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Karen Robards in Toledo

The Sanger Branch Library is celebrating its grand re-opening after renovations, with New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards on hand to discuss her...

A.S. Coomer’s The Fetishists is a Hell of a ride

You know you’re in for the literary equivalent of a ghost pepper when a human sex slave auction is the jumping off point in...

The Ann Arbor Book Festival comes to Michigan this month

Boost your brainpower, get whisked away to a fantasyland or just be a lookie-loo when the Ann Arbor Book Festival hits Michigan. From the street...

Discuss hit novel “Girl With A Pearl Earring” with Toledo’s book club

The Toledo/Tracy Chevalier love affair continues! Chevalier, who was recently in town to speak at the Toledo Museum of Art (read our interview with...

UT professor’s classic book brings Iroquois history to life

“In Native American circles, it is traditional for the grandparents to tell the ‘rising generations,’ their grandchildren, tales of the Old Times. When a...

Author Amor Towles joins Literati Club for After Hours Event

The Toledo Lucas County Public Library is home to the Literati Club. The group, which does fundraising and literacy-raising events, is promoting the latter,...

The Yellow Envelope Author To Speak in Toledo

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single book— especially when that book is The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules and...

Award-winning writer Ron Chernow makes a stop in Toledo

Winner of several prestigious writing awards including the Pulitzer, the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the American History Book Prize, Ron Chernow has...

Free Comic Book Day: Your Guide to Getting into Comics

The success of many popular comic-based movies has created a renaissance for the genre. There is, simply, no better time to be a comic...

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...