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Saturday, January 10, 2009 Reader's Choice Book Discussion Group Time: 10:30am-12:00pm Location: Edmond Adults The Reader's Choice group will encourage you to read and discuss outstanding contemporary fiction. Visit a meeting and enjoy lively discussions. The book being reviewed this month is "Bel Canto" ... (more)by Ann Patchett. Reserve your copy early.

The Bibliophiles of Oklahoma are hitting the road! We will be going to Booked Up in Archer City, TX to perform biblio-ablutions among the 500,000 carefully selected books. We will also be pillaging the books we desire for our own collections.

Sunday, February 1, 2009 Carolyn Hart Discusses "Ghost at Work" Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Location: Edmond All Ages Local internationally-known author Carolyn Hart discusses her new series featuring Bailey Ruth Raeburn, an emissary from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions to help someone who needs it in ... (more)Oklahoma, Bailey Ruth's home before Heaven. She doesn't meddle-she helps out, and the rules-well they sometimes need to be adjusted. Co-Sponsor: Friends of the Library

Sunday, February 1, 2009 Carolyn Hart Discusses "Ghost at Work" Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Location: Bethany Public Library All Ages Local internationally-known author Carolyn Hart discusses her new series featuring Bailey Ruth Raeburn, an emissary from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions to help someone ... (more)who needs it in Oklahoma, Bailey Ruth's home before Heaven. She doesn't meddle-she helps out, and the rules-well they sometimes need to be adjusted. Co-Sponsor: Friends of the Library

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Carolyn Hart Discusses "Ghost at Work" Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm Location: Del City All Ages Local internationally-known author Carolyn Hart discusses her new series featuring Bailey Ruth Raeburn, an emissary from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions to help someone who needs it ... (more)in Oklahoma, Bailey Ruth's home before Heaven. She doesn't meddle-she helps out, and the rules-well they sometimes need to be adjusted. Co-Sponsor: Friends of the Library

Saturday, February 7, 2009 Carolyn Hart Discusses "Ghost at Work" Time: 10:00am-11:00am Location: Choctaw All Ages Local internationally-known author Carolyn Hart discusses her new series featuring Bailey Ruth Raeburn, an emissary from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions to help someone who needs ... (more)it in Oklahoma, Bailey Ruth's home before Heaven. She doesn't meddle-she helps out, and the rules-well they sometimes need to be adjusted. Co-Sponsor: Friends of the Library

30th Annual Friends Booksale Saturday and Sunday February 21-22, 2009 9am- 5:30pm | Oklahoma Expo Hall | State Fairgrounds | Oklahoma City Members only Presale Party Friday, February 20, 2009 5:30pm-9pm You can attend the Members Only Pre-Sale Friday, February 20th click here for the membership form ... (more)or attend the public sale Feb. 21-22, 2009. Volunteers are always needed, click here for the form! Proceeds benefit the Metropolitan Library System. For more information, contact Friends Coordinator at (405) 606-3763 or friends@metrolibrary.org

Bestselling Author Ann Patchett To Speak at Literary Voices™ Event From the very beginning, with the publication of her first novel in 1992, The New York Times was describing Ann Patchett ’s work as “generous, fearless, and startlingly wise.” Since then, Patchett has published four more novels, ... (more)including the phenomenal bestseller “Bel Canto,” two works of nonfiction, and has guest edited “Best American Short Stories” in 2006. Ann Patchett will be the speaker at the 7th Annual Literary Voices™ Author Dinner, sponsored by the Endowment Trust of the Metropolitan Library System, on Tuesday, April 14, 2009. She will speak at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club. Tickets are $125 per person for the dinner and the talk. Patchett is a Los Angeles native who was raised and still lives in Nashville, TN. Her first novel, “The Patron Saint of Liars,” was named a Notable Book for 1992 by The New York Times and was made into a movie starring Ellen Burstyn and Maggie Gyllenhaal in 1998. Subsequent novels include “Taft,” “The Magician’s Assistant,” and “Run,” but it was her fourth book, “Bel Canto,” that won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. It is also in development to become a motion picture. The New York Times wrote about “Bel Canto” that it contains “"Patchett doing what she does best — What gives this novel its power is Patchett's flair for sketching the subtleties of her characters' behavior." The New Yorker continued the praise by observing that “Patchett's tragicomic novel — a fantasia of guns and Puccini and Red Cross negotiations — invokes the glorious, unreliable promises of art, politics, and love." For more information about the Literary Voices™ 2009 Author Dinner call the Metropolitan Library System’s Endowment Trust office at (405) 606-3761. http://www.mls.lib.ok.us/mls/mls_news/2008/ann_patchett_2008-10.pdf

Friends of the Library Annual Used Book Sale YMAC building 6th and Oak April 17 & 18, 2009