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| 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 | |
