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
Mechanics’ Institute Library staff kicks off the new year by recommending books about pursuits that engage not only the mind, but the body as well. You’ll find one of my personal favorites, The Unapologetic Fat Girl’s Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts by one of my favorite authors, Hanne Blank. There will be books about the sociological aspects of sport (e.g.,...
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H.G. Adler The wall
Jo Baker Offcomer
Jean Cocteau Enfants terribles
Jose Saramago Skylight
Anthony Trollope Phineas Finn...
On December 4 at the bi-annual Members’ Meeting, I gave a talk on the founding of our Mechanics’ Institute and the strange but wonderful times that provided the impetus for its birth. The decision to found our Institute was formerly made on December 11, 1854 when two scores of men in the building trades met in the tax collector’s office to thrash out a plan to create a Mechanics’ Institute similar to ones that existed in the Eastern United States, Australia, and Great Britain.
From th...
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Stephen Frey Kodiak sky
Paolo Giordano The human body
Mary Kubica The good girl
Ben Lerner 10:30
Farran Smith Nehme Missing r...
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Meg Cabot Abandon
Sylvia Day Bared to you
Sylvia Day Reflected in you
Jon Foyt Time to retire
Assaf Gavron The hilltop...
This month at Mechanics’ Institute Library, get inspired for the new year. Staff will select books about the fascinating individuals who people our collection – the lives of others who inspire, entertain, and encourage us! Get acquainted with your fellow human beings through their words and works, and enjoy these stories told about them.
Deb recommends Florence Nightingale: The Making of an Icon...
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Elizabeth Dutton Driftwood
Sanford Friedman Conversations with Beethoven
Lydia Millet Mermaids in paradise
C.D. Rose (editor) The biographical dictionary of literary failure
Will S...
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John Darnielle Wolf in white van
Richard Ford Let me be Frank with you
Howard Jacobson J
Ha Jin A map of betrayal
Denis Johnson...
With the holidays on the horizon, what better time than now to relax, take a deep breath and have a good laugh with some of the funniest films in the Mechanics' collection? Below are just a few of our personal favorites. Be sure to stop by the 2nd floor DVD display and discover some new titles and revisit old favorites!
Heather recommends Tampopo
A much-lauded film in the “Spaghetti Western”...
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BOOKS
FICTION
W. Bruce Cameron The midnight plan of the repo man
Michel Faber The book of strange new things
Molly Gloss Falling from horses
William Hazelgrove Real Santa
Farnoosh Moshiri...
