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Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow Author Visit
Tue, February 25, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
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…
Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call
Mon, March 3, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $32.00 (Overflow Simulcast Live Screening)
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
Cost: FREE
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.
Children's Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
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
Cost: $5.00
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.
Literature Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
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
Cost: FREE
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
Cost: $22.00 (Auditorium $5 + Book Price $17)
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: Jill Eicher| Mellon vs. Churchill
Mon, March 17, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Social Science and History Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Virtual Program Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished businessmen of his era, faced the daunting task of collecting the war debts from European governments still devastated by World War I. Dealing with the U.S. Congress and the heads of foreign governments on the world stage became one of…
Laurie Woolever | Care and Feeding: A Memoir
Tue, March 18, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
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,…
Blake Gopnik | The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
Thu, March 20, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
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
Cost: $5.00
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…
Molly Russakoff | Red Tape
Sat, March 29, 2025
2:00 P.M.
Philbrick Hall
at
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Heim Center Room 131/132 Molly Russakoff will read from her self-published novel, Red Tape. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Red Tape is the story of Helen Goldberg, a woman who is overwhelmed by the barrelling changes, greed and consumerism that has taken over…
Maria Shriver | I Am Maria
Wed, April 2, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $30.00 (Overflow Room Live Screening)
The Author Events Series presents Maria Shriver | I Am Maria Tickets to the Montgomery Auditorium are now sold out, but you can still get tickets for the simulcast live screening in Room 108. REGISTER In Conversation with Dr. Martha Beck Please join us in celebrating Maria…
Dr. Anthony Fauci | On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
Thu, April 3, 2025
8:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $36.00 l Live Screening with Book
The Author Events Series presents Dr. Anthony Fauci | On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT! In Conversation with Dave Davies Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous - and most revered - doctor in the world today. His role guiding America…
Arepas for Breakfast: Bilingual Author Storytime!
Mon, April 7, 2025
3:30 P.M.
Wyoming Library
Come meet author Alejandra Rivas Mintz. She will be doing a bilingual book reading of Arepas for Breakfast. This session will be followed by a Q and A and a coloring session. Attendees will receive a copy of the book, limited supplies available. All ages welcome.
Jennifer Haigh | Rabbit Moon
Tue, April 15, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
The Author Events Series presents Jennifer Haigh | Rabbit Moon REGISTER Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically…
Denne Michele Norris | When the Harvest Comes
Thu, April 17, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
The Author Events Series presents Denne Michele Norris | When the Harvest Comes REGISTER The venerated Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis, to be touched by any man, let alone a white man. He did not raise his son to whisper that man’s name with tenderness. But…
Rhodri Lewis | Shakespeare's Tragic Art
Wed, April 23, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
The Author Events Series presents Rhodri Lewis | Shakespeare's Tragic Art REGISTER In Conversation with Emily Wilson In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it—of what drew him toward tragic drama,…
Elie Mystal | Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America
Wed, April 30, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
The Author Events Series presents Elie Mystal | Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America REGISTER In Bad Law, the New York Times bestselling author of Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution brings his trademark legal acumen and passionate…