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Story Club
Tue, January 28, 2020
4:00 P.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Create, write, collaborate and read stories with Ms. Scout! Children ages 12 and under. All friends 6 years and under must be accompanied by an adult.
Mandarin Chinese Storytime
Thu, January 30, 2020
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Enjoy stories, songs, music, movements and lots of fun in Mandarin Chinese with Ms. Han from the Philadelphia Chinese Academy for children birth to 5 years old with their caregivers. No prior Chinese language experience necessary.
Eoin Colfer | Highfire
Mon, February 3, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
In conversation with Jon McGoran, author of Splintered Eoin Colfer is the internationally acclaimed author of the Artemis Fowl series, which chronicles the “magical” ( Washington Post ) adventures of a young antihero criminal mastermind. The novels and their companion books have sold…
Adult Reading Club: Color's Blues
Mon, February 10, 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…
John Sayles | Yellow Earth
Mon, February 10, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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Referred to by Roger Ebert as “the conscience of American independent filmmaking,” John Sayles is the writer/director of 18 movies, including Matewan , Lone Star , Eight Men Out , and Passion Fish . In addition to writing more than 100 screenplays, he is the author of four novels and…
Jenny Offill | The Weather
Thu, February 13, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation , “an effortless-seeming downhill ride that picks up astonishing narrative speed as it goes” ( New York Review of Books ), tells the story of a once heady marriage at its breaking point. It was named to scores of 2014 “Best of the…
Sayed Kashua | Track Changes with Isabella Hammad | The Parisian
Tue, February 18, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
“A master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society” ( New York Times ), Sayed Kashua is an Arab Israeli who has lived in Jerusalem for most of his life. He writes a weekly column for Haaretz , published a book of essays titled Native: Dispatches from an…
Gish Jen | The Resisters
Tue, February 25, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Gish Jen’s many novels include Typical American , World and Town , and Mona in the Promised Land . She is also the author of two nonfiction works that explore the differences in East-West notions of art and culture, and her short stories have appeared dozens of publications, including the…
Mandarin Chinese Storytime
Thu, February 27, 2020
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Enjoy stories, songs, music, movements and lots of fun in Mandarin Chinese with Ms. Han from the Philadelphia Chinese Academy for children birth to 5 years old with their caregivers. No prior Chinese language experience necessary.
Adult Reading Club: Color's Blues
Mon, March 2, 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…
James McBride | Deacon King Kong
Wed, March 11, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
“Boisterous, highly entertaining,” and “altogether original” ( Washington Post ), James McBride is the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird , in which a young boy born into slavery joins abolitionist John Brown’s doomed crusade.…
Anne Enright | Actress
Tue, March 17, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Zellerbach Theatre | 3680 Walnut Street
Cost: FREE
Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut Street Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering , “a moving splendor of a novel” ( Boston Globe ) that follows three generations of an Irish family assembled for the funeral of a wayward scion. Acclaimed for their gritty realism, her…
Hilary Mantel | The Mirror and the Light
Tue, March 17, 2020
8:00 P.M.
Zellerbach Theatre | 3680 Walnut Street
Cost: $40/$55 - pre-signed book included with ticket
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Two Tickets/One Book Zellerbach Theatre, 3680 Walnut Street Hilary Mantel won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall , a “darkly brilliant reimagining” ( Boston Globe ) of Thomas Cromwell’s emergence as a power in the court of King Henry…
Mandarin Chinese Storytime
Thu, March 26, 2020
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Enjoy stories, songs, music, movements and lots of fun in Mandarin Chinese with Ms. Han from the Philadelphia Chinese Academy for children birth to 5 years old with their caregivers. No prior Chinese language experience necessary.
Emily St. John Mandel | The Glass Hotel
Thu, March 26, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
A finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling Station 11 vacillates in time between the world that we know and the dystopic travails of a Shakespearean acting troupe in the years following a global plague. Her other novels include…
Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other
Mon, March 30, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $15.00
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Bernardine Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other , “a breathtaking symphony of black women’s voices” that explores the confluences of identity and Britain’s African and Caribbean colonial history. Her other works include the books The…
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…
Mandarin Chinese Storytime
Thu, April 30, 2020
10:30 A.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Enjoy stories, songs, music, movements and lots of fun in Mandarin Chinese with Ms. Han from the Philadelphia Chinese Academy for children birth to 5 years old with their caregivers. No prior Chinese language experience necessary.
Jeanine Cummins | American Dirt
Tue, May 5, 2020
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Lauded for their finely etched characters, deftly intricate plots, and lyrical prose, Jeanine Cummins’s The Outside Boy and The Crooked Branch established her as one of contemporary fiction’s most compelling voices. She is also the author of the bestselling memoir A Rip in Heaven ,…
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…