PBS Books

Markus Zusak | 2019 National Book Festival

Born in Sydney Australia, author Markus Zusak's 2005 young-adult World War II novel 'The Book Thief' won Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Book of the Year and was recently adapted into a film. Last autumn, he published 'Bridge of Clay,' the story of five brothers discovering the secret behind their father's disappearance. He has written six novels.

Markus Zusak | 2019 National Book Festival

15m 40s

  • Readers Club | Rachel Khong: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Readers Club | Rachel Khong

    43m 38s

    In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?

  • “Memory Piece” Author Talk with Lisa Ko: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    “Memory Piece” Author Talk with Lisa Ko

    S2024 E9 - 36m 55s

    Lisa takes us on a road trip through time with Giselle (artist), Jackie (internet tech expert) & Ellen (activist), three lifelong friends whose lives as children growing up in the 80s shaped their prospects as adults at the turn of the millennia.

  • Readers Club | Scott Alexander Howard: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Readers Club | Scott Alexander Howard

    44m 15s

    The Other Valley is Howard’s debut novel. A Goodreads “Most Anticipated Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Book of 2024”, it’s an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future. This thrilling page-turner will make readers ask the question: would you want to know your future if you could? And what would you risk to change it?

WETA Passport

Stream tens of thousands of hours of your PBS and local favorites with WETA Passport whenever and wherever you want. Catch up on a single episode or binge-watch full seasons before they air on TV.