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On the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, the Public Library offers a book discussion club called "Let's Talk Books."
The club is open to the general public, and drop-ins are encouraged. Future evening meetings to be announced. Please click on the "More" link below for additional information.
Let's Talk Books
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The popular Concerts in the Library series resumes its monthly schedule in September and continues on through December. Join us as four new musical groups entertain and educate us with their performances. Free to all, the series features classical and jazz programs, as well as music from different ethnic traditions. Beginning in September, the programs will take place at 3:00 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Room the third Sunday of each month, and will include light refreshments provided by the Friends. The library is located at 111 W. Mariposa Avenue at Main Street. Call (310) 524-2728 for additional information.
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Below are selected new titles at the library. Come in and check out these and other books recently added to the library collection.
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...In A Voyage Long and Strange [author Tony Horwitz] uncovers the neglected story of America's founding by Europeans. He begins a thousand years ago, with the Vikings, and then tells the dramatic tale of conquistadors, castaways, French voyageurs, Moorish slaves, and many others who roamed and rampaged across half the states of the U.S. continent, long before the Mayflower landed. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.--From the dust jacket.
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William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness--and that can make him a famous man. His is a humanitarian effort; an attempt to relieve Americans of suffering, and the early results are so promising that Friedrich stakes his future on it. But when his experiment goes awry and a reserach subject, a brilliant and troubled Yale student, commits murder, the consequences will haunt him and his famly forever. Honest, insightful, and ruefully funny, Pharmakon captures the formative moments of the twentieth century and the telling traits of the American family.--From the dust jacket.
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On every day of the year, something momentous happened in history, whether it was a rainy 25 February, a sweltering 2 July, or your father's birthday. W.B. Marsh and Bruce Carrick present a leap year of historical stories by turns amazing, horrifying, touching and tearful. Spanning the history of man's life on earth and every corner of the inhabited world, they paint a picture of infinite richness and minute, enthralling detail.--From the dust jacket.
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Becky Thatcher wants to set the record straight. She was never the weeping ninny Mark Twain made her out to be in his famous novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. She knew Samuel Clemens before he was "Mark Twain," when he was a wide-eyed dreamer who never could get his facts straight. Yes, she was Tom's childhood sweetheart, but the true story of their love, and the dark secret that tore it apart, never made it into Twain's novel.--From the dust jacket.
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111 W. Mariposa Ave.
El Segundo, CA 90245
Mon.-Thurs. 9:00 am - 9:00 pm - Fri. 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Sat. 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - Sun. 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Phone: (310) 524-2722
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