10/1/08 to 10/4/08
The 6th Annual Collingswood Book Festival continues. 
10/4/08
Brian Lies signs Bats in the Library.
10/5/08
Lake Wobegone storyteller Garrison Keiller
10/7/08
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
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.
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
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.
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
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 Schuster, Liz 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
