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FRIENDS GIGANTIC BOOKSALE
Opens Friday, July 8th
3-5 PM Double price
5:30-8:00 PM Regular price
Silent Auction 12 - 7:30 PM (Special Collection Items)
For more information call 594-5003 |
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E-sources @ New Canaan Library
NoveList -
Explore fiction with this great reader's advisory tool.
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Summer Reading for Young Adults
Come to the Library for your Summer Reading. Check the Teen Page for updated lists from local public and private schools.
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YOU CAN TAKE US BEYOND THE BEST SELLER!
Help us select titles for our "Readers' Choice Beyond the Best Seller List". To vote on your favorite title, click here |
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Need a Meeting Room?
We are now booking meetings for September 2005 – June 2006. Reserve the Plaut Conference Room or the Adrian Lamb Room.
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Click
here for a complete printable
Calendar of Events for July 2005
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THE POETRY OF PLANTS
An exhibition of floral and landscape photography
by
MALCOLM HILLIER
Accompanied by a talk and signing of books
THURSDAY, JULY 14TH AT 7:00 PM
Author Talk in the Lamb Room
Reception and book signing to follow in the
H. Pelham Curtis Gallery
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Library Celebrates
Its 128th Birthday
Friends of the Library Celebrate 30th Anniversary
Please join us on August 11th for activities
throughout the day
Lemonade and Cookies
Summer Reading Club Graduation
Outdoor Concert
Reader's Choice Beyond the Best Seller Winners
And More!
More information coming soon
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The Poetry of Plants
Photographs by Malcolm Hillier
July 14 through August 29, 2005
Sponsored by the Art Committee
Friends of New Canaan Library
Exhibit information
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Books..................
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David McCullough
1776
Stirring and intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence.
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Michael Cunningham
Specimen Days
Engaging Walt Whitman as his muse Cunningham weaves a captivating, strange and
extravagant novel of human progress and social decline. |
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Jeanette Walls
The Glass Castle
The journalist's memoir of growing up nomadic, starry-eyed and dirt poor in the '60s and '70s.
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DVDs...............
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Aviator
The tumultuous life of aviator, millionaire, and film director Howard Hughes and his final descent into madness. |
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The Sea Inside
Academy award for Best Foreign Film, tells the story of a quadriplegic and his fight for the right to die.
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Compact
Discs...............
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Monty Python
Spamalot
Original Broadway cast recording of the play that won the Tony Award for Best Musical. |
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Shakespeare's
"THE TEMPEST"
Tuesday, July 12 at 6:30 PM
Presented by
Master Storyteller
Tom Lee
For ages 6 & up
In the Curtis Gallery
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"Harry Potter Trivia"
Friday, July 15 at 3:30 PM
Presented by Christopher Hurlburt
For ages 8 to 13
In the Lamb Room
Registration required
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Mother Goose Rhymes Time
Friday, July 29 at 10:00 AM
For infants, toddlers,2-year-olds & their parents
In the Lamb Room
Registration Required |
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