Posts Tagged ‘discussion’
November Book Club: The Guest List by Lucy Foley
It’s the wedding of the year. But someone won’t survive. BLURB: On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. Every detail has been expertly planned and…
Read MoreThe Handmaid’s Tale comes to Enid
Join the Enid Public Library for a special “Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma” program celebrating the PBS series, “The Great American Read”. The selected book is The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, a cautionary novel set in the near future. On Thursday, Oct. 25, at 6:30 p.m., NWOSU scholar Dr. Roxie James will discuss the…
Read MoreUsing Photos in Your Art Journal
Learn how to add photos to your art journal in this month’s class. Art journaling is a creative way to express one’s self utilizing mixed media materials such as writing, sketching, stamping, collage, etc. Attend this workshop and experiment with different mediums. Bring your existing journal or use one of ours. This workshop is for…
Read MoreArt Journaling In the Stacks
Do you keep a journal or planner? Would you like to? Here’s your chance to get started. Art Journaling in the Stacks, meets monthly at the Library on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 5:30-7:00pm. We will share tips and tricks to help get you started and provide a space for you to work…
Read MoreAdult Services October 2017 Newsletter
Dear Readers, I can’t believe that it is October already! I love autumn and almost everything that goes with it: cool, rainy mornings; leaves turning amazing shades of yellow, orange, and red; and the knowledge that family holiday are just around the corner. One thing I’m not crazy about is pumpkin spice everything. In fact,…
Read MoreThe Help to be the Subject of Book Talk @ the Library in September
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but…
Read MoreMay Newsletter for Adult Programs
May 2017 May 2018 Enid Public Library Adult Classes, Workshops, and Events “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” – Edwin Way Teale Dear Readers, April is over! It has been a tough month for many; with prairie fires, allergies, school funding issues, and spring fever to contend with.…
Read MoreApril 11 Book Talk @ the Library
April’s Book Talk @ the Library will be a discussion on The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, a 2006 memoir by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson. The book delves into Bryson’s past, telling of his youth growing up in Des Moines, Iowa during the 1950s and early 1960s. The discussion will be held…
Read MoreLet’s Talk About It, Oklahoma!: The Cowboy
In conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail the Enid Public Library and Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma present The Cowboy, a five book scholar-led discussion series. “The story of the cowboy has outlasted the mountain man, the pioneer, the soldier, the settler, the gold seeker, the scout, and even the Indian in…
Read MoreBook Talk @ the Library’s February Pick: Still Life by Louise Penny
On February 14th at 6:00 pm the boo talk group will discuss Still Life by Louise Penny. Jane Neal, well-loved in her community, does not appear to be a woman anyone would want to harm, let alone murder; yet she turns up dead, with an arrow in her heart. Copies of the book are available…
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