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Speaker Biography: From the influential New York club, Le Poisson Rouge, and other venues, this genre-bending group melds instumental rock, electronica and classical music in a program of works of Louis Andriessen, Tyondai Braxton, John Adams and Caleb Burhans.

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Speaker Biography: Matthew Reinhart is the co-creator of the "Encyclopedia Prehistorica" and "Encyclopedia Mythologica" series. He has also created many other award-winning pop-up books, including "Mommy?" by Maurice Sendak and Arthur Yorinks and "Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy."

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Speaker Biography: Maya Jasanoff is currently an associate professor of history at Harvard University. Her first book, "Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture and Conquest in the East, 1750???1850," was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous publications, including The Economist, The Guardian and The Sunday Times of London. She was a fellow of the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center, the New York Public Library and the American Council of Learned Societies and has contributed essays to the London Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review of Books. Her latest work is "Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World."

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Speaker Biography: Carol Muske-Dukes is poet laureate of California and a 1998 winner of the Witter Bynner award from the Library of Congress. She is the author of many books of poetry, including "Sparrow,"which was a National Book Award finalist. Her newest works are "Twin Cities" and "Crossing State Lines" (co-edited with Bob Holman). Her work appears widely as a critic for The New York Times Book Review and in The New Yorker and Los Angeles Magazine. Muske-Dukes is a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellow and has been published in Best American Poems.

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Speaker Biography: Wally Amos founded the Read It Loud! Foundation in 2005, urging parents and caregivers to read aloud to children for at least 10 minutes each day from birth to 6 years old. Read It Loud! is partnered with MARSYS, the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, First Book, the Heart of America, the Children's Book Council, the American Library Association and Nemours to launch a national campaign. In 1994 Amos co-founded Uncle Wally's Muffin Company. As founder of Famous Amos Cookies in 1975 and father of the gourmet chocolate chip cookie industry, he has used his fame to support educational cause

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Preorder Velveteen!

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Danny's debut YA fantasy, VELVETEEN, about a serial killer's victim seeking revenge from purgatory, hits the shelves in the Fall of 2012 from Delacorte/Random House.

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