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Author of Trouble in Paradise, Revenge in Paradise, Justice in Paradise and Creator of the Allison Kane Mystery Series chats about life and literature! Jan. 28, 6:30pm Belle Isle Library Feb. 4, 12:00pm Edmond Library Feb. 4, 7:00pm Bethany Library

Bola Agbaje came through the Royal Court’s Critical Mass programme. Her debut play Gone Too Far! premiered at the Royal Court in 2007, and won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement and a Most Promising Playwright nomination at the Evening Standard Awards in 2008. Her other plays include If Things ... (näytä lisää tietoja)Were Different, In Time and Detaining Justice which opened as part of the Not Black and White season at the Tricycle Theatre. Bola will speak about her writing including her second play for the Royal Court, Off the Endz, which opens in February 2010. Tickets are free and available from any Kensington and Chelsea Library.

Cultural historian and author Tom Vague will be talking about North Kensington’s varied pop history, featuring amongst others: Pink Floyd at All Saints Church Hall, Mick Jagger in Performance in Powis Square, the death of Jimi Hendrix in Ladbroke Grove, Hawkwind and the Pink Fairies under the Westway, ... (näytä lisää tietoja)Quintessence, The 101’ers at The Elgin, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Aswad, The Slits, Band Aid and ZTT on Basing Street, Virgin, Rough Trade, Big Audio Dynamite, Transvision Vamp, All Saints and Blur. Please book a free place at North Kensington Library.

Chris Tutton is an experienced and popular workshop leader. During this workshop he will explore the art of story telling. You will be given the synopsis of a story or incident, followed by a discussion and sharing of ideas. A choice of opening lines and key words will also be suggested, which group ... (näytä lisää tietoja)members can choose to use to get them started on their stories. Chris will also be available on a one-to-one basis, providing help and advice throughout the session. Please book a free place at North Kensington Library.

Mills and Boon is the UK’s undisputed market leader in romance fiction publishing. An editor and an author from Mills and Boon will be running the workshop. They will pass on their tips on how to write a thrilling read with a guaranteed happy ending! Please book a free place at Kensington Central Library.

Lucinda Hawksley is, amongst other things, a biographer and an art historian. Her first biography, Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel, was chosen as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. Her other books include the bestselling Essential Pre-Raphaelites. Lucinda will be giving a talk ... (näytä lisää tietoja)about the real lives of the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood. This talk will capture the excitement people are feeling about the Pre-Raphaelites following the success of the recent BBC drama, Desperate Romantics. Tickets are free and available from any Kensington and Chelsea Library.

Juliet Pickering is a literary agent with A P Watt, the oldest literary agency in the world. She will be discussing the publishing process and current publishing trends in the UK. Juliet will also talk about the role of a literary agent: why an agent is necessary and how to go about getting one yourself. ... (näytä lisää tietoja)The talk will be followed by a question and answer session. Tickets are free and available from any Kensington and Chelsea Library.

Content Management System (CMS) is a robust, easy-to-use web content manager built upon a flexible application framework; this framework of WebriQ was developed using inexpensive,open-source resources. It enables users to easily collaborate in creating and maintaining web site content.

7:30 pm-9:00 pm Free Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms, Lower Level Central Library 350 West Georgia Street Please join Douglas Burnet Smith as he reads selections from Sister Prometheus: Discovering Madame Curie and from his forthcoming collection, Surface to Air (to be published in Spring 2010).

Find out how to create a business plan that works. **Advanced Registration is required!**

This workshop will help you learn how to understand your customer, research your market, create a marketing plan and more. **Advanced Registration is required!**

This workshop will help you learn how to understand your customer, research your market, create a marketing plan and more. **Advanced Registration is required!**

Learn about business plan development, market analysis, record keeping, financial analysis, and more! **Advanced Registration Required!**

It’s movie night! We’ll round out the dog series with a showing of the popular 2009 movie starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson. It’s a romping, stomping good time with a family’s new Labrador retriever puppy shredding cushions and breaking doors – nothing stops this dog!

Kela Baker of Kela’s Pet Styles has been grooming dogs since 1986. She is bringing her Canine Good Citizen Certified dog in to demonstrate grooming techniques. She’ll talk about shampooing, correct rinsing, touchy areas like eyes, ears, & toenails. She’ll also give some tips on dog behavior during ... (näytä lisää tietoja)grooming.

Do you want to properly train your puppy or dog so you can have a more enjoyable pet? Lori Genaw, President of the Gem City Dog Obedience Club, will help set us straight on successful training techniques.

From skin infections to dental disease, some health problems are common to dogs. Dr. Kelly Meyer will teach us about basic dog care, how to recognize symptoms, and tell us about some of today’s medicines to treat dog ailments. Dr. Meyer is the veterinarian for Dayton’s Animal Resource Center and ... (näytä lisää tietoja)has 10 years of private practice veterinary experience.

Join us as we celebrate National Poetry Month with Conrad Balliet of "Conrad's Corner" and some of the poets featured on his public radio show on WYSO, 91.3 FM.

Meet with others to share and discuss the poems you write. Bring copies of a poem you would like to share or just come and listen. (If you need copies made, please come at 6:45 p.m.)

Doramae O'Kelley is the author of "Courageous Optimism: Montgomery County, Ohio and the Pursuit of Votes for Women." Join us as she discusses some of Ohio's most important women who excelled in education, medicine, religion, politics, social programs and the arts.

All skill levels welcome. See you there!

City Reads, Edinburgh Central Library’s events series, kicks off its 2010 programme with one of the most interesting and innovative contemporary writers around. A L Kennedy’s remarkable collection of short stories, What Becomes, shows exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted – and she does so ... (näytä lisää tietoja)with the enormous human compassion, wild leaps of humour, and the brilliantly original linguistic skill that distinguishes her as one of Britain’s finest writers. Come along to see a virtuoso close-up – Kennedy will be reading and discussing her work, in detail, and answering questions from the audience. Chaired by writer and critic Lesley McDowell.

Come check out the local talent at your local, independent bookstore! Want to be the local talent? Phoenix is currently seeking poets, musicians, singers, storytellers, and comics for this date. Space is limited, so call 872-7111, and ask for Michael Desanto, to sign up. Phoenix Books Open Mic Nights ... (näytä lisää tietoja)take place on the first Wednesday of each month.

Adults are invited to attend the library Book Club which meets the third Tuesday evening of each month from 7-9 p.m. The January selection is The Kitchen Boy. No Fee.

We are most pleased to have this talented author appearing at Sunriver Books & Music. Heidi Durrow has written a masterful novel that tells a compelling story about a family tragedy while also exploring how we define ourselves and each other. Rachel lands in Portland Oregon unsure of what really defines ... (näytä lisää tietoja)her. Are we solely the product of the color of our skin? Tragedy brought Rachel from Chicago to her Grandmother’s house in Portland, now she will have to invent herself of accept the definitions society provides.

We are very pleased to have Greg Nokes appearing at Sunriver Books & Music. Here is a bit of information about his latest book. R. Gregory Nokes’ book “Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon’’ will be published by Oregon State University Press in October.
The book is the first authoritative ... (näytä lisää tietoja)account of the little-known massacre of as many as thirty-four Chinese gold miners in Oregon’s Hells Canyon in 1887. The killers were a gang of horsethieves and school boys living in what is now Wallowa County, none of whom was ever convicted. The massacre was the worst of the many crimes committed by whites against the tens of thousands of Chinese laborers who immigrated to the American West in the 19th century to mine gold and build the nation’s new railroads. The author goes behind the massacre to explain why the Chinese came, how they were treated and what happened to them.
Nokes has traveled the world as a reporter and editor. He worked for The Associated Press in Salt Lake City; New York City; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Buenos Aires, and Washington, D.C. He joined The Oregonian in 1986, from which he has since retired.
Nokes’ assignments for The AP included Chief State Department Correspondent during which he covered trips abroad by Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan. In Puerto Rico, he served as Chief of Caribbean Services, responsible for AP’s Caribbean news and business operations. His news assignments have taken him to more than fifty countries, including three trips to China.
A native of Oregon, Nokes attended Willamette University in Oregon, graduating in 1959. He was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University in 1971-1972. He was a contributing author to The Media and Foreign Policy, published by St. Martin’s Press in 1990.
Nokes was interviewed on-camera about the Chinese massacre for the Bill Moyers’ three-part PBS series, Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, which aired in 2003. He also wrote an article about the massacre that appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of the Oregon Historical Quarterly entitled “A Most Daring Outrage, Murders at Chinese Massacre Cove, 1887.’’ The article won him an honorable mention for the 2007 Joel Palmer Award from the Oregon Historical Society.
At The Oregonian, he worked in various capacities, including reporter, national correspondent, Oregon roving correspondent, and assistant managing editor. It was during Nokes’ work as a roving reporter that he learned of the discovery of hidden documents, which shed new light on the massacre. He retired from the newspaper in 2003 to research and write his book.

Join us for a day of crime themed talks with a line up of suspects ready to tell all! Find out about policing in 1960s Hampshire and how plants solve crime. Don't miss three of the country's top crime writers discussing their work

Monthly standing Fiction group. Group also reads non-fiction. Members pick the books. Meets in the Cafe to discuss book of the month. ****

This group is open to all who enjoy discussing what they read. FMI contact Sally @ 284-4181.

Maine author of the Jack McMorrow mysteries will be on hand for a reading and discussion. (snow date 3/18) FMI contact Sally @ 284-4181.

As a follow-up to the last book selection of our Let's Talk About It series, Brick Lane by Monica Ali--we will have a showing of the movie based on the novel. All are welcome. FMI contact Sally @ 284-4181.

New York Times bestselling author shares the anticipated sequel to The Best of Everything, spinning a tale of love, ambition and betrayal. Alicia has the perfect life! Her prayers have finally been answered and she could not be happier with her second marriage to Pastor J.T. Valentine that took ... (näytä lisää tietoja)place a month ago. Her life is now complete – or so she thinks. J.T., a handsome, dynamic man of the cloth, who oversees a 5,000-plus congregation, earns hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, supports her in her writing ambitions, and gives her everything she wants. Her father, Reverend Curtis Black, however sees into the darkness of a sinner’s heart and feels her new husband can’t be trusted. Alicia doesn’t understand just how much like her dad her new husband truly is, but soon discovers that her “perfect life” is only an appearance and she must learn the hard lesson – to be careful what you wish for.

Bestselling author of The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Templar Legacy, The Venetian Betrayal and The Amber Room has written his fifth novel full of intrigue and adventure. Former U.S. Justice Department operative Cotton Malone’s billionaire Danish friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, ... (näytä lisää tietoja)is consumed with finding out who masterminded the killings outside a Mexico City courthouse two years earlier in which seven people were murdered, including his young diplomat son. When Malone learns that a wealthy British aristocrat was behind the slaughter, he becomes entangled in a conspiracy that involves an elite group of ruthless financial experts planning to destabilize the global economy, a terrorist plot to destroy a European landmark, and a legendary cache hidden by Napoleon. Malone soon finds himself in a desperate struggle to save not only his friend’s life but the lives of many other innocent people in this contemporary suspenseful novel.

In David Carlin’s Our Father Who Wasn’t There he askes can a memoir begin without memories? When David Carlin was six months old, his father, Brian, died. It was the 1960s in isolated Western Australia, a place in which emotions were discreetly veiled, women did not attend funerals — and suicide ... (näytä lisää tietoja)was a sin. Brian became a mysteriously absent figure in David’s family story, hardly spoken of again. In this masterfully rendered memoir, David moves like a ghost through time and place, deftly weaving a story from what he has always known, and from all that he will never know. David Carlin teaches media production and writing at RMIT University, Melbourne. Free, no need to book

Daniel J. Philippon is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He is the author of Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement. He lives in St. Paul.

REGISTRATION FOR FREE ESL CLASSES HELD ON TUESDAY AND THURSDAY EVENINGS 6:30 TO 8:30 P.M.

Registration for ESL Classes Monday and Wednesday 9:15-11:00 a.m. beginning January 20. Registration on Saturday Jan 9 at 10 a.m.

For one night in Melbourne only! Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books featuring the kind-hearted and sensible Precious Ramotswe. Set in Botswana, the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has sold over a million books in Australia and Alexander ... (näytä lisää tietoja)McCall Smith is one of our best selling and best loved authors. Like his characters he is a wise, witty and warm man full of infectious good humour and very funny observations on the everyday occurrences in life. Join Alexander McCall Smith as he speaks about his life in Edinburgh (he lives on the same street as J K Rowling and Ian Rankin), the Really Terrible Orchestra (he plays shocking oboe) and of course all the characters and comings and goings at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, where a little charm, a dash of drama, a lot of kindness and a cup of bush tea go a long way. Tickets - $40 per person and includes a signed first edition copy of The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11. Tickets available at all Readings shops and online.

For one night in Melbourne only! Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books featuring the kind-hearted and sensible Precious Ramotswe. Set in Botswana, the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has sold over a million books in Australia and Alexander ... (näytä lisää tietoja)McCall Smith is one of our best selling and best loved authors. Like his characters he is a wise, witty and warm man full of infectious good humour and very funny observations on the everyday occurrences in life. Join Alexander McCall Smith as he speaks about his life in Edinburgh (he lives on the same street as J K Rowling and Ian Rankin), the Really Terrible Orchestra (he plays shocking oboe) and of course all the characters and comings and goings at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, where a little charm, a dash of drama, a lot of kindness and a cup of bush tea go a long way. Tickets - $40 per person and includes a signed first edition copy of The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11. Tickets available at all Readings shops and online.

For one night in Melbourne only! Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books featuring the kind-hearted and sensible Precious Ramotswe. Set in Botswana, the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has sold over a million books in Australia and Alexander ... (näytä lisää tietoja)McCall Smith is one of our best selling and best loved authors. Like his characters he is a wise, witty and warm man full of infectious good humour and very funny observations on the everyday occurrences in life. Join Alexander McCall Smith as he speaks about his life in Edinburgh (he lives on the same street as J K Rowling and Ian Rankin), the Really Terrible Orchestra (he plays shocking oboe) and of course all the characters and comings and goings at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, where a little charm, a dash of drama, a lot of kindness and a cup of bush tea go a long way. Tickets - $40 per person and includes a signed first edition copy of The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11. Tickets available at all Readings shops and online.

For one night in Melbourne only! Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books featuring the kind-hearted and sensible Precious Ramotswe. Set in Botswana, the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has sold over a million books in Australia and Alexander ... (näytä lisää tietoja)McCall Smith is one of our best selling and best loved authors. Like his characters he is a wise, witty and warm man full of infectious good humour and very funny observations on the everyday occurrences in life. Join Alexander McCall Smith as he speaks about his life in Edinburgh (he lives on the same street as J K Rowling and Ian Rankin), the Really Terrible Orchestra (he plays shocking oboe) and of course all the characters and comings and goings at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, where a little charm, a dash of drama, a lot of kindness and a cup of bush tea go a long way. Tickets - $40 per person and includes a signed first edition copy of The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11. Tickets available at all Readings shops and online.

For one night in Melbourne only! Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books featuring the kind-hearted and sensible Precious Ramotswe. Set in Botswana, the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has sold over a million books in Australia and Alexander ... (näytä lisää tietoja)McCall Smith is one of our best selling and best loved authors. Like his characters he is a wise, witty and warm man full of infectious good humour and very funny observations on the everyday occurrences in life. Join Alexander McCall Smith as he speaks about his life in Edinburgh (he lives on the same street as J K Rowling and Ian Rankin), the Really Terrible Orchestra (he plays shocking oboe) and of course all the characters and comings and goings at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, where a little charm, a dash of drama, a lot of kindness and a cup of bush tea go a long way. Tickets - $40 per person and includes a signed first edition copy of The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11. Tickets available at all Readings shops and online.

The highly successful Page to Picture series continues in 2010 with the much anticipated adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer prize winning novel, THE ROAD. Please join us for a pre-release screening of John Hillcoat’s film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron, followed by a discussion ... (näytä lisää tietoja)with Australian arts, publishing and film luminaries. Please join Marieke Hardy (Triple J breakfast radio, ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club & The Age), Film Critic and author Thomas Caldwell (The Big Issue & author of Film Analysis Handbook), Director Ana Kokkinos (Head On, Blessed) and author, academic and online artist Dr. Justin Clemens, to debate the timeless question, which is better the book or the movie? 3.30pm-6.30pm A pre-release screening to precede the panel discussion. All tickets $16.50.

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3rd Thursday Readers Group Stewart Branch Meets every 3rd Thursday of each month. or call 936-788-8314. 3rd Thursday Readers Group Meets the 3rd Thursday of each month from 1:00 to 2:00 in the community room at the Stewart West Branch Library. January Read: ALL THE LIVING by C.E. Morgan

Thursday, Jan. 21, 6:30 to 7:30pm or call 936-788-8314. GUITAR HERO for GEEZERS! Free program for adults. If you have no idea what Guitar Hero is ... or, if you KNOW who your favorite Beatle is... or, if you still play air guitar with Santana and Clapton ... Come and find out what all the fuss is about. ... (näytä lisää tietoja)Experience Guitar Hero, with a genuine teenager as your guide!

In Stitches yarn and sewing group Free adult program; Meets at Stewart West Branch every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month from 10:30 to 12:00. Knit- Crochet - Quilt - Sew All skill levels Welcome. Come and bring a project to work on.

In Stitches yarn and sewing group Free adult program; Meets at Stewart West Branch every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month from 10:30 to 12:00. Knit- Crochet - Quilt - Sew All skill levels Welcome. Come and bring a project to work on.

In the sweeping tradition of "The English Patient," Janice Y.K. Lee's debut novel, now a best-seller, is a tale of love and betrayal set in war-torn Hong Kong. In 1942, Englishman Will Truesdale falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their ... (näytä lisää tietoja)affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese as World War II overwhelms their part of the world. Ten years later, Claire Pendleton comes to Hong Kong to work as a piano teacher and also begins a fateful affair. As the threads of this spellbinding novel intertwine, impossible choices emerge-between love and safety, courage and survival, the present, and above all, the past. "A rare and exquisite story...Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin." -Elizabeth Gilbert

An original photography exhibit by Sally Wiener Grotta. All Ages

An original photography exhibit by Sally Wiener Grotta. All Ages

Join our enthusiastic group of Scrabble players for a fun game! No registration necessary. Adults

Join our enthusiastic group of Scrabble players for a fun game! No registration necessary. Adults

Join our enthusiastic group of Scrabble players for a fun game! No registration necessary. Adults

Join our enthusiastic group of Scrabble players for a fun game! No registration necessary. Adults

Join us for a discussion on the book that inspired National Education Project's No Name Calling-Week, James Howe's The Misfits. Grades 7 - Adult

Participants will discuss Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and view corresponding film. Led by Sue Curtin and Pete Chapla. Made possible through a Pennsylvania Humanities Council Grant. Adults.

This discussion, facilitated by Abington Heights teacher Cyndi Page, is free and open to the public. Copies of the book are available at the library circulation desk. Adults

Join Sharon McArdle for a beginner painting class. Project will be acrylic painting on a black tote bag. Materials fee of $7.50 per person is due to instructor at time of class. Adults

See "The Elephant Man" to commemorate National Education Project's No Name-Calling Week (January 25-29). Grades 7 - Adult

Join Janet Loewe as this group reads and discusses Trinity by Leon Uris. Adults

Join Dick Thompson for a multi-media presentation exploring the history of the American carousel from medieval times to the present. Grade 5 – Adults

The group will engage in a brief reading of the text which will provide the basis of the discussion, which is guided by Barry Phillips. The theme for this series is Insights into Leadership - Listening to Diversity. Adults

Help us celebrate Abington Community Library's 50th anniversary by viewing and discussing this great movie from the 60's. Library volunteer, Mike Tammaro, will lead the discussion. Adults

Bring your current project to work on while you socialize with other knitters. This is not a class; beginning knitting skills required. Registration not required. Adults

Bring your current project to work on while you socialize with other knitters. This is not a class; beginning knitting skills required. Registration not required. Adults

The group will engage in a brief reading of the text which will provide the basis of the discussion, which is guided by Barry Phillips. The theme for this series is Insights into Leadership - Listening to Diversity. Adults

Facilitators provide an educational series and support group for teens and their families, affected by substance abuse. Co-sponsored by the Clear Brook Foundation. Ages 18 and under and families