Summer Reading
Posted On: May 17, 2013 In: Featured, Summer Reading
Travel to other lands in the Traveling Tales Book Club. This summer is filled with stories from East Asia. In partnership with KU’s Center for East Asian Studies, scholars will lead the discussion on books from China, Korea and Japan here at the library.
Contact Polli Kenn at pkenn@lawrencepubliclibrary.org or 785-843-3833 to reserve a book. Up to 15 books will be available for checkout, but anyone who has read the book is welcome to participate in the discussion.
- June 12, 7:00 pm- Waiting by Ha Jin (China) – Speaker TBA
- July 10, 7:00 pm- The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson (Korea) – lead by Dr. Marsha Haufler; Associate Dean for International Studies, Professor, Art History
- August 7, 7:00 pm- Fires on the Plain by Shohei Ooka (Japan) – lead by Dr. Megan Greene; Director, Center for East Asian Studies; Assoc. Professor, History
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Posted On: May 15, 2013 In: Featured, Kids Featured, Summer Reading, Teens Featured
Saturday, June 1, 10 am to noon, in the Library parking lot, we’re formally kicking off summer with the Library’s own version of “Summer School”.
No more homework, no more text books, just experts from around town to teach you some fun DIY. Want to know how to change a tire? Sing the new KU Fight song? Sink the perfect putt? Learn gardening, make art with dead fish, speak in a foreign language, play the fiddle, and lots of other cool things. We are partnering with tons of awesome community organizations to teach you some fun new skills to show off to your friends. Put this on your calendar!
Special thanks to Douglas County Community Foundation and Kansas Health Foundation for their support of the library and summer reading.
Posted On: May 14, 2013 In: Featured, Summer Reading
Sit down with KU professors in Architecture, Public Administration and Slavic language as they talk about… something else. Come grab a schmear and a cuppa joe, and prepare to go off track on Saturday mornings.
Our first guest will be Anne Patterson, Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture, Design & Urban Planning on June 8th at 10am. Anne makes what she calls Birthday Art. This, she says, “a) fulfills my insatiable desire to make stuff, b) fills that time while the kettle boils in the morning and c) brings a smile to birthday people on their special day.” The perfect storm of morning light in her kitchen, a handy-dandy Exacto blade, an Ipad, and an endless supply of birthdays has made hundreds of people happy when her art shows up in their Facebook feed. As Anne says, “Shared art is the best medicine.”
Future guests include Charles Jones (Director of KU Public Management Center) and his Ukulele on June 22nd and Marc Greenberg, (Professor of Slavic Languages) and his Russian Guitar on July 27th.
Posted On: Jul 31, 2012 In: In the Spotlight, Summer Reading, Uncategorized
This year’s summer reading program is full of fun and food, games and prizes – but what about the books? Not to worry, we still have scads of those, too! Summer in the City just wouldn’t be complete without great reads to jog your mind on these lazy days. Read More..
Posted On: Jul 9, 2012 In: Summer Reading, Uncategorized
This year’s summer reading program is full of fun and food, games and prizes – but what about the books? Not to worry, we still have scads of those, too! Summer in the City just wouldn’t be complete without great reads to jog your mind on these lazy days.
Van and Linny are as baffling to each other as their parents’ Vietnamese legacy is to them both. But when summoned for their dad’s citizenship party, the siblings find common ground.
At 4:00 am on March 13, 1964, a woman is attacked in the courtyard of her building. Unfolding over the course of two hours, this is the story of the woman’s last night, and the bystanders who hear her cries but keep to themselves.
Dr. Paul Farmer travels from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, treating infectious diseases and bringing lifesaving modern medicine to those who need it most.
Why is Vowell happiest when visiting the sites of bloody struggles like Gettysburg? Why do people always inappropriately compare themselves to Rosa Parks? And why must doubt and internal arguments haunt the sleepless nights of the true patriot?
Two Pulitzer Prize-winners issue a call to arms against a pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world.
Posted On: Jul 2, 2012 In: Summer Reading, Uncategorized
This year’s summer reading program is full of fun and food, games and prizes – but what about the books? Not to worry, we still have scads of those, too! Summer in the City just wouldn’t be complete without great reads to jog your mind on these lazy days.
Iberia by James Michener
James Michener shares the hidden Spain he has come to know, where toiling peasants, the oranges of the inland fields, and the dark weight of history conspire to create a wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful land.
360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World
by John Higham
John Higham and his wife bid their high-tech jobs good-bye, packed up their home, and set out to travel around the world.
Part diary, part reportage, The Soccer War chronicles 27 revolutions and coups in in the late 20th century. Recounting the stories behind his official press dispatches, Kapuscinski gives firsthand accounts of life during war.
After making the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of American success, Elizabeth Gilbert sets out for a year abroad to explore the arts of pleasure and devotion.
The wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train.
Posted On: Jun 24, 2012 In: Summer Reading
This year’s summer reading program is full of fun and food, games and prizes – but what about the books? Not to worry, we still have scads of those, too! Summer in the City just wouldn’t be complete without great reads to jog your mind on these lazy days.
Enchantment can happen during a retail transaction, corporate negotiation, or a Facebook update. And when done right, it’s powerful.
A riveting biography of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries.
A delightfully original, unerringly hip, yet marvelously practical handbook for a new and slightly cynical generation.
Accessible, informative, and more than a little spunky, Craft, Inc. is the definitive hipster business primer for entrepreneurial crafters to turn what they do for fun into what they do for money.
Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
With biting accuracy and devastating wit, Citizen Girl captures what it means to be young and female in the new economy, where a college degree qualifies you to make photocopies and color-coordinate file folders.
Posted On: Jun 21, 2012 In: Summer Reading
This year’s summer reading program is full of fun and food, games and prizes – but what about the books? Not to worry, we still have scads of those, too! Summer in the City just wouldn’t be complete without great reads to jog your mind on these lazy days. Read More..
Posted On: Jun 17, 2012 In: Summer Reading
This year’s summer reading program is full of fun and food, games and prizes – but what about the books? Not to worry, we still have scads of those, too! Summer in the City just wouldn’t be complete without great reads to jog your mind on these lazy days.
Lacey Yeager is young, ambitious, and looking to take the NYC art world by storm. Hungry to climb the social ladder, her ascension parallels the soaring highs and lows of the art world.
When John Singer Sargent unveiled Madame X at the 1884 Paris Salon, its subject’s provocative pose shocked the critics. This is Madame X’s story, drawing on historical facts to re-create the captivating milieu of 19th-century Paris.
Michael Kammen presents an analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their ability to both delight and provoke us.
“America’s nerviest journalist” addresses the scope of Modern Art from Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual.
The great 17th-century Dutch artist left us so many arresting self-portraits that his distinctive face has become a familiar part of the 20th-century cultural landscape. Nonetheless, the artist himself remains tantalizingly an enigma.
Posted On: Jun 8, 2012 In: Summer Reading, Uncategorized
This year’s summer reading program is full of fun and food, games and prizes – but what about the books? Not to worry, we still have scads of those, too! Summer in the City just wouldn’t be complete without great reads to jog your mind on these lazy days.
The “patron saint of farmers’ markets” suggests that foods like beef and butter have been falsely accused, while industrial foods like corn syrup have created a national epidemic of disease.
When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet.
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food.
From the award-winning guru of culinary simplicity comes a plan for responsible eating that’s good for the planet and the waistline.
It’s hard to name a place whose closing was more lamented than downtown Lawrence’s Paradise Café and Bakery. Now you can recreate such classics as breakfast enchiladas and Douglas County pie.
