THIS WEEK! Thursday, August 15 | 6:00 pm | Page to Stage: Private Lives ty Noel Coward | tickets free to members when registering
FEATURED EVENTS Thursday, August 22 | 6:00 pm | In Conversation: Jenny Odell with Cathy Park Hong | tickets free to members when registering Thursday, September 5 | 6:30 pm | In Conversation: Tommy Orange with Steve Wasserman
SEMINAR SERIES Tuesday, August 27 | Tuesday, September 3 | Tuesday, September 10 5:30pm - 7:00 pm: | First in a Series of Four Seminars on James Baldwin's Books
This story, about the murder of several police officers in a fictionalized New York City, is the first in Ed McBain’s long-running 87th Precinct series. Cop Hater is clearly a relic of the past, and yet does not suffer in comparison to current mysteries. At slightly under 250 pages, it moves along at a fast clip. Ed McBain the author was onc...
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Every year, we have what we call March Magazine Madness which means - out with the old and in with the new. We begin with a spring cleaning: putting our magazine titles back in order, sending out journals to get bound with covers, and selling off the oldest editions in the collection. This year is no different and we are happy to offer up old copies of popular titles for our members to purchase. Our annual magazine sale runs through the end of March and gives our members an o...
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Mark Watney is an astronaut with a bit of a problem. The day before, he had been part of a regular NASA crew on a scheduled trip to Mars, in the middle of a dust storm. Today, he finds that his team, having lost him in the storm, has assumed him to be dead and stranded him on the planet. The primary method of communication is aboard the ship they have taken; the secondary form on Mars is broken. Mark Watney is alive, but nobody else knows it. It will be four Earth years until another mission...
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BOOKS
FICTION
Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson: or, An Oxford love story
Elizabeth Blackwell While Beauty slept
William Faulkner A fable
Thomas Christopher Greene The headmaster's wife
Alice Hoffman...
BOOKS
FICTION
Anton Chekhov The wife & other stories
Alexander McCall Smith The forever girl
Susan Minot Thirty girls
Matthew Quick The good luck of right now
Anthony Trollope...
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My children are grown, but as part of my library responsibilities, I review new children’s books and movies to purchase for the Mechanics’ Institute. Did you know we have 856 children’s books and 107 DVDs in our collection? We have picture books and books for middle schoolers and everything in between. I am having a ball as I read the reviews and then read the actual books whe...
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BOOKS
FICTION
Rabih Alameddine An unnecessary woman
Claire Cameron The bear
Jamie McGuire Beautiful disaster
Marcel Theroux Strange bodies
Anthony Trollope...
BOOKS
FICTION
Christina Baker Kline Orphan train
Lisa Moore Caught
Historical Fiction
Elisabeth de Waal The exiles return
Masuji Ibuse Waves
Dewey Lambdin...
Last month, Mechanics’ Institute staff members explored love and longing, and this month we’re ruminating on sustenance and fellowship. We will select some of our favorite cookbooks, from the aspirational to the eminently practical. Come check out our staff picks on the second floor to see what we’re cooking. There will also be plenty of delicious fiction on display to satiate your literary appetites.
Taryn recommends ...
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BOOKS
FICTION
Sarah Addison Allen Lost Lake
Wiley Cash This dark road to mercy
Roddy Doyle The guts
Charles Finch The last enchantments
Margaret Hawkins...
