Saturday, March 13, 2010Hardcover and trade paperback fiction, mysteries, sci-fi, and fantasy. Also, nonfiction and fiction mass-market paperbacks, LP records, video cassettes, in addition to children's paperback and hardcover books. Nothing is priced above $2. This is a bargain sale. More information.
Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Want to volunteer at the sale? Email Suzy Hooper geosoo143@yahoo.com.
Sunday, March 14, 2010Hardcover and trade paperback fiction, mysteries, sci-fi, and fantasy. Also, nonfiction and fiction mass-market paperbacks, LP records, video cassettes, in addition to children's paperback and hardcover books. Nothing is priced above $2. This is a bargain sale. More information.
Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Want to volunteer at the sale? Email Suzy Hooper geosoo143@yahoo.com.
Monday, March 15, 2010Everything 1/2 price!
Hardcover and trade paperback fiction, mysteries, sci-fi, and fantasy. Also, nonfiction and fiction mass-market paperbacks, LP records, video cassettes, in addition to children's paperback and hardcover books. Nothing is priced above $2. This is a bargain sale. More information.
Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Want to volunteer at the sale? Email Suzy Hooper geosoo143@yahoo.com.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010Everything free! Donation requested.
Hardcover and trade paperback fiction, mysteries, sci-fi, and fantasy. Also, nonfiction and fiction mass-market paperbacks, LP records, video cassettes, in addition to children's paperback and hardcover books. Nothing is priced above $2. This is a bargain sale. More information.
Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Want to volunteer at the sale? Email Suzy Hooper geosoo143@yahoo.com.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 For copies of the book, phone 291-4821 or email Sue Madeo at smadeo@westportlibrary.org.
New participants always welcome.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 A discussion will follow, facilitated by Sherri Brooks Vinton, author of The Real Food Revival and the soon-to-be-released Put 'Em Up. Sherri has taught numerous eaters how to support local agriculture with their food choices and will give you the tips and tricks needed to enjoy a more delicious, sustainable dinner.
Co-sponsored with the Green Village Initiative.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Learn about the excellent Library resources that will make you an informed jobseeker.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 
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Saturday, March 20, 2010 Note: Free tickets available in the Children’s Library beginning at 9:00 am on the day of the performance-space is limited.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 For copies of the book, phone 291-4821. New participants always welcome.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Co-sponsored with the Green Village Initiative.
Thursday, March 25, 2010—Note: this is a new, changed date 
Thursday, March 25, 2010 
Sunday, March 28, 2010 Hitchcock’s stylish comedy/thriller North by Northwest is set in the luxuriously modern Frank-Lloyd-Wright era and stars Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason. In one memorable scene after another, bewildered ad man Grant is chased cross country by spies who think he is a double agent and by police who think he is an assassin. (1959, 136 minutes)
Library catalog.
Co-sponsored with the Westport Historical Society.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 
April 1-May 31, 2010 Joan Miller creates hard-edged collages of optical illusions, intended to make the viewer believe things that are not true. The illusions happen on several levels. Through the use of paper and color, depth is created. The objects look plausible, but cannot exist in the real world and can be interpreted in multiple ways.
Opening reception: Friday, April 9, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm.
Light refreshments served. Enter through the main level Library entrance.
Saturday, April 3, 2010 Items in the Library catalog on self-defense for women.
Monday, April 5, 2010 Anne Lutz Fernandez is a former investment banker, now Staples English teacher, and her sister Catherine Lutz is a professor of anthropology and international studies at Brown University.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 In The Real Dirt on Farmer John (83 minutes), a maverick Midwestern farmer, castigated as a pariah in his community, transforms his farm amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and arson. Afterwards, Westport teachers Cecily Duffy (horticulture), Michael Aitkenhead (Environmental Science), and 5th grade teacher Joanne Fasciola speak on growing your own food.
Co-sponsored with the Green Village Initiative.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010The film will also be shown on Wednesday, April 7 at 7:00 pm.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Sarah Rose holds degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago. She has worked as a journalist in Hong Kong, Miami, and New York, and now covers food and travel. This is her first book.
YouTube video on the book.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 
Thursday, April 8, 2010 
Thursday, April 8, 2010 Jennifer Dahlgren is a graduate student at the University of New Haven, studying nutrition and dietetics in preparation for a career as a registered dietitian. As a member of the Connecticut Dietetic Association Legislative Committee, she is involved in promoting public policy initiatives to lower heath care costs through preventative nutritonal care provided by a registered dietitian. Ilisa Nussbaum's cooking education includes Pastry Arts at the former Peter Kumpf’s Culinary Institute in Manhattan (now the Institute for Culinary Education) and a variety of courses at The Culinary Institute of America. She teaches a variety of cooking classes, caters events, and has written a monthly cooking column for the now defunct Shattered Magazine. Ilisa is working towards a degree as a Registered Dietician at the University of New Haven.
Friday, April 9, 2010 Joan Miller creates hard-edged collages of optical illusions, intended to make the viewer believe things that are not true. The illusions happen on several levels. Through the use of paper and color, depth is created. The objects look plausible, but cannot exist in the real world and can be interpreted in multiple ways. The exhibit runs April 1-May 31, 2010.
Light refreshments served. Enter through the main level Library entrance.
Saturday, April 10, 2010 Travel back in time when The Hampstead Stage Company introduces William Shakespeare and his timeless works. Experience his classics through his own eyes as he writes his famous plays. Just drop in.
Note: Free tickets available in the Children’s Library beginning at 9:00 am on the day of the performance-space is limited.
Sunday, April 11, 2010 Supported by the Grace K. Salmon Foundation.
Sunday, April 11, 2010 
Monday, April 12, 2010 
Monday, April 12, 2010 
Tuesday, April 13, 2010Anne Ford speaks about her book A Special Mother: Getting through the Early Days of a Child's Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities and Related Disorders, co-authored with John-Richard Thompson, who will also be present. Ford is the author of the memoir Laughing Allegra, on raising her severely learning disabled daughter, and On Their Own: Creating an Independent Future for Your Adult Child with Learning Disabilities and ADHD. The great-granddaughter of Henry Ford, she served as Chairman of the National Center for Learning Disabilities from 1989 to 2001, and remains a committed advocate and frequent speaker on LD issues. Thompson is an award-winning playwright and novelist, who has collaborated with Anne Ford at NCLD.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Items in the Library catalog on learning disabilities.
Co-sponsored with Smart Kids with LD.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 Co-sponsored with the Green Village Initiative.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Learn about the excellent Library resources that will make you an informed jobseeker.
Thursday, April 15, 2010 Dr. Mulvenon's book, Soldiers of Fortune, details the rise and fall of the Chinese military's multi-billion dollar international business empire. His recent publications include “The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World,” in Abraham Denmark and James Mulvenon, eds., Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World and “PLA Computer Network Operations: Scenarios, Doctrine, Organiations, and Capability,” in Roy Kamphausen, David Lai, and Andrew Scobell, eds., Beyond the Strait: PLA Missions Other Than Taiwan.
Among his professional affiliations, Dr. Mulvenon is a founding member and current President of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations between 1999 and 2004, and is presently a member of the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He is regular media commentator on both China and cyber warfare, and his comments have appeared recently in numerous magazines, as well as television and radio. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and attended Fudan University in Shanghai from 1991-1992.
Twenty authors are scheduled to attend, headed up by Guest of Honor Mary Jane Clark. Clark is a veteran New York City CBS News producer and writer, who pens the best-selling media-thriller series featuring Eliza Blake, a TV morning show host.
The event is $65 if you register before March 1st. After March 1st, registration is $75. Meet-the-Authors continental breakfast Saturday and Sunday morning is included in the registration fee as well as lunch on Saturday and admission to Cocktails and Crime.
For information and registration, visit murder203.com.
Questions? Phone Jane Murphy at 203-291-4836.
Twenty authors are scheduled to attend, headed up by Guest of Honor Mary Jane Clark. Clark is a veteran New York City CBS News producer and writer, who pens the best-selling media-thriller series featuring Eliza Blake, a TV morning show host.
1:00 pm: True Crime
Paul LaRosa, producer of the TV newsmagazine 48 Hours, will discuss his latest book, Seven Days of Rage: the Deadly Crime Spree of the Craigslist Killer and the art of reporting and writing true crime. Free. No registration needed for this event at the Westport Library.
2:00 pm: What’s the Word?
Kelle Ruden of Random House will moderate a panel of professional book reviewers as they share their insiders’ view of the mystery marketplace.Free. No registration needed for this event at the Westport Library.
For information on the festival, visit murder203.com.
Questions? Phone Jane Murphy at 203-291-4836.
Monday, April 19, 2010 
Thursday, April 19, 2010 SHE LOVES ME Film Festival is in conjunction with the Westport Country Playhouse's production of the play She Loves Me, with dialogue by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, from April 20-May 8. See three classic films with different versions of the same story, a story that clearly has not lost any of its interest from the 1930s (when the original play premiered) to the early sixties (when the musical premiered) to the internet age (with You've Got Mail).
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 
Wednesday, April 21, 2010Author Diane Meier's debut novel, Season of Second Chances illustrates how coming-of-age can happen at any age. A world of possibilities opens up for Joy Harkness when she sets out on a journey that’s going to show her the importance of friendship, love, and what makes a house a home. Meier is the author of The New American Wedding and president of Meier, a New York City–based marketing firm. Her career spans from writing and design to public speaking. This is her first novel. Meier lives in New York City and Litchfield, Connecticut.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Saturday, April 24, 2010 SHE LOVES ME Film Festival is in conjunction with the Westport Country Playhouse's production of the play She Loves Me, with dialogue by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, from April 20-May 8. See three classic films with different versions of the same story, a story that clearly has not lost any of its interest from the 1930s (when the original play premiered) to the early sixties (when the musical premiered) to the internet age (with You've Got Mail).
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 
May 1-June 30, 2010
Riverwalk Display
Altered Books by Jane R. Lubin
Sunday, May 2, 2010 Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist and a sculptor. She was raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. The Times Literary Supplement says, “One of the most intelligent poets in the language . . . [Graham] is like no one else, neither in her rhythms nor in her insistence on opening up, scrutinizing, and even reversing our experience of time and space.”
Poet’s Voice is supported by the Horace E. Manacher Poetry Fund.
Monday, May 3, 2010 SHE LOVES ME Film Festival is in conjunction with the Westport Country Playhouse's production of the play She Loves Me, with dialogue by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, from April 20-May 8. See three classic films with different versions of the same story, a story that clearly has not lost any of its interest from the 1930s (when the original play premiered) to the early sixties (when the musical premiered) to the internet age (with You've Got Mail).
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 
Wednesday May 5, 2010 Debra Galant
is the author of Rattled and Fear and Yoga in New Jersey. She is also the creator of the popular blog Baristanet.com.Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Thursday, May 6, 2010 
Monday, May 10, 2010 Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Wednesday, May 12, 2010Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Items in the Library catalog on learning disabilities.
Co-sponsored with Smart Kids with LD.
Thursday, May 13, 2010 Writer/director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday) directs Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin in It’s Complicated, a comedy about love, divorce and everything in between. (120 minutes)
Saturday, May 15, 2010 Come celebrate the Library's new circulating collection of Wii games with an afternoon of Wii @ the Library.
Sunday, May 16, 2010 
Sunday, May 16, 2010 Supported by the Grace K. Salmon Foundation.
Monday, May 17 Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 
Wednesday, May 19, 2010Lawrence Goldstone is the author of the acclaimed thriller The Anatomy of Deception, a 2008 New York Times Notable Crime Novel, and several works of history, including Dark Bargain, The Activist, and Out of the Flames. He lives in Westport, Connecticut.
Friday, May 21, 2010 Daniel Asa Rose, author of Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China With My Black-Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant ... and Save His Life, discusses his memoir chronicling his trip to Beijing to help his cousin receive an illegal kidney transplant, collect a mail-order bride, and restore East-West relations while they're at it. "A satisfying, hysterical page-turner that will captivate fans of travel writing and family narratives, with special interest for anyone who's helped a loved one through serious illness."-- Publishers Weekly
Daniel Asa Rose has won an O. Henry Prize, two PEN Fiction Awards, and an NEA Fellowship. Formerly arts and culture editor of Forward and currently an editor of the international literary magazine The Reading Room, he has written for the New Yorker, Esquire, Vanity Fair, GQ, and the New York Times Magazine, and is the author of the acclaimed memoir Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons Retrace Their Family's Escape from the Holocaust.
Daniel Asa Rose on NPR's Diane Rehm show
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Saturday, May 22, 2010 
Sunday, May 23, 2010Co-sponsored with Interfaith Council.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 The Simpsons are going on vacation! Celebrate Memorial Day by watching classic vacation episodes of The Simpsons. Hosted by resident Simpsons' geek, Teen Services Librarian Jaina Lewis, the night will include trivia and snacks.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Peter Steiner, teacher, cartoonist, novelist and painter, discusses his newest literate thriller, The Terrorist, the third installment of his highly acclaimed series with ex-CIA
Peter Steiner, a former professor of German, left teaching to devote himself to painting and writing. His cartoons have appeared regularly in The New Yorker, The Weekly Standard, and The Washington Times, and his paintings have been shown in galleries in Washington and New York, and his cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker, The Weekly Standard, and The Washington Times. He has two previous books in this series, which have been opted for film by Sam Waterson's production company.
Books by Peter Steiner in the Library catalog.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 Books will be available for purchase and signing.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Thursday, June 10, 2010 Author and chef John Barricelli, owner of The SoNo Baking Company & Café in South Norwalk, CT, presents 125 recipes for sweet and savory breads and baked goods in The SoNo Baking Company Cookbook, a comprehensive and inviting cookbook with easy-to-follow directions.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Stefanie Pintoff is the winner of the first Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America Best First Crime Novel Competition. A graduate of Columbia University Law School, she also has a Ph.D. in literature from New York University.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Sunday, June 20, 2010 
Monday June 28, 2010 Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Frank Bruni is a writer for Times Magazine and was the former restaurant critic for The New York Times. Before that he served as the newspaper’s Rome bureau chief and as a White House correspondent. His 2002 book about George W. Bush, Ambling into History, was a New York Times best seller. He lives in New York City.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Sunday, July 11, 2010 
Sunday July 11, 2010 Alice Sparberg Alexiou holds a masters in journalism from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in classics from Fordham University. She has written for several publications, including The New York Times and Newsday, and is an editor of Lilith magazine, an independent magazine for Jewish women.
Wednesday July 28, 2010 “Ronica Dhar captures the struggles of family and cultural identity with such tenderness and depth of feeling that she makes these subjects completely her own. Bijou Roy is a thoughtful, elegant novel.”—Ann Patchett
Ronica Dahr was a New York Foundation for the Arts 2006 Fellow in Fiction. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan where she received the Meijer award and the Hopwood award.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Sunday, August 15, 2010 
Thursday, September 16, 2010 Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Sunday, September 26, 2010 
Sunday, October 17, 2010 
Sunday, November 21, 2010 
Sunday, December 19, 2010 
Saturday, February 5, 2011 Photo of finalists from the February 2010 contest: (l to r) Peter Rimkus, grand prize winner, Will Shortz, Jan O'Sullivan, and Alice Dutton.
Photo credit Larry Untermeyer.
YouTube video of the 2009 contest on the Library's YouTube website.
