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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 Embark on a captivating journey with Love & Whiskey. New York Times bestselling…
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 A fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America's soul. From prominent critic…
Samantha Harvey | Orbital
Mon, March 24, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Samantha Harvey | Orbital REGISTER 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 men traveling through space. Selected for one of…
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 On May 17, 1954 the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education determined that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. Heralded as a massive victory for civil rights,…
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…
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…
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…
Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Thu, April 24, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Rebecca Romney | Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend REGISTER Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that…
Paul Muldoon | Joy in Service on Rue Tagore: Poems
Wed, May 14, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Paul Muldoon | Joy in Service on Rue Tagore: Poems REGISTER Since his 1973 debut, New Weather, Paul Muldoon has created some of the most original and memorable poetry of the past half century. Joy in Service on Rue Tagore sees him writing with the…
Omar Tyree | Flyy Girl
Thu, June 5, 2025
7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
The Author Events Series presents Omar Tyree | Flyy Girl REGISTER The bestselling urban classic novel about a young woman coming of age in the late 1980s. Tracy Ellison, a young knockout with tall hair and attitude, is living life as fast as she can. Motivated by the material world, she and her…