A Celebration of Books,
Writers & LIterary Excellence

Save the Date

Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 17, 2025

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park

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Kay Redfield Jamison – Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character Tom Oliphant – The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-Year Campaign

Beth Macy – Truevine: Two Brothers and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South

By Jennie Cottrell | Published April 6, 2017

The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back.