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Shakespeare for Everyone

Mon, May 19 @ 2:00 pm

Discuss various works from the expansive canon of William Shakespeare. 

The Sonnets and Other Love Poems

by William Shakespeare 

821 SHAKESPEARE 

The greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language, Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions–desire and despair, longing and loss, adoration and disgust. To read them is to confront morality and eternity in the same breath. The Sonnets and Other Poems includes all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the long narrative poems “Venus and Adonis” and several other shorter works. 

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

by Judi Dench 

BIO - Perform - Actors – DENCH 

Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green... Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head... These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare. For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. 

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare 

822.3 SHAKESPEARE 

This complete and unabridged edition contains every word that Shakespeare wrote, all 37 tragedies, comedies, and histories, plus the sonnets. You'll find such classics as The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew. 

Shakespeare's Language

by Frank Kermode  

822.3 KERMODE

The true biography of Shakespeare, and the only one we need to care about, is in his plays. Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished scholar of sixteenth century and seventeenth century literature, has been thinking about Shakespeare's plays all his life. This book is a distillation of that lifetime of thinking. The finest tragedies written in English were all composed in the first decade of the seventeenth century, and it is generally accepted that the best ones were Shakespeare's. Their language is often difficult, and it must have been hard even for contemporaries to understand. How did this language develop? How did it happen that Shakespeare's audience could appreciate Hamlet at the beginning of the decade and Coriolanus near the end of it? 

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4/22/2024

Celebrate National Poetry Month on Thursday, April 25 at 6:30pm with our Poetry Potluck! Share a poem that you love during the Poetry Potluck and then enjoy a reading from poet Brendan Stermer.

Spectral Evidence: Poems

by Gregory Pardlo

Call Number: 811.6 PARDLO

At times cerebral and at other times warm, inviting and deeply personal, this book compels us to consider how we think about devotion, beauty and art; about the criminalization and death of Black bodies; about justice—and about how these have been inscribed into our present, our history, and the Western canon: “If I could be / the forensic dreamer / . . . / . . . my art would be a mortician’s / paints.”

The Tainted Cup

Shadow of the Leviathan v.1
by Robert Jackson Bennett

Call Number: Fantasy BENNETT

In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible.

The War Below

Lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives
by Ernest Scheyder

Call Number: 333.816 SCHEYDER

This book reveals the explosive brawl among industry titans, conservationists, community groups, policymakers, and many others over whether some places are too special to mine or whether the habitats of rare plants, sensitive ecosystems, Indigenous holy sites, and other places should be dug up for their riches.

One in a Million

by Janet Dailey

Call Number: Mystery DAILEY

Frank Culhane may be the wealthy patriarch of one of Texas’ most prestigious families, but his party girl daughter, Jasmine, is only interested in the money the ranch brings in—and the cowboys. Until the day she heads to the stables in search of their hot horse trainer and instead discovers her daddy’s body in their prize stallion’s box stall.

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10/17/2023

Our August Book Club pick is The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. Check it out and then join us on Tuesday, October 31 at 6 pm to discuss.

The Power of Money

How governments and banks create money and help us all prosper
by Paul Sheard

Call Number: 332.4 SHEARD

This book provides a comprehensive foundation of knowledge to help you feel better informed and more confident as you follow and engage in economic and financial affairs and policy debates.

A Winter in New York

by Josie Silver

Call Number: SILVER

When Iris decides to move to New York to restart her life, she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is—all the nostalgic movies set in New York she’d watched with her mom while eating their special secret-recipe gelato didn’t quite do it justice.  But Bobby, Iris’s best friend, isn’t about to let her hide away. He drags her to a famous autumn street fair in Little Italy, and as they walk through the food stalls, a little family-run gelateria catches her eye—could it be the same shop that’s in an old photo of her mother’s?

What Small Sound

by Francesca Bell

Call Number: 811.6 BELL

This collection of poems wrestles with some of the broadest, most complicated issues of our time and also with the most fundamental issue of all: love. How it shelters and anchors us. How it breaks us and, ultimately, how it pieces us back together.

Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again

by Shigeru Kayama

Call Number: Science Fiction KAYAMA

Kayama’s fiction depicts Godzilla as engaging in guerrilla-style warfare against humanity, which has allowed the destruction of the natural world through its irresponsible, immoral perversion of science. As human activity continues to cause mass extinctions and rapid climatic change, Godzilla provides a fable for the Anthropocene, powerfully reminding us that nature will fight back against humanity’s onslaught in unpredictable and devastating ways.

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