This Month's Adult Events From the Hoover Library

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Coffee Tastings @ the Plaza: Germany Friends of the Library Meeting European Travel Tips: Greece & Turkey ESL Class First Thursday Fiction Book Group: A Mercy Career Training Opportunities Through CEFA Playing @ the Plaza: Cleve Eaton & the Alabama All-Stars Using Your Kindle at the Library Purl @ the Plaza Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: Charlie Hunter, Fiddler How to Start a Business in Hoover Second Thursday Fiction Book Group: The Paris Wife Write Club You Can Do It @ the Plaza: Quick & Easy Plumbing Fixes How Can You Get Control of Your Income? Southern Voices Festival: Artist Reception Southern Voices Festival: An Evening with Lisa See Southern Voices Festival: Author Conference Monday at the Movies: The Blind Side European Travel Tips: France Nonfiction Book Group: The Zoo Keeper's Wife Coffee-ol-ogy Coffee Cafe! Coffee Tastings @ the Plaza: Germany Taste the world! Coffee-ol-ogy Cafe presents fun and interactive programs on food and coffees from around the globe. Complimentary samples provided. Sunday, February 3 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza Friends of the Library Meeting The Tuskegee Airmen, presented by Brian Burke, educational outreach coordinator, Southern Museum of Flight. Refreshments at 9:45 am. Meeting begins at 10 am. The public is welcome. For information, call 444-7840. Monday, February 4 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms European Travel Tips: Greece & Turkey Come hear travel experts Bill and Judy Lewis for the second presentation in our exciting program series on how to have a true European travel experience as you enjoy desserts from the featured country. For information, call 444-7840. Tuesday, February 5 at 1:30 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms ESL Class Free ESL class for non-native English speakers. Tuesdays, February 3, 12, 19, & 26 at 6:30 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms First Thursday Fiction Book Group: A Mercy A Mercy by Toni Morrison In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in partial payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives. A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter-a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. Thursday, February 7 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Career Training Opportunities Through CEFA Learn how to get free training in construction, welding, masonry, HVAC and other high demand trades. Call 444-7816. Thursday, February 7 at 10:30 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Playing @ the Plaza: Cleve Eaton & the Alabama All-Stars Jazz supergroup led by Eaton, a former member of the Count Basie Orchestra and a longtime player with Ramsey Lewis. Thursday, February 7 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza Using Your Kindle at the Library Learn to use your Kindle to check out eBooks from the library. Reservations required. Call 444-7747. Saturday, February 9 at 2:00 pm--Library Training Center Purl @ the Plaza Join old friends and make new ones at this crafty meeting of all fiber enthusiasts! Bring your yarn and knit, crochet or embroider. Saturday, February 9 at 3:00 pm--Library Plaza Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: Charlie Hunter, Fiddler Join us for an afternoon of old-time country fiddling. Sunday, February 10 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza How to Start a Business in Hoover Presented by Joe Primm, Business Counselor from the Alabama Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network, and the City of Hoover's Revenue Department. Reservations required. Call 444-7816. Tuesday, February 12 at 9:15 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Second Thursday Fiction Book Group: The Paris Wife The Paris Wife by Paula McLain Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway. Following a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they become the golden couple in a lively and volatile group—the fabled “Lost Generation”—that includes Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Thursday, February 14 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Write Club Mingle and share with your fellow amateur writers. Flesh out your characters and tie-up those dangling plot threads! Swap material with other writers, or even read your work aloud. Share your stories and inspirations! Write Club is a monthly forum for local amateur writers to meet and discuss their work. The goal of Write Club is to inspire and encourage literary involvement in the community by providing an environment in which local authors can network, share their writing and offer each other moral support and constructive criticism. Call 444-7820 for more information. Saturday, February 16 at 10:30 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms You Can Do It @ the Plaza: Quick & Easy Plumbing Fixes Jones-Warren Construction and Home Depot teach you how to fix basic plumbing problems on your own. Saturday, February 16 at 10:30 am--Library Plaza How Can You Get Control of Your Income? While everyone else is updating their resume, you can take back control of your ability to earn a living. Join Dr. Dale Callahan to learn how to take control of your career and your income. Reservations required. Call 444-7816. Monday February 18 at 7:00 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Southern Voices Festival: Artist Reception This reception honors Southern Voices Featured Artist, Alexi Torres. Free and open to the public. Artwork on display through March. Tuesday, February 19 at 5:30 pm--Friends Gallery-Theatre Level Southern Voices Festival: An Evening with Lisa See Southern Voices warmly welcomes best-selling novelist Lisa See to our conference. After the presentation, we invite you to join Ms. See on the Library Plaza for a book signing and reception. Books will be available for purchase. Call the Library Theatre Box Office at 444-7888 for ticket information or visit the Southern Voices website at www.southernvoices.info. Friday, February 22 at 7:00 pm--Library Theatre $35. Limit 4 tickets. Southern Voices Festival: Author Conference Featuring Wiley Cash, Dorothea Benton Frank, Grant Jerkins, Tayari Jones, Ron Rash, Michel Stone, and Wendy Wax. Book sales and signing will follow the afternoon session. NEW for this year: Choose your venue! The Library Theatre OR The Library Plaza. Call the Library Theatre Box Office at 444-7888 for ticket information or visit the Southern Voices website at www.southernvoices.info. Lunch on your own. You may preorder a boxed lunch from Coffee-ol-ogy by calling 987-0176. Saturday, February 23 Registration: 9:00 am Conference: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm $40 per person. Limit 4 tickets. Monday at the Movies: The Blind Side Directed By John Lee Hancock The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family. 2hr 10min, PG-13 Free admission & refreshments! Monday, February 25 at 2:00 pm & 6:30 pm--Library Theatre European Travel Tips: France Come hear travel experts Bill and Judy Lewis for the final presentation in our exciting program series on how to have a true European travel experience as you enjoy desserts from the featured country. For information, call 444-7840. Tuesday, February 26 at 1:30 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Nonfiction Book Group: The Zoo Keeper's Wife The Zoo Keeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants—otters, a badger, hyena pups, and lynxes. Thursday, February 28 at 7:00 pm--Allen Board Room Coffee-ol-ogy Coffee Cafe! Breakfast, lunch and dinner! Coffee and desserts! Located on the Library Plaza. February's Global Cuisine, German, features: Old Berlin Beer Cheese Soup Potato Cakes Turkey Reuben Sandwich Roasted Bratwurst with Red Cabbage & Apples Apple Strudel Cobbler Monday-Thursday: 9:00 am - 8:00 pm Friday: 9:00 am - 5:30 pm Saturday: 10:00 am - 5:30 pm Sunday: 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm Phone: 205-987-0176   This e-mail was sent from Jefferson County Library Cooperative, Inc. Immediate removal with PatronMail® SecureUnsubscribe. To forward this e-mail to a friend or colleague, use this link. To change your e-mail address or update preferences, use this link.