Coronado Times

Spoilers Book Club: Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
2022-07-30 14:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that have been turned into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn’t like.
“Cyrano”

2021
PG-13
2h 3m

Regarded as one of the greatest dramas ever written, Cyrano de Bergerac is the story of the silver-tongued soldier whose unfortunate looks drive him to woo his love by speaking for his handsome but dull-witted rival.

Jamie Ford: In Person Luncheon with Author
2022-08-05 11:30 - 13:30 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Jamie Ford is an American author best known for his debut novel, “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” which spent 130 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List, won awards and was named the #1 Book Club Pick for Fall 2009/Winter 2010 by the American Booksellers Association. Ford will be discussing his new book, The “Many Daughters of Afong Moy,” which will only have been released on July 27, 2022, just days before his Coronado appearance.
The $40 ticket includes lunch and a hardcover copy of the book. Proceeds support free programs at the library such as lectures, workshops, classes, concerts and children’s programs. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session and a chance to have the author sign books. This event is in partnership with Warwick’s Bookstore. To purchase tickets and reserve your seats, please register below. Don’t delay – seating is limited!

Teen Poetry Reading
2022-08-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Local teen author, Jamie Piearcy, shares poems from her latest book, Visions of You and Me. After her reading, participants will have the chance to ask questions about the poems or her writing process. Teens are welcome to share poems of their own with the group as well! Refreshments provided. Copies of her book will be available for sale at the event.

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Coronado Teen Publishes Book of Poems

San Diego Memoir Writers Association Local Author Signing Event
2022-08-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Eight local authors – Laura L. Engel, Madonna Treadway, Lindsey Salatka, Suzanne Spector, Nancy Johnson, Janet Hafner, Leslie Ferguson, and Anastasia Zadeik – will be on hand to read from, sign and sell their books and chat about memoir writing at this open meeting of the San Diego Memoir Writers Association. Event includes refreshments, raffles and free books.

Biography & Memoir Book Club: "Yes, Chef"
2022-08-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Ruby Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
For August, the biography and memoir book club will be reading and discussing the book, Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson and Veronica Chambers.
Yes, Chef chronicles Marcus Samuelsson’s journey, from his Swedish grandmother’s kitchen to his arrival in New York City, where his outsize talent and ambition finally come together at Aquavit, earning him a New York Times three-star rating at the age of twenty-four. But Samuelsson’s career of chasing flavors had only just begun—in the intervening years, there have been White House state dinners, career crises, reality show triumphs, and, most important, the opening of Red Rooster in Harlem. (Amazon)

An Evening with Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist Marianne Wiggins
2022-08-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
On Thursday, August 11th at 7 pm, Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s, will host Marianne Wiggins as she discusses and signs her new book, Properties of Thirst. Marianne Wiggins is the author of eight novels including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She has won a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Heidinger Kafka Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She lives in Venice, California.
This program is free and seating is general-admission; however, if you would like to pre-order a book and get priority seating, please call Warwick’s at 858-454-0347 or visit their website.
About the book, Properties of Thirst:
“This magnificent novel opens every little nerve of language and sends jolts of electricity along the spine. It’s a love story, and a family tale, and a song of history. It’s about shame and loss and recovery and beauty. It’s a novel to cherish, composed with great humanity and humour.” ~ Colum McCann
“This is a novel I wish I could have written. Keen, unsparing, and compassionate, Properties of Thirst reveals a world and a history I thought I knew, in language so beautiful, it took my breath away. Vividly alive, these characters mirror our present moment, our complex ties to this land and to each other, our most profound alienations and our fiercest loves.” ~ Ruth Ozeki
Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death.
As Sunny and Stryker reach the cusp of adulthood, the country teeters on the brink of war. Stryker decides to join the fight, deploying to Pearl Harbor not long before the bombs strike. Soon, Rocky and his family find themselves facing yet another incomprehensible tragedy.
Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they’ve loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese-American internment camp next to the ranch, Rocky realizes that the land faces even bigger threats than the LA watermen he’s battled for years. Complicating matters is the fact that the idealistic Department of the Interior man assigned to build the camp, who only begins to understand the horror of his task after it may be too late, becomes infatuated with Sunny and entangled with the Rhodes family.
Properties of Thirst is a novel that is both universal and intimate. It is the story of a changing American landscape and an examination of one of the darkest periods in this country’s past, told through the stories of the individual loves and losses that weave together to form the fabric of our shared history. Ultimately, it is an unflinching distillation of our nation’s essence—and a celebration of the bonds of love and family that persist against all odds.

Barrio Logan Literacy Festival
2022-08-20 10:00 - 13:00 | Barrio Logan College Institute, 2114 National Avenue, San Diego, CA, 92113, United States
This exciting new event will place new books in the hands of the community’s kindergarten through eighth-grade students just in time for the new school year! Families in the San Diego community are invited to register for a time block to come to receive new, reading-level appropriate books and engage in fun activities!
This event is free to attend, but advanced registration is required. Please reserve one ticket for each student who will attend. Students must be accompanied by an adult.

Coronado author Marianne Blackstone Tabner will be at the event on Saturday, August 20th, for an author reading of her book “TAKING TURNS” at 11:30am.
She’s excited to be donating books to this worthwhile cause and celebrate her almost TWO year book birthday! “TAKING TURNS” will be available in both English and Spanish at this book festival to support literacy for children to kick off their school year!

Barrio Logan College Institute and San Diego Oasis are excited to announce their partnership to present the Barrio Logan Literacy Festival! Consider a donation to the Barrio Logan College Institute whose mission is to break the cycle of poverty by preparing underserved students. Check them out at https://blci.org/. Consider volunteering at SD Oasis! https://san-diego.oasisnet.org/
This event is free but please remember to get your ticket for admission for each child on the link that follows. Tickets for Barrio Logan Literacy Festival can be booked here: https://tinyurl.com/blliteracyfest

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Barrio Logan Literacy Festival
2114 National Ave, San Diego, CA 92113

Mystery Book Club: "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins
2022-08-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Public Library’s Mystery Book club will meet regularly on the third* Monday of each month. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering here. Registration is not required.
*This month, August, we will be meeting on the 4th Monday of the month.*
We will be discussing The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Check out the book in print or ebook format from the Coronado Library Catalog by clicking here.

"WARBOATS, 55 Years of Naval Special Warfare Combatant Craft History" Presentation
2022-08-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
A special presentation on the book WARBOATS, 55 Years of Naval Special Warfare and a book signing by the authors Phil Garn and James Gray.
WARBOATS, 55 Years of Naval Special Warfare Combatant History by Boat Unit veterans James Gray and Phil Garn is the first book about “The Silent Ones,” now known as Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen (SWCC). The book is profusely illustrated with many never-published photos, documents, insignia and charts as well as dozens of veteran interviews. The book tells the story of Naval Special Warfare Boat Units — from the Boat Support Units of the 1960s prowling the coast of North Vietnam and the waterways of the Mekong Delta to today’s Special Boat Teams in action around the world — with some background on maritime special operations since Colonial times. Published by the Combatant Craft Crewman Association, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to preserving the history and honoring our veterans.

Spoilers Book Club: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
2022-08-27 14:30 - 17:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Spoilers Book Club
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that have been made into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn’t like.
Event Details

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression.
The film adaptation is from 1992 and stars John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.

Author Elena Armas in Conversation with Author Lauren Billings
2022-09-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s bookstore, welcomes Elena Armas, author of The American Roommate Experience, in conversation with Lauren Billings, who co-writes young-adult and adult novels with a friend under the pseudonym Christina Lauren. Armas is kicking off her international tour with this event.
This event is free and first-come, first-served. A limited number of premium-view reserved seats are available for those who pre-order a copy of the book by contacting Warwick’s via https://www.warwicks.com/armas-2022-reserved-seat or calling the store at 858-454-0347. One reserved seat per book.
About The American Roommate Experience:
Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well-paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking – for lack of a better word – on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.
Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control – but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.

Spoilers Book Club: "The Pursuit of Happyness" by Chris Gardner
2022-09-10 14:00 - 17:30 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that have been turned into movies. We read the book and get together to watch the film. We compare the two and discuss what we did and didn’t like.
Event Details

At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city’s working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, “HO-tels,” soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station.
Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city’s invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district.
More than a memoir of Gardner’s financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family’s cycle of men abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and unstintingly honest, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.

Author Craig Johnson Discusses New Novel "Hell and Back"
2022-09-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s bookstore, welcomes novelist Craig Johnson, whose new book is Hell and Back: A Longmire Mystery.

This event is free and first-come, first-served. A limited number of premium-view reserved seats are available for those who pre-order a copy of the book by contacting Warwick’s via https://www.warwicks.com/johnson-2022-reserved-seat or calling the store at 858-454-0347. One reserved seat per book.
Johnson is The New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the hit Netflix original drama. The books have won multiple awards: Le Prix du Polar Nouvel Observateur/Bibliobs, the Wyoming Historical Association’s Book of the Year, Le Prix 813, the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award, the Mountains & Plains Book of the Year, the SNCF Prix de Polar, Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, The Watson Award, Library Journal‘s Best Mystery of the Year, the Rocky, and the Will Rogers Award for Fiction. Spirit of Steamboat was selected by the Wyoming State Library as the inaugural One Book Wyoming. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.
About Hell and Back:
What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where 30 young Native American boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies — along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust — something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómese, the Wandering Without, the Stealer of Souls? What if the only way you know who you are is because your name is printed in the leather sweatband of your cowboy hat, and what if it says your name is Walt Longmire — but you don’t remember him?
In Hell and Back, the eighteenth installment of the Longmire series, author Craig Johnson takes the beloved sheriff to the very limits of his sanity to do battle with the most dangerous advisory he’s ever faced — himself.

Author Event with Javier Zamora
2022-09-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s Bookstore, will host Javier Zamora as he discusses and signs his new book, Solito: A Memoir.

This event is free and first-come, first-served. A limited number of premium-view reserved seats are available for those who pre-order a copy of the book by contacting Warwick’s via https://www.warwicks.com/event/zamora-2022 or calling the store at 858-454-0347. One reserved seat per book.
Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990. His father fled the country when he was a year old, and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the U.S.-funded Salvadoran Civil War. When he was nine Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert. His debut poetry collection, Unaccompanied, explores the impact of the war and immigration on his family. Zamora has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and holds fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
About the Book:
Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago: “one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.”
Zamora’s adventure is a 3,000-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Zamora expects his trip to last two short weeks.
At nine years old, all Zamora can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family.
A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.

South of the Border Storytelling with Mindy Donner and Silvio Diaz
2022-10-06 15:30 - 16:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join local storyteller Mindy Donner and artist Silvio Diaz for a South of the Border storytelling event! Incorporating puppets, stories and music, this duo will honor Hispanic Heritage Month through bilingual tales from Mexico.
*This program is geared towards elementary school students but storytelling lovers of all ages are welcome to attend.*

Author Jennifer Coburn Discusses "Cradles of the Reich"
2022-10-06 18:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Author Jennifer Coburn appears at the Library to celebrate the fall 2022 publication of her new novel, Cradles of the Reich. Set in 1939, Germany is on the brink of war and Hitler’s plan to create a “master race” of pure-blooded Aryan babies has been launched. The top-secret Lebensborn Nazi breeding program is brought to life amidst the story of three German women who change the course of one another’s lives.
Coburn has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir, We’ll Always Have Paris, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally, she has contributed to five literary anthologies, including A Paris All Your Own.
Books will be sold at the event courtesy of Adventures by the Book and are available for pre-sale at adventuresbythebook.com/event/jen-coburn-launch.
Coburn lives in San Diego with her husband William. Their daughter Katie is currently in graduate school. When Jennifer is not going down historical-research rabbit holes, she volunteers with So Say We All, a live storytelling organization, for which she is a performer, producer, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development and interview preparation.

San Diego Writers Festival
2022-10-08 09:00 - 18:00 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Public Library will host the fourth annual San Diego Writers Festival live on the campus of the Library and Coronado High School on October 8 from 9 am to 6 pm. There will be author appearances and signings as well as panels on writing topics. Admission is free.
This year’s theme is What Unites Us and will offer writers and readers a series of workshops, panels and lectures. Notable authors include Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Naomi Hirahara, Joe Ide, Qian Julie Wang, Aimee Bender, Maile Maloy, Anastasia Zadeik, Lucy Crawford, Adalyn Grace, Jennifer Coburn, and Chris Baron. Among the writing and publishing panels are “How to Write a Bestselling Mystery,” a workshop with playwright Levy Lee Simon, and “Developing a Book Publishing Plan.”
There’s also a full slate of programs for kids, like story time, an art class, balloon-twisting and face-painting.
Food and beverages will be available for sale.
For more information about the festival, please visit sandiegowritersfestival.com.

Actor Geena Davis Discusses Memoir "Dying of Politeness"
2022-11-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Hotel del Coronado, 1499 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, United States
The Friends of the Coronado Public Library, in partnership with the Coronado Island Film Festival and Warwick’s bookstore present actor Geena Davis in-person discussing her memoir Dying of Politeness. A paid ticket is required to attend. To obtain tickets, please visit https://www.warwicks.com/event/davis-2022 and click “Buy Tickets Here.”
Important:

Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Please print out your tickets, if possible, to facilitate a smooth check-in.
Seating is first-come, first served.
“With Book” ticketholders will receive a pre-signed copy of Dying of Politeness at check-in. Additional books will be available for purchase at this event.
Please call the Warwick’s Book Department at 858-454-0347 for more information.

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Two-time Academy Award winning actor Geena Davis, at the age of three, announced to her parents that she was going to be an actor. She has appeared in several roles that became cultural landmarks, including Muriel Pritchett in The Accidental Tourist, Thelma in Thelma & Louise, and Dottie Hinson in A League of Their Own. She is also a world-class athlete and a member of the genius society Mensa. Davis is now recognized for her tireless advocacy for women and girls as founder and chair of the nonprofit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which engages film and television creators to dramatically increase the percentage of female characters, and reduce gender stereotyping in media made for children.
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir is Davis’ story, one woman’s journey to fight for herself and ultimately live a bolder, freer, more authentic life. “In this book,” says Davis, “I’ll reveal the ways in which my public life, the movies, the advocacy, and my relationships have impacted and empowered the private me, and I hope, inspire my readers to expand their own sense of power.” Davis regales readers with tales of a career playing everything from a soap opera star in her underwear to a housewife-turned-road-warrior, a baseball phenomenon, an amnesiac assassin, the mother of a rodent, and the president of the United States.

US Attack Aviation: From the Red Baron to TOPGUN
2022-11-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Attack aviation is intense and dangerous. It necessitates the direct engagement of ground targets at low altitude. Attack aircraft are usually fighters or fighter-sized aircraft, with one or two engines, and one or two crew. For this event, R. G. Head (Brig. Gen., Ret.) will present his new book US Attack Aviation: Air Force and Navy Light Attack: 1916 to the Present. This is a story about flying. It is told by naval aviators, Air Force fighter pilots, and the men who built the airplanes the pilots flew.
Author R. G. Head (Brig. Gen., Ret.) has extensive experience in combat (325 missions, DFC, Silver Star) and an in-depth understanding of doctrine (taught future pilots at the Air Force Academy) and gained first-person exposure to the policy and engineering aspects of the aircraft procurement process while serving at the Pentagon and later as a private consultant working in collaboration with the US Navy. His work provides an overview history of American attack aviation from its inception to present, including both the US Navy and Air Force. The pillars of the narrative are several case studies that characterize the evolution of technology and tactics over time: SBD Dauntless, AD Skyraider, A-4 Skyhawk, A-7 Corsair II, A-10 Thunderbolt II, and F/A-18 Hornet. Each of the cases contains first-person accounts that include a description of the aircraft’s origin, competitive procurement, major attack features, and combat employment. Head (Brig. Gen., Ret.) has extensive experience in combat (325 missions, DFC, Silver Star) and an in-depth understanding of doctrine (taught future pilots at the Air Force Academy) and gained first-person exposure to the policy and engineering aspects of the aircraft procurement process while serving at the Pentagon and later as a private consultant working in collaboration with the US Navy.

Holiday Book Signing
2022-12-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Fair Trade Decor, 828 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Stop by Fair Trade Décor (828 Orange Ave) before the annual holiday parade for a book signing of “Taking Turns.”

Friends of the Library Book and Gift Sale
2022-12-03 10:00 - 15:00 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Start your holiday shopping at the Library!
The Friends of the Coronado Public Library are holding a Holiday Book & Gift Sale on Saturday, December 3, from 10 am to 3 pm, on the library lawn area bordered by Orange Avenue and 6th Street adjacent to the Winn Room.
Find gift items, DVDs, audiobooks, holiday cards, Christmas books, children’s books, coffee table books, and even kid-size tea party items.
Sale will be held in the Library’s Winn Room in the event of rain.
Please bring your own bags. Credit and debit cards preferred.

Dr. Grammar Guy with Richard Lederer
2022-12-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
In this sure to please performance, Dr. Richard Lederer, Union-Tribune language columnist, best-selling language author, and former Usage Editor for the Random House Dictionary, will illuminate essential grammar, usage, and punctuation, including the terminal preposition, split infinitive, they as a third-person singular pronoun, and the utility of the serial comma. Even if you aren’t a grammar fiend, you’ll be sure to enjoy this performance where language and learning come together in a fun and novel form. Come prepared to laugh and learn!

Dr. Lederer is the author of more than 50 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current titles, Lederer’s Language & Laughter and A Treasury of Christmas Humor. He is a founding co-host of “A Way With Words,” broadcast on KPBS. He has been named International Punster of the Year and Toastmasters International’s Golden Gavel winner.

Poetry for the People
2023-01-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
This course will feature poems, both historic and contemporary, which enjoy iconic status. These poems, as well as their authors, are acknowledged as widely recognized and admired as having exceptional influence. All class members are encouraged to contribute their ideas and perceptions of the poems, enriching the discussions for everyone in attendance.

Chuck Kamar received his bachelor’s from Boston State and his master’s from Boston University. He taught for 34 years in the Newton Public Schools, the last 20 of which where at Newton North High School. In 1998 he won the Paul E. Elicker Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Teen Graphic Novel Book Club + Craft!
2023-01-09 17:00 - 18:00 | Ruby Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Show your individual style by making your own patch like Tíên has on his jacket in The Magic Fish! Use fabric and embellishments like sequins and puffy paint to make your patch totally your own. Learn some basic sewing skills to attach your patch to your clothes or take your patch home to sew on later.
We will also be discussing this year’s teen One Book, One San Diego selection, The Magic Fish. Pick up a copy of the book from the teen graphic novel section of the Library.

"Operation Underworld" Author in Person
2023-01-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
On Tuesday, January 10th at 7 pm, the Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s, will host Matthew Black as he discusses and signs his new book, Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II. This event is open to the public, seating is first-come, first-served, subject to availability. Guaranteed preferred seating is available with purchase of Operation Underground through Warwick’s Bookstore. Please visit www.warwicks.com/event/black-2023 or call them at 858-454-0347 for more information.
Matthew Black is a labor and crime historian who was recruited by James P. Hoffa’s office in 2016 to author Dave Beck – A Teamsters Life. Black has also worked as a staff writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune and has written articles for Alaska Airlines magazine. He has published dozens of articles on History101.com, where he has individually brought some 42 million readers to his work. Born and raised in Seattle, he is a graduate of the University of Washington with an honors degree in history. While he travels the country and the world at a feverish pace in search of stories, he calls San Diego home, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
About Operation Underworld: In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the U.S. Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it.
Naval intelligence officer, Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden had the solution: recruit as his own spies, members of La Cosa Nostra. Pier to pier, no one terrified the longshoremen, stevedores, shopkeepers, and boat captains along the harbor better than the Mafia gangs of New York, who controlled the docks in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Haffenden was prepared to make a deal with the devil–the man who put “organized” into organized crime. Even from his cell in Dannemora State Prison, former Public Enemy #1, Charles “Lucky” Luciano still had tremendous power. Luciano was willing to wield it for Haffenden. But he wanted something in return—Luciano’s contacts in Italy to track the Nazis’ movements.
Operation Underworld is a tale of espionage and crime like no other, the unbelievable, first-ever account of the Allied war effort’s clandestine coalition between the Mafia and the U.S. Government to protect New York, vanquish the Nazis by taking the fight to the enemy in the 1943 U.S. invasion of Sicily. It was an ingenious strategy carried out by some of history’s most infamous, improbable, and unsung heroes on both sides of the law. It was a Faustian bargain that brought homefront enemies together but, as journalist and crime historian Matthew Black reveals, one that ultimately succeeded in helping the Allies win World War II.

Biography & Memoir Book Club: The Yellow House
2023-01-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Ruby Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join the Through Their Eyes Book Club is reading The Yellow House by Sarah Broom. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. Ivory Mae raised twelve children and Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child.
Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina.(Amazon)

Winnie the Pooh Day
2023-01-19 15:30 - 16:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Celebrate Winnie the Pooh Day with some Pooh-themed snacks, crafts, and a Winnie the Pooh movie!
*Registration encouraged but not required. Please visit cplevents.org for registration.

Mystery Book Club: "The Last Kashmiri Rose" by Barbara Cleverly
2023-01-23 14:00 - 15:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Public Library’s Mystery Book club meets regularly on the third Monday of each month. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering at cplevents.org. Registration is not required.
*Due to the holiday this month, we will be meeting on the fourth Monday of the month.*
We will be discussing The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly and our December book Snow by John Banville due to December’s meeting cancellation. Check out the books in print or ebook format from the Coronado Library Catalog by clicking here.
