Join us March 21 & 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium for a free one-hour yoga class. Taught by certified yoga instructor and U City resident Paula Gold, the class is open to all levels of yoga practitioners. Options will be offered for increased challenge for those who want to go deeper into poses, as well as variations to make poses more accessible as needed.
The yoga class is intended for adults and teens. Please bring your own yoga mat. To register, please call the reference desk at 314-727-3150 or email reference@ucitylibrary.org.
Join us at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30 for an online discussion with bestselling and award-winning author, Naomi Alderman, as she talks about her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a parable to her—are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?
By turns thrilling, hilarious, tender, and always piercingly brilliant, The Future unfolds at a breakneck speed, highlighting how power corrupts the few who have it and what it means to stand up to them.
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United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award, Joy Harjo, joins us for an online chat at 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16 to discuss her recent memoir, Catching the Light and her lifetime as a writer and poet.
In Catching the Light, Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing.
In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author’s life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and memory.
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Join us at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 for a free online presentation from Tiffany Aliche, author of the New York Times bestselling book, Get Good with Money, which introduced the powerful concept of building wealth through financial wholeness: a realistic, achievable, and energizing alternative to get-rich-quick and over-complicated money management systems.
To help us set realistic goals and keep us on track to meeting them, Tiffany “The Budgetnista” Aliche has another invaluable 10-step action plan: Made Whole. With her signature down-to-earth style, her new workbook offers worksheets, checklists, clear explanations of intimidating financial terminology, Simple instruction on calculating our present situation and future needs, and handy hacks for increasing your credit score, making savings “hard to access,” and finding support to stay on track to your goals.
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Join us at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1 for an online conversation with Full House star, John Stamos, as he leads us through his moving and vulnerable memoir, If You Would Have Told Me.
A universal story about friendship, love, loss, and the courage to embrace love once more, John Stamos’s memoir is filled with some of the most memorable names in Hollywood, both old and new. Funny, deeply poignant, and brutally honest, If You Would Have Told Me is a portrait of a boy who went from believing in Disney magic to a man who learns that we have to create our own magical moments in life.
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Join us at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10 for an entertaining and info-packed slideshow lecture with guidebook author and TV host Rick Steves as he shares the latest in smart European travel. During the online presentation, Rick will teach you the secrets of safe, smart, inexpensive travel — low on stress and high on fun. You’ll learn how to travel smoothly and affordably by planning an efficient itinerary, eating and sleeping well, avoiding crowds, packing smartly, and more.
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Join us at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 for an intimate online conversation with internationally bestselling author John Irving as he chats about not only his most recent novel, The Last Chairlift, but also about his prolific body of work and a lifetime spent writing. Irving’s first novel was published when he was just 26 years old. He has gone on to be nominated for a National Book Award three times and won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Last Chairlift, Irving’s self-proclaimed final long novel, begins in Aspen, Colorado in 1941, when Rachel Brewster, a slalom skier, competes at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees.
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You’re invited to tune in at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18 for an online chat with New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware, as she talks about her newest book, Zero Days.
In the adrenaline-fueled thriller, Zero Days, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, and their best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect—her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer.
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Celebrate the fall season with crafts, games, and treats!
All Ages
This project is supported by the institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of Secretary of State.
It’s not storyTIME, it’s storySLIME! listen to an ooey-gooey story, then make your own slimey pudding treat!
All Ages
