Upcoming Events
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Laurie Woolever | Care and Feeding: A Memoir
Tue, March 18, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
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,…
Fawn Weaver | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
Wed, March 19, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Fawn Weaver | Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest REGISTER In Conversation with Michelle Miller Embark on a captivating journey with Love &…
Blake Gopnik | The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
Thu, March 20, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Blake Gopnik | The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream REGISTER In Conversation with Dr. Alison Boyd Endowed Lecture Sheldon & Jill Bonovitz A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose…
Author Event: Amy Saul-Zerby
Sat, March 22, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Join us for a reading, chat, and Q & A with local poet and writer Amy Saul-Zerby. Amy Saul-Zerby is the author of Paper Flowers, Imaginary Birds, Deep Camouflage , and Choose Your Own Beginning . Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus, The Chicago Review of Books, American Poetry Review,…
Meet the Author: Curtis Chin 陳國材| Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Mon, March 24, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Independence Library
A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write comedy for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at…
Hope and Struggle in the Policed City
Mon, March 24, 2025
5:30 P.M.
Roxborough Library
Join us for an author talk with Menika Dirkson, author of Hope and Struggle in the Policed City . Menika Dirkson is a Philadelphia native and an Assistant Professor of African American History at Morgan State University. She received her PhD in History from Temple University. Her research…
Samantha Harvey | Orbital
Mon, March 24, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Samantha Harvey | Orbital REGISTER In Conversation with Katy Waldman WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and…
Noliwe Rooks | Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children
Wed, March 26, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Noliwe Rooks | Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children REGISTER In Conversation with Benjamin Herold On May 17, 1954 the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Heralded…
Kay Healy Author Visit
Thu, March 27, 2025
12:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us to welcome author Kay Healy as she discusses her new graphic novel, Casey's Cases: The Mysterious New Girl. This event will take place in the Montgomery Auditorium.
Peter Wolf | Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses
Thu, March 27, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Peter Wolf | Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses REGISTER Peter Wolf grew up in the Bronx, a child of "fellow travelers" whose artistic inclinations influenced both his love of music and his initial desire to…
Motive: The Essence of Mystery (Authors Panel and Discussion)
Sat, March 29, 2025
12:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Join us in Room 108 on the First Floor of the Library! Motive: The Essence of Mystery Without a motive, there would be no story because there would be no crime. What is your process to ensure that the reader recognizes and relates to the criminal’s and the sleuth’s…
Molly Russakoff | Red Tape
Sat, March 29, 2025
2:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Heim Center Room 131/132 Molly Russakoff will read from her self-published novel, Red Tape. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Red Tape is the story of Helen Goldberg, a woman who is overwhelmed by the barrelling changes, greed and consumerism that has taken over…
Maria Shriver | I Am Maria
Wed, April 2, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Maria Shriver | I Am Maria Tickets to the Montgomery Auditorium are now sold out, but you can still get tickets for the simulcast live screening in Room 108. REGISTER In Conversation with Dr. Martha Beck Please join us in celebrating Maria…
Dr. Anthony Fauci | On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
Thu, April 3, 2025
8:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Dr. Anthony Fauci | On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT! In Conversation with Dave Davies Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous - and most revered - doctor in the world today. His role guiding America…
Author Event: Building a Business through Branding, Storytelling and People Power
Sat, April 5, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Falls of Schuylkill Library
Please join us for an author event with Cathy Goodwin and Alex Hillman. Cathy Goodwin is the author of Grow Your Business One Story at a Time (2017), and the more recently published book Your Mess Is Not Your Message: Branding Strategies for Solopreneurs (2025). As a marketing strategist, she…
Larry Magid | The Philadelphia Music Book
Tue, April 8, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Larry Magid | The Philadelphia Music Book REGISTER In Conversation with Sam Katz The Philadelphia Music Book: Sounds of a City is a 340 page coffee table book that contains 284 bios of musicians and music industry people from Philadelphia who have made a…
Katie Kitamura | Audition
Wed, April 9, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Katie Kitamura | Audition: A Novel REGISTER In Conversation with Adam Dalva One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love. Two people meet…
Jennifer Haigh | Rabbit Moon
Tue, April 15, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Jennifer Haigh | Rabbit Moon REGISTER Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak get a phone call no parent is prepared for: their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey, teaching English in China during a college gap year, has been critically…
Denne Michele Norris | When the Harvest Comes
Thu, April 17, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Denne Michele Norris | When the Harvest Comes REGISTER The venerated Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis, to be touched by any man, let alone a white man. He did not raise his son to whisper that man’s name with tenderness. But…
Jaap de Roode | Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves
Tue, April 22, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Jaap de Roode | Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves REGISTER In Conversation with Bethany Brookshire Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature's pharmacy to heal…