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Wednesday at the Movies
Midnight in Paris (2011) 1 hr and 34 mins
Woody Allen's 41st film opens with several minutes of scenes of Paris set to jazz music. This is a charming, lovely, whimsical fantasy film about a present day Hollywood screenwriter who is transported at the stroke of midnight to 1920s France.
Wednesday, February 15th, 1:30pm |
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The Parent/Parenting Book Club
"Outliers: the Story of Success" by Malcom Gladwell
"The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame."
Join us every third Thursday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Thursday, February 16th, 10:00am |
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Wednesday at the Movies
The Help (2011) 2 hrs and 26 mins
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determinded to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in this tight-knit community.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 1:30pm |
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Fourth Tuesday Night Book Club
"A Faithful Place" by Tana French
"Detective Frank Mackey finds himself straight back in the dark tangle of relationships he left behind twenty-two years ago when the suitcase belonging to his first love, Rosie Daly, shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place. The hotly anticipated third novel of the Dublin murder squad."
Join us every fourth Tuesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Tuesday, February 28th, 6:30pm |
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Wednesday at the Movies
Agatha Christie (2010) 1 hr
This documentary explores the mystery that is Agatha Christie.
Wednesday, February 29th, 1:30pm |
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Nonfiction Book Club
"The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" by Michael Lewis
"Lewis gives a different take on the 2007-08 credit crisis as he chronicles how a handful of investment managers detected early on the growing bubble in the mortgage bond market and made fortunes betting against it. Lewis is a storyteller, and he weaves the personal stories of these renegades against the inner workings of Wall Street's mortgage-backed securities money machine. He explains in plain language how the industry obscured credit risk by packaging and repackaging low-quality subprime mortgages into complicated securities that could receive high credit ratings in a process he calls the financial alchemy equivalent of turning lead into gold. He says investors then looked at little more than the ratings as they bought billions of dollars' worth of these supposedly safe bonds. Lewis turns the crisis into a true financial thriller that screams of Wall Street's greed, recklessness, deceit, incompetence, and hubris."
Join us every second Wednesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Wednesday, March 14th, 10:00am |
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The Parent/Parenting Book Club
"Loser" by Jerry Spinelli
"Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself."
Join us every third Thursday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Thursday, March 15th, 10:00am |
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The Kerry Boys
The Kerry Boys are Mark James, originally from the county Kerry Ireland now a Cheshire, CT resident, and Pierce Campbell from Prospect, CT’s official State Troubadour 2007/08. These two dynamic and popular Connecticut Irish balladeers have been performing together for over 20 years, dazzling fans of all ages from Maine to New York. Their humorous, high-energy show will have you clapping and singing along in no time, engaging you from start to finish with their wide collection of traditional and original Irish/Celtic songs performed with pristine harmonies and expressive guitar and mandolin.
Sponsored by The Leroy Anderson Foundation and The Friends of the Southbury Public Library
Wednesday, March 21st, 7:00pm |
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Fourth Tuesday Night Book Club
"Girl in Translation" by Jean Kwok
"Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to their family, and her own personal desires, Kimberly Chang, an immigrant girl from Hong Kong, learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles."
Join us every fourth Tuesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Tuesday, March 27th, 6:30pm |
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Friends of the Southbury Library
Book donation days! The Friends of the Library will be in building accepting book and AV material donations for the Spring Sale.
Saturday, March 31st, 9:30am-3:30pm
Sunday, April 1st, 12:00pm-4:30pm |
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Nonfiction Book Club
"A Thousand Sisters; My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to be a Woman" by Lisa Shannon
"Unable to grieve the death of her father but unwilling to admit depression, photographer Shannon spent her time numbly watching television. Then an episode of Oprah changed her life. A report on "the worst place on Earth to be a woman"-the Congo-awakened her from emotional sleep. She writes here of taking action, forming the Run for Congo Women foundation, which began as a one-woman effort yet eventually grew into a national organization, with races taking place across the United States. Shannon left behind her comfortable life in Portland, OR, to visit the Congo and the sponsored women whom she calls her "sisters." She is admirably honest about her travels there, a place consumed by instability and violence, with an overwhelming need for assistance. The sponsored women all ask for more money, the children are often jaded after hearing so many promises of help from outsiders, and the personal testimonies of violence are so abundant that they seem to run together. Yet Shannon is able to see the good that has been done by Run for Congo Women and encourages others to support their own Congolese "sisters.""
Join us every second Wednesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Wednesday, April 11th, 10:00am |
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The Parent/Parenting Book Club
"Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jamie Ford
"Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe."
Join us every third Thursday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Thursday, April 12th, 10:00am |
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Friends of the Southbury Library
Presale!
The Friends will open the room early again for for the annual presale! There will be a $5 admission fee for the presale.
Friday, April 20th, 10:00am-2:00pm |
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Fourth Tuesday Night Book Club
"The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman
"Preoccupied by personal challenges while running a struggling newspaper in Rome, an obituary writer confronts mortality, an eccentric publisher obsesses over his dog, and other staff members uncover the paper's founding by an impulsive millionaire."
Join us every fourth Tuesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Tuesday, April 24th, 6:30pm |
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Friends of the Southbury Library
Spring Book Sale
Friday, April 27th, 9:30am-5:00pm
Saturday, April 28th, 9:30am-3:30pm
Sunday, April 29th, 12:00pm-4:30pm |
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Nonfiction Book Club
"Cleopatra: A Life" by Stacey Schiff
"For those who think they know enough about Cleopatra or have the enigmatic Egyptian queen all figured out, think again. Schiff provides a new interpretation of the life of one of history's most enduringly intriguing women. Rather than a devastatingly beautiful femme fatale, Cleopatra, according to Schiff, was a shrewd power broker who knew how to use her manifold gifts wealth, power, and intelligence to negotiate advantageous political deals and military alliances. Though long on facts and short on myth, this stellar biography is still a page-turner; in fact, because this portrait is grounded so thoroughly in historical context, it is even more extraordinary than the more fanciful legend. Cleopatra emerges as a groundbreaking female leader, relying on her wits, determination, and political acumen rather than sex appeal to astutely wield her power in order to get the job done. Ancient Egypt never goes out of style, and Cleopatra continues to captivate successive generations."
Join us every second Wednesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Wednesday, May 9th, 10:00am |
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The Parent/Parenting Book Club
"Chanda's Secrets" by Allan Stratton
"A girl's struggle amid the African AIDS pandemic, Chanda, is an astonishingly perceptive girl living in the small city of Bonang, a fictional city in Southern Africa. When her youngest sister dies, the first hint of HIV/AIDS emerges, Chanda must confront undercurrents of shame and stigma. Not afraid to explore the horrific realities of AIDS, Chanda's Secrets also captures the enduring strength of loyalty, friendship and family ties. Above all, it is a story about the
corrosive nature of secrets and the healing power of truth."
Join us every third Thursday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Thursday, May 17th, 10:00am |
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Fourth Tuesday Night Book Club
"A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan
"Following her diabolically clever The Keep (2006), Egan tracks the members of a San Francisco punk band and their hangers-on over the decades as they wander out into the wider, bewildering world. Kleptomaniac Sasha survives the underworld of Naples, Italy. Her boss, New York music producer Bennie Salazar, is miserable in the suburbs, where his tattooed wife, Stephanie, sneaks off to play tennis with Republicans. Obese former rock-star Bosco wants Stephanie to help him with a Suicide Tour, while her all-powerful publicist boss eventually falls so low she takes a job rehabilitating the public image of a genocidal dictator."
Join us every fourth Tuesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Tuesday, May 22nd, 6:30pm |
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Nonfiction Book Club
"Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand
"On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor."
Join us every second Wednesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Wednesday, June 13th, 10:00am |
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The Parent/Parenting Book Club
"The Other Half of My Heart" by Sundee Tucker Frazier
"Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister."
Join us every third Thursday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Thursday, June 21st, 10:00am |
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Fourth Tuesday Night Book Club
"Man in the Woods" by Scott Spencer
"Paul Phillips, a carpenter living in upstate New York with Kate Ellis and her daughter, Ruby, commits a crime whose only witness was a mixed-breed dog, and fears getting away with the crime as much as he fears the discovery of his terrible secret."
Join us every fourth Tuesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Tuesday, June 26th, 6:30pm |
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Nonfiction Book Club
"India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking" by Anand Girdharadas
"The author's parents, from India, lived a comfortable, professional life in the U.S. Shaker Heights Ohio, Giridharadas says, was a warm and generous place. While growing up, Giridharadas recognized his mother and father's continued love of their ancestral homeland, but at the same time he witnessed that they accepted and came to savor the American way of life. Hearing an inner call to reverse the migration process of his folks, he flew, as a new college graduate, to Mumbai to work, having already secured a position in the local office of an American management-consulting firm. He plunged into Indian life in the midst of the country's awakening as an economc and technological giant, as an ancient culture surfacing as a world power."
Join us every second Wednesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Wednesday, July 11th, 10:00am |
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Nonfiction Book Club
"The Hemlock Cup" by Bettany Hughes
"The brilliant cultural historian Hughes has again produced an intriguing and entertaining biohistory of one of the most important individuals in the ancient world, and of the Athenian society that condemned him to death for daring to question all received wisdom. Drawing on the abundance of contemporary references by both supporters and opponents to the philosopher, Hughes illustrates that "[a]bsolutely of his time, he is also of ours," "the first ironic man" in an unironic age, a gadfly to Athens' citizens and leaders. Moreover, through careful description of fifth century B.C.E. Athens, she brings to life the social, political, economic, literary, and military realities of Socrates' society, in particular the centrality of the agora. Hughes devotes a substantial part of her account to the trial and forced suicide of the great philosopher, events which communicated Socratic humor mixed with courage."
Join us every second Wednesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Wednesday, August 8th, 10:00am |
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Nonfiction Book Club
"Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" by Barbara Demick
"Follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years, a chaotic period that saw the rise to power of Kim Jong Il and the devastation of a famine that killed one-fifth of the population, illustrating what it means to live under the most repressive totalitarian regime today."
Join us every second Wednesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Wednesday, September 12th, 10:00am |
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Nonfiction Book Club
"The Greater Journey" by David McCullough
"McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris. "
Join us every second Wednesday of the month to discuss a great book. Refreshments are served.
Wednesday, October 10th, 10:00am |
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