Oct 4 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - The Last Flight by Julie Clark

Join us on October 4 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss The Last Flight by Julie Clark. Two women meet in an airport, both alone, both scared, and both urgently needing an escape from their lives. Claire Cook has a husband whose temper burns as bright as his promising political career, and she has worked for months on a plan to get out. A chance meeting in an airport bar brings her together with a stranger equally as desperate. Together they hatch a plan to switch tickets – Claire taking Eva’s flight to Oakland, and Eva traveling to Puerto Rico as Claire. But then one plane crashes, and it’s clear that one of them wasn’t telling the truth.

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.

The eBook version of The Last Flight by Julie Clark can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

This program is for adults.

Discussion guide for The Last Flight.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

August 16 @ 7 PM - Read 'N Share

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

Welcome to the Read ‘n Share book club where avid adult readers can informally share the books they have read and enjoyed.

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.

This program is for adults.

July 27 @ 7 PM - Kahoot Animal Trivia

Join us on July 27 at 7:00 p.m. in celebrating the Summer Reading Club by testing your knowledge about animals with our Kahoot animal trivia contest!

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.

This program will be limited to 20 people.

Click here for instructions for joining and playing our Kahoot trivia game.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

July 12 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion: Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

Join us on July 12 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. During Kentucky’s Great Depression, Pack Horse Library Project member Cussy Mary Carter, a young outcast, delivers books to the hillfolk of Troublesome Creek, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times, but not everyone is keen on her or the Library Project.

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

The eBook version of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.

Companion booklet for bookclubs.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

June 22 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - Dog On It by Spencer Quinn

Join us on June 22 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Dog On It by Spencer Quinn. Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of this story, who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator. In this, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters. Their search for clues takes them into the desert to biker bars and other exotic locals, with Chet’s highly trained nose leading the way. Both Chet and Bernie bring their own special skills to the hunt, one that puts each of them in peril.

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.

The eBook version of Dog On It can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Tails & Tales - Adult Summer Reading Club

 

THE EAST MEADOW PUBLIC LIBRARY ADULT SUMMER READING CLUB RETURNS

BE A PART OF THIS FABULOUS PROGRAM

REGISTRATION BEGINS JUNE 8, 2021

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

Welcome to the 2021 Adult Summer Reading Club, Tails and Tales. Our theme this year honors the wonderful comfort of animals, both wild and domesticated, that helped us get through the Covid pandemic. If you had a cat to cuddle, a dog to walk, or even a fish to feed, it brightened your day and gave purpose to your life. And, as you know, most animals have a tail and a tale. Do you have a pet pic you would like to share, especially if it also contains books? Does your fur baby have a tale? Please send your pictures and/or a story about your pet to us at readers@eastmeadow.info so we can celebrate them this summer. 

We start our summer with a whale of a project, with the first part on Thursday, June 17th at 7:00 p.m., and finishing up on Thursday, June 24th (same time). Librarian Janine Walsh will lead us in a crocheting craft, “a whale of a coaster.” Kits will be made and available for pick-up, so that we can learn to crochet a whale coaster for that cool summer beverage of your choice. 

Our June Mystery Club title is Dog On It by Spencer Quinn featuring the P.I. team of Chet and Bernie. Even if you are not one of our regular mystery readers, we urge you to join us Tuesday, June 22nd at 7:00 pm to get a taste of the Chet and Bernie mystery series. Spencer Quinn aka Peter Abrahams will be the featured author at our End of Summer Party in August, and has a new mystery in the series debuting in July. 

Other summer programs include a visit with the plant man who will tell us what to plant to draw wildlife into our gardens, baking with a back story-learning to make desserts that come with a tale, an animal-centric trivia contest, and of course, book discussions. 

Our programs once again, will be online and primarily zoomed. Sign-up and registration begin June 8^th, and can be done at our summer reading club website. Our tentative calendar is located on that webpage as well. We will have little gift bags once a week, randomly drawn from the submitted reviews-each patron can win one during the summer. Our fantastic bibliography will also be on the webpage where you will find our recommended books-some available now, and some coming out during the course of the summer…both in e-book and print book.   

We hope that you will enjoy our summer tale!

April 13 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion/LI Reads - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Join us on April 13 at 7:00 pm as we discuss The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.

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.

The eBook version of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Vanishing Half.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

March 23 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Join us on March 23 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job. Conway’s latest tale involves a murder at Pye Hall, with dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects. But the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.

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.

The eBook version of Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Feb 23 @ 7 PM - Evening Book Discussion: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Join us on February 23 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco where she runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is fairly comfortable. And then one day a man enters the shop and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy-two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite, charming, and unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the leader of the newest drug cartel that has taken over the city. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca make their way north toward the United States and discover that everyone is running from something.

 

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

The eBook version of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for American Dirt.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236

Feb 2 @ 7 PM - Read 'N Share

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

Welcome to the Read ‘n Share book club where avid adult readers can informally share the books they have read and enjoyed.

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

Jan 14 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

Join us on January 14 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by the luxurious "smart" home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare--one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. She knows she's made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn't always ideal. She's not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she's not guilty--at least not of murder. Which means someone else is.

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

The eBook version of The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

The Turn of the Key was inspired by the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. One of the best film adaptations of this work is The Innocents (1961) starring Deborah Kerr. We will include this movie in our discussion and compare it to The Turn of the Key. The Innocents can be watched for free on Youtube by clicking on this link.

If you are interested in reading The Turn of the Screw, the eBook can accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Turn of the Key.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

December 16 @ 7 PM - Evening Book Discussion: Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

Join us on December 16 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts. This book reimagines the story behind the creation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of L. Frank Baum’s intrepid wife, whose hardscrabble life on the Dakota prairie inspires her husband’s masterpiece and her advocacy of an exploited Judy Garland.

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

The eBook version of Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for Finding Dorothy.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Nov 16 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club - The Long Call by Ann Cleeves

Join us on November 16 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss the deeply engaging mystery, The Long Call by Ann Cleeves. In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father's funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he had left behind.

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

The eBook version of The Long Call by Ann Cleeves can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Long Call.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Oct 28 @ 7 PM - Evening Discussion/Author Event - Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris

SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY THE AUTHOR!

Join us on October 28 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris. The author will be joining us to speak about her book. In 1492, the Jewish and Muslim populations of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for America. Luis de Torres, a Spanish Jew, accompanies Columbus as his interpreter. His journey is only the beginning of a long migration, across many generations. Over the centuries, de Torres’ descendants travel from Spain and Portugal to Mexico, finally settling in the hills of New Mexico. Five hundred years later, it is in these same hills that Miguel Torres, a young amateur astronomer, finds himself trying to understand the mystery that surrounds him and the town he grew up in.

  

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

The eBook version of Gateway to the Moon by Mary Morris can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for Gateway to the Moon.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Sept 22 @ 7 PM - Mystery Book Club – The Holdout by Graham Moore

Join us on September 22 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss the enthralling courtroom thriller, The Holdout by Graham Moore. It’s the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school, and her teacher, Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect. It’s an open-and-shut case for the prosecution, and a quick conviction seems all but guaranteed; until Maya Seale, a young woman on the jury, convinced of Nock’s innocence, persuades the rest of the jurors to return the verdict of not guilty, a controversial decision that will change all their lives forever. Flash forward ten years. A true-crime docuseries reassembles the jurors, with particular focus on Maya, now a defense attorney herself. When one of the jurors is found dead in Maya’s hotel room, all evidence points to her as the killer. Now, she must prove her own innocence–by getting to the bottom of a case that is far from closed.

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

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

Discussion guide for The Holdout.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Adult Summer Reading Club

THE EAST MEADOW PUBLIC LIBRARY ADULT SUMMER READING CLUB RETURNS – BE A PART OF THIS FABULOUS PROGRAM!

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

Each of us has a story. We were born somewhere, raised by someone, and live some place. But through the magic of literature we can be whoever we want to be, be wherever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do. Especially in this time of limitations, we can celebrate a world with no limitations at all. This year, as you IMAGINE YOUR STORY, stretch your boundaries! Be Jo of Little Women or The Scarlet Pimpernal, or a unicorn with a rainbow horn. Live in pre-colonial India or eighteenth century France, or a dystopian America. Explore life on other worlds or ride horseback with the Pony Express. Let books expand your horizons as we imagine our stories together.

Our Summer Reading Club will once again only be online as we wait for our new library to be reconstructed. I hope that you will join with the Reader Services staff as we zoom our programs and lead you to Your Next Read!

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

Summer Reading Club eBook/audiobook Bibliography – Sign in to Nassau Digital Doorway by selecting East Meadow from list of libraries and log in using your East Meadow Library card barcode. Or sign in with your OverDrive account or Facebook.

Your Next Read - Online Readers' Advisory Service

Let the staff of the East Meadow Public Library Reader Services Department help you find enjoyable books to read. Please take a few moments to complete our form and share your reading preferences with us so we may create a personalized reading list for you. The Readers Services Department along with library staff assistance will respond within 7 business days with 3 books selected especially for you.

Click here to fill out the online form with your preferences and we will build you a customized list of recommended titles.

If you read any of the recommended books or choose not to read them, please send us feedback by clicking here and completing the online form.

Get Your eBooks and Audiobooks Here!

 

While the library is closed, here is a great way to get books!

Looking for eBook/audiobook suggestions? We’ve created some new and exciting lists to help you find your next read. From bestsellers to self-help, there’s a wide variety of topics to explore. Sign in to Nassau Digital Doorway by selecting East Meadow from the list of libraries and then log in using your East Meadow Library card barcode. Or you can sign in using your OverDrive account or with Facebook. Happy browsing!

Library CLOSED Until Further Notice

Due to the Coronavirus, the Library will be closed until further notice.

CANCELLED - March 18 @ 7 pm - Meet the Author: Claire Lombardo

The author visit scheduled for Wednesday night March 18th has been cancelled. We will reschedule our visit with Claire Lombardo at a later time. Thank you for your understanding.

Meet Claire Lombardo, The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had, as she discusses her multi-generational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple – still madly in love after forty years – recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they’ve built. Set against the quintessential American backdrop of Chicago and its prospering suburbs, the book explores the triumphs and burdens of love and the fraught tethers of parenthood and sisterhood.

The Most Fun We Ever Had is currently being adapted for an HBO series to be produced by Laura Dern and Amy Adams, and written by Lombardo.

Copies will be available at the library. There will also be books available for purchase and signing at the end of the program.

This event will be held at SAMANEA (The Former Source Mall) Art Gallery on the 2nd Floor, 1504 Old Country Road, Westbury, NY 11590

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 236.

Discussion guide for The Most Fun We Ever Had.