The Greenbush Bookmark for Adults  
August, 2021
Upcoming Programs
For more information about these and other upcoming programs, see the library event calendar.
 
Monday Night Book Chat
Weekly. Monday evenings, 7:00-9:00 pm
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What have you been reading lately? Join our Monday night Facebook book chat to tell us about it and gather recommendations from librarians and other readers.  
Wireless Wednesday Drop-In Tech Help
Weekly. Wednesday afternoons, 4:00-6:00 pm
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Our drop-in tech help sessions are back! Stop by the library between 4:00-6:00 pm on Wednesdays to ask one of our local technology experts your questions. Remember to bring the device you are asking about with you.
 
 
Back to Bacharach and Beyond: Live Concert
Wednesday, August 11, 7:00-8:15 pm
Register
"Back to Bacharach and Beyond" with the Christine Spero Group is a show that journeys through Burt Bacharach’s greatest songs with some surprises.  Bacharach, who is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music, has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s.
Arts & Crafts for Adults: Watercolor Philosophy
Thursday, August 12, 7:00-9:00 pm   
Register
Join us for a soothing session of watercolor painting in the library. No artistic skills or watercolor experience required. We will be doing some loose abstract designs with watercolor paints and incorporating favorite quotes, meditations, or lines of philosophy onto the dried painting. All materials needed will be available.
 
Driving While Black
Race, Space, and Mobility in America (Online)
Thursday, August 26, 7:00-8:30
Register for the Zoom Link
Upper Hudson Library System presents Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America: A Community Conversation with author Dr. Gretchen Sorin and filmmaker Ric Burns in collaboration with the Mellon Foundation and Steeplechase Films. Download the audiobook on Hoopla / Watch the film on WMHT / Borrow a copy from the library 
 
Reading Recommendations
Staff Picks
 
Recent favorites from library staff members. Click the cover to request a copy, or access digital copies via Overdrive or Hoopla where indicated.
 
All the Children are Home
by Patry Francis

Two long-term foster parents in a mid-20th-century Massachusetts community reluctantly take in an abused young girl who strengthens their family’s bonds in unexpected ways.
 
Recommended by Marianne | Also available on Overdrive/Libby
The Secret Lives of Planets: Order, Chaos, and Uniqueness in the Solar System
by Paul Murdin

An insider's guide to astronomy reveals everything you need to know about the planets, their satellites, and our place in the solar system. The planets and their satellites have exciting lives, full of events.
 
Recommended by Lauren | Also available on Hoopla
Silver in the Wood
by Emily Tesh

A Wild Man lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow. Tobias, tethered to the forest, lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner, everything changes. Old secrets are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past--both the green magic of the woods, and the dark things that rest in its heart.
 
Recommended by Lauren | Also available on Hoopla
This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
by Don Lemon

Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a black man to today’s most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes?
 
Recommended by Roseann | Also available on Overdrive/Libby
Who is Maud Dixon?: A Novel
by Alexandra Andrews

Working for a mysterious novelist known as Maud Dixon, Florence Darrow accompanies her to Morocco where her new novel is set – and where she, after a terrible accident and no sign of Maud, decides to become Maud, claiming the life she’s always wanted.
 
Recommended by Catherine | Also available on Overdrive/Libby
 Find More Reading Recommendations 
  • East Greenbush Community Library Staff Picks
  • NoveList reading recommendations  (requires valid East Greenbush or Schodack library card)
  • Library Reads: Top 10 books published each month as voted on by librarians 
 
 #3WordBookReview
Visit us on Instagram for more 3 Word Book Reviews.
 
Personalized Recommendation Service for Readers
Our readers' advisory service matches adult readers with books and authors that we think you will like. Fill out the form on our website and our librarians will compile a list of book titles based on the information you provide. We will even place the items on hold for you!
 
This free, confidential service is for adult cardholders. For kids and teens, try out our Book Bundle service.
 
 
 
 E-Resource Spotlight: The Times Union on NewsBank

Now Available! Explore Albany history through local news, events, and people with the Times-Union Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and additional content that is only published online. Link to our Times Union coverage by visiting the Digital Library page.
 
 
Full-color page views available from 2018 to today:
 
 
Or search the archive of full-text content from 1986 to today:
 
 
Read, save, email, download, and cite your selected articles, then come back tomorrow for the latest news!
 
 E-Resource List
Find out more about these and additional digital resources by visiting the library's Digital Library page.
 
Ancestry database logo
Ancestry 
Genealogy and family history research
Overdrive logoOverdrive & Libby
Downloadable ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines
Hoopla logoHoopla
Music, Movies, ebooks, audiobooks, comics
Novelist Plus database logoNoveList Plus 
Discover books and reading recommendations
 
Consumer Reports online logoConsumer Reports
Full online access
Laptop computer and stack of journals and magazinesResearch & Articles
See all article databases and research resources
Black Life in America database logo
Black Life in America 
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today
 
Heritage Hub database logoHeritage Hub 
U.S. obituaries from 1704 to the present
America's News database logo
America's News 
Full text of hundreds of newspapers including Troy Record and Saratogian
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Holds Pick-Up
 
You may choose to pick up your holds at the drive-thru window or inside at the circulation desk during library hours. 
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East Greenbush Community Library
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East Greenbush, New York 12061
518-477-7476
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