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Caroline Eden | Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
Thu, January 16, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
The Author Events Series presents Caroline Eden | Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels REGISTER In Conversation with Jonathan Deutsch From the author of Red Sands, a New Yorker "Best Cookbook of the Year," a cozy, thoughtful memoir recalling food and travel in Eastern Europe…
Author Talk: Ken Kalfus
Sat, January 18, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Cost: FREE
Join us in conversation with local author and journalist Ken Kalfus. Three of his books have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Brimming with mystery, suspense, and distinctive comic irony, 2 A.M. in Little America poses several questions vital to the current…
Hope and Struggle in the Policed City
Sat, January 18, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Joseph E. Coleman Northwest Regional Library
Cost: FREE
Join us for a book reading with Menika Dirkson, PhD, historian and lifelong Germantown resident whose new work explores Philly's history of black criminalization and resistance from the Civil Rights Era through the 1970s. (Published by NYU Press, 2024).
Abortion & Women's Rights 1970: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Tue, January 21, 2025
6:00 P.M.
Social Science and History Department
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Parkway Central Library
4th Floor Skyline Room The Social Science & History Department will screen Abortion & Women's Rights 1970 , the first documentary made in the U.S. about the struggle for abortion rights. Following the 28-minute film will be a panel discussion about the film, its historical context,…
Julia Fortenberry Author Visit
Thu, January 23, 2025
12:30 P.M.
Children's Department
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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…
Juan Williams | New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement
Tue, January 28, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
The Author Events Series presents Juan Williams | New Prize for These Eyes REGISTER In New Prize for These Eyes, award-winning author Juan Williams shines a light on this historic, new movement. Who are its heroes? Where is it headed? What fires, furies, and frustrations distinguish it from its…
The Literature Department presents: Louis Parascandola - A Black Philadelphia Reader
Sat, February 1, 2025
1:00 P.M.
Literature Department
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Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Louis J. Parascandola is a Professor of Humanities at Long Island University, Brooklyn. He has published several books on Black authors including Eric Walrond, Gwendolyn Bennett, J. A. Rogers, and Amy Jacques Garvey. He is currently working on two projects, one a collection of the writings of…
Destined: A Story of Resilience and Beating the Odds, Aminata Sy in conversation with Cherri Gregg
Mon, February 3, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Lucien E. Blackwell West Philadelphia Regional Library
Cost: FREE
Join us for an evening with Philadelphia author and American diplomat, Aminata Sy , in conversation with award-winning journalist, Cherri Gregg . Aminata Sy left Senegal in 2001, starting a new life in Philadelphia with the challenges of being a high school dropout who did not speak English. In…
Author Event: Menika Dirkson's Hope and Struggle in the Policed City
Tue, February 4, 2025
5:00 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Cost: FREE
Hope and Struggle in the Policed City: Black Criminalization and Resistance in Philadelphia explores how concerns about poverty-induced Black crime cultivated by police, journalists, and city officials sparked a rise in tough-on-crime policing in Philadelphia. Dirkson's book reveals…
John Sayles | To Save the Man
Mon, February 10, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
The Author Events Series presents John Sayles | To Save the Man REGISTER In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle School, a military-style boarding school for Indians in Pennsylvania, founded and run by Captain Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt considers himself a…
Author Event: Wendy Horwitz's Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments
Tue, February 11, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Chestnut Hill Library
Cost: FREE
In Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments , Wendy A. Horwitz shares stories about celebration, loss, change,and the best way to open a pomegranate. With observations from nature, religion, and literature, Horwitz explores how ritual can exalt ordinary moments and frame the…
Senator Ron Wyden | It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change
Tue, February 11, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
The Author Events Series presents Senator Ron Wyden | It Takes Chutzpah: How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change REGISTER Endowed Lecture: Pine Tree Foundation It Takes Chutzpah is an inspirational call to action by a senior U.S. politician, describing how Americans of…
Marlene Daut | The First and Last King of Haiti
Thu, February 13, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
The Author Events Series presents Marlene Daut | The First and Last King of Haiti REGISTER In Conversation with Grace Sanders Johnson Slave, revolutionary, traitor, king, and suicide, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born in 1767 to an enslaved…
Rick Steves | On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
Tue, February 18, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $30.00
The Author Events Series presents Rick Steves | On the Hippie Trail Montgomery Auditorium is now sold out, but tickets are still available for a live simulcast screening in Room 108 at the Parkway Central Library. REGISTER Meelya Gordon Memorial Endowed Lecture Stow away with Rick Steves for a…
Katherine Stewart | Money, Lies, and God
Wed, February 19, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $5.00
The Author Events Series presents Katherine Stewart | Money, Lies and God REGISTER In Conversation with Anthea Butler Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings,…
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow Author Visit
Tue, February 25, 2025
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Join us for a special 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 Walter,…
Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call
Mon, March 3, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $40.00 Auditorium with Book
The Author Events Series presents Chris Hayes | The Sirens’ Call REGISTER We all feel it--the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they're us. We stare in…
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…
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…
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,…