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A Soaring Season: The Story of the 2003-04 Saint Joseph's Hawks: Q &A Book Talk with author Aaron Bracy
Sat, February 22, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Wynnefield Library
For his new book, A Soaring Season: The Incredible, Inspiring Story of the 2003-04 Saint Joseph's Hawks (Brookline), Aaron Bracy did exhaustive research and more than 100 interviews with 90 people to recount how the 2003–04 Saint Joseph’s University Hawks men’s basketball…
Author Event: Amy Jane Cohen
Sat, February 22, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Black Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia's history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape , Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia from the late 1600s to the 1960s and how this history is marked in the contemporary…
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow Author Visit
Tue, February 25, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us for a pre-Ramadan visit with Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow. Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow is a Philadelphia-based author of popular educator-recommended children’s books. She is a two-time winner of the Muslim Bookstagram picture book award, and she has earned the prestigious…
Sophia Rosenfeld | The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
Tue, February 25, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Sophia Rosenfeld | The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life REGISTER In Conversation with Emily Wilson Ellis Wachs Memorial Endowed Lecture Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to…
Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call
Mon, March 3, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call Tickets to the Montgomery Auditorium are now sold out, but you can still get tickets for the simulcast live screening in Room 108. REGISTER We all feel it--the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive…
Women's History Month Author Event: Karen Bojar
Tue, March 4, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Join us for a Q & A and book signing with author Karen Bojar! This inspired book traces the origins adn history of socialist feminism through the important visions and contributions of twelve amazing activists who influenced movements across Europe and the US. Karen Bojar is Professor…
Julie Fortenberry Author Visit
Thu, March 6, 2025
12:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us in welcoming author and illustrator, Julia Fortenberry. Julia has an MFA from Hunter College. Her paintings have been in the Whitney Museum of Art. Now she paints and writes for children. Astronaut Sisters, her newest book, has just been released. This event will…
Lauren Francis-Sharma | Casualties of Truth
Thu, March 6, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Lauren Francis-Sharma | Casualties of Truth REGISTER In Conversation with Airea D. Matthews Prudence Wright seems to have it all: a loving husband, Davis; a spacious home in Washington, D.C.; and the former glories of a successful career at McKinsey, which…
A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250
Sat, March 8, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Juliette Wells will offer a sneak preiew of the Morgan Library & Museum's upcoming Austen exhibition, "A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250,"for which she is the guest co-curator. The exhibition will run from June 6 to September 14, 2025, and offers the once-in-a-lifetime…
Author Talk: Bill Konstant
Tue, March 11, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Join local author and wildlife biologist as we discuss Jewel of the Wissahickon: Rewilding the Dixon Meadow , by Bill Konstant and Glenn Mason. The Dixon Meadow Preserve is 14 acres of former farmland on the Wissahickon Creek that was rewilded into a nature preserve. There will also be a…
Joshua Bennett | Spoken Word: A Cultural History
Thu, March 13, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Joshua Bennett | Spoken Word: A Cultural History REGISTER In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for the Obamas, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin-Manuel Miranda declaimed the…
Author Talk: Marcy Norton | The Tame and the Wild
Tue, March 18, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Room 108 Join University of Pennsylvania Historian Marcy Norton , to discuss her dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. Surekha Davies, in Nature , calls it “A meticulous…
Laurie Woolever | Care and Feeding: A Memoir
Tue, March 18, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Laurie Woolever | Care and Feeding: A Memoir REGISTER In Conversation with Reem Kassis In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications,…
Fawn Weaver | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
Wed, March 19, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Fawn Weaver | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest REGISTER In Conversation with Michelle Miller Embark on a captivating journey with Love &…
Blake Gopnik | The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
Thu, March 20, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Blake Gopnik | The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream REGISTER Endowed Lecture Sheldon & Jill Bonovitz A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to…
Samantha Harvey | Orbital
Mon, March 24, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Samantha Harvey | Orbital REGISTER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of…
Noliwe Rooks | Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children
Wed, March 26, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Noliwe Rooks | Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children REGISTER In Conversation with Benjamin Herold On May 17, 1954 the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Heralded…
Kay Healy Author Visit
Thu, March 27, 2025
12:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us to welcome author Kay Healy as she discusses her new graphic novel, Casey's Cases: The Mysterious New Girl. This event will take place in the Montgomery Auditorium.
Peter Wolf | Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
Thu, March 27, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Peter Wolf | Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses REGISTER Peter Wolf grew up in the Bronx, a child of "fellow travelers" whose artistic inclinations influenced both his love of music and his initial desire to…
Motive: The Essence of Mystery (Authors Panel and Discussion)
Sat, March 29, 2025
12:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us in Room 108 on the First Floor of the Library! Motive: The Essence of Mystery Without a motive, there would be no story because there would be no crime. What is your process to ensure that the reader recognizes and relates to the criminal’s and the sleuth’s…