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)