• Rivertowns Book Group Discussion for Asian American and Pacific Islanders

    Virtual Presentation

    Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong, chapters 1-4, on Zoom.

    The sign up for this event is closed. If you still would like to sign up, please email june.wai@gmail.com as soon as possible. Thank you!

    Get the book on Overdrive or via the Westchester Library System.

    This discussion is co-sponsored by the Ardsley, Croton, Hastings, Irvington, and Dobbs Ferry Public Libraries with over a dozen community partners.

  • Pride Month Book Discussion

    Virtual Presentation

    The Dobbs Ferry and Scarsdale Public Libraries are proud to present authors Alysia Constantine and Julian Winters

    Julian Winters is the award-winning author of Running With Lions—which won an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Best Teen Fiction—as well as How To Be Remy Cameron and The Summer of Everything. A self-proclaimed comic book geek, Julian lives in Decatur, Georgia, where he can be found watching the only two sports he can follow: volleyball and soccer. His next book, Right Where I Left You, will be released by Viking Children’s/Penguin Randomhouse in Spring 2022. Visit him online at julianwinters.com.

    Alysia Constantine is a writer. She lives in New York with her wife, two dogs and a cat. She is the author of Sweet (February 2016), Olympia Knife (November 2017) and Luckmonkey (March 2021), and is the editor of Short Stuff (June 2020), all from Interlude Press. In another life, Alysia was a professor of humanities and media studies at an art college. In an earlier life, she was a professor of other stuff in other places. In a life before that, she was a baker/cook. In a life even before that, she was a miserable queer teen studying to be a concert violinist, and before that, she was Joan of Arc (though there’s no evidence for that). Visit her at alysiaconstantine.com.

    Register with dobref@wlsmail.org to get the Zoom link – please indicate you are registering for this program in the email.

  • Colonel Brown Brown Bag Book Group

    Virtual Presentation

    For the month of February, we will be reading three short stories:

    Days of Summer by Rome Smaoui
    Miss Columbia Basin by Heather Brittain Bergstrom
    Return to Halalai by May Kuroiwa

    Register with dobref@wlsmail.org to get the Zoom link — please indicate the title and date of the program you are registering for!

  • Cult Classic Movie Night: In the Soup

    Virtual Presentation

    Aldolpho (Steve Buscemi) is an aspiring writer-director who can’t even claim to be scraping by. No one will touch his flagrantly anti-commercial epic-length script, his acting gigs offer little compensation and his crumbling New York City apartment is haunted by debt collectors. Worse, the literal girl-next-door, Angelica (Jennifer Beals), is oblivious to his affections. In a desperate attempt to get his screenplay funded, he meets Joe (Seymour Cassel), a crook willing to play dirty for cash.

    Using your Westchester library card, stream the film for free on Kanopy  at 8pm EST (or at your leisure), then join us for our always lively film discussion on Zoom where you never know who will show up!!!

    Access the discussion here: In the Soup   (Meeting ID: 880 3125 6216, Passcode: 779966) at 9:35pm EST

    Email TDeery@wlsmail.org with any questions