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Monday, January 4, 2010 Join your friends for an afternoon of Wii on the big screen at the Library. Pick from a variety of games, including Mario Party 8, Wii Play, and Mario Kart.
Contact Jania Lewis at 291-4809 or jlewis@westportlibrary.org for more information.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 
Westporters Doug and Patti Brill know first hand about memory loss and shared the ups and downs of coping with it on Wednesday, January 6, 2010. 
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
Thursday, January 7, 2010 The Lives of Others is a brilliantly done story of an East German dramatist and his actress lover who get caught up in a Scasi net. It won the Oscar for best foreign film of 2006. Exciting and moving, with an ending you'll be talking about for years. (2007, 109 mins.)
Saturday, January 9, 2010 Note: Free tickets available in the Children’s Library beginning at 9:00 am on the day of the performance-space is limited.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 Frank Vignola's band also includes Vinny Raniolo on guitar, Gary Mazzaroppi on bass, Julien Labro on accordion, and Zach Brock on violin.
Supported by the Grace K. Salmon Foundation.
Dr. Stephen Snyder, Associate Professor of Japanese at Middlebury College, translated the book The Housekeeper and the Professor. He discussed the book, the art of translation, and his experience in working with the author, Yoko Ogawa on January 11, 2010. 
Monday, January 11 through Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010 January 11, 2010 WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, psychologist and award-winning author, discussed her new book The Power of Women: Harness Your Unique Strengths at Home, at Work, and in Your Community, on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Women are extraordinarily hard on themselves. They scrutinize their flaws; they get preoccupied with ways they do not measure up, twisting themselves into knots to fix problems no one else can see. The Power of Women: Harness Your Unique Strengths at Home, at Work, and in Your Community, the latest book from award-winning and bestselling psychologist Dr. Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, shows women how to break this cycle—by discovering and utilizing their unique psychological strengths. Dr. Nolen-Hoeksema, the author of the bestselling Women Who Think Too Much and Eating, Drinking, Overthinking is a professor of psychology at Yale University where she has conducted award-winning research on women’s mental health for twenty-five years. She and her research have been profiled on the Today show and in The New York Times.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Books by the author in the Library catalog.
Co-sponsored by the Westport Young Woman’s League.
Tuesday, January 12*, 2010 For copies of the book, phone 291-4821 or email Sue Madeo at smadeo@westportlibrary.org.
New participants always welcome.
WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 
Bruce Bukiet, Phd, Associate Dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts and Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology, spoke about the application of mathematical modeling for sports and gambling and, in particular for understanding baseball, on Thursday, January 14, 2010.
WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 Items in the Library catalog on literacy.
Co-sponsored with Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities.
Thursday, January 14, 2010 In The Stranger, a member of the War Crimes Commission chases an infamous Nazi to a small Connecticut town. Orson Welles stars and directs in this fast and suspenseful film, which also stars Loretta Young and Edward G. Robinson. It was nominated for an Oscar for its exciting script. (1946, 95 minutes)
Thursday, January 14, 2010 WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
Sunday, January 17, 2010 For copies of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome.
Harry Sakamaki, President of the Japan Society in Greenwich, gave a brief history of Japanese baseball and discussed the differences and similarities to American baseball, on Wednesday, January 20, 2010.
WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
Dr. Louise Resor, Director of Neurology at Stamford Hospital spoke about the brain and memory, on Thursday, January 21, 2010.
WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 Monsoon Wedding is a funny, romantic film from the director of Mississippi Masala (Mira Nair). An Indian family prepares a huge and complex wedding for one of its daughters and celebrates not only the wedding but universal human nature. It won the Golden Lion at Venice and was a Golden Globe nominee. (2001, 113 minutes)
Thursday, January 21, 2010WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
Thursday, January 28, 2010 In American Flyers, a young Kevin Costner and Westporter and Staples graduate David Marshall Grant play brothers who enter "the toughest bike race in America." Poignant and beautifully shot, it was written by Steve Tesich, the author of Breaking Away. (1985, 114 minutes)
WestportTALKS: memories were recorded from interviews with Alison Freeland from NPR radio on January 30, 2010.
Photo credit Larry Untermeyer
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Saturday, January 30, 2010 WestportREADS is funded by Jerry A. Tishman.
Sunday, January 31, 2010 William Powell and Carole Lombard star in My Man Godfrey. Set in the Great Depression, men down on their luck and Café Society mix it up in one of the top screwball comedies of all time. Nominated for six Academy awards. (1936, 95 minutes)
Library catalog.
Co-sponsored with the Westport Historical Society.
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