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Talking Sports with Steve Buckley

Mark Sardella — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:37:05 +0000

Boston Herald sports columnist Steve Buckley spoke recently at Beebe Library in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Buckley talked about the Boston sports scene and his book, Wicked Good Year.

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Card Making or Scrapbooking

Mark Sardella — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:43:58 +0000

Thursday November 5 at 7 p.m.
This program is design for a beginner or expert stamper or scrapbooker. Pat Weisenbach owner of “Close to the Heart” will be at the library with a choice of projects. Elect to design 5 holiday cards or create a holiday photo album. Selection of craft is required at registration. Registration is required.

Ducky Day – Thursday, August 6

Mark Sardella — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:55:28 +0000

Kids will get to design their own vinyl ducks (materials will be provided) on Thursday, August 6. Two sessions: ages 3-5 at 10:30 a.m.; kids in grades 1-8 at 2 p.m.

Job Seeking and Attitude

Mark Sardella — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:08:31 +0000

On Thursday, July 2 at 7 p.m., Beebe Library will offer a program focused on solving the problem of unemployment by a using different mindset. This presentation is centered on the idea that how you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. Learn how using the conscious and subconscious parts of the mind in everyday actions can help solve problems and discover why volunteerism can be an effective method of tapping both parts of our minds while increasing the ability to network. There will be networking opportunities during/after the session.

Author Hallie Ephron Speaks Feb. 11

Mark Sardella — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:00:02 +0000

Author, book reviewer and writing teacher Hallie Ephron will speak at Beebe Library, 345 Main St., Wakefield on Wednesday, February 11, at 7 p.m.
Ephron’s newest book is a gripping psychological novel, “Never Tell a Lie.” Publishers Weekly called it “stunning” and “a deliciously creepy tale of obsession.”
She is also the co-author of a series of mystery novels written with Donald Davidoff, a neuropsychologist at Harvard’s McLean Hospital. Under the shared pseudonym G.H. Ephron, they penned a series of five mysteries featuring fictional forensic neuropsychologist Peter Zak and investigator Annie Squires.

Ephron teaches writing workshops at conferences across the country. She combined her writing talent with her love of teaching in “Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock ‘Em Dead with Style.” The book received rave reviews and was nominated for both an Edgar Award and an Anthony Award.

“Mystery novels are genre fiction,” Ephron says, “and though there’s no one way to write one, there are plenty of insights that can make the process a whole lot less painful the first time out.”

She is also the author of “1001 Books for Every Mood,” a guide to the best books of our time “organized to suit your every mood.”

An award winning book reviewer for the Boston Globe, Ephron’s “On Crime” column of crime fiction book reviews appears on the last Sunday of each month in the “Ideas” section.

She grew up in Los Angeles, the third of four writing Ephron sisters (Nora, Delia and Amy). Her parents were screenwriters Henry and Phoebe Ephron who wrote classic movies like “The Desk Set” and “Carousel.”

Ephron’s February 11 talk is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For further information, go online at www.wakefieldlibrary.org or phone 781-246-6334.

Author Jennifer Haigh to Speak at Beebe Library

Mark Sardella — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:15:51 +0000

Thursday, December 4, at 7 p.m.

(Photo by Asia Kepka)
Novelist and short story writer Jennifer Haigh will speak at Beebe Library on Thursday, December 4, at 7 p.m. Her first book, Mrs. Kimble, won the 2004 PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her second, Baker Towers, was a New York Times bestseller and won the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author. Her latest novel is The Condition.

In her masterful first novel, Mrs. Kimble, Haigh delivers a riveting story of three women who marry the same man. Ken Kimble is a chameleon, a man able to become, at least for a while, all things to all women.

Baker Towers,”is both a family saga and a love letter to our industrial past, to the men and women known as the Greatest Generation; to the vibrant small town life of America’s Rust Belt when it was still shiny and new.

Compassionate yet unflinchingly honest, witty and astute, The Condition explores the power of family mythologies, the self-delusions, denials and inescapable truths that forever bind fathers and mothers and siblings.

Ms. Haigh’s appearance at Beebe Library is free and open to the public. Reservations are not required. For more information, phone 781-246-6334, or go online at wakefieldlibrary.org. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Library Awarded Grant

Mark Sardella — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:23:01 +0000

The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners has awarded Beebe Library one of its EqualAccess grants of $5000. The grant will support our efforts to have pre-teens and teens participate more in library programs, become partners in the library, and participate in developing services, programs and skills to navigate independently and appropriately in the library.

Toward these goals the Youth Services Department has formed an advisory committee consisting of 13 young people from all middle school grades. The group met on October 8 and October 30 to brainstorm ideas for programs and activities and to begin the process of forming sub-groups for planning, events, gaming, web presence, etc.