Pettee Memorial Library

Title: Story Hour: Frogs
Location: Pettee Memorial Library Children’s Room
Description: Young children and their caregivers are invited to join us for themed stories and activities. This event is free and open to the public.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2012-05-21
End Time: 11:30

Title: Computer Basics: Getting Started with Email
Location: Pettee Memorial Library Margaret Greene Room
Description: Training and guided practice for beginner computer users.
Start Time: 1:00 p.m.
Date: 2012-05-16

Title: Teen Book Club: Beautiful Creatures
Location: Pettee Memorial Library
Description: Join us for a casual book talk, pizza from Tommy’s, and a supernatural movie! We will be discussing Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia. Copies of the book will be available to borrow in advance. This event is free and open to the public. Please provide parent/guardian pick-up arrangements upon arrival.

Book Description:
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town’s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.
In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.
Start Time: 6:00 p.m.
Date: 2012-05-25

Title: Adult Book Club: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Location: Pettee Memorial Library Margaret Greene Room
Description: Copies of the book are available to borrow now! Just ask for one at the circulation desk. Then join us for a casual book discussion and refreshments. This event is free and open to the public.

Book Description:
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and began to speak more freely–their stories intertwining with the novels they were reading by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, as fundamentalists seized hold of the universities and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the women in Nafisi’s living room spoke not only of the books they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments.
Start Time: 6:00 p.m.
Date: 2012-06-05
End Time: 7:00 p.m.

Title: Story Hour: Hungry Caterpillar
Location: Pettee Memorial Library Children’s Room
Description: Young children and their caregivers are invited to join us for themed stories and activities. This event is free and open to the public.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2012-05-14
End Time: 11:30

Title: Half Day Fun Day: Make a Gift for Mom!
Location: Pettee Memorial Library Children’s Room
Description: Half day of school? Spend the afternoon doing a fun activity! Get ready for Mother’s Day, coming up on May 13th! Children under age 9 must be accompanied by an adult. This event is free and open to the public.
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2012-05-09
End Time: 2:00

Title: Story Hour: May Flowers
Location: Pettee Memorial Library Children’s Room
Description: Young children and their caregivers are invited to join us for themed stories and activities. This event is free and open to the public.
Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2012-04-30
End Time: 11:30

Title: Book Club for Adults: Water for Elephants
Location: Pettee Memorial Library Margaret Greene Room
Description: Join us for a casual book discussion and refreshments. We will be talking about Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Copies of the book will be available to borrow in advance. This event is free and open to the public.

Book Description:
Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski’s ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell.
Jacob was there because his luck had run out—orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive “ship of fools.” It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope, the new act that was going to be the salvation of the circus; the only problem was, Rosie didn’t have an act—in fact, she couldn’t even follow instructions. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival.

Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2012-05-01
End Time: 19:00

Title: Popcorn & Pajamas Movie Matinee
Location: Pettee Memorial Library Children’s Room
Description: Movie Matinee featuring “Puss in Boots”. Pajamas welcome!
Start Time: 3:00 pm
Date: 2012-04-26

Title: Native American Drumming with Fidel Moreno
Location: Pettee Memorial Library
Description: Live drumming with spiritual peacebuilder and award-winning filmmaker Fidel Moreno!
Start Time: 3:00 pm
Date: 2012-04-25