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
It’s not storyTIME, it’s storySLIME! listen to an ooey-gooey story, then make your own slimey pudding treat!
All Ages
It’s like a “Who Would Win?” rumble, but with books and snacks!
Each week Ms Stephanie shares two picture books and YOU PICK THE WINNER!
Your votes will be submitted to the Show Me Readers Award, where the kids pick the Best Picture Book of the Year!
Club meets 2nd Wednesdays of the month at 6 p.m.
Call Youth Services at 314-727-3150 or email youthservices@ucitylibrary.org to register.
Is your child a voracious book reader in need of something new? Are they curious about what other kinds of books they might like?
Treehouse Book Club to the rescue!
Readers complete books independently and then come together to talk, snack, and grab their next read.
Treehouse Book Club meets monthly on the 1st Wednesday of the Month at 7 p.m.
Call Youth Services at 314-727-3150 or email youthservices@ucitylibrary.org to register.
