Newsletter of the Hewlett- Woodmere Public Library I I OverlAPRIL MAY JUNEe2014 VOLUaME 49, NUMf BER 4

FROM THE BOARD ÌF JACQUES BREL RETURNS Dear Resident/Taxpayer, A cabaret version of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well After more than 20 years of the and Living in Paris Library conducting its own Election and I Sunday, May 4, 2:30 pm Budget Vote, the Library Board has determined that these items be put Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer/ forth to the electorate at the time of composer/actor who composed sophisti - the School District’s Annual Meeting on cated, literate, sensitive, funny, theatri - May 20th. Thus, in addition to the cal songs that attracted a devoted fol - Proposed Budget for the School lowing in Belgium and France and then District, and the election of Members throughout the world. He recorded most of the School Board, there will be of his songs in French but he became a propositions regarding the Library major influence on such performers as Budget, as well as Library Trustee, on David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, among oth - that day. ers. His songs were recorded by pop leg - The Library Board has been consid - ends such as Ray Charles, Judy Collins, ering this option for some time, finally John Denver, The Kingston Trio, Nina concluding that the continuing decline Simone, Frank Sinatra, and Andy in voter turnout, coupled with the Williams, to name a few. In French increasing cost of running an election, speaking countries he was a successful could no longer justify a separate vote. actor, directing two films, one of which It is the Library Board’s position that Le Far West, was nominated for a Palm this decision is both politically and fis - d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, 1973. cally responsible. We hope you agree, Mr. Brel was married and had three and we welcome your comments, children. A heavy smoker, he died of which will be considered whether they lung cancer at age 49 in 1978. He is are in agreement or not. buried near the artist Paul Gauguin on Hiva-Oa, Marquesas Islands (French Details on the Proposed Budget will Polynesia) an island where he spent his last years. be posted on the Library’s website This show is set in the cabaret style, performing songs from the original 1968 and sent to you by mail after its final show, with a rotating cast.The original show ran for over 4 years at the Village review by the Library Board at its Gate, with original cast members Elly Stone, Mort Schuman, Shawn Elliott, and April 7th meeting. I can assure you Alice Whitfield. that the amount to be raised by taxes Original production concept, English lyrics, and additional materials by Eric Blau and Mort will be within the allowable tax levy Shuman; Based on Jacques Brel’s lyrics and commentary; Music by Jacques Brel. In this production, additional arrangements by Eric Svejcar; Staging by Dan Whitten, (i.e. tax cap). Tiger Theatricals Each member of the Library Board District residents & Friends of the Library may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, April 23,10 am encourages you to put May 20th on your & 7 pm. calendar and to remember to vote, not only on those positions related to the What’s Inside Hewlett-Woodmere Schools, but also on BOARD OF TRUSTEES OVER LEAF JR. REMOVABLE INSERT those related to the Library. Benjamin A. Eilbott, President Computers & Devices Page 7 Events & Performances Pages 2-3 In conclusion, our thanks to the Shari H. Braverman, Vice President Films Page 6 School Board and District officials in David A. Adler Great Books Page 6 helping to facilitate this transition. Donald A. Davidson Great Decisions Page 5 Sincerely, Frank Zaret, Treasurer H-W PL Readers Page 7 Benjamin A. Eilbott, William Ferro, Director Lectures & Courses Pages 4 -5 LI READS Page 3 Nadine Connors, Editor and Programs President Special Author Visits Page 3 Board of Trustees Teens Page 7 SPECIAL EVENTS & PERFORMANCES

EDYTHE BRENNER NEW TALENT/NEW IDEAS FEELIN’ GROOVY MEMORIAL CONCERT Music of the 60s and 70s The Juilliard School Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library Featuring Julia Glenn, violin and Daniel Fung, pianist I Sunday, April 6, 2:30 pm

Julia Glenn

Gail Storm Phyllis Fay Farmer Carole King Tribute AN AFTERNOON With Gail Storm WEEKDAY CONCERT I Thursday, April 10, 7:30 pm Celebrate Mother! Gail Storm is a New York based Phyllis Fay Farmer singer/songwriter/pianist who performs Mezzo soprano in NY as well as the national and With pianist, Emily Olin international circuits. Ms. Storm honors Carole King through singing, playing, I Thursday, May 8, 1 pm The Juilliard School, once again, and commentary. She will perform the Celebrate Mother!- new mothers, shares their talented graduates. Ms. entire Tapestry album. old mothers, gypsy mothers, aristocrat - Glenn has traveled the world as a District residents & Friends of the Library may ic mothers, single mothers, step-moth - pick up tickets beginning Thursday, March 27, soloist and chamber musician. She ers - songs and arias in English, French, 10 am & 7 pm. served as Harvard Pforzheimer Russian, and Spanish by Dvorak, Houses’ Artist-in-Residence and was Carpenter, Massenet, Sviridova, and named a Fulbright Scholar. She regu - Sorozábal. Includes child-rearing advice larly visits China to perform and from Lewis Carroll. research contemporary Chinese music. In the fall she will also begin her doc - No tickets necessary. toral studies with Joseph Lin at The Juilliard School. Canadian pianist Daniel Fung is an active performer as a soloist, chamber musician, and col - laborative pianist. Daniel Fung was a recipient of The Juilliard School’s The Liverpool Shuffle William Schuman Prize, which is pre - I Thursday, May 15, 7:30 pm sented to a graduate student for out - It’s Beatlemania by the best of the standing achievement and leadership Aaron Weinstein Beatle Tribute bands! in music. District residents & Friends of the Library may District residents may pick up tickets begin - pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, April 30, ning Wednesday, March 26, 10 am & 7 pm. ÌF Highlights in Jazz 10 am & 7 pm. Presents Have Strings, Will Swing! Caroline Doctorow With the Aaron Weinstein Trio and the Steamrollers I Thursday, April 24, 7:30 pm American Folk Music Violinist/humorist Aaron Weinstein I Thursday, June 19, 7:30 pm brings his highly acclaimed show and an evening of superb jazz with a dash of Ms. Doctorow and her band return humor! Joining him with be Matt Baker, with a lovely evening of folk and folk piano, and Tom Hubbard on bass. rock music from her new CD and past hits. District residents and Friends of the Library District residents & Friends of the Library may Daniel Fung may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, April 9, 10 am & 7 pm. pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, June 4, 10 am & 7 pm. ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. 2 SPECIAL EVENTS & LECTURES

LONG ISLAND READS 2014 This year’s choice is: The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island by Mac Griswold. In 1984, landscape historian Mac Griswold came across Sylvester Manor, the 1650s former plantation on Shelter Island that has been home to 11 generations of What, Where, and How of the Sylvester family. Ms. Griswold’s research focused on Doctor Who! one of the earliest plantations in the North, dependent with Clive Young for nearly 200 years upon the labor of African slaves, Native Americans, and indentured servants. Mac I Wednesday, April 2, 7 pm Griswold charts the history of this property from 16th c. Doctor Who is the sci-fi phenome - Europe to 21st century Shelter Island, where the property, non, which has run for 50 years on BBC still owned by descendants of the original family, operates as television. a non-profit educational foundation and organic farm. Since first hitting TV screens in the fall of 1963, Doctor Who has become a worldwide phenomenon and is now the AUTHOR VISIT S most popular Sci-Fi TV series currently ÌF airing in America. Millions of fans of all Grow More With Less: ages, from tweens to seniors, tune in Sustainable Garden Methods each week to enjoy the Doctor’s latest Less Water-Less Work-Less Money exploits as he travels through time and With Vincent Simeone, Author space in a police phone booth (A.K.A. I Thursday, May 22, 7 pm The Tardis ) meeting strange aliens, and Grow More with Less lets you put your best foot forward saving the universe with verve, nerve, in creating an efficient, sustainable home landscape.From and know-how. Designed for both new composting and mulching to planting trees, author Vincent and avid fans alike, the presentation Simeone covers all the eco-friendly essentials in one will use video and PowerPoint to straightforward handbook. explore the show’s colorful on-screen and behind-the-scenes histories, profile The Underground Railroad on Long Island all 11 Doctors, highlight their most important episodes, and more! With Kathleen Velsor, Author I Clive Young is the author of Crank It Up: Live Thursday, June 12, 1 pm Sound Secrets of the Top Four Tour Managers, Kathleen Velsor, Associate professor at SUNY College at Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera, and editor of Pro Sound News, Old Westbury and author of The Underground Railroad on Pro Audio Review, and ProSoundNetwork.com. Long Island: Friends in Freedom, (History Press, 2013) explores the journey of runaway slaves on Long Island and takes you on a virtual tour of the safe houses, many of which are still standing today. All author vists are co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

SCHOOL DISTRICT Winners’ Concert United Choral CONCER TS 2014: Friday- Society The Hewlett- Woodmere I Sunday, June 8, Woodmere Music 2 pm 5 Towns Indian Association Department Music Club A spring concert full I I Sunday, June 1, Sunday, April 13, 2 pm For families of all ages of beautiful music by I 2 pm A wonderful afternoon of celebra - Monday, April 7, beautiful voices. Winners from the tion! Dance! Music! Plays! Beautiful 6 pm Tickets may be picked up I 2013 Friday-Woodmere costumes! Performed and conceived by Monday, May 5, beginning Wednesday, Music Club competition May 28, 10 am & 7 pm. the children and their teachers to cele - 3–5 pm will perform in concert. brate India’s rich cultural heritage. Tickets are not required for Co-sponsored by the these concerts. No tickets required. Friends of the Library No tickets required. 3 LECTURES & COURSES

ART LECTURES ÌF The Holocaust in Italy Let’s Face the Music and With Prof. Thomas Germano With Stanislao Pugliese, Ph.D Dance: The Films of Fred The Detroit Institute of Art I Tuesday, April 8, 7 pm Astaire and Ginger Rogers I Wednesday, April 9, 11 am* This is an informal discussion on the With film historian, Philip Harwood I Founded in 1885, the DIA has been a historical and cultural context of fas - Wednesday, May 7, 1 pm beacon of culture for the Detroit area cism, anti-Semitism, the history of Fellow RKO contract star Katharine for well over a century. The DIAs col - Italian Jews, the German occupation, Hepburn once said, “Fred gives Ginger lection is among the top six in the and the Holocaust in Italy. A key con - class, and Ginger gives Fred sex.” We United States. Among the notable cern will be with will be with the role certainly see great chemistry in the acquisitions included: Mexican artist of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII. musical films of Fred Astaire and Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry fresco, Dr. Stanislao Pugliese is professor Ginger Rogers. Astaire and Rogers which Rivera considered his most suc - of modern European history and starred in 9 musicals and a reunion cessful work, and Vincent van Gogh’s the Queensboro Unico Distinguished film. They advanced the genre of dance Self Portrait, the first Van Gogh paint - Professor of Italian and Italian in the Hollywood musicals and helped ing to enter a US museum collection. American Studies at Hofstra University. the country pull through the Great Depression. Is the Bill of Rights Really Ì Necessary? F Nutrition: Practical With James Coll information you can use I Thursday, April 10, 1 pm With Jill Mazzeo, M.S.,CDN I The Bill of Rights is the collective Tuesday, May 27, 7 pm name for the first 10 amendments to In this presentation, Ms. Mazzeo will the US Constitution. Proposed to discuss nutrition basics, the importance Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry fresco [detail] appeal to the Anti- Federalists who of vitamins, cleaning up your diet and were opposed to ratification of the its benefits, foods to incorporate in our Paolo Veronese: Magnificence Constitution, these amendments guar - diets, ADD/ADHD and nutrient deficien - in Renaissance Venice antee personal freedoms, limit Federal cies that are linked to this disorder, government power, and give power to I calcium/dairy products and osteoporo - Monday, April 28, 1 pm the states. There were originally 12 but sis, and if time allows, diets: the myths Along with Titian and Tintoretto, only 10 were ratified. How does the of fat free, etc and anti-aging nutrients. Veronese was one of the most impor - 14th amendment have a role in this? tant late Renaissance Venetian mas - What were the other two? Famous Trials in American ters. The Wedding at Cana and Feast in History The House of Levy are not only beauti - ÌF Estate Planning ful they are the largest paintings of the With Don Parker, American With Deborah Jacobs, History teacher and a member of 16th century. Veronese was influenced Forbes S enior Editor by Titian and later by Tiepolo, PEIR, Hofstra University I Wednesday, April 23, 1 pm I Watteau, Peter Paul Rubens, and The Wednesday, May 28, 1 pm As a journalist writing about estate Carracci. Mr. Parker will discuss two famous planning, Ms. Jacobs has found wide - trials. “The Scottsboro Boys” were the spread misunderstandings about funda - Degas/Cassatt notorious trials of nine black youngsters mental concepts. This presentation will I Monday, May 12, 1 pm in Alabama in the 1930s. The trials led cover some of the most common areas to two significant US Supreme Court Edgar Degas’s influence upon Mary of confusion, including: Caring for your - decisions, which served as a prelude to Cassatt has long been acknowledged, self; key estate planning documents, civil rights decisions in the 1960s. The but the extent to which Cassatt shaped and the purpose of each; why trusts second trial to be discussed is “Army on Degas’s artistic production is lesser aren’t just for rich folks; The impact of Trial” which took place towards the known. Degas and Cassatt were most planning of subsidizing adult children end of World War II when enlisted men closely allied between 1878 and and grandchildren; and more! and officers were tried for abuse and 1886,and this lecture looks closely at Ms. Jacobs is the author of “Estate flagrant punishment of American sol - many of the works produced by each Planning Smarts: A Practical, User- diers who committed crimes while in during these eight years. They used a Friendly, Action-Oriented Guide, now service. variety of media. A related exhibition in its Third Edition. Ms. Jacobs is a will be at the National Gallery, Forbes Senior Editor and a lawyer. * Note time Washington, DC from May 11 through October 5, 2014. ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. 4 LECT URES NEWS @ H-WPL IN THE GALLERY

ÌF A Philip Roth Databases @ HWPL Retrospective Lynda.com: This database is avail - With Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg able in the library only. I Lynda.com offers easy to follow video Thursday, June 12, 7 pm tutorials to help you learn software, Few modern writers have been as business, creative skills , and more . celebrated or reviled as Philip Roth. There are currently 2,422 video courses Arguably, no contemporary can match with expert teachers. Courses are for his uninterrupted fifty-year run at pro - all levels covering technical skills, cre - Seymour Levy, Fences ducing works of provocative genius. On ative techniques and business strategies. the occasion of his eightieth birthday Seymour Levy and his announced retirement from Zinio: The World’s Largest Newssta nd The Way EYE See It writing fiction, we will explore a repre - Zinio is a distribution service for digital A photographic retrospective of sentative selection of his oeuvre and magazines from a wide range of pub - images that capture the essence in evaluate his contribution to American, lishers. This database is available design. Jewish, and world literature. through our webite on your home com - Rabbi Bruce Ginsburg is the spiritual puter or in the library. Don Newman leader of Congregation Sons of Israel in ® Expressions in Sculpture Woodmere and a past president of the NoveList Plus Works in metal and mixed media. Long Island Board of Rabbis. A life-long The secret to finding great books lover of narrative fiction, he earned his NoveList Plus is the premiere database I March 6 - April 27, 2014 doctorate in Hebrew literature.This of reading recommendations, available Receptions: Saturday, April 5, 2-4 pm past fall, he conducted a six-week lec - through libraries around the world. It is ture series on Philip Roth’s Goodbye, a comprehensive source of information Columbus and Five Short Stories. about books that includes expert rec - ommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

Summer Vacation Loans June 26 through Labor Day 2014 Summer vacation loans are available to HWPL cardholders for most circulat - ing materials. Call for more information on summer loans or ask at Circulation when checking out materials. Don Newman, sculpture AARP Smart Driver Course CAR TALK! Call 516-374-1967 x 231 for informa - GALLERY & BOEHM ROOM tion about our on-going defensive The Most Beautiful and driving classes. Hewlett-Woodmere School Unusual Cars Ever Built! District Student Art Show With H.Roy Jaffe, former senior ÌF I May 2 - 24, 2014 stylist at General Motors GREAT DECISIONS 2014 I Tuesday, May 13, 1 pm and Foreign Policy Association With Receptions: Monday, May 5, and Tuesday, June 17, 1 pm Prof. Stanislao G. Pugliese, Tuesday, May 6, 3-5pm To appreciate these cars we broke Hofstra University The talented students of the I this lecture into two sessions. These Wednesdays at 7:30 pm Hewlett-Woodmere Union Free School lectures will include over 50 pictures of April 30 Islamic Awakening District are on exhibit at the library. these amazing cars; the vast majority May 7 Energy Independence of these cars having never been seen G. W. Hewlett High School May 21 Food and Climate by the public. Mr. Jaffe has been col - Advanced Placement June 18 China’s Foreign Policy lecting and photographing cars for Art Show June 25 US Trade Policy more than 70 years. They are dynamic I in styling, and many are one-of-a-kind When you register, please pick up the June 5 - 25, 2014 and custom built by renowned coach required reading. There is no charge for the AP Art students display selections booklet. makers in this country and abroad. from their final portfolios 5 FILMS

Last Vegas Rush ON THE BIG SCREEN Starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Starring Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline, Mary Steenburgen Olivia Wilde The Flat Directed by Jon Turtletaub, PG-13, 105 min. Directed by Ron Howard, R, 123 min. Best Documentary Israeli Film Academy I Wednesday, April 2 , 2 pm only I FRIDAY, May 23, 2 pm* Award, Best Director of a documentary Jerusalem Film Festival Award This film is about three sixty-some - This is the story of the merciless Director & writer (concept): Arnon thing friends who take a break from 1970s rivalry between Formula One Goldfinger; Starring: Michael Adler, Yaron their day-to-day lives to throw a bache - rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Amit, Avrham Barkai, Meital Belli, Hannah lor party in Las Vegas for their last Goldfinger, Arnon Goldfinger 97 min., NR, 2011 remaining single pal. Ca ptain Phillips I Starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Sunday, April 27, 2 pm Dallas Buyers Club Barkhad Abdi As documentary film maker Arnon Starring Matthew McConaughey, Directed by Paul Greengrass, PG-13, 134 min. Goldfinger and his family clean out Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto I Wednesday, June 4, 7 pm only the flat in Israel that belonged to his Directed by Jean-Marc Valle, R, 117 min. grandparents—both immigrants from I This is the true story of Captain Wednesday, April 16, 2 & 7 pm Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking Nazi Germany—he uncovers clues In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hus - by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV pointing to a complicated and tler Ron Woodroof works around the Maersk Alabama, the first American astounding story. The story moves system to help AIDS patients get the cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years. from Israel to Germany and back, medication they need after he is him - giving the viewer the impression of self diagnosed with the disease. Saving Mr. Banks watching a well-crafted mystery Starring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, though it had started out as simple Nebraska Colin Farrell documentation of a family event. Starring Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Directed by Jon Lee Hancock, PG-13, 125 min. Stacey Keach I Wednesday, June 11, 2 pm only Directed by Alexander Payne, R, 115 min. I In this film author P.L. Travers FRIDAY, April 25, 2 pm* reflects on her childhood in Australia In this film an aging, booze-addled after, reluctantly, meeting with Walt father makes the trip from Montana to Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Nebraska with his estranged son in Poppins books for the big screen. order to claim a million dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. Philomena Starring Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Gravity Mare Winningham Directed by Stephen Frears, PG-13, 98 min. Sarah Polley and her father in a scene Starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, from “Stories We Tell” Ed Harris I FRIDAY, June 27, 2 pm* Directed by Alfonso Cuaron, PG-13, 91 min. Stories We Tell I In this film, a world-weary political Wednesday, May 14, 2 & 7 pm journalist picks up the story of a Official selection of Sundance, Venice, In this film, a medical engineer and woman’s search for her son, who was Toronto, and Telluride Film Festivals Directed by Sarah Polley; Starring Michael an astronaut work together to survive taken away from her decades ago while Polley, Harry Gulkin, Susy Buchan, John after an accident leaves them adrift in she was forced to live in a convent Buchan, Mark Polley, Joanna Polley space. because of her out of wedlock pregnancy. Documentary: PG-13, 108 min. 2013 I Sunday, May 18, 1:30 pm GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION GROUP 2014 “In this inspired, genre-twisting film, Oscar-nominated writer /direc - Little Gems: Short Works Under 120 Pages By Great Authors! tor Sarah Polley (Away from Her) I Tuesdays at 7:30 pm With Dr. Allen Lanner discovers that the truth depends on I April 22 I May 13 I June 10 who’s telling it. Polley is both film - maker and detective as she investi - Alice Munro Virginia Woolf George Bernard Shaw gates the secrets kept by a family of Runaway Stories: 3 Short A Room of One’s Own Major Barbara storytellers. She playfully interviews Stories (first story) ISBN 1614272778 ISBN 0-486-42126-0 and interrogates a cast of characters ISBN 1400077915 of varying reliability, eliciting Dover Publications, 31 E. 2nd St., Mineola, NY 11501-3582. refreshingly candid, yet mostly con - Fax or credit card orders: 516-294-9758. Telephone: 516 241 5438. tradictory, answers to the same Copies of the titles currently in our collection will be available behind the Circulation Desk. questions.” — Roadhouse Attractions

* Please note time and day changes of some films 6 FOR TEENS COMPUTERS AND DEVICES

ACT PREP AND STRATEGY Introduction to Email Part 2 Bring your device or just come and listen. Prerequisites: none COURSES I Wednesday, April 16,10 a m-12 pm I Class limited to 40 persons.District residents Thursday, April 10 Attaching and Downloading: Having may register beginning Thursday, April 3, 10 am. trouble finding the document you want Math Portion to attach to an email? Can’t find the Cool Apps 6:30 – 7:30 pm picture you just downloaded? In this for Android Dr Harrow is a professor and class you will learn how to attach files I Thursday, June 5, Graduate Deputy Chairman of the Dept. and download and understand the 7 – 9 pm of Computer and Information Science Windows file structure including drives, Learn how to use apps that will at Brooklyn College. folders, and files. Prerequisites : com - make you more productive on your fortable using a computer and mouse, Android device. With thousands of apps English Portion and Introduction to Email Part 1. out here, how do I find ones that are 7:30 – 8:30 pm Class limited to 24 persons/2 persons per computer. Registration begins Thursday, April 3, 10 am. useful? Where do I find them? How do I Ellen Karcinell has been giving stu - search for free apps? Come to this dents tips and strategies to crack the Introduction to Android class; discover apps you can’t live with - ACT for 15 years. Ellen will break down I Wednesday, May 14, 10 a m-12 pm out. Bring your device or just come and the English, Reading, Science, Essay listen. Prerequisites : comfort with your In this class you will get an introduc - Sections of the ACT into easy to under - Android device. This is part two of the tion to the hardware, learn how to stand areas. Her clear cut targeting of Intro to Android class. the material promotes success! access the Internet and your email, understand the settings, use apps and Class limited to 40 persons.District residents District residents may register NOW at the may register beginning Thursday, April 3, 10 am. Information Desk. learn how to get new ones, discover Please note prerequisite for Email Part 2 class. Refreshments will be served. many tips and tricks and much more. Android lectures are not hands-on classes.

H-WP L READER S- A MONTHLY BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP The Lowland Claire of the Sea Light The Unlikely Pilgrimage of by Jhumpa Lahiri by Edwidge Danticat Harold Fry I Monday, April 7, 1 pm I Tuesday, May 6, 11 am by Rachel Joyce Discussion leader: (NOTE TIME AND DAY CHANGE) I Monday, June 23, 1 pm Candace Plotsker–Herman Discussion leader: Ellen Getreu Discussion leader: The Lowland is the story of two Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Edna Ritzenberg brothers, Subhash and Udayan Mitra, Sea Light—is an adorable child born Harold Fry is retired and lives in a inseparable, but with very different into love and tragedy in her village in small English village with his wife, futures. Udayan will join a movement Haiti. Her mother dies in childbirth and Maureen, and seems to irritate his wife to eradicate inequality and poverty, the father visits the mother’s grave by everything he does. One morning he risking all for what he believes in. with the little girl on each of Claire’s receives a letter from a woman he has Subhash, does not share his brother’s birthdays. The father wonders whether not seen in 20 years. Queenie Hennessy political passion and leaves home for a he should give the child to the local is in hospice and is writing to say good - life of scientific research in a quiet shopkeeper, who has lost a child, so bye. Harold decides he must deliver his coastal area in America. Written by the she may have a better life. response to the letter in person. He Pulitzer-prize winning author of The On the eve of her 7th birthday, he sets off lightly dressed for the 600-mile Namesake, her latest novel is a book of decides to give the child up, but she walk to the hospice where Queenie is great beauty and history. disappears. As they look for the missing living. He believes that as long as he is “Masterly suspenseful, sweeping, pierc - child, secrets and truths of members of walking, Queenie lives. ingly intimate, The Lowland is a work of the community appear as they are “... is not just a book about great beauty and complex emotion; an tied to Claire and her family. engrossing family saga and a story steeped in lost love. It is about all the history that spans gen - “...Claire of the Sea Light wonderful everyday things erations and geogra - represents her [Edwidge Harold discovers through the phies with seamless Dinticat] return to adult mere process of putting one authenticity. It i s fiction after a hiatus of foot in front of the other.” Jhumpa Lahiri at the far too many years.” —Jane Maslin, The New York height of her con - — Deborah Sontag, an Times siderable powers.” investigative reporter for The Times, 2011 —National Book District residents may reserve copies of the Foundation Pulitzer prize finalist. books in advance of the discussions. Review packets are available at the Information Desk. 7 1125 Broadway Hewlett, New York 11557-2337 Non Profit Org. Telephone (516) 374-1967 U.S. Postage Programs (516) 374-1667 PAID Weather Emergency (516) 374-1667 Permit No. 70 We urge you to call the library during a weather Hicksville, NY 11801 emergency before leaving for the library or check our website at www.hwpl.org. Visit us at www.hwpl.org

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