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DECEMBER 2008

Monday, December 1st, 2008

12/1/08   

 

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Beloved author Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, talks about her new novel, A Mercy.

 

12/2/08 

Pulitzer-Prize winning author E.O. Wilson & Bert Hölldobler 

 

 12/3/08 

Sandra Tsing Loh talks about Mother on Fire.

 

12/4/08   

Photographer Annie Liebovitz 

 

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Roger Moss talks about Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia. 

 

12/5/08    

Joel Osteen Victoria Osteen

 

12/9/08    

Marion Winik 

 

12/11/08     

Stephen Baker talks about The Numerati. 

 

12/13/08      

Judy Schachner

 

12/17/08  

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Gene Baretta signs Now & Ben (children’s picture book).

 

 12/18/08     

Philadelphia’s own JOHN GROGAN, author of the bestselling  Marley & Me (see 12/25), talks about his latest memoir, The Longest Trip Home. 

 

12/20/08  

Thom Nickels talks about Philadelphia Architecture. 

 

12/25/08 

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Release of film version of John Grogan’s Marley & Me, starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston (see 12/18).

OCTOBER 2008

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

 

10/1/08 to 10/4/08

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10/4/08 

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Brian Lies signs Bats in the Library

 

10/5/08 

Lake Wobegone storyteller Garrison Keiller

 

10/7/08 

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Rebecca Yamin talks about Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology.

 

 

 

10/10/08  

 Anne Rice NOTE: This event has been CANCELLED.

 

 

10/13/08

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Nancy Viau’s debut debut middle-grade novel, Samantha Hansen Has Rocks

 in Her Head, is now available from the same publisher who launched 

New York Times best-selling “Wimpy Kid” author Jeff Kinney; Fragments, by

Jeffry W. Johnston (below), is a Mystery Writers of America 2008 Edgar®

Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel. 

 

fragments205h.jpgjeffryjohnston205h.tif   Local writers Nancy Viau, author of the new middle-grade novel, Samantha Hansen Has Rocks in Her Head, and Jeffry W. Johnston, author of the 2008 Edgar Award nominated teen mystery novel, Fragments, will be signing at the Barnes & Noble - Broomall bookstore at 7 PM. Those attending may enter a drawing to win free books or a basket of goodies. With the purchase of Samantha Hansen Has Rocks in Her Head, kids will be able to make a free starter rock collection (while supplies last).

 

 

10/14/08

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Beloved children’s  book creators Helen Oxenbury and Mem Fox make a rare appearance together at Children’s Book World in Haverford, where they will sign their collaborative new offering, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes

 

 

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An evening with DAVID SEDARIS at the Academy of Music, 8 PM

 

10/16/08  

South African novelist, poet and activist Breyton Breytenbach 

 

10/18/08

Cornelia Funke   

 

 

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Philadelphia Stories’  2nd annual “Push to Publish” One-Day Workshop for Writers featuring keynote speaker BETH KEPHART, a National Book Award-nominated author of nine books.  Workshops and panels will include editors, publicists, and other writers including local authors Gregory Frost, Judy Schachner, Aimee LaBrie, Marc SchusterLiz Corcoran, Kathleen Volk Miller and Kathye Fetsko Petrie;  Poets will include  Rosemary Cappello, Leonard Gontarek, Harriet Levin and Eileen D’Angelo–plus many more. Registration Deadline is Wednesday October 15.  MORE INFO.

 

 

10/22/08 

Jim Shepard 

 

10/23/08

 

Novelist RACHEL PASTAN, author of This Side of Married and Lady of the Snakes, reads at Swarthmore College in the Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall, at 7:30 PM.  

 10/25/08

David Macaulay

 

10/27/08

Ishmael Beah 

SEPTEMBER 2008

Monday, September 1st, 2008

09/25/08 to 09/28/08

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 The 2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. 

Scheduled poets include Linda Pastan, Edward Hirsch, Billy Collins, Jane Hirshfield, Lucille Clifton, Charles Simic, Mark Doty, Maxine Kumin, Naomi Shihab Nye and Sharon OldsHERE.

 09/26/08

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Pulitzer Award-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson, author of Housekeeping, Gilead and Home. 

 

09/29/08 to 10/4/2008

 The 6th Annual Collingswood Book Festival