Headshots at the BRIC!

Wed, July 10, 2019 5:00 P.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center at Parkway Central Library

Get a FREE headshot photo taken at the Business Resource and Innovation Center (BRIC)! Headshots are a new service for entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals, job seekers, and more! Use your photo to enhance your professional portfolio and make your LinkedIn profile stand out among the…

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Book To Movie Night-BlackKklansman

Wed, July 10, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Our first film series for 2019 asks the question: what was better, the book or the movie? BlackKklansman will be the fourth movie of this four-part series. The movie will begin promptly at 6:00 pm.  Please register at Eventbrite: https://books2moviespikelee.eventbrite.com Parkway…

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Headshots at the BRIC!

Thu, July 11, 2019 11:00 A.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center at Parkway Central Library

Get a FREE headshot photo taken at the Business Resource and Innovation Center (BRIC)! Headshots are a new service for entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals, job seekers, and more! Use your photo to enhance your professional portfolio and make your LinkedIn profile stand out among the…

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Mary Pope Osborne | Magic Tree House: To the Future, Ben Franklin! with Natalie Pope Boyce

Thu, July 11, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $13.99--book with ticket

Tickets on sale Tuesday, April 23 at 10:00 a.m. Mary Pope Osborne is the prolific author of the beloved Magic Tree House series of children’s books. Featuring time-traveling brother and sister Jack and Annie, the wildly popular books have been translated into nearly three dozen languages…

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Making Pictures: Hands-on History at The Free Library, Parkway Central

Sat, July 13, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department at Parkway Central Library

Making Pictures Art-makers have told stories through their pictures for at least 20,000 years. We won't have anything as old as the Lascaux cave paintings, but come explore 500 years of narrative art from the Rare Book Department's collections. This program will let visitors get an…

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Andrew Shaffer | Hope Rides Again: An Obama Biden Mystery

Mon, July 15, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

They’re back! In Andrew Shaffer’s sequel to the New York Times bestseller Hope Never Dies , the bromantic thriller that saw the former president and vice president tumble down a Delaware rabbit hole of conspiracy and murder, Obama and Biden are once again drawn into a web of intrigue…

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Julie Salamon | An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer

Tue, July 16, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Exploring an astonishing range of genres and subject matter, Julie Salamon is the author of a score of novels, children’s books, and nonfiction books. Initially a longtime banking reporter and film critic for the Wall Street Journal , then a TV critic and arts reporter at the New York…

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S.A.G.A. CLUB

Thu, July 18, 2019 3:30 P.M.
Teen Center at Parkway Central Library

S.A.G.A, short for Sexuality and Gender Acceptance, is the new Youth G.S.A. (Gay Straight Alliance) located at the Field Teen Center at the Parkway Central Library. Please invite any friends that would be interested supporting Queer communities! Program for teens ages 12-18. Snacks will be…

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Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake | The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

Thu, July 18, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Veteran counterterrorism czar and one of the world’s leading experts on cyberspace security, Richard A. Clarke worked for seven presidents and devoted three decades of his professional life to combating threats to the United States. He is the author of four novels and four nonfiction…

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Self-Care Saturday

Sat, July 20, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Teen Center at Parkway Central Library

12:00 p.m. -2:00 p.m. in the Field Teen Center, Ground Floor. Come take time for yourself as we explore efforts and crafts to help meet our physical, emotional, and mental health needs.   Program for teens ages 12-18 only. Contact TeenCenter@freelibrary.org or call 215-686-5395 for more…

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Science in the Summer 2019 - Science of Me!

Thu, July 25, 2019 10:00 A.M.
Children's Department at Parkway Central Library

GSK Science in the Summer™  is a fun and free science education program sponsored by GSK and administered by The Franklin Institute, which introduces students to the wonderful and fascinating world of science. Through classes held in local public libraries and…

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Harriet A. Washington | A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

Thu, July 25, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Harriet A. Washington won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Medical Apartheid , a far-reaching history of medical experimentation on black Americans from the colonial era to present day. Also the author of Deadly Monopolies and Infectious Madness , she has been a Research Fellow in…

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Self-Care Saturday

Sat, August 3, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Teen Center at Parkway Central Library

12:00 p.m. -2:00 p.m. in the Field Teen Center, Ground Floor. Come take time for yourself as we explore efforts and crafts to help meet our physical, emotional, and mental health needs.   Program for teens ages 12-18 only. Contact TeenCenter@freelibrary.org or call 215-686-5395 for more…

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At These Crossroads: The Legacies of Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois

Now through Sat, August 3, 2019 6:51 P.M.
First Floor Gallery West at Parkway Central Library

Like others of their generations, and ours, Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois found themselves at the crossroads of belonging and not, of loving their nation and feeling rejected by it, of being both black and American. This special exhibition, on display in the West Gallery, invites you…

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Terry McAuliffe | Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism

Mon, August 5, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

The Democratic governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018, Terry McAuliffe “won praise even from Republicans for his tireless salesmanship” ( Washington Post ) of the Old Dominion. A former chair of the National Governors Association, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee,…

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Big Kids (age 2-5) Story Time -

Tue, August 6, 2019 11:00 A.M.
Children's Department at Parkway Central Library

Stories, songs, rhymes, music, movement, and lots of fun for children ages 2-5 and their caregivers. Tuesdays at 11:00 a.m. Stay for Play Group on Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. 

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Richard Russo | Chances Are . . . with Amy Hempel | Sing to It: New Stories

Tue, August 6, 2019 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his novel  Empire Falls , Richard Russo is acclaimed for capturing the “foolishness of this lonely world, but also the humor, friendship and love that abide” ( San Francisco Chronicle ). His novel Nobody’s Fool , starring the…

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Headshots at the BRIC!

Wed, August 7, 2019 5:00 P.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center at Parkway Central Library

Get a FREE headshot photo taken at the Business Resource and Innovation Center (BRIC)! Headshots are a new service for entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals, job seekers, and more! Use your photo to enhance your professional portfolio and make your LinkedIn profile stand out among the…

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Headshots at the BRIC!

Thu, August 8, 2019 11:00 A.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center at Parkway Central Library

Get a FREE headshot photo taken at the Business Resource and Innovation Center (BRIC)! Headshots are a new service for entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals, job seekers, and more! Use your photo to enhance your professional portfolio and make your LinkedIn profile stand out among the…

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Reading with your fingertips: Hands-on History at the Free Library of Philadelphia

Sat, August 10, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department at Parkway Central Library

Read with your fingertips, and learn about the history of braille, raised type, and moon type. This program is for all ages. This program is part of the Hands-on History series and the Our 5 Senses exhibition on display in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of…

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