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Start Your Weekend at the Library!
Enjoy stories, songs, and hands-on activities.
(All Ages)
Saturdays: 10:30 a.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
Special Story Themes:
Feb. 10: Black History Month
Mar. 9: Women's History Month
Apr. 13: Arab American Heritage Month
May 18: Asian American / Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
He was one of the 19th century's most important revolutionaries, an architect of Italian unity and a popular ladies' man: Giuseppe Garibaldi. A man full of contradictions, Garibaldi nevertheless enjoyed great admiration and respect. Featuring interviews with historians and his descendants, this program visits significant sites of his revolutionary activities to help paint a full picture of this man who went from guerrilla fighter to national hero....
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
John Boswell read and translated fourteen ancient and modern languages, became a Yale Professor by age thirty and was granted full access to the highly classified and restricted Vatican archives from which he researched four award winning books, making him a world renowned expert in Medieval History and Linguistics. Boswell was also openly gay without apology in an era that was neither tolerant nor accepting. "Not a Tame Lion" offers the first-hand...
3) A New Home
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This film examines the story of Bosnian war refugees fleeing to St. Louis, Missouri. Now home to more displaced Bosnians than any other city in the world, the film charts how these refugees assimilated, built businesses and transformed their neighborhoods.
4) The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
-- La Joconde, c’est partie No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves—and detectives—of the era. And then slip back further in...
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