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Monday September 12, 7pm – Non-Fiction Dr. Akilah t’Zuberi author of 16 Mondays – For People Who Hate Their Jobs Mondays – for people who hate their jobs is a guide to uncovering the root cause of misery and unhappiness associated with the workplace. The average worker spends over 83,000 hours of their life working. …
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Wednesday September 7, 7pm -Reading Granta 116: Ten Years Later with poet Daisy Fried, author Whitney Terrell and Granta 116 contributor Elliott Woods A street vendor in Tunisia, a American marine going home and a signals operator on a North Korean fishing trawler. From the battlefields of Afghanistan to the streets of Mogadishu and Toronto, …
Wednesday September 7, 6pm – Non-Fiction A Special Event at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street Mark Auslander author of The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family ($24.95 University of Georgia Press) What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial …
Tuesday September 6, 7pm – Mystery Gerald Elias author of Death and the Maiden ($25.99 Minotaur Books) “This latest mystery from Elias (Danse Macabre), featuring almost-too-irascible-to-be-lovable Daniel Jacobus, a brilliant violinist whose career was ended by blindness, has a headline-based premise. In 2005, a violinist fired by the Audubon Quartet sued his former colleagues, causing …
Saturday August 27, 2pm The Brothers Network Presents Daniel R. Biddle & Murray Dubin authors of Tasting Freedom ($35.00 Temple University Press – Special to Brothers Network Members Only – $23.00) The former Philadelphia Inquirer reporters have written a masterful and widely praised book that brings to life the overlooked history of the African American …
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Monday August 15, 7pm – Non-Fiction Mary Westra author of After the Murder of My Son ($14.95 North Star) In the summer of 2001, Peter Westra was 24 years old, gregarious, handsome, active, a successful young investment banker working in New York City and London. Dedicated to his family and friends, he had flown home …
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Tuesday August 9, 7pm – Book Event with Channeling Bente Hansen author of Edgar Speaks: Inner Transformation, Journey to 2012 and Earth Changes Australian Rev. Bente Hansen has been publicly channeling the energy of Edgar Cayce since late 2008. Since that time she has channeled a great deal of relevant and inspiring information at many …
Wednesday August 3, 7pm – Non-Fiction Versandra Kennebrew author of Thank God for the Shelter: Memoirs of a Homeless Healer Versandra Kennebrew is the author of Thank God for the Shelter: Memoirs of a Homeless Healer, homeless advocate, self-improvement teacher and national speaker. After more than 20 years in the retail industry, downsizing and the economic …
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Thursday, July 21, 7pm – Non-Fiction Andrew Laties author of Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Bookstores Represent Everything You Want to Fight for from Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities ($16.95) The revival of independent bookselling has already begun and is one of the amazing stories of our times. Bookseller Andy Laties wrote the …
Wednesday, July 27, 7pm – Fiction The Black Women’s Arts Festival Presents Kola Boof author of THE SEXY PART OF THE BIBLE ($15.95 Akashic) “Boof spins surrealism, sci-fi, racial politics, feminism, religious debate, postcolonial theory, and more into a thought-provoking, suspenseful novel that manages to keep intriguing characters afloat in a roiling sea of crazy …