Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 7:30PM
Barbara Ehrenreich | Living with a Wild God: A Memoir
Central Library
1901 Vine Street, 19103
215-686-5322
“Veteran muckraker” (The New Yorker) Barbara Ehrenreich is
the New York Times bestselling author of 14 books, including the
working class exposé Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch, in
which she investigated the economic shadow world of white-collar unemployment. A journalist, historian, and social critic, she
writes with great passion on subjects as varied as healthcare, sex,
class, and families. In middle age, she came across the journal she
had kept during her wild adolescence. In her new memoir, Ehrenreich—a staunch atheist and rationalist—sets out to reconstruct
the philosophical and spiritual inquiry of her youth.
Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 7:30PM
Anne Perry | Death on Blackheath
Central Library
1901 Vine Street, 19103
215-686-5322
With memorable characters, historical accuracy, exploration of social
and ethical issues, and knife’s-edge suspense, Anne Perry’s acclaimed
Victorian mysteries “would make Dickens’s eyes pop out” (New York
Times Book Review). Named one of the 20th century’s 100 Masters of
Crime by The Times of London, Perry is the bestselling author of two
acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels,
including Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and
Thomas Pitt novels, including Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long
Spoon Lane. Her haunting new novel Death on Blackheath—the
29th in her Inspector Thomas Pitt series—features a naval weapons expert, love, betrayal, scandal, and murder.
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