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Events for Adults
Red Cross Blood Drive
Be a hero for a day in your community, donate blood and save a life.
When?
Sat, 06/08/2013 - 9:00am
Where?
Tremont Road - Main Library
Hiking the High Sierras
Tom Logsdon is a long-distance hiker who has carried a pack over 5,000 miles of back country trails in the last ten years. He has... more
When?
Wed, 06/12/2013 - 7:00pm
Where?
Tremont Road - Main Library
Art or Crime? Considering Street Art in England
Street art has a contentious history: some see these public works of art as âinterventionsâ into the fabric of a city, celebrating... more
When?
Thu, 06/20/2013 - 7:00pm
Where?
Tremont Road - Main Library
Digital Media @ UAPL
New Releases
News from the World of Letters
Posted on: Mon, 05/20/2013 - 4:49pm
Nathaniel Philbrick newest book, Bunker Hill, recasts the events and personalities surrounding the start of the American Revolution. Read the review.
Posted on: Tue, 04/30/2013 - 12:57pm
Posted on: Mon, 04/08/2013 - 3:18pm
Moving from Maine to New York Author Elizabeth Strout's new book "The Burgess Boys" is set in Parke Slope, a Brooklyn neighborhood where Strout calls home.
Listen to the NPR interview:
Posted on: Mon, 04/08/2013 - 3:10pm
Simon & Schuster has a book deal with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton is working on a memoir and policy book about her years as secretary of state. The book is tentatively scheduled for release in June 2014. (HuffPost Books)
Posted on: Mon, 03/25/2013 - 2:53pm
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and whose internationally acclaimed fiction helped to revive African literature, died on Thursday in Boston (New York Times).
Books by Achebe available at your library:
- Anthills of the Savannah
- Chike and the River
- The Education of a British-protected Child: Essays
- How the Leopard Got His Claws
- There was a country: a personal history of Biafra
- Things Fall Apart
Adult Recommendations
Right Rose, Right Place by Peter Schneider
Anyone can grow a rose; success is dependent on the correct garden placement. Lucky for us the author’s rose garden is in Ohio. Peter Schneider grows over 1200 roses in his garden, all are recommended for northern and Midwestern gardens. All levels of rose gardeners will enjoy this well written, detailed, and beautifully illustrated book.
Unsinkable: A Memoir by Debbie Reynolds
A youngster during movies ‘Golden Age’, Reynolds writes a wonderfully funny & heartfelt memoir of her trials, tribulations and friendships. She shares her children, Carrie and Todd Fisher, personal problems, as they struggle with their own successes as well as their famous parents. Her disastrous marriages brought her to bankruptcy, but she never despaired- and that’s the heart of this story, how her spirit, talent and personality kept her from sinking.
"My Mother was Nuts" by Penny Marshall
Comedian/director Marshall writes very openly on her life experiences growing up in the Bronx, getting pregnant and married young in New Mexico, her marriage to Rob Reiner, friendship with Carrie Fisher, and relationship with Art Garfunkel. Marshall revisits tough subjects like abortion, drugs, lack of mothering skills, and her now fading health. Great stories abound of her time spent on TV shows, movies, and her career as a movie director. Marshall's humor is how she gets through the difficult stuff and lives with a simple motto: "try hard, help your friends, don't get too crazy, and have fun."
"The Dinner" by Herman Koch
It begins with dinner at a high-end restaurant in Amsterdam. Two brothers, Paul and Serge, and their wives meet to discuss their teenage sons. It is quickly apparent this is no ordinary discussion. What have the cousins done? What is to be done about it? Slowly the tension builds and the reader becomes anxious as the story unfolds. The ending is a stunner!
