Concerts in the Library Return with a New Day and Time!
Our popular Concerts in the Library series has moved from Sundays to Saturdays!
Now scheduled at 2:00 p.m. on the third SATURDAY of each month, from January 16th through May 15th, we have a new slate of musical performances to entertain you. Free to all, the series features classical and jazz programs, as well as music from different ethnic traditions. The programs will be held in the Friends of the Library Room, with light refreshments provided by the Friends. The library is located at 111 W. Mariposa Avenue and Main Street. Call (310) 524-2728 for additional information.
The Book Lovers Celebration Returns!
Celebrate the joy of reading with the Book Lovers Celebration, a special event to be held during the months of February and March. February is the library's Mystery month, featuring displays and reading lists of detective and mystery books; the focus then shifts to Western month in March, with displays and reading lists of books about the wild west.
Beginning Monday, February 1st, patrons 18 years and older who borrow three adult fiction or non-fiction books at one time are eligible to enter weekly contests for unique prizes. The last day to enter the raffle contest is Wednesday, March 31st.
Share the joy of reading with the El Segundo Public Library and check out the Book Lovers Celebration!
This event is co-sponsored by the El Segundo Public Library and the Friends of the El Segundo Public Library.
Join Our Monthly Evening Book Discussion Group
From January to April, join library staff, authors, and other avid readers in a lively discussion focusing on a book-of-the-month. Free to all, the meetings will be held the last Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the library's Friends of the Library Room. The following dates and books are scheduled:
Wednesday, January 27th: author Jennie Nash leads a discussion of her book The Only True Genius in the Family.
Wednesday, February 24th: meet mystery author Harley Jane Kozak in a discussion of her book A Date You Can't Refuse.
Wednesday, March 31st: join Ellen Cunningham, the library's Public Services Manager, in a discussion of Lisa See's book Shanghai Girls.
Wednesday, April 28th: Kimberlee Carter, Senior Library Assistant, examines The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
The library is located at 111 W. Mariposa Avenue and Main Street. Call (310) 524-2728 for additional information.
In December 2009 the Friends of the Library hosted a reception to mark completion of cabinet installation in the Abbie Jean Krimmel Mesak Memorial Heritage Room. The cabinet, donated by two members of the Friends of the Library and built by local cabinet maker Ed Glotz, matches the room's original shelving that was installed in 1992; the cabinet includes lighted display shelving and drawers for housing some of the room's El Segundo history collection.
To quote Sue Carter, President of the Friends of the Library, the Heritage Room "is the only place in El Segundo with El Segundo historical material accessible to the public." The collection consists of many historical photographs--some dating back to the earliest days of El Segundo, government documents, high school year books, and other ephemeral items that give us an example of life in El Segundo through the years.
The Heritage Room is open to the public Mondays from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Arrangements can be made to view the collection at other times by calling Sue Carter at (310) 640-8923.
Below are selected new titles at the library. Come in and check out these and other books recently added to the library collection.
The Unnamed, by Joshua Ferris.
Tim Farnsworth is a handsome, healthy man, aging with the grace of a matinee idol. His wife, Jane, still loves him, and for all its quiet trials, their marriage is still stronger than most. Despite long hours at the office, he remains passionate about his work, and his partnership at a prestigious Manhattan law firm means that the work he does is important. And even as his daughter, Becka, retreats behind her guitar, her dreadlocks, and her puppy fat, he offers her every one of a father's honest lies about her being the most beautiful girl in the world. He loves his wife, his family, his work, his home. And then one day he stands up and walks out. And keeps walking.--From the dust jacket.
Wild Child, and Other Stories, by T.C. Boyle.
There is perhaps no one better than T.C. Boyle at engaging, shocking and ultimately gratifying his readers while at the same time testing his characters' emotional and physical endurance. The fourteen stories gathered here display both Boyle's astonishing range and his imaginative muscle. Nature is the dominant player in many of these stories, whether in the form of the catastrophic mudslide that allows a cynic to reclaim his own humanity ("La Conchita"), the hundreds of vermin that take over a loner's house ("Thirteen Hundred Rats"), or the wind-driven fires that howl through a high California canyon ("Ash Monday")...Brilliant, incisive and always entertaining, Boyle's short stories showcase the mischievous humor and socially conscious sensibility that have made him one of the foremost living masters of the short story and one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.--From the dust jacket.
