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bulletThe Island House Readers Book Club

             For book-talk and great conversation, this Adult Reading Group meets at 12:00N on the first Wednesday of the month.  Check this site or with the Library for the book of the month, read up, and join in!
      Upcoming books and authors for 2009-2010 are:                                  

October 7            Elegance of Hedgehog              Muriel Barbery
November 4        Dancing at the Rascal Fair        Ivan Doig
December 2       An American Childhood            Annie Dillard
January 6            Olive Kitteridge                            Elizabeth Strout
February 3          Stealing Buddha’s Dinner          Bich Minh Nguyen
March 3               City of Thieves                             David Benioff
April 7                  White Tigers                                Aravind Adiga
May 5                  Complications                              Atule Gawanda
June 2                 Moonflower Vine                          Jetta Carleton
July 7                   The Help                                       Kathryn Stockett
                              

bulletGreat Books Book Club

           Read some great books and discuss them with our group - at a new day and time!
 The Great Books Book Club reconvenes for the season on October 21, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. in the library meeting room.
            This group meets at 3pm on the third Wednesday of the month from October through May to discuss selections of classical literature from the Great Books Foundation's Great Conversations series, which includes material from such diverse writers and thinkers as Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, and Simone de Beauvoir.
    Upcoming selections are:
                November 18        The Pardoner's Tale                             Geoffrey Chaucer
                December 16        An Enquiry Concerning
                                                            Human Understanding             David Hume
                January 20             A Defence of Poetry                              Percy Bysshe Shelley
                 February 17          The Unknown Masterpiece                  Honore de Balzac

    New members are invited and welcome to attend all groups.

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Genealogy Tutorials

    Individual, one-hour genealogy tutorials are offered twice a month with our own on-staff
genealogy expert, Jackie Weber.
    If you're new at researching your family tree and need pointers in efficiently organizing your information or becoming acquainted with all of the online resources available - or if you have a pretty good start, but have come to some "bumps" along the way - some one-on-one guidance will help you on your way.
    Call the library at 231-264-9979 for dates and times available. Advance registration is necessary as these tutorials are offered on a limited basis. (Because Jackie also has other work to do)!

And Children...

bulletBook Nook Story Hour

           Our story hour for pre-school age children is held every  Wednesday 10:30-11AM,  during the Elk Rapids Schools scheduled year; canceled during Elk Rapids Schools vacations or snow day closings. Story Hour will resume on September 23 for the 2009-2010 school year.
   Bring the kids for stories, music, crafts, and an overall good time!  No registration is necessary,
but all children must be accompanied by an adult guardian.
 

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Summer Reading Program 2009

            Be Creative @ Your Library !   

      Join us for this year's Summer Reading Program, on Wednesdays at 10:30am, from
 July 8th through July 29th.
     The program is open to children ages pre-school through 5th grade accompanied by an adult, with age-appropriate stories, crafts, and other activities following this year's theme of Be Creative @ Your Library!
      The July 15 program, featuring a special show by magician Thomas Plunkard, will be held at the Township Hall on River Street. All other sessions take place at the library.
     No registration is required.


   
                              


 

 

 

                                            

             

                           

                                                          

 

 

          

            
 


   
     
   

 

   

       

      

 

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