Thursday, May 16, 2013

First-Ever Adult Summer Reading Program

For the first time, Smyrna Public Library will offer an Adult Summer Reading program. There are events and reading incentives for adults too!  Grown-ups will have a summer of "Groundbreaking Reads" with author visits, lectures, book discussions, and a chance to win a Google Nexus tablet too.

Upcoming Events:

First Sunday Lecture: "Blacks and the Olympic Games"
Speaker: Idorenyin Uyoe, Olympics Historian
Sunday, June 2, 3:00 p.m.
Meeting Room

Book Club: Friends Reading Group
Discussion of Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
Tuesday, June 4, 7:00 p.m.
Conference Room

Author Appearance: Joshilyn Jackson, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
"Breaking Ground on a New Novel: Where and How Do Books Begin?"
Tuesday, June 18, 10:30 a.m.
Meeting Room

First Sunday Lecture: "Smyrna, 1900 to 1930"
Speaker: Dr. William P. Marchione, Historian
Sunday, July 7, 3:00 p.m.
Meeting Room

Author Appearance: Anthony Grooms, Bombingham
"History, Science and Fact: Writing Historical and Science Fiction Stories"
Tuesday, July 9, 10:30 a.m.
Meeting Room


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