Meet local teen fantasy author, K.E. Bruder

Thursday, April 23, 2009
6:30PM - 9PM Meet local teen fantasy author, K.E. Bruder
Local author, from right here in Shortsville, will be in the library all evening signing copies of her first novel, The Tir Nan Og chronicles : the curse of the lost onyx. Bruder, who is just a teenager herself, has been autographing at Borders in Victor and Barnes & Noble in Pittsford and now at RJCL. The novel is about a girl named Elisabeth O'Reilly who grew up being told of a mythical land called Tir Nan Og and its ten towns. Years later she finds out the fairy tales are real.

3rd Annual Red Jacket Community Library Poetry Contest

To enter you must first write an original poem, then put your name, age and phone number on the BACK. Finally, submit the poem to the library by May 4th. You may send your entry by mail or drop it off at the library. One entry per person. All ages are welcome to submit. Poems will be posted in the library and judged by our patrons.

Prize categories will be:

Adult (age 18 and up),

Young Adult (ages 13-17), and

Juvenile (ages 12 and under).

Prizes will be given at an Awards Ceremony and Open Mike night to be held at the Ice Cream Shoppe & Coffee Café, 9 North Main St., Manchester on June 2 at 7PM.

More Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras madness pictures

On Feb 24 we hosted a great Mardi Gras concert which was attended by about 45 people.

Oscar Winners—Saturday at the Movies

On Saturdays, through March 28, the library will show films from this year’s Oscars. Featuring our comfy chairs! 2PM.
February 28: Blindness
March 7: The Secret Life of Bees
March 14: Vicky Christina Barcelona
March 21: Happy Go Lucky
March 28: Milk

Book Discussion Series @ Red Jacket Community Library

Our next book discussion will be Thursday, Feb, 26th @ 7PM

We will talk about The Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination.

Mardi Gras Concert - February 24th @ 6:30PM

Join us for our annual Fat Tuesday concert and free celebration as we host the Alfred St. John Trinadad & Tobago Steelband. Free beads for all! C'mon, like you have anything else to do and you know you wanna reason to get out of the house. It's mid-February, you have cabin fever, and the Library is so close; it won't even take much gas.