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December 7, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Nancy Goldstone

The-Lady-Queen.jpgMonday December 7
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Westport author Nancy Goldstone portrays the riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial—and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages in her new book, The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily. Publishers Weekly says, "On Goldstone's rich, beautifully woven tapestry, medieval Europe springs to vivid life. This is a fresh, eminently enjoyable history that gives women their due as movers and shakers in tumultuous times."

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

November 19, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: John Ortved

simpsons.jpgThursday, November 19
7:30 pm
McManus Room

John Ortved, a contributing editorial associate at Vanity Fair, takes you into the inner sanctum of The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History. Hear how the show (celebrating its 20th year) grew from a controversial cult favorite to a mainstream powerhouse thanks to a group of intense, thoughtful, and creative people who came together to make something unique in the history of American culture. Animators, writers, actors, directors, producers, executives and celebrity guest stars—as much a dysfunctional but loving family as the show’s stars themselves—are all here. It’s an intriguing yet hilarious tale full of betrayal, ambition, and love.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

November 18, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: William Grimes

Appetite-City.jpgWednesday, November 18
Noon
McManus Room

In Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York , former New York Times restaurant critic Willaim Grimes offers a grand tour of the history of the city’s restaurants, exploring the ways in which sex and class determined where and how a person would eat, and how the city’s restaurant scene mirrored the larger social and political forces shaping New York. With dozens of irresistible characters and anecdotes, and a treasure trove of photographs, Grimes evokes both the belle epoque of Edith Wharton and the surging multicultural city of today.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

October 26, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Joseph Califano

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7:30 pm
Bedford Middle School auditorium

Joseph A. Califano, Jr., founder and chairman of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, will discuss his book How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents, a guide to help parents get their kids through the pre-teen, teen and college years drug free. Through its nine facets of parental engagement, learn proven, practical ways to constructively engage in the lives of their children and to use their "Parent Power" in order to be their child's strongest positive influence.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Directions to Bedford Middle School.

October 25, 2009

Men of Mystery

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2:00 pm
McManus Room

Action, adventure, and crime solving -- What more could you ask for? Two accomplished mystery writers join in a discussion with Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post. Peter Lovesey is the award-winning author of over thirty-five crime novels, including the Peter Diamond series and the Sergeant Cribb mysteries. James R. Benn, a master blender of fact and fiction, writes the Billy Boyle mysteries, which are set during World War II.

October 21, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Janis Abrahms Spring

Life-with-Pop.jpgWednesday, October 21
Noon
McManus Room

Westport author and clinical psychologist Janis Abrams Spring presents her honest portrayal of the daunting yet fulfilling task of caring for her aging father through his final years of life, chronicled in Life with Pop: Lessons on Caring for an Aging Parent.

Life with Pop is a remarkable book—wise, beautifully honest, humane, and resonantly uplifting. It transcends its subject because its compassionate view of life and death applies to any caring relationship, and also transcends its genre, since Janis Spring does not prescribe cookie-cutter rules but instead offers advice from the heart. This poignant and humorous blend of professional acuity combined with personal insight is universal in its appeal and its important message.”

-- Sybil Steinberg, former senior editor, Publisher’s Weekly

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

October 19, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Louis Masur

Runaway-Dream.jpgMonday, October 19
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Author Louis P. Masur's new book Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen’s American Vision is a rich history of Springsteen’s greatest album, celebrating its themes of youth, escape, and possibility, just in time for the Boss’s sixtieth birthday. In addition to the story of the album itself, Masur masterfully places Born to Run within American cultural history, showing why the girls, hot rods, and Jersey nights of the album still resonate, even for listeners born years after its release. Masur is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values at Trinity College in Hartford.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.


October 7, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Wendy Walker

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Noon
McManus Room

Step into picture-perfect Wilshire, Connecticut, home to some of the most privileged people in the world, where one woman’s desperate act could bring the precariously balanced social order crashing down. Local author Wendy Walker, former commercial litigator and investment banker who now works at home writing and raising her children, will discuss her exciting new book, Social Lives.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

September 30, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Kate Walbert

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Noon
McManus Room

Kate Walbert, 2004 National Book Award finalist for Our Kind, will lead a discussion of her new book, A Short History of Women, which offers a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters. Covering historical events from the social upheaval of pre-WWI Britain to VJ day in New York City, a feminist conscious-raising in the '70s and the Internet age, the lives of these women are intricately and grippingly revealed. Kirkus reviews call it, “Daring and devastating—20th century history made personal.”

Books by Kate Walbert in the Library catalog.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

September 23, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Laura Shapiro

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Noon
McManus Room

From the award-winning culinarian historian, Laura Shapiro, (Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century and Something from the Oven:Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America) comes a refreshing look at one of the most beloved icons of American culture. Julia Child's life fascinates as her approach to cooking and recipes nourish and inspire.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

September 16, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Lev Grossman

The-Magicians.jpgWednesday, September 16
Noon
McManus Room

Lev Grossman, senior writer and the book critic for Time magazine and the author of the bestselling novel Codex, will speak about his new book The Magicians: A Novel, a thrilling and original coming-of-age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

August 12, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Sarma Melngailis

living-raw-food.jpgWednesday, August 12
Noon
McManus Room

Author, chef and restaurant owner Sarma Melngailis will discuss her new book Living Raw Food: Get the Glow with More Recipes from Pure Food and Wine. With more than a hundred recipes using raw and organic ingredients, she shows how to create tasty, healthy food.

July 27, 2009

Jane Austen and the Craft of Mystery

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Jane Austen’s Emma has been described as a traditional mystery with no murder. The term traditional is code in the world of mysteries. It informs and reassures readers about what to expect of this sub-genre—it implies certain qualities relating to the structure, characters, pacing, plot, and resolution.

Mystery authors, Jane K. Cleland and Margaret J. Ehrhart, will discuss the components of a “traditional” mystery, Jane Austen’s mastery of clues, red herrings, and suspense techniques, and how and why the mystery in Emma succeeds.

Items in the Library catalog on Jane Austen.

July 13, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: David Grann

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Westport native, New Yorker staff writer and debut author David Grann will discuss his book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, soon to be a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt. Grann brings to life the remarkable story of British explorer Percy Fawcett and his fateful 1925 quest for the Lost City of Z, the famed El Dorado, in the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Library catalog.

June 17, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Tracy Sugarman

we-had-sneakers.jpgWednesday, June 17
Noon
McManus Room

In We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi, Westporter and illustrator Tracy Sugarman chronicles the sacrifices, tragedies, and triumphs of the 1964 Freedom Summer. As an illustrator and journalist, Sugarman covered the nearly one thousand student volunteers who traveled to the Mississippi Delta to assist black citizens to register to vote. Blending oral history with memoir and image, the reader is drawn into the lives of Sugarman's subjects, showing the passion and naiveté of the volunteers, the bravery of the civil rights leaders, and the candid, sometimes troubling reactions of the black and white Delta residents.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

June 14, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Richard Wiese

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2:00 pm
McManus Room

Meet explorer, award-winning journalist and field scientist Richard Wiese when he discusses his book Born to Explore: How to Be a Backyard Adventurer. Learn everything a young explorer should know from fun with science and nature, to feats of endurance and lessons in civic responsibility. Richard will share his experiences of not only traveling around the world but also about living an outdoor life right here in Westport.

Wiese was the youngest president in The Explorers Club’s hundred-year history. He has hosted many nationally seen television shows, most recently "Exploration with Richard Wiese." He just completed filming a special series with the BBC and Discovery called "Hell on Earth." As an explorer and respected field scientist , Richard has traveled to all seven continents. He has tagged jaguars in the Yucatan jungles, expedition leader to the Northern Territory of Australia to look for basis of the Aboriginal myth of the Rainbow Serpent, team member of the largest medical expedition ever conducted on Mt. Everest, achieved the first ascent of an unclimbed mountain in Alaska and discovered 29 new life forms on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and cross country skied to the North Pole. Most recently Richard traveled to the hottest place on earth in Ethiopia to attempt to extract fragments of DNA from molten lava to look for evidence of microbial life in conditions never thought able to support life.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

June 2, 2009

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Gina Barreca

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Noon
McManus Room

University of Connecticut professor Gina Barreca will discuss her new book It's Not That I'm Bitter...: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World, a hilarious antidote for the toxic "musts." In essays that mull everything from the horror of chin hairs to why the “glass ceiling” is better described as a thick layer of men, she tells women to stop believing the lies and conquer the world---and she does it with a sharp wit, good shoes and remarkably little eye cream.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

May 20, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Jessica Bram

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Noon
McManus Room

Happily Ever After Divorce: Notes of a Joyful Journey gives a seldom touched-on view of divorce – a positive view of life on the other side. Author Jessica Bram, an award-winning radio commentator and essayist, will discuss how she maintained a sense of self and humor during a most difficult time, and emerged triumphant.

May 18, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Eric Burns

All-the-News.jpgMonday, May 18
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Westport author and media analyst Eric Burns follows up his book Infamous Scribblers and puts the media under the microscope again, from Ben Franklin and Sam Adams through Mark Twain, William Randolph Hearst, H. L. Mencken, and Walter Duranty (arguably the most unethical journalist to win a Pulitzer) to the modern day in All the News Unfit to Print: How Things Were... and How They Were Reported.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

May 14, 2009

TECHNOLOGY TALK: Transforming Society Through Social Media—How Blogs, Facebook and Twitter are Just the Beginning

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Publishing and technology industry analyst John Blossom, President of Shore Communications and author of Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives, and Our Future, will lead a discussion on how citizen publishers, using tools such as weblogs, Facebook, Twitter and wikis influence and transform the way content is provided and received. How does social media change the way businesses market products and services, influence how people interact with the government and dictate personal communication?

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

May 8, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Simon Winchester

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Noon
McManus Room

In Simon Winchester’s newest historical biography, the New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller presents yet another eccentric and fascinating subject. In The Man Who Loved China, he focuses on Joseph Needham, brilliant intellectual and free-thinker who spent his life attempting to verify that China was responsible for hundreds of mankind’s most important inventions.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

May 4, 2009

BUSINESS AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Richard Goldberg

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

The Battle for Wall Street follows the struggle for power between two giants: the sellers, traditional commercial and investments banks; and the buyers, upstart hedge funds, private equity firms and the like. Author and twenty-five-year Wall Street veteran Richard Goldberg will explain how, for over 100 years, the sellers held all the power.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Funded by Jerry A. Tishman.

May 2, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Laurie King

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2:00 pm
McManus Room

American feminist and theology scholar Mary Russell must help reverse the greatest failure of her legendary husband's (detective Sherlock Holmes) storied past. New York Times bestselling author Laurie King will discuss the latest in her popular mystery series, The Language of Bees.

Photo credit Red Bat Photography
Books will be available for purchase and signing.

April 30, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Sheryl Kayne

Immersion-Travel.jpgThursday, April 30
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Local author Sheryl Kayne will discuss her book Immersion Travel USA: The Best and Most Meaningful Volunteering, Living, and Learning Excursions, a guide to a variety of travel experiences that includes volunteer opportunities, short, long term and seasonal jobs, educational opportunities, and ways to enhance previously planned trips.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

April 29, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Hendrie Weisinger

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McManus Room
7:30 pm

Westporter and NYT bestselling author Dr. Hendrie Weisinger will discuss his new book The Genius of Instinct: Reclaim Mother Nature's Tools for Enhancing Your Health, Happiness, Family, and Work, on how to use the most powerful human instincts to become happier, healthier, and more fulfilled.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Kristin Delfau

Turbo-Mom.jpgWednesday, April 29
10:00 am
McManus Room

Kristin Delfau, an Enrolled Agent and owner of a tax and financial planning firm, will discuss her book Turbo-Momʼs Guide to Saving Money Without Wasting Time. This is a concise resource with straightforward guidance with the “big stuff” like insurance, taxes and investments, as well as quick and easy ways to save on everyday decisions.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

April 28, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Robert Sullivan

The-Thoreau-You-Don't-Know.jpgTuesday, April 28
Noon
McManus Room

Bestselling author Robert Sullivan will discuss his new book The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant. This Thoreau is an interesting and complex fellow. He could be odd, but he was not a loafer. Sullivan spotlights Thoreau's work ethic, his business sense, his willingness to help others, his abolitionist sympathies, his belief that nature was all-encompassing and his insistence that change begins within, then ripples outward.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

April 27, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Dr. Jennifer Wider

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Dr. Jennifer Wider will discuss her book The Doctor's Complete College Girls' Health Guide: From Sex to Drugs to the Freshman 15, a head-to-toe guide for physical, mental, and emotional health.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Lynne Griffin

Life-Without-Summer--A-Nove.jpgMonday, April 27
Noon
McManus Room

Author Lynne Griffin will discuss her fiction debut, Life Without Summer, a tale of loss and redemption. The two heroines' stories intersect in unexpected ways and their personal journey reverberates with universal themes about the connections between love, family, truth, forgiveness and hope, even when surrounded by grief.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

April 22, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Seth Davis

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Local author Seth Davis, on-air analyst for CBS, College Sports Television, and staff writer at Sports Illustrated, discusses the dramatic story, told in his book When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed Basketball, of how two legendary players, Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, burst on the scene in an NCAA championship that gave birth to modern basketball.

National Public Radio, Morning Edition interview from March 17, 2009.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

April 7, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Nina Planck

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9:30 am
McManus Room

Nina Planck, one of the great food activists who challenged the way old-fashioned foods like butter were viewed with her groundbreaking Real Food, will discuss her newest book Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby’s First Foods. When she got pregnant, never one to accept conventional wisdom blindly, Nina found the usual advice about pregnancy and baby food riddled with myths and misunderstandings. In Real Food for Mother and Baby, she explains why many modern ideas about pregnancy and infant nutrition are wrongheaded and why traditional foods are best. Babies welcome!


Books will be available for purchase and signing.

April 6, 2009

BUSINESS AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY:
David Vinjamuri and Michelle Briody

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Staples graduate David Vinjamuri, author of Accidental Branding: How Ordinary People Build Extraordinary Brands and Ridgefield resident Michelle Briody, author of 16 weeks to your Dream Business: A Weekly Planner for Entrepreneurial Women, will speak about their books. Vinjamuri will discuss the phenomenal success of some very real people, how they built some of the biggest and best-known consumer brands in the world without any experience in marketing or branding. Briody will talk about starting up a business, whether it's selling products, or creating a service people need, with step-by-step directions to make business aspirations a reality.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Funded by Jerry A. Tishman.

March 31, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Jimmy Breslin

The-Good-Rat.jpgTuesday, March 31
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Pulitzer Prize-winning American columnist and author of The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Jimmy Breslin will discuss his new book The Good Rat: A True Story. This collection of stories and anecdotes about the mob revisits a familiar wise-guy milieu as tales of mistaken identity, crooked cops, snitches and murder are told.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

March 29, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Dalton Conley

Elsewhere,-usa.jpgSunday, March 29
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Author and sociologist Dalton Conley will discuss his book Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety, an X-ray view of the new social reality. Conley connects daily experience with occasionally overlooked sociological changes to offer an essential understanding of how the technological, social, and economic changes that have reshaped the world are also reshaping individual lives.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

March 25, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Mar Jennings

Life-on-Mars.jpgWednesday, March 25
10:00 am
McManus Room

Westporter Mar Jennings will discuss his book Life on Mar's: A Four Season Garden, a photographic essay documenting the four seasons of his Connecticut garden. This book provides beautiful garden design, detail and implementation ideas that are easy enough for novices and interesting enough for seasoned gardeners.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

AUTHORS @THE LIBRARY: Riki Ott, Ph.D

Dr_Riki_Ott.jpgWednesday, March 25
7:00 pm
McManus Room

Called by one reviewer the Erin Brockovich of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Riki Ott, Ph.D. meticulously recounts the events and aftermath of the catastrophic 1989 oil spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound in her new book, Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. Actor James Naughton will introduce Ott who will also show clips from her documentary on the spill. A former commercial salmon fisherman with a PhD in marine toxicology and a specialist in oil pollution, Ott experienced the disaster firsthand as a resident of Cordova, Alaska.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

March 22, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Alice Schroeder

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2:00 pm
McManus Room

Alice Schroeder, former managing director at Morgan Stanley, hand picked by Warren Buffett to be his biographer, will discuss her NYT bestseller Snowball. The biography strips away the mystery that has cloaked Buffet, the world's richest man.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

March 19, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Franz Wisner

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

New York Times bestselling author of Honeymoon with my Brother, soon to be a movie, Franz Wisner, discusses his sequel, How the World Makes Love: And What It Taught a Jilted Groom, on one average man's search for happiness--a search that turns into an improbable love story in the author's own backyard.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

March 12, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: S. J. Rozan

shanghai-moon.jpgThursday, March 12
7:30 pm
McManus Room

S.J. Rozan, winner of the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity awards for Best Novel, returns to her critically acclaimed and much-loved characters Lydia Chin and Bill Smith in her latest book, The Shanghai Moon. Jewelry stolen from a Jewish refugee is found during an excavation in Shanghai and Lydia and Bill must unravel its past disappearance to stop the killings and uncover the truth of what is going on today.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

March 11, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Penny Pearlman

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Noon
McManus Room

Westporter Penny Pearlman will discuss her book Pretty Smart: Lessons From Our Miss Americas. Pearlman interviewed twenty-two former Miss Americas and shows how the women who become Miss America shatter the myth that the pageant is “only a beauty contest” through their thoughtful intelligence and eloquent poise. Learn why Miss America is still America's royalty and relevant in today's world.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

March 10, 2009

BUSINESS AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Eric Tyson

Investing-for-Dummies.jpgLet's-Get-Real-about-Money.jpgTuesday, March 10
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Eric Tyson is a financial counselor, syndicated columnist, and author of the best-selling books Personal Finance for Dummies and Let's Get Real About Money. He will discuss personal finance, investing and mutual funds providing suggestions to breaking counterproductive money habits, adopting a healthy approach to personal finance, and becoming an investment expert– even in a down market.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

March 2, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Adam Gopnik

Angels-and-Ages.jpgThis speaking engagement has been cancelled due to scheduling conflicts. There will not be a re-scheduled date.

On a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Searching for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik will discuss his book Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life. Hear about their captivating lives, Lincoln and Darwin as they really were: family men and social climbers; ambitious manipulators and courageous adventurers; the living husband, father, son, and student behind each myth.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.


February 27, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Fred Strebeigh

Equal.jpgFriday, February 27
Noon
McManus Room

Fred Strebeigh, who teaches nonfiction writing at Yale and contributes articles to numerous publications, will discuss his new book, Equal: Women Reshape American Law. Tracing the dramatic advance toward legal recognition of sex discrimination, Equal reveals the stories of the women who battled the blatant inequities in America's legal system.

Book will be available for purchase and signing.

February 25, 2009

Teen Authors@ the Library

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Wednesday, February 25
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Hear popular young-adult authors Maureen Johnson, Libba Bray, Cassie Clare, and Robin Wasserman discuss their books and their writing process. With genres ranging from sci-fi to fantasy to “chick-lit,” there is sure to be something to pique everybody’s interest.

Books available for purchase and signing.

Contact Jaina Lewis at 291-4809 or jlewis@westportlibrary.org for more information.

February 24, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Joseph Weisberg

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Joseph Weisberg will discuss his new novel, An Ordinary Spy, which spotlights the confusing but strangely bureaucratic world of the CIA. It is the thrilling story of two CIA Case Officers whose lives are permanently changed by the agents they recruit and run.
NYT Sunday Book Review.
Author's website.

February 22, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Harold Holzer

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2:00 pm
McManus Room

Harold Holzer, one of the leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the culture of the civil war era will discuss his latest books, The Lincoln Anthology: 85 Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 Until Now and Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861. Winner of the 2005 Lincoln Prize, Holzer is co-chairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, has written or edited more than 30 books on Lincoln and the Civil War, and currently serves as Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

February 9, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Val McDermid

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Noon
McManus Room

A Darker Domain, the new psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid, mixes fiction with one of the most symbolic and exceptional moments in recent history - the national miners' strike in the UK. The multiple award-winning McDermid, who adapted one of her books into the successful television series Wire in the Blood, will discuss this newest of her crime fiction novels, which explores the violent intersection of desire and greed.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

February 4, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Nicholas Fox Weber

Le-Corbusier.jpg Wednesday, February 4
7:30 pm
McManus Room

In his newest book, Le Corbusier: A Life, author Nicholas Fox Weber delves into the life of one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the 20th century. He will discuss his revelation of this single-minded, elusive genius, his extraordinary achivements and the age in which he lived. Le Corbusier, designer of the United Nations headquarters, was a leader of the controversial modernist movement that sought to create a better society through innovative urban planning and designer of some of the most iconic buildings of our time.

NYT Book review.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Co-sponsored with the Westport Arts Center.

February 3, 2009

BUSINESS AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Geoff Colvin

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

In Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, Fairfield author and journalist Geoff Colvin, Fortune’s senior editor-at-large and former co-anchor of "Wall Street Week" on PBS, shares secrets of extraordinary performance and how to apply these principles to life and work. He will explain cutting-edge research and eye-opening facts that debunk the myth of innate talent.

Book will be available for purchase and signing.
Article by Geoff Colvin.

January 21, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY:
Kathy Farrell-Kingsley

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Noon
McManus Room

Cookbook author Kathy Farrell-Kingsley will discuss her new book The Home Creamery which gives simple, step-by-step instructions for making a variety of fresh milk products, as well as includes recipes that use them.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
About the book.

January 17, 2009

Special Event:
Celebrate with Marlo Thomas

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3:00 pm
McManus Room

Meet Marlo Thomas. She will discuss her celebrated book Free to Be...You and Me and its 35th anniversary.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

January 14, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Julie Mughal

LandWithoutHats.jpgWednesday, January 14
Noon
McManus Room

Author Julie Mughal will discuss her book, Land without Hats, a stirring and inspiring book which explores the difficulties faced by widows in the developing world and their courage in the face of adversity.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.

January 13, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Emma Gilbey Keller

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Meeting of WYWL at 7:00 pm; Author talks at 7:30 pm
McManus Room

Emma Gilbey Keller will discuss her inspiring new book The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women Who Went from Career to Family and Back Again. Instead of a debate about work versus home, Keller proves, through telling the detailed stories of these seven women, that it is possible to go from work to home and back to work again, and that your first step back doesn’t have to be the definitive one. Even your second career can have many incarnations.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.
Co-sponsored by the Westport Young Woman’s League.

January 7, 2009

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Julia Glass

I-See-You-Everywhere-2.jpgWednesday, January 7
Noon
McManus Room

Winner of the National Book Award for her first novel, Three Junes, bestselling author Julia Glass will discuss her new book, I See You Everywhere, a tale of two sisters, together and apart, told in their alternating voices over twenty-five years. Alive with all the sensual detail and riveting characterization that mark Glass’s previous work, I See You Everywhere is a candid story of life and death, companionship and sorrow, and the nature of sisterhood itself.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
About the book.

December 3, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Logan Ward

See-You-in-a-Hundred-Years.jpgWednesday, December 3
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Logan Ward and his wife, Heather, had traveled the world—Kenya, France, Peru. But nothing compared to their next adventure: a trip back in time, living the life of dirt farmers in rural Virginia circa 1900. See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America is a chronicle of the Wards’ four seasons in the farming community of Swoope, an honest and compelling account of one family’s struggle to reclaim their lives from our fast-paced, materialistic society.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book reviews.
Author's website.

Part of the Library's 100th celebration.

December 2, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Naomi Wolf

Give-Me-Liberty-book-jacket.jpgTuesday, December 2
7:30 pm
McManus Room

In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, author Naomi Wolf , who also wrote the NYT bestsellerThe End of America and The Beauty Myth, investigates the roots of a growing national malaise that has bred “fake democracy” in the United States over the last three decades, a condition marked by equally fake patriotism and a modern notion that we Americans are “the Elect.” She will discuss the breathtaking changes that can take place when ordinary citizens engage in the democratic system the way the founders intended and tells how to use that system, right now, to change your life, your community, and ultimately, the nation.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

November 24, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Tim Manners

Relevance.jpgMonday, November 24
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Westporter and longtime marketing veteran Tim Manners will discuss his book, Relevance: Making Stuff That Matters, which outlines six principles that relevant brands live by. He recommends marketers give up the flashy practices of the last 50 years and instead focus on being more relevant, by showing customers how they can help solve their problems and improve customers' lives.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.
More about the book.

November 22, 2008

Women of Mystery

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Hank-Phillippi-Ryan-crop.jpgSaturday, November 22
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Gardens, Antiques & Love—What else does a woman need?
Three accomplished writers of cozy mysteries join in a panel discussion.

Rosemary Harris's Pushing Up Daisies is the first in series of mysteries featuring master gardener/amateur sleuth, Paula Holliday. Jane K. Cleland is the author of the Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries, which have been referred to as an Antiques Roadshow for mystery fans. Hank Phillippi Ryan, whose book Prime Time was the Agatha winner for Best First Novel.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Hank Phillippi Ryan's website.
Rosemary Harris's website.
Jane Cleland's website.

November 20, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: David Isay

David-Isay-Cover-jpeg.jpgThursday, November 20
Noon
McManus Room

Hear from award-winning radio documentary producer and StoryCorps creator David Isay as the Westport Library and WSHU Public Radio present the latest event in WSHU's “Join the Conversation” series. Dave will discuss his book Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project. Reserve your seats at wshu.org. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Register for this event through WSHU, "Join the Conversation".
Story Corps website.
Co-sponsored with WSHU "Join the Conversation."

November 13, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Peter Godwin

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

In When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa, journalist Peter Godwin relates stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country, Zimbabwe. It is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
September 2008 Vanity Fair article.
NYT Book Review.
More book reviews.
National Geographic article on Zimbabwe by Peter Godwin.

November 12, 2008

John and Hank Green: Great American Tour de Nerdfighting 2008

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7:00 pm
Bedford Middle School Auditorium

The original nerdfighters are coming to town!
John Green (right) is the award winning author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and the recently published Paper Towns.
Hank Green (right) is a web-designer, writer, founder of ecogeek and frequent star on Planet Green’s show "The G Word."
Together, they created the videoblog Brotherhood 2.0, one of the most popular channels in the history of youtube. Their videos have a fanbase of 20,000 viewers and have been featured on BBC radio and the Wallstreet Journal. They're coming to talk about books, sing about Harry Potter, and discuss all things awesome.

Books and CDs will be available for purchase and signing.
Link to their youtube video series.
More about nerdfighters.
Hank Green's ecogeek website.
Directions to Bedford Middle School.

November 5, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Charles Morris

The-Surgeons.jpgWednesday, November 5
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Charles Morris, author of The Tycoons, will discuss his book The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center, an over-the-shoulder look at a major heart surgery center, along with gripping accounts of how doctors think and judge each other, what they believe is really driving up health care costs, and the future of health care policy in America.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
NYT book review.
More book information.

October 30, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Jack Cavanaugh

Giants-Among-Men.jpgThursday, October 30
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Local author Jack Cavanaugh, author of the Pulitzer prize nominated Tunney, will talk about his new book. Filled with historical and cultural insight and vivid portraits of larger-than-life characters and indispensable everymen, Giants Among Men: How Robustelli, Huff, Gifford, and the Giants Made New York a Football Town and Changed the NFL transcends nostalgia and sports trivia to faithfully depict a watershed era for both football and the American nation.

Books available for purchase and signing.
More about the book.

October 29, 2008

AUTHORS@ THE LIBRARY: Linda Appleman Shapiro

four-room-new-cover.jpgWednesday, October 29
Noon
McManus Room

In Four Rooms, Upstairs: A Psychotherapist's Journey Into and Beyond Her Mother's Mental Illness, Linda Appleman Shapiro, wife of Recorded Book narrator George Guidall, offers a compelling family history, addressing issues of love, loss and loyalty as she takes the reader back to her childhood and to her life with a mother suffering from mental illness. With the insight of a seasoned psychotherapist and as a witness to the human capacity for pain and survival, she helps us understand the healing power of forgiving without forgetting in this book, a finalist for the 2008 Next Generation Indie Book Award.

Books available for purchase and signing.
About the book.
Author's blog.

October 27, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Archer Mayor

catch,-the.jpgMonday, October 27
7:30 pm
McManus Room

In the nineteenth book of Archer Mayor's popular Joe Gunther mystery series, The Catch, the Vermont cop investigates the killing of a sheriff which leads to a dangerous rendezvous with a Maine drug running operation run by the disaffected son of a lobsterman.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.

AUTHORS@ THE LIBRARY: Lee Woodruff

In-an-instant-cover.jpgMonday, October 27
Meeting at 11:30 am
Author at Noon
McManus Room

In an Instant is the frank and compelling account of how Bob and Lee Woodruff’s lives came together, were blown apart, and then were miraculously put together again—and how they persevered, with grit but also with humor, through intense trauma and fear. More than a dual memoir of love and courage, it is an important, wise, and inspiring guide to coping with tragedy—and an extraordinary drama of marriage, family, war, and nation.

About the book.
Bob Woodruff Family Fund for Traumatic Brain Injury.
Co-sponsored with the Y’s Women.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

October 15, 2008

AUTHORS@ THE LIBRARY: Barry H. Landau

President's-Table-cover-fro.jpgWednesday, October 15
Noon
McManus Room

Author and presidential historian Barry H. Landau speak about his spellbinding, lavishly-illustrated narrative, The President's Table: Two Hundred Years of Dining and Diplomacy. A foremost collector of Presidential memoribilia, he has worked with many administrations planning historic events and will be heading for the Presidential debate at Hofstra University right after his Library talk!

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
About the book.
Author's website.

October 8, 2008

AUTHORS@ THE LIBRARY: Deborah Carr

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Noon
McManus Room

Deborah Carr, a sociology professor at Rutgers University and co-author
of Making Up with Mom: Why Mothers and Daughters Disagree about Kids,
Careers, and Casseroles (and What to Do about It), will discuss her book
which explores the unique tensions between women and their mothers and how to reclaim their loving relationships. Difficult topics such as mothers not understanding their daughter's choices in marrying an underemployed husband, breastfeeding babies until they're toddlers, or raising kids who have haute couture wardrobes and schedules more packed than presidential candidates are addressed.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
About the book.
Authors' website.

September 28, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Kathryn Harrison

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2:00 pm
McManus Room

In the middle of an April night in 1984, 18-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents and then turned on his younger sister, who surprised him in the act. The murders ended years of mental and physical abuse that Billy and his other sister, Jody, had suffered at the hand of their parents. With an artistry that recalls Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, and her own The Kiss, best-selling author Kathryn Harrison reveals the antecedents of the murders—of a crime of such violence that it had the power to sever past from present in her new book, While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family. Harrison will talk about the book and the impact of violence on the children in a deeply troubled family.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.
NYT Sunday Book Review.

September 20, 2008

Feel The Rhythm

Todd-Bryant-Weeks.jpgSaturday, September 20
11:00 am
McManus Room

A special Saturday event! In association with the Downtown Merchants Association's Blues, Views and BBQ Festival, jazz historian Todd Bryant Weeks will present an enlightening lecture on the great unsung Kansas City trumpeter and blues singer Oran ‘Hot Lips’ Page. Weeks, author of Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page, will show rare photos, play musical excerpts, and discuss Kansas City Jazz and Page’s vital role in the development of this swinging and highly accessible musical form. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

About his book.
Blues, Views & BBQ Festival.

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.

September 16, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Ron Janson

red-money-cover.jpgTuesday, September 16
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Ridgefield author Ron Janson will talk about his new thriller Red Money. Set in Florida in the 1970s, Red Money tracks an especially ruthless faction of the Russian mob that has infiltrated Miami’s high society and taken over the drug business. When the police and even the FBI seem helpless to stop the mob terrorizing the city, an unlikely “hit squad” of a Romanian widow and a determined Irish woman head underground and discover that the only one who can stop the mob is…the mob.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
About the book.
Author's website.

September 15, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Diane Ackerman

zookeeper.jpgCANCELLED DUE TO AUTHOR'S ILLNESS
AT THIS TIME, THERE IS NO RE-SCHEDULE DATE.
WE REGRET ANY INCONVENIENCE.
Monday, September 15
7:30 pm
McManus Room

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city’s zoo. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling more than 300 Jews into the bombed-out cages to hide them from the Nazis. Author Diane Ackerman will talk about her account of this extraordinary, true tale in her book The Zookeeper’s Wife, 2008 winner of the Orion Book Award. An acclaimed naturalist and poet, Ackerman is the author of numerous books, including the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Book Review.
Author's website.

Co-sponsored with the Westport-Weston Interfaith council.

September 9, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Kevin Conley

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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.

September 8, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Burton Bernstein

Bernstein-cover-jpeg.jpgMonday, September 8
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 will discuss his new book, co-authored with the historian and archivist of the NY Philharmonic Orchestra Barbara Haws, 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.
About the book.
Fall 2008 Bernstein Festival.

September 4, 2008

Community Conversations:
Patient-Doctor Partnerships

Catharine-Ann-Stone.jpgDr.-Richard-Zelkowitz.jpgThursday, September 4
7:30 pm
McManus Room

The doctor-patient partnership is key when fighting a major medical crisis. Westporters Catherine Ann Stone, author of Down to the Marrow, an account of her battles with cancer, and Dr. Richard Zelkowitz, well-known oncologist from The Whittingham Cancer Center, will lead a Community Conversation on this crucial partnership. The importance of understanding the treatment options and acknowledging the patient's intuition, as well as the role of humor in the healing process will be discussed.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.
More information about the Whittingham Cancer Center and the Smilow Family Breast Health Center.

Sponsored by The Smilow Family.

August 4, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Michel Nischan

Michel-nischan-crop.jpgMonday, August 4
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Local chef, Michel Nischan, author of Taste: Pure and Simple: Irresistible Recipes for Good Food and Good Health and Homegrown Pure & Simple: Great Healthy Food from Garden to Table shares his ideas on sustainable farming, local and regional food systems, and heritage recipes.

Both of his books will be available for purchase and signing.
Taste: Pure and Simple: Irresistible Recipes for Good Food and Good Health
Homegrown Pure and Simple: Great Healthy Food from Garden to Table
Author's website.

August 3, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Sherwin B. Nuland

The-Uncertain-Art-cover.jpgSunday, August 3
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Award-winning author Sherwin B. Nuland will discuss his new book, The Uncertain Art: Thoughts on a Life in Medicine, a collection of essays on the many varied aspects that comprise a doctor’s practice and life.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
Furthur author information.

July 28, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Andre Dubus III

Andre-Dubus-Garden-of-Last-.jpgMonday, July 28
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Author Andre Dubus III will discuss his new novel The Garden of Last Days, set in the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed September 2001. It juxtaposes lust for domination with hunger for connection, sexual violence with family love with the same psychological tension, depth and realism that characterized his #1 NYT bestseller, House of Sand and Fog.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
June 22, NYT Sunday Book Review.
Book review.
Promotional video for The Garden of Last Days.

July 15, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Lawrence Block

Blockcolor-cover.jpgTuesday, July 15
Note date
7:30 pm
McManus Room

The fourth in the John Keller series, Hit and Run will be discussed by author Lawrence Block. Fingered for a murder he didn't commit, a hit man goes on the run to save his life in this stunning new work from the New York Times bestselling master of mystery.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.

July 10, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Winston Allen

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Westport author Winston E. Allen will discuss Don’t Get Mad, Get Rich—Become Financially Independent. Using a no-nonsense approach, this upbeat and inspirational book shows how to achieve greater financial success by anticipating and navigating the cyclical economic downturns and developing a wealth building mentality.

Books will be available and purchase and signing.

July 8, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Linda Merlino

Belly-of-the-Whale-cover.jpgTuesday, July 8
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Linda Merlino has written a riveting story in The Belly of the Whale, which covers twenty-four hours in the life of Hudson Catalina. During that day she gives up hope in her fight against breast cancer only to be taken hostage by a murderer more deadly than her disease.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Author's website.
Book Review.

July 2, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Todd Bryant Weeks

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Just days before what would have been, based on Armstrong’s account of being born on July 4th, Louis Armstrong’s 108th birthday, Staples high school graduate Todd Bryant Weeks, will talk about the jazz great. Weeks worked as a lecturer, archivist, and tour guide at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He is the author of the recently published biography Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
More about his book.
The Louis Armstrong House.

June 25, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac

kingmakers.jpgWednesday, June 25
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East is a brilliant narrative history tracing today's troubles back to grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States. Authors Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac tell this character-driven story of how the modern Middle East came to be through the colorful lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.

AUTHORS@ THE LIBRARY: Sebastian Barry

Sebastian-Barry-Cover.jpg Wednesday, June 25
Noon
McManus Room

In The Secret Scripture, psychology, religion, family and politics permeate this literary puzzle and epic story of corrupted power and its lingering effects. Two narratives compete: the secret one of the 100-year-old woman long incarcerated in a Mental Hospital and the unfolding one discovered by her doctor, who is evaluating her condition. Love, betrayal and the role of the Catholic Church inform the conflicts that emerge. Sebastian Barry is a playwright and novelist: his novel A Long Long Way was a 2005 Man Booker Prize finalist.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Monday, June 23, NYT Books of the Times review.
NPR Summer Books 2008, excerpt from The Secret Scripture
About the book.
Interview with Sebastian Barry by The Guardian.


June 16, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Mark Engler

how-to-rule-the-world-cover.jpgMonday, June 16
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Mark Engler, journalist, activist, and policy expert, will discuss his book, How To Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy, an essential handbook, not for the few who do rule the world, but for the many who should.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Article by author.

June 11, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Max Wilk

wilk-cover.jpgWednesday, June 11
Noon
McManus Room

Westporter and American songbook expert Max Wilk will discuss the new edition of his book They're Playing Our Song: Conversations With America's Classic Songwriters, originally issued in 1973 and recently revised for a paperback edition. Included are 26 oral histories of legendary composers and lyricists with interviews that give readers an up-close-and-personal look at the individuals and inspirations behind some of the words and melodies that made musical history. Singer Susan Terry and pianist Mark Cherry will provide a musical backdrop to Wilk’s talk.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

NYT article from 1997 about the book
Furthur book information.

June 10, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Pamela Weintraub

cure unknown.jpgTuesday, June 10
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Disease Epidemic is a groundbreaking and controversial narrative investigation into the science, history, medical politics, and patient experience of Lyme disease by science journalist Pamela Weintraub, whose entire family contracted the disease. This is the most comprehensive book ever written about the past, present and future of Lyme disease and exposes the ticking clock of a raging epidemic.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review.

June 9, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Pete Fornatale

simon-&-garfunkel's-bookend.jpgMonday, June 9
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Writing from on-hand experience and exclusive interviews with Simon and Garfunkel, author Pete Fornatale reveals never-before-disclosed details of the love-hate relationship between the two musicians and offers a unique perspective on each of them. Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends captures the duo at the peak of their personal, professional, and artistic partnership in the '60s. The dark clouds and troubled waters that broke them up were still a year and a half away.

Books available for purchase and signing.
Book review.
About Pete Fornatale's radio program.

June 5, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Janis Abrahms Spring

HowCanIForg-hc-c-smaller.jpgThursday, June 5
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Janis Abrahms Spring, Westport author of How Can I Forgive You? The Courage to Forgive, The Freedom Not To, will discuss a radical approach and an empowering model to healing intimate wounds and forgiveness. Her third book, an inspirational memoir on caring for an aging parent, will be published in late spring 2009.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.

June 4, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: A. E. Hotchner

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Westport author A. E. Hotchner traveled with Ernest Hemingway for 14 years and collected a lifetime's worth of Hemingway's experiences, anecdotes, and observations about everything imaginable, from war to women, hunting to Hollywood, life to death. His new book, The Good Life According to Hemingway, which includes over 150 rare black and white photos from Hotchner’s personal collection, is an exuberant, fully illustrated celebration of Hemingway’s remarkable genius and the wild adventures of his life.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
More information about A.E. Hotchner.
Book review.

May 21, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Frances Kiernan

MrsAstor-cover-41K.jpgWednesday, May 21
Noon
McManus Room

In this biography, The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story, which is based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Brooke Astor's friends and the heads of New York's great cultural institutions, author Frances Kiernan gives us back the woman so loved and admired, whose hands-on approach would inspire future philanthropists.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.

May 14, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Nicholas Mancini

hairdressers_revenge_cover.jpgWednesday, May 14
Noon
McManus Room

With a mix of sex, violence, and humor, longtime Westport resident and
hairdresser Nicholas Mancini takes a look behind the scenes of this little-explored industry in his novel, A Hairdresser’s Revenge.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Author's website.
Book Review.

May 13, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Stewart Reifler

The-Compensation-Committee-.jpgTuesday, May 13
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Westporter Stewart Reifler, an executive compensation attorney in New York City and co-author of the Compensation Committee Handbook will talk about the controversial subject of CEO pay and provide insight into what really goes on (both past and present) in the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies and the backrooms of private-equity firms.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Synopses and reviews.

May 7, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Pamela Paul

Pamela-Paul-Cover-web.jpgWednesday, May 7
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Pamela Paul discusses her book, Parenting, Inc.: How We Are Sold on $800 Strollers, Fetal Education, Baby Sign Language, Sleeping Coaches, Toddler Couture, and Diaper Wipe Warmers—and What It Means for Our Children, an investigative look at how today’s parents are faced with an endless parade of gadgets, educational opportunities, toys, gear, and expert services deemed necessities to raising a happy, healthy, well-adjusted baby.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review.

May 6, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Deirdre Imus

Deirdre-Imus-Head-Shot-2-7-.jpgTuesday, May 6
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Author Deirdre Imus will discuss her new book, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series , a parent-friendly, practical guide to raising a healthy child in our increasingly toxic environment.
Co-sponsored with Westport-Weston Cooperative Nursery School.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review.

May 1, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Gene Wilder

Gene-Wilder-Book-Cover.jpgThursday, May 1
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Author Gene Wilder will be interviewed by NPR's Alison Freeland about his second book, The Woman Who Wouldn't.


Registration is now closed.

However, we invite you to attend the book signing afterwards, which will begin at approximately 8:30 pm in the large reading room at the Library. No registration is necessary to attend the book signing.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.

April 28, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Susan Nagel

Marie-Therese-cover.jpg Monday, April 28
Noon
McManus Room

In Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter, Susan Nagel tells the remarkable story of the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Using handwriting samples, DNA testing, and an undiscovered cache of Bourbon family letters, she draws a vivid portrait of an astonishing woman.
Co-sponsored by the Y’s Women.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.

April 16, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Brian McDonald

Last-Call-at-Elaine's.jpg Wednesday, April 16
Noon
McManus Room

Last Call at Elaine's: A Journey from One Side of the Bar to the Other is Brian McDonald's colorful and sensitively drawn memoir of drinking, serving, writing, and finding his way out from behind the bar of a well-known and beloved restaurant known for its famous literary and luminary clientele.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Book review.

April 14, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Woody Klein

canceled.jpgMonday, April 14
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Westporter Woody Klein chronicles the evolution of the symbiotic relationship between the presidential press secretaries and reporters in All the Presidents' Spokesmen.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book information.

April 9, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Lily Koppel

Red-Leather-Diary-book-cove.jpg Wednesday, April 9
Noon
McManus Room

Lily Koppel, author of The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal, incorporates her lyrical writing style with the original diary thoughts of a young woman, Florence Howitt. The result is a Depression-era Manhattan fairytale. The diary was found in a dumpster, and the book's author traced the owner to Westport, where she now lives. Both Lily Koppel and Florence Howitt, the subject of the book, will discuss the book and answer questions.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review.

March 25, 2008

WestportREADS 2008 - Cyclones & Tornadoes...Oh My!

billevanspic.jpgTuesday, March 25
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Bill Evans, a meteorologist for New York's WABC-TV, and novelist Mariana Jameson pit a posse of diverse weatherfolk against Simone, a storm of unheard-of magnitude that's headed straight for Manhattan in the slow-building thriller, Category 7. As it turns out, Simone isn't a natural phenomenon but the product of semimad scientist Carter Thompson. Evans is the five-time Emmy Award-winning, nationally-renowned senior meteorologist for WABC.
WestportREADS is sponsored by Jerry A. Tishman.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

February 28, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Wendy Walker

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Noon
McManus Room

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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February 24, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Debby Applegate

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2:00 pm
McManus Room

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.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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February 20, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Tracy Sugarman

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Noon
McManus Room

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.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

February 15, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Michael Kodas

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Noon
McManus Room

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.

Books available for purchase and signing.

Book synopsis and reviews

February 13, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Thomas J. Craughwell

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Noon
McManus Room

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.

Books available for purchase and signing.

Book synopsis and reviews

February 11, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Lawrence Goldstone

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

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.

Books available for purchase and signing.

Book synopsis and reviews

February 8, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Nalini Jones

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Noon
McManus Room

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.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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February 5, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Eric Burns

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

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.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

January 30, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: James Canon

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Noon
McManus Room

Set in the small Colombian mountain village of Mariquita, Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men, is Colombian-born author James Canon's literary debut. After their men are kidnapped by Communist guerillas, the women learn how to survive and create a peaceful new community. The Washington Post calls the book "A rollicking and often shocking tale that Canon tells with charm and bite."

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Reviews

January 29, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Robert Leleux

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Tuesday, January 29
Noon
McManus Room

Robert Leleux describes his east Texas boyhood and coming of age, under the tutelage of his eccentric, bewigged, flamboyant, and knowing mother in his just released memoir, The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of A Woman of Independent Means “marvels at how much humor [Leleux] has wrung out of a painful adolescence growing up gay and with what skillfully broad strokes he has breathed life into an impossible mother whose unwavering love for her son is the one saving constant in her self-obsessed universe. When reading David Sedaris leaves you wanting more, remember the name Robert Leleux.”

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January 23, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Lee Vance

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Author Lee Vance, a retired general partner of Goldman Sachs Group, has written a lightning-fast thriller that unfurls in the worlds of high finance and fine art as it follows one man determined to avenge his wife's death. Restitution has been described as whip-smart and fiercely exciting from first page to last.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Reviews

January 15, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Jordan M. Wright

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Jordan M. Wright has written a richly illustrated history of American presidential elections told through campaign memorabilia, from Washington to Bush...the story of how presidents and their losing rivals have wooed voters since America was founded. Campaigning for President has been described as "a stunning book, a wonderful way for people to learn about democracy and how the political process works."

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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January 8, 2008

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Alexandra Stoddard

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7:00 pm
McManus Room

A pioneer of the happiness movement, Alexandra Stoddard, author of Happiness for Two: 75 Secrets for Finding More Joy Together, will explain how couples can pursue personal happiness together. Stoddard is a lifestyle philosopher whose books and lectures have inspired millions. This event is co-sponsored with the Westport Young Woman's League.

Meeting begins at 7:00 pm.
Author at 7:30 pm.

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December 12, 2007

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Amy Bloom

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Noon
McManus Room

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

December 10, 2007

AN EVENING WITH AMY SEDARIS

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

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.


November 29, 2007

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Stewart O'Nan

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Noon
McManus Room

Last Night at the Lobster is a bittersweet tale of honest work, poignant love and a man on the verge of losing himself. Hear Connecticut author Stewart O'Nan on his latest deeply moving novel.

Books will be available for purchase and signing
Book Reviews

November 19, 2007

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Bliss Broyard

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Bliss Broyard has written a vivid, compassionate portrait of her complex father, the writer and critic Anatole Broyard, in her new book, One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life-A Story of Race and Family Secrets. The book raises the question, "What is the deepdown cost of living a lie?" One critic writes that "this extraordinary book is meticulously researched, written with a crystal precision, and honest especially where it hurts."

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review

November 14, 2007

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Howard Roughan

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Howard Roughan and co-author James Patterson have authored another thriller to keep you up late. Roughan will be on hand to talk about their latest book, You've Been Warned, about a single mother who has few cares in the world, and is on the verge of a breakthrough as a professional photographer when she is jolted by a chilling, murderous dream.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Stephen Carter

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Noon
McManus Room

Noted Yale Law School professor and author Stephen Carter on New England White, the eagerly awaited, electrifying new novel from the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park. The Boston Globe calls the book "relentlessly suspenseful and galvanizing in its exploration of the profound difference between allegiance to ideas and to people."

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review

November 12, 2007

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Susan Schaab

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Attorney turned author, Susan Schaab, on her book Wearing the Spider, which Book Review Journal calls "a high-tech thriller that cracks open the inner workings of a large law firm and leaves one wondering just how often sexual harassment and hostile work environments are tolerated in the corporate world."

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

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November 7, 2007

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Jed Rubenfeld

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Hear Yale Law professor Jed Rubenfeld on An Interpretation of Murder, his psychological thriller that is also a literary tale set in 1909 New York City with a cast that includes Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Library Journal writes that the book is "filled with period detail, an historical thriller that challenges the reader to reason out the mystery."

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book review

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Barbara Quick

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Noon
McManus Room

Barbara Quick, author of Vivaldi's Virgins, an enthralling new novel that re-creates eighteenth-century Venice at the height of its splendor and decadence unveiling a story of longing and intrigue, half-told truths and toxic lies. Publisher's Weekly writes, "Quick creates a hauntingly authentic setting rife with cruel punishments and brief moments of grand rewards."

Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Book Review

November 5, 2007

AUTHORS@THE LIBRARY: Mike Krysiuk

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Staples graduate Mike Krysiuk will talk about his personal memoir,
Why Me Why Now? based on a near fatal drunk driving accident during his senior year of high school. Appropriate for middle-school students and adults.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

November 4, 2007

AUTHORS@ THE LIBRARY: Elliot Aronson

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Sunday, November 4
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Elliot Aronson, co-author of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, will talk about what The Wall Street Journal calls "a ramble through the evasive tactics we employ when we've done something wrong and don't want to face up to it."

Books available for purchase and signing.
Book Review

October 30, 2007

Authors@the Library

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Tuesday, October 30
Noon
McManus Room

Jerry Labriola on The Strange Death of Napoleon Bonaparte. Labriola picks up the trail of history's coldest case--the controversial death of the French
emperor--in a suspenseful novel that combines equal parts mystery and rich historical detail.


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October 23, 2007

Authors@the Library

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun of the University of Connecticut Huskies shares his seven secrets for motivation, success, leadership, and life.

Book Review
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

Library Book Blog


October 19, 2007

Authors@the Library

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Friday, October 19
Noon
McManus Room

Caroline Weber on Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, an illustrated history that suggests that the queen's fashion obsession wasn't about narcissism and frivolity but self-assertion.

Book Review
Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Library Book Blog

October 17, 2007

Authors@the Library

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Wednesday, October 17
Noon
McManus Room

Cathleen Schine on The New Yorkers. Set on an Upper West Side street, the story captures human joys and sorrows, comedy and drama, beginnings and endings, as the dogs compel their owners to live outside of themselves.

Book Review
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

Library Book Blog


October 10, 2007

Authors@the Library

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Wednesday, October 10
Noon
McManus Room

Local author Max Wilk on his latest book, The Making of the Sound of Music, the full story of the making of the show. Wilk brings a musical theater historian's eye to the work, along with his passionate involvement as a witness to this history.

Books available for purchase and signing at the event.
Book Review.

October 1, 2007

Authors@the Library

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Monday, October 1
Noon
McManus Room

Lisa Alther on Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors, a wise, funny inquiry into the complexities of inheritance ultimately presenting a provocative take on the South's obsession with skin color.

Book Review
Books available for purchase and signing.

September 30, 2007

Authors@the Library

Sunday, September 30
2:00 pm
McManus Room

Violinist for the Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker makes his debut as a novelist with The Savior, the story of a non-Jewish violinist forced to play for the inmates of a Nazi concentration camp. Drucker will play some of the music found in the novel. A reception will follow.

Book Review
Books will be available for purchase and signing.

September 26, 2007

Authors@the Library

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Wednesday, September 26
Noon
McManus Room

Best-selling author and prominent social observer Dalma Heyn on Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy, where she examines a 21st century phenomenon: strong women who seem to attract men who claim they want lasting relationships, but end up sabotaging them.

Book Review
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the September 26th event.

Author website

September 24, 2007

Authors@the Library

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Noon
McManus Room

Michael White, on Soul Catcher, a novel set just prior to the Civil War. The moral tale of a fugitive slave catcher who must confront the demons of his past and the injustices of his present, as his life becomes entwined with the lives of the runaways.

Book Review
Books will be available for purchase and signing on September 24 event.

September 6, 2007

Authors@the Library

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7:30 pm
McManus Room

David Friedman on The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever. This true story reads like riveting historical fiction but raises real and provocative questions about the shape of the future.

Book Review
Books available for purchase and signing on September 6

Press Release

July 9, 2007

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Mon., July 9
7:30 pm

Daniel Gross will talk about his latest book, Pop! Why Bubbles are Great for the Economy. Bubbles once seen as disastrous have actually helped build the commercial infrastructures that have jump-started American growth. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

McManus Room

Press Release