Georgetown
Neighborhood Library

The famous Georgetown Library Book Sale will be held on Saturday, November 19th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the downstairs Meeting Room.  Special features will be a large selection of children's books, mythology, art and garden books.  In addition, there will be lots of DVDs and CDs as well as books in many languages, books on parenting, exercise and other "how-to's."  Of particular interest this year will be books autographed to a well known Georgetown celebrity plus the usual noted collection of rare books.  The Friends of the Georgetown Library are thrilled to be back at the book sale tables.  We look forward to seeing you there.

Have you enjoyed Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple on TV but never read the originals?  Or did you read them so long ago that you've forgotten who murdered Roger Ackroyd?  We have fresh, new copies of many Christie classics.  Check them out and when you have read them all, browse our Read-a-Likes or ask the librarians for recommendations.  

Celebrate the freedom to read at the Georgetown Library on Saturday, Oct. 1, at 2 p.m.  Actors from The Georgetown Theatre Company will read banned works from authors such as Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley and even our venerated Shakespeare. 

Please join us for readings from classic novels, plays and poetry as we mark Banned Book Week with this fun and informative presentation.   A discussion of why specific works have been banned will follow, and refreshments will be served.  The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place on the Georgetown Library Terrace (sun) or in the large meeting room (rain).

Congratulations to Tanya Horwitz, the winner of our Teen Poetry Contest.  Our judges loved her poem "Thursdays."

Tanya will receive an iTunes gift card.  Thanks to everyone who participated! 

Thursdays

The flamboyant Harvard graduate
The dark lady with the soft baby face
The old Irish woman
The pretty blonde girl
The emerald-eyed enigma with the caramel-dipped melody in her voice
who always comes late
who wears a ring on the middle finger of her left hand.
And me. The child.

Maybe your father died on Sunday, but you came here anyway.

Maybe you’re trying to get over the fact that the microwave at your office broke this afternoon and that you had to eat your lunch cold.

Maybe you got a DUI last winter, and that’s why, at age 39, you need to ask for rides.