Children's Room closes at 7:00 PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Every year, book lovers wait with bated breath to see who the winners are for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize. The National Book Award winners for 2023 have already been announced in the categories of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People’s Literature. You can find a list of those titles below. As for the Booker Prize winners,Read More Read More
Now Open until December 27th! Hilda Demsky has been a Larchmont artist for 50 years. She is a member of Mamaroneck Artists Guild, have given workshops and is very involved in the Larchmont community. On Thanksgiving 2020, The New York Times invited poets’ laureate of the United States to submit, in 100 words or less, “what the people in their States would be thankful for” after the difficult year of COVID 19. More than thirty State poets laureate responded.Read More Read More
Local drug store employee Michelina Carbone loves to read and remembers reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain when she was in high school. She was surprised to hear that, since 1885, the novel is regularly challenged for racial slurs, rough language, and its depiction of slavery. Michelina believes that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an important book that should continue to be read by high school students.Read More Read More
Now open until October 30th. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark 1961 and educated at the Royal Danish Design school for drawing and graphics. Sine Hjort became active in the alternative rock scene and ultimately came to New York to work as a musician. Now a resident of Croton on Hudson for the last 13 years, Sine is focused on paper art, Painting and teaching. There will be an adjoining program on Thursday, October 12th at 7:00pm. Details here.
Ms Cannavò’s favorite thing to do when she isn’t working is read and her favorite book is The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, a frequently banned book. Ms Cannavò was surprised to hear that her other favorites, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood have also been challenged! Ms Cannavò believes that “when you ban books, you ban knowledge” and hopes her students will continue to read freely!Read More Read More
What do Lawn Boy, The Hate U Give and Huckleberry Finn have in common? These are the books for the Library’s Banned Books Book Group, led by Librarian Liam Hegarty. This is the first in our series of “Pop-up Book Groups” which are Read More Read More
Working since the early 70s specializing and fine-tuning her unique style, Ariadne will be displaying her original acrylic paintings on stretched canvas.
Thanks to the Friends of the Larchmont Public Library, we are happy to offer our patrons a new pass to the Greenburgh Nature Center. Located in Scarsdale, the Nature Center has been a leader in environmental education since 1975. The 33-acre property includes a woodland preserve with hiking trails, pond, organic garden, Nature Discovery playground, native plant meadow and over 100 animals.
Our pass to the Nature Center allows two adults and children under 18 to visit the Manor House for free. The historic Manor House featuresRead More Read More
Thanks to the Friends of the Larchmont Library, we were able to add a new museum pass to our line up- The Jewish Museum in NYC. Museum passes are available to all Larchmont Library cardholders and can be reserved online. Please visit our website, www.larchmontlibrary.org, and click on “Museum Passes” under our “Things to Do” tab. If you have any questions, please call the Reference Desk at (914) 834-2281, ext. #3. Passes are available for these museums:Read More Read More
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