Adult Programming
Singular Perspectives: Nonfiction & the Author’s Experience
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
A geobiologist weaves a tale about growth of all kinds, including her own, as a scientist, teacher, and human being.
Copies to checkout are available at the Reference Desk.
Pets and Pests: Our lives with animals
Many novels and memoirs have been written about the relationships humans share with animals. And some riveting nonfiction has been written about animals in conflict wtih us.
What do we learn from the animals close to us? Why are these some of the dearest relationships some people have?
What about pigeons and man-eating tigers? What makes our struggle against them so passionate?
This is the first class in our ongoing Online Self Defense Series.
It class covers the very basics including threats that you need to be aware of and safety measures that everyone should take. It includes:
What is Ransomware?
What is Phishing?
Why updates are important.
Why backups are important.
"Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows": Novels and Commentary
Join the Kilton’s adult book discussion group to discuss political fiction and analysis.
What do novelists and commentators have to add about the times America has lived through? What do they say about today’s world?
Bring along a brownbag lunch and a book on the theme. A selection is on display or you may bring another favorite to discuss.
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..
Copies to checkout are available at the Reference Desk.
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.