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Bill Rossiter shows his autoharp to some of the kids who attended Wednesday night's show.
Thank you to everyone who attended the Bill Rossiter program. If you weren't here, you definitely missed out! This presentation was a Montana Conversations program brought to you through the Montana Humanities.
"Florence Foster Jenkins" will be the movie at 1:00 p.m. today. Set in 1940s New York, Florence Foster Jenkins is the true story of the legendary New York heiress and socialite (Meryl Streep) who obsessively pursued her dream of becoming a great singer. The voice she heard in her head was beautiful, but to everyone else it was hilariously awful. Her husband and manager, St. Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant), an aristocratic English actor, was determined to protect his beloved Florence from the truth. But when Florence decided to give a public concert at Carnegie Hall, St. Clair knew he faced his greatest challenge. "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" will be the movie next week. Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served.
There will be no children's programs during May, so Kelsey can finalize plans for the Summer Reading Program. We will have more information about summer programming later this month.
"The Zookeepers Wife" by Diane Ackerman, is a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these "guests," and human names for the animals, it's no wonder that the zoo's code name became "The House Under a Crazy Star."
Best-selling naturalist and acclaimed storyteller Diane Ackerman combines extensive research and an exuberant writing style to re-create this fascinating, true-life story-sharing Antonina's life as "the zookeeper's wife," while examining the disturbing obsessions at the core of Nazism.
"The Stars are Fire" by Anita Shreve is an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath--based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history.
"I Found You" by Lisa Jewell begins in a windswept British seaside town. Single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed. Twenty-three years earlier, Gray and Kirsty are teenagers on a summer holiday with their parents. Their annual trip to the quaint seaside town is passing by uneventfully, until an enigmatic young man starts paying extra attention to Kirsty. Something about him makes Gray uncomfortable-and it's not just that he's playing the role of protective older brother. Two decades of secrets, a missing husband, and a man with no memory are at the heart of this brilliant new novel.
On paper, Chris Brennan looks perfect. He's applying for a job as a high school government teacher, he's ready to step in as an assistant baseball coach, and his references are impeccable. But everything about Chris Brennan is a lie. Enthralling and suspenseful, "One Perfect Lie" by Lisa Scottoline is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will have readers riveted up to the shocking end; with killer twists and characters you won't soon forget.
