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Tulsa City-County Library (TCCL) invites Tulsa County residents to join the conversation and participate in One Book, One Tulsa, a community-wide reading initiative focusing on Marjan Kamali\u2019s novel \u201cThe Lion Women of Tehran\u201d and culminating with a free presentation by the author on Friday, July 31 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Central Library, Fifth Street and Denver Avenue. Books will be available for purchasing at the event, courtesy of Magic City Books.<\/p>\n
The annual One Book, One Tulsa event fosters literacy within Tulsa County through this community-wide book reading and encourages conversation about a meaningful work. \u201cThe Lion Women of Tehran\u201d is a New York Times bestseller and explores the deep impact of childhood friendships and how lives are transformed through love and courage.<\/p>\n
Kamali was born in Turkey and spent her early life in several countries, including Turkey, Iran, Germany, Kenya and the United States. She published her debut novel, \u201cTogether Tea,\u201d in 2013. In 2019, she published her sophomore title, \u201cThe Stationery Shop,\u201d to high praise, including being featured as one of NPR\u2019s Best Books of 2019. As an international bestseller, \u201cThe Stationery Shop\u201d has been translated into over 22 languages. This year\u2019s featured title, \u201cThe Lion Women of Tehran,\u201d was published in the summer of 2024 and has since become a New York Times bestseller, been named a winning historical fiction title by the American Library Association\u2019s The Reading List and been translated into 16 languages.<\/p>\n
Tulsans are invited to engage with \u201cThe Lion Women of Tehran\u201d before the One Book, One Tulsa event by checking out a Book Club Kit to host their own discussion group. The kits include eight copies of the book, a discussion guide and Persian treats. Readers can also join online conversations around the book by creating a review on social media and including the hashtag #OneBookOneTulsa. Before the event, Magic City Books, 221 E. Archer St., will have a special display themed around \u201cThe Lion Women of Tehran\u201d and will offer the book at a discounted price.<\/p>\n
One Book, One Tulsa is sponsored by the Tulsa Library Trust. The event is free and open to the public. Copies of \u201cThe Lion Women of Tehran\u201d are available for checkout at the library. To learn more about the event or place a copy of the book on hold, visit\u00a0www.tulsalibrary.org<\/a>\u00a0or call AskUs at 918-549-7323.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tulsa City-County Library (TCCL) invites Tulsa County residents to join the conversation and participate in One Book, One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-188116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}