This Month's Adult Events From the Hoover Library

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Coupon Swap Global Cuisine @ the Plaza: Germany Is It A Scam? Outbreaks to Epidemics: Ebola, 1976-2015 First Thursday Fiction Book Group: Orphan Train Farris, York & Sledge Your Multipurpose Landscape: Grow It and Eat It, Too Hiroya Tsukamoto Helping Hands Trivia Night Daytime Nonfiction Book Group Spanish Conversation Club Second Thursday Fiction Book Group: Beautiful Ruins Glue Gun Gang: Heart Pins Purl @ the Plaza Neuroscience Cafe: Finding a Cure for Epilepsy No Jacket Required Nonfiction Book Group Write Club Monday at the Movies: Glory Road Art Reception Honoring Melanie Morris Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors Nighttime Nonfiction Book Group Southern Voices: Wally Lamb Southern Voices: Author Conference Coffee-ol-ogy Coffee Cafe! Coupon Swap Stop by the Nonfiction Desk all month long to use our coupon bin. Bring coupons you don't need and swap for ones you do. Call 444-7840 for more information. Sunday, February 1 - Saturday, February 28--Nonfiction Department Global Cuisine @ the Plaza: Germany Coffee-ol-ogy Cafe presents a FREE program on the food and coffee of Germany. Complimentary samples provided. Call 444-7821 for more information. Sunday, February 1 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza Is It A Scam? David C. Smitherman, President and CEO of the Better Business Bureau of Central and South Alabama, will discuss current scams and ways to protect yourself. Free and open to the public. Refreshments provided. Call 444-7840 for more information. Sponsored by the Friends of the Hoover Library. Monday, February 2 at 10 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Outbreaks to Epidemics: Ebola, 1976-2015 Dr. Pat Greenup discusses the social, cultural and health implications of the Ebola virus. Call 444-7816 for more information. Monday, February 2 at 7 pm--Children's Programming Room First Thursday Fiction Book Group: Orphan Train Join us for a discussion of Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. Refreshments provided as well as books for the next meeting. Thursday, February 5 at 10 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Farris, York & Sledge This jazz trio from Muscle Shoals features electric guitar, upright bass and drums. Call 444-7821 for more information. Thursday, February 5 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza Your Multipurpose Landscape: Grow It and Eat It, Too Presented by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. Call 444-7840 for more information. Thursday, February 5 at 6:30 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Hiroya Tsukamoto Guitarist from Kyoto, Japan, plays a mixture of instrumental guitar pieces and Japanese songs. Call 444-7821 for more information. Sunday, February 8 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza Helping Hands Drop in to make newspaper rolls for a local humane society. Teens and adults welcome. Call 444-7840 for more information. Monday, February 9 from 3 pm - 8:30 pm--Nonfiction Department Trivia Night Round up your friends and join us for Trivia Night at local Hoover restaurant Beef 'O' Brady's (5519 Grove Blvd.). Compete for great prizes while having fun. Call 444-7820 for more information. Monday, February 9 at 7 pm--Beef 'O' Brady's, The Grove Daytime Nonfiction Book Group Join us for a discussion of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson. Call 444-7816 for more information. Tuesday, February 10 at 10:30 am--Theatre Conference Room Spanish Conversation Club All Spanish fluency levels welcome to practice and learn. Call 444-7820 for more information. Tuesday, February 10 from 7 pm - 8 pm--Library Plaza Second Thursday Fiction Book Group: Beautiful Ruins Join us for a discussion of Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter. Refreshments provided as well as books for the next meeting. Call 444-7820 for more information. Thursday, February 12 at 10 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms 10 am Glue Gun Gang: Heart Pins Wear your heart on your sleeve! Make a pretty felt heart pin for Valentine's Day. Adults only. FREE! Reservations required. Call 444-7840 to register. Thursday, February 12 at 10:30 am--Theatre Level Meeting Room C Purl @ the Plaza Celebrate Valentine's Day by crafting for a loved one. Call 444-7821 for more information. Saturday, February 14 from 1 pm - 5 pm--Library Plaza Neuroscience Cafe: Finding a Cure for Epilepsy Presented by the UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center. FREE! Call 444-7840 for more information. Monday, February 16 at 6:30 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms No Jacket Required Nonfiction Book Group This month: books about books. Call 444-7840 for more information. Wednesday, February 18 at 10:30 am--Plaza Reading Room Write Club Share your literary works and network with other aspiring writers. Call 444-7820 for more information. Saturday, February 21 at 10:30 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Monday at the Movies: Glory Road Join us for a screening of Glory Road (PG, 120 minutes, 2006). Free admission and refreshments. Call 444-7820 for more information. Monday, February 23 at 2 pm & 6:30 pm--Children's Programming Room Art Reception Honoring Melanie Morris Join us to honor our Southern Voices Featured Artist. Free and open to the public. Artwork on display through March. Tuesday, February 24 from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm--Friends Gallery Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors Since releasing their first album in 2005, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors have established themselves as a formidable indie act. Call The Library Theatre Box Office at 444-7888 or visit www.thelibrarytheatre.com for ticket information. Tickets $25 Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 8 pm SOLD OUT Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 8 pm SOLD OUT The Library Theatre Nighttime Nonfiction Book Group Join us for a discussion of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott. Call 444-7816 for more information. Thursday, February 26 at 7 pm--Allen Board Room Southern Voices: Wally Lamb Southern Voices warmly welcomes best-selling novelist Wally Lamb to our conference. After the presentation, we invite you to join Mr. Lamb on the Library Plaza for a book signing and reception. Books will be available for purchase. Tickets are currently SOLD OUT. Call The Library Theatre Box Office at 444-7888 for waiting list information. Tickets $35--SOLD OUT Friday, February 27 at 7 pm--The Library Theatre Southern Voices: Author Conference Featuring: Karen Abbott, Chelsea Cain, Amy Greene, James Scott, Jon Sealy, Thrity Umrigar and Meg Wolitzer. Book sales and signings to follow conference. Call the Box Office at 444-7888 for ticket information or go online to www.hooverlibrary.org/sv. Tickets $40 Saturday, February 28 from 9:30 am - 4 - pm The Library Theatre--SOLD OUT OR The Library Plaza--TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE 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.