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Free Library of Philadelphia - Rick Moody - The Four Fingers of Death with Larry Doyle - Go Mutants

Tue, 18 May 2010 14:06:19 -0400

Start: Thu, 07/29/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Thu, 07/29/2010 - 7:30pm

The Four Fingers of Death

Rick Moody

Go Mutants

Larry Doyle

According to the Wall Street Journal, “Rick Moody is one of the most prodigiously talented writers in America.” He is the author of nine books, including The Diviners and The Ice Storm, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed film starring Sigourney Weaver. Among his many honors, he has won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Set in 2025, Moody’s new comic novel, The Four Fingers of Death revels in cheesy science fiction tropes and conventions in the form of a novelization of a remake of a mock classic drive-in movie. What? You’ll have to come and find out….

Former writer for The Simpsons and MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head and Daria, Larry Doyle is “wickedly funny,” according to the New York Times Book Review. His debut novel, I Love You Beth Cooper, was recently adapted into a feature film, and his writing frequently appears in the New Yorker. Doyle’s new novel, Go, Mutants!, follows the offspring of some of Hollywood’s most iconic B-movie aliens, monsters, and other creatures—like the Blob—as they navigate the horrific world of the all-American high school.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Free Library of Philadelphia - Mary Roach - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Tue, 18 May 2010 14:12:44 -0400

Start: Tue, 08/03/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Tue, 08/03/2010 - 7:30pm

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Mary Roach

“One of those rare writers who can tackle the most obscure unpleasantness and distill the data into a hilarious and informative package,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times bestsellingscience writer Mary Roach has explored what happens to our bodies after we die (Stiff), what may happen to our souls after we die (Spook), and what happens physiologically behind closed bedroom doors (Bonk). With wit and unflagging curiosity, Packing for Mars examines the science of space travel and the oddities of life in such an inhospitable environment.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Free Library of Philadelphia - Pam Jenoff - A Hidden Affair

Tue, 18 May 2010 14:30:35 -0400

Start: Thu, 08/05/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Thu, 08/05/2010 - 7:30pm

A Hidden Affair

Pam Jenoff

Philadelphia attorney Pam Jenoff is the internationally bestselling author of the historical romance novels The Kommandant’s Girl (a Quill Award nominee) and its follow-up, The Diplomat’s Wife, as well as modern espionage mystery Almost Home. A graduate of Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania, Jenoff previously worked for the State Department and the Pentagon. Uncovering the convoluted mystery behind a WWII-era wine counterfeiting operation, her new novel A Hidden Affair is both a cunning psychological thriller and complex literary romance.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Free Library of Philadelphia - Nicole Hollander - The Sylvia Chronicles

Tue, 18 May 2010 14:39:52 -0400

Start: Tue, 08/10/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Tue, 08/10/2010 - 7:30pm

The Sylvia Chronicles: 30 Years of Graphic Misbehavior from Reagan to Obama

Nicole Hollander

A syndicated cartoonist, Nicole Hollander’s wry and witty comic strip Sylvia appears in more than 80 newspapers nationwide, including the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. She has published 16 collections of Sylvia strips and is the author of Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial and Female Problems: An Unhelpful Guide. The Sylvia Chronicles presents her singular, acerbic take on contemporary politics, from Reagan to Palin and everything in between.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Friends Select School - Michael Capuzzo, William Fleisher, Frank Bender and Richard Walter - The Murder Room

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:42:52 -0400

Start: Wed, 08/11/2010 - 7:00pm

End: Wed, 08/11/2010 - 7:00pm

The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases

Michael Capuzzo

Meet principle members of the Vidocq Society William Fleisher, Frank Bender and Richard Walter along with author Mike Capuzzo as they discuss the writing of The Murder Room and how they solve cold cases across the country. Topics for the evening will include the Vidocq Society's experience of having a book written about them, the processes and techniques that go into cracking a case, their most satisfying solved cases, and the cases that still elude them. Author Mike Capuzzo joins the Society to discuss what it was like to shadow this illustrious local group over his seven years of researching The Murder Room, which will be featured on 20/20, NPR's Fresh Air, and in USA Today, among others.

Friends Select School, Blauvelt Theatre
1651 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Free Library of Philadelphia - Rosanne Cash - Composed: A Memoir

Tue, 18 May 2010 14:45:57 -0400

Start: Thu, 08/12/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Thu, 08/12/2010 - 7:30pm

Composed: A Memoir

Rosanne Cash

Daughter of legendary musician Johnny Cash, ten-time Grammy Award nominee Rosanne Cash is a formidable singer/songwriter in her own right, earning two gold records, 11 no. 1 one singles, and a Grammy Award in 1985 for her song, “I Don’t Know Why You Want Me.” Also an author of short fiction and essays, Cash’s writing has appeared in the New York Times and Rolling Stone. Unconventional and compelling, her new memoir Composed details her development as an artist, her sometimes-tenuous relationship with the Nashville country music establishment, and her struggles in dealing with the deaths of her beloved parents.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Free Library of Philadelphia - Terry McMillan - Getting to Happy

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:27:31 -0400

Start: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Wed, 09/08/2010 - 7:30pm

Getting to Happy

Terry McMillan

Terry McMillan has garnered much critical and popular acclaim for her character-driven novels. Her New York Times bestselling books Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back have been made into major motion pictures. With Getting to Happy, McMillan revisits the Waiting ladies 15 years later and reveals each of them at her own midlife crossroads.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Free Library of Philadelphia - Eliza Griswold - The Tenth Parallel

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:28:49 -0400

Start: Tue, 09/14/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Tue, 09/14/2010 - 7:30pm

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

Eliza Griswold

An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the 10th parallel—the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator—at the geographic and ideological front where Christianity and Islam collide. In The Tenth Parallel, Griswold illustrates how faith is shaped by geography and demographics and how one’s sense of God is shaped by one’s place on earth.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Free Library of Philadelphia - Sara Gruen - Ape House: A Novel

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:29:29 -0400

Start: Tue, 09/21/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Tue, 09/21/2010 - 7:30pm

Ape House: A Novel

Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants, Flying Changes, and Riding Lessons. A devoted animal lover, she draws readers into the animal world through stories where fiction is closely aligned with facts drawn from her own meticulous research. Bonobo apes share 99.4% of the same DNA as humans and are renowned for their language-learning abilities. In Ape House, a family of language-competent Bonobos is stolen from a fictitious language laboratory and turn up in a reality television show.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Free Library of Philadelphia - Jonathan Franzen - Freedom: A Novel

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:13:31 -0400

Start: Thu, 09/23/2010 - 7:30pm

End: Thu, 09/23/2010 - 7:30pm

Freedom: A Novel

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen’s third novel, was awarded both the National Book Award and the New York Times Editors’ Choice Award for 2001. He was named one of the Twenty Writers for the 21st Century by The New Yorker and has received both the Whiting Writer’s Award and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize. Freedom—an epic of contemporary love and marriage—is his first novel since The Corrections.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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Free Library of Philadelphia - William Gibson - Zero History: A Novel

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:06:26 -0400

Start: Sat, 09/25/2010 - 2:00pm

End: Sat, 09/25/2010 - 2:00pm

Zero History: A Novel

William Gibson

William Gibson’s debut novel, Neuromancer, famously swept the science fiction “Triple Crown,” claiming the Nebula, Philip K. Dick, and Hugo awards. The first work to win all three prizes, Neuromancer envisioned a high tech world hip with the cynicism of the underground music scene: the “cyberpunk” genre was born. His new novel, Zero History, is set in the same universe—featuring rocker turned journalist Hollis Henry and international finance genius Hubertus Bigend—as his recent near-future fantasies, the New York Times bestsellers Pattern Recognition and Spook Country.

Central Library
1901 Vine St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

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