This Month's Adult Events From the Hoover Library

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First Thursday Book Group: As I Lay Dying Kindle and the Library Coffee Tastings @ the Plaza: Explore Polynesian Foods and Coffees Learn to Use Your Nook! Second Thursday Book Group: Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: Violinists Hannah Conner and Rachel Sherrod How to Write a Grant Free Friday Flix: The Lorax Playing @ the Plaza: Yahoos String Band Nonfiction Book Group: Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition Write Club Monday at the Movies: Jane Eyre First Thursday Book Group: As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Addie Bundren, the wife of Anse Bundren and the matriarch of a poor southern family, is very ill, and is expected to die soon. Her oldest son, Cash, puts all of his carpentry skills into preparing her coffin, which he builds right in front of Addie’s bedroom window. Although Addie’s health is failing rapidly, two of her other sons, Darl and Jewel, leave town to make a delivery for the Bundrens’ neighbor, Vernon Tull, whose wife and two daughters have been tending to Addie. Shortly after Darl and Jewel leave, Addie dies. The youngest Bundren child, Vardaman, associates his mother’s death with that of a fish he caught and cleaned earlier that day. With some help, Cash completes the coffin just before dawn. Vardaman is troubled by the fact that his mother is nailed shut inside a box, and while the others sleep, he bores holes in the lid. Addie and Anse’s daughter, Dewey Dell, whose recent sexual liaisons with a local farmhand named Lafe have left her pregnant, is so overwhelmed by anxiety over her condition that she barely mourns her mother’s death. A funeral service is held on the following day, where the women sing songs inside the Bundren house while the men stand outside on the porch talking to each other. Thursday, August 2 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Kindle and the Library Learn about the Kindle e-reader and how to find and use library e-books. This class will discuss the available options for Kindle e-readers, as well as the basics of finding, checking out, and managing library e-books for the Kindle. Topics include: finding and selecting e-books in the Kindle format; managing and transferring e-books to your Kindle; returning expired items and more! You are encouraged to bring your Kindle and get help learning to use it with the library's collection. If you'll be needing assistance with your Kindle, be sure to bring a valid library card, your Amazon.com account login information and the USB cord that came with your Kindle. NOTE: You do not need to own a Kindle in order to attend the class. Class size is limited. Reservations required. Sign up at the Technology Hub or call 444-7747. Saturday, August 4 at 2 pm--Technology Training Center Coffee Tastings @ the Plaza: Explore Polynesian Foods and Coffees Coffee-ol-ogy Coffee Café presents fun and interactive programs on food and coffees from around the globe. Complimentary samples provided. Sunday, August 5 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza Learn to Use Your Nook! Barnes & Noble partners with the library to teach you to use your Nook. Call 444-7820 for information. Theatre-level Meeting Rooms. Nook Class 6:30 pm -7:30 pm Nook Color Class 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Monday, August 6--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Second Thursday Book Group: Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore Catherine Grace Cline was six years old, and her sister Martha Ann was four, when their mother drowned. Their daddy is the preacher at the Baptist church in their small Georgia town. When their father is busy, Gloria Jean, a neighbor and old friend of their mother's watches the girls. Catherine Grace loves Gloria Jean because she's the only person who will talk about her mother. Catherine Grace and Martha Ann head down to the Dairy Queen every Saturday for a Dilly Bar. That's when Catherine Grace does her dreaming and planning. After she graduates from high school and turns eighteen, Catherine Grace heads to Atlanta with her savings. She finds a job and a place to live and things are going pretty well for her when she's called home because of a family emergency. She gets some shocking news when she gets home and finds out that she may have been looking for happiness in the wrong place all along. Thursday, August 9 at 10:00 am --Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: Violinists Hannah Conner and Rachel Sherrod Violinists Hannah Conner and Rachel Sherrod present an eclectic afternoon of music ranging from The Beatles to Bartok. Sunday, August 12 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza How to Write a Grant Learn the basics of grant writing and approaching sponsors. FREE. For more information call 444-7816. Theatre Level Meeting Rooms. Thursday, August 16 at 7:00 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Free Friday Flix: The Lorax A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world. Friday, August 17 at 6:30--Library Theatre Playing @ the Plaza: Yahoos String Band Old-time string band featuring two fiddles will have you clapping your hands and stomping your feet. Thursday, August 23 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza Nonfiction Book Group: Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever.--Amazon.com Thursday, August 23 at 7:00 pm --Allen Board Room Write Club Calling all aspiring writers! *Meet and mingle with your fellow amateur poets and novelists *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. Saturday, August 25 at 10:30 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Monday at the Movies: Jane Eyre Directed By Cary Fukunaga After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever? Stars Mia Wasikowska as Jane and Michael Fassbender as Mr. Rochester. Monday, August 27 at 2:00 pm and 6:30 pm--Library Theatre   This e-mail was sent from Jefferson County Library Cooperative, Inc. 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This Month's Adult Events From the Hoover Library

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New Service! Check Out a Nook! Adult Summer Reading Program! Stump the Librarian! Learn to Use Your Nook First Thursday Book Group: Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: Guitarist Blaine Goodwin Second Thursday Book Group: Shanghai Girls GeekFest Kindle and the Library Playing @ the Plaza: Christophe Jackson Free Friday Flix: Good Deeds Conversations @ the Plaza: German, French and Spanish Nonfiction Book Group: Galileo's Daughter "Escape into Reading" Authors Showcase Monday at the Movies: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark New Service! Check Out a Nook! Nooks come pre-loaded with great books including children, teen, nonfiction and fiction titles. Call 444-7821 for more information. New titles coming soon! Adult Summer Reading Program! Read or listen to any adult fiction or nonfiction book or e-book. Sign up for the program in the Fiction or Nonfiction Department. Register for great prizes every time you complete five books. Pick up your free Hoover Public Library book-bag after completing ten books. Prizes, which include a Nook Simple Touch and gift cards to local businesses, are donated by the Friends of the Library. Find out more by calling 444-7820. May 21 - July 31 Stump the Librarian! Test the knowledge of the librarians in the Nonfiction Department by asking a question from a popular trivia game for a chance to win two gift certificates donated by the Friends of the Library. July 1 - July 31--Nonfiction Department Learn to Use Your Nook Presented by Barnes & Noble. Learn how to use your Nook and Nook Color and learn how to download FREE ebooks from the library. Nook Simple Touch Class 6:30 pm -7:30 pm Nook Color Class 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Monday, July 2--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms First Thursday Book Group: Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen By Susan Gregg Gilmore Catherine Grace Cline was six years old, and her sister Martha Ann was four, when their mother drowned. Their daddy is the preacher at the Baptist church in their small Georgia town. When their father is busy, Gloria Jean, a neighbor and old friend of their mother's watches the girls. Catherine Grace loves Gloria Jean because she's the only person who will talk about her mother. Catherine Grace and Martha Ann head down to the Dairy Queen every Saturday for a Dilly Bar. That's when Catherine Grace does her dreaming and planning. After she graduates from high school and turns eighteen, Catherine Grace heads to Atlanta with her savings. She finds a job and a place to live and things are going pretty well for her when she's called home because of a family emergency. She gets some shocking news when she gets home and finds out that she may have been looking for happiness in the wrong place all along. Thursday, July 5 at 10:00 am --Theatre Level Meeting Rooms Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: Guitarist Blaine Goodwin Guitarist Blaine Goodwin plays traditional Celtic & British folk songs. Sunday, July 8 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza Second Thursday Book Group: Shanghai Girls Shanghai Girls By Lisa See In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Both are beautiful, modern, and carefree . . . until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from California to find Chinese brides. Then, they must make their way through war-torn Shanghai to America to meet their suitors. Author Lisa See will be Skyping in to take part in the discussion. Thursday, July 12 at 10:00 am --Theatre Level Meeting Rooms GeekFest Join us as we geek out the library with Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and more in an after-hours extravaganza for sci-fi/fantasy/gaming fans of all ages. Friday, July 13, 8-10 pm Kindle and the Library Learn about the Kindle e-reader and how to find and use library e-books. This class will discuss the available options for Kindle e-readers, as well as the basics of finding, checking out, and managing library e-books for the Kindle. Topics include: finding and selecting e-books in the Kindle format; managing and transferring e-books to your Kindle; returning expired items and more! You are encouraged to bring your Kindle and get help learning to use it with the library's collection. If you'll be needing assistance with your Kindle, be sure to bring a valid library card, your Amazon.com account login information and the USB cord that came with your Kindle. NOTE: You do not need to own a Kindle in order to attend the class. Class size is limited. Reservations required. Sign up at the Technology Hub or call 444-7747. Saturday, July 14 at 2 pm--Technology Training Center Playing @ the Plaza: Christophe Jackson Pianist Christophe Jackson and his band present New Orleans jazz with a modern twist. Thursday, July 19 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza Free Friday Flix: Good Deeds A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds has always done what's expected of him, whether it's assuming the helm of his father's company, tolerating his brother's misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiancee, Natalie. But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey, a down-on-her-luck single mother who works as a cleaning person in his office building. FREE ADMISSION! FREE REFRESHMENTS! Friday, July 20 at 6:30 pm--Library Theatre Conversations @ the Plaza: German, French and Spanish Practice your language skills. Beginners to the highly-fluent are welcome. Thursday, July 26 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza Nonfiction Book Group: Galileo's Daughter Galileo's Daughter By Dava Sobel Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishments of a mythic figure whose early-seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion-the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics-indeed of modern science altogether." It is also a stunning portrait of Galileo's daughter, a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me." Thursday, July 26 at 7:00 pm--Allen Board Room "Escape into Reading" Authors Showcase Listen to local and regional authors as they share their works and writing experiences. Book signings included. Visiting authors include Gin Phillips, Michael Morris, Keith Thomson, Austin Boyd, Brannon Hollingsworth and Todd Keith. For the schedule call 444-7820 or visit our website. FREE! Saturday, July 28 at 10:30am-3pm--Library Plaza Monday at the Movies: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Directed By Steven Spielberg Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. Stars Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. Monday, July 30 at 2 pm and 6:30 pm--Library Theatre   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.