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Now available: YOU OWN WILL LEAVE YOU by Manash Bhattacharjee

Happy Pride Month! Here are some books celebrating LGBTQ lives!
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Two upcoming opportunities to see Anndee Hochman, author of PARENT TRIP!

Anndee will sign copies of her book at the Barnes and Noble, 1708 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, PA, on May 30 at 1:00 pm.

Hochman will also present her book at the Falls of Schuylkill Library, 3501 Midvale Avenue in Philadelphia, PA on June 1 at 5:30 pm.

Happy Publication Day to Asian Ameritopias: Asian American Speculative Fictions, by Stephen Hong Sohn, which analyzes themes of social justice for Asian Americans in a literary supergenre. https://tupress.temple.edu/books/asian-ameritopias

Happy Publication Day to YOUR OWN WILL LEAVE YOU, by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee. This is an intense—and intensely moving—account of the impact of the author's mother’s dementia on his life. https://tupress.temple.edu/books/your-own-will-leave-you

Marilyn Sanders Mobley, author of TONI MORRISON, PLACE, RACE, AND THE GEOPOETICS OF BE/LONGING will present her book at the Barnes & Noble, Market Place at Four Corners, 7555 Market Place Drive in Aurora, OH on May 21 at 5:00 pm.

Thank you, Stephen Silver, for calling A CENTURY OF MUSIC UNDER THE STARS "[A] handsome new book by local music historian Jack McCarthy that offers an exhaustive history of the institution... [T]here’s nowhere in Philly quite like the Mann, and Jack McCarthy’s book has given the place its due." in the Broad Street Review.

A Century of Music Under the Stars: A History of the Mann Center of… The Robin Hood Dell, opened in 1930, was the start of the institution we know today as the Highmark Mann Center for the Performing Arts. A new book by…

Amy Jane Cohen, author of BLACK HISTORY IN THE PHILADELPHIA LANDSCAPE, will present her book and moderate a panel with the Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia Freedom Fighters at the Sixth Man Center, 4250 Wissahickon Avenue in Philadelphia, PA, on May 18 at 6:30.

Allen Dieterich-Ward presenting his book CRADLE OF CONSERVATION. You can see him talk about the environmental history of Pennsylvania at the Historical Society of Pennsylvani on May 20 at 6:30 pm. Register today!

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