Adult Programming
Singular Perspectives: Nonfiction & the Author’s Experience
It’s What I Do: A photographer’s life of love and war by Lynsey Addario
A young woman who is her best self behind the camera in war zones accounts for her life and work, and adjusts to motherhood.
Copies to checkout are available at the Reference Desk.
Online Security Basics is a condensed version of our popular Online Self Defense course. Material covered includes:
and more. Come and learn how to be safer online.
With almost a third of all websites on the internet using wordpress, it is one of the most popular platforms for building a website. Whether you want a blog, a personal website, or a site for your small business, Wordpress makes it quick and easy to get started. This basic class will walk you through setting up a free site on wordpress.com and cover the basics of adding content, plugins, and themes.
Singular Perspectives: Nonfiction & the Author's Experience
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost colonists and other adventurers in early America by Tony Horwitz
With his inimitable humor and adventurousness, Horwitz sets out on a wild ride debunking the myths of American history.
Copies to checkout are available at the Reference Desk.
The Home Front: WWII in Novels
The Translation of Love --Lynne Kutsukake Intertwining stories of several protagonists in post-World War II Tokyo, including a daughter and her father repatriated after being interned in Canada..
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There's No Business like Show Business: Novels and Biographies
Actors and actresses on stage and screen, and musicians of all kinds are fascinating in fiction and nonfiction.
Why do these stories grab our attention? What does the struggle to succeed in these arts tell us as audience members?
Bring along a brownbag lunch and a book on the theme. A selection is on display, or you may bring another favorite to discuss.
An exhibit of pastels by Canaan artist, Susan Pearson are on display in the Kilton Gallery now through September 2017. A reception will be held on Thurs., June 29th from 5 to 7pm. This is free and open to the public.
The Home Front: WWII in Novels
Crooked Heart-- Lissa Evans
When Noel Bostock--aged ten, no family--is evacuated from London to escape theNazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge--a thirty-six-year old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it.
Copies to check out are available at the Reference Desk.
The Home Front: WWII in Novels
The Wind is Not a River by Brian Payton
the Japanese invasion and partial occupation of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, war correspondent John Easley is shot down in a seaplane along with six crewmembers in April 1943, just off the barren island of Attu, and his wife Helen back home refuses to accept his disappearance.
Copies for checkout are available at the Reference Desk.
The Suspense is Killing me!: Good thrillers of all kinds
Novels you just can't put down-- whether because they are so action-packed or so terrifying or just so psychologically astute.
What makes a thriller thrilling? What idea or setting or character hooks you into reading way past bedtime? There are as many kinds of thrillers as there are readers--
what sort thrills you and why?
Bring along a brownbag lunch and a book on the theme. A selection of books is on the New Book Shelf, or choose another favorite.