Friday, May 31, 2013

Come to the Bookfair

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Barnes & Noble Bookfair, Friday, May 31-June 7, 2013 in Support of the Public Libraries. Both Stores Participating - In Store & Online, Patton Creek # 11109220 or Summit # 11109238, Can't attend our bookfair at Barnes & Noble?, Visit bn.com/bookfairs to support us online from May 31 to June 7, 2013 by entering required Bookfair ID Patton Creek # 11109220 or Summit # 11109238 at checkout. A percentage of your Barnes & Noble purchases will benefit the Public Libraries in Jefferson County

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

This Month's Adult Events From the Hoover Library

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Escape into Reading: Adult Summer Reading
Download the Hoover Library App
Global Cuisine @ the Plaza: Tour de France: Food and Coffees
Eight Ways to Promote Your Business for Free!
First Thursday Fiction Book Group: The Light Between Oceans
Purl @ the Plaza: World Wide Knit in Public Day
March of the Penguins
NEW Daytime Nonfiction Book Club: In the Garden of Beasts
Second Thursday Fiction Book Group: The Dressmaker
Playing @ the Plaza: Will Yarbrough Band
Free Friday Flix: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
You Can Do It @ the Plaza: Planning to Age Gracefully In and With Your Home
Learn @ the Plaza: Lotions, Potions and Deadly Elixirs
Lost Antarctica
Monday @ the Movies: Stardust
Nonfiction Book Club: Destiny of the Republic
Write Club
Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: Carter and Joanna Laney
Coffee-ol-ogy Coffee Cafe!
Escape into Reading: Adult Summer Reading

Read Books! Win Prizes!
Read or listen to any five adult fiction or nonfiction books, e-books, or audiobooks, and register to win weekly prizes.
Get a free Hoover Public Library bookbag after completing 15 books. Grand prizes, including a Kindle Fire and gift cards to Hoover businesses and restuarants will be given away at the end of the program. Prizes are donated by the Friends of the Hoover Public Library.

Join the program by picking up a reading log in the Fiction or Nonfiction Departments. Program runs through July 31. Call 444-7820 or 444-7840 for more information.

Friday May 17 - Wednesday July 31--Fiction and Nonfiction Departments

Download the Hoover Library App
Take Hoover Public Library wherever you go. Download our FREE mobile app and search the library catalog, renew items, make requests, access library databases, download e-books and audiobooks, and more! Available for all major Smartphones and Tablets. Search for "Hoover Library" in your device's app store or download from our website.
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Global Cuisine @ the Plaza: Tour de France: Food and Coffees

Coffee-ol-ogy Coffee Café presents fun and FREE interactive programs on food and coffees from around the world. Complimentary samples provided. This month, discover the taste of France. Call 444-7821 for more information.

Sunday, June 2 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza

Eight Ways to Promote Your Business for Free!

Helen Todd will help small businesses understand and use social media to market their products and/or services. Reservations are required. Call 444-7816 to register.

Monday, June 3 at 7:00 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms

First Thursday Fiction Book Group: The Light Between Oceans

In The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia after four harrowing years on the Western Front and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Refreshments provided as well as books for the next meeting. Call 444-7820 for more information.

Thursday, June 6 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms

Purl @ the Plaza: World Wide Knit in Public Day

Join us for our third annual celebraton! Bring your favorite craft or handmade item and pattern to "Show and Share" with the group or just to show off. Knitting lessons will be available (reservations required) and there will be lots of giveaways and door prizes. Refreshments provided.

Program is free and open to the public, but call 444-7820 for knitting lesson reservations.

Knitting Lessons 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
WWKIP Day: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Saturday, June 8--Library Plaza

March of the Penguins

This beautiful nature documentary follows the annual journey of emperor penguins to their breeding ground in Antarctica. Rife with obstacles, the film focuses on one cute and steadfast pair as they face birth and death, dating and mating, predators and even love in their fight for survival.

2005, Rated G, 84 minutes. Call 444-7840 for more information.

Sunday, June 9 at 3:00 pm--The Library Theatre

NEW Daytime Nonfiction Book Club: In the Garden of Beasts

Join us for a discussion of In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.

Call 444-7816 for more information.

Tuesday, June 11 at 10:30 am--Adult Programming Room

Second Thursday Fiction Book Group: The Dressmaker

In The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott, Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic's doomed voyage. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes.

Refreshments provided as well as books for the next meeting. Call 444-7820 for more information.

Thursday, June 13 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms

Playing @ the Plaza: Will Yarbrough Band

The Will Yarbrough Band is an alternative rock band from Birmingham. Currently finishing their debut album, WYB is getting ready to hit the road to promote their new songs and increase the band's exposure. The promotional tour will take place at various venues throughout Birmingham and starts at Hoover Library.

Free and open to the public. Call 444-7821 for more information.

Thursday, June 13 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza

Free Friday Flix: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

This is the first in a trilogy of films adapted from the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The adventure follows the journey of Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug.

2012, PG-13, 169 minutes. Free admission. Call 444-7888 for information.

Friday, June 14 at 6:30 pm--The Library Theatre

You Can Do It @ the Plaza: Planning to Age Gracefully In and With Your Home

Jones-Warren Construction and Home Depot demonstrate things senior citizens can do to make their homes more livable.

Free event. Call 444-7821 for more information.

Saturday, June 15 at 10:30 am--Library Plaza

Learn @ the Plaza: Lotions, Potions and Deadly Elixirs

Catherine Heinzerling presents a fascinating lecture on America's quirky medical history.

Free and open to the public. Call 444-7821 for more information.

Monday, June 17 at 12:30 pm--Library Plaza

Lost Antarctica

Join us for a special evening with Jim McClintock author of Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land. McClintock is an Endowed Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and has appeared on NPR, CNN and Globe Trekker. Since 1983, Dr. McClintock has been a member of 14 research expeditions to Antarctica, and he will discuss his numerous trips and research. Call 444-7840 for information.

Thursday, June 20 at 7:00 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms

Monday @ the Movies: Stardust

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. Stars Charlie Cox, Claire Danes and Robert De Niro.

2007, PG-13, 127 minutes. Free admission and refreshments. Call 444-7820 for information.

Monday, June 24 at 2:00 pm & 6:30 pm--The Library Theatre

Nonfiction Book Club: Destiny of the Republic

Join us for a discussion of Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard. For a man forced into the presidency, the legacy of James Garfield extended far beyond his lifetime, and Destiny of the Republic revisits his meteoric rise within the military and government with meticulous research and intimate focus.

Thursday, June 27 at 7:00 pm--Allen Board Room

Write Club

The Write Club, the library's monthly forum for amateur writers, will encourage your literary aspirations by providing an environment for you to network, share your writing, receive moral support and offer constructive criticism. Come mingle and share with your fellow writers. Call 444-7820 for more information.

Saturday, June 29 at 10:30 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms

Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: Carter and Joanna Laney

Carter Laney is a veteran fiddler who has played with countless acts like Yahoos String Band, Vulcan's Britches and more. He'll be joined by his wife, Joanna, on guitar. Join us for an afternoon of old-time music.

Free and open to the public. Call 444-7821 for more information.

Sunday, June 30 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza

Coffee-ol-ogy Coffee Cafe!

Breakfast, lunch and dinner! Coffee and desserts! Located on the Library Plaza.

June's Global Cuisine, French, features:

  • French Toast
  • French Onion Soup
  • Monte Cristo Sandwich
  • Strata Therese
  • Quiche Lorraine
  • Roasted Pear Tarts

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

 
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Friday, May 24, 2013

Shop Barnes & Noble Bookfair and help your Public Libraries

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