Tue, June 25 @ 4:30 PM | TechConnect This event will take place in the Computer Classroom at the 58th Street Library.
Do you have trouble with your email? Do you have questions about Microsoft Office? Have you heard about NYPL resources like LinkedIn Learning but don't know how to access them? Bring your technology questions and get one -on - one assistance during this open lab time supervised by a tech instructor. First come, first served | 58th Street Library, Computer Classroom (not wheelchair accessible) Computer Classroom | Adults |
Tue, July 23 @ 4 PM | Book Discussion Group A story about love, marriage, parenting, infidelity, art and forgiveness, Count the Ways is an epic family saga that follows the lives of Eleanor and Cam all the way from their first meeting, through to their blossoming romance onto their child-rearing years and eventually the demise of their relationship, in the wake of a tragedy that shook the family to its very core. | 58th Street Library, Community Meeting Room (not wheelchair accessible) | Adults |
Tue, August 27 @ 4 PM | Book Discussion Group As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she has known and loved is gone and it’s fallen on her to save her family from the guillotine.
A chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte, the ambitious and charismatic young military prodigy, provides her answer. When her beloved sister Julie marries his brother Joseph, Desiree and Napoleon’s futures become irrevocably linked. Quickly entering into their own passionate, dizzying c… | 58th Street Library, Community Meeting Room (not wheelchair accessible) | Adults |
Tue, September 24 @ 4 PM | Book Discussion Group Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children—four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear.… | 58th Street Library, Community Meeting Room (not wheelchair accessible) | Adults |