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Highlights for Adults
William D. Cohan | House of Cards
Sunday, April 19, Bank of America Main Stage
"Masterfully reported," according to the Los Angeles Times, William D. Cohan's House of Cards chronicles the shocking fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street, explaining how a combination of risky bets, corporate political infighting, lax government regulations, and awful decision-making wrought havoc on the world financial system. The book is currently #2 on the New York Times Best Sellers List. A former senior Wall Street investment banker, Cohan is the author of the bestseller The Last Tycoons, winner of the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. His writing frequently appears in the Financial Times, Fortune, and the New York Times.
Fun for the Family
Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change
with illustrators James Ransome, Shadra Strickland, and Eric Velasquez
Sunday, April 19, Target Children's Stage
In Our Children Can Soar by Michelle Cook, 13 African-American artists, including award-winning illustrators James Ransome, Shadra Strickland, and Eric Velasquez, pay tribute to the pioneers who helped propel their fellow African-Americans through the civil rights movement and eventually into the White House.
James Ransome won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration for The Creation, the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance Award for The Wagon, and the Southeastern Book Association's Best Book of the Year Award for How Animals Saved the People. Several of his books have been featured on the Public Broadcasting Service programs Reading Rainbow and Storytime. He teaches at the Pratt Institute.
Shadra Strickland won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and the 2009 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for her work on her first children's picture book, Bird, named an ALA Notable Children's Book. She studied design, illustration, and writing at Syracuse University, received her M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in the Illustration as Visual Essay program, and she is currently a freelance illustrator and graphic designer.
Illustrator Eric Velasquez’s body of work comprises more than 300 book jackets and interior illustrations, including the award-winning picture books Journey to Jo'Burg by Beverly Naidoo and Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. He is the recipient of the 1999 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent and his book, The Sound that Jazz Makes, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in children's literature.
Exhibitor Spotlight
The Free Library Festival's Street Fair & Literary Marketplace is the place for readers to discover new writers and explore what's new in the literary world! See the Festival Site Map.
McPherson & Company, Booth #9
I Think Therefore I Read
Founded in 1974, McPherson & Company is an independent publishing house that features literary nonfiction and fiction (contemporary American and British fiction; translated Italian, French, and Spanish fiction), books on the arts and general culture, and a Recovered Classics series. Exhibiting at the Free Library Festival for the third year running, McPherson & Company will feature pre-publication copies of a new novel by Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez, A Thousand Deaths Plus One, as well as their very popular literary t-shirts, including one-of-a-kind tie-dyed versions.
Jerome P. Vanora | John's Song of Life, Booth #20
Framed as a philosophical dialogue between teacher and student centered on the question of whether man's soul or essence is immortal, John's Song of Life is an attempt to reach a conclusion by integrating the many diverse influences in Vanora's life. Inspired by Eastern and Western sources and traditions, as well as years of personal soul searching and his lifelong passion for philosophy, John's Song of Life is "an engrossing new read for new-age philosophers," according to Kirkus Reviews.
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On Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19, 2009, the Free Library hosted its third annual Free Library Festival. Drawing our largest crowd to date--estimated at 35,000!--the Festival presented more than 50 authors, performers, and programs, and 80 exhibitors at the Street Fair and Literary Marketplace. Thanks to our Festival Sponsors, the City of Philadelphia, and the Fairmount Park Commission, to the Free Library staff, and to our more than 200 dedicated Festival Volunteers for another fantastic fest! );)
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