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Preschool Story Time

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 11:30 am

Share the fun of reading with your children ages 3-5 years. Children and their grownups will explore stories and activities to encourage children to develop a lifelong love of reading and learning. These 30-to-40-minute programs are designed to promote language and listening skills, expand children’s imaginations and arouse their curiosity about the world around them. This is a drop-in story time; no advance registration is required, and tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Story time takes place on the lower level.

goDigital Basics (formerly eBook Basics)

Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 2:00 pm

Come learn about DCPL's more than 15 million free online resources. Watch, read, listen and learn online. This one-hour class will show you the basics of downloading eBooks, eAudioBooks, magazines, movies, music and more. Check out goDigital to explore our offerings. goDigital Basics (formerly eBook Basics) is held on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 2 p.m. in the Mezzanine.

Music and Movement: King Bullfrog

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 10:00 am

No registration required. Please read below for more information. Join us for a special performance from local children's performers: King Bullfrog. King Bullfrog founder Jeremiah Gorka will sing and play favorites and original songs for the whole family. Get up, get moving and get grooving. This event will replace Music and Movement. No registration required. All ages are welcome. King Bullfrog will perform at 10 and 11:30 a.m. for 30 minutes. Please attend only one performance.

Music and Movement: King Bullfrog

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 11:30 am

No registration required. Please read below for more information. Join us for a special performance from local children's performers: King Bullfrog. King Bullfrog founder Jeremiah Gorka will sing and play favorites and original songs for the whole family! Get up, get moving and get grooving. This event will replace Music and Movement. No registration required. All ages are welcome. King Bullfrog will perform at 10 and 11:30 a.m. for 30 minutes. Please attend only one performance.

Memoir Writing for Older Adults

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 1:00 pm

Ever thought about writing a memoir, but never got past the first few pages? You're not alone. Join this class to learn the basics of memoir writing, and complete a life-long dream of writing your story and preserving your legacy for generations to come. We meet on the last Wednesday of each month from 1 to 3 p.m., in the conference room on the mezzanine level. This is part of the Age-Friendly D.C. initiative. To respect the flow of the writing process, please arrive on time.

Job Readiness Workshop

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 6:00 pm

Get tips from a local career development facilitator on your resume, job search and networking. Discuss topics and tips related to job searching. Workshop space is limited to 10 participants. Call 202-698-0058 or stop by the Reference Desk to sign up.

Baby Lap Time

Thursday, April 26, 2018, 10:00 am

An experience for our youngest library users and their caregivers, this 20-to-30-minute story time introduces books, songs, rhymes, tickles and bounces developmentally appropriate for children ages birth to when they start walking.This class is designed so the baby will be in their caregiver’s lap and the grownup is actively involved in the program.

Library Playdate

Thursday, April 26, 2018, 1:00 pm

Looking for a place to toddle? Play with toys? Meet other little ones? Look no further! Join us in the Children’s Room of the Northeast Library every Thursday afternoon 1-3 p.m. Play with toys that encourage early literacy and motor skill development. Learn early literacy tips from Children’s Librarians. Relax, let loose, and have a ball! For children ages birth to 3, along with parents and their caretakers.

"Sit and Stay" Dog Story Time

Thursday, April 26, 2018, 6:30 pm

What has a wet nose and loves kids? A P.A.L. dog. Where do P.A.L. dogs love to listen to kids read? The Northeast Library. On the fourth Thursday of every month, dogs and kids get together for a “Sit and Stay” Dog Story Time at 6:30 p.m. in the Children's Room. Come hear a story, and then read to our furry P.A.L.* friends. You'll love it and the dogs will love you. Children ages 5-12 are welcome. Kids under 9 must have adult supervision. Come, sit and stay awhile. It'll be "pawsome."

Northeast Writing Group

They say writing is a solitary task. (That's true.) But sometimes you need the energy of a warrior and the inspiration of a teacher to continue, to overcome a block, to make it to the last sentence of your work. No matter what you're working on (fiction, non-fiction, poetry), join Rez (Library Associate with an MA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University) for an evening of writing, every Thursday from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., in the conference room on the mezzanine level. It takes one sentence a day to keep the writer's block away.

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International Fiction

It’s good to leave town and be anywhere but DC when the heatwave hits us in July and August. But if for whatever reason this summer you’re stuck and the prospect of vacation isn’t even looming in the horizon of your dreams, don’t fret; instead, let’s explore the world through fiction. Below are some of the best translated works of fiction from Norway, Mexico, France, and Indonesia.

Adults

Exquisite Corpse

A strange story about Amy getting coffee?

"An Exquisite Corpse" is a work of art/poetry/storytelling created by a collection of people who have preceding parts of the work hidden from them. Patrons at the Northeast Library were given the opportunity to build a story based on two rules: Add only one sentence to the story (this was loosely followed.) Try not to read more than one sentence ahead, but at the very least do not turn to the previous page (this seems to have also been loosely followed.) Below is the story that was created during the month of June, transcribed as closely as possible to the original text.

Place and Race

Stories and Histories of DC

Whether you grew up in D.C. or have only been here a few weeks, knowing and understanding the city you live in is important. These books cover parts of the history of D.C. and focus on the ways in which race has intersected with politics and the way we live here.

The Written Word

Novels about Books

While most of us choose to read books because we enjoy them, some of us really, really love books. So much so that we even want our books to be about books. If you are one of those bibliophiles who just can't get enough, this list focuses on novels in which books play a central role. With a variety of genres, formats and tones, there should be at least one book here which intrigues your inner librarian, literati or collector.

Gardening in Miniature

Gardening is cathartic in ways that people who don’t mind temporary messes or dirty fingernails can appreciate. There is satisfaction in even simple jobs like weeding and the end most certainly justifies the means. Fanatical gardeners dig in the dirt most anytime, weather be damned. There are times, however, when gardening outside is neither possible nor practical. That’s when gardening in miniature fits the bill and satisfies the obsession.

A Moment of Happiness

Books to help you live a more fulfilled, peaceful life

From time to time, we all need a little bit of motivation, a little bit of spirituality, and a little bit of peace to enjoy, if not every moment, at least most of the moments of our lives. This is not new. Since the dawn of time, we've been searching for ways to achieve inner peace and fulfillment, and "being in the present moment" is a phrase that I'm sure you've heard before. Sages throughout history have considered this moment - the here and the now - as the only moment in which life exists, in which life breathes, in which we are.

Not with a Bang. . .

Post-apocalyptic books not about the Apocalypse

Post-apocalyptic stories - a sub-genre of science fiction - usually are misnamed. Instead of focusing on what happens after society collapses, they narrate the dramatic, action packed moment of crisis in which the world as we know it ends. These books are often very plot focused, moving at a quick pace with little character development. But there is another kind of post-apocalyptic book: one that is not really about the apocalyptic event at all. These books - a few of which are listed here - tend to be more literary fiction.

Pig Tales

They're round, pink and curly-tailed. Pigs as main characters have appeared in children's literature for decades - think Piglet, Wilbur, and Babe. Kids today find them just as adorable as their parents did and fortunately, these newer characters are plentiful. Here is a mini selection of "Pig Tales" for young children, so go hog wild and get acquainted with some darling pigs. Board Books (Ages Birth-3)

Our story begins: new and selected stories by Tobias Wolff

A Little Escape from Reality

A stressful day? Don’t have time for this and that? Want to start a new book but can’t commit, yet the need for an escape from your mundane daily routine nags at you? Well, reading a short story might remedy your plight. You ask how, and I say: it’s short enough to fit into your hectic life and good enough to provide you a contained but transcendental experience of great fiction. Here are five amazing short story collections:

So You Want to Be a Victorian?

Nonfiction Books on Life in Victorian Times

There's something about the Victorian era that so many people - myself included - find enchanting and idyllic. I feel like every time that old cocktail party question "If you had to live in a different time period, which would you choose?" comes up, several people always gush "Ohh, Victorian London, definitely." Full disclosure: I have for sure been one of those gushing people at times. But then I thought Ehhh, would I really want to?

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