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Free Comic Book Day

Perhaps the best of the fake holidays, Free Comic Book Day speaks to the geek in all of us. You’ve spent enough money at...

Author to read memoir about growing up on the Great Lakes

Have you ever dreamt of a life on the open water? Ann Michler Lewis wrote a memoir of her time accompanying her father, a...

Yale professor and public intellectual Timothy Snyder visits Toledo

Take a free lesson in the history of the 20th century when Yale professor and public intellectual Timothy Snyder comes to town. Congresswoman Marcy...

365 POETRY & FICTION CONTEST

TCP’s Poetry and Fiction Contest 2017 Are you the next Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, W.B. Yeats or E.E. Cummings? Are you a shut in like...

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day

You’re going to want to be at a local bookstore (or four) to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 29. Here’s the rundown...

Book club art walk at the TMA

The journey of 100 feet begins with a single visit to the Toledo Museum of Art to join the Toledo Lucas County Library Toledo...

2017 Ode to the Zip Code Poetry Contest Winners

What does your zip code mean to you? Last year, we joined the Toledo Fair Housing Center, the Arts Commission and the Toledo Lucas...

Mott Branch Library Book Club

If you are looking for a more involved book club, the reading group at the Mott Branch Library might be the one for you....

Author Lizbeth Meredith discusses her latest memoir “Pieces of Me”

Hear the true, gritty and detailed events of a parent’s worst nightmare, and the courage one woman had to go through to find her...

Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera visits Toledo for the Authors! Authors! series

Learn from one of the poetry world’s best when U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera visits Toledo for the Authors! Authors! series. Herrera, the...

George Orwell 1984 Reading Group

Feel like talking about the inevitable totalitarian takeover and other depressing intellectual pursuits? Join the George Orwell, 1984 Reading Group, which meets every Thursday...

The Art of Sharing Space: Heavy Color presents “Interconnected: Rhythm and Reflection”

When you open yourself up to the community something unique happens— the community opens itself back up to you. Sam Woldenberg and Ben Cohen, the...

Chris Parker’s quixotic journey to tell the story of the 2016 Cavaliers’ championship run

Say what you want about Chris Parker, the guy is honest. He doesn’t pull punches about the status of his book, King James Brings...

Bukowski reading at The Attic on Adams

Anger looks great on paper— especially in the form of a poem. Join writers interested in political resistance for the “We The People” Bukowski...

Fantasy Book Club reads A Gathering of Shadows

Fans of V.E. Schwab will be delighted to learn that the Fantasy Book Club is continuing to review the adventures of Kell Maresh, adopted...

Local author Terence O’Leary’s new book is historical fiction

Most of us will never have to endure the profound hardships of our ancestors. Surviving a famine, voyaging across the ocean with only the...
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