Meeting Rooms A&B are located on the first floor of the Main Library. After opening the exterior doors of the Main Library, immediately turn right. The doors for these rooms are on your right.
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Location: Main Library Meeting Room A & B
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
At thirty-six, third-grade teacher Maya is ready to get married and have children, and she’s been waiting an astonishing thirteen years for her live-in boyfriend, Kenneth, to finally propose. She’s prayed for the moment and believes their anniversary will be it—until she gets dumped instead. Devastated and desperate to get back in the game, she prays for a new man, then starts dating gym teacher Lloyd Bradford. She tries to make herself believe she’s in a good thing with Lloyd, but the longer they stay together, the more it looks like this is one dangerous dude.
Location: Main Library Meeting Room A & B
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother’s desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have. When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, “You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that ain’t what you was supposed to be. So, from now on, you gon’ be a boy.
Location: Main Library
Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
When Lorraine Heath received her BA degree in psychology from the University of Texas, she had no idea she had gained a foundation that would help her to create believable characters—characters that are often described as “real people.” She writes for both adult and young adult readers. She received a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Americana historicals.
Location: Main Library
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Maya Banks is the pseudonym of Sharon Long, who lives in Texas with her husband, three children and assortment of pets. When she’s not writing, she can be found hunting, fishing or playing poker. A southern girl born and bred, Maya loves life below the Mason Dixon, and more importantly, loves bringing southern characters and settings to life in her stories.
Escaping into the pages of a book is something she’s loved to do since she was a child. Now she crafts her own worlds and characters and enjoys spending as much time with them as possible.
Location: Main Library
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Karen Harper is a former college English instructor (Ohio State University) and high school literature and writing teacher. A lifelong Ohioan, Karen and her husband Don divide their time between the midwest and the southeast, both locations she has used in her books. Besides her American settings, Karen loves the British Isles, where her Scottish and English roots run deep, and where she has set many of her historical Tudor-era mysteries and her historical novels about real and dynamic British women.
Location: Main Library
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
In 1955, Look magazine called Phenix City, Alabama, “The Wickedest City in America,” but even that may have been an understatement. It was a stew of organized crime and corruption, run by a machine that dealt with complaints forcefully and with dispatch. No one dared cross them - no one even tried. And then the machine killed the wrong man.
Location: Main Library
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Contact: Ed Adams, (256) 653-2904
Location: Main Library
Date: Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Robin Daly, (256) 603-8418
Location: Main Library
Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, March 26, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, April 23, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, May 28, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, June 25, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, July 23, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, August 27, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, September 24, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, October 22, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, November 26, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, December 24, 2011 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, January 28, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, February 25, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, March 24, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, April 28, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, May 26, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, June 23, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, July 28, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, August 25, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, September 22, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, October 27, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, November 24, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, December 22, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, January 26, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, February 23, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, March 23, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, April 27, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, May 25, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, June 22, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, July 27, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, August 24, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, September 28, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, October 26, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, November 23, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, December 28, 2013 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, January 25, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, February 22, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, March 22, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, April 26, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, May 24, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, June 28, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, July 26, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, August 23, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, September 27, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, October 25, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, November 22, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pmSaturday, December 27, 2014 - 9:00am - 5:00pm
Contact: Jeff Obermark, (256) 313-8495
Location: Main Library
Date: Friday, February 25, 2011 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Contact: Will Shafferman, (866) 529-2228
