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Visit us at www.hwpl.org Monday -Thursday 9 am to 9 pm Friday 9 am to 6 pm Saturday 9 am to 5 pm Sunday 12:30 pm to 5 pm Closed on Sundays beginning June 28, 2015 Sunday service resumes September 13, 2015 12:30 – 5 pm SCHEDULE CHANGES Sunday, June 28 CLOSED Friday, July 3 CLOSED Saturday, July 4 CLOSED Saturday, August 15 CLOSED 22 • Wednesday 17 • Monday Saturday, August 22 CLOSED District residents register for Film: Monk with a Camera 2 pm Saturday, August 29 CLOSED 8/12 Lao Cooking 10 am Saturday, September 5 CLOSED 18 • Tuesday For Your Health: Drumming* 11 am Sunday, September 6 CLOSED Blood Drive 2:30-8:30 pm Film: Snatch 2 pm Monday, September 7 CLOSED 19 • Wednesday Monday, September 14 1 – 9 pm 23 • Thursday Film: Finding Vivian Maier 2 pm Tuesday September 22 9 am – 6 pm Art Lecture II: Modern Art and Dictators 1 pm Wednesday, September 23 CLOSED 20 • Thursday 27 • Monday Author Visit: From a Nickel to a Token 1 pm NoveList: with Ellen Getreu 11 am JUNE Part 1: The Pacific War: Film: Unbroken 2 pm 26 • Wednesday Film: Into the Wild 2 & 7 pm 28 • Tuesday 30 • Tuesday District residents register Part 2: The Pacific War: Book Discussion for PowerPoint classes 10 am SEPTEMBER Fly Boys by James Bradley with Philip JULY Ritzenberg 1 pm 2 • Wednesday Intermediate PowerPoint* 7 pm Film: Imitation Game 2 & 7 pm 1 • We dnesday Registration for 7/15 Social Security 10 am 29 • Wednesday 9 • Wednesday Film: Boyhood 2 & 7 pm For Your Health: Family Kitchen Organic* 11 am Residents & Friends of the Library Film: Into the Woods 7 pm pick up tickets for 2 • Thursday Art Reception 6 pm 30 • Thursday 10/4 Stuart Fishman Concert 10 am & 7 pm 7 • Tuesday ÌF Highlights in Jazz* 7:30 pm 10 • Thursday Introduction to PowerPoint * 7 pm Film: Beyond Right & Wrong 2 pm 8 • Wednesday AUGUST Art Reception 7 pm For Your Health: Food Pairing 10 am 3 • Monday 17 • Thursday Residents register for7/22 Spirit Sky drumming Genealogy: with M. Vollono 2 pm 92YLive: Film: Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2 pm & 7/29 Kitchen Organic 10 am 4 • Tuesday Residents & Friends pick up tickets for 7/20/& 20 • Sunday Lecture: The Good Old Days: 7/21 Broadway Showstoppers 10 am & 7 pm Big Screen: Wings of Life 2 pm Pop Culture in the Roaring 20s 1 pm Film: Rififi 2 pm 21 • Monday 5 • Wednesday 9 • Thursday Dept. of Assessment 1 – 3 pm HWPL Readers: Casebook 1 pm For Your Health: Life Energy 101 1 pm F Courtyard: Shenole Latimer & Friends 7 pm Film: The Usual Suspects 7 pm 29 • Tuesday ÌF Great Books 7:30 pm 13 • Monday 6 • Thursday 30 • Wednesday Film: Selma 2 & 7 pm Genealogy for Beginners: Part I 1 pm F Courtyard: LI Harmonica Club 7 pm 14 • Tuesday OCTOBER 10 • Monday HWPL Readers : Euphoria 11 am Genealogy Part II: 1 pm 4 • Sunday Author Visit: Exit Berlin 7 pm So You Want to be a Bee Keeper? 7 pm Stuart Fishman Memorial Concert* 1:30 & 4 pm 15 • Wednesday 11 • Tuesday Residents & Friends of Library pick up tickets HWPL Readers: The Book of BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ MEETINGS for 7/30 Highlights in Jazz 10 am & 7 pm Unknown Americans 11 am Film: American Sniper 2 pm Monday, July 13 7:45 pm Book to Film Discussion Part I: Social Security Workshop* 7 pm Film: Stand By Me 2 pm Wednesday, September 16 7:45 pm 16 • Thursday 12 • Wednesday BOARD OF TRUSTEES Art Lecture: Modern Art and Dictators 1 pm For Your Health: Summer Lao Cooking* 11 am Benjamin A. Eilbott, President F Courtyard: Ed Ryan & Tom San Filippo 7 pm Film: Still Alice 2 & 7 pm Shari H. Braverman, Vice President 20 • Monday David A. Adler Donald A. Davidson 13 • Thursday F Broadway Showstoppers* 7:30 pm Frank Zaret, Treasurer Book to Film Discussion Part II: 21 • Tuesday The Body by Stephen King William Ferro, Director Blood Drive registration begins 10 am with A. Buchsbaum 2 pm Nadine Connors, Editor and Programs F Broadway Showstoppers* 7:30 pm Art reception 7 pm F Co-sponsored by Friends of the Library ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. * Previous registratio n/tickets required. Newsletter of the Hewlett- Woodmere Public Library OverlJULY I AUGUST I SEPTEMBER e2015 VOLUaME 51, NUMf BER 1 WHAT’S INSIDE ÌF STUART FISHMAN OVER LEAF JR. REMOVABLE INSERT MEMORIAL CONCERT Big Screen Page 6 Events & Performances Pages 2-3 Ola Fresca Films Pages 6 I Sunday, October 4, Great Books Page 7 1:30 & 4 pm H-W PL Readers Page 7 Weaving musical bridges Lectures & Courses Pages 3 -5 that connect traditional mod - Author Visits Page 5 ern Cuban dance music with Teens Page 5 salsa, funk,and world beat rhythms, Ola Fresca, assisted FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY by the creative energy of Jose The Friends of the Hewlett- Conde, have evolved into a Woodmere Public Library take pride swinging, fearless tropical and pleasure in enhancing the library sound directly from Brooklyn! experience for the community From their rustic Cuban roots 2004 debut album Ay! Que Rico to the funky, eclectic through cultural programs, concerts, Best Latin Album 2008 Independent Music Awards, Evolucion, the band wandered children’s programs, book bags, and through the many Latin roots styles and formats before settling on a trombone led giving “gifts” to enhance the facility octet. As relations continue to change between Cuba and the US, Ola Fresca brings beyond the budgeting process. As a an evolved Cuban sound to audiences once again. Friend you will have the satisfaction New York based painter, dancer, musician Carlos Mateu and partner, will per form of knowing you are helping your com - typical cuban and salsa dances to selected Ola Fresca songs. T

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concerts and special programs. Out- C of-district supporters are welcomed! © worldwide in a 2014 kickstarter for “Elixir” (6-1-2015), their lyrical antidote So, be a Friend, and join today! A to factional bickering everywhere in the Friends’ membership makes a great world, in which Conde skillfully blends gift!! Cuban son, rumba, and timba, and Puerto The Friends have received gift Rican-style salsa, for a fresh sound that embraces the best of New York’s Latin donations from members of the com - scene. munity to show their appreciation District residents and Friends of the Library and support of Friends’ activities or may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, to commemorate a lifetime mile - September 9, 10 am & 7 pm. One ticket per Herencia D’Cuba featuring Carlos Mateu stone such as a special wedding library card and Friend’s membership card. anniversary. When considering gift giving, please consider making a gift to the Friends. And of course, we 92Y LIVE: FROM THE DVD VAULT thank all our members for their con - Supreme Court Justice tinuous support of the Friends. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Interview To join or purchase a gift mem - with Nina Totenberg, bership, please fill out a form avail - NPR’s Legal Affairs correspondent able at the Information Desk, I Thursday, September 17, 2 pm Circulation, or at Friends’ programs. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has written widely in Irene Levy, Sarah Knecht, Iris Gorenberg, Marlene Berman, Pearl Cande, Gitty the areas of civil procedure, conflict of laws, Greene, Claire Zimmerman, Ruth Hirsch, constitutional law, and comparative law. Hear Hazel Malkes, Sallie Prisyon, Gita her discuss this and more as Nina Totenberg interviews her. Scheinman, Blanche Silver, Carlene Toron This is not a live broadcast from the 92Y. SPECIAL EVENTS & PERFORMANCES A LITTLE SUMMER NIGHT GENEALOGY WORKSHOP MUSIC IN THE COURTYARD Trace your Roots! Chairs are provided. In case of Three Mondays inclement weather, we move indoors. All evenings begin at 7 pm. No tickets Genealogy for Beginners: required. Part I Co-sponsored by The Friends of the Library. With Diane Warmsley I Monday, July 13, 1 pm

Adrian Cunningham Roots Run Deep This is an introductory class for Highlights in Jazz presents beginners who wish to research their The Art of Swinging family history. Participants are introduced to I Thursday, July 30, 7:30 pm genealogy basics and a 5 Step Research Australian Adrian Cunningham, reed Model to guide genealogical research. Shenole Latimer player and vocalist, returns to the Vital records are reviewed to illustrate library with an all-star Quintet, playing how to properly mine them for early Jazz and Swing classics. genealogical information. Free geneal - Shenole Latimer & Friends Adrian Cunningham, clarinet saxo - ogy resources are provided. I Thursday, July 9 phone and flute; Charlie Caranicas, Come hear jazz saxophonist Shenole trumpet ; Rob Garcia, drums; Dalton Learn to Use Ancestry.com Latimer and Friends. Besides being a Ridenhour, piano; Daniel Foose, bass with Local History Librarian, wonderful musician, Shenoles is an District residents and Friends of the Library Millicent Vollono may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, I entertainer with a bigger than life July 15, 10 am & 7 pm. Monday, August 3, 2 pm sense of humor. Local History Librarian Millicent Tom San Filippo Vollono will demonstrate how to use Ed Ryan & Tom San Filippo Ancestry.com, a popular database for I Thursday, July 16 genealogy, that is accessible in the These two talented guitarists will library at no charge. cover a variety of popular music, with She will also discuss and demon - even some Beatles music included for strate several other databases that good measure! are free of charge that she has found valuable in her research of local Long Island Harmonica Club- history. A New Generation of Harmonica Players Calling all Book Groups! Readers! Genealogy for Beginners: Part II I Thursday, August 6, 7 pm How to use NoveList The best database for finding the With Diane Warmsley Hear the old tunes, the great tunes, I and more played on the versatile books you want to read! Monday, August 10, 1 pm harmonica! with librarian Ellen Getreu, Part II goes beyond vital records to H-WPL Readers coordinator cover census, military, social security, Broadway Showstoppers I Monday, July 27, 11 am and immigration records. Each record set is illustrated and used for its NoveList offers products in several Producers/Writers: genealogical detail. Special attention areas including reading recommenda - Joanne Fried and Helene Tiger is given to the 1940 US Federal Census tions, book discovery, email newslet - I Monday, July 20 & for its value to family research. ters, and more. NoveList is available Tuesday, July 21, 7:30 pm Please partake of all three parts of to you through the H-WPL website. Broadway Showstoppers is a profes - this course, as each course builds on Join librarian Ellen Getreu as she sional musical revue featuring high - the other to help you research your demonstrates how to use this truly lighted moments from the most popu - family history. wonderful user-friendly database. lar shows ever produced on the Great Diane Warmsley is a professional Discover authors you never knew about White Way. genealogist and family historian with and make the choosing of the perfect District residents and Friends of the Library 20 years of experience. may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, book for your book group fun and July 8, 10 am & 7 pm. exciting, and much easier . ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. 2 SPECIAL EVENTS & LECTURES

WORLD WAR II: BOOK TO FILM DISCUSSION THE PACIFIC WAR With Adam Buchsbaum, Librarian Film: Unbroken The book was better than the movie…that’s usually the case, right? I Monday, July 27, 2 pm Judge for yourself when we have a Starring Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Takamasa Ishihara special program that combines both a Directed by Angelina Jolie; writers: Joel Coen, film screening and book discussion Ethan Coen, based on the book Unbroken THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY over the course of 2 days. by Laura Hillenbrand Rated PG-13, 137 min. Monk with a Camera PART I : The Film Academy Award winner Angelina Documentary Film I Tuesday, August 11, 2 pm Jolie directs and produces Unbroken , Starring Nicky Vreeland, The Dalai Lama, Khyongla Rinpoche, Alexander Vreeland, John Stand By Me an epic drama that follows the incredi - Avedon Starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey ble life of Olympian and war hero Louis Directed by Guido Santi, 90 min. Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, Kiefer Sutherland “Louie” Zamperini, who along with two I Directed by Rob Reiner Writers; Stephen Monday August 17, 2 pm King, Raynold Gideon, Rated R, 89 min. other crewmen, survived in a raft for “I was 12 going on 13 the first time 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash Nicolas Vreeland walked away from I saw a dead human being…” from in WWII, only to be caught by the a worldly life of privilege to become a Stand By Me, the 1986 coming of age Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner- Tibetan Buddhist monk. Grandson of film, based on Stephen King’s novella of-war camp. legendary Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, and trained by Irving Penn to The Body, from the book Different become a photographer, he gave up his Seasons . glamorous life to live in a monastery in India, where he studied Buddhism for Scene from Stand By Me fourteen years. In an ironic twist of fate, Nicholas went back to photogra - phy to help his fellow monks rebuild their monastery

Finding Vivian Maier Documentary Film BOOK DISCUSSION Starring Vivian Maier, John Maloof Directed by John Maloof, Charlie Sisket, Fly Boys by James Bradley NR, 83 min. With Philip Ritzenberg I Wednesday, August 19, 2 pm I Tuesday, July 28, 1 pm Finding Vivian Maier is the critically Author James Bradley, whose Flags acclaimed documentary about a myste - of Our Fathers was a bestseller and a rious nanny, who secretly took over heralded film, reveals in Flyboys the 100,000 photographs that were hidden PART II. long-secret story and tragic fate of the in storage lockers and, discovered Book & Film Discussion Navy aviators who disappeared in raids decades later, is now among the 20th With Adam Buchsbaum on ChiChi Jima (where the young century’s greatest photographers. George H.W. Bush was rescued by sub - The Body by Stephen King marines). I Thursday August 13, 2 pm While the Bulge and Omaha Beach Now that you have seen the movie are among the icons of WWII in Europe, and read the novella, this lively many Americans have yet to discover discussion will cover the film and the brutal and costly Pacific war of the book, and look at how books are atolls and jungles. made into films and whether they are Philip Ritzenberg , longtime resi - successful or not! dent of Woodmere, is an editor, pub - Adam Buchsbaum, H-WPL librarian, is a book lisher, and publication designer, with and film enthusiast, whose background almost 60 years in journalism. He was includes a BFA in Film and Television from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, a Fulbright scholar at the Free and having worked on the television show, University of Berlin, and then served in 3rd Rock from the Sun. the Navy as intelligence officer, retir - Copies of the book Different Seasons (which ing as a commander in the Naval Air includes the novella, The Body ) by Stephen King will be available at the Circulation Desk. Reserve. Vivian Maier, October, 1954

3 LECTURES & COURSES

For Your Health & Well-Being The Family Kitchen MODERN ART AND THE 5 Wednesdays, bright and early, Organic Gardening DICTATORS With Prof. Dennis Raverty, One afternoon at 1 pm! With Renato Stafford CEO and Founder, Homegrown Organic Food, Inc. Art for the People I Wednesday, July 29, 11 am or for the Party? Renato Stafford will take attendees I Thursday, July 16, 1 pm from the garden to the family dinner Lenin saw the revolutionary poten - table. Topics will include: garden tial of avant-garde art, architecture design and layout, soil preparation, and design and instituted sweeping preparing your garden beds, seeds, changes in which modernism became Fuel Your Body planting, insects, fencing, gather the almost the official art of the fledgling With Sotiria Everett, RD harvest, winter garden, food storage, Soviet Union, but with Stalin’s rise to I Wednesday, July 8, 10 am canning, and delicious recipes. There power, all art was banished that could will be a slide presentation and sam - Pairing certain foods can result in not be used as propaganda by the ples to see. added health benefits, such as bolster - Communist Party for furthering its District residents may register beginning social and economic objectives. ing your immune system, fighting heart Wednesday, July 8, 10 am. disease, and providing an energy The Fate of Art boost. Learn how foods work together Life Energy 101: Be Inspired! and how to prepare a well-balanced in Nazi Germany With Marianna Farina meal with synergy. I Thursday, July 23, 1 p I Sotiria Everett is a nutritionist at the Katz Wednesday, August 5, 1 pm An international faculty of distin - Institute for Women’s Health, North Shore LIJ. Learn how to maximize your natural guished modernists taught at the She is a Registered Dietitian, (RD), a Board Vital Life Force through mindfulness, Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD), Bauhaus School of Art and Design in and a certified dietitian-nutritionist in NYS movement, and meditation. By marry - liberal Germany during the 1920s. (CDN) ing eastern and western thought, dis - Hitler closed the school shortly after cover easy practical methods to keep being appointed chancellor in 1933. Spirit Sky Drum youself youthful, healthy, and happy Hitler organized modern art, seized Drumming for Health for a lifetime. from museums, into his “Degenerate Art Exhibit” of 1936, which ridiculed With George Schultze National Geographic: Photograph: I Vincent Kessler, Reuters modernism as an unhygienic symptom Wednesday,July 22, 11 am of miscegenation that needed to be Drumming can reduce stress, exterminated. depression, and anxiety, with the ben - Dr. Raverty received his Ph.D from Rutgers efit of strengthening your immune sys - University and his BA from the University of tem. A great physical exercise; enjoy - Minnesota. He specializes in modern and con - temporary art history, theory and criticism. An able and uplifting! Drums provided. award winning author, he lives in NYC and is District residents may register beginning So You Think You Want to working on a monograph on contemporary Wednesday, July 8, 10 am & 7 pm. Be a Beekeeper? Iranian American artist, Siah Armajani. Summer Lao Cooking With Moira Alexander, owner and operator of Nissequogue Apiary, The Good Old Days: Popular With Penn Hongthong Smithtown Culture in the Roaring 20s I Wednesday, August 12, 11 am I Monday, August 10, 7 pm With Marilyn Carminio Lao Cooking is a healthy way to Ms. Alexander will discuss the nec - I Tuesday, August 4, 1 pm cook with lots of vegetables and very essary components to keeping bees. little oil or salt. Learn a better understanding of how to The period between the Great War Ms. Hongthong will demonstrate get started in the amazing hobby of and the Depression is one of exciting how to make banana tapioca dessert, keeping bees. Topics covered: storage, social and historical changes. Get to sticky rice/sweet rice, mashed roasted location of hives, cost, time involve - know the “brilliant men and the beau - eggplant and fish in banana leaves. ment, education, neighbors, equip - tiful jazz babies!” Learn about the his - There will be samples to taste. ment, and things to consider. tory, music, fashions, fads, and follies Penn is the author of Simple Laotian Cooking and For the past ten years, she has man - of the times. With a slide presentation Healthy Lao Cuisine, and hosts her own cooking aged as many as 10 hives on a half- and video clips, the era will come alive show, Simple Lao Cuisin e on YouTube and her before your eyes. website: www.laochef.com acre, surrounded by neighbors. In addi - tion she maintains hives in Northport Marilyn Carminio has lectured at the Hutton Registration is limited. District residents may House, Southampton Historical Society, the register beginning Wednesday, July 22, 10 am. and on the campus of Stony Brook Roslyn Preservation Society, among others. University. ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. 4 AUTHOR VISITS COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS

Property Tax Exemptions Sharper Training Solutions, Inc. Workshop Introduction to PowerPoint with Dept. of Assessment, I Tuesday, July 7, 7 pm Nassau County Learn to create exciting computer - I Thursday, July 9, 1 pm to 3 pm ized presentations with Microsoft If you live in and are the owner of a PowerPoint, a program that can be home, condominium or cooperative used as an aid in giving speeches and Exit Berlin apartment, you may qualify for hun - presentations. How One Woman Saved Her dreds of dollars in property tax savings Prerequisites: Computer Kindergarten Family From Nazi Germany each year. To help you file or learn and 1st Grade or equivalent. By Charlotte R. Bonelli, more about the property tax exemp - Director of the American Jewish tions you may be eligible for, Nassau Intermediate PowerPoint Committee Archives County is equipped with specially con - I Tuesday, July 28, 7 pm I Tuesday, July 14, 7 pm figured computers linked to the coun - Learn intermediate techniques in ty’s database. The Department of With the help of her cousin, Arnold slide animation and graphics, transi - Assessment staff will process property Hatch, Luzie had managed to flee tions, formatting and more. Pre -requi - tax exemption applications at the Berlin shortly after Kristallnacht in sites: Computer Kinder garten and 1st library workshop. Homeowners who November 1938 and resettle in New Grade, and Introduction to Microsoft will be filing for an exemption can help York. Luzie became the intermediary PowerPoint or equivalent. between her cousin and relatives, who, expedite the processing of their appli - These are hands-on classes. after learning of Luzie’s successful cation by bringing copies of any docu - mentation that is required for the District residents may register beginning immigration, sought the same. This is Tuesday, June 30, 10 am. Class size is limited the story, as told in 85 selected letters property tax exemption application. to 24 persons. out of 300 carefully saved letters by No appointment necessary. For further infor - Luzie, of Luzie’s trials to get her mation please call (516) 571-1500. Long Island Blood Drive remaining family out of Germany. LI Blood Services, A division of NY Ms. Bonelli has spoken at the YIVO Institute for How to Maximize Your Blood Center, Westbury Jewish Research,, the 92nd Street Y, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan, and Social Security Income I Tuesday, August 18, the Florida Holocaust Museum. Back by popular demand! 2:30 – 8:30 pm With Richard F. Milella, Please schedule your appointment From a Nickel to a Token Advisory Associates Ltd. beginning Tuesday, July 21, 10 am. The Journey from Boa rd of I Wednesday, July 15, 7 pm You must be age 17-75 years old and in Transportation to MT A For the majority of people in retire - good general health. The entire By Andrew J. Sparberg ment, Social Security makes up 20% to process takes less than one hour and I Thursday, August 20, 1 pm 50% of their total retirement income— your generous gift will help up to 5 A must-read for transit buffs, From often upwards of $500,000 in lifetime people. All donors will receive NY a Nickel to a Token chronicles twenty benefits. With this amount of money at Mets tickets. specific events in the history of New stake, doesn’t it make sense to maxi - York City’s mass transit systems mize that asset? Think about it. Social FOR TEENS between 1940 and 1968, including Security is a truly unique retirement large numbers of rare photos. In this asset in many ways: it adjusts annually Unmask! Teen Summer fascinating micro-history of New York’s for inflation, has tax advantages, at Reading Contest transit system, Andrew Sparberg exam - worst, it’s only 85% taxable as normal For students entering grades 6-12 ines 20 specific events between 1940 income, and is backed by a promise and 1968, ending from the US Government. Learning how Enter for a chance to win an with subway and when you choose to collect Social Amazon gift card by filling out a unification and the Security could well be the most impor - contest entry form available in MTA’s creation. tant decision a person will make in the Teen Section or online at Featuring many retirement. www.hwpl.org/teens/. For more photos never before Registration begins Wednesday, July 1, 10 am chances to win fill out a contest form for every book you read this summer! published, From a Summer Vacation Loans Nickel to a Token June 1 through September 19, 2015 Many will enter and MANY will win! is a historical trip Summer vacation loans are available to HWPL District residents may begin submitting back in time. cardholders for most circulating materials. entries now. All entries must be received by Call for more information on summer loans or Monday, August 17, 2015. Winners will be Author visits are co-sponsored by the ask at Circulation when checking out. notified Wednesday, August 19, 2015. Friends of the Library.

5 WEDNESDAY FILMS BIG SCREEN FILMS

Big Screen “Heist” Capers Into the Woods I Rififi Wednesday, July 29, 7 pm I Starring Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine Wednesday, July 8, 2 pm Directed by Rob Marshall, Rated PG, 125 min. Starring Jean Servais, Carl Möher, Based on the Stephen Sondheim Robert Manuel Directed by Jules Dassin, NR, 122 min. musical of the same name, a witch French with English subtitles, 1955 takes a childless baker and his wife, Four men plan a technically perfect while procuring magical items from crime, but the human element inter - classic fairy tales, to reverse the curse venes… put on their family tree. Beyond Right & Wrong Snatch Still Alice Documentary; Directors: Roger Spottiswoode I Wednesday, July 22, 2 pm I Wednesday, August 12, 2 &7 pm and Lekha Singh, Executive Producer: Lekha Singh. Producers: Lekha Singh and Rebecca Starring Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin Chaiklin, NR, 80 min. Benicio Del Toro Directed by Richard Glatzer, Wash Directed by Guy Ritchie, Rated R, Westmoreland, Rated PG-13, 101 min. I Thursday, September 10, 2 pm 102 min., 2000 A linguistics professor and her family Beyond Right & Wrong presents the Unscrupulous boxing promoters, vio - find their bonds are tested when the stories of people who have experienced lent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, professor is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s loss and the stories of people who have incompetent amateur robbers, and sup - disease. caused that loss. From the Rwandan posedly Jewish jewelers fight to track Genocide to the Troubles in Northern down a priceless stolen diamond. Ireland to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, people from different sides The Usual Suspects of the violence have entrusted the I Wednesday, August 5, 7 pm film makers and audiences with their Starring Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, stories —their anger or remorse, their Chazz Palminteri pain, their paths to recovery. Directed by Bryan Singer, Rated R, 106 min. Roger Spottiswoode began his career as an 1995 Wild editor but became a director with the 1980 A sole survivor tells of the twisty I Wednesday, August 26, 2 & 7 pm film Terror Train. events leading up to a horrific gun bat - Starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern Fine-art photographer Lekha Singh’s tle on a boat, which begins when 5 Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, Rated R, 115 min. contributed photographs to National criminals meet at a seemingly random This films chronicles one woman’s Geographic’s The Other Side of War: Women’s police lineup. Stories of Survival and Hope. She also produced 1,100 mile solo hike, undertaken as a the documentary The Square, which won three way to recover from a recent cata - Emmys and was nominated for an Academy strophic event. Award. Singh made her directorial debut with Boyhood the documentary film Beyond Right & Wrong. I Wednesday, July 1, 2 & 7 pm The Imitation Game Wings of Life Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, I Wednesday, September 2, Ethan Hawke 2 & 7pm Documentary/Disneynature, Rated G, 80 min. Directed by Richard Linklater, Rated R, 165 min. Directed and written by Louie Schwartzberg Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightly Filmed over 12 years, this film is the Blacklight Films Directed by Morten Tyldum, Rated PG-13, 114 min. A Louie Schwartzberg Film story of Mason. The film follows him During WWII, mathematician Alan Narrated by Meryl Streep from his early childhood to his arrival Turing tries to crack the Enigma Code I Sunday, September 20, 2 pm at college. with help from a team of selected From Disneynature, Wings of Life is mathematicians. American Sniper a stunning adventure full of intrigue, I Wednesday, July 15, 2 pm drama and mesmerizing beauty. This Selma intimate and unprecedented look at Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, I Wednesday, September 30, butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats Kyle Gallner 2 & 7pm Directed by Clint Eastwood, Rated R, 132 min. and flowers is a celebration of life, as Starring David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Oprah a third of the world’s food supply Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle’s pin - Winfrey point accuracy saved countless lives on Directed by Ava DuVernay, Rated PG-13, 128 min. depends on these incredible—and the battlefield, which turned him into A chronicle of Martin Luther King’s increasingly threatened—creatures. a legend. Back home with his family, campaign to secure equal voting rights Director Louie Schwartzberg ( America –Heart & after 4 tours of duty, Chris finds it dif - Soul ) grew up in Brooklyn. His parents were and the historical march for voting Holocaust survivors. He graduated from UCLA ficult to leave the war behind. rights, from Selma to Montgomery, Film School with an MFA in 1970s. Alabama in 1965. * Please note times of films 6 IN THE GALLERY H-WPL READERS

Simeon Hook A Monthly Book Discussion Group I June 29 – July 29 TUESDAYS AT 11 AM Reception: Thursday, July 2, 6 pm District residents may reserve copies of the books well in advance of the discus - Simeon Hook is a local resident and sions. Review packets are available at the Information Desk. travel photographer. His show will Note: July & August, discussions are Tuesdays at 11 am. In September we include photographs from the many return to Mondays at 1 pm. countries he has visited. Euphoria by Lily King Toro families, as well as other immi - Oiha grant neighbors, and their stories stress Church Discussion leader: by Ellen Getreu that their individual experiences can’t Simeon I be reduced to types or statistics. Hook Tuesday, July 14, 11 am “A smartly observed tale of immigrant life This is a romance fiction set in New that cannily balances its optimistic tone with Guinea and clearly based on anthropol - straight talk”.(Kirkus Reviews, May 1, 2014) ogist Margaret Mead’s relationship with her second and third husbands, R.F. Casebook by Mona Simpson Fortune and Gregory Bateson. In the Vivien Pollack Discussion leader: early 1930s, Nell and Fen are married I August 3 – August 31 Candace Plotsker-Herman anthropologists in New Guinea. I Vivien Pollack paints oil paintings American Nell has already published a Monday, September 21, 1 pm and silk paintings. Her silk paintings, controversial best-seller about Samoan A teenage narrator struggles to com - which are painted on silk panels, will child-rearing while Australian Fen has prehend a parental split. The narrator, be featured in her show at the library. published only a monograph on Dobu Miles, is a bright LA high schooler who’s island sorcery. Their marriage is in prone to precocious antics such as a David Paone trouble. They run into British anthro - moneymaking scheme selling lunches I September 1- September 29 pologist Bankson, who is researching out of his locker. He’s also picked up a another tribal village, the Nengai, more questionable eavesdropping Reception: Thursday, September 10, 7 pm along the Sepik River. Bankson offers to habit, listening in on his mathematician Dave Paone is a photographer jour - find Nell and Fen an interesting tribe to mother’s phone conversations after her nalist. He shoots his photos in black study to keep them nearby. Soon the marriage collapses and she pursues a and white. couple is happily ensconced with the new relationship with Eli, whose inten - Tam. tions and background strike Miles as IN THE BOEHM ROOM “King does not shy from showing the uncom - questionable. But as the truth about Eli Cristina Artusa fortable relationship among all three anthro - emerges and Miles gets wise to reality, pologists and those they study. Particularly the author shifts into a more serious I June 8 – July 20 upsetting is the portrait of a Tam who returns “civilized” after working in a copper mine. A register. Cristina Artusa paints abstract small gem, disturbing and haunting.”(Kirkus “Everyone had secrets, I understood, now that pieces. Her work features design repe - Reviews, April 15, 2014) I did,” Miles explains. “With that one revela - tition with square shapes. tion, the world multiplied.” Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 2014) The Book of Unknown ÌF Great Books Discussion Americans Group 2015 by Cristina Henríquez Little Gems by Famous Authors Discussion leader: With Dr. Allen Lanner Edna Ritzenberg I I Tuesdays at 7:30 pm Tuesday, August 11, 11 am September 29: Malamud, Bernard A family from Mexico settles in Selections from The Magic Barrel Delaware. Arturo and Alma Rivera Farrar, Straus, and Giroux have brought their teenage daughter, October 20: Roth, Philip Maribel, to the U.S. in the hope of Short Story selections from Goodbye helping her recover from a head injury Columbus: and Five Short Stories she sustained in a fall. Their neighbors Houghton Mifflin Rafael and Celia Toro, who came from Publications, 31 E. 2nd St., Mineola, NY Panama years earlier, and their 11501-3582. Fax or credit card orders: 516- teenage son, Mayor, who takes quickly 294-9758. Telephone: 516-241-5438. Copies to Maribel. The novel alternates narra - of the titles currently in our collection will be available behind the Circulation Desk. tors among members of the Rivera and

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