Saturday, July 10th through Saturday, July 24th
Main Library & Weekes Branch

Have overdue fines?  Take advantage of this opportunity to pay off up to $25 in overdue fines with food and help the hungry in our community.  Bring in canned or dry good food items and $1 in overdue fines will be forgiven for each item donated.  Food will only be accepted for overdue fines.  Food will not be accepted as payment for lost or damaged items.  A maximum of $25 per library card will be forgiven.

The following food items are most needed by the Alameda County Food Bank:  Canned fruit & vegetables, canned meats & fish, peanut butter, pasta, beans, rice, canned soup (low-salt), low-sugar cereal & oatmeal, tomato sauce, and powdered milk.  Items packaged in glass will not be accepted.

All food will be donated to the Alameda County Food Bank.  For more information contact the Main Library at 510-293-8685 or Weekes Branch at 510-782-2155.

Monday, July 26th
6:00 p.m.
Main Library

Renee, the secretly well-educated Parisian concierge from Muriel Barbery's novel, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, admires the Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963). "For the first time in my life, the Art of the cinema made me laugh and cry as real entertainment should," Renee exclaims. Whether or not you have read The Elegance of the Hedgehog (the Mostly Literary Fiction Book Group's May selection), find out why Renee is wild about Yasujiro Ozu. Join us for a showing of one of Ozu's artful films that helped to establish his success and long-lasting influence.

Mondays
July 12th, 19th, & 26th
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Main Library

Come and practice speaking English with others who are learning.  All levels are welcome.  No registration is required. Contact Melesha.owen@hayward-ca.govor 510-293-5239 for more information.

Saturday, July 3rd
12:00 noon - Main  Library

Monday, July 12
6:00 p.m. - Main Library

Monday, July 21
6:00 p.m.  - Weekes Branch Library

Need legal advice? Don't know where to begin?  Get 15 minutes of free legal advice with a licensed attorney. In person registration is required. Registration begins 30 minutes before the first session.  Space is limited.  Consultations may be assigned by lottery. Program sponsored by the Alameda County Bar Association.

Friends of the Hayward Library book sales are held at the downtown Farmers Market on the second and fourth Saturday of each month. In case of rain, the sale will be in front of the Main Library.

Pay off your fines with food, then register for Fines-Free Library Loan!

As low as $2.00/month!

Borrow library books, DVDs, music, etc., as long as you want.  No due dates, no late fines - ever.

First month's subscription applies to existing fines.  All late items renewed at no charge.

 

Saturday, July 10th
1:00 p.m.
Main Library

Have concerns about your ability to retire on your timeline?  Have an old 401K that you want to work harder for you?  A local financial advisor will be available to assist you with your questions at the Hayward Public Library.  Space is limited and registration is required for this free program.  Please arrive at 12:30 p.m. to register.  For more information contact
Melesha.owen@hayward-ca.gov or call 510-293-5239.

Wednesday
July 7
6:30  p.m.
Main Library

How does your brain handle stress?  Join Diana Nohr, designer of the popular local Memory Academy program, as she covers how and why stress affects the body and brain, and shows ways to reduce the negative effects while strengthening the brain's resistance to stress.  For further information contact heidi.ontiveros@hayward-ca.gov or call 510-881-7975.

Saturday, July 3rd
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Main Library
Learn to reduce your stress level by laughing with facilitator Lydia Gonzales.

Wednesdays
July 14 & 28
6:45 p.m.
Main Library

Discover the joys of knitting! All skill levels welcome.  Please bring size 10 or 10 1/2 knitting needles and the yarn of your choice.

Mystery & Suspense
Tuesday, July 6th @ 11:30 a.m., Le Paradis Bakery (D St. and Mission) and 6:30 - 7:45 p.m., Main Library
In Murder in the Marais, the first of a series of mysteries by Cara Black set in present-day Paris, her computer expert detective, Aimee LeDuc, is hired by a rabbi from Paris' old Jewish quarter-the Marais-to decipher an encrypted photo and deliver the results to a woman in the quarter.  Unfortunately for Aimee, she discovers her client murdered in her bed with a swastika carved in her forehead.  Aimee discovers that in France old World War II wounds still run deep even to this day.
  
Discussion facilitated by Heidi.Ontiveros@hayward-ca.gov, 510-881-7975.
 
Mostly Literary Fiction
Monday, July 12th @ Noon, Peet's Coffee (B St. and Mission) and  6:30-7:45 p.m., Main Library
We will be discussing Little Bee by Chris Cleave, author of the international bestseller Incendiary. Little Bee is a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers-one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
 
Discussion facilitated by Sally.Thomas@hayward-ca.gov, 510-881-7700. Not able to attend meetings but want to discuss this book with others? Join GoodReads.com and participate in online discussions! You must have an account on GoodReads.com to participate. Contact Sally for more information.
 
Autobiography & Memoir
Wednesday,  July 21st @ 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., Main Library
Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options limited by the government?   NPR correspondent Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.
 
Discussion facilitated by Abbe.Kalos@hayward-ca.gov, 510-881-7941.

Hayward Public Library

MAIN LIBRARY	WEEKES BRANCH
835 C Street	27300 Patrick Avenue
Hayward, CA 94541	Hayward, CA 94544
510-293-8685	510-782-2155

 HOURS
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 11-8
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 10-5

 

Email us: library@hayward-ca.gov