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Monday, October 17
9 a.m.
Circulation Desk

Registration opens for Manhasset residents for our bus trip to the Wednesday, December 14 matinee performance of War Horse, 2011 Tony Award winner for Best Play.  The fee ofr $140 includes bus, orchestra seat, and gratuities.  Non-residents may register October 24, space permitting.

Wednesday, October 19
7 p.m.
Community Room

Part of the Everything You Need to Know About…series sponsored by the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce.  Certified Business Coach, Jack Signorelli, will discuss how these common mistakes cost business owners huge amounts of money and what to do to avoid them.

Thursday, November 3
1 p.m.
Community Room

Join Dr. James Kolb for a look at some of the more memorable moments in the American musical theatre over the last century.

It’s been quite a year and a summer of uncertainty.  But such is the life we’ve come to expect in the world of COVID-19.
The good news is I’ve been able to travel to California to see parents, children and grandchildren.  Also, I’ve been able to catch up on some of the books I put on reserve months ago and was able to pick up thanks to the library’s Curbside Pick up service.  Here are some of my favorites:

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son. Xavier is headed to college in the fall, and after years of single parenting, Valerie is facing the prospect of an empty nest. All is well until the Whitmans move in next door – an apparently traditional family with new money, ambition, and a secretly troubled teenaged daughter.

Told from multiple points of view, A Good Neighborhood asks big questions about life in America today―What does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don’t see eye to eye?―as it explores the effects of class, race, and heartrending star-crossed love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful.  Get the tissues ready!

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a deeply compelling what-might-have-been: What if Hillary Rodham hadn’t married Bill Clinton?

In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she’s attending Yale Law School, and she’s on the forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome, charismatic southerner and fellow law student, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other, the two find a profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced.

In the real world, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas, and he proposed several times; although she said no more than once, as we all know, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton.

But in Curtis Sittenfeld’s powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction, Hillary takes a different road.

Weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness, moral ambivalence, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel.

The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett
Librarian Cheryl says, “This is one of the BEST books I have read so far in 2020.  I highly recommend it, the writing is exquisite and sets the tone, and the reader feels as if he/she is in that place, knows the characters, and is part of the worlds created by the author. “

The Vignes twin sisters grew up in a small, southern black community and ran away together to New Orleans at age sixteen.  After living together for a few years, they go their separate ways.  But the separation goes deeper than it appears as the two have completely different families, communities, and racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white. Despite their separation, the fates of the twins remain intertwined.

And on a lighter note, one of my all time favorite writers, Carl Hiassen, has a new book that will make you laugh out loud.
Squeeze Me by Carl Hiassen
Carl Hiaasen’s Squeeze Me is set among the landed gentry of Palm Beach. A prominent high-society matron–who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES–has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns out, is far from the truth. Meanwhile, a bizarre discovery in the middle of the road brings the First Lady’s motorcade to a grinding halt (followed by some grinding between the First Lady and a lovestruck Secret Service agent). Enter Angie Armstrong, wildlife wrangler extraordinaire, who arrives at her own conclusions after she is summoned to the posh island to deal with a mysterious and impolite influx of huge, hungry pythons . . .

Completely of the moment, full of vim and vigor, and as irreverent as can be, Squeeze Me is pure, unadulterated Hiaasen.

Reviews curtesy of Goodreads.

Have comments or favorite books you’d like to share?
email me at: srappaport@manhassetlibrary.org

 

Wednesday, June 8
7 p.m.
Community Room

Everything you need to know about the great restaurants in Manhasset and what they offer.  Come taste and enjoy!
Everything You Need to Know…is a series presented by the Manhasset Chamber of Commerce.

We’re bringing back our popular Bingo Game for Manhasset adults who join our Summer Reading Program.

Beginning Monday, June 26th, explore your library and the many things available to you with your library card. Complete activities and earn raffle tickets. The more you do, the more chances you will have to win our fun raffles!

Adults get a prize for registering and a raffle ticket for every activity completed.

There are weekly raffles and one Grand Prize drawing on August 14. Audiobooks count as reading too!

Click Here to log in or register on beanstack. You can also sign-up at the

2nd Floor Reference Desk to get started and collect your Registration Prize.

 

 

Thursday, August 18
10 a.m.
Community Room

Prior registration required.

Tuesday, November 8
1 p.m.
Community Room

Join Harvey Granat and Mike Capobianco for a lively and informative look at the words and music ofAlan Jay Lerner.

Tuesday, June 22
1 p.m.
Community Room

Join Harvey Granat and Mike Capobianco for a lively and informative look at the words and music of Irving Berlin.

Tuesday, October 11
1 p.m.
Community Room

Join Harvey Granat and Mike Capobianco for a lively and informative look at the words and music of Johnny Mercer.

Tuesday, May 10
1 p.m.
Community Room

Join Harvey Granat and Mike Capobianco for a lively and informative look at  American Musical Theater icon Richard Rodgers.

Tuesday, September 13
1 p.m.
Community Room

Join Harvey Granat and Mike Capobianco for a lively and informative look at the words and music of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Tuesday, October 25
1 p.m.
Community Room

An Afternoon at the Opera with Dr. James Kolb
Great Moments in Italian Opera 
Explore the work of composers Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini and other greats of 19th Century Italian opera.

Tuesday, June 28
1 p.m.
Community Room

An Afternoon at the Opera with Dr. James Kolb
Great Opera Finales
Examples from the work of Richard Wagner, Charles Gounod, Richard Strauss, Guiseppe Verdi, and Giacomo Puccini will be examined.

An Ode to Art
Manhasset Art Association
On view: Community Room Gallery
June 2, 2019 – July 25, 2019

Tuesday, October 25
7 p.m.
Community Room

Kathryne Natale, retired Curator Supervisor of Garvies Point Museum & Preserve, and Pegg Maslow, NSAS president will speak on identifiying local trees.
A Community Outreach Program of North Shore Audubon Society.  Refreshments at 7 p.m.; program at 7:30 p.m.

Attention Manhasset manga and anime fans: We’ve just added a hot new section of anime videos right next to the video game collection.
We’re featuring the latest series and features including Vampire Knight, One Piece, Emma, Kekkaishi and K-On!  They’re available exclusively to Manhasset Library cardholders with a four day loan period.  If you’d like to make suggestions for the
collection drop an email to srappaport@manhassetlibrary.org.

Hands-on Art Class for Adults
Clay and Canvas: Mixed Media Art 
In this 1.5 hour class, students will decorate a canvas using clay, paint, rhinestones, and recycled materials such as bottle caps. These works of mixed media art—in any style of each individual student’s choosing—will celebrate the many forms of creativity.
All you need to being is your artistic self.
Join the fun.
Space is limited
Registration is now open for Manhasset library cardholders.  Non-cardholders can register Monday, June 6, space permitting.

Thursday 2/27 & 3/19
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Grades 3-7
Have fun!
No experience necessary.
ONLINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

 

Art in a Pandemic, is a multi media group exhibition.
The Covid 19 pandemic has been a stressful time of uncertainty for all of us.
This group of artists used their art to document that experience and find comfort and strength in the creative process.

On View: February 28, 2022 – May 6, 2022
Reception: March 12, 2:00-4:00 PM

Wednesday, August 10
9 a.m.
Circulation Desk

Manhasset Residents may register for the Fall Healthy Living Exercise Classes.
Choose from Strength Training, Yoga or Zumba.  Classes begin in September.
$20 per class; 8 lessons per session.
Funded in part by The Friends of the Manhasset Library.

Thursday, June 2
1 p.m.
Community Room

Join Dr. James Kolb as he takes a look the career of Barbra Streisand, star of stage, TV, and film as part of his Giants of Musical Theater series.

Wednesday, February 19
10:30 am – 11:15 am
Ages 0 – 7 with a caregiver
High energy musical duo who
encourage musical interaction!
NO REGISTRATION NECESSARY

Monday, April 11
7 p.m.
Community Room
Monday Night @ the Movies with John Bosco

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