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The Roslyn Library Book Club

November's Read:

Another Place at the Table

Another Place at the Table:
by Kathy Harrison

The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman's thirteen-year experience as a foster parent.

Discussion
Thursday, December 4th at 6:00 pm


The Roslyn Library Book Club is a small and informal group of booklovers that meets at the Roslyn Library each month to discuss the book they have chosen in common to read. The Roslyn Library provides multiple copies of the chosen book.

Book selections vary from non-fiction to classics, poetry and plays to science fiction and young adult literature.

Please join this lively group at any time during the year or month. The book talks are held on the first Thursday of the month at 6:00 pm at the library.

FREE
and OPEN to the public.


List of Previous Reads







Story Time at the Roslyn Library
Tuesdays
10:30 am @ the Library

The Roslyn Library offers story time for children of all ages every Tuesday at 10:30 am. 

Our library's story times are informal programs that focus primarily on books. Occasionally the librarian will feel intrepid and sing a song or get the kids to dance or help with rhymes. Volunteer readers are often featured and they are appreciated by all.

Selected books vary from educational to whimsical, but all of them help build literacy skills. Story time children build the six skills they need to learn to read:

  • Print Motivation;
  • Vocabulary;
  • Print Awareness;
  • Letter Knowledge;
  • Narrative Skills; and
  • Phonological Awareness
Not only that, but story time is a great time to build social skills! The laid-back atmosphere means your temperamental two-year old will be welcome even on her grumpiest days.

You'll be surprised how fast the other kids role model proper library behavior as they play together with puzzles and toys in the sunny children's area.

And it's a great place and time to meet other parents, check out parenting resources, and browse for books, videos, CDs, and magazines for yourself and other members of your family.

Story Time
Tuesdays
10:30 am @ the Library

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Armchair Travel Series

This fall and winter series is sponsored by the Friends of the Roslyn Library and features local residents and their tales of travel adventures. Digital slide show presentations are often accompanied by food and drink, arts and crafts from the locale. Each presentation is thoroughly unique.

Below is a preliminary list of Armchair Travel presentations scheduled for the 2008-2009 season:

Faces and Places of Nepal

Faces and Places of Nepal

Wednesday, November 5th
(PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 29TH)
7:00 pm

Explore the places and faces of Nepal through the eyes of a social scientist. Local teacher Eric Wickwire spent a month traveling to, fro, and around the country of Nepal studying geography, culture and land use in the Anapurna region, volunteering in a local school, and trekking around the Himalaya. Join us for the sharing of photos and stories, and for a question and answer session.


Camino de La Rioja

Camino de La Rioja: Touring Spain's Wine Country
Wednesday, November 19th
7:00 pm

Take a tour of the wine country of northern Spain known as "La Rioja" with local resident Julie Miller. Miller spent much of 2008 living in Bilbao Spain, and this was just one of her adventures. She will present photographs of this stunning region along with her tales of good wine, tasty tapas, and tips for travelers to this area of Spain.

Galapagos

Following Darwin's Footsteps and Close Encounters with Sea Lions: A Trip to the Galapagos

Wednesday, December 10th
7:00 pm

Mary Lee Jensvold will share her land-based journey to the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Her photos and video will take you on her travels through Ecuador's capitol, Quito, then the equaor and her encounters with the flora, fauna, and geography of the islands.

If you are interested in giving a presentation, please contact the library.

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The Summer Reading Program

Every summer, the Roslyn Library holds an eight-week program fthat aims to keep kids of all ages reading throughout the summer months. The program offers incentive prizes for time spent reading, free books for participating, and a raffle for completing reading goals. The program also features weekly story times and craft activities.
 
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2008 Book Club Reads


A place beyond: finding home in arctic Alaska / by Nick Jans

The sparrow / by Mary Doria Russell

Grape thief / by Kristine Franklin

The brief history of the dead / by Kevin Brockmeier

The world is flat : A brief history of the 21st century / by Thomas L. Friedman

The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / by Louise Erdrich

The Yiddish policemen's union / by Michael Chabon

All over but the shoutin' / by Rick Bragg

Children of God / by Mary Doria Russell

The amateur marriage / by Anne Tyler

Another place at the table: A story of shattered childhood and the redemption of love / by Kathy Harrison


2007 Book Club Reads

Hey Rube: Blood sport, the Bush doctrine, and the downward spiral of dumbness: Modern history from the sports desk / by Hunter S. Thompson

Everything is illuminated / by Jonathan Safran Foer

Harvest for hope: A guide to mindful eating / by Jane Goodall

The funnies / by J. Robert Lennon

Middle passage / by Charles Johnson

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A memoir in books / by Azar Nafisi

The Time Traveler's Wife / by Audrey Niffenegger

March / by Geraldine Brooks

Life of Pi / by Yann Martel

The worst hard time / by Timothy Egan

The shadow of the wind / by Carlos Ruiz Zafon


2006
Book Club Reads

The collected stories of Eudora Welty / by Eudora Welty

Independence Day / by Richard Ford

Me & Emma / by Elizabeth Flock

Finding George Orwell in Burma / by Emma Larkin

Under my skin / by Doris Lessing

The true history of the Elephant Man / by Michael Howell and Peter Ford

The English patient / by Michael Ondaatje

My brother / by Jamaica Kincaid

All creatures great and small / by James Herriot

The years with Laura Diaz / by Carlos Fuentes

To kill a mockingbird / by Harper Lee


2005
Book Club Reads

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight: An African childhood / by Alexandra Fuller

The loop / by Nicholas Evans

After life / by Rhian Ellis

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy / by Douglas Adams

Pope Joan / Donna Woolfolk Cross

The lovely bones / by Alice Sebold

The good earth / by Pearl S. Buck

Dance of the happy shades / by Alice Munro

An unfinished season / by Ward Just

Wild life / by Molly Gloss

Frankenstein / by Mary W. Shelley

The human stain / by Philip Roth


2004
Book Club Reads

Housekeeping / by Marilynn Robinson

Nickle and dimed: On (not) getting by in America / by Barbara Ehrenreich

Ceremony / by Leslie Marmon Silko

Run plant fly / by Ellie Belew

Checkov's short stories (various) / by Anton Checkov

The living / by Annie Dillard

Don Quixote / by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Paris Trout / by Pete Dexter

The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / by Louise Erdrich

Meatless days / by Sara Suleri

Affliction / by Russell Banks


2003
Book Club Reads

A tale of two cities / by Charles Dickens

Cloud 9 / by Caryl Churchill

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / by Dave Eggers

Travels with Charley / by John Steinbeck

Magic mountain / by Thomas Mann

World's fair / by E.L. Doctorow

Love medicine / by Louise Erdrich

The moor's last sigh / by Salman Rushdie

An American requiem: God, my father, and the war that came between us / by James Carroll

The song of the lark / by Willa Cather

Amerika / by Franz Kafka

The haj / by Leon Uris


2002
Book Club Reads

Searoad / by Ursula K. LeGuin

House of sand and fog / by Andre Dubus

The body artist / by Don DeLillo

The curve of time / by M. Wylie Blanchet

Prodigal summer / by Barbara Kingsolver

The red tent / by Anita Diamant

Beachcombing for a shipwrecked God / by Joe Coomer

Wise blood / by Flannery O'Connor

Girl with a pearl earring / by Tracy Chevalier

Reservation blues / by Sherman Alexie

In the lake of the woods / by Tim O'Brien


2001
Book Club Reads

Memoirs of a geisha / by Arthur Golden

The innocents abroad / by Mark Twain

Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood / by Rebecca Wells

On the rez / by Ian Frazier

Out of the dust / by Karen Hesse

Tobacco Road / by Erskine Caldwell

The stone diaries / by Carol Shields

Waiting / by Ha Jin

Refuge: An unnatural history of family and place / by Terry Tempest Williams

The brothers K / by David James Duncan

A lesson before dying / by Ernest Gaines

Ender's game / by Orson Scott Card


2000
Book Club Reads

Little altars everywhere / by Rebecca Wells

The good rain / by Timothy Egan

The handmaid's tale / by Margaret Atwood

Language instinct / by Stephen Pinker

Dreams of my Russian summers / by Andrei Makine

The poisonwood bible / by Barbara Kingsolver

The house of the spirits / by Isabell Allende

All the pretty horses / by Cormac McCarthy

Angle of repose / by Wallace Stegnar

The god of small things / by Arundhati Roy

Angela's ashes / by Frank McCourt

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EVENTS

All events and programs take place at the Roslyn Public Library, 201 S. First Street, unless otherwise noted.


November

Monday, November 3
Knitting Circle, All ages and abilities, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, November 4
Children's Story Time, 10:30 am

Wednesday, November 5
Armchair Travel Series: Faces and Places of Nepal, with local teacher Eric Wickwire, 7:00 pm

Thursday, November 6
Roslyn Library Book Club meets to discuss The Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler, 6:00 pm

Thursday, November 6
Roslyn Library Board of Trustees monthly meeting, 7:00 pm

Monday, November 10
Knitting Circle, All ages and abilities, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, November 11
Closed for Veterans Day

Monday, November 17
Knitting Circle, All ages and abilities, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, November 18
Children's Story Time, 10:30 am

Wednesday, November 19
Armchair Travel Series: Camino de La Rioja - Touring Spain's Wine Country, with Julie Miller, 7:00 pm

Thursday, November 20
Friends of the Roslyn Library monthly meeting,  7:00 pm  social, 7:30 pm meeting

Monday, November 24
Knitting Circle, All ages and abilities, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, November 25
Children's Story Time, 10:30 am

Thursday, November 27
Closed for Thanksgiving

December

Monday, December 1
Knitting Circle, All ages and abilities, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, December 2
Children's Story Time, 10:30 am

Thursday, December 4
Roslyn Library Board of Trustees monthly meeting, 7:00 pm

Thursday, December 4
Roslyn Library Book Club meets to discuss Another Place at the Table, by Kathy Harrison, 6:00 pm

Saturday, December 6
Friends of the Roslyn Library Annual Holiday Book Sale
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Monday, December 8
Knitting Circle, All ages and abilities, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, December 9
Children's Story Time, 10:30 am

Wednesday, December 10
Armchair Travel Series: Following Darwin's Footsteps: A Trip to the Galapagos Islands, with Mary Lee Jensvold, 7:00 pm

Monday, December 15
Knitting Circle, All ages and abilities, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, December 16
Children's Story Time, 10:30 am

Thursday, December 18
Friends of the Roslyn Library monthly meeting,  7:00 pm  social, 7:30 pm meeting

Monday, December 22
Knitting Circle, All ages and abilities, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, December 23
Children's Story Time, 10:30 am

Wednesday, December 24
Closed for Christmas

Thursday, December 25
Closed for Christmas

Monday, December 29
Knitting Circle, All ages and abilities, 6:00 pm

Tuesday, December 30
Children's Story Time, 10:30 am

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