Greenwood Forest Farms Board Meeting
Gallery Talk: Digital and Conventional Photography with Jerry Kalogeratos
Jerry Kalogeratos will lead an open discussion on digitaland conventional photography, drawing on his academic and professional experience as a cinematographer.
Tuesday Evening Book Discussion: "Persuasion" by Jane Austen
Open Enrollment - Registration not limited to Warwick card holders.
Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with poor-but-ambitious naval officer Captain Frederick Wentworth -- a choice which Anne's family was dissatisfied with. Lady Russell, friend and mentor to Anne, persuaded the younger woman to break off the match. Now, on the verge of spinsterhood, Anne re-encounters Frederick Wentworth as he courts her spirited young neighbour, Louisa Musgrove.
Tuesday Evening Book Discussion - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's materpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates.
Tuesday Evening Book Discussion - As I Lay Dying
Open enrollment - registration not limited to Warwick cardholders.
Join us for a discusson of Faulkner's classic. Books are available at the library for checkout.
Tuesday Evening Book Discussion - Washington Square
Open enrollment - registration is not limited to Warwick cardholders.
Join us for a discussion of Henry James's classic, Washington Square, which follows the coming-of-age of its plain-faced, kindhearted heroine, Catherine Sloper. Books will be available at the Library; this title is also available for download onto e-reader devices through Project Guttenberg (www.guttenberg.org).
Tuesday Night Book Discussion - Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Join us for a discussion of the French classic, Eugenie Grandet.
The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routing by the sudden arrive of Eugenie's cousin Charles. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. - Barnes and Noble
Book Discussion - The Cellist of Sarajevo
Inspired by Vedran Smailovic, the cellist who, in 1992, played in a bombed-out Sarajevo square for 22 days in memory of the 22 people who were killed by a mortar attack, this is a novel about four people trying to maintain a semblance of their humanity in the besieged city.
Spanish Exchange Students
Spanish exchange students will visit the Library to complete a research project.