 - 6-8 pm. #CaribLit #AfricanVoices

📚🚀🎉TODAY!👇🏿📚