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Movie Time - under 50 over - Tomorrow @ your library!

Submitted by Jorie Nissen on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 12:16pm

Adults of all ages, please join us for the _under50^over Movie Day tomorrow. The title is to be announced. The movie will start at 10:15 am. Movie Day will take place in the Children's Activity Space on the first floor of the library.

Light refreshments are provided by the Friends of Freeman Library.

Please contact the Reference Desk at (281) 488-1906 or visit us on the Second Floor for more information.

Flickr CC | DSCI1359 Regal movie theater in Nashville | Photo by: bresslau

Gulf Coast Reads - Movie & ScrabbleFest

Submitted by Angel Hill on Tue, 10/23/2012 - 2:17pm

Saturday, 10/27 - put it on your calendar! We'll be celebrating the 2012 Gulf Coast Read book, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, in another way: a showing of the movie at 11:00am followed by a ScrabbleFest at 1:30pm. Stop in for one or both.

GCR Scavenger Hunt @ Katy Library

Submitted by Sarah Scheldt on Fri, 10/19/2012 - 12:16pm

The Gulf Coast Reads program may be winding down, but the fun at Katy Branch is still going strong. There’s one week left to complete our Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-themed scavenger hunt! Come by the branch and pick up a map- then follow the clues for a chance to win some great prizes.

If you’ve yet to read the Gulf Coast Reads 2012 book, stop by the branch and borrow a copy today.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Food Drive!

Submitted by Luanna Adams on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 2:44pm

In celebration of Gulf Coast Reads, the Fairbanks Library is sponsoring a food drive from October 10-20 to benefit the food pantry at Cypress Assistance Ministries. The library will be accepting donations of canned foods, dry foods, infant diapers (all sizes), baby wipes, shampoo, toothpaste, toilet paper, and paper towels. Please drop off donations in the designated box inside the library, when the library is open. Thank you for helping our community!

Gulf Coast Reads "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" Food Drive

Submitted by Bonnie Langan on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 3:28pm

Please help us celebrate the Gulf Coast Reads by donating an item to our Food Bank Drive. The book featured this year in the Gulf Coasts Reads, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" was about our terrorist attack in 2001. We would like everyone to take part in this incredible story by donating an item here at the library so we may take it to our local food bank. If you have any questions on the items you may donate please call us at the library, 281-821-1320 and we will help you out with your decision. No item is too small. Please make sure the expiration date has not been reached yet. Thanking you in advance for making our food drive a success.

Baldwin Boettcher Staff

Many Adult Activities at the Library

Submitted by Naomi H. on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 3:46pm

Wow! I was just looking at the calendar and we sure have a lot going on at Maud Marks over the next week!

Do you want to help out in the community? On Saturday we have an English as a Second Language tutor training session starting at 9 AM. In just 4 hours, we'll prepare you to teach adults from various countries English. You don't even have to speak another language to help out; in fact, we prefer that you don't! All we ask of you is a commitment of 1 1/2 hours per week through May. Just think how rewarding it will be to help someone acclimate to life here in the Katy area!

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close at the Katy Branch

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/09/2012 - 3:30pm

Join us this month as we celebrate the Gulf Coast Reads selection, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. All month long, you can participate in a scavenger hunt based on the book. Stop by our display table to get started - finish the hunt by Saturday, October 27 to be eligible for prizes! Then, there's the book itself - come to the Book & Bite Club on Thursday, October 25 at 12:30pm to discu

Gulf Coast Reads: the book and the movie

Submitted by Barbara M on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 7:36pm

Every year at this time all the libraries of the Upper Gulf Coast conspire to get y'all on the same page. Or at least, reading the same book. This year's Gulf Coast Reads book is Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, the story of a young boy's struggle to come to grips with the loss of his Dad in the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11.

On Tuesday, October 2nd, you're invited to our conference room on the second floor, at 3 pm, to discuss the book and celebrate the occasion.

We also invite you to next week's showing of the film inspired by this amazing book, with a discussion to follow. That'll be on Tuesday October 9th, at 6 pm. in the first floor meeting room, L 129.

Gulf Coast Reads "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"

Submitted by Carolyn Dial on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 1:07pm

Join readers across the City of Houston for a Book Discussion of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer. We will discuss this engaging novel in the Meeting Room at the Galena Park Library at 2 pm on Thursday, October 4th. Please call for more information: 713-450-0982

Gulf Coast Reads Events All Month Long at a Library Near You

Submitted by David Cherry on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 11:40am

GCR Logo For book people, having the opportunity to share a good book with a friend or two is one of the many pleasures that come with the reading life. Imagine what it would be like to share one with thousands of friends. Harris County Public Library and other area library systems are doing just that.

Today we are kicking off Gulf Coast Reads 2012. During the month of October, we are encouraging everyone to read Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and to join us for book discussions, movie screenings and many other special events inspired by the novel; capped off with a conversation and book signing with the author on October 27.