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A Different Kind of Book Club-Banned Books Monday, September 12 at 6:30 pm Join us monthly for A Different Kind of Book Club. Our third year finds us partnering with our year-long Adult Reading Challenge. Each month we will focus on the genre from the reading challenge, helping you prep for your month of reading. 2022 schedule continues in September with Banned Books Librarian Philip Bahr leads the program. After we cover the history, authors, and current climate of book challenges, the group opens up, inviting participants to share their favorite books. If you're new to the genre, sit back and enjoy. You're guaranteed to leave with a great list of books. For September, we dig deep into Banned Books.
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Embodied Meditation Wednesday, September 14 at 6:30 p.m. Fairfield Woods-Platt Room Join us to learn about and experience embodied meditation with Marika Baxter. Embodied meditation is a somatic meditation practice that grounds us to feel whole in our bodies and disentangle from all that fragments us during our everyday lives. Marika Baxter, PT, MSPT, OCS has been a licensed physical therapist since 2003, with most of her work being in orthopedics and sports medicine, specifically performing arts/dance medicine. As a physical therapist, she was aware of how a patient's emotions, history, and energy affected how they presented physically.
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" Taxes: Upcoming Changes & The Effect on Your Retirement Wednesday, September 14 at 6:00 p.m. Main Library-Rotary Room At this educational workshop you will learn how taxes can change the outcome of your retirement. We will discuss current tax law, potential changes to tax law and strategies to get to as close to "tax-free” in retirement as you can. Samples of retirement analysis and strategies to transition to a more favored tax position with your savings and "tax-free" legacy concepts to consider. Presenter: Michael Alimo president of U.S.A. Financial & Tax Services LLC. He has hosted many seminars, speaking to groups about a broad array of financial, investment and retirement topics.
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Staff Picks-Digital Newspapers Jan Fisher- Deputy Town Librarian Digital Newspapers from the Fairfield Public Library It can be challenging to keep up with today's news. Newspapers are critical in our world to inform and interpret what is happening around us in a more in depth way than other media. Newspapers provide facts and statistics as well as editorial opinions and entertainment. The Library offers a wide variety of news sources in various easy to access formats. If you want to read newspapers that look like newspapers without the inky fingers, you can download the PressReader app to your iPad, tablet or phone or download on a computer directly from our website. PressReader is a database of over 7,000 newspapers and magazines from around the world in 60 languages which are easily translated with a right click. Explore this new database and open new worlds for yourself! (Fairfield residents) Newsbank is our long standing database where you can find the Fairfield Citizen, Connecticut Post and most other Connecticut newspapers. The Connecticut Post is available either with the text of the articles or you can view the daily editions in the image format. (Fairfield Library Card) U.S. Major Dailies- If you are looking for something in particular and don't mind reading just text without the graphics and the newspaper format, you can find articles from the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times going back from the 1990s through today. (CT residents) 1992-present) and many historical Connecticut newspapers. Digitization is ongoing. (CT residents) While you are in the Library (Main or Woods) you have full access to the New York Times. All you need to do is create an account. Of course we still do have print newspapers for you to peruse in the Library as well! |
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Libby by OverDrive Get started with Libby by watching this short video made exclusively for FPL users.
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FPL's Podcast Listen to our latest podcast or catch up on previous episodes of What Are You Reading?
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One-on-One Tech HelpNeed help with your laptop, iPad, Kindle, smartphone, or other device? Looking to download library eBooks or movies, but don't know where to begin? Want to learn the basics of email, or creating a Word document? Set up an appointment with a staff member or one of our volunteers to help you learn about your device. These sessions are educational in nature, and you should have a clear goal of what you would like to learn during your session. For more information, including what we can assist with, and how to set up a one-on-one appointment,
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To learn more about the Children's and Teen Departments, or to get book recommendations sent to your inbox, click here.
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Please Note: New weekend hours begin September 10. Saturdays 12-5 and Sundays 1-5
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