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FREE ZOOM CLASSES
Saturday, April 17 from 11 to 11:45 SPRING TONICS with herbal experts Lini Mazumdar and Helena Wu VOCALIZING FOR OPTIMAL HEALTH: Singing and Speaking Wednesday, April 21 from 4:30 to 5:10 with voice instructor BIDI DWORKIN FINANCIALLY FIT? PURCHASING YOUR FIRST HOME? with Financial Advisor, Rhonda Lathrop Thursday, April 22 from 4 - 4:50 All are Welcome to attend any or all of these presentations. Please contact the Library to sign up! APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH Stop in and take a peek at all the wonderful poetry books that we have on our shelves for adults and children. If you are a fan of world-famous poet, Pablo Neruda, you will want to check out The POETRY OF PABLO NERUDA which includes most of his work. To go along with the book you will enjoy Il Postino, The Postman, on DVD. It is a touching comedic film in which the Postman asks a poet (Pablo Neruda) to write love poems for him. Also on our shelves that you might be inspired to peruse or read again are the works of contemporary award winners such as Mary Oliver or Galway Kinnell. Of course, we have the classic works of Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Whittier, William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsburg or Ogden Nash, among many others. For children there are poetic fairytales, Wynken, Blyken and Nod (Eugene Field), Poetry for Young People by Robert Frost and Poetry for Young People by Emily Dickinson and Carl Sandburg wrote Adventures of a Poet. There are also Winter Bees and other Poems by Joyce Sidman, Falling Up by Shel Siverstein, Some Folks Like Cats & Other Poems, The Beauty of the Beast by Jack Prelutsky, Octopus Hermit Crab Snail - A Poem of the Sea by Sara Anderson and so many more. New Books There are so many recent acquisitions I will only list some of them: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Nuval N. Harai, Super Brain... by Chopra and Tanzi, Firing Point by Clancy/Mike Maden, Transient Desire by Donna Leon, Leonardo by Isaacson, A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult and many mysteries by your perennial favorites including Daniel Silva, C. J. Box, Andrea Camilleri. Tana French, Philip Margolin and many more. New Movies through donations Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Must Love Dogs, The Notebook, Save the Last Dance, Marlon Brando Collection, Apollo 13, The Maltese Falcon, March of the Penguins, Mary Poppins, The King's Speech, Mash, The Pink Panther and Pirates of the Caribbean. TV shows on DVD - Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, Mad Men, The Sopranos, Lost, Taxi, The Shield, and many other classic TV favorites. See you at the Library! Comments are closed.
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