We aren’t slowing down! Wyoming Rising is proud to host two nationally renowned authors this summer. Please join us for these engaging and informative discussions
Wednesday July 22, 4p.m. at the Powell Library
Book Talk and Discussion with Ben Murphy
HEART MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: The History of a Japanese Relocation Center
by Bernard Murphy and James Murphy
1st place winner of 2025 Wyoming Historical Society’s “Reference Work on a Wyoming Subject or Locale” award in recognition of outstanding accomplishments and contributions to Wyoming’s Legacy. Heart Mountain Chronicles tells the remarkable story of the Wyoming internment camp where 14,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry were confined during World War II. This book focuses on the Heart Mountain Relocation Center itself: its establishment, organization, buildings, and services.
“Never before has information about this vast array of an American concentration camp’s institutions, facilities, and practices been gathered and assembled in one place. Chronicles is written so clearly and illustrated with such fascinating photographs, it will be enjoyed by even the casual reader who wants to learn a bit more about what had once been the third largest city in Wyoming. It deserves to be a foundational reference for anyone interested in what was built and what happened at Heart Mountain.” — Douglas Nelson, author of Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp.
Read more here: https://heartmountainchronicles.com/
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Sunday August 16, 2p.m. at St.John’s Church in Powell
Book Talk and Discussion with Nico Lang
AMERICAN TEENAGER: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era
by Nico Lang
Nico Lang is a nonbinary award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience covering the transgender community’s fight for equality. Thier work has appeared in major publications, including Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, Vox, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, Harper’s Bazaar, Time, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times.
Media coverage tends to sensationalize the fight over how trans kids should be allowed to live, but what is incredibly rare are the voices of the people at the heart of this debate: transgender and gender nonconforming kids themselves. For their groundbreaking new book, journalist Nico Lang spent a year traveling the country to document the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families. Drawing on hundreds of hours of on-the-ground interviews with them and the people in their communities, American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era paints a vivid portrait of what it’s actually like to grow up trans today.
Read more here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207003668-american-teenager
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