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A monthly guide to your community library, its programs and services Issue No. 250, January 2010 January holidays The library will be closed on Friday, January 1. On January 18, we’ll be open from 1 to 5 p.m. in observance of Martin Luther King Day. Thanks, Garden Club The gorgeous greens and festive flora that brightened the building during the holiday season were courtesy of the Garden Club. Thank you! We’re a 5-Star Library Of the 7,268 public libraries surveyed in Library Journal’s national rating of public libraries, 258 were identified as “star” libraries and received 3, 4 or 5 stars. We earned 5 stars — one of just 85 libraries nationwide to receive this honor. Returning to work? Registration begins January 12 for a 2-part workshop that begins January 27. If you are a stay-at-home mom or Artist Peri Schwartz exhibits her Working With the Grid Series throughout the month. She visits on January 8. Story inside. dad ready to return to the workforce, career coach Diane Reynolds can help. See the calendar of events for details. Corinthian Trio Think spring! As top prize-winners of some of the most prestigious international We’ll be Brooklyn Bound on Wednes- competitions for their instruments, day, May 19. Mark your calendar — pianist Adam Neiman, violinist Ste- registration begins March 16. Com- fan Milenkovich and cellist Ani Az- plete details in next month’s issue. navoorian join together as the Corin- thian Trio, unifying their individual strengths to create an extraordinary ensemble. The group takes our stage with selections from Arensky and Piazzolli on Sunday, January 24 at 3 p.m., sponsored by the Music Advi- sory Council. Neiman, Milenkovich and Az- navoorian have individually per- formed recitals in over 30 countries throughout the world. They have played at premiere venues, including engagements with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, San Fran- cisco, Saint Louis, Dallas, Houston, Cincinnati, Minnesota, Indianapolis, and the Boston Pops, as well as the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C., Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Moscow State Symphony, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony and Join us for a repeat presentation of Port Wash- ington with author Elly Shodell onTuesday, continued on page 2 January 19 at 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Nautical Advisory Council. Jane Breskin Zalben offers Corinthian Trio writing series continued from page one Registration begins Monday, January 4 for a series of two 1½ hour the Helsinki Philharmonic. workshops facilitated by local author Jane Breskin Zalben which will be A collaboration born in 1998 at an overview of the publishing marketplace. the Juilliard School, the Corinthian The sessions are Tuesdays, January 19 and 26 at 7 p.m. Payment of Trio gave their professional debut at $20 for the series is due at registration. Miami’s Lincoln Theater. Other no- The workshops include discussion of the process of rewrites, drafts, table venues included Merkin Hall editing and limited readings of works to set a foundation so that each in New York, the Jupiter Chamber person can then try and do it on their own. Players, the Rachmaninoff Society Jane Breskin Zalben was chair last year of the largest exhibition Festival in Westchester County, of original art in the industry, including all of the picture book/graphic Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., novel genres. She is the author/artist of over 50 children’s books, includ- and the Civic Center in Des Moines, ing seven novels. Her new books for 2010 will be a spring picture book, Iowa. Baby Shower (a Neal Porter Book/Roaring Brook/Macmillan) and Four Music Advisory Council con- Seasons (Knopf/Random House), a young adult novel. certs are privately funded by do- This program is funded, in part, by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public nations to the Port Washington funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Library Foundation. Our favorite books of 2009 . in no particular order When you Reach Me by Rebec- ER by Julie Holland. A fast-paced ca Stead. As her mother prepares read that chronicles Holland’s to be a contestant on a 1980s televi- years at the nation’s oldest public sion game show, a 12-year-old New hospital. As the book jacket states, York City girl tries to make sense “Julie Holland thought she knew of a series of mysterious notes re- what crazy was. Then she came to ceived from an anonymous source Bellevue.” Jackie Kelly, Community that seems to defy the laws of time Relations and space. Rachel Fox, Children’s Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Services Anderson. Eighteen-year-old Lia Millie’s Marvellous Hat by comes to terms with her best Friends & Family Day draws crowds Satoshi Kitamura. Millie gets a hat friend’s death from anorexia as she that changes to suit her mood. It struggles with the same disorder. becomes a flower hat, a cake hat With naked emotion, brutal honesty and more! We all have hats, if we and a narrative that’s both captivat- Another FOL success imagine them! Karen Anderson ing and claustrophobic, Wintergirls The Friends of the Library at these events,” says Amy G. Bass, Mallick, Children’s Services gives readers a haunting window welcomed hundreds of patrons to president of the FOL. As part of the The Anthologist by Nicholson into the disordered thinking behind free events it sponsored as part of day’s festivities, the FOL awarded Baker. This first-person narrative eating disorders. Laurie Halse An- its annual Friends & Family Day prizes to two teens who participated by a cantankerous poet and antholo- derson’s best book to date! Suzanne on Saturday, November 7. In the in a TeenSpace book review con- gist who suffers from writer’s block Ponzini, TeenSpace morning, a jam-packed audience test. The winners, who earned gift was a total surprise. Otherwise un- Lark and Termite by Jayne enjoyed the comedic and mysteri- certificates to Dolphin Book Shop, able to generate sufficient energy Anne Phillips grows on you slowly ous talents of Magic Al in a perfor- were 10th grader Jennifer Kim and and enthusiasm to overcome his and stays with you for days. It’s the mance for school-age children. In 7th grader Ali McCann. In addition, failures as lover, housekeeper, poet story of a family — dysfunctional, of the afternoon, a paperback swap the FOL conducted a free raffle for a and academician, Paul Chowder course — and how they cope with attracted well over 200 book lovers backpack of children’s books, which lives entirely in his head and voice, war, separation, disabilities and and thousands of books — fiction, was won by Sophie and Julian White. reserving all of his passionate nature. Set in the 1950s during the nonfiction, adult, children’s — were For more information on the FOL outrage for the illogical workings Korean war, the story is timeless, freely exchanged. In the lobby, the and its programming, fundraising of the poetry business and his poignant, multifaceted and a good Friends welcomed library visitors and advocacy, see pwpl.org/fol. personal campaign for a return to read. Lee Fertitta, Adult Services with literature, raffles and give- The FOL is currently conduct- rhyme and meter in the writing of Universal Studios Monsters: A aways. “What a warm and friendly ing its annual appeal and you can contemporary poetry. Jessica Ley, Legacy of Horror by Michael Mal- day at the library! We were so give online at pwpl.org/donate or via Programming lory. A coffee table book featuring happy to have all ages represented donation envelopes in the library. The Unfinished Angel by Sha- rare photographs of the Phantom of ron Creech. In a small village in the the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein Swiss Alps, an angel is discovered Monster, the Mummy, the Wolf by the free-spirited Zola, and the Man, the Creature from the Black merriment begins. They bring Lagoon and many more. Jonathan good deeds and acts of kindness Guildroy, Media Services to the villagers including a cranky Cutting for Stone : a novel old widow, a barking dog and a by Abraham Verghese. It’s Addis ragtag bunch of orphans. Filled Ababa, 1954, and identical twin with memorable characters and boys are born under very unusual good-natured nonsense, this magi- circumstances. This first novel by cal tale is a great read for children an M.D. has everything — mystery, ages 8 to 12. Joni Simon, Children’s coming-of-age, political turmoil, Services love and the practice of medicine. Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Patti Paris, Reference years on the night shift at the psych Photos by Will Wright In the Photography Gallery An Eclectic Look at Long Island Aviation Marty Schmidt exhibits An International Society for Aviation 423rd MP’s USAR headquartered on Eclectic Look at Long Island Aviation, Photography, the Long Island Center Long Island. Look for a PowerPoint January 6 through February 28 in the of Photography and the US Naval In- talk with Marty Schmidt on Monday, Photography Gallery. stitute. He is a former member of the February 8 at 7:30 p.m. Though he photographs many subjects, Marty Schmidt is a long- time aviation enthusiast. Some of his work is intended to offer a one-of-a- kind look at the line and symmetry of our physical aviation heritage through a combination of innova- Meet author tive color techniques and individual exploration and expression. Joseph Kanon His most recent shoots include On Friday, January 29 at 12:10 p.m., meet Joseph Kanon, author the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Mu- of Stardust.