Book Event

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

April 12 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion/LI Reads - The Living and the Lost



Join us on April 12 at 7:00 pm as we discuss The Living and the Lost by Ellen Feldman. Millie (Meike) Mosbach and her brother David, manage to escape to the States just before Kristallnacht, leaving their parents and little sister in Berlin…Now they are both back in their former hometown, haunted by ghosts and hoping against hope to find their family…. Like most of their German-born American colleagues, they suffer from conflicts of rage and guilt at their own good fortune, except for Millie's boss, Major Harry Sutton, who seems much too eager to be fair to the Germans.

This will be a hybrid program. We will meet in-person at the library and Zoom will also be available. Please register by clicking on this link. When registering, please indicate if you will be attending in-person or through Zoom.


The eBook version of The Living and the Lost by Ellen Feldman can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.


Reader’s guide for The Living and the Lost.

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


Tuesday, March 15, 2022

March 21 @ 1 pm - Lunch 'N Books: The Four Winds

Join us on March 21 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli-like so many of her neighbors-must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.

Jane Shapiro will be the discussion leader.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.


Please reserve your copy at the Reference Desk or by phone.


The eBook version of The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.



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