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A Book a Day presents Children's Day: Little Sprouts, Big Ideas!

Sat, August 23, 2025 1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE

Join us for this kid-friendly, fun and free event!   Select from hundreds of brand new books to take home.  Enjoy read-alouds and make art!  Participating authors include Rosa Chang, Thembi Palmer, Dave White and Stacy Woodson, and artist Alex Smith will offer an art-making…

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Miriam Toews | A Truce That Is Not Peace

Wed, September 3, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Miriam Toews | A Truce That Is Not Peace In Conversation with Katy Waldman “Why do you write?” the organizer of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews-all of them unsatisfactory to the organizer-surfaces…

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Russell Shorto and Molly Beer | Angelica & Taking Manhattan

Thu, September 4, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Russell Shorto and Molly Beer  | Angelica & Taking Manhattan In this enthralling and revealing woman’s-eye view of a revolutionary era, Molly Beer breathes vibrant new life into a period usually dominated by masculine themes and often dulled by…

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Trymaine Lee | A Thousand Ways to Die : The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America

Thu, September 11, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Trymaine Lee | A Thousand Ways to Die : The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America In Conversation with James Peterson A few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked…

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Author Event: Ken Jaworowski's What About the Bodies

Tue, September 16, 2025 5:30 P.M.
Roxborough Library
Cost: FREE

Join us for a reading and Q & A with author Ken Jaworowski. A Philadelphia native, Ken Jaworowski is now an editor at the New York Times and the author of two books, What About the Bodies , and Small Town Sins . He'll read from and answer questions about What About the Bodies , his…

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Sonia Sotomayor | Just Shine!

Tue, September 16, 2025 6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Sonia Sotomayor | Just Shine! Montgomery Auditorium is now sold out, but tickets are still available for a live simulcast screening in a separate room at the Parkway Central Library . From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Just Ask! comes a sweet…

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Blondell Reynolds-Brown | Walking A Tightrope Backward in High Heels

Wed, September 17, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Free

The Author Events Series presents Blondell Reynolds-Brown  | Walking A Tightrope Backward in High Heels  In Conversation with Tamala Edwards From the halls of the Philadelphia City Council to the challenges of motherhood, Blondell Reynolds-Brown's memoir Walking a Tightrope…

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Algarabía: An Epic Poem

Mon, September 22, 2025 5:00 P.M.
Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library
Cost: FREE

Join us for a reading of Roque Raquel Salas Rivera's new book of poetry Algarabía , his trans epic. Salas Rivera will be joined by poets Tongo Eisen-Martin, Raina J. León and Kirwyn Sutherland in celebrating poetry and belonging.

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Ken Follett | Circle of Days

Mon, September 22, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $45.00 (Auditorium, Book)

The Author Events Series presents Ken Follett  | Circle of Days Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Fair, and to find Neen, the girl he loves.…

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Jill Lepore | We the People : A History of the U.S. Constitution

Wed, September 24, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Jill Lepore  | We the People : A History of the U.S. Constitution In Conversation with Kate Shaw Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding—the anniversary, too, of the first state constitutions— We the…

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Steven Pinker | When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .

Thu, September 25, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Steven Pinker  | When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . In Conversation with Annie Duke Common knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right, using paper currency, and coalescing…

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The Truth about Immigration

Mon, September 29, 2025 6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: free

1st Floor, Room 108 Hear Wharton professor Zeke Hernandez's views on a most divisive issue and why he says that successful societies welcome newcomers.  Hernandez is the author of the new book, The Truth about Immigration.  The issue of immigration is causing a rhetorical war…

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Nicholas Boggs | Baldwin: A Love Story

Tue, September 30, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Nicholas Boggs | Baldwin: A Love Story Baldwin: A Love Story , the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writer’s personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material…

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Jeannine A. Cook | It's Me They Follow

Wed, October 1, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Free

The Author Events Series presents Jeannine A. Cook  | It's Me They Follow  An allegorical love story — a modern day Alchemist meets The Never Ending Story —set in a world where a book shopkeeper becomes a reluctant matchmaker, bringing soulmates together through books.…

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Souvankham Thammavongsa | Pick a Color : A Novel

Thu, October 2, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Souvankham Thammavongsa | Pick a Color : A Novel Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They…

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Muhammad Abdul-Hadi | We the Pizza : Slangin' Pies and Savin' Lives

Wed, October 8, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Free

The Author Events Series presents Muhammad Abdul-Hadi | We the Pizza: Slangin' Pies and Savin' Lives  Created and launched by Philly born-and-bred entrepreneur Muhammad Abdul-Hadi, the mission of Down North Pizza is to reduce recidivism rates in North Philly and serve up the most…

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The Aeneid : Translating the Classics with Emily Wilson, Scott McGill, and Susannah Wright

Tue, October 14, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents The Aeneid : Translating the Classics with Emily Wilson, Scott McGill, and Susannah Wright Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil’s Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance,…

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Nic Stone | Boom Town

Thu, October 16, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Nic Stone |  Boom Town  Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl meets P-Valley in Nic Stone’s adult thriller debut about two missing erotic dancers from Atlanta’s most notorious gentlemen's club and the woman committed to finding them. When…

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Harmonia Rosales | Chronicles of Ori : An African Epic

Tue, October 21, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Harmonia Rosales | Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic  In Chronicles of Ori , her debut book, Harmonia Rosales retells the African myths she has long treasured, crafting an enthralling epic that spans the birth of the universe to the modern world of…

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Karine Jean-Pierre | Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines

Wed, October 22, 2025 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00

The Author Events Series presents Karine Jean-Pierre | Independent : A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines In a country obsessed with blind loyalty to a two-party democratic system, Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House press secretary to the Biden-Harris administration,…

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