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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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Absolute Trash Philadelphia Exhibition Opening
Sat, August 23, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Absolute Trash Philadelphia: An Investigation into the Postwar City, Wall Writing, and Local Media features selections from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Temple University Libraries. Join us for the exhibition opening, which will include light refreshments,…
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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 Conversation with Michelle Craig McDonald In this enthralling and revealing woman’s-eye view of a revolutionary era, Molly Beer breathes vibrant new life into a period usually…
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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. Roque Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto…
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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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Alyssa Reynoso-Morris: Author Visit and Storytime
Mon, September 29, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
Cost: FREE
Join author, Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, for a read aloud of her book Plátanos Are Love! This delicious picture book explores the ways plantains shape Latinx culture, community, and family. Followed by a craft reflecting the themes of the book. Alyssa Reynoso-Morris is a queer Afro-Latine/x…
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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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How to Write and Publish Picture Books
Mon, September 29, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
Cost: FREE
Join Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, author of Plátanos Are Love, for an interactive workshop on how to write and publish picture books. Discussion topics include pathways to becoming an author, creativity, publishing, and finding an agent. This program is meant for adults and teenagers. Alyssa…
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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 In Conversation with Rachel L. Swarms 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…
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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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Hearts and Coffee!
Sat, October 4, 2025
10:00 A.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Skyline Room Have you ever wanted to have coffee (or tea) with a romance author? Join a host of local and national writers for a morning of conversation about love on the page. Hosted by Philadelphia native and USA Today bestselling author Xio Axelrod.
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Alyssa Reynoso-Morris: Author Visit and Storytime
Tue, October 7, 2025
4:00 P.M.
Bustleton Library
Cost: FREE
Join author, Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, for a read aloud of her book Plátanos Are Love! This delicious picture book explores the ways plantains shape Latinx culture, community, and family. Followed by a craft reflecting the themes of the book. Alyssa Reynoso-Morris is a queer Afro-Latine/x…