The Medford Public Library presents a virtual talk with author Sasha Issenberg about his book "The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage." On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In his book, Issenberg traces same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable. A former Washington bureau…

The Medford Public Library presents a virtual talk with author Nancy Horan about her book "The House of Lincoln." Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller "Loving Frank," returns with a sweeping historical novel that tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln’s home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal. Register through the library's online calendar to receive the Zoom…