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Saturday Concerts in the Library
Come join in the fun with the Library's Winter/Spring Concerts in the Library series during the months of January through May. Free to all, the series features classical and jazz programs, as well as music from different ethnic traditions. Programs take place at 2:00 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Room the third Saturday of each month, and will include light refreshments provided by the Friends of the Library. See the library calendar at the right for specific programs or call (310) 524-2728 for additional information.
Evening Book Discussion Group
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.
On January 25th, Public Services Manager Ellen Cunningham will talk about The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman.
Author Jeri Westerson will discuss her mystery novel Troubled Bones on February 29th.
Senior Library Assistant Kimberlee Carter will lead a discussion of Tom Franklin's novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter on March 28th.
For more details, please see the library calendar to the right of this notice or call (310) 524-2728.
We Treasure Books Celebration
Come explore the library's shelves for a wealth of information and entertainment in the "We Treasure Books Celebration" during the months of February and March. Members of the community are encouraged to read books from different genres each month. February's theme is "Biographies," with special reading lists and displays of biographical titles, while March's theme is "Travel," with special reading lists and displays of travel titles. There will be raffle drawings, with prizes sponsored by the Friends of the Library, for adults 18 years and older who borrow two or more adult fiction or non-fiction books at one time; raffle prizes will include two Barnes and Noble gift cards and two Barnes and Noble Nook e-readers. Please call (310) 524-2722 for further information.
« 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.
The Rook, by Daniel O'Malley.
'Dear you, the body you are wearing used to be mine.' So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies--all wearing latex gloves. With no memory of who she is or how she got there, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and escape those who want to destroy her. She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in the Checquy, a secret government agency that protects the world against supernatural threats--from sentient fungus to stampeding ectoplasm--while keeping the populace in the dark. But now there is a mole on the inside, and this person wants Myfanwy dead. In her quest to save herself and unmask the traitor, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, an aristocratic woman who can enter her dreams, a secret training facility where children are transformed into deadly fighters, and a conspiracy more vast than she could ever have imagined. And she must learn to harness her own rare, potentially deadly supernatural ability.--From the dust jacket.
Hope: A Tragedy, by Shalom Auslander.
The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn't quite working out that way for Kugel... His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won't stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history--a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history--hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse.--From the dust jacket.
All Necessary Force, by Brad Taylor.
A terrorist hit is coming. The CIA, FBI, and Department of Defense systems have spiked, but traditional intel is going nowhere. It falls to the Taskforce--a top secret team that exists outside the bounds of U.S. law and is charged with finding and destroying asymmetric threats--to stop the unknown conspirators. A shadowy trail leads the Taskforce through Asia and into Egypt, where an attack leaves one hardened Taskforce member dead and another barely breathing. Pike Logan and his partner, Jennifer Cahill, are forced to helm the increasingly convoluted and dangerous mission--a mission that tests Jennifer's ability to justify means to an end and Pike's tenuous ability to stay in control. Sifting their way through opposing plots of two terrorist organizations will turn out to be the least of their problems when a weapon of unthinkable power touches American soil--the only country in which Taskforce members are forbidden to operate, and the only country that Pike Logan may be unable to save.--From the dust jacket.
The Chalk Girl, by Carol O'Connell.
The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York's Central Park one day: red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairy--except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. It happened while she was looking for her Uncle Red, who had turned into a tree. Right, they thought, poor child. And then they found the body in the tree. For Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit after three months' lost time, spent she will not say where, there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, dangerously unstable, but she can tell a kindred spirit when she sees one. And this one will ultimately lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes, to murders stretching back fifteen years, to blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that perhaps only someone with Mallory's history could fully recognize. In the next few weeks, she will deal with them all...in her own way.--From the dust jacket.
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