Artist Joan Schwartzman will discuss her work currently on exhibit in the Library's Community Room and Gallery.
Monthly film screening followed by a discussion led by Mary Krauze. Share your thoughts about themes, characters, plots, etc.
In Erin Brockovich, an unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
Monthly film screening followed by a discussion led by Mary Krauze. Share your thoughts about themes, characters, plot, etc.
In Freedom Writers, a young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Monthly film screening followed by a discussion led by Mary Krauze. Share your thoughts about themes, characters, plot, etc.
In The Long Walk Home two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
On World Book Night - April 23, 2013 - the Friends of the Albert Wisner Library will once again be "Spreading the Love of Reading Person to Person." Apply to be a book giver by January 23rd at the World Book Night website, and select one of the 30 titles chosen by an independent panel of librarians and booksellers. You will receive 20 copies of your chosen title to give away FREE to members of the community. Albert Wisner Public Library has been chosen as a pick-up location for the books.
Registration not limited to Warwick cardholders.
Registration not limited to Warwick cardholders.
In this uproarious novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak.Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character--he is a born anarchist-- and partly in the fact that his department is more savagely divided than the Balkans. - Amazon
Open registration - not limited to Warwick cardholders.
Join in a discussion of Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese. Copies are available at the Library.
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance. Bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. - Amazon.com
