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Programs of Interest to Adults
- Book Clubs
- Discussion Series
- Computer Classes
- The Computer Tutor
- Computer Basics for Seniors
- Digital Camera Basics
Lunenburg Book Club
September 14
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood
An award-winning collection of ten stories that chart the complexities of modern life and explores the strange and secret places of the heart.
The gruesome discoveries of an archaeological dig in Britain find parallels in a contemporary love affair; a girl disappears without a trace and returns to haunt a collection of landscape paintings; a nineteenth-century case of mass-poisoning on the famous Franklin Expedition stirs memories of a dead friend; a woman exacts a fittingly wicked revenge on her ex-lover; a well-known journalist is betrayed by a former mentor and friend. Brilliantly rendered, disturbing, poignant at times, scathingly humorous at others,Wilderness Tipsimbues the familiar world in which we live with indelible truths.
October 12
Galore by Michael Crummey
Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to and sustain us. A intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medievil world that was rural Newfoundland, a place alomost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage extremes of climate and fate. Propelled by disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind the Sellers and Devine families through generations.
November 9
Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Postive Thinking has Undermined America by: Barbara Ehrenreich
A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism Americans are "positive" people, cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is America's reputation as well as self-image. We are told being positive is the key to success and prospeity.
Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of America's sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Ehrenreich exposes the downside of America's positive thinking and pokes holes in the conventional wisdom, ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.
Raddall Reading Club
The Raddall Reading Club meets at the Thomas H. Raddall Library in Liverpool. New members are welcome!
All meetings take place on the third Tuesday of the month at 7pm.
- September 21
Nicolski: a novel by Nicolas Dickner
In the spring of 1989, three young people, born thousands of miles apart, each cut themselves adrift from their birthplaces and set out to discover what or who might shape their lives. They each carry with them only a few artifacts of their lives, possissions that have proven so formative that they can't imagine surviving without them but also the memories of their own lives and family histories. Noah lived a life of nomadic travels with his mother. Their home was a 1966 Bonneville station wagon. Joyce, stifled by life in the remote village on Quebec's Lower North Shore, with her overbearing relatives, hitches a ride into Montreal, brought on by a news story about modern-day cyber-pirates. Then there is the unnamed narrator, who we first meet clearing out his deceased mother's house on Montreal's South Shore, and who decides to move into the city to start a new life.
Over the next ten years, Noah, Joyce and the unnamed bookseller will have their stories weave in and out of other wonderous tales such as fearsome female pirates, urban archaeologists, unexpected floods. It is through these details that we begin to know these individuals as part of a greater whole.
October 19
Under the Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
An immigrant Ukrainian family suffers unrelenting hardship on the tundra of late 1930s western Canada in this grim frontier tale.
In the spring of 1938, Teodor Mykolayenko returns to his family after a year spent in prison for the crime of trying to feed them. His wife and children have been living under the care of his sister Anna on the harsh and unforgiving prairie landscape. Channelling the great inner power that enabled him to survive drought, starvation, warfare, and Stalin's crimes in Ukraine, he takes to the land with unbending resolve, and as the crops grow, his family heals and strengthens. But the family's hopes and newfound happiness are short-lived when Anna's rogue husband returns with an unforgiveable plan that threatens to take away everything they have built. A novel about family, pride, the resiliency and fragility of the human spirit and the fine line between those who break and those who don't.
November 16
The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre
Winner of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Linden MacIntyre's searing The Bishop's Man is an unforgettable and complex character study of a deeply conflicted man at the precipice of his life.
The year is 1993 and Father Duncan MacAskill stands at a small Cape Breton fishing harbour a few miles from where he grew up. Enjoying the timeless sight of a father and son piloting a boat. He doesn' t know that his already strained faith is about to be tested by his interactions with a troubled boy, 18-year-old Danny MacKay. Known to fellow priests as the ldquo;Exorcistrdquo; because of his special role as clean-up man for the Bishop of Antigonish, Duncan has a talent for coolly reassigning deviant priests while ensuring minumum resistance from victims and their families. It has been a lonely vocation, but Duncan is generally satisfied that his work is a necessary defense of the church. All this changes when lawyers and a policeman snoop too close for the bishoprsquo;s comfort. Duncan is assigned a parish in the remote Cape Breton community of Creignish and told to wait it out. This is not the first time Duncan has been sent away for knowing too much...
Computer Basics for Seniors
This course will give participants a basic
understanding of how computers work. Lesson 1 focuses on how to turn the computer on and off properly. The difference between hardware and software and some relevant computer jargon. Lesson 2 is about word processing. Lesson 3 explores the internet and Lesson 4 offers email basics.
All sessions begin at 10am
Bridgewater Library Tuesdays
Session #1 September 21, 28, October 5, 12
Session #2 November 2, 9, 16, 23
Phone: 543-9222
Lunenburg Library Thursday
Session #1 October 7, 14, 21, 28
Session #2 November 18, 25,
December 2 & 9
Phone: 354-5270
Thomas H. Raddall (Liverpool) Fridays
Session #1 October 8, 15, 22 & 29
Session #2 November 12, 19, 26
& December 3
Phone: 634-8008
Small Communities Big Ideas
Join Small Communities - Big Ideas for the fall series, Making it work: Community Solutions for a Local Economy. SC-BI offers participants an opportunity to discuss the small community relevance of some big ideas. Each sessin focuses on a small aspect fo a larger issue.
Lunenburg Library 7:30pm
The last Tuesday of the month.
September 28, October 26, November 23
Space is limited, registration is required
Phone: 634-8008 or
info@southshorepubliclibraries.ca
Small Communities-Big Books
Small Communities-Big BooksThe summer book club wrapped up last fall -- watch for details of upcoming titles
The Computer Tutor
Call your local branch to make an appointment. File management, email, web cams, and software dilemmas are just a few of the topics the Tutor can address. The Computer Tutor will try and answer your questions and provide basic computer instruction to solve your computer woes.
Bridgewater (call 543-9222)
The Library is looking for a computer tutor to volunteer one or two Thursday evenings per month at the Bridgewater Library from 5:30-8:00pm. If you have computer skills you are interested in sharing, please contact Christina, Volunteer Coordinator, at 543-2548.
Lunenburg (call 634-8008)
Thursday evenings, 6 - 8pm (1/2-hour appointments)
Digital Camera Basics
This two-session course is for the true beginner. Lesson 1 will help participants become familiar with the camera and the jargon that goes along with digital cameras. Lesson 2 is designed to teach participants how to share their digital images. South Shore Public Libraries will supply the cameras, please bring your library card to the Lesson 1 so you can sign the camera out for the week.
Registration is required
All programs begin at 1pm
Bridgewater Library 543-9222
Session #1 Tuesday, September 21 & 28
Session #2 Tuesday, Novemeber 16 & 23
Liverpool Library 354-5270
Session #1 Friday, October 22 & 29
Session #2 Friday, November 19 & 26
Lunenburg Library 634-8008
Session #1 Thursday, October 7 & 14
Session #2 Thursday, December 2 & 9