JANUARY 2017

The Broward Public Library Foundation was founded in 1982 to enhance the collections, programs and services of the Broward County Library beyond the means of public funding. The nonprofit Foundation is the catalyst in sparking private funding and endowments to enrich the Broward County Library system. Literary Feast Planning Underway Whether you’re a fan of mysteries, biographies, romance or literary fiction, the 29th edition of Literary Feast has something special for you. This celebration of books and authors will feature 19 authors at a variety of events, including our signature fundraiser, A Night of Literary Feasts on April 1. Event proceeds benefit 18 library programs This year’s featured authors are: including the Summer Learning Program, free computer classes and free SAT/ACT Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Seinfeldia: How a Show About Workshops for high school students. Nothing Changed Everything Confirmed authors include Robert Olen Butler, Heather Robert Olen Butler, Perfume River Graham, Andrew Gross, Yaa Gyasi, Sophie Hannah, Debbie Linda Fairstein, Killer Look Herta Feely, Saving Phoebe Murrow Macomber, Joyce Maynard, Tom Swick and Ronald C. White. Heather Graham, A Perfect Obsession Literary Feast Chairs Ann Burris, Karen Jones and Merrie Mark Greaney, Gunmetal Gray Meyers are working with some 60 volunteers and teachers to Andrew Gross, The One Man make these events successful. Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing: A novel Returning this year is LitLIVE!, a free opportunity for the public Dr. James Hamblin, If Our Bodies Could Talk to meet the authors and have books signed. LitLIVE! will be held Sophie Hannah, Closed Casket Friday evening, March 31 in partnership with Barnes & Noble Debbie Macomber, If Not For You retail stores in Fort Lauderdale, Pembroke Pines and Plantation. Juan Martinez, Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting In addition to LitLUNCH! (see story on this page), other Jodi Arias Behind Bars events include Novel Day for Students (March 31), where Joyce Maynard, Under the Influence authors visit Broward high schools to meet with students and Lawrence Millman, At the End of the World Gareth Russell, Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of talk about their work and the creative process; and A Night of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII Literary Feasts (April 1), with a Welcome Reception at the Hyatt Thomas Swick, The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them Regency Pier Sixty-Six with the authors, followed by dinners in Linda Thompson, A Little Thing Called Life: On Loving Elvis Presley, private homes and restaurants. Reservations will be accepted in Bruce Jenner, and Songs in Between February; tickets are $175, visit www.bplfoundation.org or Ronald C. White, American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant call 954.357.7382. Celebrity Work/Life Balance Bring Your Silent Coach to Keynote LitLUNCH! Auction Items to a in February Gift Gathering Party Unsure how to squeeze Do you have an unused gift card, certificate for LitLUNCH! into your busy schedule? a hotel stay or access to a vacation home or unique Then this event is for you. Celebrity experience? We are busy collecting items for the Work/Life Balance Coach Samantha Literary Feast 2017 Silent Auction that will be held Ettus will share tips from her book during the The Pie Life: A Guilt-free Recipe for Night of Success and Satisfaction. Literary Samantha’s book isn’t about Feasts on food. It’s about teaching women—at April 1, any stage of their career—how to and would successfully balance a busy personal appreciate life with a career or community donations. work. Join this best-selling author and You’re nationally syndicated radio show host as she describes her process of viewing invited to join us at a Silent Auction Gift-Gathering life as a pie with you as the baker at LitLUNCH! on Friday, Feb. 10, starting Party, with wine and light hors d’oeuvres, from at 11:15 a.m., at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six’s Pier Top restaurant in Fort 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, at the Riva Lauderdale. Condos Sales Center (1200 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Whether you’re retired or just beginning a career, Samantha’s action- Lauderdale). Guests are asked to bring items valued oriented suggestions can be shared at the office with work colleagues, friends, at $50 or more. daughters, sons, and family and community members. Please call Pati Rice at 954.357.7382 or LitLUNCH!, the first of the annual Literary Feast events, is always a sellout. email her at [email protected] to RSVP or Please visit www.bplfoundation.org/litlunch for sponsorship information arrange to drop off items. or to purchase your non-refundable tickets ($75 per person). Big Read Highlights Two Join Board of Directors

Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Broward Public Library The Namesake Foundation Board of Directors recently welcomed two new Broward County Library’s Big members. Read 2017, a community-wide Dr. Sunem Beaton-Garcia reading program in January and serves as Broward College’s February, will focus Dean of Libraries and Academic on The Namesake Success Centers. She earned a by Pulitzer Prize- Master’s in Information Science winning author from the University of South Jhumpa Lahiri. Florida and her Doctorate The novel, with its in Education from Nova rich descriptions Southeastern University. Sunem Dr. Sunem Beaton-Garcia of Bengali customs Jhumpa Lahiri and her husband have one son and Hindu rituals, demonstrates how the familiar and are long-time residents of Hollywood. struggles between new and old, assimilation and cultural preservation play out for foreign-born parents and their American-born children. Kristen Klein is a yacht sales A Passport to India program, the broker with Northrop & Johnson Yachts Big Read kickoff event, will be from in Fort Lauderdale, where she’s worked 1 to 4 p.m. Jan.21 at the Northwest since 2012. Prior to joining Northrop Regional Library in Coral Springs. & Johnson, she worked as Chief Other events include book and Stewardess on board 5-star luxury film discussions and Indian cultural yachts. She earned her Bachelor’s programs. degree in Environmental Science, A limited number of free books will and her Master’s degree in Business be available through the Florida Center Administration from the University of for the Book. A listing of events is at Florida. Kristen lives in Fort Lauderdale. broward.org/library/read/Pages/Default.aspx. Kristen Klein Book With Brunch Soars Books ‘n’ Bears Breaks to New Heights Records On Thursday, Jan. 19, Mary Bush Shipko, author of AVIATRIX, This year, Books ‘n’ Bears at the Holidays provided First Woman Pilot for Hughes will share stories and personal 2,040 preschoolers at 39 struggles of her journey to becoming Hughes Airwest’s first woman pilot at the Library programs in 30 Broward County Foundation’s Book With Brunch program. branch libraries a cuddly teddy Shipko takes readers through her career bear and the book Brown Bear, in aviation, from washing planes at her Brown Bear to bring home and father’s fixed-based operation at a South enjoy with their families. Florida airport to making it to the commercial One mother came into the cockpit in the mid-1970s. library a few days after the The author will speak, sell and sign her program and said that it was book at this event, which is held at 10:30 a.m. all her son could talk about that at ArtServe (1350 E. Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale), Book night – and he insisted that they With Brunch is a membership benefit for Foundation members at the read the book together before $50 level and above; non-members may attend by paying a $25 bed. We’re sure this was the non-refundable fee in advance. Please call 954-357-7382 to make case in many Broward homes. your reservation. Seating is limited to the first 50 registrants. A big bear hug goes out to the nearly 200 kind folks who saw how happy they could make a child for the holidays by Make the Foundation Your donating to the program – and helped us raise $16,000! Amazon Smile Beneficiary Do you shop on Amazon.com? If so, Amazon has a program that lets you designate our Foundation to receive .5% of your qualifying purchases. It’s called AmazonSmile and it only takes a minute to sign up and choose the Broward Public Library Foundation as your “shopping beneficiary.” Just visit http://bit.ly/QBEm4c to sign up and then shop as you normally would. We appreciate your support!

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