Live Event: Book Discussion “The Mountains Sing” by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

“With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920,

Sci Fic Book Talk VIA Zoom – Friday by Robert Heinlein

“Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as ‘Boss’. Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on shuttlecock assignment at

Author Talk & Signing, William McKeever, “Emperors of the Deep”

Author Talk and Book Signing at The East Hampton Library 159 Main St East Hampton, NY 11937 Friday November 1st 6 PM William McKeever is an author and documentary filmmaker. His book, Emperors of the Deep, focuses on raising awareness to the plight of sharks and makes a call for action to save them. He also

Saturday Book Discussion-Author Talk-“Cooking for Picasso” by Camille Aubray and book signing

Saturday Book Discussion-Author Talk-“Cooking for Picasso” by Camille Aubray Please join us for the August Book Discussion. We are pleased to present Author Camille Aubray as she discusses her book “Cooking for Picasso.” Camille will present a Provence-themed discussion, including a lively presentation with a brief slide show of the gorgeous French Riviera places and meals

Sci Fic book Club: “Death’s End” (Part 1)

Sci Fic book Club: “Death’s End” (Part 1) Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two

Sci Fic Book Discussion, “Coming Home” Jack McDevitt

Garnett Baylee devoted his life to trying, and failing, to find artifacts of the early space age. In the wake of his death, one was discovered in his home, raising tantalizing questions: Had he succeeded after all? Why had he kept it a secret? And where is the rest of the Apollo cache? Antiquities dealer

Sci Fic Book Club – “Logan’s Run” by William Nolan

It’s the 23rd Century and at age 21… your life is over! Logan-6 has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best. But his time is short and before his life ends he’s got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that

Sci Fic book discussion “Glasshouse” Charles Stross

The novel is set in the twenty seventh century aboard a spacecraft adrift in interstellar space. Robin, the protagonist, has recently had his memory erased. He agrees to take part in an experiment, during which he is placed inside a model of a late twentieth/early twenty-first century Euroamerican society. Robin is given a new identity

Sci Fic book Club “The Martian” by Andy Weir

Sci Fic Book Discussion “The Martian” Andy Weir The Martian Andy Weir Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him

Sci Fic book club: Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer 11-18-15 @ 6 PM

A science experiment goes wrong, giving everyone a glimpse of the future. One man learns a rival will steal his wife, another that he will win a lottery, a third that he will be murdered and has 20 years to find the killer. A look at the repercussions of knowing the future. Wednesday November 18th