Richard Vague | A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises

Mon, October 7, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00
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In conversation with Joe Torsella, State Treasurer for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Venture capitalist and longtime Philadelphia-area philanthropist Richard Vague serves on the Penn Medicine board, is Chairman of the University of Pennsylvania Press, and is the president of the Philadelphia…

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Know Your Courts-Orphan's Court (Estates, Wills, Trusts)

Tue, October 8, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Northeast Regional Library

Court rules and processes are often intimidating and unfamiliar. Learn about Orphans’ Court, which actually deals with Guardianship, Wills, and disputes relating to Estates and Trusts. Learn the basics of this court system, in a program designed to bring you awareness, so that you can…

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Debbie Harry | CANCELED | ALL TICKETS AND FEES WILL BE REFUNDED

Tue, October 8, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street

Cost: $46 Orchestra/$44 Balcony - pre-signed book included with ticket

EVENT CANCELED Debbie Harry in conversation with Blondie co-founder and renowned photographer Chris Stein, and multidisciplinary artist and director, Rob Roth—accompanied by a visual presentation. Debbie Harry is an acclaimed musician, actor, and style icon. As the frontwoman for the…

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Cleo Wade | Where to Begin

Tue, October 8, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $26 - book included with ticket-advance purchase recommended

Join the Free Library's Authors Up Close series for a reading and book signing by bestselling author Cleo Wade, as she reads from her new book:  Where to Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World. Cleo Wade is an artist and poet. Her work…

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Artist talk: Matthew Colaizzo

Thu, October 10, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Art Department at Parkway Central Library

Matthew Colaizzo explores our relationship with the landscape as a curated experience through his drawings and prints.The inspiration for the drawings comes from places of land management both small scale and industrial, from roadwork to mining and quarrying. The dirt pile, large and…

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Susan Rice | Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For

Thu, October 10, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00; $35.00 with book
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In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013 and President Obama’s national security advisor from 2013 to 2017, Susan Rice has been at the forefront of some of the 21st century’s most…

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Life at Sea: A Rare Book Voyage

Sat, October 12, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department at Parkway Central Library

Life at Sea: A Rare Book Voyage Join us for an afternoon voyage into the Free Library of Philadelphia’s rare book collections. We’ll page through books about pirates printed in the 1600s and 1700s, look at children’s books about whales and sea monsters, and even study a Bible…

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Battle of the Bulge Lecture

Sat, October 12, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Northeast Regional Library

Historian Bobby Edoo will talk about the strategies, tactics, order of battle, timeline and weapons of the Allies and Germans. Free. No registration required.

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Ardrossan : the last great estate on the Philadelphia Main Line

Tue, October 15, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Social Science and History Department at Parkway Central Library

Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019   6:00-8:00 PM Independent scholar David Nelson Wren will bring to life Ardrossan, the last great estate on the Main Line in this presentation on his sumptuous book on the estate and the Montgomery family who lived in it. The family and estate provided the…

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William Penn's 375th Birthday

Tue, October 15, 2019 6:30 P.M.
Andorra Library

Come and enjoy an inspiring and interactive slide presentation on William Penn's life, contributions and legacy.   William Penn, a non-violent Quaker revolutionary, founded Pennsylvania in 1682 without firing a single shot and without building a single fort!  He did it with…

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Tim O’Brien | Dad’s Maybe Book

Tue, October 15, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $47/$32 - two seats + book/seat + book
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In conversation with Andy Kahan, director, author events “As good as any piece of literature can get” ( Chicago Sun Times ), Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and stands as perhaps the…

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Bill Bryson | The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Wed, October 16, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $50/$35 - two seats + book/seat + book
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Auditorium sold out; in-house simulcast tickets available Bill Bryson is the bestselling author of the wiseacre travelogues  A Walk in the Woods  and  I’m a Stranger Here Myself . His other strolls through language, the history of science, his adopted British homeland, and…

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Adam Rippon | Beautiful on the Outside

Thu, October 17, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $15.00; $34.00 with book
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In conversation with award-winning broadcaster, Tracey Matisak The first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a winter Olympics medal, Adam Rippon earned bronze as part of the figure skating team event at the 2018 games. He was also the winner of the 2016 U.S. National Championships and the 2010…

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Hoda Kotb | I Really Needed This Today: Words to Live By

Fri, October 18, 2019 1:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $29--book included with ticket
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The co-anchor of the flagship hour of the venerable Today show, Hoda Kotb has also been a Dateline correspondent for the past 21 years. Her New York Times –bestselling books include Ten Years Later and Hoda , and the children’s books I’ve Loved You Since Forever and You Are My…

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Author Talk: David Young

Sat, October 19, 2019 3:00 P.M.
Philadelphia City Institute

Germantown's historic sites use public history, and provide leadership to motivate residents in an area challenged by job loss, population change, and institutional inertia.  "The Battles of Germantown" illustrates how understanding and engaging with the past can benefit…

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Patti Smith | Year of the Monkey

Mon, October 21, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St.

Cost: $44 Orchestra/$42 Balcony - book included with ticket
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Patti Smith—dubbed the “punk poet laureate”—won a 2010 National Book Award for  Just Kids , a “moving portrait of the artist as a young woman” ( Los Angeles Times ). Her 1975 debut album,  Horses , is often cited as one of the greatest in music…

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Jeanette Winterson | Frankissstein

Tue, October 22, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary landscape at the age of 25 when she published the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , the coming-of-age tale of a young lesbian rebelling against her conservative English Pentecostal upbringing.  Winterson is also the author of…

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“Giants of the 1950’s: Edward R. Murrow”

Wed, October 23, 2019 11:00 A.M.
Senior Services at Parkway Central Library

“Giants of 1950's” is a four part lecture series convened around journalism, politics, and entertainment during the Golden Age In this first installment we recognize the work of broadcast journalist and World War II correspondent  Edward R. Murrow…

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Shakespeare in the World: Shakespeare and the Supernatural

Wed, October 23, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Lecture is in room 406. Shakespeare’s plays are full of supernatural elements and entities, but how did these fantastic spectacles appear on stage during Shakespeare’s time? What did Shakespeare’s fairies look like? How were ghosts recognized on stage? What were the techniques…

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Shakespeare in the World Lecture Series: Shakespeare and the Supernatural

Wed, October 23, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Lecture will be in room 406. Shakespeare’s plays are full of supernatural elements and entities, but how did these fantastic spectacles appear on stage during Shakespeare’s time? What did Shakespeare’s fairies look like? How were ghosts recognized on stage? What were the…

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