The Cape Cod Book Festival promises to be a new cultural footprint in Massachusetts for locals and 'washashores' alike - a magical place where charitably minded readers can rub elbows with great writers and thinkers.

Schedule of Events

2pm - 3pm
Authors: Elizabeth Beller, RoseMarie Terenzio and Liz McNeil
Moderator: Alisyn Camerota

Books: JFK JR. and ONCE UPON A TIME (Carolyn Bessette) - 2 biographies

A tribute of the 25 year anniversary of the passing of Cape Cod’s beloved Hyannisport Prince, John F Kennedy, Jr., and his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. We will begin the panel with a 3 minute slide show set to music from a time that was the last of Camelot 1999. Our moderator Alisyn Camerota, is an award winning journalist and author. Her memoir Combat Love will also be available.

3:30pm - 4:30pm, BOOK OF THE YEAR
Author: Don Lemon
Moderator: Dr. Imani Perry

Books:
I ONCE WAS LOST: My Search for God in America - Don Lemon
SOUTH TO AMERICA: Dr. Imani Perry

Dr. Perry, multi award-winning author and Advisor on the Cape Cod Book Festival Board will be in conversation with Don Lemon, our BOOK OF THE YEAR, in a deeply personal follow-up to his #1 best-seller This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism, a modern iconoclast faces a test of faith - and reveals how such tribulations can make us stronger as individuals and as a nation.

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