events @ the Library

"Color Celebrations," watercolors by Laura Wilk will be on display in the Great Hall from December 1 to 31.

Opening reception: Friday, December 7 from 6:00 to 7:00 pm.

Holiday Book Sale
on the Riverwalk Level of the Library

Saturday, December 1 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday, December 2 from 1:00 am to 5:00 pm

Holiday shopping was never easier than buying books at the Friends Holiday Book Sale!
Donated books in pristine condition that are truly gift worthy...and all at reasonable prices.

Look for craft, cooking and children's books as well as fiction, history, current events, gardening, biography and more- anything that is truly gift-worthy.

Want to volunteer at the sale? 
Email: geosoo143@yahoo.com.

Visa and MasterCard accepted

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Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

Eileen Heaphy, former Executive Director of the World Affairs Forum in Stamford and former Consul General in Monterrey, Mexico, will moderate a panel on local immigration issues. This event is in cooperation with the Westport League of Women Voters Immigration Study Committee.

Sponsored by The Smilow Family.

Michael E. Wilens, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of The Thomson Corporation, leads a panel that will look at how technology has changed in the last 100 years.

Sponsored by The Thomson Corporation.

"Courting the Seasons" with Pamela Wyn Shannon on vocals and guitar, and New England fiddler and folk singer Lissa Schneckenburger This is a special program featuring traditional and original pastoral songs celebrating the seasons, nature and rural rambling. The program will include the music of Ireland and the British Isles along with songs in Gaelic.

More about Pamela Wyn Shannon

More about Lissa Schneckenburger

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.

WE ARE SORRY, BUT REGISTRATION
AND THE WAITING LIST ARE CLOSED.


YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME TO THE AUTOGRAPHING RECEPTION AT 8:30 PM THAT WILL BE HELD IN THE LARGE READING ROOM ON THE MAIN LEVEL OF THE LIBRARY. BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.

See the just released to DVD film The Namesake about American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, who wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

A deeply moving saga of several generations of a Bengali family. (San Francisco Examiner)

Rated PG13
122 minutes

Movie Review

This seminar covers valuable company, industry and other jobseeker information. Email sschulman@westportlibrary.org to ask how your resumé can be reviewed by a CT Dept. of Labor career specialist.

Book Review

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Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York's Lower East Side, to Seattle's Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom's work-her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart-come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.

Books will be available for purchase and signing
Book Review

Discussion of Tied up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh. Roderick Alleyn must separate the glaring truth from the glittering tinsel in one of his most problematic cases. New participants always welcome.

Bring a snack and spend an afternoon playing video games with friends. Middle school students.