WATER YOUR MIND-READ!

This summer the theme for the Adult Summer Reading Program is WATER YOUR MIND-READ!

ASRP 2010

Greetings all! Even though it is Christmas time it isn't too early to look forward to next summer when Beale Memorial Library presents the Fourth Annual Adult Summer Reading Program! Come to the library and get out of the heat (you know it will be sizzling)! Stay tuned for more information about upcoming events this June and July!

Re: Elvis in the Building!

Do you love Elvis? Join us at Beale Memorial Library in the auditorium Saturday July 25th at 2:00 pm for a performance of a lifetime! Elvis impersonator Sonny Elizondo pays homage to the King. Long live the King!

Shell Games Book Discussion

Please join us 6:30 tonite at Beale Memorial Library, in the Tejon Room on the 2nd floor. The discussion today will be about the Kirk Russell book Shell Games. Everyone is welcome!

Marilyn Meredith

California author Marilyn Meredith will be here at Beale Memorial Library Auditorium Saturday July 10th @ 2:00 PM. Everyone is welcome to join us for this author visit!

Southland Book Discussion

Please join us Tuesday at Beale Memorial Library July 7th at 6:30 PM in the Tejon Room to discuss Nina Revoyr's novel Southland. For more background author info please take a look at the author's website:

http://www.ninarevoyr.com/

Saturday June 20, 2009

All you bloggers! R U ready for a local celebrity and generally nice guy? The library is proud to present local weatherman and author Miles Muzio-weather host for KBAK Channel 29 and Radio Station 1180-check out his book Foundations: The Meaning of Life. Join us for this unique program this Saturday June 20th at Beale Memorial Library Auditorium 2:00 pm. Miles will talk about his book, the weather, answer questions, and sign copies of his books!

More Adult Summer Things to Do

Achieving Life Long Fitness Bring your questions and your own life experience to a discussion led by local fitness, nutrition and lifestyle experts. Day Date Time Location Mon 6-22 7:00 p.m. Beale Memorial Library Tue 6-30 6:00 p.m. Eleanor C. Wilson Branch Thu 7-9 6:00 p.m. Holloway-Gonzales Branch Sat 7-18 3:00 p.m. Baker Street Branch Sat 7-25 3:00 p.m. Northeast Branch Waterwise Garden Beauty Learn how to cope with drought conditions and save money, in a discussion of the design, plant selection, and maintenance of water conserving landscapes. Bring your own questions, and gardening successes and failures, to a discussion led by Bakersfield College horticulturist, Lindsay Ono and Kathy Robinson, Robby's Nursery. Day Date Time Location Tue 6-23 6:00 p.m. Eleanor C. Wilson Branch Thu 7-2 6:00 p.m. Holloway-Gonzales Branch Sat 7-11 3:00 p.m. Baker Street Branch Mon 7-13 7:00 p.m. Beale Memorial Library Sat 7-18 3:00 p.m. Northeast Branch Making Family Decisions with Aging Parents Bring your questions and your own life experience to a discussion led by CSUB psychology professor and Kern Senior Collaborative head Dr. Ken Ishida, and others. Day Date Time Location Sat 6-20 3:00 p.m. Baker Street Branch Mon 6-29 7:00 p.m. Beale Memorial Library Tue 7-7 6:00 p.m. Eleanor C. Wilson Branch Thu 7-23 6:00 p.m. Holloway-Gonzales Branch Sat 8-1 1:00 p.m. Southwest Branch Sat 8-8 3:00 p.m. Northeast Branch Sat 8-15 2:00 p.m. Rathbun Branch Electronic Tools and Gadgets 101 In a world of rapidly multiplying electronic technologies, which should we master to successfully navigate society in the future? What might we safely ignore? Discussion led by technology industry retiree and electronics enthusiast, Dave Waterman. Day Date Time Location Sat 6-20 3:00 p.m. Northeast Branch Sat 6-27 3:00 p.m. Baker Street Branch Tue 7-14 6:00 p.m. Eleanor C. Wilson Branch Mon 7-20 7:00 p.m. Beale Memorial Library Sat 7-25 7:00 p.m. Southwest Branch Sat 8-1 2:00 p.m. Rathbun Branch Achieving your "Bucket List" for Travel Bring your questions and your life experience to discuss the varied paths that can be taken to achieve your travel goals. Discussion leader Sara Reshaw, co-host of KERN 1180 Radio's Inside Travel show. Day Date Time Location Sat 7-25 1:00 p.m. Rathbun Branch Thu 7-30 6:00 p.m. Holloway-Gonzales Branch Making your Money Work in Difficult Times Bring your finance planning, and financial crisis management questions and issues to a discussion led by KERN Radio 1180 Moneywise Guys. Day Date Time Location Mon 7-6 7:00 p.m. Beale Memorial Library Thu 7-16 6:00 p.m. Holloway-Gonzales Branch Sat 7-18 1:00 p.m. Southwest Branch Tue 7-21 6:00 p.m. Eleanor C. Wilson Branch Sat 7-25 3:00 p.m. Baker Street Branch Sat 8-1 3:00 p.m. Northeast Branch Sat 8-8 2:00 p.m. Rathbun Branch This Transforming Life After 50 Grant was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

The Art of Detecting Book Discussion June 9th 2009

Today is the day for our first book discussion. The Art of Detection will be the subject of this discussion. Everyone is invited to Beale Memorial Library's Tejon Room at 6:30 PM tonite. Hope to see you there!

Are you ready to relax and enjoy some good books? Great, because the library has mysterious stories for you to enjoy starting (yes) next week on Monday, June 8th!
The library has also planned some great programs in addition to the online (Twitter and blog)and face-to-face book discussions. Saturdays in June and July we present local radio personalities Sarah and Dan and their great budget vacation recommendations; Miles Muzio will talk about his latest book; offer snacks and the light-hearted movie "No Reservations" starring Catherine-Zeta Jones; mystery writer Marilyn Meredith discusses the writing process; learn to knit or crochet; and meet, sing and sing some of your favorite Elvis songs Elvis impersonator Sonny Elizondo! So come to the library for good books, good fun, and enter for a chance to win in our weekly prize drawing!

It is almost summer time! Next week is the commencement of Beale Memorial Library's Adult Summer Reading Program MYSTERIOUS CALIFORNIA! We are highlighting The Art of Detection by Laurie King, Sharpshooter: Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery by Nadia Gordon , Southland by Nina Revoyr, and Shell Games: A John Marquez Crime Novel by Kirk Russell. Each of the four books are set in a California locale. The Art of Detection, a modern day Sherlock Holmes mystery set in San Francisco, will be available May 9th; Sharpshooter, bare witness to murder and mayhem in wine country in this Napa Valley first-in-the series May 23; Southland, re-visit the turbulent Los Angeles history of the 1940's, 1960's, and 1990's June 16; and Shell Games, travel the great north coast for murder, illegal animal hunting, and mystery June 30. Pick up your copy at the Information Desk, first floor. Happy Reading!

In addition to viewing the Adult Summer Reading blog announcements we invite everyone to attend our face to face Mysterious California Book Discussion Group Meetings at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Beale Memorial Library, Tejon Room, 2nd floor, starting June 8th ending July 25th. Bring your questions, thoughts, and enthusiasm to the book discussion meetings this summer. See you at the library for these four book discussions on these exciting and mysterious novels!

The Art of Detection Book Discussion

Set in San Francisco in two different time periods, the 1920's and present day, this suspense who done it will keep you guessing! Who do you think did it?

Sharpshooter Book Discussion

When her eccentric winemaker friend is falsely accused of murdering the heir to a vineyard, Napa Valley chef Sunny McCloskey launches her own investigation into the politics of the wine industry.

Shell Games Book Discussion

Involved in an investigation into an abalone poaching operation that leads to murder, Lieutenant John Marquez discovers that his own life is in danger from Kline, a vicious drug smuggler and abalone poacher with a grudge against Marquez.

Southland Book Discussion

Jackie Ishida, a young Japanese American woman living in Los Angeles, learns of the deaths of four young men in her grandfather's store during the 1965 Watts riot, and sets out to discover the truth about their deaths, along the way uncovering some long-buried family secrets as well.