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Small Business Seminar
Learn how to get help for your small business with the U.S. Small Business Administration. During the free event, SBA St. Louis District Office staff will present an overview of how it helps businesses start and grow, as well as answer any questions you might have about SBA programs. Find out about:
- SBA’s resource partner network for counseling and technical assistance
- SBA loan programs
- Government contracting programs
- Export assistance
- SBA disaster programs
- Other SBA programs available to your small business
This event is intended for adults, and is free and open to all. Call 314-727-3150 or email reference@ucitylibrary.org for more information
Book discussion: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Join us for a special discussion of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride led by UCPL Director Patrick Wall at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21 in the auditorium. For more information, email pjwall@ucitylibrary.org.
Online Author Event: Robert Lustig
Join us for a free online discussion with Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science. Dr. Lustig’s book, Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society. Making the case that food is the only lever we have to affect biochemical change to improve our health, Dr. Lustig explains what to eat based on two novel criteria: protect the liver, and feed the gut.
Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. He has dedicated his retirement from clinical medicine to help fix the food supply in any way he can, to reduce human suffering, and to salvage the environment.
Online Author Event: Rajiv Nagaich
Start your New Year off right and learn how to avoid the hidden traps in retirement planning advice! Elder law attorney and bestselling author Rajiv Nagaich will showcase his 20-plus years of experience in United States elder law in a free online program, offering a step-by-step guide to retirement planning by connecting the various dots of the retirement planning process.
Rajiv Nagaich is the author of Your Retirement: Dream or Disaster, and hosts two popular public television specials and the AgingOptions Radio Show, where he has been dispensing retirement planning advice to people in the Pacific Northwest for 20 years.
Online Author Event: Rebecca Serle
Join us for a free online talk with romance author Rebecca Serle, as we discuss her journey writing epic love stories to span generations. Learning the love story formula with Serle, we’ll chat with the author about her New York Times bestselling novels, One Italian Summer, In Five Years, The Dinner List, and many more.
Local Author Event: Rebecca Copeland
Join us for an evening with local author Rebecca Copeland, as she reads from and discusses her book, The Kimono Tattoo. This free, in-person event will take place in the UCPL auditorium.
The Kimono Tattoo takes readers on a journey into Kyoto’s intricate world of kimono design, and into a mystery that interweaves family dynamics, loss, and reconciliation. The novel follows translator Ruth Bennett as she returns to her childhood home in Kyoto to translate a novel by a long-forgotten Japanese writer, but she soon finds herself attempting to find the killer of a woman covered in tattoos of kimono motifs. Using her intimate knowledge of both kimono and Kyoto, Ruth must confront a vicious killer along with her own painful family secrets.
A University City resident, Copeland was born in Japan to missionary parents before moving to North Carolina, where she spent glorious childhood days listening to her older sisters relay their stories about Japan. As a junior in college, Copeland had the opportunity to spend a year in Japan, where she studied traditional dance, learned to wear a kimono, and traveled, making ridiculous mistakes in the Japanese language. Afterwards she earned a PhD in Japanese literature at Columbia University. She is now a professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis.
Copies of The Kimono Tattoo will be available for purchase from Subterranean Books. For more information, call 314-727-3150 or email reference@ucitylibrary.org.
UCity Book Group
Join us for a lively discussion of Holly by Stephen King at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 in the auditorium. For more information, email pjwall@ucitylibrary.org.
UCity Book Group
Join us for a lively discussion of Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 27 in the auditorium. For more information, email pjwall@ucitylibrary.org.
UCity Book Group
Join us for a lively discussion of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28 in the auditorium. For more information, email pjwall@ucitylibrary.org.
