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CANCELLED - Bernardine Evaristo
Mon, March 30, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
Our event with Bernardine Evaristo has been cancelled and will not be rescheduled at this time. Full refunds will be issued to all ticket holders.
CANCELLED - Book Discussion Group
Tue, March 31, 2020
2:00 P.M.
Workplace
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Parkway Central Library
Join us every month to discuss books that tackle issues shaping our jobs and the economy. This month we will be talking about Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. An award-winning journalist sets out on the road to explore the new phenomenon of…
CANCELLED - Gallery Walk With Voyages by Road and Sea Co-curator Alex Ames
Fri, April 10, 2020
3:00 P.M.
First Floor Gallery West
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Parkway Central Library
Join co-curator Alex Ames for a 45-minute guided tour of the ​Voyages by Road and Sea exhibition.
CANCELLED - Dalia Sofer | Man of My Time
Thu, April 16, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Dalia Sofer is the author of the National Jewish Book Award finalist The Septembers of Shiraz , a “lyrical and sometimes haunting” ( Miami Herald ) bestselling debut novel about a gem dealer wrongly accused of espionage in the wake of the Iranian revolution. Winner of the PEN/Robert…
CANCELLED - World Builders Author Support and Training Workshop
Sat, April 18, 2020
9:00 A.M.
Parkway Central Library
Writers - Bring you curiosity and leave inspired. The limit is your imagination. Dare to chip away writer's block with exciting tips, tools and insightful feedback. Please bring a current project or start a new one. Read time: 5-10 minutes per participant. Meeting will be held on…
CANCELLED - Book Discussion Group
Tue, April 21, 2020
2:00 P.M.
Workplace
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Parkway Central Library
Join us every month to discuss books that tackle issues shaping our jobs and the economy. This month we will be talking about Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the…
CANCELLED - Ottessa Moshfegh | Death in Her Hands with Taffy Brodesser-Akner | Fleishman Is in Trouble
Thu, April 23, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Eileen , Ottessa Moshfegh ’s “always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious” ( Washington Post ) novel about a young woman trapped between equally bleak work and home lives, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and was shortlisted for the…
CANCELLED - Jeanine Cummins | American Dirt
Tue, May 5, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
EVENT CANCELLED.
Susan Choi | Trust Exercise with Jacqueline Woodson | Red at the Bone
Thu, May 7, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for fiction, Trust Exercise follows a star-crossed suburban teen romance in a 1980s performing arts high school. Susan Choi ’s novels are known for excavating the hidden corners of the human heart and acclaimed for their “nuance, psychological…
Seanan McGuire | Middlegame and Imaginary Numbers
Thu, May 14, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
One of contemporary sci-fi/fantasy’s most popular writers, Seanan McGuire won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards for the Wayward Children series of books. Also the author of, among other books, the October Day series and the InCryptid series, she writes science fiction/horror under the pen…
World Builders Author Support and Training Workshop
Sat, May 16, 2020
9:00 A.M.
Parkway Central Library
Writers - Bring you curiosity and leave inspired. The limit is your imagination. Dare to chip away writer's block with exciting tips, tools and insightful feedback. Please bring a current project or start a new one. Read time: 5-10 minutes per participant. Meeting will be held on…
Adult Reading Club: Color's Blues
Mon, June 8, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Education Philosophy and Religion Department
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Parkway Central Library
Join us in the Education, Philosophy & Religion Department as we read and discuss Philadelphia author, Lee Ruben's novel, which delves into the steamy underworld during the Harlem Renaissance era. Copies of the book chapters will be available. Snacks will be provided. To register…
World Builders Author Support and Training Workshop
Sat, June 20, 2020
9:00 A.M.
Parkway Central Library
Writers - Bring you curiosity and leave inspired. The limit is your imagination. Dare to chip away writer's block with exciting tips, tools and insightful feedback. Please bring a current project or start a new one. Read time: 5-10 minutes per participant. Meeting will be held on…
World Builders Author Support and Training Workshop
Sat, July 18, 2020
9:00 A.M.
Parkway Central Library
Writers - Bring you curiosity and leave inspired. The limit is your imagination. Dare to chip away writer's block with exciting tips, tools and insightful feedback. Please bring a current project or start a new one. Read time: 5-10 minutes per participant. Meeting will be held on…
World Builders Author Support and Training Workshop
Sat, August 15, 2020
9:00 A.M.
Parkway Central Library
Writers - Bring you curiosity and leave inspired. The limit is your imagination. Dare to chip away writer's block with exciting tips, tools and insightful feedback. Please bring a current project or start a new one. Read time: 5-10 minutes per participant. Meeting will be held on…
Voyages by Road and Sea
Now through Sun, August 30, 2020
8:00 A.M.
First Floor Gallery West
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Parkway Central Library
Voyages by Road and Sea explores the legacies of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville through contemporary voices and art in Parkway Central Library's West Gallery. Marking the bicentennial years for both Whitman and Melville, Voyages examines the personal and literary journeys of these two…