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Oct 22, 2017 philadelphias citywide book club has a new read for next year, as the public library of philadelphia announced its selection for 2018s one book, one philadelphia program. The yellow birds by kevin powers is the 2014 selection for one book, one philadelphia. One city one book program has served as the communitys signature literary event. In this riveting, sharply etched study of a child in distress, the author, who is now in her late forties and a professor of clinical psychiatry, recalls how a childhood marked by family tragedy led to years of depression and the feeling that adults could not be. Seattle reads began the one city one book reading programs that swept the country.
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