Thursday, March 11th, at 7 pm, "International Power Hiking", power hiking through European cities. What is Powerhiking? It is walking with a destination in mind, and packing in as many enjoyable sights and new experiences as possible along the way. The walking becomes as exciting as the destination! Authors Carolyn Hansen and Cathleen Peck will be at the library to inspire you to hike through the major cities of the world. The POWERHIKING travel guides take the readers on exhilarating walks through exciting and beautiful cities. Each powerhike is an adventure through a neighborhood, enjoying history, architecture, art, gardens, cafes and restaurants, museums and shops. The books are small enough for a purse or backpack, with a detailed map for each walk, and hundreds of color photographs to mark the way, and also great fantasies for the "armchair" voyager.
Saturday, March 13th, from 2-3 pm, Harpist Natalie Cox, will be at the Larkspur Library Saturday afternoon to talk about and demonstrate the healing power of the harp. Cox, creator of Harps for Healthcare, has 25 years experience sharing music with patients at bedside, in oncology wards, in hospices and in lobbies of many Bay Area hospitals. Natalie is the principal harpist with the Oakland East Bay Symphony and Festival Opera orchestra, as well as the Harp Teacher at Dominican University and owner of Harps for Healthcare.
Monday, March 15th at 7 pm, Museum Docent Lecture, "Amish Quilts". Judy Cunningham, Museum Docent for the de Young and Legion of Honor Museums of San Francisco, will give a talk about the Amish Quilts exhibit held now at the de Young Museum. The Amish have been referred to as plain people, but there is nothing plain about their quilts. The artistry of the Amish tradition will be on full display at the de Young Museum. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown in the Caroline and H. McCoy Jones Textile Gallery. The exhibition, which opened November 14, 2009, features 48 full-size and crib quilts that showcase the diversity of the Amish quilt tradition, as well as the connoisseurship of collectors Faith and Stephen Brown.
Tuesday, March 16th, at 7:00 pm, Larkspur Library hosts Roberta Dillon, College of Marin Instructor and fellow retiree, who will talk about the opportunity of a lifetime. Every day, thousands of doctors, lawyers, CEO's, teachers, and businessmen retire. They leave the workplace with well-honed talents and skills, amazing gifts needed by their communities. Roberta will explore how to discover the things that give meaning and purpose to life while enjoying freedom from day-to-day responsibilities.
Thursday, March 25th, at 7 pm, Armchair Travel, "In the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh: a Travel Adventure Through History, Stories and Photographs" by Michael St. James, art teacher and world traveler.
Wednesday, March 31st at 7 pm, the Larkspur Library Book Club will meet to talk about "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon.
For more information or to be added to the email list, please call Teresa at 927-5005, or send an email to library@larkspurcityhall.org.
Borrow an Asian Art Museum Pass
Funded by a generous donation from the Larkspur Library Foundation, residents of Larkspur can borrow a free museum pass that will admit two adults and two children under the age of twelve. You may reserve a pass in person at the library or by calling 927-5005.
The Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street (between Fulton and McAllister Streets)
San Francisco, CA 94102
415-581-3500
Hours (Please call ahead to verify)
Tuesday through Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, with extended evening hours every Thursday until 9:00 pm.
The museum is closed on Mondays, New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day. The museum is open to the public on July 4.
Larkspur Library Book Club
Larkspur Library's bookclub meets once monthly, from September to June. Meetings are held on Wednesday evenings at 7pm. New members are always welcome. Feel free to drop in!
Larkspur Library's bookclub meets once monthly, from September to June. Meetings are held on Wednesday evenings at 7pm. New members are always welcome. Feel free to drop in!
Winter/Spring 2010:
| Wednesday, January 27th 7pm - |
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman |
| Wednesday, February 24 7pm - |
Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier |
| Wednesday, March 31 7pm - |
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon |
| Wednesday, April 21 7pm - |
Whistling Season by Ivan Doig |
| Wednesday, May 26 7pm - |
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
Winter/Spring 2009 Schedule:
| January 28: |
Suite Francaise by Louise Nemirovsky |
| February 25: |
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan |
| March 25: |
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje |
| April 22: |
What is the What by Dave Eggers |
| May 27: |
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo |
Fall 2009 Schedule:
| Wednesday, September 30: |
The Lemon Tree: an Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan |
| Wednesday, October 28: |
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks |
| Wednesday, December 2: |
Oliver Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout |
For more information or to be added to the email list, please call Teresa at 927-5005, or send an email to library@larkspurcityhall.org.
Larkspur Library Book Club - Winter/Spring 2010
Wednesday, January 27th - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.
Wednesday, February 24- Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier
A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel __ spanning Europe and the twentieth century - plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. Raimund Gregorius, a Swiss professor of classical languages, is crossing a rainy bridge in Bern when a mysterious woman writes a phone number on his forehead and utters a single word in Portuguese. Later that day, he wanders into a bookstore and finds himself drawn to a Portuguese book titled A Goldsmith of Words, self-published in Lisbon 30 years earlier. These unexplained and seemingly unrelated events conspire to tear myopic bookworm Gregorius out of his solitary and unvarying existence and send him to Lisbon in search of both the woman and Amadeu de Prado, the book's (fictional) author.
Wednesday, March 31- Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their cousin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague. It's the beginning, however unlikely, of a beautiful friendship. In short order, Sam's talent for pulp plotting meets Joe's faultless, academy-trained line, and a comic-book superhero is born. A sort of lantern-jawed equalizer clad in dark blue long underwear, the Escapist "roams the globe, performing amazing feats and coming to the aid of those who languish in tyranny's chains!" Before they know it, Kavalier and Clay (as Sam Klayman has come to be known) find themselves at the epicenter of comics' golden age.
Wednesday, April 21- Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
The Whistling Season is set in the past in rural eastern Montana-and addresses that time and place in distinct, uncluttered prose that carries the full enthusiasm of affection and even love-for the landscape, the characters, and the events of the story-without being sentimental or elegiac. It's the saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother--soon to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in 1909--change lives in unexpected ways. Has all the charm of old-school storytelling, from Dickens to Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Wednesday, May 26 - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Shadow of the Wind is a coming-of-age tale of a young boy who, through the magic of a single book, finds a purpose greater than himself and a hero in a man he's never met. With the passion of García Márquez, the irony of Dickens, and the necromancy of Poe, Carlos Ruiz Zafón spins a web of intrigue so thick that it ensnares the reader from the very first line. The Shadow of the Wind is an ode to the art of reading, but it is also the perfect example of the all-encompassing power of a well-told story.
