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Upcoming events

    • September 14, 2010
    • 07:45 PM - 09:00 PM
    • Library Auditorium, 3rd Floor - WPB Public Library
    • 137

    Tony Blair has been one of the most dynamic leaders of modern times.  In his much-anticipated memoirs, Mr. Blair tells of his extraordinary political and personal journey, charting his excesses, controversies and disappointments with unusual candor.  As an account on the nature and uses of power, Blair’s book, A Journey:  My Political Life illuminates the challenges of leadership today. 

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    Live from NY's 92nd Street (92YLive) is a live, satellite-broadcasted event, that allows people all over the nation to access the Y's cultural and educational programs.

    This program will provide an opportunity for the audience to ask questions of the presenters, as if they were in the New York audience.  For more information about the 92YLive programs go to:http://www.92y.org/live

    Friends members can attend for $5.00, the General Public can attend for $10.00.

    • September 24, 2010
    • 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
    • Hibiscus Room - 3rd Floor, WPB Public Library
    • 25

    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver will be the featured book for the September 24 Friday with the Friends Book Club. 

     

    Renowned novelist Barbara Kingsolver narrates a year in the life of her family as they resolve to eat locally produced food.  Winner of the 2008 Book Sense Nonfiction Book of the Year.

    The discussion will be moderated by Tina Maura Albee, West Palm Beach Public Library's "Book Goddess".  You can read Tina's blog at www.mycitylibrary.org

     

    This is a brown-bag lunch event.  Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch before you arrive from the Library Café or any downtown Merchant.

     

    Future dates and Selections:

     

    November 19, 2010 - Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

    • October 12, 2010
    • 07:45 PM - 09:00 PM
    • Library Auditorium, 3rd Floor - WPB Public Library
    • 148

     Jim Cramer is the host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” and co-founder of TheStreet.com.  Moderated by Madeline Noveck

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    Live from NY's 92nd Street (92YLive) is a live, satellite-broadcasted event, that allows people all over the nation to access the Y's cultural and educational programs.

    This program will provide an opportunity for the audience to ask questions of the presenters, as if they were in the New York audience.  For more information about the 92YLive programs go to:http://www.92y.org/live

    Friends members can attend for $5.00, the General Public can attend for $10.00.

    • November 19, 2010
    • 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
    • Hibiscus Room - 3rd Floor, WPB Public Library
    • 25

    Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann will be the featured book for the November 19 Friday with the Friends Book Club. 

     

    Colum McCann gives us a vivid slice of life in 1970’s New York, brought into focus by a tightrope walker aloft between the Twin Towers.  Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction.

    The discussion will be moderated by Tina Maura Albee, West Palm Beach Public Library's "Book Goddess".  You can read Tina's blog at www.mycitylibrary.org

     

    This is a brown-bag lunch event.  Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch before you arrive from the Library Café or any downtown Merchant.

     

Past events

September 01, 2010 Galileo
August 05, 2010 Origami - The Magic of Paper Folding - Adults
August 05, 2010 Origami - The Magic of Paper Folding - Children in grades 4 and higher
August 05, 2010 Origami - The Magic of Paper Folding - Children in grades 1, 2 and 3
July 30, 2010 Friday with the Friends - Book Club
July 06, 2010 QuickBooks Pro 2009 - 4 part Series
June 25, 2010 Friday Night Jazz - June
June 16, 2010 The Mystery Of Writing: How to Get it out of Your Head and Down on Paper
June 01, 2010 92YLive - Food on the tube: How TV Shapes the Way We Think About Food
May 19, 2010 92YLive - Jeff Garlin with Ira Glass (prerecorded)
April 30, 2010 A Book Discussion - "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
April 19, 2010 Rev. Lindsay F. Babich, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Aromatherapist
April 15, 2010 92YLive - Elie Wiesel, A World in Crisis: What Are Our Moral Obligations?
April 09, 2010 Friday Night Jazz - April
March 25, 2010 The Future of Gardening in Palm Beach County - Allen Sistrunk, Director, Mounts Botanical Garden
March 17, 2010 92YLive - Jon Meacham & Fareed Zakaria, America and World Affairs
March 17, 2010 The ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING of the Friends of the WPB Public Library
March 06, 2010 Dr. Edwin Cordero, Manos ques Curan un Mundo Adolorido
March 06, 2010 Dr. Edwin Cordero, Healing Hands for a Hurting World
March 05, 2010 Friday Night Jazz - March
March 02, 2010 Patton Hyman, Business and the Power of Mindfulness
February 16, 2010 92YLive - Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnick
February 05, 2010 Friday Night Jazz - February
January 30, 2010 Habitat for Humanity - en Español
January 30, 2010 Habitat for Humanity
January 28, 2010 92YLive - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
January 27, 2010 Introduction to QuickBooks Pro 2009 - 3 part Series
January 12, 2010 92YLive - Gail Collins with Nora Ephron "Women Come of Age"
January 08, 2010 Friday Night Jazz
December 04, 2009 Friday Night Jazz
November 06, 2009 Friday Night Jazz
November 04, 2009 92YLive - Mitch Albom: Have a Little Faith
October 29, 2009 So You Think you can Tell a Ghost Story? and "Ghosts and Other Creepy Things" - a DVD Presentation
October 21, 2009 Designing the West Palm Beach Public Library: Space = Place for People
October 14, 2009 92YLive - How to Change the World: Jeffrey Sachs with Howard Gardner
September 24, 2009 92YLive - Where the Progressive Movement Goes from Here: Howard Dean
August 19, 2009 How to Make the Best Use of the Space You Have
June 03, 2009 92YLive - Forum on Sustainable Global Enterprise
April 18, 2009 Children's Department
 
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