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In the News: WPB Library Foundation Yacht Cruise Has Record-Breaking Year
(WEST PALM BEACH, FL) – The West Palm Beach Library Foundation’s Cruise for a Cause set new records in number of guests aboard the yacht and in achieving fundraising goals, to fuel the foundation’s mission…
Read MoreDarkness at Noon: Arthur Koestler and the Twentieth Century’s Great Anti-Totalitarian Novel.
Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest on the fifth of September, 1905, and by the time he died in London seventy-seven years later he had produced one of the strangest and most consequential literary lives…
Read MoreThe Dawn of an Epic: 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey was written in an unusual way—hand in hand with the film it accompanies. Beginning in 1964 from Clarke’s 1948 short story “The Sentinel,” Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick…
Read MoreBook Signing with Trace Gallagher – Friday October 9th 2026.
Meet Fox News Channel’s Chief Breaking News Correspondent Trace Gallagher at an exclusive book signing event celebrating the launch of his highly anticipated new book, Turns Out They Were Right All Along: Life Lessons I…
Read MoreCarl Sagan: The Voice of the Cosmos.
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) was the most influential science communicator of the twentieth century—an astronomer and planetary scientist who did more than perhaps anyone to bring the wonder of the cosmos to a popular audience. A…
Read MoreDune: Frank Herbert’s Science-Fiction Masterpiece.
First published in 1965, Frank Herbert’s Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel ever written and the first to win both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. Set on the arid planet Arrakis, the only…
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