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Adult Services Newsletter
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Greetings from Adult Services
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Zoom PresentationMembers of the Lenape Center, based in Manhattan, will discuss their work and Lenape history. The Lenape Center has the mission of continuing Lenapehoking through community, culture and the arts. They push back against erasure and seed the ground with Lenape consciousness for the next generations.
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Saturday, February 27th @ 8:00PM
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Wednesday, March 3rd @ 1:00PM
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When slavery ended in 1865, a period of Reconstruction began, leading to such achievements as the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. By 1868, all persons born in the United States were citizens and equal under the law. But efforts to create an interracial democracy were contested from the start. A harsh backlash ensued, ushering in a half century of the “separate but equal” age of Jim Crow.
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Join us for a conversation with the author Robert Marchant to hear about his new book Westchester: History of an Iconic Suburb. This live virtual event will provide an informative and lively dialogue on Westchester's fascinating and often surprising past, moderated by Jordan Copeland. This book examines four centuries of development in Westchester uncovering “a complex and often surprising narrative of slavery, anti-Semitism, immigration, Jim Crow, silent film stars, suffragettes, gangland violence, political riots, eccentric millionaires, industry and aviation, man-made disasters and assassinations.”
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Monday, March 8th @ 7:00PM New York City has a long and fascinating history. Howard Ehrlich and Harvey Sackowitz, Professors in the Department of Education at St. John's University, will present several artifacts, documents and places that represent various aspects of New York's unique history and culture.
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Join Librarian Katie for an informal and lively discussion of "Sharks In The Time of Saviors" by Kawai Strong Washburn. It was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by the New York Times. In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends.
Nainoa’s family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from ancient Hawaiian gods―a belief that appears validated after he exhibits puzzling new abilities. But as time passes, this supposed divine favor begins to drive the family apart. When supernatural events revisit the Flores family in Hawaii - with tragic consequences - they are all forced to reckon with the bonds of family, the meaning of heritage, and the cost of survival.
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Social Issues Book Club with Cindy D. Wednesday, March 10th @ 5:00PM Join us each month to discuss books about impactful social issues! In honor of Women’s History Month, we’ll be reading “My Beloved World,” a memoir by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latinx appointed to the US Supreme Court. In a tale of family, love, and triumph, Sotomayor details her difficult life journey: from her precarious childhood in the projects of the Bronx to her appointment to the Federal District Court. With only the dream of becoming a lawyer to guide her, Sotomayor paints an inspiring story of self-invention, self-discovery, and the American Dream.
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Join Librarian Katie and explore hidden gems in the stacks! March's Book is "Erotic Stories" for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she’s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father’s death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London’s close-knit Punjabi community.
Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected—and exciting—kind.
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White Housesby Amy BloomLorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, "Hick," as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as "first friend" is an open secret, as are FDR's own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hick's bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.
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Lost children archive : a novel
by Valeria Luiselli
This novel tells the story of a family's summer road trip across America - a journey that, with profound humanity, probes the nature of justice and equality in America today. A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo - and with their ten-year-old son trying out his new Polaroid camera - the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an "inventory of echoes" from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate.
But as the family drives farther west - through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas - we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of theirown. A fissure is growing between the parents, one the children can feel beneath their feet. They are led, inexorably, to a grand, unforgettable adventure - both in the harsh desert landscape and within the chambers of their own imaginations.
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Scarsdale Public Library 54 Olmsted Rd. Scarsdale, New York 10583 (914) 722-1300
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Monday 9:00AM - 7:00PM Tuesday - Friday: 9:00AM - 5:00PM Saturday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Sunday: Closed
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