Thursday, November 08, 2018, 1:00 PM.
Our Classic Film Series continues with The Deer Hunter.
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Thursday, November 08, 2018, 1:00 PM.
Our Classic Film Series continues with The Deer Hunter.
Tuesdays, November 20, 2018. 2:00 PM & November 27, 2018. 6:00 PM.
The Modern Times Film series showcases new additions to the library's movie collection. This month's movie will be Black Panther. The new king of a technologically advanced African nation, is challenged by a vengeful outsider and a black-market arms dealer. 2018. PG-13. 2h 14m.
Comedian and actress Ellie Kemper has made a name for herself playing sweetly good-natured characters.
The Battle Books for 2019 have been chosen. Copies of every title will be arriving at each participating school soon, but why wait?
You can find them in Kids World under the Dragon Mural. Check them out and get a …
Friday, November 23, 2018, 3:30 PM.
Every month, residents of Central Baptist Village meet in the Craft Room to discuss a book chosen by our Outreach Librarian. This month we're reading That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam.
In 2013 the Gordon Burn Prize was launched “to reward fiction or non-fiction written in the English language, which in the opinion of the judges most successfully represents the spirit and sensibility of Gordon’s literary methods: novels which dare to enter history and interrogate the past…literature which challenges perceived notions of genre and makes us think again about just what it is that we are reading.”
Wednesday, November 14, 2018. 1:30 PM.
This month we'll watch The Joy Luck Club after reading the novel by Amy Tan.
Every month at libraryreads.org, librarians across the county nominate their favorite books. Whichever ten books get the most nominations go onto the monthly list. Place holds now to get these sure-to-be popular books as soon as possible after they're released.
2.5 million years ago, the first humans appeared in East Africa. However, these humans were not Homo sapiens, which is what all humans today are. In fact, there were several species of humans.
Friday, November 09, 2018, 5:00 - 8:00 PM.
We're keeping the library open after hours just for teens. Bring your friends, to watch a movie, eat some pizza, and make a craft.
Like many of Eisenhower's patrons, Susan Orlean's early reading years were inspired by her local public library.
Stand-up comedian Bo Burnham steps off the stage and behind the camera with his writing/directing debut, an unsentimental, non-glamorized look at what it means to be a 13-year-old today.
Does LSD have a place in your medicine cabinet? In How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Professor Michael Pollan explores the history of psychedelics in the scientific community to assess whether LSD, psilocybin, or similar synthetic drugs have a place in modern mental health therapy.
Monday, November 12, 2018, 7:00 - 8:30 PM.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 2:00 - 3:30 PM.
This month’s Adult Book Discussion book will be The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg.
The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize is an international competition that supports and celebrates the best adventure writing today. First awarded in 2016, the Prize recognizes published, unpublished and young (age 21 and under) authors alike. The Prize is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English. Last month the award was presented to Abir Mukherjee for A Necessary Evil, the second in his Sam Wyndham Series, following A Rising Man.
In How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt analyze failed democracies of 1930s Europe and contemporary Latin America, as well as times when the United States’ democracy seemed at stake.
If you've ever wished you'd been born in time to get the secret password and sneak into a speakeasy; if you love Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing; if you wish you'd seen the Spirit of St Louis take off and head for France, this is your book.