Programs available for a wide variety of interests

The April cal­en­dar at the Delaware County Dis­trict Library is pep­pered with pro­grams for adults with a wide vari­ety of tastes and inter­ests. At 7 p.m. Mon­day, April 9, the library’s Pow­ell Branch staff will present “Gar­den­ing 101,” to dis­cuss and share basic gar­den­ing tips and tricks. Then, at 7 p.m. April 12 at the Ostran­der Branch, you can learn even more about gar­den­ing at a pre­sen­ta­tion by a Mas­ter Gardener.

If you’re inter­ested in learn­ing more about research­ing your fam­ily his­tory, plan on attend­ing “Fun with Data­bases,” that will focus on geneal­ogy resources like Her­itage Quest and Ancestry.com. at 7 p.m. April 17 at the Pow­ell Branch.

Aspir­ing writ­ers might find the two Adult Writ­ers’ Work­shops offered in April to their lik­ing on either April 18 at the Orange Branch and April 26 at the Ostran­der Branch. Both pro­grams begin at 7 p.m.

Bring your com­puter and Inter­net ques­tions and we will have our best tech­nol­ogy hands on deck to answer them. This month we will answer your ques­tions about online blog­ging and Pin­ter­est — the newest social media site that has the world buzzing — at 7 p.m. April 17 at the Ostran­der Branch.

DCDL Cin­e­math­eque returns on April 18 with the screen­ing of “Side­ways” at 7 p.m. at the Orange Branch. An infor­mal film dis­cus­sion fol­lows the view­ing of the movie.

Learn more about the art of stone­scrap­ing with local land­scaper Terry Schmit­ter at 11 a.m. Sat­ur­day, April 21, at the Ostran­der Branch. And you can bring your recy­cled items and make old stuff into new stuff at 6:30 p.m. Mon­day, April 23, at the Pow­ell Branch.

The Cook Book Dis­cus­sion group will meet at the Delaware (Main) Library at 7 p.m. April 26th to dis­cuss and share tasty treats made from the recipes found in Plenty by Yotam Ottolengh. We also will have our monthly book dis­cus­sion groups in April.

A detailed list­ing of all of these pro­grams can be found on the library’s web­site at delawarelibrary.org or in our newslet­ter, “Check It Out!” avail­able at all library locations.

When you are in the library, look for these new books due out in April.

• Almost Amish: One Woman’s Quest for a Slower, Sim­pler, More Sus­tain­able Life by Nancy Sleeth. The author looks to Amish lifestyle and val­ues as a model on which to base calmer, more focused, more faith­ful lives.
• The Beginner’s Good­bye by Anne Tyler. Shar­ing a happy mar­riage with the plain and out­spo­ken Dorothy, Aaron, a phys­i­cally dis­abled man who spent his youth avoid­ing a con­trol­ling sis­ter, is dev­as­tated by his wife’s sud­den death and moves through the griev­ing process with the help of her apparition.
• Come Home by Lisa Scot­to­line. Rebal­anc­ing her life and career after a painful divorce, pedi­a­tri­cian Jill learns that her ex has died from an alleged over­dose that her for­mer step­daugh­ter believes was actu­ally mur­der, a sit­u­a­tion that forces Jill to choose between her duty to past cir­cum­stances and her future happiness.
• Deadly Valen­tines: The Story of Capone’s Hench­man “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, His Blonde Alibi by Jef­frey Gus­field. Reveals the lives of the iconic Amer­i­can gang­ster and his blonde alibi for the Valentine’s Day Massacre.
• Har­bor Noc­turne by Joseph Wambaugh. A young longshoreman’s deliv­ery of a Mex­i­can dancer from the busy har­bor of San Pedro to a Hol­ly­wood night­club changes both of their lives when they encounter indi­vid­u­als on oppos­ing sides of the law, includ­ing surfer cops Flot­sam and Jet­sam, aspir­ing actor Hol­ly­wood Nate and young Brit­ney Small.
• Hearts of Dark­ness: James Tay­lor, Jack­son Browne, Cat Stevens, and the Unlikely Rise of the Singer-songwriter by Dave Thomp­son. Describes the three singer-songwriters and their rise to fame, dis­cussing the atyp­i­cal pop stars’ col­lec­tive body of work and how they set the stan­dard for other artists.
• Heroes for My Daugh­ter by Brad Meltzer. Col­lects the sto­ries of 55 extra­or­di­nary heroes and ideal role mod­els for girls, includ­ing Abra­ham Lin­coln, Marie Curie, Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, Anne Frank, Theodore Roo­sevelt, and the pas­sen­gers of United Flight 93.
• Sacre Bleu: A Com­edy D’Art by Christo­pher Moore. Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to dis­cover the truth behind the untimely death of their friend Vin­cent van Gogh, which leads them on a sur­real odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late 19th cen­tury Paris.
• Titanic: The Death and Life of a Leg­end by Michael Davie. Tells the story of the Titanic from its con­struc­tion to the dis­cov­ery of its wreck­age and describes the social and emo­tional impact of its sinking.

If you have a ques­tion that you would like to see answered in this col­umn, mail it to Mary Jane San­tos, Delaware County Dis­trict Library, 84 E. Win­ter St., Delaware, OH 43015, or call 740–362-3861. You can also email your ques­tions by vis­it­ing delawarelibrary.org or directly to Mary Jane at mjsantos@delawarelibrary.org. No mat­ter how you con­tact us, we’re always glad you asked.

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