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Afternoon Book Discussion Group: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Join us for a discussion of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski.more infoAfternoon Book Discussion Group: Breakfast with Buddha
Join us for a discussion of Breakfast with Buddha by Ronald Merullo.more infoAfternoon Book Group: The Other Boleyn Girl
Join us for a discussion of The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory.more infoTwentieth Anniversary Celebration
Happy 20th anniversary to the Nittany Valley Writers' Network!more infoOpen Reading
The Nittany Valley Writers' Network will give all members the opportunity to read their work at the March 9th meeting.more infoTalk Like a Pirate Day!
more infoStorm into Schlow for some Rollickin' Good Fun! Learn some pirate lingo and songs and dress up like a pirate! Come to our 11 AM storytime or 3 pm Movie Matinee and let us regale you with pirate tales!
Children's Department. No registration necessary.
Book Discussion: Nickel and Dimed
"Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job - any job - could be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce.more infoBook Discussion: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized holdWhen the item you want is checked out to someone else you may request that it be held for you when it is returned. Requests can be made for any item in our catalog including new releases and items on order. You will receive notification via e-mail (or telephone) when your hold is available for pick up. Your request will be honored in the order it is received. of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov.more infoReading the sky
Read the Avi story, Reading the Sky, in the Centre Daily Times each Sunday and Tuesday until the end of July. This is the story of young boy who can see wonderful stories in the cloud formations, but also a tale of a bank heist and the effort to get away by jumping out of a plane (remember this true story from some years back?). The robber thinks no one will be watching the sky. Avi is an award-winning author who started Breakfast Serials because he had enjoyed reading stories in the newspaper when he was younger.more infoBook Discussion: Bel Canto
Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage.more info
