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Save the Date for the 10th Annual Crossword Puzzle Contest on Saturday, February 7, 2009

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

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In Virtue, Valor, and Vanity, Eric Burns brings the Founding Fathers down off their pedestals to reveal flesh-and-blood men—vain and modest, sensitive and stubborn, brilliant and ambitious.

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Continuing the series from last fall, what better way to help yourself feel better than by using color! Certified Feng Shui Consultant Ned Farrell will share insights into the world of color.

The series concludes with the 1977 classic Slap Shot, starring Paul Newman in the profane, exciting, and very funny story of a bad-luck hockey team (123 min.)

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Family life in Catholic India is explored through nine interconnected tales in What You Call Winter: Stories, the debut work of beguiling fiction by Nalini Jones.

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Sunday, February 10
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Rarely Heard Chamber Music for Woodwinds! From classical to pop, Cumulus Chamber Ensemble will perform a variety of octets (music for eight instruments). The core musicians are members of two longstanding local woodwind quintets: the Odyssey Woodwind Quintet and the Prevailing Winds.

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Lawrence Goldstone, author of The Anatomy of Deception, discusses his forensic thriller, set in 1889, Philadelphia, where a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer. “Compelling….[A] top-notch historical page-turner."-Publishers Weekly.

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In Stealing Lincoln’s Body, Thomas J.Craughwell relates the bizarre grave robbery of Lincoln’s embalmed body by counterfeiters hoping to bargain for a pardon.

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Another layer of Feng Shui is how we use the individual spaces in our homes. Bring in a hand-drawn floor plan to get the most out of Ned Farrell 's insights.

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High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in An Age of Greed, by Michael Kodas, is a shocking expose of the dark underside of Everest with people all but murdered in the cutthroat race to get to the top.

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2:00 to 4:00 pm
Higgins Room
Middle school age and up

Invite a grandparent, parent, older sibling, or friend to learn basic knitting skills. Bring a pair of knitting needles and we will supply the yarn.

This workshop is limited to 16.

Registration required.
Contact Jaina Lewis at 291-4809 or email jlewis@westportlibrary.org

Discussion of Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg. In this compelling international bestseller, when a woman questions the death of a small boy she finds herself caught up in a terrifying search for the truth. For copies of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome.

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Get ready for WestportREADS events in March and discuss The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. (Barnes & Noble Classics edition). To reserve a copy of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome.

Learn the latest about RSS including what it is and why you would want it. And also learn how to create and download your own podcasts. Find out what the buzz is all about!

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With wisdom and humor, punctuated with outrage over injustice, Tracy Sugarman’s artistry and prose provide insights into our American psyche in Drawing Conclusions: An Artist Discovers His America.

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Joseph D'Agostin, Revenue Agent at the Norwalk office of the Internal Revenue Service, will discuss new and changing income tax laws.

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Debby Applegate, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, the definitive tale of this captivating, mercurial, and sometimes infuriating figure.

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

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

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Oil paintings by Shanghai, China artist John Tang will be on display in The Great Hall from January 2 through February 28.

Opening reception: Friday, January 4 from 6:00 to 7:00 pm

Wendy Walker’s Four Wives is a study of domestic discontent in which four women face the most difficult, heartbreaking challenge of their lives, reconciling their innermost desires with the lives that each has chosen.

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