Location: Germantown, Maryland, USALocal venues19840 Century Boulevard, Germantown, MD 20874 20200 Observation Drive, Germantown, MD 20876 604 Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland 536 North Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg, MD 20877 18330 Montgomery Village Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20879 18302 Contour Rd Unit 3, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 22880 Whelan Land, Boyds, MD 20841 15831 Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 23341 Frederick Road, Clarksburg, MD 20871 31 S. Summit Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 21 Grand Corner Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 15976 Shady Grove Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 15976 Shady Grove Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 14330 Travilah Road, Rockville, MD 20851 9636 Gudelsky Drive, Building III, Room 1200, Rockville, MD 20850 19633 Fisher Avenue, Poolesville, MD 20837 19900 Fisher Avenue (Rt 107), Poolesville, MD 51 Mannakee Street, Rockville, MD 20850 96 Urbana Pike, Clarksburg, MD 20871 Rte 355 & Mannakee St, Rockville, MD 20847 1137 Sugarloaf Mountain Road, Dickerson, MD 20842-8754 9701 Main Street, Damascus, MD 20872 42 West Middle Lane, Rockville, MD 20850 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850 250 Richard Montgomery Drive, Rockville, MD 20852 202 Meadow Hall Drive, Rockville, MD 20851 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20851 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville, MD 20851 3500 Olney-Laytonsville Road, Olney, MD 20832 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854 17119 Old Baltimore Rd., Olney, Maryland 20832 12089 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852 12230 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852 21030 Whitfield Place, Sterling, VA 20165 9020 Amelung Street, Frederick, MD 21704 12160 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852-1708 4407 Aspen Hill Road, Rockville, MD 20853 12101 Village Square Terrace #102, Rockville, MD 20852 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda, MD 20852 9830 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls, VA 22066-2634 46301 Potomac Run Plaza West-Unit 170, Sterling, VA 20164 44983 Knoll Square, Ashburn, VA 20147 6400 Rock Spring Drive, Bethesda, MD 20814 2110 Dulles Town Circle, Dulles, VA 20166 4886 Boiling Brook Parkway, Rockville, MD 6400 Democracy Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20817 45591 Dulles Eastern Plaza 120, Sterling, VA 20166 2336 Ladymeade Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20906-5737 45150 Russell Branch Parkway, Suite 303, Ashburn, VA 20147 19340 Promenade Drive, Lansdowne, VA 20176 | Local eventsOlympia Snowe - Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress A veteran of some forty years in public office, at both the state and federal levels, Senator Snowe built a reputation as a moderate always ready to work for bipartisan compromise. But with Congress increasingly mired in deadlock and polarization, Snowe, writing out of both frustration with the stalemate and a belief that the system can work, has issued this call for a citizens movement to hold elected officials accountable. Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Ru Freeman - On Sal Mal Lane Sal Mal Lane is an ordinary street where children play, teenagers have crushes, and families squabble and endure. But this is Sri Lanka in the early 1980s, and Freeman’s second novel charts the rising tensions of the Civil War and its profound impact on one neighborhood Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Steve Hayes - Light on Dark Water Stephen Hayes - Light on Dark WaterWhenMon, May 20, 7pm – 8pm Steve Hayes visits us to chat about his debut novel, Light on Dark Water. Corbett Hale knows the sea is an inscrutable lady-one day calm, the next a fury. But as he sets sail with a crew of three from the bay waters of the Chesapeake, heading to the Bahamas, Corbett cannot know what awaits them as he guides his beloved sloop, Gilead, into the Atlantic. Sailing south, he confronts haunted memories from a time he spent on another water, in another part of the world. Even as the violence of the sea tests his courage and skill as a sailor, he finds himself both drawn back into the turbulence of the Vietnam War and pulled forward into a struggle for survival.
Light on Dark Water tells the story not only of a battle for survival at sea, but of one man's fight with his own sense of incompleteness, anger, and remorse, as he attempts to come to terms with the raw interplay of loss and grace that is the essence of life itself.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and Georgetown University, Hayes grew up sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. He served as a naval officer in Vietnam for two years before beginning a civilian career in public and international affairs. Hayes, now retired, lives in Alexandria, Virginia. (MDGentleReader)… (more)Matthew Olshan and Sophie Blackall - The Mighty Lalouche Lalouche, a postman in 1880s Paris, is small but nimble. When he loses his job, he chances upon the Bastille Boxing club—where he discovers he’s a natural in the ring. Ages 5 - 8.
Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)  Wheaton Library Adult Book Club Charles Moore - Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands In the first volume of the first authorized biography of the late British Prime Minister, Moore, a veteran journalist and political columnist, draws on extensive interviews with his subject, her family, and her associates, as well as on letters, diaries, and other documents. The result is a detailed look at Thatcher’s public and personal life, from her childhood to her entry in Parliament in 1959, from her bold challenge to Edward Heath for Tory leadership to her victory over Argentina in the Falklands War, from her difficult position as a woman in a traditionally male role to her remarkable rapport with Ronald Reagan.
Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Robert R. Provine, Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond Paul Theroux - The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari Theroux first went to Africa in his twenties as a Peace Corps volunteer. He’s returned many times since, chronicling his expeditions in numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. Now, calling it his final visit, Theroux recounts a 2500-mile trip through Southern Africa from Cape Town through Namibia to Angol Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Classics in Context: Love and Other Disillusions: Novels from 1760-1960 Description: Join Michael Bevel for a lively discussion of Middlemarch by George Eliot. This book discussion is part of the Classics in Context series, brought to you by the Friends of the Library Bethesda Chapter. End Time: 8:30 PM (MDGentleReader)Mystery/Suspense Book Discussion Our next meeting is Tues, May 21 at 7 pm when we discuss Blue Monday by Nicci French. "Immensely intelligent and poignantly human, Frieda Klein is a psychotherapist and insomniac who spends her nights walking along the ancient rivers that lie beneath modern London, Frieda stars in a dazzling new crime series in which the terrors of the mind spill over into real life. When five-year-old Matthew Farraday is abducted, Frieda cannot ignore the fact that his photograph perfectly matches the boy one of her patients describes from his fantasies. Before long, Frieda finds herself serving as the reluctant sidekick of Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson at the center of a desperate race to find the kidnapper."
Our Mystery/Suspense Book Group meets at 7 pm the THIRD Tuesday of every month. (MDGentleReader)… (more)Robert R. Provine, Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond Robert R. Provine, Curious behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and BeyondTalk and signing, Busboys & Poets (5th and K Location) (added from Harvard University Press)  Jessica Day George - Wednesdays in the Tower **CANCELLED In the sequel to Tuesdays at the Castle, Princess Celie and her brother Rolf continue to discover the secrets of Castle Glower, where rooms trade places and floor plans redesign themselves. This time, the surprises include a mysterious egg and a room filled with weapons. Ages 9 - 11. Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)The Guns at Last Light Come meet Rick Atkinson, author of The Guns at Last Light - the final installment of The Liberation Trilogy.
Presentation, Q&A, and book signing with Rick Atkinson, author of The Guns at Last Light. (added from Macmillan) Jessica Buchanan Jessica Buchanan worked in the humanitarian aid field in Somalia. She has recently relocated to the United States, where she and her husband, Erik Landemalm, lecture on their experiences while raising their son, August, born in October, 2012. (added from Simon & Schuster)  Bilingual Spanish/English Book Club Thinking, Fast and Slow Meet New York Times bestselling author and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman as he speaks about his book Thinking, Fast and Slow. (added from Macmillan)  Sue Halpern  Virginia Pye - River of Dust Virginia Pye - River of Dust Virginia Pye discusses her debut novel, "River of Dust," a story of retribution about an American missionary couple in rural China in 1910 whose toddler son is kidnapped by Mongolian nomads. (MDGentleReader) Noah Feldman Noah Feldman (Cool War) Noah Feldman is Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard University and the author of five previous books, most recently Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices. A Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard, Feldman has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a law degree from Yale, and a doctorate in Islamic thought from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He clerked for Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. In 2003, he served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of an interim constitution. He has been a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and is a columnist for Bloomberg View. (added from Random House)… (more)Sue Halpern Noah Feldman - Cool War: The Future of Global Competition Competitive yet interdependent, one a superpower and one an ever-stronger economic power, the U.S. and China have a unique relationship, one that Feldman, Harvard professor of international law and author most recently of Scorpions, calls a “cool war.” Unlike the zero-sum geopolitical stalemate of the Cold War, this new dynamic is characterized by wariness as well as opportunity-competition could spur a leaner America and a more democratic China.
Street: 5015 Connecticut Ave NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Foal Play Meet Kathryn O'Sullivan as she reads from her debut novel Foal Play. (added from Macmillan)  Khaled Hosseini  Librarian's Choice Book Discussion Description: Group meets 4th Thursday of the month. " Snow in August" by Pete Hamill will be discussed. Copies will be available at the Information Desk. Call Quince Orchard Library at 240-777-0200 for more information Library: Quince Orchard Map Contact: Nancy Sillcox Contact Number: 240-777-0200 (MDGentleReader)… (more)
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