Each ticket includes event admissi on\, a copy of \;Book Meets World\, and a donation to the Cuy ahoga County Public Library Foundation. \; \; \;
\ nAbout the authors:
\nDanielle Fishel is best known for her iconic role as Topanga on the &lsquo\;90s TGI F staple\, Boy Meets World. She&rsquo\;d later reprise the role f or Girl Meets World\, a millennial reboot that ran for 3 seasons on the Disney Channel. Since 2017\, Danielle has moved behind the camera\, directing over fifty episodes of multi-camera television including Disney Channel's Wizards Beyond Waverly Place &\; Raven&rsquo\;s Home (for which she was nominated for 2 Emmy&rsquo\;s)\, ABC&rsquo\; s Shifting Gears and NBC&rsquo\;s Lopez vs Lopez. She co -hosts the hit iHeart Podcast\, Pod Meets World\, alongside her b est friends and former costars\, Will Friedle and Rider Strong &ndash\; an d hosts her own interview show\, Teen Beat with Danielle Fishel. She most recently competed in the 34th season of Dancing with the Star s and it changed her life. No biggie.
\nAfter being cast as Gav roche in Les Miserables \;at nine years old\, Rider S trong began his career as an actor\, becoming best known for his roles on Boy Meets World \;and the cult horror film\, Cab in Fever. Moving behind the camera\, Rider wrote and directed short f ilms that have played over 60 festivals worldwide. He returned to his root s\, this time as a director\, for three seasons of \;the \;Emmy-no minated Girl Meets World. In addition to his screenwriting\, Ride r&rsquo\;s writing has appeared in The Believer\, Bullet Maga zine\, Shondaland\, and more. His play Never Ever Land \;premiered at Theatre Unleashed in the fall of 2019. He is the cr eator and co-host of the podcasts Literary Disco \;and Po d Meet World. In 2026\, iHeart will release The Red Weather\ , an eight-part audio crime series written\, directed\, and starring Rider .
\nWill Friedle&rsquo\;s extensive career has span ned three decades in sitcoms\, movies\, animated series and video games. H e is best known as the underachieving older brother Eric Matthews on the c lassic TGIF staple Boy Meets World. Will also starred in classic movies such as Trojan War\, My Date with the President&rsquo\ ;s Daughter and H.E. Double Hockey Sticks. Will is also a pr olific VO actor having done hundreds of animated projects\, starting in th e mid-nineties as Batman for a new generation in the now iconic Batman Beyond. Other roles include Bumblebee in Transformers: Prime\, Deadpool in Ultimate Spider-Man and Star-Lord in Marvel&r squo\;s Guardians of the Galaxy. But to a generation of Disney fans\, he&rsquo\;ll always be Ron Stoppable\, sidekick to hero Kim Possible. Wil l can currently be heard as the co-host of the iHeart podcasts Pod Mee ts World\, with Danielle Fishel and Rider Strong\, and Magical Re wind with Sabrina Bryan.
\nIn Book Meets World\, the actors who played Topanga\, Shawn\, and Eric on Boy Meets World expand on their hit podcast\, Pod Meets World\, in a nostal gic behind-the-scenes history of the much-loved 90s sitcom\, featuring unt old stories and never-before-seen photos.
\nBoy Meets World
\;ran from 1993 to 2000\, ushering its audience of tweens and teens i
nto the new millennium. Over the course of its seven seasons\, viewers fel
l in love with Cory Matthews and his friends and family&mdash\;rooting for
Topanga and Cory\, brooding with Shawn\, learning from Mr. Feeny\, and la
ughing at the increasingly over-the-top character that was Eric. Today\, t
he show continues to evoke warm feelings of nostalgia over a quarter of a
century after it ended.
Building on their incredibly successful
podcast\, Pod Meets World\, Danielle Fishel\, Rider Strong\, and
Will Friedle are here to share what it was like behind the scenes of the
hit sitcom. The three podcast co-hosts and former cast members interview d
ozens of the people who worked on Boy Meets World\, dishing about
off-camera stories and sharing photos along with their memories.
Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac&rsquo\;s Backs &ndash\; Books on Coventry.
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