July 16 @ 7 PM - Genealogy Records That Reveal Your Family’s Travels

By using examples from her own genealogical research projects, April Lynne Earle, will present on how to get started researching your immigrant ancestors and the wide variety of documents available to you regarding their travels; including ship manifests, naturalization records, and passports.

April Lynne Earle is a member of the Library Faculty at Farmingdale State College. In addition to her primary role as the cataloger, she provides reference service and information literacy instruction. She received both her Masters in Library Science and Master of Arts in Public History from St. John’s University; where she now teaches as an adjunct in their Library Science course on Genealogical Sources & Services. With over 30 years of genealogy research experience, her real joy is helping others discover their family history.

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

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

July 10 @ 1:30 PM - Clash of the Titans

Join film historian Keith Crocker and the Reader Services Department for a showing of 1981’s Clash of the Titans, the last film to feature the brilliant stop-motion visual effects of Ray Harryhausen. This movie features the heroic adventures of Perseus, as he battles magic, monsters and ancient gods to rescue beautiful Andromeda. Keith Crocker will talk about the genuis of Ray Harryhausen, and how he brought to life some of the creatures in this film, such as Pegasus, Medusa, and the Kraken.

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

CANCELLED - June 25 @ 1:30 PM - Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck

Join us on June 25 at 1:30 p.m. as we discuss Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck. A modern-day Huck Finn, Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, Buck steers his fragile wooden craft through narrow channels dominated by massive cargo barges, rescues his first mate gone overboard, sails blindly through fog, breaks his ribs not once but twice, and camps every night on sandbars, remote islands, and steep levees. As he charts his own journey, he also delivers a richly satisfying work of history that brings to life a lost era.

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

The eBook version of Life on the Mississippi can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

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

June 18 @ 7 PM - Mystery Club - Freefall by Jessica Barry

Join us on June 18 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Freefall by Jessica Barry. When her fiancé’s private plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, Allison Carpenter survives – but the fight for her life is just beginning. Allison knows secrets that powerful men will kill to keep buried. If they know she’s alive, they will come for her. In Owl Creek, Maine, Maggie Carpenter learns that her only child is presumed dead, but with no body Maggie isn’t giving up hope. She doesn’t know anything about her daughter’s life now – not even that she was engaged to wealthy pharmaceutical CEO Ben Gardner. Can Maggie uncover the truth in time to save her daughter?

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

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

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

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! 

May 6 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Join us on May 6 at 7:00 pm as we discuss Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. Leaving her home in post-World War II Ireland to work as a bookkeeper in Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey discovers a new romance in America with a charming blond Italian man before devastating news threatens her happiness.

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

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

Discussion guide for Brooklyn.

SEE THE MOVIE! May 10, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. Brooklyn (2015)

Directed by John Crowley, screenplay by Nick Hornby, starring Saoirse Ronan

No registration required.

Colm Toibin will be at EMPL on May 18 at 2 pm!

Join us for a conversation with beloved, bestselling author Colm Tóibín, in celebration of the release of his newest novel, Long Island, which is the sequel to Brooklyn.

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

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

April 29 @ 7 PM - Mystery Club - Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers

Join us on April 29 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto. When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop located in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Vera Wong, a lonely senior citizen with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.

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

The eBook version of Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice For Murderers can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

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

April 17 @ 1:30 PM - LI Reads - Better Living Through Birding

Join us as we discuss Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper. This is the story of Christian Cooper’s extraordinary life leading up to the now infamous incident in Central Park and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny of ways, to be a gay, Black man in America today. From sharpened senses that work just as well at a protest as in a park to what a bird like the Common Grackle can teach us about self-acceptance, Better Living Through Birding exults in the pleasures of a life lived in pursuit of the natural world and invites you to discover them yourself.

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

The ebook version of Better Living Through Birding can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Reader's guide for Better Living Through Birding.

Click here for more information on Long Island Reads.

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

March 25 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion: All The Broken Places by John Boyne

Join us on March 25 at 7:00 pm as we discuss All The Broken Places by John Boyne. An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents’ fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age 12 and grim post-war years in France with her mother.

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

The eBook version of All The Broken Places can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for All The Broken Places.

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

Feb 26 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham

Join us on February 26 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham. When Chloe Davis was 12, her father was convicted of killing six girls who vanished from their small Louisiana town. Now she’s a Baton Rouge-based psychologist prepping for her wedding, and it’s happening again: local teenage girls are starting to vanish. What’s going on? Full of red herrings and surprises!

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

The eBook version of A Flicker in the Dark can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for A Flicker in the Dark.

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

Feb 20 @ 7 PM - Meet the Author: Mark Chiusano - The Fabulist

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.

Feb 1st through Feb 16th - 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 Thursday, 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 16 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!

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.

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!