EGYPT LAKE PARTNERSHIP LIBRARY TO TEMPORARILY CLOSE FOR SCHOOL PREPARATIONS

The Egypt Lake Partnership Library, 3403 West Lambright Street, Tampa, will be closed Tuesday, August 4 through Saturday, August 8 for its annual school preparations. The library will reopen Monday, August 10.

For library service needs during the closing, please visit one of our other nearby branches:

Seminole Heights Branch Library, 4711 Central Avenue

Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 2902 West Bearrs Avenue

Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 7606 Paula Drive

Please excuse any inconvenience. For more information, residents should call 813-273-3652.

TRAVEL WRITER THOMAS SWICK TO BE FEATURED FOUR SEASONS SPEAKER

Travel writer Thomas Swick will be the featured speaker for the next Four Seasons Author Series luncheon at the University Club, 38th Floor, One Tampa City Center in downtown Tampa on Friday, July 24 at noon.

Swick’s works include his latest book, A Way To See The World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler which discusses what is so great about travel and provides helpful advice for the bookish traveler, and the travel memoir, Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland. He was the travel editor of the Sun-Sentinel for 19 years, and his work has been included in "The Best American Travel Writing."

The Four Seasons Author Series is presented by the Friends of the Library of Tampa-Hillsborough County, Inc. The subscription series offers an annual quartet of literary lunches at which guest authors are invited to speak on a variety of subjects. Previous authors have included Hillary Hemingway (Hemingway in Cuba), Dennis Lehane (Mystic River), Connie May Fowler (Before Women Had Wings) and Charles Shields (Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee).

Tickets are $25 and a subscription for four consecutive luncheons is $100. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Library of Tampa-Hillsborough County, Inc., which is a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status. To reserve your seat for the luncheon, call the Friends office at (813) 273-3616 by Monday, July 20.