On Tuesday, March 14, award-winnig foreign-policy journalist Stephen Kinzer, will be at the South End library to discuss his latest book, True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire. The South End resident will be introduced by WBUR radio host, Christopher Lydon, who interviewed Kinzer last month on his show, OpenSource. Kinzer's widely reviewed book focuses on an old question hotly debated again today under the Trump Administration, the push and pull of American isolationist and expansionist impulses.

The acclaimed novelist Gish Jen will present her latest book of non-fiction, The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East West Culture Gap on Tuesday, March 28. Jen examines the different ideas Easterners and Westerners have about self and society, as she did in her 2013 Tiger Writing: Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self. Her widely praised works of fiction include Typical American, The Love Wife, Town and Country and Who Is Irish.

Jenna Blum, the New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Stormchasers, will talk on Tuesday April 6 about her novella The Lucky One, part of the story collection Grand Central. Blum, whose perceptive treatment of Holocaust-based stories won her a Ribalow Prize adjudged by Eli Wiesel, will also provide a sneak preview her new novel, The Lost Family, which will be out in early 2018.

Harvard University's famous sociologist and South End library's beloved speaker and patron Sara Lawrence Lightfoot will be back in April. She will read from her 2016 work, Growing Each Other Up: When Our Children Become Our Teachers, on Tuesday, April 18.

This week, as part of the FOSEL Local/Focus program, the Tremont Street window of the South End library will feature an installation by Germaine Choe of her project, Language Together: Stories That Bring Language to Life. The installation demonstrates how story-based immersion learning of foreign languages (including French, Spanish and Chinese) can be fun for kids.

The extraordinary painter and long-time South End resident Paul Goodnight will have an installation in both windows of the library in April, accompanied by an artist talk at a yet-to-be-determined date. Goodnight's award-winning work has been on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of the National Center of African-American Artists and The Smithsonian.

Good news for South End birders: on Tuesday, May 17, WGBH and WCRB radio host Ray Brown will return to the South End library, this time to introduce the Smithsonian Journeys expert birder and naturalist David Clapp for a slide-enhanced program about the Galapagos islands. Clapp is a gifted photographer, lecturer and researcher who has taught at Northeastern and has worked with conservation organizations worldwide for thirty years. South End resident Ray Brown, the radio host of Talkin'Birds has organized a tour of the Galapagos for September with the Sunrise Birding nature excursions company, and will have information available for anyone who might want to join.

And last but not least: the Ninth Annual South End Library Easter Egg Hunt will take place on Sunday, April 16. The bunny has been booked. The eggs have been ordered. The poems and knock-knock jokes are being copied for Easter egg inclusion, with the chocolates. It starts at 11:00 AM. it will be over at 11:05 AM.

More information at, www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org , The South End Library is at 685 Tremont Street, Boston.