The Chevy Chase Library Book Club's selection for the Dec. 7th meeting is Phillip Pullman's The Golden Compass. Come at 7 p.m., and be ready to discuss the book! The book club meets in the meeting room on the second floor of the library.
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The Benning Branch of the D.C. Public Library was erected at 3935 Benning Road N.E. as the sixth in a series of branch libraries funded under the D.C. Public Works Program. The building was designed by architect Clark T. Harmon in cooperation with the...Read more
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009Chevy Chase Book Club's December Selection
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Washington, D.C., is the home of many people with North Carolina roots, so we are celebrating the North Carolinians amongst us with a special display this November. Come see books by North Carolina authors on display, as well as a gallery of famous North Carolinians and photos of N.C. today! Watch a video of our North Carolina display.
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Monday, November 9, 2009Panel Discussion Includes Authors John and Maud...
Author Elizabeth Benedict presented her newest literary project at the Chevy Chase Library on November 9. A capacity crowd of 65 attendees heard Benedict, Maud Casey and John Casey read from their entries in the book Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives, edited by Elizabeth Benedict. Watch a brief clip of Benedict introducing the new book.
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library will be closed for the rest of the day today (Friday, October 16, 2009).
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Saturday, October 10, 2009Special Display on Panama: Sept. 15 - Oct. 15
Come celebrate Panama at the Chevy Chase Branch Library! See our display highlighting the delights of Panama, such as pollera dresses, molas and famous people from Panama.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009Mostly Foreign Films for Mature Audiences
Free of charge. A discussion is held after each film for those interested in attending. Almost every Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. Note: There will not be a film showing on October 12 (Columbus Day) nor November 16. Film showings take place in the 2nd floor Meeting Room.
October 19: Finian's Rainbow (USA, 2 hours, 21 minutes)
October 26: Beautiful Thing (UK, 1 hour, 30 minutes)
November 2: Not One Less (China, 1 hour, 46 minutes)
November 9: Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs de Coran (France, 1 hour, 34 minutes)
November 23: Billy Elliot (UK, 1 hour, 50 minutes)
November 30: Manon des sources (France, 1 hour, 53 minutes)
December 7: Color of Paradise (Iran, 1 hour, 30 minutes)
December 14: My Brilliant Career (Australia, 1 hour, 40 minutes)
December 21: Les Choristes (France, 1 hour, 36 minutes)
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009This Month: "Saturday" by Ian McEwan
The Chevy Chase Book Club will next meet on Monday, November 2, at 7 p.m. The book Saturday by Ian McEwan will be discussed. Copies of this book are available at the library. No need to sign up in advance, just come!
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The Pulitzer Prize has been honoring excellence in journalism and the arts since 1917.
Read these prize winners:
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (2009)
- Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson (W.W. Norton) (2008)
- The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate (2007)
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (2006)
- de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (2005)
- Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman (2004)
- Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro (2003)
- John Adams by David McCullough (2002)
- W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 by David Levering Lewis (2001)
- Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff (2000)
Find these titles in the library catalog. Place a hold to have a book delivered to the library nearest you.
For more past winners and nominees, visit the Pulitzer Prize Website.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Like popular fiction? The New York Times best seller list will tell you what the country is reading, including both hardback books and paperback books. Prefer nonfiction? The list covers that, too. The list gives you titles, authors, publishers and prices. Sometimes the list offers short excerpts, too.
For example, the list offers the first chapter of Charlaine Harris’s Dead and Gone, which begins “"Caucasian vampires should never wear white."
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