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 Local Author Book Fair
Saturday, December 5, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
 From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. local authors will gather on our first floor! Join us on the main floor to meet with local authors and buy books for all ages, or join us in the Large Meeting Room on our lower level for readings from our local authors. Join in this celebration of our local writing talent and be sure to stock up on holiday gifts that have truly local flair!
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Iran: a Journey through Images with Barry Pell
Thursday, December 10, 7 p.m. Large Meeting Room
 World traveler and photojournalist Barry Pell will guide us through the enshrouded culture, rich history, and magnificent landscapes of Iran. Through beautiful images, he will explore the long and influential history of Iran through architecture, rugs, food, its people, and more. Pell has traveled to 161 countries and is a frequent lecturer in New England. Join us for an evening exploring this fascinating country and enjoying Barry Pell's travel stories.
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Children's December Vacation Programs
Beyond the Piggy Bank - Grades 4-8
Monday, December 28, 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Learn all about money, how it is produced and where it goes in this class presented by the President of the Lexington High School Economics Club Soumya Ram.
**Attendance is limited** Sign up online.
Cinnamon, Spice, & Everything Nice - Grades 3-5 Tuesday, December 29, 2:00-3:00 p.m.  Cinnamon & Spice & Everything Nice is what our homemade apple & pear sauce is made of. We'll make and serve our wonderful warm sauce and a homemade ginger tea to warm up a cold winter afternoon, and talk about how good certain spices and cinnamon are for a growing body! **Attendance is limited.** Sign up online beginning Monday, December 21 at 7:00 p.m. Phone reservations begin at 7:30 p.m.
Family Crafts - Everyone welcome Tuesday, December 29, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Children of all ages and abilities and their caregivers are invited to get crafty with us. Stay for half an hour or the entire hour and a half. No registration necessary.
Sing-along - All ages
Wednesday, December 30, 10:30 a.m.
Bring the family and sing with us, songs old and new.
Get Your Game On - Ages 8 & up Wednesday, December 30, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Drop in, stay for a game or three, bring your parents, siblings, or friends for an afternoon of board games, card games, and puzzles. (Parents welcome, but not required.)
Dinner & a Movie: "Frozen" [PG] - Everyone welcome Wednesday, December 30, starts @ 6:30 p.m.Bring a picnic dinner, spread out a blanket, and enjoy a family movie! The room will open at 6:00 pm, 30 minutes before the start of the movie.
Dance Party - Ages 5 & under Thursday, December 31, 9:45-10:15 a.m.
Join us for this special vacation week Dance Party for ages 5 and under only. Wear your dancing shoes and join us for lots of fun!
Dance Party - Ages 6 & up
Thursday, December 31, 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Wear your dancing shoes and join us for an extra special vacation week Dance Party! Be ready to learn some new party dances! This party is for ages 6 and up only; younger kids should join us for the earlier dance party.
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More Events at Cary Library
Don't miss our exciting schedule of events and activities for adults, teens and children of all ages. Also, check out the offerings of the many organizations that use our meeting rooms. For more on what's happening this month, visit our Calendar of Events.
Piper Gallery:
Dewie Weiner Schriesheim, New England Scenes.
Pierce and Meeting Room galleries:
Mark Chester, The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape: Photographs of New Americans.
Cary Commons Gallery for Student Art:
Lexington Public Schools Art Students
The Commons Gallery and Sophia Ho display cases: Lexington Arts & Crafts Society
Cary Library Book Clubs
The Mystery Book Club will meet on Monday, December 14 for a "Reader's Choice" discussion.
The Adult Book Group has no meeting in December. The Nonfiction Book Group will meet on Monday, December 28
to continue discussion of The war that ended peace: the road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan.
Announcements
CHRISTMAS HOURS: Cary Library will close at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 24 and will be closed all day on Friday, December 25.
NEW YEAR'S HOURS: Cary Library will close at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 31 and will be closed all day on Friday, January 1.
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Staff Picks
Our staff handles hundreds of books every day! Here are just a few that we are enjoying.
Jen W. recommends Parenting is Easy: You're Probably Just Doing it Wrong by Sara Given. Given's popular blog, "It's Like They Know Us," skewers the impossibly glamorized images of parenting in ads and popular media. Now her wicked humor is available in this little book, which would make a great gift for any new moms or dads you know. Isn't it comforting to learn that "everything about having a baby is going to be clean and quiet and pretty"?
Jane enjoyed My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead, a fascinating close reading of George Eliot's classic. Mead examines Eliot's extraordinary life for clues to her writing, and describes her long and happy love affair with writer and critic George Henry Lewes. He encouraged Eliot to take on her great themes of moral courage and the desire of women for a substantial and rewarding life. Mead also shows how reading Middlemarch has continued to affect her own development as a woman and a writer.
Jean recommends two great non-fiction reads this month. The first is The Oregon Trail: a new American journey by Rinker Buck. The author and his irrepressible brother take a wagon pulled by three mules from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Oregon, following the ruts of the pioneers' covered wagons across modern America. It's part history, part personal memoir, part rollicking road trip saga - sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, always enjoyable.
Jean's second nonfiction recommendation is Project Puffin: the improbable quest to bring a beloved seabird back to Egg Rock by Stephen W. Kress and Derrick Z. Jackson. The authors - an Audubon Society naturalist and a Boston Globe writer - tell the tale of amazingly persistent scientists who re-establish puffins nesting on a tiny island off the coast of Maine where they hadn't been seen for a hundred years. Battling fierce storms and even fiercer predator gulls, they succeed against all odds. The reader celebrates each step forward and suffers each setback along with the authors. But more than just this one success story, the book makes us think about humankind's role as stewards of our fragile planet.
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Cary Memorial Library
1874 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, MA 020420
781-862-6288 . FAX: 781-862-7355 . www.carylibrary.org
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