This Week @ the Library: Author Cathryn Prince, Graduation Gift Program, Bookworms and More

This Week @ the Ridgefield Library
June 10-16, 2013

In This Issue

Honor a Graduate

Author Talk with Cathryn Prince

Book Discussions this Week

More about our Summer Reading MOOC

Annual Fund Headed towards Goal - With your Help

Children's Programs

Quick Links

2011-2012 Annual Report of Giving

Q & A about our Temporary Location

What's New

New Adult Fiction

New Adult Mysteries

New Adult Non-Fiction

Selected New DVDs

Selected New Audiobooks

New Children's Chapter Books

New Picture Books

You can support these and other Library services with a tax-deductible donation to the Library's Annual Appeal. You can mail your check or

give online today.

Buy a Brick

Souvenir bricks from the old Library building are now available for $10 each. Purchase yours today online or at the Circulation Desk.

Learn more about the Campaign for the New Ridgefield Library.

Honor a Graduate with a Gift to the Library

Congratulations 2013 Graduates!
Now proud family and friends can honor a high school or college grad with a gift to the Library in recognition of their educational accomplishments. Your designated graduate will be added to our 'Honor Roll" at the Library and on our website and is also eligible to receive a Ridgefield Library coffee mug. Find out more and donate today!

Author Talk with Cathryn Prince

Thursday, June 13, 7:00 PM
Library Program Room
Author Talk: Cathryn Prince on

Death in the Baltic: The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

"The sinking of the cruise liner that was once the pride of Hitler's Strength Through Joy program has long been overlooked by maritime historians. Yet when the Wilhelm Gustloff disappeared beneath the freezing waters of the Baltic in January of 1945, she took with her more than six times the number of people lost on the Titanic.Through careful research and interviews with the few remaining survivors Cathryn J. Prince vividly recreates the chaos and terror of this epic maritime disaster."

--Hugh Brewster, author of

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers And Their World

Cathryn J. Prince is the author of three previous non-fiction books. Her third book A Professor, a President, and a Meteor: The Birth of American Science won the Connecticut Press Club's 2011 Book Award for Non-Fiction and received an Honorable Mention in General/Non-Fiction at the 2011 New England Book Festival Book Awards. She worked as a correspondent to The Christian Science Montior in Switzerland covering the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the Nazi Gold Crisis. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University and a frequent contributor to The Christian Science Monitor and Ridgefield Magazine.

This program is part of our Adult Summer Reading program and is made possible thanks to the Friends of the Library. It is also co-sponsored by Books on the Common

. No registration.

Book Discussions this Week

Thursday, June 13, 3:00 PM
Founders Hall
Founders Hall Book Group
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Open to all Founders Hall members. No registration.

Summer Readers Will Meet Up for MOOC

This year's Summer Reading Program for adults will feature 'The Fiction of Relationship," a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from Coursera, taught by Dr. Arnold Weinstein of Brown University. It's cutting edge, it's educational, it's interactive - and we hope it will be fun!

We will view together Dr. Weinstein's lectures and discuss the assigned reading. To participate, we ask that you register with both the Library and Coursera.

See how on our Adult Summer Reading page.

Ridgefield Library Annual Fund Headed towards Goal - With Your Help

Please help meet this year's goal!

These dollars go to help support the ongoing programming, collections and services of the Library.

As of 6/7, we are at 91% of our goal with just three weeks to go before our fiscal year ends on June 30th. Every gift counts - please help today.

Children's Programs

Good News! Mother Goose is back to drop-in for the summer!

Monday 10:30 AM, Library Program Room

Drop-In Storytime

Children ages 3 and up are invited for stories, songs and a short book-based film. No registration.

Tuesday 10:00 AM or 11:00 AM, Library Program Room

Mother Goose

Drop in for fingerplays, music, movement and a book! For ages birth through age 2 years accompanied by an adult. No registration required during the summer months!

Tuesday, 6:00 PM, Library Program Room

Scrabble

Play Scrabble with a tournament experienced teacher. For children in grades 4 - 8. No registration.

Thursday, 4:30 - 5:15 PM, Library Program Room

Bookworms

Children going into grades 2 and 3 read a book and meet to eat snacks and have a discussion and do an activity about the book. Registration required by signing up at the information desk and picking up a copy of the book to be discussed. Book will be held at the circulation desk.

Friday 11:00 AM, Library Program Room

Friday Flicks
Movies based on favorite children's books for ages 2 and older. No registration.

Saturday 10:30 AM, Library Program Room

Drop-In Storytime

Children ages 3 and up are invited for stories and more. No registration.