Adult Programming

Adult Programming

Throughout March

Tech Help: Book-a-Librarian

Do you want to learn how to establish an e-mail account, format a resume, or complete an online job application? Call 843-776-2546, and make an appointment with a librarian for a 30-minute one-on-one session. (Limit to one online application per day.) Registration is required. 

Great Decisions Foreign Policy Discussion Group (adults)

An eight-week series authored by the Foreign Policy Association. Each week, read the Briefing Book for background information, watch a DVD, and then join our discussion group.
All discussions are scheduled for 2:00 p.m.  Call (843) 766-2546 for more information.

Wednesday, March 1 Week 1:  The Future of Europe: Coping with Crisis
Wednesday, March 8 Week 2:  Trade, Jobs and Politics
Wednesday, March 22 Week 3: Saudi Arabia in Transition
Wednesday, March 29 Week 4: U.S. Foreign Policy and Petroleum






Google Street Tour of Legare Street between Tradd and South Battery

Thursday, March 9at 1:00 p.m.
Join Reference Librarian and Tour Guide Malcolm Hale as he gives a tour of what has been called “one of the most beautiful residential blocks in America,” utilizing Google Maps Street View feature.

Being Mortal: Free Film Screening and Discussion

Saturday, March 11 at 2:00 p.m.

JOIN US for a free screening and discussion of the PBS FRONTLINE film Being Mortal. Based on the best-selling book by Atul Gawande, MD, this documentary explores the hopes of patients and families facing terminal illness and their relationships with the physicians who treat them.

See the film and be part of a national conversation that brings medical professionals and community members together around the shared responsibility of discussing what matters most to patients and families facing difficult treatment decisions and how to have these conversations ahead of a medical crisis.  A discussion will follow.

Thursday, March 23at 1:00 p.m.

Black and White Theatre presents Some Like It Hot

When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. Not Rated. Running time 122 mins.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Reference Department 

 at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Photos or videos may be taken at CCPL events and activities for library use in promotion and publicity. Anyone not wanting to have their photo taken should notify library staff at the time of the event or activity.  Media interested in learning more about events at the Charleston County Public Library should contact the Library’s Public Relations and Marketing Department at 843-805-6819 or publicrelationsatccpl.org.

Great Decisions 2017

Great Decisions 2017 

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Cynthia Graham Hurd/ St. Andrews Library

Great Decisions is America's Largest discussion program about world affairs. Each week, pick up the briefing book at the Reference Desk prior to the discussion to photocopy or read in the library. For more information, call 843-766-2546 

or stop by the Reference Desk. 

All meetings will be held in the 

Hurd/ St. Andrews Regional Library Auditorium 

Wednesdays, March 1, 8, 15 and 22 from 2-3:30 p.m.

Wednesdays, April 5, 12 and 19 from 2-3:30 p.m.

Featured topics include:

• March 1: The Future of Europe: Coping with Crisis
• March 8: Trade, Jobs, and Politics
• March 15: Conflict in the South China Sea
• March 22: Saudi Arabia in Transition
• March 29: U.S. Foreign Policy and Petroleum
• April 5: Latin America's Political Pendulum
• April 12 in Auditorium: Prospects for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• April 19: Nuclear Security: The Enduring Challenge of Nuclear Weapons

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the library 

 at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Adult Programming

Adult Programming

Black and White Theatre Presents “On the Waterfront”.

Thursday, December 1 at 12 p.m.

An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. Not rated; 108 minutes.

St. Andrews Christmas Theater Presents “A Royal Christmas”.

Tuesday, December 13 at 5:30 p.m.

Prince Leopold, heir to the throne of Cordinia, wishes to marry his young love Emily Taylor, a humble seamstress from Philadelphia. But Leopold's mother, Queen Isadora has other plans for her son. Rated G; 90 minutes.

St. Andrews Christmas Theater Presents “The Christmas Ornament”.

Tuesday, December 20 at 5:30 p.m.

A widow plans to give Christmas festivities a miss, as they bring back too many memories of her late husband.

Rated G; 83 minutes.

Ms. Brooks on the Books (adults)

Thursday, December 8 at 3 p.m.

Join Donna Brooks, a Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library staff member since the branch opened in 1992, and learn about her experiences and the changes she’s seen at the library over the years. 

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Reference Department 

 at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Adult Programming

Adult Programming

Holiday Ornament Guessing Game

Throughout November

Guess how many holiday ornaments are inside a glass vase. The patron with the closest guess wins the vase and ornaments; the winner will be announced Dec. 1.

Saturday, November 5 at 1:00 p.m. 

Lowcountry Creative Writing Group

Write and network with other writers of all ages.

The Forgotten Pleasure Gardens of Charleston
Monday, November 14 at 6 p.m.
Before the advent of public parks, the citizens of early Charleston paid admission to visit “pleasure gardens,” where they enjoyed verdant strolls, music and refreshments. Join CCPL's historian, Dr. Nic Butler, for an illustrated tour of the peninsula's forgotten fashionable gardens from the 1760s to the 1860s.

How to Manage Shoulder Pain 

Tuesday, November 1 at 6 p.m.

Learn about the causes of shoulder pain, arthritis management and more during a seminar presented by orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Richard Friedman.

Digital Drop-In
Wednesday, November 16 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Do you need a little help with your new laptop, phone, or tablet? Would you like to see some popular laptop and tablet options before making a purchase? Drop in and play with our “tech toy box” or see a Tech Team member for a little assistance. Registration is not required. First come, first served. Additional appointments may be necessary.

20 Tips for Your Windows 10  Computer 

Wednesday, November 16 from 2-3:30 p.m.

Bring your laptop (or come and watch) and take a look at Windows’ newest upgrade. Learn how to customize your settings, explore some of the latest features, and discover some helpful shortcuts. Registration is not required.

Black and White Theatre

Thursday, November 17 at 12 p.m.

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. 
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. Rated PG; 90 minutes

Hurd/St. Andrews Hallmark Holiday Theater presents
"A Cookie Cutter Christmas

Tuesday, November 22 at 5:30 p.m.

Two schoolteachers take their rivalry to a new level, while they scramble to win a holiday baking contest. Rated G; 88 minutes

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Reference Department 

 at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED

Adult Programming

Adult Programming

Logo Scavenger Hunt 
All Month Long
Locate well-known logos throughout the library, and enter a prize drawing. The winner will be drawn randomly from correct entries on
October 1.

Lowcountry Creative Writing Group 

Saturday, September 3 at 1 p.m.

Write and network with other writers of all ages.

Black and White Theatre presents Night of the Hunter

Thursday, September 15 at 12 p.m.

 A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. Not rated; 92 minutes.

Nature Walk around the Library

Thursday, September 22 at 4 p.m.

Enjoy an hour-long nature walk around the library, and identify birds and insects with help from guides from the collection. Geared towards adults. Supervised children over ten welcome.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Reference Department 

 at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com- St. Andrews Regional Lib

Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED

Adult Programming

Adult Progamming

Library Word Search 
Throughout August
Search for words, and submit completed forms for the chance to win a $10 gift card at the end of the month.

Black and White Theatre (adults)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Friday, August 19 at 11 a.m.

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.

Not rated; 130 minutes.

Virtual Tour of Montagu Street (adults)

Friday, August 26 at 2 p.m.

Enjoy the air-conditioning, and take a virtual photographic tour of Montagu Street in downtown Charleston.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Young Adult Department 

 at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com- St. Andrews Regional Lib

Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED

Photos or videos may be taken at CCPL events and activities for library use in promotion and publicity. Anyone not wanting to have their photo taken should notify library staff at the time of the event or activity.

Media interested in learning more about events at the Charleston County Public Library should contact the Library’s Public Relations and Marketing Department at 843/805-6819 or publicrelationsatccpl.org.

Adult Programming

June Programming

Designed for readers 18 and older, Reading Wave is a great way to win prizes for reading. Drawings are held throughout the summer for $25 gift cards, and one lucky person will win the fantastic Reading Wave Grand Prize Drawing.

Read along with Charleston County's youth, and cash in - you deserve it.

Hitchcock Movie Marathon (adults)
Wednesdays, June 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 at 5:30p.m. 
June 1 - Birds. Rated PG-13
June 8- Rear Window. Rated PG
June 15 - Vertigo. Rated PG
June 22- Dial M for Murder. Rated PG
June 29 - To Catch a Thief. Rated PG

Black and White Theatre (adults)

Friday, June 17 at 11 a.m.

Treasure of Sierra Nevada. 

Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. Not Rated

A Celebration of Life, Literacy and Legacy (All Ages)

Tuesday, June 21 at 2 p.m.

Join us as we celebrate the life and legacy of Cynthia Graham Hurd. Sisters and brothers of the late Cynthia Graham Hurd present books they have donated to those in attendance to carry on her dream of literacy. Books are first come first served. Refreshments provided.

(Cynthia Hurd illustration by Andrew Thompson)

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Reference Department 

 at 843-766-2546.

Cynthia Graham Hurd/St Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED

SUSIE EADES BOOK CLUB SPRING 2016

SUSIE EADES BOOK CLUB

March- July 2016

Book club meetings are held on the third Tuesday in each month from 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p. m. 

March 15, 2016 

 “Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World” by Jack Weatherford 

Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order.

But contrary to popular wisdom, Weatherford reveals that the Mongols were not just masters of conquest, but possessed a genius for progressive and benevolent rule. On every level and from any perspective, the scale and scope
of Genghis Khan's accomplishments challenge the limits of imagination. Genghis Khan was an innovative leader, the first ruler in many conquered countries to put the power of law above his own power, encourage religious freedom, create public schools, grant diplomatic immunity, abolish torture, and institute free trade. The trade routes he created became lucrative pathways for commerce, but also for ideas, technologies, and expertise that transformed the way people lived. The Mongols introduced the first international paper currency and postal system and developed and spread revolutionary technologies like printing, the cannon, compass, and abacus. They took local foods and products like lemons, carrots, noodles, tea, rugs, playing cards, and pants and turned them into staples of life around the world. The Mongols were the architects of a new way of life at a pivotal time in history.

In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World , Jack Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed. This dazzling work of revisionist history doesn't just paint an unprecedented portrait of a great leader and his legacy, but challenges us to reconsider how the modern world was made. - From the Hardcover edition.

                

April 19, 2016

“The Colored People” by Henry Louis Gates

The man touted as America's most celebrated black scholar reminisces to his daughters about his boyhood in the polluted, dying Allegheny Mountains' papermill town of Piedmont, West Virginia. Laying out the social and emotional topography of a world shifting from segregation to integration and from colored to Negro to black, Gates evokes a bygone time and place as he moves from his birth in 1949 to 1969, when he goes off to Yale University after a year at West Virginia's Potomac State College. His pensive and sometimes wistful narrative brims with the mysteries and pangs and lifelong aches of growing up, from his encounters with sexuality, to the discovery of intellectual exhilaration as he is marked to excel in school, to his suffering a crippling injury to one of his legs and struggling frightfully for his father's respect. There is much to recommend this book as a story of boyhood, family, segregation, the pre-Civil Rights era, and the era when Civil Rights filtered down from television to local reality.

May 17, 2016  

“All the Light We Cannot  See” by Anthony Doer

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE 
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge.

June 21, 2016  

“Gray Mountain”  by John Grisham

John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she's full of surprises

The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track--until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back.

In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about. Mattie Wyatt, lifelong Brady resident and head of the town's legal aid clinic, is there to teach her how to "help real people with real problems." For the first time in her career, Samantha prepares a lawsuit, sees the inside of an actual courtroom, gets scolded by a judge, and receives threats from locals who aren't so thrilled to have a big-city lawyer in town. And she learns that Brady, like most small towns, harbors some big secrets.


Her new job takes Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal. Violence is always just around the corner, and within weeks Samantha finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly.

July 19, 2016  

“Flood of Fire” by Amitav Ghosh

"The final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy. It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hind, a transport ship that will carry him from Bengal to Hong Kong. Along the way, many characters from the Ibis Trilogy come aboard, including Zachary Reid, a young American speculator in opium futures, and Shireen, the widow of an opium merchant whose mysterious death in China has compelled her to seek out his lost son. The Hind docks in Hong Kong just as war breaks out and opium "pours into the market like monsoon flood." From Bombay to Calcutta, from naval engagements to the decks of a hospital ship, among embezzlement, profiteering, and espionage, Amitav Ghosh charts a breathless course through the culminating moment of the British opium trade and vexed colonial history."-- Provided by publisher.

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events, feel free to contact the

Reference Department at 843-766-2546.

 Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

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Adult Programming: Home Buying & Credit Counseling

Adult Programming

Adult Programming

Movie Marathon

Friday, July 10th at 10:30 a.m.

Father of the Bride (1950) runtime: 93 Rated NR

 Father of the bride (1991) runtime: 105 Rated PG

Become a Digital Storyteller

Wednesday, July 15th at 5:30 p.m.

Learn the art of digital storytelling, how to use equipment like tablets and scanners to record stories and find out about related apps and websites

Black and White Theater
Friday, July 17th at 11:00 a.m.
The Shaggy Dog
Runtime: 101 minutes Rated: G

Adult Scrabble 

Monday, July 20th at 1:00 p.m.

Come in and play a competitive friendly games.

Susie Eades Book Club
Tuesday, July 21st at 1:30 p.m.
Stealing Secrets by Donald Winkler
“An overview of 36 women who spied for the Confederacy and the Union, Winkler (Lincoln's Ladies) tells "stories of women spies...filled with suspense and seduction, treachery and trickery, romance and bravery."

Movie Marathon: Jaws

Friday, July 24th at 10:30 a.m.

 

Jaws (1975) runtime: 125 minutes Rated PG

Jaws II (1978) runtime: 117 Rated PG

Jaws Revenge (1950) runtime: 91 Rated PG-13

On-line Application Lab 

Monday July 27th at 1:00 p.m.

Let us help you with your computer issues. Some one on one help with computer software issues and application and job resume issues.

If you have any questions about any of the upcoming events,
 feel free to contact the

Young Adult Department at 843-766-2546.

Saint Andrews Regional Library

1735 N. Woodmere Drive Charleston, SC 29407

www.ccpl.org 843-766-2546

Branch Blog: http://saintandrewsregionallibrary.blogspot.com/

Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com- St. Andrews Regional Lib

Mon-Thur 10-8, Fri-Sat 10-6,  Sun CLOSED