Location: Lansdale, PA 19446, USA

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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Our story time is the perfect way to introduce your pre-schooler to the world of books. Each week our program will include our staff introducing your child to 2-3 latest picture books, songs or fingerplays. When possible, a short activity will be included. At the end of the program your child will receive a cookie.

This program is most appropriate for children ages 2-5 years old, but siblings younger and older are always welcome.

The cost of this program is $2 per child, with a maximum of $5 per family. Advance registration is not required.

Location: Street: 674 Main Street Additional: Salford Square City: Harleysville, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19438-1665 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Featured are David Levithan, author of Boy meets boy (whose 10th anniversary edition is due this summer), Every Day, and many other titles; Aaron Hartzler author of Rapture Practice (Little, Brown, $17.99 hb); Alex London, author of Proxy (Putnam, $17.99 hb); Bill Konigsburg, author of Openly Straight (Scholastic, $17.99 hb); And possibly Marissa Calin, author of Between You and Me (Bloomsbury, $16.99 hb). Co-sponsored with The Attic Youth Center and The Mazzoni Center.

Location: Street: 345 S 12th St City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19107-5907 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Featured are David Levithan, author of Boy meets boy (whose 10th anniversary edition is due this summer), Every Day, and many other titles; Aaron Hartzler author of Rapture Practice (Little, Brown, $17.99 hb); Alex London, author of Proxy (Putnam, $17.99 hb); Bill Konigsburg, author of Openly Straight (Scholastic, $17.99 hb); And possibly Marissa Calin, author of Between You and Me (Bloomsbury, $16.99 hb). Co-sponsored with The Attic Youth Center and The Mazzoni Center.

Location: Street: 345 S 12th St City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19107-5907 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Thursday, June 20th 6:30 PM

Join us on the 3rd Thursday of every month for Poetry night! There will be specifically chosen poets scheduled to read at the start, followed by an opportunity to bring your own poetry for an open-mic setting.

Featured Poet for June

Lewis Crystal

(This is the 2nd part of his presentation)

Lewis will also be joined by his friend,

Camino Reluctant.

A Sample Poem

WUNDERKIND In front of Wunderlich’s hardware store in Brooklyn a youth, from the bag of tricks carried by every street urchin in those long ago days when not every child had the means and ways to succeed & some grew wild, a new bottle of Mr. Clean. He offered it up for sale to someone not yet weaned from his mother, assailed my sight with the bald headed smiling monster bearing green liquid; mauled my right and wrong, Her voice in my head, saying: “For fifty cents a bargain. Why in the store you’d be paying a whole lot more!” To feign innocence of where he had gotten it, the dead end kid waiting for me to decide, bad only on the surface, did me no good. And my mother would not have approved of the transaction, no other choice but to spurn, and soothe my conscience before the fact. For a boy torn between a rock and a hard place, incredible tact saying no. And it starts the clock. Biography Lewis Frederick Crystal is a poet and novelist who grew up in Brooklyn, New York and presently resides in Doylestown, PA. He is the author of four novels-THE THIEVES OF YOUTH, WHEN SIX WAS NINE, 1976:A BICENTENNIAL NOVEL and BOOKSELLER BLUES, YOU MADE ME CRY and six books of poetry- THE HORSES OF MARRUM, PICTURES FOR A SUNDAY AFTERNOON, GREATEST HITS, UNSOLVED MYSTERIES OF CHILDHOOD, THE PAST IS INEVITABLE and A HISTORY OF SEX & OTHER ASPECTS OF LOVE. Mr. Crystal also publishes the work of other writers via his AVENUE U PUBLICATIONS. In 2012 AVENUE U published works of poetry and fiction, a non-fiction memoir and a cookbook. They also published four issues of a magazine of poetry and fiction called FM.

For more information please email: Melanie Monterey Eyth danceofmyhands@aol.com

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The Accursed Joyce Carol Oates Since joining the Princeton University faculty in 1978—where she has mentored countless young writers—Joyce Carol Oates’s literary work has continued unabated. Her “towering career” (Washington Post) includes nearly 60 novels, more than 30 short story collections, eight volumes of poetry, plays, and innumerable essays and book reviews. Among her many distinctions, she has received the National Book Award for them, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and Pulitzer Prize nominations for three of her novels: Black Water, What I Lived For, and Blonde. Her new novel The Accursed blends history and the occult in an eerie story of power, possession, and loss. 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

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Natalie Lyalin is the author of the forthcoming Blood Makes Me Faint, But I Go For It (Ugly Duckling Presse 2014), Pink & Hot Pink Habitat (Coconut Books 2009), and a chapbook, Try A Little Time Travel (Ugly Duckling Presse 2010). She is a part of the Agnes Fox Press editing collective and the co-founder and co-editor of Natural History Press. She lives in Philadelphia.

Location: Street: 130 S 34th St City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19104-3401 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

A Photobook Presentation and Discussion with Photographer

Marlene Mendez Saturday June 22nd @ 2:00pm "The book represents the culmination of a year-long project begun mid-June, 2009, during which time I captured images daily at Churchville Nature Center in Bucks County, PA." -Marlene Mendez

Marlene Mendez

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Thom Nickels is the author of Walking on Water and After All This (STARbooks, $17.95 pb; $6.59 Kobo eBook).

These two short novels are both science fiction. In the first, the protagonist lives in a surreal world where the power of his mind can create alternate universes. In the second the characters survive a mysterious world event or cosmic event that "flashes" out the lives of everybody but a few.

A small reception with follow the reading.

Mr. Nickels is the City Beat editor of ICON magazine.

Location: Street: 345 S 12th St City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19107-5907 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

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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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code Margalit Fox An award-winning journalist originally trained as a linguist, Margalit Fox is a senior writer at the New York Times. When archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flourished on Crete, he discovered a cache of clay tablets written in 1450 B.C. Fox’s new book The Riddle of the Labyrinth blends history, linguistics, and cryptology, in telling the story of the 50-year quest to decipher the mysterious ancient script known as Linear B found on these tablets. She is also the author of Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind, the story of a remote Bedouin village with an unusually high incidence of deafness where relative isolation enabled the creation of an indigenous sign language. 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

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

The Cooked Seed: A Memoir Anchee Min “A wild, passionate and fearless American writer” (New York Times), Anchee Min is the author of Red Azalea, a memoir of growing up during the violent trauma of the Cultural Revolution, where Min spent time in a labor camp and was chosen for a lead role in a propagandist movie before the Mao communist regime collapsed. The book exists as “a powerful political as well as literary statement” (The New York Times Book Review). Min has since written six other works of historical fiction, including Becoming Madame Mao and Empress Orchid. Twenty years after the publication of Red Azalea, Min returns with the next chapter of her life story in The Cooked Seed, moving from the appalling deprivations of her birthplace to the sudden bounty of America, without language, money, or a clear path. 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

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

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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Young Adult Book Reviewers Club Starting Wednesday, June 26 @ 6:00pm Free to attend. No sign up necessary. Minumum age 14. Imagine getting to read a great new series before anyone else! Each Wednesday Special ARC books will be presented to the club to be chosen and read. These will be young adult novels ranging from fiction to fantasy. Advance Readers Club members will write a book review that will be on display in the store and their opinions and reviews will influence which books actually get ordered for the store.

Advance Reading Copy (ARC) A pre-publication state of the book, often a wrappered issue with the artwork intended for use with the published book, so that it looks like a paperback version. Advance Reading Copies are often sent to the reviewers and managers of bookstores several months before the first editions of the book will be offered for sale. Sometimes abbreviated ARC in the book trade.

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Our story time is the perfect way to introduce your pre-schooler to the world of books. Each week our program will include our staff introducing your child to 2-3 latest picture books, songs or fingerplays. When possible, a short activity will be included. At the end of the program your child will receive a cookie.

This program is most appropriate for children ages 2-5 years old, but siblings younger and older are always welcome.

The cost of this program is $2 per child, with a maximum of $5 per family. Advance registration is not required.

Location: Street: 674 Main Street Additional: Salford Square City: Harleysville, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19438-1665 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Our Book Club for Grown Ups meets the last Thursday of every month (except December) at 7:00pm. We have a diverse group of members and our discussions are ALWAYS lively! New members are welcome anytime. Try one of our book selections and come out for our meeting!

Location: Street: 674 Main Street Additional: Salford Square City: Harleysville, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19438-1665 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)