Past Events
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | Recommended for children grades K and up
Join us on Zoom for Globe Trekkers, a live, face-to-face storytime. At event time, sign in to Zoom (
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Saturday, July 25, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Monday, July 20, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredAn African-American writer’s concise, heartfelt take on the state of his nation, exploring the war between the values he has always held and the reality with which he is confronted in twenty-first-century America.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredJamaica Kincaid is a writer and professor whose works include the novels See Now Then, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and Mr. Potter; a classic history of Antigua, A Small Place; and a memoir, My Brother. In this special one-time-only event, Ms. Kincaid talks about her work and the past and present worlds in which it happens.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online (Zoom)
Join us on Zoom for a virtual, face-to-face storytime.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | by donation | registration requiredLiberte! Egalite! Put on your thinking cap and join Library staff and friends for an informal hour of book-based trivia with a Francophone flair.
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Saturday, July 11, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Online Event | Online | for members only | $60 for the set of four sessions | registration requiredWritten at the request of the Roman Emperor Augustus, this 1st century BCE epic is much more than a piece of propaganda. We’ll read these six books (of twelve) in Robert Fagles’ fine translation.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | by donation | registration requiredA special virtual tour of Margaret Armstrong's botanical watercolors from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | Recommended for children grades K and up
Join us on Zoom for Globe Trekkers, a live, face-to-face storytime.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Heat got you craving something cold and creamy?
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Monday, June 29, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredA genteel summer visit to 1815 with writer/actress Laura Rocklyn as Jane Austen.
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Saturday, June 27, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Thursday, June 25, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | YouTube Premiere | open to the public | by donation | no registration requiredOur New York City Book Award-winning poet reads from and discusses his recent work - a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of age in East Harlem at the dawn of the hip-hop era.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | by donation | registration requiredPut on your thinking cap, grab your favorite beverage, and join Library staff and friends for an informal evening of trivia based in books and the writing world.
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Saturday, June 20, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Children | Online (Zoom)
Join us on Zoom for a virtual, face-to-face storytime.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 6:00 PM | Online Event | onlineTwo remarkable writers join Chicago Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Amy Brady for an interactive discussion about the worlds of their novels and our current nonfiction world of climate change.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Monday, June 15, 2020 - 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM | Children | Online | Zoom | Recommended for children grades 3 and up | Registration required
Calling all mystery-lovers, party-goers, budding young writers, and people who just love games! Join us on Zoom as we play a live, character-driven, adventure-filled writing game that's one-part Clue, another part Mad Libs.
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Saturday, June 13, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Children | Online | For All Ages
Join us on YouTube at the time above for our virtual storytime for all ages! Can't join us then?
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - 4:00 PM | Children | Online | Recommended for children grades K and up
Join us on Zoom for Globe Trekkers, a live, face-to-face storytime. At event time, sign in to Zoom (
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Saturday, June 6, 2020 - 11:00 AM | Children | Online (Zoom)
Join us on Zoom for a virtual, face-to-face storytime.
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Friday, June 5, 2020 - 12:00 PM | Online Event | online | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredAn interactive chat with author Gretchen Rubin on living a happier, healthier, more productive life even during and while emerging from the season of quarantine.
