Midtown Scholar Bookstore Author Reading Series
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NEW podcast from one of the nation’s premier independent bookstores, in Pennsylvania’s capital city. We proudly host national award-winning authors and emerging literary sensations for free public readings and book signings. Join us each week as we celebrate the essential role of literature in contemporary culture and engage the region’s vibrant literary and civic community in wide-ranging discussions on books, politics, society and the arts. SIGNED new releases by visiting authors are available at www.MidtownScholar.com * “Every Booklover Should Visit” - Travel + Leisure * “Indie bookstore jewel” - Publishers Weekly
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Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Long Bright River, An Evening with Liz Moore
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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An Afternoon with Christopher McDougall and Alexandra Horowitz
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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An Evening with Salman Rushdie,
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Agents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Rush: Revolution, Madness & The Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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How to Be an Anti-Racist with Ibram X. Kendi and Imani Perry
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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An Afternoon with Tea Obreht, Author of "Inland"
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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An Evening with Stephen Chbosky
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Emerging Voices: An Afternoon with R.O. Kwon and Joanne Ramos
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Political Parody in the Age of Trump
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Story Time with Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Story Time with Vashti Harrison
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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WITF Smart Talk Live with Eric Foner
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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For the Love of Beer: Pennsylvania's Breweries
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television and the Fracturing of America
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Incendiaries: A Novel
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly's Royal Wedding
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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The Tenth Muse: A Novel
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Drink To Every Beast
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and The Last Trial of Harper Lee
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Yes, I'm That Guy: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Character Actor
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns
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May 28, 2019 |
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Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
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May 28, 2019 |
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How to Resist: An Evening with authors George Lakey and Michael Long
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May 18, 2019 |
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We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America
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May 18, 2019 |
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When Kids Rule the School: The Power and Promise of Democratic Education
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May 18, 2019 |
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The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation
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May 07, 2019 |
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Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad
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May 07, 2019 |
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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and Americas Journey From Slavery to Segregation
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May 01, 2019 |
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The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best and Worst Chief Executives
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Embattled Freedom: Journey through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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PURE: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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Humanimal: How Homo Sapiens became Nature's Most Paradoxical Creatures
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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An Evening with authors, Kimi Cunningham Grant and Sarah St. Vincent
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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The Lost Girls of Paris
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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The Book of Delights: Essays
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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No Justice: One White Police Officer, One Black Family, and How One Bullet Ripped Us Apart
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Well-Behaved Taverns Seldom Make History
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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The Odyssey: A Conversation with translator, Emily Wilson
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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A Morning with Zach Berman and Molly Sullivan
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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CLOSING KEYNOTE WITH CAROL ANDERSON: One Person, No Vote
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Coming of Age in the White House: An Afternoon with David Litt and Beck Dorey-Stein
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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THE HIDDEN ARMY OF FEMALE CODEBREAKERS An Evening with Liza Mundy
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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PORTRAITS OF HOME: An Afternoon with Crystal Hana Kim and Lucy Tan
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert
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Oct 13, 2018 |
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Opening Keynote with Tayari Jones: An American Marriage
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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Pennsylvania Politics and Policy: A Commonwealth Reader with Editors J.Wesley Leckrone and Michelle J. Atherton
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell Moore
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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How Bernie Won: Inside the Revolution That's Taking Back Our Country - and Where We Go From Here
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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From the Corner of the Oval: An Evening with Beck Dorsey-Stein
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Flunk. Start. Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology with Sands Hall
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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An Evening with Ibram X. Kendi
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May 16, 2018 |
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From the Archives: Brad Bumsted On Pennsylvania Politics
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Oct 01, 2017 |