JANUARY 2009
01/06/2009
Commencement of Lower Merion’s 4th annual One Book, One Lower Merion program. This year the program is based on GeraldineBrooks historical novel, People of the Book. The author will talk and sign books on January 25. See listing below. For a complete list of programs for this month-long celebration. go to to www.lmls.org/obolm.html.
01/07/2009
David Allen, author of the best selling organize-your-life book, Getting Things Done, discusses and signs his latest title, Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life.
01/08/2009
Temple Grandin talks about how animals make us human, and how to give our animals the best life possible.
01/10/2009
An afternoon with Edgar Allen Poe, as performed by David Keltz.
Mo Willems, Caldecott-award winning author/illustrator of Knuffle Bunny and Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, visits Children’s Book World in Haverford with his latest title, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed.
01/13/2009
The Great Poe Debate with Ed Pettit, Jeff Jerome and Paul Lewis, moderated by Grover Silcox: A lively, onstage debate of the question “To which city does the legacy of Edgar Allen Poe belong, Philadelphia or Baltimore?”
01/14/2009
One Book, One Philadelphia kick-off event with STEVE LOPEZ.
01/15/2009
Former Philadelphia Inquirer columnist STEVE LOPEZ delivers an evening lecture* at the Haverford Township Free Library, as part of the 2009 One Book, One Philadelphia program, for which Lopez’s book, The Soloist, is the selection.
*There is also a Steve Lopez lecture for teens taking place at the Lillian Marrero Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia on this same date at 2 PM. Pre-registration is required.
01/15/2009
“A MURDER OF RAVENS,” FEATURING MULTIPLE READINGS OF “THE RAVEN” (BY EDGAR ALLEN POE) TO MARK POE’S 200TH BIRTHDAY. This program will be hosted by Thomas Devaney and will include readings of “The Raven” by local literati including Daniel Hoffman,Shonni Enelow and Jay Kirk.
01/20/2009
Chef Marc Vetri.
01/22/2009
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS, award-winning author of Machine Dreams, MotherKind and Shelter, talks about and signs Lark and Termite, her first novel in 9 years. The novel just received a rave review from hard-to-please Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times. Read review HERE.
01/25/2009
Geraldine Brooks, author of Year of Wonders and People of the Book, will talk about writing historical fiction. People of the Book is this year’s One Book, One Lower Merion title. The novel tells the story of the 600-year old Sarajevo Haggadah as it passes through the hands of Muslims, Catholic priests during the Inquisition and Jews in Eastern Europe. For the complete 2009 One Book, One Lower Merion series of programs taking place throughout January, go to www.lmls.org/obolm.html.
Larry Robin’s Transition Party - Noon to 6 PM – a celebration of the next chapter in the life of the venerable ROBIN’S BOOKSTORE, and an elegy for the former years. Potluck. Bring food. DETAILS HERE.
01/27/2009
Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved and best-selling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, talks about and signs her latest title, Things I’ve Been Silent About.
01/29/2009
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot talks about “The Third Chapter” of life (after age 50).
New York Times bestselling author CARL HIAASEN will be at Children’s Book World in Haverford for an informal mid-afternoon stock signing of his just-released newest mystery for young people, SCAT. Can’t make the the date? Call 610-642-6274 or email childrensbookworld@verizon.net if you would like to have books signed.