Month: June 2012

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First place award winner

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Author Wendy Call won the first place prize for Best History/Political Book in English in the International Latino Book Awards for her book, No Word for Welcome. The International Latino Book Award is the largest and most important Latino book awards in the USA. This year, the awards were sponsored by Libros Publishing, Scholastic, and Atria Books.  No Word for Welcome follows the story of a large-scale development effort in central Mexico and the grassroots efforts to stop it. Congrats Wendy!   Continue reading First place award winner

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Slaying the Dragon opening night

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Tonight is the opening of Center City Opera Theater's Slaying the Dragon, a new opera by composer Michael Ching and librettist Ellen Frankel. Slaying the Dragon is based on the upcoming UNP book Not by the Sword by Kathryn Watterson, in which she tells the inspiring true story of how a Jewish cantor and his family changed the life of a virulent white supremacist leader.  The opening performance is at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia at 8:00 p.m. with five performances through June 17. Click here for more information about the opera and performances.  Philly.com previewed the opera earlier this week.     Continue reading Slaying the Dragon opening night