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Thien Pham & Briana Loewinsohn Summer Learning Kick-Off Featured Speakers

Graphic novelists Thien Pham & Briana Loewinsohn will help us kick off our Summer Learning Program. They'll both discuss their latest books and sign copies. Books will be available for purchase through Towne Center Books. All ages are welcome!

"Thien Pham is a graphic novelist and educator based in Oakland, CA. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel Sumo and the illustrator for the middle-grade graphic novel Level Up, written by Gene Luen Yang. His graphic novel, Family Style, a memoir about his family's immigration to America told through the lens of food, has been on numerous best-of lists including the Washington Post’s “Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2023” and Publishers Weekly's “20 Books We Love.” Family Style was a finalist for the ALA YALSA Excellence in Non-Fiction and won an Eisner award for Best Memoir Graphic Novel." [Macmillan Publishers, 2026, https://us.macmillan.com/author/thienpham].

"In 2023, Briana Loewinsohn's Ephemera won the Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. In 2025, Raised by Ghosts won the Harvey Award for Best Young Adult Book and was named one of the Best Comic for Adults by the New York Public Library. In 2026, Raised By Ghosts won the ALA award for Outstanding Comics for Young Adults. [Wikipedia, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briana_Loewinsohn].

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