Location: Langhorne, PA 19047, United States

New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark has cemented her position as the leader in her genre with her bestselling Thug and Payback series. Her work has become a template for other writers who try to imitate her compelling blend of intrigue, passion, and luxury with the often-violent realities of life on the streets. Wahida Clark was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. She decided to write fiction while serving out a ten-and-a-half year term at a women's federal prison camp in Lexington, Kentucky. (added from Simon & Schuster)… (more)

Book Signing & Discussion with author Kristopher Jansma The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards Friday, May 24th @ 7 PM Here's what people at Viking and Penguin have been saying... "As a Penguin rep in the San Francisco Bay area for twenty-three years, I've read a lot of debut fiction.. In all that time there have only been a handful of novels that have captivated me as much as The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards. This is one of the best, smartest, most mind-bending--and often humorous--books I've read in a long, long time. I literally could not put it down. And when I finally did... I picked it up to re-read it. Seriously. It's that wonderful." --Wendy Pearl, Sales Rep, Oakland, CA "The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards is full of whimsy, mirth and real love. Kristopher Jansma has created a narrator that we never fully trust but I want to follow as he crosses the globe in search of the stories that he has lost. It's unlike anything I have ever read but at the same time feels like a book I've loved forever." --Andrew Dudley, Digital Account Manager "It's been a long time since I fell in love with characters in a novel the way I did with Kristopher Jansma's in The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards. I was reminded of Gatsby, Holden Caulfield and The Dead Poet's Society. This is the best book I've read in years." -- Ben Petrone, Associate Director of Publicity "I didn't mean to go through The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards over a weekend, but once I started reading, I couldn't stop. Just when you think you've got things figured out, you are transported not only to another part of the world, but a whole new side of the story." -- Risa Chubinsky, Subsidary Rights Manager "I think there's one line from The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards that describes it best: 'Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.' The truth is definitely fleeting in this story. The one true thing I do know is that this is one of the best books I've ever read about what it's like to be young, to grow up, to fall in love with the wrong people (and to love and leave the right ones), and to accept who you are." -- Chris Smythe, Digital Business Director "Kristopher Jansma has managed an impressive bit of magic. Somehow he has created a book that is both page-turning and thought-provoking; both beautifully written and gritty." -- Timothy Lane, Subsidary Rights Coordinator "The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards reminds me of my favorite pieces of magical realism, but it's the characters that have stayed with me. The effect is kaleidoscopic, and it leaves the reader both dazzled and bereft each time the image shifts." --Taylor Sperry, Editorial Assistant "I read The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards twice. Not only that, I savored it each time. Jansma has built characters the way life builds people, with bricks made of experiences, impressions, flavors, misunderstandings, absurdities, broken hearts, compromises, laughter, moments of clarity, stretches of haze--characters who embody complexity so fully, it's as if I not only know, I've grown to know many versions of them. Jansma can't write another book fast enough." --Kristin Spang, Publishing Coordinator Digg Facebook Google Technorati del.icio.us

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Book Signing & Discussion with Bee Ridgway Saturday May 25th @ 1:30pm "A remarkable medley of historical fiction, romance, adventure, and fantasy, Bee Ridgway’s debut novel, The River of No Return is as imaginative as it is exhilarating. As a love story tangled up in the laws of time, “bookish fantasy fans who make it a point to keep up with Doctor Who will like this one” (Kirkus). “In her stellar debut, Ridgway manages the permutations of the time‐travel trope with originality and aplomb.” – Booklist “Ridgway offers a well‐crafted blend of science fiction, romance, mystery, and historical fiction…” – Publishers Weekly

In Bee Ridgway’s wonderfully imaginative debut novel, a man and a woman travel through time in a quest to bring down a secret society that controls the past and, thus, the future.​​

“You are now a member of the Guild. There is no return.”

​Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Lord Nicholas Falcott wakes up in a hospital bed in twenty-first century London. The Guild, a secretive organization that controls time travel, helps him make a new life in the modern world.

But Nick yearns for home and for one beautiful woman in particular, now lost to history.

Back in 1815, that very woman, Julia Percy, finds herself the guardian of a family secret inherited from her enigmatic grandfather... how to manipulate time. But there are those who seek to possess Julia’s power and she begins to realize she is in the gravest peril.

The Guild’s rules are made to be broken, and Nick discovers how to travel back to the nineteenth century and his ancestral home. Fate and the fraying fabric of time draw Nick and Julia together once again . . . soon enough, they are caught up in an adventure that puts the future of the world into their hands.

​Love endures the gulf of centuries . . . and so does danger. As gripping as it is evocative, The River of No Return is a sweeping story of lovers who match wits and gamble their hearts against the rules of time itself. www.beeridgway.com About the Author Bee Ridgway holds a PhD in Literature from Cornell University and is a professor of English literature at Bryn Mawr College. She lived in England for several years and now makes her home in Philadelphia. This is her first novel.

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Story Time with

Miss Larissa

Come and join the fun with Miss Larissa on Memorial Day at 9:00 am for our popular children's story time featuring music, books, crafts and more.

The recommended age group for this story hour is 2-4 and we do ask that you stay with your children through out the story time. For more info on Lolly Hopwood please visit Let's Play Today!

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Teen Writing Group with Jonathan Maberry The introduction to the group is free, but there will be a $10.00 charge per session beginning in October. Please email Jonathan to sign up at: jonathan_maberry@yahoo.com Jonathan Maberry is a NY Times bestseller and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Patient Zero, the Pine Deep Trilogy, The Wolfman, Zombie CSU and They Bite. His work for Marvel Comics includes the Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther. His Joe Ledger series has been optioned for TV by Sony Pictures, and the Rot & Ruin series is in talks of being made into movies.

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Teen Writing Group with Jonathan Maberry The introduction to the group is free, but there will be a $10.00 charge per session beginning in October. Please email Jonathan to sign up at: jonathan_maberry@yahoo.com Jonathan Maberry is a NY Times bestseller and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Patient Zero, the Pine Deep Trilogy, The Wolfman, Zombie CSU and They Bite. His work for Marvel Comics includes the Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther. His Joe Ledger series has been optioned for TV by Sony Pictures, and the Rot & Ruin series is in talks of being made into movies.

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The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way Alice Walker Alice Walker’s esteemed literary career spans over four decades and includes seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. Her 1983 novel The Color Purple received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and was adapted for Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film and the Broadway stage. Her many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lennon/Ono Peace Grant, and a residency at Yaddo. In 2006, she was an inaugural inductee into the California Hall of Fame, and in 2007 her archives were opened at Emory University. Her new book The Cushion in the Road is a collection of meditations on topics ranging from racism to Africa to healthcare and the work of Aung San Suu Kyi. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) TICKETS ON SALE APRIL 5, 2013 at 10:00 AM This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow As host of CBC’s radio show WireTap, Jonathan Goldstein “brings self-deprecation to a whole other level” (The Montreal Gazette). Part monologue and part telephone conversation, the show reveals “the warp of Goldstein’s imagination” (Toronto Star). Celebrated author David Sedaris calls him “one of the funniest and most original writers I can think of.” Goldstein’s writing has appeared in The Walrus, the New York Times, and GQ. He is a frequent contributor to This American Life and the author of the novels Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! and Lenny Bruce Is Dead. His new book, I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow begins the week of Goldstein’s 39th birthday. As he approaches the big 4-0, he humorously contemplates what it means to be an adult in an infantilized world. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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Kristiana Kahakauwila (This is paradise)

Kristiana Kahakauwila, a native Hawaiian, was raised in Southern California. She earned a master's in fine arts from the University of Michigan and a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Princeton University. She has worked as a writer and editor for Wine Spectator, Cigar Aficionado, and Highlights for Children magazines. She taught English at Chaminade University in Honolulu and is now an assistant professor of creative writing at Western Washington University. (added from Random House)… (more)

Bill Whiting is the author of An Early Work Late in Life: The Art and Life of Danny Allen (Faux Fragments, $29.95 pb). This is the true story of the life and untimely death of an exceptionally talented young artist named Daniel Arthur Allen. When one of Dan's mysterious, jewel-like paintings was discovered in the vault of a major museum nearly four decades after his death, artist Bill Whiting began to write about his life with Danny in Rochester, New York, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the sexual revolution, drugs, gay liberation, and antiwar protests made everyday life anything but predictable. Sometimes raucous and funny, sometimes heartbreaking, An Early Work Late in Life is a tribute to a wonderful, quirky, and gentle young man who might have been a little too good for this world--and believed he could exit this life and move on to a better one all on his own. For a thorough review of the book, paste in the link below:
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Book Signing

with New York Times Bestselling Author

Gwen Cooper

Sunday

June 2nd

@ 12:30pm

Please Note:

This is an Out of Store Event

Event Location: Red Paw Animal Shelter 2501 Wharton Street Philadelphia, Pa 19146 For more infomation about Red Paw please visit: http://www.redpawemergencyreliefteam.org/ About the Book Humans best understand the truth of things if they come at it indirectly. Like how sometimes the best way to catch a mouse that’s right in front of you is to back up before you pounce. So notes Prudence, the irresistible brown tabby at the center of Gwen Cooper’s tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, which is mostly told through the eyes of this curious (and occasionally cranky) feline. When five-week-old Prudence meets a woman named Sarah in a deserted construction site on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, she knows she’s found the human she was meant to adopt. For three years their lives are filled with laughter, tuna, catnaps, music, and the unchanging routines Prudence craves. Then one day Sarah doesn’t come home. From Prudence’s perch on the windowsill she sees Laura, the daughter who hardly ever comes to visit Sarah, arrive with her new husband. They’re carrying boxes. Before they even get to the front door, Prudence realizes that her life has changed forever. Suddenly Prudence finds herself living in a strange apartment with humans she barely knows. It could take years to train them in the feline courtesies and customs (for example, a cat should always be fed before the humans, and at the same exact time every day) that Sarah understood so well. Prudence clings to the hope that Sarah will come back for her while Laura, a rising young corporate attorney, tries to push away memories of her mother and the tumultuous childhood spent in her mother’s dusty downtown record store. But the secret joys, past hurts, and life-changing moments that make every mother-daughter relationship special will come to the surface. With Prudence’s help Laura will learn that the past, like a mother’s love, never dies. Poignant, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny, Love saves the day is a story of hope, healing, and how the love of an animal can make all of us better humans. It’s the story of a mother and daughter divided by the turmoil of bohemian New York, and the opinionated, irrepressible feline who will become the bridge between them. It’s a novel for anyone who’s ever lost a loved one, wondered what their cat was really thinking, or fallen asleep with a purring feline nestled in their arms. Prudence, a cat like no other, is sure to steal your heart. About the Author Gwen Cooper is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat and the novel Diary of a South Beach Party Girl. She is active with numerous animal welfare organizations. Gwen lives in Manhattan with her husband, Laurence. She also lives with her three perfect cats—Homer, Clayton, and Fanny—who aren’t impressed with any of it. For more info please visit
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Story Time with

Miss Larissa

Come and join the fun with Miss Larissa every Monday at 10:00 am for our popular children's story time featuring music, books, crafts and more.

The recommended age group for this story hour is 2-4 and we do ask that you stay with your children through out the story time. For more info on Lolly Hopwood please visit Let's Play Today!

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Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery Walter Mosley Walter Mosley is the bestselling author of more than 41 books, including Little Scarlet, Fear Itself, and Bad Boy Brawly Brown. His many honors include an O. Henry Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Grammy award, and the PEN American Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Mosley burst on the literary scene in 1990 with Devil in a Blue Dress, the first Easy Rawlins mystery mysteries featuring a hard-boiled detective and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The book was later adapted for a film starring Denzel Washington. In Little Green, Mosley’s immortal private eye reappears on the 1960s Sunset Strip in search of a young man who has gone missing. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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Samuel R. Delany will read from the new edition of his historical novel, Phallos (Wesleyan, $19.95 pb).

Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the explicit sex omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, and circles around the historical account of the murder of the emperor's favorite, Antinous. The story moves from Syracuse to Egypt, from the Pillars of Hercules to Rome, from Athens to Byzantium, and back. Young Neoptolomus searches after the stolen phallus of the nameless god of Hermopolis, crafted of gold and encrusted with jewels, within which are reputedly the ancient secrets of science and society that will lead to power, knowledge, and wealth. Vivid and clever, the original novella has been expanded by nearly a third. Appended to the text are an afterword by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and three astute speculative essays by Steven Shaviro, Kenneth R. James, and Darieck Scott.

In addition to the books listed below, here's a link to Dr. Delany's many pages of other books:

http://www.queerbooks.com/search/apachesolr_search/samuel%20r.%20delany

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Samuel R. Delany will read from the new edition of his historical novel, Phallos (Wesleyan, $19.95 pb).

Taking the form of a gay pornographic novella, with the explicit sex omitted, Phallos is set during the reign of the second-century Roman emperor Hadrian, and circles around the historical account of the murder of the emperor's favorite, Antinous. The story moves from Syracuse to Egypt, from the Pillars of Hercules to Rome, from Athens to Byzantium, and back. Young Neoptolomus searches after the stolen phallus of the nameless god of Hermopolis, crafted of gold and encrusted with jewels, within which are reputedly the ancient secrets of science and society that will lead to power, knowledge, and wealth. Vivid and clever, the original novella has been expanded by nearly a third. Appended to the text are an afterword by Robert F. Reid-Pharr and three astute speculative essays by Steven Shaviro, Kenneth R. James, and Darieck Scott.

In addition to the books listed below, here's a link to Dr. Delany's many pages of other books:

http://www.queerbooks.com/search/apachesolr_search/samuel%20r.%20delany

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The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level Jessica Wapner In The Philadelphia Chromosome, science journalist Jessica Wapner reconstructs the crucial breakthroughs in discovering the links between cancers and their genetic causes. The story unfolds over 50 years, from the first glimpse of a genetic mutation—dubbed The Philadelphia Chromosome—in 1959 to determining its role in causing chronic myeloid leukemia and the development of a revolutionary drug that made this once-fatal cancer treatable with a single daily pill. Wapner’s articles about healthcare and medicine appear in the New York Times, Scientific American, Slate, Science, and Psychology Today. Her writing on cancer research and treatment also appears in Oncology Business Review, Cure, and CR, and her blog, Work in Progress, focuses on the ethics and economics of drug development. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a FREE event; no tickets or reservations are required. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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Sign & Storytime

w/ Susan Demilia

The first Wednesday of every month

@ 10:00am

Sign and Story Time is a thirty minute class for children at least 6 months of age and their caregivers. On the first Wednesday of each month we will choose a story and learn some signs that go along with that story. The children will then get to help tell the story by using the signs as we read. Interactive story time is not only fun but also helps build language and motor skills!

Each class we will touch on ways parents can help develop language skills, through sign and play, at different ages.

Susan DeMilia is a certified speech language pathologist with twenty years of experience working with children and families. She owns a speech and language therapy practice that serves the children of the Greater Philadelphia area. She is delighted to devote her professional life to helping children express themselves in many ways-- through signs and words and stories. Sign language is an educational and unique way to help your child “talk” before he can talk. Signs help develop your baby’s vocabulary and social skills. Using signs can help your baby tell you what she wants and needs. Maybe there will even be a fewer tantrums in your future! FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT:
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