Roselle Public Library District

Beth Finke with her guide dog, Hanni, learn about guide dogs, their training, and how they help people who are blind. Ms. Finke is the author of the book, Hanni and Beth: Safe and Sound. Location: Meeting Room A & B For children, 12 and younger. Registration is required, online, by phone or in person. ... (more)Registration begins, Monday, August 18.

The first three of our eight titles for the 2008-2009 Book Discussions focus either on other places, other times, or both. The Time Traveler’s Wife is the tale of a Chicago man who is afflicted by chrono-displacement disorder. That is, he is unavoidably whisked around in time and place.

The new Men’s Book Discussion will kick off with a discussion of Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. This novel depicts the lives included in three previous generations of the Reverend John Ames’s family. As he approaches the hour of his own death, the seventy-six year old Reverend chronicles these ... (more)stories in a letter to his son. This book won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.