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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><b>Upcoming events at the New
Haven Free Public Library...<br>
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WRITERS LIVE! @ NHFPL (MAIN LIBRARY</b>: 133 Elm Street)<br><br>
<b>April 30, </b>Saturday, 3:00 pm <br>
<b>Francine Prose & Colm Toibin<br>
</b>National Book Award Finalist and author of <b>Blue Angel, FRANCINE
PROSE </b>reads from her new novel, <b>A Changed Man</b>. <br><br>
On an unseasonably warm spring afternoon, a young neo-Nazi named Vincent
Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of World Brotherhood Watch, a human
rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust survivor, Meyer
Maslow. Vincent announces that he wants to make a radical change in his
life. But what is Maslow to make of this rough-looking stranger who
claims to have read Maslow's books, who has Waffen-SS tattoos under his
shirtsleeves, and who says that his mission is to save guys like him from
becoming guys like him?" "As he gradually turns into the sort
of person who might actually be able to do that, Vincent also transforms
those around him: Maslow, who fears that heroism has become a desk job;
Bonnie Kalen, the foundation's fund-raiser, a divorced single mother and
a devoted believer in Maslow's crusade against intolerance and injustice;
and Bonnie's teenage son, Danny, whose take on the world around him is at
once openhearted, sharp-eyed, and as fundamentally decent as his
mother's." A Changed Man poses the essential questions: What
constitutes a life worth living? Is it possible to change? What does it
mean to be a moral human being? <br><br>
<br>
<b>COLM TOIBIN</b>, critically acclaimed author of <b>The Master</b>
reads from a new work.<br><br>
Like Michael Cunningham in <i>The Hours,</i> Colm Tóibín captures the
extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Brilliant and profoundly
moving, <b>The Master </b>tells the story of Henry James, a man born into
one of America's first intellectual families two decades before the Civil
War. James left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London
among privileged artists and writers. <br><br>
In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures the loneliness and longing,
the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his
sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and
those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of Tóibín's portrait of
James is riveting. Time and again, James, a master of psychological
subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of
reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragility. <br><br>
Tóibín is "a great and humanizing writer" who describes complex
relationships in "supple, beautifully modulated prose" (<i>The
Washington Post Book World</i>). In <b>The Master</b><i>,</i> he has
written his most ambitious and heartbreaking novel, an extraordinarily
inventive encounter with a character at the cusp of the modern age,
elusive to his own friends and even family, yet astonishingly vivid in
these pages.<br>
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<b>MAIN LIBRARY</b>: 133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06511<br>
for more info contact: Kathie Hurley at 946-8125 or
john.jessen@nhfpl.org<br>
<b><a href="http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/library">
http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/library</a><br><br>
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Upcoming and ongoing...<br><br>
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Wednesday, May 4<sup>th</sup>,6:30pm<br>
Karen E. Quinones Miller <br>
</b>author of <b>Satin Doll</b> & <b>Using What You Got</b>, will
read and discuss her latest: <b>Ida B. </b>New Haven Free Public Library
Stetson Branch, 200 Dixwell Avenue Free and open to public Free
parking in front and behind building for more info: 946-8119.<br>
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<b>Saturday, May 7, 3:00pm<br>
SARA NELSON, </b>author of <b>So Many Books, So Little Time!, </b>will
tell her tale of reading 52 books in 52 weeks. <i>“A work that will make
readers run to the shelf to discover which book beckons next.”</i>
–Library Journal<br><br>
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<b>Saturday, May 21, 3:00pm<br>
TERRY IACUZZO</b> will read from her memoir <b>Small Mediums at
Large</b>. <i>“Renowned psychic and Cosmo Girl! columnist Iacuzzo tells
all in this charming autobiography”<br>
</i>–Library Journal<br><br>
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ART EXHIBITS<br><br>
April</b>, 2 - 30<br><br>
<b>Virginia Passaggio<br>
</b>Local artist, Virginia Passaggio will display her oil paintings in
the Performing Arts Area on the lower level. There will be an opening
reception on April 9, 3:00-5:00 pm. <br><br>
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<b>April</b>, 2-30 <br><br>
<b>Dan Smith<br>
</b>Photographer Dan Smith utilizes black & white and color prints to
portray his journey to Iraq. His work can be seen on the lower level with
a reception on April 14, 5:30-7:30 pm. Reception sponsored by Connecticut
Peace Coalition-New Haven Chapter. <br><br>
<br><br>
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<b>ART INSTALLATION<br><br>
Moving/Not Moving<br>
</b>Outdoor installation, located in front of the library's patio
area,conceived by Janet Van Horne and created in collaboration with
fellow City Gallery artist members Meg Bloom, Liz Pagano and Colleen
Tully. <br><br>
<b>April-June<br><br>
</b><a name="events_child"></a>Children's Programs - Free and open to the
public.<br>
For more information, call 946-8129<br><br>
<b>April 30</b>, Saturday, 10:30 am <br>
<b>Parent/Child Book Club<br>
</b>Storytime, arts and crafts, reading games and monthly book
give-aways. For children ages 5-10 with parents or caregivers.
Registration required. <br><br>
<br><br>
<b>April 30</b>, Saturday, 11:00 am <br>
<b>Family Fun<br>
</b>A story hour for children ages 1-6 and their parents or caregivers.
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<b>BOOKTIVITIES<br>
</b> <br>
<b>April 28</b>, Thursday, 3:30 pm<br>
<b>Celebrate Earth Day!<br>
</b>Learn how you can save the earth! Create a recycled craft to take
home. <br><br>
<b> <br>
BOOK CLUBS<br><br>
Mitchell Book Club<br>
</b>Join a group of readers as they savor the month book
selection.<br><br>
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April 30, </b>Saturday, 6:00pm<br>
<b>Ladies Nite Out- Mitchell Book Club<br>
</b>Saturday night and the reading is for ladies! April selection: Too
Much of a Good Thing by Kimberla Lawson Roby. <br><br>
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</b> Hours: Main Library<br><br>
Monday: 12 - 8<br>
Tuesday: 10 - 6<br>
Wednesday: 10 - 6<br>
Thursday: 10 - 8<br>
Friday: Closed<br>
Saturday 10-5<br>
Sunday: Closed<br><br>
Branch Libraries:<br><br>
Monday - Tuesday: 10 - 6<br>
Wednesday: 12 - 8<br>
Thursday: 10 - 6<br>
Friday: Closed<br>
Saturday 1-5<br>
Sunday: Closed<br><br>
Main Library, Circulation: 946-8135, Reference: 946-8130, Fair Haven:
946-8115, Mitchell Library: 946-8117, Stetson Library: 946-8119<br><br>
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