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Friends Select School /Joseph Fox Book Events
2009 - 2010
Programs begin at 7 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) in the Blauvelt Theatre at Friends Select School and include a reading by the author. Copies of books may be purchased and signed immediately following the author’s reading.
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Thursday, Jan. 7 |
Daniel Pink |
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us |
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Wednesday, Feb. 3 |
Jim Wallis |
Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street—A Moral Compass for the New Economy |
Economics |
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Wednesday, Aug. 11 |
Michael Capuzzo |
THE MURDER ROOM: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World’s Most Perplexing Cold Cases |
History, Crime |
2008 - 2009
Programs begin at 7 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) in the Blauvelt Theatre at Friends Select School and include a reading by the author. Copies of books may be purchased and signed immediately following the author’s reading.
Wednesday, Sept. 24
6:30 p.m. |
Matthew Quick with special guest, Eagles wide receiver, Hank Baskett |
The Silver Linings Playbook |
Fiction |
| Wednesday, Oct. 1 |
Wendell E. Pritchett |
Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City |
Biography |
| Tuesday, Oct. 7 |
Rebecca Yamin |
Digging in the City of Brotherly Love |
Archeology |
| Monday, Jan. 12 |
Ken Robinson |
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything |
Motivation |
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2007 - 2008
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Monday, Sept. 10
(Independent Book Event)
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Nathan Winograd |
Redemption: The Myth of Pet Over Population and the No Kill Revolution in America
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Social Commentary |
| Tuesday, Sept. 11 |
Junot Diaz |
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Fiction
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Monday, Oct. 15
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Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky translators of
Leo Tolstoy |
War and Peace |
Fiction |
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Wednesday, Feb. 27
(PA Seminar Room) |
Frank Wilson, Jen A. Miller, Kermit Roosevelt, and Daisy Fried
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National Book Critics Circle |
Panel Discusion |
| Wednesday, April 30 |
Jonathan Rieder |
The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr |
Biography/ Rhetoric / Civil Rights Struggle |
2006 - 2007
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Tuesday, July 18 |
Al Gore |
An Inconvenient Truth |
Environmental/Political Commentary
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Monday, Oct. 30 |
Steve McCurry
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Looking East |
Photography
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Thursday, Dec. 7
Booksigning (Lobby):
9 a.m. – 10 a.m. & 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Presentation (Gym): 11:00 a.m. |
David Wiesner |
Flotsam |
Children's Illustration |
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Tuesday, Jan. 9 |
Bob Brier
Pat Remler |
The Murder of Tutankhamen
Egyptian Mythology A to Z |
History/ AncientEgypt |
| Monday, Feb. 12 |
Senator Edward Brooke |
Bridging the Divide |
Memoir |
| Friday, Feb. 23 |
Terry McAuliffe |
What a Party!: My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals |
Memoir |
| Tuesday, May. 15 |
Stephanie Nolen |
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa |
Current Events: AIDS |
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