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| Using Your Kindle at the Library | | Learn to use your Kindle to check out eBooks from the library. Reservations required. Call 444-7747 to register. Saturday, March 2 at 2:00 pm--Library Training Center | |
| Coffee Tastings @ the Plaza: Louisiana Creole | | Taste the world! Coffee-ol-ogy Coffee Cafe presents fun and interactive programs on food and coffees from around the globe. Complimentary samples provided. Sunday, March 3 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza | |
| Friends of the Library Meeting | | Author Debra H. Goldstein will discuss her murder mystery Maze in Blue. Refreshments at 9:45 am. Meeting begins at 10 am. The public is welcome. For information, call 444-7840. Monday, March 4 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms | |
| Learn to Use Your NOOK | | Barnes & Noble partners with the library to teach you to use your NOOK. Call 444-7820 for information.
6:30 pm - Nook Simple Touch Class
7:30 pm - Nook HD/HD+ Class
Monday, March 4--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms | |
English Language Class
| | Free English class for non-native English speakers. Tuesdays, March 5, 12, 19, & 26 at 6:30 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms | |
| Capturing History Through Photography | | Emmy award winner Gary Ricketts discusses the history behind his artistic vision through his photographs and touches on technical aspects used to achieve it. For more information, call 444-7840. Tuesday, March 5 at 7:00 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms | |
| First Thursday Fiction Book Group: The Buddha in the Attic | | The Buddah in the Attic by Julie Otsuka This novel tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Once again, Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times. Thursday, March 7 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms | |
| You Can Do It @ the Plaza: Maximizing Your Remodel Dollar: Kitchen & Bath | | Jones-Warren Construction and Home Depot teach you how to get the most out of your money when remodeling your kitchen and bathrooms. Saturday, March 9 at 10:30 am--Library Plaza | |
| 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, March 9 at 3:00 pm--Library Plaza | |
| Instrumentalists @ the Plaza: The Clay States | | Multi-instrumental folk duo utilizing guitar, cello, banjo and ukulele to create rustic southern soundscapes. Sunday, March 10 at 2:30 pm--Library Plaza | |
| What You Are Giving Away for Free Can Earn You a Living | | Information is a billion dollar business. Dr. Dale Callahan will show how people just like you are earning six figures selling information products on the internet. Reservations required. Call 444-7816. Monday, March 11 at 7:00 pm--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms | |
| Second 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 as 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, March 14 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeing Rooms | |
| Playing @ the Plaza: Little Leon and the MudCats | | Music that evokes memories of yesterday and captures the spirit of today. Thursday, March 14 at 6:30 pm--Library Plaza | |
| After Hours @ The Plaza: Henri's Notions | | A mix of traditional Celtic and American music. Bring your favorite snacks and beverages. Call the Library Theatre Box Office at 444-7888 or visit thelibrarytheatre.com for ticket information. Friday, March 15 at 8:00 pm--Library Plaza
Tickets $12 | |
Flash Fiction Open-Mic Night
| | Come and enjoy the local writing talent of Write Club members. Tuesday, March 19 at 7:00 pm--The Library Theatre | |
| Export 101 | | The Alabama International Trade Center, along with the Export Alabama Alliance, will conduct a hands-on program teaching how to get started in the export business and what resources are available for small and medium size businesses. Reservations required. Call 444-7816. Thursday, March 21 at 10:00 am--Theatre Level Meeting Rooms | |
| After Hours @ the Plaza: Game Nite | | Bring your friends and relax playing Wii and XBox games, Trivial Pursuit, cards and more! Free beer tastings provided by Good People Brewing Company. ID required. Friday, March 22 at 7:00 pm--Library Plaza | |
| BBC Masterpiece Theatre Viewing Party: Season One of Downton Abbey | | Join us in watching Season One of Downton Abbey - from the day after the sinking of the Titanic to the outbreak of World War I. Free admission and refreshments. Call 444-7820 for more information. Saturday, March 23 at 10:30 am--The Library Theatre | |
| Monday at the Movies: Arsenic and Old Lace | | Directed By Frank Capra
A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs and that insanity runs in his family. 2hr 5min, Not Rated. Free admission & refreshments! Monday, March 25 at 2:00 pm & 6:30 pm--The Library Theatre | |
| Nonfiction Book Group: King Leopold's Ghost |  | King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Thursday, March 28 at 7:00 pm--Allen Board Room
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| Coffee-ol-ogy Coffee Cafe! | | Breakfast, lunch and dinner! Coffee and desserts! Located on the Library Plaza. March's Global Cuisine, Louisiana Creole, features: - Yum-bo
- Muffuletta Sandwich
- Round Steak & Gravy with Maque Choux
- Bananas Foster Bread Pudding
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 | |
