Please join us for two special events this week at the KOH Library and Cultural Center:
First, an informative evening of local Jewish history on
Wednesday, November 3rd
7-9 PM
JEWISH MERCHANTS OF THE GOLD RUSH
With Guest Speaker, VICTORIA FISCH, Northern California Editor of the Western States Jewish History Journal.
For more information please go to jewsofthegoldrush.blogspot.com
Next, Art Exhibit Opening Reception on
Monday, November 8th
7-9 PM
Please join us to welcome local artist and educator, MARIA WINKLER at the opening reception of her exhibit in the KOH Art Gallery.
Maria Winkler, a contemporary painter and book artist, will be available to discuss her work and answer questions.
Additional information available at www.mariawinkler.com
(The current exhibition of work by Sam Liberman ends on Thursday, 11/4/10)
Monday, October 25, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
KOH Library New Arrivals
The following books and DVD's have arrived and are available for check out during library hours:
BOOKS:
With Strength and Splender: Jewish Women as Agents of Change by Lisa Kogen
The Trials of Zion by Alan Dershowitz
If We Could Hear Them Now: Encounters With Legendary Jewish Heroines by Alice Becker Lehrer
Sarah/Sara by Jacob Paul
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant
DVD'S:
Off and Running
Autism: The Musical
The Sephardic Jews and the Pike Place Market
BOOKS:
With Strength and Splender: Jewish Women as Agents of Change by Lisa Kogen
The Trials of Zion by Alan Dershowitz
If We Could Hear Them Now: Encounters With Legendary Jewish Heroines by Alice Becker Lehrer
Sarah/Sara by Jacob Paul
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant
DVD'S:
Off and Running
Autism: The Musical
The Sephardic Jews and the Pike Place Market
Sunday, October 3, 2010
October Book Club Meeting
Please join us on Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 7 p.m. as we welcome Barry Broad to speak about his book, "Eve of Destruction". A review and synopsis of his book is below:
This is a spy thriller set in the present about a set of circumstances that is all too realistic. At the same time that an Iranian-led team of terrorists is plotting to set off a radiation-heavy dirty bomb in Los Angeles, a U.S. team is working clandestinely inside Iran to set up what looks like a Chernobyl-style accident at a secret nuclear weapons site to discredit and set back the Iranian nuclear program and foment unrest against the government. We're taken through the training and back stories of the various operatives on all sides, and they emerge as reasonably full-bodied characters rather than stick figures in an action plot. The book is so intricately plotted and credibly researched that it is difficult to believe that this is a first book for the author, a labor lobbyist in Sacramento. Like any number of spy stories, this is a diversion that will hold your attention, but will also be informative for most readers, especially as to just how vulnerable the United States, and particularly its ports, still is after a half-dozen years of bureaucratic homeland security efforts.
Mr. Broad will autograph his book which is available for purchase in the library for $15.00.
This is a spy thriller set in the present about a set of circumstances that is all too realistic. At the same time that an Iranian-led team of terrorists is plotting to set off a radiation-heavy dirty bomb in Los Angeles, a U.S. team is working clandestinely inside Iran to set up what looks like a Chernobyl-style accident at a secret nuclear weapons site to discredit and set back the Iranian nuclear program and foment unrest against the government. We're taken through the training and back stories of the various operatives on all sides, and they emerge as reasonably full-bodied characters rather than stick figures in an action plot. The book is so intricately plotted and credibly researched that it is difficult to believe that this is a first book for the author, a labor lobbyist in Sacramento. Like any number of spy stories, this is a diversion that will hold your attention, but will also be informative for most readers, especially as to just how vulnerable the United States, and particularly its ports, still is after a half-dozen years of bureaucratic homeland security efforts.
Mr. Broad will autograph his book which is available for purchase in the library for $15.00.
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