EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
PAST EVENTS
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Annual Local History Lecture Series: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 7 p.m. Join wine maker & Carmelite, Jack Galante, as he traces the regional history |
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Annual Arts & Literary Series: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 7 p.m. |
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Author! Author! & Arts & Literary Event: Private Life; A Good Horse; The Georges and the Jewels (3 books) Jane Smiley is the author of numerous other novels including The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love & Good Will, Moo, Horse Heaven, Good Faith, Ten Days in the Hills, as well as many essays for such magazines as Vogue, The New Yorker, Practical Horseman, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Allure, The Nation, and others. She has written on politics, farming, horse training, child rearing, literature, impulse buying, getting dressed, Barbie, marriage, and many other topics. She is also the author of the nonfiction books A Year at the Races, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel and from Penguin Lives Series, a biography of Charles Dickens. In 2001, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2006, she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 4 p.m. |
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Annual Arts & Literary Series: “This is not a book about a young man with a disability, but a story of love, adaptation & acceptance.” Author, educator & autism advocate Laura Shumaker. Shumaker is one of the country’s leading Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 7 p.m. |
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Friends of Harrison Memorial Library 39th Annual Book Sale! |
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Author Presentation & Book Signing Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 7 p.m. In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over 100 of our worst entomological foes-creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the world’s most painful hornet, to the flies that transmit deadly diseases, to millipedes that stop traffic, to the “bookworms” that devour libraries, to the Japanese beetles munching on your roses, Wicked Bugs delves into the extraordinary powers of six and eight-legged creatures. |
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Author Presentation & Book Signing Rodes Fishburne is the author of the best-selling novel Going to See the Elephant, chosen by both Independent bookstores and Amazon.com as one of the best novels of 2009. He has been praised by Tom Wolfe and compared to Tom Robbins. For over ten years he has written for magazines and newspapers, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and Forbes ASAP, where he was the editor of the “Big Issue,” an annual magazine of literary essays from leading writers and thinkers. Contributors included: Tom Wolfe, Bill Gates, Kurt Vonnegut, Muhammad Ali, Mark Helprin, John Updike, Elmore Leonard, E.O. Wilson, George Plimpton and the Dalai Lama. |
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Sterling Circle Reception On Sunday, April 10, at 4 p.m., Carmel Public Library Foundation honored members of the planned giving Sterling Circle — donors who have made the Carmel Public Library Foundation part of their estate planning — in the lobby of the Park Branch. The Foundation also welcomed new members to this special Circle. These contributors are ensuring the long-term vitality of the Foundation by their future contribution to the endowment. To learn how to become a Sterling Circle members, click on the Planned Giving tab on this website. |
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Author Presentation & Book Signing Dr. Abbas Milani is a historian, author and Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution. Milani has written for publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes and has appeared on CNN, the BBC, and NPR, among others. A member of the board of directors of the Iranian Studies Group at MIT, the San Francisco Chronicle has said that “Milani has the ear of Washington insiders.” |
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Donor Salute! The Carmel Public Library Foundation hosts the annual Donor Salute – honoring all who made a contribution of $100 and above during the past year. This event is so much fun, and reflects the upbeat spirit of dedication to the Library and all it means to the community. It’s an elegant evening filled with food, wine, camaraderie, and beautiful music. |
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Author Presentation & Book Signing John Avlon is senior political columnist for The Daily Beast and the author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America as well as Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics. Previously, he was a columnist and associate editor for the New York Sun. He is a CNN contributor and the creator of the CNN and the creator of the CNN “Wingnuts of the Week” segment. Avlon was the youngest and longest-serving speechwriter in Mayor Giuliani’s City Hall. After the attacks of September 11th, 2001, he and his team were responsible for writing the eulogies for all firefighters and police officers murdered in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Avlon’s essay on the attacks, “The Resilient City” concluded the anthology Empire City: New York through the Centuries and won acclaim as “the single best essay written in the wake of 9/11.” |
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Reception for Life Members The Carmel Public Library Foundation honored all former Board Directors and special friends at a sit-down brunch in the lovely Reading Room at Harrison Memorial Library. The Foundation launched the new Life Member Program for all former Board Directors and special friends, and entertained them with lively Library news and presentations. |
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Author Presentation & Book Signing A former contributing essayist on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Phyllis Theroux’s columns, opinion-editorial pieces, reviews and feature stories have appeared in various newspapers including the New York times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor and International Herald Tribune. Her essays continue to be anthologized in numerous collections. |
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Author Presentation & Book Signing Tatjana Soli is a novelist and short story writer. She attended Stanford University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program. The Lotus Eaters is her debut novel about a female photojournalist covering the Vietnam War. Her work has been cited in Best American Short Stories and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She was awarded the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize, the Dana Award and finalist for the Bellwether Prize. |
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Friends of the Library Book sale The Friends of the Library, who make a significant annual contribution every year to the Library for the purchase of books and materials, held their Book Sale, the event that raises the money for their contribution, on August 19, 20 and 21 this year. This event, one of the major literary happenings on the Peninsula, is made up of acres of books, all carefully sorted and classified for easy searching, at wonderful prices. This year the event moved to a new venue: the Junipero Serra School Gymnasium on Rio Road, adjacent to Larson Field. No true book lover can afford to miss this! It was spectacularly successful raising some $25,000! |
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Sterling Circle Reception On Sunday, June 27, at 4 p.m., the Carmel Public Library Foundation unveiled their newly designed and constructed plaque honoring the members of the planned giving Sterling Circle — donors who have made the Carmel Public Library Foundation part of their estate planning — in the lobby of the Park Branch. These contributors are ensuring the long-term vitality of the Foundation by their future contribution to the endowment. To learn how to become a Sterling Circle member, click on planned giving. |
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Non-fiction book club Up until now, the Korean War has been the black hole of modern American history. The Coldest Winter brings this history to light. Halberstam gives a masterful narrative of the political decisions and miscalculations of both sides. He charts the disastrous path that led to the massive entry of Chinese forces near the Yalu that caught Douglas MacArthur and his soldiers by surprise. Halberstam considered The Coldest Winter the best book he ever wrote. It is a culmination of forty-five years of brilliant writing by this superb journalist about America’s postwar foreign policy. |
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Hooray for Hollywood Hooray for the major spring event and fund-raiser for the Carmel Public Library Foundation: “Hooray for Hollywood.” Author, actor and impresario Tom Parks presented this ode to the golden age of song in Hollywood at the Carl Cherry Theater. The evening included an elegant reception with spectacular hors d’oeuvres, wine and champagne and the show, followed by scrumptious deserts. |
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Author, Author! Highly acclaimed mystery authors Hannah Dennison and Clare Langley-Hawthorne were the featured panelists at this year’s Author, Author event held at the Library. This very popular event, hosted by Board Director Tom Parks, proved to be an absolute delight, as guest authors talked about their literary life, the ways they approached their writing, how they were published, their research and other insights unraveling the mysteries in writing mysteries. The literary landscape of Carmel was brightened considerably by the event. |
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Donor Salute Over 200 Members of the Carmel Public Library Foundation were feted at the annual Donor Salute – honoring all who made a contribution of $100 and above during the past year. This was the largest group ever for this annual event, and the upbeat spirit of dedication to the Library and all it means to the community pervaded the elegant evening of food, wine, camaraderie, and beautiful music by violinist Jenny Bifano. In a short welcoming talk, President Peter Mollman thanked everyone for their love of the Library and for being a part of the most successful annual campaign in the twenty-year history of the Foundation. “Only one sales message this evening to all of you who have given so generously,” he said. “Please be an ambassador – spread the message and bring a friend, a neighbor, or even a significant other to the Foundation.” |
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Art & Literary Event featuring Baseball legend and author, Reggie Jackson Hall-of-Famer Reggie Jackson, a resident of the Monterey Peninsula and now an author, hit home run after home run at the Foundation’s Arts and Literary event this past January. Reggie talked about his book, Sixty Feet Six Inches that he wrote with co-author Bob Gibson, another Hall-of-Famer. He also proved to be an inspirational guide and mentor for the large group of young people who made up part of the audience that packed the Carpenter Hall venue. There were cookies in the shape of baseballs, boxes of Cracker Jack, and Reggie passed his World Series rings around the room. “Around the world, our guest is known as Mr. October,” President Peter Mollman who acted as host, said, “but here he is proudly known as Mr. Carmel Public Library.” |
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Art & Literary Event featuring Debut Novelist, Maria Mutsuki Mockett Marie Mutsuki Mockett talked about her debut novel Picking Bones from Ash at an Arts and Literary Program sponsored by the Carmel Public Library Foundation. The reading and book-signing event has held in Carpenter Hall at the Sunset Center in Carmel. Ms. Mockett, who grew up in Carmel, California, was on a literary book tour throughout the country. As a child, Ms. Mockett was a frequent and enthusiastic patron of Harrison Memorial Library. Publishers Weekly said her novel “succeeds where many other fail: making the reader care.” Author Amy Tan said it’s “a book of intelligence and heart. As Mockett reveals, the ghosts of our mothers are always within us.” |
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Donor Salute Over 200 Members of the Carmel Public Library Foundation were feted at the annual Donor Salute – honoring all who made a contribution of $100 and above during the past year. This was the largest group ever for this annual event, and the upbeat spirit of dedication to the Library and all it means to the community pervaded the elegant evening of food, wine, camaraderie, and beautiful music by violinist Jenny Bifano. In a short welcoming talk, President Peter Mollman thanked everyone for their love of the Library and for being a part of the most successful annual campaign in the twenty-year history of the Foundation. “Only one sales message this evening to all of you who have given so generously,” he said. “Please be an ambassador – spread the message and bring a friend, a neighbor, or even a significant other to the Foundation.” |
