Showing posts with label One Book One Community. Show all posts
Showing posts with label One Book One Community. Show all posts
March 5, 2015
January 21, 2014
One Book One Community
The Franklin Public Library is pleased to announce the One
Book, One Community town-wide read for 2014, In the Heart of the Sea, the
Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick. The 2014 One Book, One Community Franklin
Kids Read is Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex, adapted for younger readers from
the National Book Award winner In the Heart of the Sea.
In 1819, the 238 ton whaleship Essex left Nantucket for the
South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South
Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted
for more than ninety days, traveling over 4,500 miles in three tiny whaleboats,
succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic
measures in the fight for survival. An intense and mesmerizing read, In the Heart of the Sea is a monumental
work of history forever placing the Essex tragedy in the American historical
canon. The story of the Essex inspired
Herman Melville, who was born the day the Essex sank, to write the great
American novel, Moby Dick.
The goal of the Franklin Libary's One book, One Community
program is to help build a better sense of fellowship through a shared reading
experience. Visit the library and check
out your copy of In the Heart of the Sea, or to reserve a copy online,
go to http://library.minlib.net
May 17, 2012
May 3, 2012
Away From Her
May 9, 2012 7 - 9 PM
Franklin Public Library Meeting Room
Away from Her - a movie about a couple who is forced to face the fact that the wife
has Alzheimer’s and must go to a nursing home.
April 23, 2012
February 28, 2012
May 4, 2011
March 30, 2011
One Book One Community 2011
“If you leave Opi, you’ll die with strangers,” Irma Vitale’s mother always warned. But Irma is too poor and too plain to marry and can’t find honest work in her tiny mountain village in Southern Italy. Barely twenty, she must leave home bearing only native wit and astonishing skill with a needle. Risking rough passage across the Atlantic, a single woman in a strange land, Irma seeks a new life sewing dresses for gentlewomen. Swept up in the crowded streets of nineteenth-century America, Irma finds workshop servitude and miserable wages, but also seeds of friendship in the raw immigrant quarters. When her determination leads at last to Chicago, Irma blossoms under the hand of an austere Alsatian dressmaker, sewing fabrics and patterns more beautiful than she’d ever imagined. Then this tenuous peace is shattered. From the rubble, confronting human cruelty and kindness, suffering and hope, a new Irma emerges, nurturing a talent she’d never imagined and an unlikely family, patched together by the common threads that unite us all.
When we were Strangers by Pamela Schoenewaldt is the selection for our 2011 One Book, One Community program. Copies are now available for checkout. For more information about the author and the novel, please visit Pamela Schoenewaldt's blog: http://pamelaschoenewaldt.com/. Program schedule coming soon!
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