POSTPONED - Jan 16 @ 7 PM - Meet the Author: Mark Chiusano - The Fabulist

This program has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon.

Photo Credit: Charlotte Alter

Meet author Mark Chiusano, a Newsday alum and PEN/Hemingway honoree, as he discusses his book, The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos. Chiusano tells the full story of Santos, from his humble years spent in Brazil, to glamorous nights on the west side of Manhattan, to the stunning small-time scams employed to ease his slippery climb up the American society ladder.

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3.

The eBook version of The Fabulist can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

COPIES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE LIBRARY

America has grown used to larger-than-life politicians: Teflon Don, AOC, MTG, Dark Brandon, and all the rest have injected DC politics with an unmistakable edge of celebrity flair and tabloid intrigue. Yet in 2022, a new player on the national scene outshone them all. George Anthony Devolder Santos, and his revolving door of pseudonyms, shed glaring new light on how far we all let our politics slide as his claimed resume was shred to bits in the wake of a longshot run to office from New York's 3rd Congressional District. From Wall Street gigs to an amateur volleyball career, from embellished claims of Jewish heritage to a fabricated 9/11 story involving his mother's death, Santos' legend continued to grow as his web of lies evaporated in real time. And the only thing wilder than this charlatan embedding himself in the warm, consequence-evading arms of our nation's capital was the Queens con artist's refusal to bow his head in shame. The Santos show continues, as he joins the ranks of high-wattage fakers like Anna Delvey and Elizabeth Holmes.

Dec 4 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

Join us on December 4 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson. A self-published author of crime novel writing guides attends a reunion with his family of expert killers and investigates when a body is found outside in the snow as a debilitating storm approaches.

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3.

The eBook version of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 1236.

Nov 27 @ 1 PM - The Glatstein Chronicles

STORIES OF EXILE

The East Meadow Public Library was awarded a book discussion grant by the Yiddish Book Center. The theme is Stories of Exile. Stories of Exile is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. Using Yiddish literature as a portal, the program will feature works in translation that explore narratives which grapple with questions of homelands, journeys, identity, and belonging. Reading groups will compare these works written in Yiddish in the early and mid-20th century to works by contemporary writers from all across the globe.

November 27 at 1:00 p.m. - The Glatstein Chronicles by Jacob Glatstein, Edited by Ruth Wisse, translated by Maier Deshell and Norbert Guterman

Discussion Leader: Donna Rosenblum from LI Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center. 

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3.

This seminal American work from the Yiddish literary canon, in a restored English edition, offers the luminous narrative of the author's journey home to his Polish birthplace. In 1934, with World War II on the horizon, Jacob Glatstein (1896-1971) traveled from his home in America to his native Poland to visit his dying mother. One of the foremost Yiddish poets of the day, he used his journey as the basis for two autobiographical novellas, together known as The Glatstein Chronicles, in which he intertwines childhood memories with observations of growing anti-Semitism in Europe.

The discussion will focus mainly on book one, Homeward Bound, of this collection.

The Yiddish Book Center’s “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups for Public Libraries is made possible by a gift from Sharon Karmazin.

Oct 23 @ 6:45 PM - Murder Mystery Party

                MURDER MYSTERY PARTY - October 23, 2023 at 6:45 p.m.

Love trying to figure out who done it when you read a mystery? Then come solve a mystery at East Meadow Library. There will be clues and costumes as you immerse yourself in a character to be confused and confounded. Don’t miss this evening of murder and mayhem. Register early as spaces will be limited.

REGISTRATION CLOSED, WAITING LIST IS FULL.

Sept 19 @ 7 PM - Drive-In Movie - Witch's Mirror

OUTDOOR MOVIE – DRIVE-IN STYLE! 

The Witch’s Mirror

September 19, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.

Library Reading Garden

In case of inclement weather, the raindate will be September 26.

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3. Space is limited.

Join film historian Keith Crocker and the Reader Services Department as we host an evening of Mexican horror. Using a rare 16mm film print, Keith Crocker will show one of the classics from the golden age of Mexican horror cinema, The Witch’s Mirror (El Espejo de la Bruja), from 1962. This film will be shown in the library’s reading garden, drive-in style. In this delightfully creepy tale directed by Chano Urueta, a husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch’s mirror to take her revenge. In conjunction with the movie, we will briefly discuss Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s horror fiction masterpiece that bedazzles the reader with spells, hexes, evil sorcerers, and cursed films, Silver Nitrate. Besides presenting the film, Keith Crocker will discuss other Mexican horror movie classics. Grab some popcorn and enjoy the show!

Sept 11 @ 7 PM - In the Land of the Postscript

STORIES OF EXILE

The East Meadow Public Library was awarded a book discussion grant by the Yiddish Book Center. The theme is Stories of Exile. Stories of Exile is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. Using Yiddish literature as a portal, the program will feature works in translation that explore narratives which grapple with questions of homelands, journeys, identity, and belonging. Reading groups will compare these works written in Yiddish in the early and mid-20th century to works by contemporary writers from all across the globe.

September 11 at 7:00 p.m. - In the Land of the Postscript: Short Stories by Chava Rosenfarb, translated by Goldie Morgentaler

This collection makes available in English for the first time a complete selection of Chava Rosenfarb’s short stories all in one place. All the stories in this collection deal with the afterlife of Holocaust survivors in North America. Since Chava Rosenfarb was herself a Holocaust survivor who settled in Montreal after the war, she speaks in these stories from personal experience at the same time as she allows her imagination to inhabit the minds of characters far different from herself.

The Yiddish Book Center’s “Stories of Exile” Reading Groups for Public Libraries is made possible by a gift from Sharon Karmazin.

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3.

August 14 @ 7 PM - Read 'N Share

Read ‘N Share – Read a good book recently? Talk about it with other book lovers! 

We will host our Summer Wrap-Up Read ‘N Share, on Zoom, to talk about the books that we read over the summer. We record your titles and make an annotated bibliography of all of the books we share, which will be available in September.

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3. The Zoom link will be sent to all who have registered the morning of the event.

Aug 7 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Join us on August 7 at 7:00 pm as we discuss Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world.

No registration required.

The eBook version of Anxious People can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for Anxious People.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 1236.

July 24 @ 1 PM - We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai

STORIES OF EXILE

The East Meadow Public Library was awarded a book discussion grant by the Yiddish Book Center. The theme is Stories of Exile. Stories of Exile is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. Using Yiddish literature as a portal, the program will feature works in translation that explore narratives which grapple with questions of homelands, journeys, identity, and belonging. Reading groups will compare these works written in Yiddish in the early and mid-20th century to works by contemporary writers from all across the globe.

July 24 at 1:00 p.m. - We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories From Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3.

The eBook version of We Are Displaced can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Malala’s experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement — first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere except to the home she loved. In We Are Displaced, Malala not only explores her own story, but she also shares the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her journeys — girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only world they’ve ever known.

In a time of immigration crises, war, and border conflicts, We Are Displaced is an important reminder from one of the world’s most prominent young activists that every single one of the 68.5 million currently displaced is a person — often a young person — with hopes and dreams. Part of the Yiddish Book Center’s Program: Stories of Exile.

Adult Summer Reading Club - Register Now!

THE EAST MEADOW PUBLIC LIBRARY ADULT SUMMER READING CLUB RETURNS

BE A PART OF THIS FABULOUS PROGRAM

REGISTER NOW!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR ADULT SUMMER READING CLUB, PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK.

CHECK OUT OUR SUMMER READING CLUB BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR RECOMMENDED TITLES WE’RE SURE YOU’LL LOVE!

This year’s Summer Reading Club theme, All Together Now, expresses the joy we share as we see things returning to something approaching normal. Feeling confident to come back to experience our author events, our craft program, and our book discussions in person, is a major step in rebuilding our library reading community. Of course, you can’t just read our theme without singing the Beatles ditty “All Together Now” in your mind. And just like in the song, the Reader Services Department promises you a summer of “1-2-3-4-can I have a little more.” Yes you can- 3 more to be exact. We will have 6 events that we hope you will attend in person, and the seventh, a Zoom Read ‘n Share, will allow everyone to talk about their favorite summer reads.

Registration for the summer reading club will be open until August 7th. Three book reviews admit you to the Goodbye Summer -Wish it were Longer Party in August with Jane Rosen, whose new novel On Fire Island debuted this May.

Looking forward to the rest of the summer, our Reading Club events include a quilting craft, a meeting of the Yiddish Book Club, an evening book discussion-and, of course, our summer wrap-up Read ‘n Share.

We are looking forward to a great, fun-filled summer of reading as we meet All Together Now once more.

June 26 @ 8 PM - Mystery Book Club - The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

Join us on June 26 at 8:00 p.m. as we discuss The Escape Room by Megan Goldin. Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive. Four young Wall Street rising stars discover the price of ambition when an escape room challenge turns into a lethal game of revenge. Trapped in the dark, the colleagues must put aside their bitter rivalries and work together to solve cryptic clues to break free. But as the game begins to reveal the team’s darkest secrets, they realize there’s a price to be paid for the terrible deeds they committed in their ruthless climb up the corporate ladder. As tempers fray, and the clues turn deadly, they must solve one final chilling puzzle: which one of them will kill in order to survive?

The eBook version of The Escape Room can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Register online by clicking on this link, or by calling 516-794-2570, option 3. 

Discussion guide for The Escape Room.

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June 12 @ 7 pm - Adult Summer Reading Kickoff With Author Marilyn Simon Rothstein

The Reader Services Department of the East Meadow Public Library is thrilled to announce the kickoff of our twelfth annual Adult Summer Reading Club on Monday, June 12th. Marilyn Simon Rothstein will be joining us at 7:00 p.m. to discuss her books, which include Lift and Separate, Husbands and Other Sharp Objects, and Crazy to Leave You. Marilyn will be signing copies of her works which will be for sale after the program.

The registration for our reading club will be held in the lobby from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and we will also take registrations at the kickoff party which will be from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. After June 12th, you can either register online at our summer reading club website https://emlibny10.readsquared.com or with the Reader Services Department. Our reading club will provide members the opportunity to attend exciting book events along with a delightful party at the end of the program.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 1236.

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May 23 @ 7 PM - On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash

STORIES OF EXILE

The East Meadow Public Library was awarded a book discussion grant by the Yiddish Book Center. The theme is Stories of Exile. Stories of Exile is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora. Using Yiddish literature as a portal, the program will feature works in translation that explore narratives which grapple with questions of homelands, journeys, identity, and belonging. Reading groups will compare these works written in Yiddish in the early and mid-20th century to works by contemporary writers from all across the globe.

May 23 at 7:00 p.m. - On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash, translated by Ellen Cassedy

In these sixteen stories, available in English for the first time, prize-winning author Yenta Mash traces an arc across continents, across upheavals and regime changes, and across the phases of a woman’s life. Mash’s protagonists are often in transit, poised “on the landing” on their way to or from somewhere else. In imaginative, poignant, and relentlessly honest prose, translated from the Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy, Mash documents the lost world of Jewish Bessarabia, the texture of daily life behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Moldova, and the challenges of assimilation in Israel. On the Landing opens by inviting us to join a woman making her way through her ruined hometown, recalling the colorful customs of yesteryear—and the night when everything changed. We then travel into the Soviet gulag, accompanying women prisoners into the fearsome forests of Siberia. In postwar Soviet Moldova, we see how the Jewish community rebuilds itself. On the move once more, we join refugees struggling to find their place in Israel. Finally, a late-life romance brings a blossoming of joy.

Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 516-794-2570, option 3.

April 20 @ 7 PM - Meet the Author: Laurie Lico Albanese

MEET THE AUTHOR – LAURIE LICO ALBANESE

April 20 at 7:00 p.m.

We are honored to have native East Meadow-er Laurie Lico Albanese, visiting us to talk about her new best-selling book, Hester. Laurie will be signing copies of her book which will be for sale after the program.

Register online at www.eastmeadow.info or by calling 516-794-2570 option 3. 

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COPIES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE LIBRARY

The eBook version of Hester can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress who sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. Only days after they’ve arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted by his ancestors, who sent innocent women to the gallows––while she is an unusually gifted needleworker, troubled by her own strange talents. As the weeks pass and Edward’s safe return grows increasingly unlikely, Nathaniel and Isobel grow closer and closer. Together, they are a muse and a dark storyteller; the enchanter and the enchanted. But which is which? Meticulously researched yet evocatively imagined, Hester is a timeless tale of art, ambition, and desire that examines the roots of female creative power and the men who try to shut it down.

Discussion guide for Hester.

Scarlet Letter Cheat Sheet

Meet the Authors - April 18 @ 2 PM & April 20 @ 7 PM

 

MEET THE AUTHORS

April 18 at 2:00 p.m. - John Aldridge and Anthony Sosinski

We are so excited to have the authors of this year’s Long Island Reads book, A Speck in the Sea. John Aldridge and Anthony Sosinski will be here to answer questions about their harrowing experience and about being baymen on Long Island. Books will be available for sale at the program.

Registration begins Tuesday, April 4, either online at www.eastmeadow.info, or by calling 516-794-2570 option 3. First week of registration for East Meadow School District residents only. 

April 20 at 7:00 p.m. - Laurie Lico Albanese

We are honored to have native East Meadow-er Laurie Lico Albanese, visiting us to talk about her new best-selling book, Hester. Laurie will be signing copies of her book which will be for sale after the program.

Registration begins Monday, April 3, either online at www.eastmeadow.info, or by calling 516-794-2570 option 3. First week of registration for East Meadow School District residents only.

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April 10 @ 1 PM - Lunch 'N Books/LI Reads - A Speck In The Sea

Join us on April 10 at 1:00 pm as we discuss A Speck In The Sea by John Aldridge and Anthony Sosinski. In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was thrown off the back of the Anna Mary while his fishing partner, Anthony Sosinski, slept below. As desperate hours ticked by, Sosinski, the families, the local fishing community, and the U.S. Coast Guard in three states mobilized in an unprecedented search effort that culminated in a rare and exhilarating success. A tale of survival, perseverance, and community, it recounts one man’s struggle to survive as friends and strangers work to bring him home.

Moderator: Nancy Solomon, Director of Long Island Traditions

No Registration Needed

COPIES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE LIBRARY

The eBook version of A Speck In The Sea can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Reader’s guide for A Speck In The Sea.

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MEET THE AUTHORS JOHN ALDRIDGE AND ANTHONY SOSINSKI ON APRIL 18 AT 2:00 P.M.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 1236

March 20 @ 7 PM - Evening Book Discussion: Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

Join us on March 20 at 7:00 pm as we discuss Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese. Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress who sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. Only days after they’ve arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted by his ancestors, who sent innocent women to the gallows––while she is an unusually gifted needleworker, troubled by her own strange talents. As the weeks pass and Edward’s safe return grows increasingly unlikely, Nathaniel and Isobel grow closer and closer. Together, they are a muse and a dark storyteller; the enchanter and the enchanted. But which is which? Meticulously researched yet evocatively imagined, Hester is a timeless tale of art, ambition, and desire that examines the roots of female creative power and the men who try to shut it down.

Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 516-794-2570 option 3.

The eBook version of Hester can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for Hester.

Laurie Lico Albanese will be appearing at the library on April 20 at 7:00 p.m.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 1236.

Feb 1st through Feb 17th - Blind Date with a Book

BLIND DATE WITH A BOOK

For those of you in love with books, we are bringing back our Blind Date With a Book program. Beginning Wednesday, February 1, readers can check out a wrapped book and find out the title when they get home. Inside the package is a form to write your name, barcode and a short review of the book, including your opinion. You can return the form to the Reference Desk. The program will end Friday, February 17 and we will not accept forms after that date. A drawing from the completed forms will be held for a small Valentine prize. While you can check out as many titles as you want, only the first completed form will be entered into the drawing. They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover-now you have a chance to see if it’s true.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext.1236.

Happy Valentine’s Day!