Share Art Exhibit thru September 30, 2010 “Expressions in Color” by Michael Donegan North Branch Art Teacher, Michael Donegan, graduated from Mary Baldwin College with a B.A. in Art. Michael teaches art to all of the students at North Branch in preK-8th grade and has been an artist-in residence at Churchville Elementary School. He also [...]
Share“Color Our World” by Maggi Nelson & Emily Moxley Event Date: Thursday 17th of June 2010 02:30 PM Location/Address: Nelson Memorial Library Contact Telephone Please call 434 263-5904 for more information This post was submitted by Jackie Lichtman. Tweet This Post
ShareTHE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein. Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race [...]
ShareTHE FORGOTTEN GARDEN by Kate Morton Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her [...]
ShareHONK AND HOLLER OPENING SOON by Billie Letts. The author of the multi-award-winner, Where the Heart Is, tells the poignant, lyrical story of a wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran whose life is changed when a young woman enters his roadside café. Event Date: Monday 23rd of August 2010 12:00 PM Location/Address: Nelson Memorial Library Contact Telephone Please [...]
ShareDEWEY THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD by Vicki Myron Traces the author’s discovery of a half-frozen kitten in the drop-box of her small-community Iowa library and the feline’s development into an affable library mascot whose intuitive nature prompted hundreds of abiding friendships, in a tale told against a backdrop of the town’s [...]
ShareAN IRISH COUNTRY DOCTOR by Patrick Taylor by Junot Diaz Barry Laverty, a recent medical school graduate, jumps at the chance to join a rural practice in Ballybucklebo, Northern Ireland, until he meets his boss Dr. O’Reilly, a difficult older physician with his own way of doing things. Event Date: Monday 16th of November 2009 [...]
ShareFREE READ & ANNUAL COOKIE EXCHANGE Event Date: Monday 14th of December 2009 12:30 PM Location/Address: Nelson Memorial Library 8521 Thomas Nelson Highway, Lovingston Contact Telephone Please call 434.263.5904 for more information This post was submitted by Jackie Lichtman. Tweet This Post
Share A book discussion of: THE HELP by Kathryn Stokett. In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women–black and white, mothers and daughters–view one another Event [...]
Share A book discussion of: FOUNDING MOTHERS: THE WOMEN WHO RAISED OUR NATION by Cokie Roberts An inspirational but personal look into the trials and tribulations of historical women who helped shape our nation into what it has become exhibits the many facets of their lives and how they supported some of the founders of [...]
