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Just for the fun of it, we've decided to make tomorrow morning a Mo Willems days: we'll be reading four of Willems' amazing and hilarious stories for Saturday Morning Storytime, including The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, I am Going to a Party, and everyone's favorite, Knuffle Bunny!
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Join us at 2:00pm, every Sunday in June as we celebrate the film career of one of the greatest and most controversial figures in 20th Century American history, Paul Robeson. 
JUNE
06/06/09: Bob Marley and the Wailers
06/13/09: Motown the Early Years
06/20/09: A John Lennon Tribute Concert
06/27/09: Music of
JULY
07/04/09: [ Library Closed for Independence Day ]
07/11/09: Rolling Stones documentary (by Martin Scorsese)
07/18/09: Handel Messiah
07/25/09: Sonny Rollins Live in ’65 & ‘68
We hope to see you there!!!
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We had an AWESOME day at Story Time this morning. Given the vast amounts of rain we've been having I figured it was only appropriate to read a whole bunch of stories about rain. We read:
There's a fly on the tongue of the frog on the bump on the log on the hole in the bottom of the sea.
In Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson spun tales of operatic immensity, balanced by hyper-modern sensibilities and an uncanny knack for not simply telling, but creating the future. In Anathem, Stephenson simultaneously lampoons and pays homage to the philosophical tradition, and its relationship with the rest of the world. Like all of his works (with the possible exception of Snow Crash), this book is a tome. At 935 densely packed pages, it's pretty heavy reading, but if you have the patience to unravel the story, it's very much worth the effort.
Eleanor Roosevelt, the well known First Lady and wife of President Franklin Roosevelt, was one of the main American delegates to the UN who helped compile the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration was put forward by the United Nations in 1948, three years after the end of World War Two. It was also Eleanor Roosevelt who was one of the leaders of the United States Delegation for the committee on human rights and she was the one who prodded the committee to put forward a new formulation of the idea of human rights to the world, one that reflected the challenges of a world recently united by the struggle of a World War.
Eleanor Roosevelt was a world figure at the time, one of the few American women of stature who helped direct the political work of the New Deal, served the causes of civil rights, sought to improve conditions of the poor, and brought about agricultural reform. She worked both within and outside of government. She became a symbol after her husband’s death of the American ideals of democracy, human rights, and social welfare for the masses of people. She became most famous for advancing the cause of universal human rights within the United Nations and bringing a greater idealism to the purposes behind the world organization as it came upon the world stage to become the major player that it remains today.
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In The Vampire of Ropraz, Jacques Chessex explores the power of myth and superstition in the cold, bitter countryside of Vaud, Switzerland in the early 20th Century. The book is translated eloquently from its original French by W. Donald Wilson, but loses none of its stark poeticism. 