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September 8, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Burton Bernstein

Bernstein-cover-jpeg.jpgMonday, September 8th
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Burton Bernstein, former New Yorker staff writer and author of Leonard Bernstein: American Original, How a Modern Renaissance Man Transformed Music and the World During his New York Philharmonic Years, 1943–1976, and his co-author, Barbara Haws, the historian and archivist of the NY Philharmonic Orchestra, will discuss this new book, which examines Bernstein’s landmark achievements and activities, placing them in the broader cultural context of New York City from 1943 to 1976.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Carnegie Hall's website on Fall 2008 Bernstein Festival.

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September 9, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Kevin Conley

the-full-burn-cover1.jpgTuesday, September 9
7:30 pm
McManus Room

In The Full Burn, acclaimed journalist Kevin Conley takes readers inside one of the most fascinating and dangerous jobs in the world. Conley gives a passenger’s-seat view of the stuntman’s life: the history, the culture, and the tricks of the trade, showing how—and why—stuntmen do what they do. Funny, gripping, and packed with amazing stories, this is an irresistible book for anyone who loves the movies.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Book Review.

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September 15, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Diane Ackerman

zookeeper.jpgMonday, September 15
7:30 pm
McManus Room

The Zookeeper's Wife, 2008 winner of the Orion Book Award, is a strange, but historically true, story of WWII. In it, Diane Ackerman reveals the extraordinary efforts of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who capitalized on the Nazis' obsession with pureblood animals in order to save over 300 doomed people by hiding them in the bombed-out cages at the Warsaw Zoo.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Book Review.
Author's website.

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September 17, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Judith Marks-White

Bachelor Degree Book Cover copy.jpgWednesday, September 17
Noon
McManus Room

Acclaimed humor columnist and Westporter Judith Marks-White certainly knows how to set a scene. With Bachelor Degree, set in Manhattan’s posh art world, she brings to life the super-sophisticated New York dating scene as successful Samantha looks for love—with the help of her uproariously well-intentioned, misguided and meddlesome mother.

Books will be available and purchase and signing.

Author's website.

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September 18, 2008

Technology Talk:
The Future of Technology in the Library

irving-wladawsky-berger2.jpgThursday, September 18
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus of IBM Academy of Technology and Visiting Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, will give a talk about the ways libraries have changed and will continue to change to accommodate technology.

Irving Wladawsky-Berger's web page.

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