Great programs for Adults this summer!

Check out these GREAT PROGRAMS we've got going this summer! And, signup for the Adult Summer Reading program for chances to win great prizes!

Join one of our *NEW* Delicate Dialogues!

Enjoy constructive discussions about controversial issues in a friendly atmosphere? Join one of our Delicate Dialogues!

2nd Mondays ~ 7-8pm ~ Council Chambers ~ ADULTS AND TEENS WELCOME!

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS!

• Prior to the dialogue, read the brief Opposing Viewpoints piece that explores both sides of the chosen topic—copies provided at the library.


• Come to the dialogue prepared to discuss both sides of the issue using points from the reading, but you should also feel free to offer insights from your own experience/perspective, other information you have gathered from reading, TV, etc.


• Leave the dialogue with an enriched understanding of both sides of a “delicate” issue—and come back for more!

JAN. 12—TOPIC: Health Care

• “Universal Health Care Is Necessary to Increase Access to Quality Medicine,” by Barack Obama.


• “Universal Health Care Will Reduce the Quality of American Medicine,” by Adam P. Summers.

"We're not going to agree on every single issue, but what we have to do is to be able to create an atmosphere where we can disagree without being disagreeable and then focus on those things that we hold in common as Americans." ~ Barack Obama

Film and Book Club next week!

Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 7pm, Council Chambers

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Thursday, Nov. 20, Noon, Council Chambers

Be there, or be square! :-)

New Staff Picks!

Check out what the DPL staff is reading, watching, and listening to!

Fiction
Naked in Death by J.D. Robb (PBK ROBB), Mother Road by Dorothy Garlock (FIC GARLOCK), The Problem with Murmur Lee by Connie May Fowler (FIC FOWLER), Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M. C. Beaton (FIC BEATON), Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen (FIC ALLEN)
Nonfiction
The Land, Always the Land by Mel Ellis (508.775 ELL), Racing Odysseus by Roger H. Martin (378.111 MAR)
Children’s and Teens
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron (J FIC PATRON; J CDBOOK PATRON), Al Capone Does My Shirts By Gennifer Choldenko (J FIC CHOLDENKO; J PLAYAWAY CHOLDENKO)
Movies
The Rage in Placid Lake (DVD RAGE IN PLACID), Miss Potter (DVD MISS POTTER)
Music
The Works by Jonatha Brooke (CD POP/ROCK BRO #1)

Come to the Delafield Reads Book-Talk Luncheon!

Celebrate the joy of reading at the Delafield Reads Book-Talk Luncheon!

Wednesday, November 12, 11:30am-1:30pm, at Mouso Hall on St. John’s Northwestern Military Academy campus.

Enjoy a FREE lunch while listening to the following local celebrities talk about important books in their lives:

Pat Deklotz
KMHS Superintendent

Glenda Dolphin
Delafield Public Library Staff

Char Hall
Library Board and Vice President of the Friends of the Delafield Public Library

Ron Miskelley
City of Delafield District 7 Alderman

Tim Schuenke
City of Delafield Administrator

Limited spots—
Register at the Library now!

New Staff Picks!

Check out what the library staff is reading, watching, or listening to!

Demon in My View by Amelia Atwater Rhodes (TEEN FIC ATW), Home to Harmony by Philip Gulley (FIC GULLEY), The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People by Ben Logan (CDBOOK 921 LOGAN), Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
(FIC BECHDEL), Civil & Strange by Cláir Ní Aonghusa (FIC NI AONGHUSA), The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (FIC O’FARRELL), Waiting for an Echo by Solas (CD FOLK SOL #1), The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (CDBOOK STEIN), The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (J FIC APPELT), ZAPPED: a Regan Reilly Mystery by Carol Higgins Clark (FIC CLARK), Ken Burns' Mark Twain, Original Soundtrack Recording (CD SDTK TWA #1)

Remembering the Vietnam War in Words and Images

Enrich your experience of visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall (at the Delafield Fish Hatchery October 16-20) by participating in these Delafield Public Library programs:

COME TO BOOK DISCUSSIONS of The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien—First 30 registrants get FREE books from the library!

• Thursday, Oct. 16, 7pm, 2nd floor of Fish Hatchery - Discussion led my Mark Zirngibl, St. John's Northwestern Military Academy English teacher and Vietnam Veteran.


• Sunday, Oct. 19, 7pm, 2nd floor of Fish Hatchery - Discussion led by Timothy Thering, Vietnam-War history professor at UW-Waukesha.

SEE THE FILM, PLATOON, followed by discussion—FREE soda and popcorn courtesy of Milwaukee Street Traders!*

• Saturday, Oct. 18, 6:30pm, Milwaukee Street Traders - Discussion led by Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh, Library's Adult Services Librarian.

Call or drop by the library for details!

NEW Staff Picks!

Check out what the DPL staff is reading and watching!

Fiction
Kiss of Shadows by Laurel K Hamilton (FIC HAMILTON), The Lottery Winner by Mary Higgins Clark (FIC CLARK), Nowhere in Africa: An Autobiographical Novel by Stefanie Zweig (in WCFLS system), The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper (FIC COOPER), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind (FIC SUSKIND, DVD PERFUME)

Nonfiction
I Feel Bad about My Neck by Nora Ephron (305.2442 EPH), Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven by Susan Richards Shreve (362.196 SHR)

Children’s and Teens
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson (J FIC SANDERSON), Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye (J FIC SKY), The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (J FIC DOWD), Blood Red Horse by K.M Grant (TEEN FIC GRANT BK. 1)

August film/book club highlights...

Film club discussed the two biopics (Capote and Infamous) about Truman Capote's experience of researching and writing his "nonfiction novel" about a 1959 murder of a Kansas family, entitled In Cold Blood. We thought that both actors did a fabulous job of portraying Capote, and both films were very good. The overall feeling was that Capote was much more darker than Infamous, while we had varying opinions on which we liked better, which portrayed Capote as more emphathetic versus manipulative, and so on. If you haven't seen either, or read In Cold Blood, they are definitely worth the time - but be prepared for a disturbing but fascinating exploration of the minds of killers.

Book club finished off the summer by reading Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - lighter fare but still poignant in its portrayals of the day-to-day tribulations, rebellions, and laughter of a group of Minnesotan housewives spanning the late 1960s through 1990s.

September's Film: Modern Times (Wednesday, September 17, at 7pm)

September's Book: Confederacy of Dunces (Thursday, September 18, Noon)

July film/book clubs discussion highlights...

The film club discussed the German film, Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), which we all found to be a very powerful movie, due both to the political aspects (a tale of a Staasi officer's secret surveillance of a writer and actor couple in 1984 East Germany) and the personal aspects (the officer's transformation from a cold automaton to a "human"). We highly recommend the film!

The book club discussed the Pulitzer-Prize winning nonfiction book, The Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis, which gives an accessible but in-depth look at the following key figures in the founding of the United States: Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and Aaron Burr. We were all particularly surprised by the book's revealing that Jefferson was not exactly the perfect figure that has been mythologized throughout history, and we were impressed by John and Abigail Adams relationship and how much respect John had for Abigail's opinions - go Abby! Overall, the book does a good job of revealing just how precarious the U.S. was at its founding, and how this important group of men (and a woman) held it together.

August's book club: Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, by Lorna Landvik, Thursday, August 21, Noon.

August's film club: Both Capote and Infamous, Wednesday, August 20, 7pm.