Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, February 8th at 1pm we will be showing "Something from Tiffany's"
Rated PG, 1 hour 27 minutes.
Synopsis: Life – like love – is full of surprises and unexpected gifts. In the holiday romance Something From Tiffany’s, one woman’s life is forever changed by an engagement ring meant for someone else.
In-Person Book Club
The book club meets in person at the East Granby Public Library, conference room, the second Monday of the month at 10am.
Meeting, February 13th, 2022.
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in more than sixty years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.
The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer, but does she have the strength to revisit old memories?
As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris and find refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, where she began forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears.
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, February 15th at 1pm we will be showing "Glass Onione: A Knives Out Mystery"
Rated PG-13, 2 hour 19 minutes.
Synopsis: World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.
The East Granby Public Library & East Granby Land Trust present
an Introduction to BeeKeeping with Master Beekeeper, Mark Creighton.
This presentation will highlight a modern beehive structure and describe the communal
organization of bees within a hive. The life cycle of worker bees and basic bee genetics will
be covered. A brief history of beekeeping will be included.
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, February 22nd at 1pm we will be showing "Plan A"
Rated 16+, 1 hour 49 minutes.
Synopsis: The true story of a group of Jewish
vigilantes who survive the holocaust and vow to avenge their people - "an eye for any eye, a tooth for a tooth."
The virtual book club meets via Zoom the last Tuesday of the month at 4pm.
Meeting, February 28th.
Title: Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town-a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To the rescue comes her previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell.
In her vintage Packard convertible, Tootie whisks CeeCee away to Savannah's perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity, a world that seems to be run entirely by women. From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard bathtub and uses garden slugs as her secret weapons, to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper, Oletta Jones, to Violene Hobbs, who entertains a local police officer in her canary-yellow peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep CeeCee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer.
Join us and our wonderful instructor to make a cute penguin!
Cost is $15 for materials and instruction! (Please pay in advance)
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, March 1st at 1pm we will be showing "The Fabelmans"
Rated PG-13, 2 hour 31 minutes.
Synopsis: Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
Join us to needle felt a Galloway Ewe! Cost is $15 per person. Please pay in advance via cash, check, or venmo @Eastgranbypubliclibrary
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, March 8th at 1pm we will be showing "She Said"
Rated R, 2 hour 9 minutes.
Synopsis: Based on the bombshell New York Times investigation, two reporters race to expose a Hollywood scandal and
shatter a corrupt system by empowering courageous women to speak out.
St. Patrick's Day Flower Arranging Workshop
Join Kathy Mock for a flower arranging workshop at 6pm!
Cost for supplies is $15 per person. Please pay in advance
by cash, check, or venmo @eastgranbypubliclibrary
In-Person Book Club
The book club meets in person at the East Granby Public Library, conference room, the second Monday of the month at 10am.
Meeting, March 13th 2023.
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, March 15th at 1pm we will be showing "Devotion"
Rated 13, 2 hr 19 minutes.
Synopsis: A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
Handmade Crepe Paper Flower Workshop
Join Susan Canavan in learning how to make a Cosmo flower using crepe paper.
Cost is $10 per person via cash, check, or venmo @eastgranbypubliclibrary
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, March 22nd at 1pm we will be showing "Women Talking"
Rated PG-13, 2 hour 24 minutes.
Synopsis: Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
The virtual book club meets via Zoom the last Tuesday of the month at 4pm.
Meeting, March 28th.
Title: The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth
Anna Forster is only thirty-eight years old, but her mind is slowly slipping away from her. Armed only with her keen wit and sharp-eyed determination, she knows that her family is doing what they believe to be best when they take her to Rosalind House, an assisted living facility. But Anna has a secret: she does not plan on staying. She also knows there's just one another resident who is her age, Luke. What she does not expect is the love that blossoms between her and Luke even as she resists her new life. As her disease steals more and more of her memory, Anna fights to hold on to what she knows, including her relationship with Luke.
Eve Bennett, suddenly thrust into the role of single mother to her bright and vivacious seven-year-old daughter, finds herself putting her culinary training to use at Rosalind house. When she meets Anna and Luke, she is moved by the bond the pair has forged. But when a tragic incident leads Anna's and Luke's families to separate them, Eve finds herself questioning what she is willing to risk to help them. Eve has her own secrets, and her own desperate circumstances that raise the stakes even higher.
Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies
Wednesday, March 29th at 1pm we will be showing "I Wanna Dance with Somebody"
Rated PG-13, 2 hour 24 minutes.
Synopsis: A joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest female R&B pop vocalists of all time, tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.
Learn how to felt an Easter Egg with Angelina Fleury!
Cost $10 per person.
Please pay in advance via cash, check or venmo @eastgranbypubliclibrary
The virtual book club meets via Zoom the last Tuesday of the month at 4pm.
Meeting, April 25th.
Title: The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist from the bestselling author of Everything, Everything will have you falling in love with Natasha and Daniel as they fall in love with each other!
Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.
Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.
The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?
The virtual book club meets via Zoom the last Tuesday of the month at 4pm.
Meeting, May 30th
Title: An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo
Lizzie and Karl's mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don't run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene stay in their garden instead. When the city is bombed, the family flees with thousands of others, but how can they walk the same route when they have an elephant in tow, and keep themselves safe? Along the way, they meet Peter, a Canadian navigator who risks his own capture to save the family.
As Michael Morpurgo writes in an author's note, An Elephant in the Garden is inspired by historical truths, and by his admiration for elephants, "the noblest and wisest and most sensitive of all creatures." Here is a story that brings together an unlikely group of survivors whose faith in kindness and love proves the best weapon of all.
The virtual book club meets via Zoom the last Tuesday of the month at 4pm.
Meeting, June 27th.
Title: The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys.
Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. But when their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos, including a murder, unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. In the aftermath of so much turmoil, it is Isabelle who emerges as an unlikely leader, proffering a healing vision for the land and for the newly free citizens of Old Ox.
With candor and sympathy, debut novelist Nathan Harris creates an unforgettable cast of characters, depicting Georgia in the violent crucible of Reconstruction. Equal parts beauty and terror, as gripping as it is moving, The Sweetness of Water is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances.
Join Financial Advisor Matthew Tyo, and learn what you need to know
about Medicare before the enrollment period opens next month. RICP
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