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PHILLY’S IRISH MOB: THE MYTHIC K & A GANG

Mon, October 21, 2024 5:00 P.M.
Holmesburg Library

Cost: FREE

Local author Allen Hornblum, writer of “Confessions of a Second Story Man: Junior Kripplebauer and the K & A Gang,” will give a presentation on the history of the city’s colorful Irish Mob. Former members of the gang will be there to recount their experiences.

Saadia Faruqi Author Visit

Mon, October 21, 2024 6:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Saadia Faruqi is a Pakistani American author and interfaith activist. She writes the popular children’s early reader series “Yasmin” and other books for children, including chapter books, graphic novels, and picture books. Her middle grade novels include “A Place At The…

Malcolm Gladwell | Revenge of the Tipping Point

Thu, October 24, 2024 7:30 P.M.
Congregation Rodeph Shalom

Cost: $50.00

Congregation Rodeph Shalom 615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA  19123 Enter at 1339 Green Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123 The Author Events Series presents Malcolm Gladwell |  Revenge of the Tipping Point  REGISTER In conversation with Michelle Miller In Malcolm…

Maira Kalman | Still Life with Remorse

Tue, October 29, 2024 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Pay What You Wish

From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty, My Favorite Things, and Women Holding Things comes a moving meditation in words and pictures on remorse, joy, ancestry, and memory. REGISTER Maira Kalman's most autobiographical and…

Andre Robert Lee | A Conversation with the Documentary Filmmaker and Author

Wed, November 6, 2024 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Pay What You Wish

The Author Events Series presents Andre Robert Lee | A Conversation with the Documentary Filmmaker and Author REGISTER André Robert Lee most recently served as the Executive Producer of Notes From America With Kai Wright. The show is broadcast from WNYC, the largest public radio station…

Lori Ginzberg | Tangled Journeys

Thu, November 14, 2024 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Pay What You Wish

The Author Events Series presents Lori Ginzberg | Tangled Journeys  REGISTER In conversation with Tamala Edwards In 1830 Richard Walpole Cogdell, a husband, father, and bank clerk in Charleston, South Carolina, purchased a fifteen-year-old enslaved girl, Sarah Martha Sanders. Before her…

Imagine More Story Adventures with Thembi Palmer

Fri, November 15, 2024 12:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Cost: FREE

Join the ever amazing Thembi Palmer of Imagine More: Story Adventures for a fantastic story time! Thembi Palmer is committed to promoting literacy by developing a love of reading and books in young children, pre-K through 4th grade. She collaborates with Philadelphia schools, libraries, museums,…

Judge David Tatel | Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice

Fri, November 15, 2024 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Pay What You Wish

The Author Events Series presents Judge David Tatel |  Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice REGISTER David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are…

Bill Clinton | Citizen: My Life After the White House

Wed, November 20, 2024 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $55.00

The Author Events Series presents Bill Clinton | Citizen: My Life After the White House REGISTER A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all. On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty…

Colin Hamilton | The Discarded

Thu, November 21, 2024 7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: $25.00

The Author Events Series presents Colin Hamilton | The Discarded REGISTER A dazzling array of metafictions, Colin Hamilton’s The Discarded focuses on the lonely work of a solitary librarian assigned to the discard room. This hidden basement space is piled high with books purged from the…

The Intertextual Self: New Approaches to the Memoir

Thu, December 5, 2024 7:00 P.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: Pay What You Wish

The Author Events Series presents The Intertextual Self: New Approaches to the Memoir REGISTER Memoirists most often focus on the authenticity of their own voice and experience, and how best to render on the page the intersection of memory and current insight. This traditional approach creates…

Imagine More Story Adventures with Thembi Palmer

Sat, December 21, 2024 12:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Cost: FREE

Join the ever amazing Thembi Palmer of Imagine More: Story Adventures for a fantastic story time! Thembi Palmer is committed to promoting literacy by developing a love of reading and books in young children, pre-K through 4th grade. She collaborates with Philadelphia schools, libraries, museums,…

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow Author Visit

Tue, February 25, 2025 10:00 A.M.
Parkway Central Library

Cost: FREE

Join us for a special visit with Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow.  Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow is a Philadelphia-based author of popular educator-recommended children’s books. She is a two-time winner of the Muslim Bookstagram picture book award, and she has earned the prestigious Walter,…