Welcome to the Hurd/St. Andrews Regional Library Blog! Hurd/ St. Andrews is one of sixteen branches of the Charleston County Public Library, located at 1735 North Woodmere Blvd Charleston, South Carolina. Here you will find the latest information about our library services, events and programming. For further information, please contact us at 843-766-2546. Enjoy your visit with us!
Showing posts with label book discussion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book discussion. Show all posts
The Language of Flowers, Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable young woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past
Online Application and Resume Lab
Monday, August 4 & 20 at 1 p.m.
Receive one-on-one help with your job application and
resume.
Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation
Friday, August 8 at 3 p.m.
Join us for an in-depth discussion on the state and
management of heir’s property in South Carolina.
Book Signing with author Sherrill Burns
Saturday, August 9 at 2 p.m.
Ms. Burns will sign her intriguing new fantasy novelDuties of the Heart.
Truck Quilt Show
Tuesday, August 12 at 6 p.m.
View beautiful quilts made by Catherine Lamkin, whose work
has been displayed in Charleston Magazine and the book, President Obama: A Celebration in Art Quilts.
Black and White Theatre
Friday, August 15 at 11 a.m.
Citizen Kane. Rated PG;
119 minutes.
Adult Scrabble
Monday, August 18 at 1 p.m.
Enjoy a friendly afternoon playing a classic board game.
Adult Sweetgrass Craft
Saturday, August 23 at 1 p.m.
Ms. Mae Scott Hall will help you make Sweetgrass coasters. Class
is limited to 12, and registration is required. Call 766-2546 to register.
Zumba: Get moving with Mary
Monday, August 25 at 10 a.m.
Enjoy upbeat music and a fun fitness event.
Movie Marathon: The Best of Alfred Hitchcock (adults)
Friday, August 29 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
10 a.m. - Pyscho.
Rated TV-14; 109 minutes.
12:30 p.m. - The Birds.
Rated PG; 119 minutes.
3 p.m. - Vertigo. 128 minutes.
If you have any question about any of the above programs, feel free is call us at 843-766-2546.
Welcome to a new year of good coffee, great books, and gregarious discussions.
Meetings are the first Friday at 10:30am.
In the months of February, March, and April meetings will be held on Thursday at 1:00pm.
January- The Snow Childby Edowyn Ivey Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
Debut novelist Eowyn ivey’s experience living in the Alaskan wilderness brings a palpable authenticity to TheSnowChild. Alaska in the 1920s is a difficult place for Jack and Mabel. Drifting apart, thechildless couple discover Faina, a young girl living alone inthe wilderness. Soon, Jack and Mabel come to love Faina as their own. But when they learn a surprising truth about the girl, their lives change in profound ways.
March- The World Made Straightby Ron Rash Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property near his North Carolina home, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours on the forest floor, he's released from the trap by the shrewd and vicious farmer who set it--but he can no longer ignore the subtle evils that underlie the life of his small Appalachian community.
April- The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson by Jerome Charyn The inner life of Emily Dickinson was creatively effulgent, psychologically pained and emotionally ambivalent, as reported by Charyn, who here inhabits the mind of one of America's most famous poets. Charyn parrots the cadent voice of razor-sharp Dickinson, beginning in her years as the tempestuous young lyricist who aims to choose my words like a rapier that can scratch deep into the skin. From the first page, witty Emily harbors conflicted feelings toward her female status: her esteemed father, the town's preeminent lawyer, adores Emily at home for her intellectual companionship, but also dismisses her formal education as a waste of money & a waste of time, and it's easy to see how Emily's poetic instincts are born from the shifting sensations of comfort and resentment brought by a childhood spent serenading Father with my tiny Tambourine.
May- Benediction by Kent Haruf In Holt, the fictional Colorado town where all of Haruf's novels are set, longtime resident Dad Lewis is dying of cancer. Happily married (he calls his wife "his luck"), Dad spends his last weeks thinking over his life, particularly an incident that ended badly with a clerk in his store, and his relationship with his estranged son. As his wife and daughter care for him, life goes on: one of the Lewises' neighbors takes in her young granddaughter; an elderly woman and her middle-aged daughter visit with the Lewises, with each other, and with the new minister, whose wife and son are unhappy about his transfer to Holt from Denver. Haruf isn't interested in the trendy or urban; as he once said, he writes about "regular, ordinary, sort of elemental" characters, who speak simply and often don't speak much at all. "Regular and ordinary" can equate with dull. However, though this is a quiet book, it's not a boring one. Dad and his family and neighbors try, in small, believable ways, to make peace with those they live among, to understand a world that isn't the one in which they came of age. Separately and together, all the characters are trying to live-and in Dad's case, to die-with dignity, a struggle Haruf (Eventide) renders with delicacy and skill.
June- The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk. The Kitchen House is a tragic story of page-turning suspense, exploring the meaning of family, where love and loyalty prevail. July- The Supremes: at Earl's All You Can Eat by Edward Moore Told with wit, style, and compassion, this is the story of friendship among three women weathering the ups and downs of life in a small Midwestern town. When Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean meet as teenagers in the mid-sixties, the civil rights movement is moving along and so are their everyday lives. Their regular gathering place is Earl's All-You-Can-Eat diner, the first black-owned business in downtown Plainview, Indiana. Dubbed the Supremes by their friends, the inseparable trio is watched over by big-hearted Earl during their complicated high school days, and then every Sunday after church as they marry, and have children and grandchildren. Sitting at the same table for almost forty years, these best friends grow up, gossip, and face the world together with pointed humor, some sorrow, and much joy. Meet Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean--once you meet them, they will be your friends forever... August-The Language of Flowersby Vanessa Diffenbaugh The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere to go, Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But an unexpected encounter with a mysterious stranger has her questioning what’s been missing in her life. And when she’s forced to confront a painful secret from her past, she must decide whether it’s worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness. September - As You Like Itby William Shakespeare With its witty heroine Rosalind, who has the longest role of Shakespeare's female characters, As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted and most performed comedy. This edition includes numerous illustrations of productions and reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. It also examines Shakespeare's sources and elucidates the central themes of love, pastoral, and doubleness, and provides detailed annotations investigating the play's allusive and often bawdy language.
All activities are free and open to the public. If you have any question about any of our events,
.jpg)
