Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 6:30 PM.
Escape the ordinary with monthly discussions of science fiction, fantasy, and horror novellas. As part of Eisenhower's 50th Anniversary celebration, this month's book will be The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, released on paperback in 1973, the year the Library was officially founded.
Monday, April 24, 2023, 7:00 PM.
Join us on our Facebook page every Monday night at 7:00 PM for an online screening of a classic movie. This week we’re watching Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII.
Everything Everywhere All at Once was an unlikely juggernaut at this year's Oscars, winning seven of its 11 Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing.
The Bancroft Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University in the City of New York. The winners are judged in terms of scope, significance, depth of research, and richness of interpretation that they present in the areas of American history and diplomacy.
Monday, April 17, 2023, 7:00 PM.
Join us on our Facebook page every Monday night at 7:00 PM for an online screening of a classic movie. This week we’re watching Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet in The Mask of Dimitrios.
One of the most popular books of the last few weeks has been Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson. If you loved the book and are looking for something similar, or if you need something to read until your hold comes in, here are a few readalikes.
Have you been watching Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur? The animated Marvel show follows the adventures of Lunella, a 13-year-old super-genius who accidentally brings a ten-ton T-Rex into present-day New York City via a time vortex. The duo works together to protect the city's Lower East Side from danger.
Last week, the filmed adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & The Six started streaming on Amazon Prime. The ten episode mockumentary follows "a rock band in the 1970s from their rise in the LA music scene to becoming one of the most famous bands in the world and explores the reason behind their split at the height of their success."
Monday, April 10, 2023, 7:00 PM.
Join us on our Facebook page every Monday night at 7:00 PM for an online screening of a classic movie. This week we’re watching Alfred Hitchcock's early thriller, Secret Agent.
The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature. In the Literary category, prizes are awarded to best fiction, nonfiction, debut author, biography/autobiography, instructional, poetry, children's, and teens.
The post-apocalyptic drama based on the lauded video game, has been spreading across the world like a fungus-covered zombie plague. If you're not watching the horror TV series on HBO, you're really missing out. If you are watching the show, you'll probably like some of this creepy zombie-ish novels.
Monday, April 03, 2023, 7:00 PM.
Join us on our Facebook page every Monday night at 7:00 PM for an online screening of a classic movie. This week we’re watching James Cagney in Blood on the Sun.
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, a nonprofit association of scholars, writers, and publishers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in literature, film, and the other arts, has named The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez as winner of the Crawford Award.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 6:30 PM.
Escape the ordinary with monthly discussions of science fiction, fantasy, and horror novellas. This month's book will be Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer.
March, 2023.
Join us in the Eisenhower Library Book Club Group on Facebook, a place to read and discuss books with our community. We'll choose a new book every month and share discussion questions, author interviews, recommended read-a-likes, and anything else we can think of to enhance your reading experience.
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Monday, March 27, 2023, 7:00 PM.
Join us on our Facebook page every Monday night at 7:00 PM for an online screening of a classic movie. This week we’re watching William Holden and Martha Scott in Our Town.
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18.
The Schneider Family Book Awards honor authors or illustrators for books that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
Every year, the Michael L. Printz Award honors the best book written for teens, based on its literary merit.
Designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards annually recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience.
Monday, March 20, 2023, 7:00 PM.
Join us on our Facebook page every Monday night at 7:00 PM for an online screening of a classic movie. This week we’re watching a young Dennis Hopper in Night Tide.
Named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, the Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. In addition to the Caldecott Medal, the committee typically awards Caldecott Honors to other books worthy of attention.
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British children’s book publisher John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Beside the Newbery Medal, the committee usually awards Newbery Honors to other books worthy of attention.
The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established in 2012 by the American Library Association to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year.
