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The 2015 holiday season in philadelphia will once again hit a crescendo with two huge fireworks. One book, one philadelphia fosters reading, literacy, library usage, and civic dialogue citywide. Celebrating its 18th season, one book, one philadelphia is a signature program of the free library that promotes literacy, library usage, and civic dialogue by encouraging the entire greater philadelphia area to come together through reading and discussing a single. This will be followed by fireworks at the philadelphia museum of art, benjamin franklin parkway. July 4th has always been one of my favorite holidays. The pennsylvania center for the book fireworks capital. Phantom provides the widest range of consumer fireworks in all categories. National book award winner cold mountain is the acclaimed. Fireworks, delicious food and other summer fun can be found in a plethora of locations and offered by numerous organizations and venues. Cold mountain by charles frazier was the 2016 one book, one philadelphia featured selection. Cold mountain selected for 2016 one book, one philadelphia.
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