(Cazenovia, NY – May 2015) Open Evening Book Club: Wednesday May 13 at 7 p.m. in the Story Garden Room. All are welcome.
For their May 13 meeting, the “Open Evening Book Club” is reading Candace Millard’s Destiny of the Republic, described by The Washington Post as “a fresh narrative that plumbs some of the most dramatic days in U.S. presidential history.”
This New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of James Garfield, one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, a renowned congressman, and a reluctant presidential candidate who took on the nation’s corrupt political establishment.
But four months after his inauguration in 1881, he was shot in the back by a deranged office-seeker named Charles Guiteau. Garfield survived the attack, but became the object of bitter, behind-the-scenes struggles for power—over his administration, over the nation’s future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care.
Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic brings alive a forgotten chapter of U.S. history.” (Amazon.com)
Books are available at the circulation desk.
Movie Spare Parts: Friday, May 15 at 3:15 and 7 p.m. in the Community Room. Free popcorn.
Movie-goers don’t want to miss Spare Parts, an inspirational movie based on the true story of four Hispanic high school students who form a robotics club under the leadership of their school’s newest teacher.
With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country’s reigning robotics champion, MIT. On their journey, they learn not only how to build a robot but also how to build a bond that will last a lifetime. (Pantelion Films)
Spare Parts is rated PG-13 and runs for 83 minutes.
Open Afternoon Book Club: Wednesday May 20 at 1 p.m. in the Story Garden Room. All are welcome
For their May 20 meeting, the “Open Afternoon Book Club” is reading Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls.
This novel tells the heartwarming story of an irrepressible woman, the author’s grandmother Lily Casey Smith, who against all odds carved out her own destiny.
For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. By age six, she was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town—riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona and raised two children.
Fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, Lily is a spirited heroine, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, she never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery, but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that willtransfix readers everywhere. (Amazon.com)
Books are available at the circulation desk.
All events at the Cazenovia Public Library are free and open to the public.
For more information on these or other events at the Library, call 655-9322 or visit www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org.