Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Summer Books from the Post-Gazette


Summer suggestions from your local news!

http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2016/06/12/Paging-summer-readers/stories/201606080025

Please ask if you cannot find your item.



Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Special Event Videos


Enjoy these Special Event videos from the Bethel Park Library!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54BEDAEB1B538DEC




Friday, June 24, 2016

75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years


Parade.com has compiled the best 75 books of the past 75 years!

http://parade.com/485659/annpatchett/the-75-best-books-of-the-past-75-years/

See if your favorite book made the list!


Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Author Talk: Carleton Young


Castle Shannon resident, Carleton Young, will discuss how finding Civil War-era letters in his family attic in Pittsburgh led him to write Voices from the Attic. 



Imagine clearing out your family attic and discovering hundreds of letters written during the Civil War. Faced with that situation, and not knowing why his family had the letters, the author uses the resources of Ancestry.com and other sources to discover how two Vermont soldiers fit into his family heritage.

Wednesday, July 6th at 7pm

Please register at the front desk or call the Library at 412.835.2207.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Best Books, So Far


According to Time Magazine, these are 

http://time.com/4363326/best-books-2016-so-far/

Friday, June 10, 2016

Author Talk


Author Dorit Sasson will be at the Bethel Park Public Library for a free presentation on 
Wednesday, June 22nd at 7pm


Meet author Dorit Sasson of the debut memoir Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces (She Writes Press, 2016) who will do a short presentation based on the book's themes and talk about the implications for living courageously. A Q & A, and a book signing will follow. Accidental Soldier is a gut-wrenching true story of a 19-year old girl who volunteers for the Israel Defense Forces in search for independence and freedom.
 


Please register at the front desk or call the Library at 412.835.2207.

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Celebrate Literary Pittsburgh


Visit Littsburgh!


http://www.littsburgh.com/

Browse local news, events, authors, booksellers and more!