EL SEGUNDO PUBLIC LIBRARY 111 W. Mariposa Ave. El Segundo, CA 90245
Mon.-Thurs. 9:00 am - 9:00 pm Sat. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Fri. & Sun. Closed Phone: (310) 524-2722
2012 El Segundo Author Fair
Mark your calendar for Sunday, June 3rd, as the library again presents its annual Author Fair, with a new time of 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Always a treat for book lovers, the event will host 35 local authors and poets, covering such topics as mystery, memoir, travel, cooking, children's, music, and more. Authors will meet and greet the public at signing tables, while poets read their works in the Rose Garden Room. The first author panel of the day--"Leading Ladies"--will be moderated by Library Board of Trustees President Kevin Smith, and will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. The second author panel--"Pop Culture 60's & 70's"--will be moderated by author Manny Pacheco, and will take place from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. The ever-popular and creative Balloon Man will return, and crafts and storytelling will be held in the Children's Library.
The Author Fair is one of El Segundo's top social and cultural events. Be sure to be a part of it!
The Author Fair is co-sponsored by the El Segundo Public Library and the Friends of the El Segundo Public Library.
The Evening Book Discussion Group returns with a new selection of titles sure to keep everyone talking. Now on an extended schedule from September 2011 through June 2012--excluding December 2011--the meetings will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Room on the last Wednesday each month. Discussions will be led by library staff and, on occasion, the authors themselves.
April 25th the library will present a discussion of the novel The Legacy, by Katherine Webb.
The discussion focuses on Jeffrey Eugenides' novel The Marriage Plot on May 30th.
Author Christopher Farnsworth leads a discussion of his novel Red, White, and Blood on June 27th.
For more details, please see the library calendar to the right of this notice or call (310) 524-2728.
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« NEW BOOKS »
Below are selected new titles at the library. Come in and check out these and other books recently added to the library collection.
Hard Country, by Michael McGarrity.
A richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women set in America's Southwestern frontier. Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family's struggle to settle in and endure the vast, untamed territory of New Mexico. In the wake of the death of his wife (giving birth to his son) and the killing of his brother on the West Texas plains, John Kerney is forced to give up his ranch, leave his son behind, and strike out in search of the murderous outlaws and a place where he can start over. He drifts south until he meets a man who offers him work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory and forever changes his life. Spanning the years of 1875 to 1918, Hard Country is the western reinvented and enlarged into a saga that, above all, celebrates the people and the land of the great Southwest.--From the dust jacket.
Partitions, by Amit Majmudar.
As India is rent into two nations, communal violence breaks out on both sides of the new border and streaming hordes of refugees flee from blood and chaos. At an overrun train station, Shankar and Keshav, twin Hindu boys, lose sight of their mother and join the human mass to go in search of her. A young Sikh girl, Simran Kaur, has run away from her father, who would rather poison his daughter than see her defiled. And Ibrahim Masud, an elderly Muslim doctor driven from the town of his birth, limps toward the new Muslim state of Pakistan, rediscovering his role as a healer. As the displaced face a variety of horrors, this unlikely quartet comes together, defying every rule of self-preservation to forge a future of hope.--From the dust jacket.
The Black Opera, by Mary Gentle.
Naples, the 19th Century. In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, holy music has power. Under the auspices of the Church, the Sung Mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick or raising the dead. But some believe that the musicodramma of grand opera can also work magic by channeling powerful emotions into something sublime. Now the Prince's Men, a secret society, hope to stage their own black opera to empower the devil himself--and change Creation for the better. Conrad Scalese is a struggling librettist whose latest opera has landed him in trouble with the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Rescued by King Ferdinand II, Conrad finds himself recruited to write and stage a counteropera that will, hopefully, cancel out the apocalyptic threat of the black opera, provided the Prince's Men, and their spies and saboteurs, don't get to him first.--From the dust jacket.
A Surrey State of Affairs, by Ceri Radford.
Constance Harding lives in Surrey in a comfortable chintz-filled chocolate box complete with an Aga and a parrot named Darcy. Most of her time is spent leading a bell-ringing club Tuesday evenings, dreaming of department hat store aisles, and convincing herself that she can get her son, Rupert, to settle down if she just writes the perfect personal ad for him. Unfortunately, disaster ensues. Her Lithuanian housekeeper's undergarments keep appearing in her husband's study, her daughter is turning into a Lycra-clad gap-year strumpet, and Rupert's idea of settling down isn't entirely what she had in mind. So when her husband's job goes south (literally, to South America), Constance finally flies her comfortable nest. From partying in Ibiza to riding bareback with a handsome Argentinean gaucho whose only English words are "Britney" and "Spears," Constance is about to discover a wider world she thought it was too late to find. And she's putting it all on her blog-thingy.--From the dust jacket.
