Stories for Scooters
Ages 0-3.
Twenty fun-filled minutes of tiny tales and tunes in interactive fashion for little library-goers and their adults, with playtime afterward!
Events Calendar / May 10, 2017
Sci-Fi Book Group: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Emiko is a genetically engineered concubine, designed expressly to serve her master. Anderson Lake works for a Western agricultural corporation, and is undercover in Thailand to lay claim to the seeds of a fruit that is resistant to the plagues ravaging the planet. When Emiko feeds Lake information about the Thai seed bank, she unwittingly triggers a civil war.
Films Around the World: Mia Madre (2015)
Discussion Leader: Dr. Arthur Nolletti, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Framingham State University
Mia Madre (My Mother)- Nanni Moretti, Italy/France/Germany, 2015
While trying to complete her latest film, director Margherita Buy (in a superlative turn) must face with prospect of losing her seriously ill mother. One of Moretti’s most lauded, compassionate works. 107 min.
In Italian with English subtitles.
Part of the Films Around the World Series.