June 10 - Adult Summer Reading Kickoff & Pub Quiz

The Reader Services Department of the East Meadow Public Library is thrilled to announce the kickoff of our 13th annual Adult Summer Reading Club on Monday, June 10th. The registration for our reading club will be held in the lobby from 10 am to 1pm, and also from 2 pm to 5 pm. After June 10th, 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.

Our Adult Summer Reading Club Kickoff will end with a Pub Quiz Night in the Library at 7 pm. Pub Quizzes are popular trivia contests in the UK, and while we won’t be serving up alcohol, we will serve up a night of fun and tricky trivia around our theme Adventure Begins in Your Library. Bring your own team or meet new people by joining one that night. Register online for the pub quiz by clicking on this link.  Mocktails and light snacks will be served. Our lucky winners will receive these fabulous prizes!

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

Click here for additional information on this special event.

May 18 @ 2 PM - Meet the Author: Colm Toibin

 MEET THE AUTHOR – COLM TOIBIN

May 18 at 2:00 p.m.

Join us for a conversation with beloved, bestselling author Colm Tóibín, in celebration of the release of his newest novel, Long Island. Colm will be signing copies of Long Island, A Guest at The Feast: Essays and Brooklyn, which will be for sale after the program. Prices including 10% discount and sales tax will be: Long Island $27.38, A Guest At The Feast $17.60, and Brooklyn $17.60. Cash, credit cards and Venmo will be accepted.

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

If you are unable to attend in person, the event will be streamed, https://www.youtube.com/live/OioguCXiZ8s?si=mLknP52ZXNQTk9Aw .

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

Long Island is a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work twenty years later. Eilis is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades.

Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick is Colm Tóibín’s Long Island!