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Children of Anguish & Anarchy with Tomi Adeyemi

A Know Your Power Teen Arts Contest Special Event

DC Public Library is excited to host #1 New York Times bestselling author, Tomi Adeyemi, for her book Children of Anguish & Anarchy, the highly anticipated and final book in the trilogy.

One of the most exciting books of the summer, and we're hosting the author, right here in DC at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library downtown. Grab your teens & come out for a thrilling evening!

This program in partnership with Mahogany Books and the DC Public Library Foundation for their generous support of this event.

Guests ages 13-19 can use code KNOWYOURPOWER24 for a FREE ticket and complementary copy of the book, care of the DC Public Library Foundation and the KNOW YOUR POWER Teen Arts Contest.

Want to catch up before Book 3?

Check out the first book in the series that started it all Children of Blood & Bone & the sequel Children of Virtue & Vengence at your neighborhood library.

For reasonable accommodations, please contact the Center for Accessibility at 202-727-2142 or DCPLaccess@dc.gov. For ASL or tactile interpretation, please allow at least seven (7) days notice.

About The Book

Featuring gorgeous designed edges, dazzling metallic foil designs on the jacket and case, and an exclusive endpaper map that reveals new unexplored territories, Tomi Adeyemi’s #1 New York Times-bestselling Legacy of Orïsha series comes to an earth-shaking conclusion.

New allies rise.
The Blood Moon nears.
Zélie faces her final enemy.
The king who hunts her heart.

When Zélie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zélie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland.

Then everything changes when Zélie meets King Baldyr, her true captor, the ruler of the Skulls, and the man who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her. Baldyr’s quest to harness Zélie’s strength sends Zélie, Amari, and Tzain searching for allies in unknown lands.

But as Baldyr closes in, catastrophe charges Orïsha’s shores. It will take everything Zélie has to face her final enemy and save her people before the Skulls annihilate them for good.

About The Author

Named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Tomi Adeyemi is a Hugo- and Nebula Award–winning Nigerian American writer and storyteller based in New York, New York. After graduating from Harvard University with an honors degree in English literature, she studied West African mythology, religion, and culture in Salvador, Brazil. Her first novel, Children of Blood and Bone, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Its highly anticipated sequel, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, also debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Tomi’s Legacy of Orïsha trilogy is being developed into a feature film by Paramount Pictures with Gina Prince-Bythwood of The Woman King set to direct. Tomi can be found teaching creative writing online at thewritersroadmap.net. In 2020, she was named one of Forbes’s 30 Under 30 in Media, and her website was named one of the 101 Best Websites for writers by Writer’s Digest. Learn more at tomiadeyemi.com

Event guidelines are subject to change.

• Books will be pre-signed.
• Parking is limited. Ridesharing highly encouraged.
• For reasonable accommodations, please contact the Center for Accessibility at 202-727-2142 or DCPLaccess@dc.gov. 
• Photographs may be taken during the event WITHOUT FLASH.

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