Coronado Times

Poetry for the People
2023-01-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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.

Best of the Best Book Club: "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" by Shehan Karunatilaka
2023-01-24 11:00 - 12:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Start the new year by attending Coronado Public Library’s newest book club, the Best of the Best! We will meet regularly on the fourth Tuesday of each month to discuss books that have won major awards. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering at cplevents.org. Registration is not required.
In January we will be discussing the winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. Check out the book from the by visiting the Coronado Library Catalog.

Spoilers Book Club: "It's Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
2023-01-28 14:00 - 17:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Inspired by his own experiences, Ned Vizzini‘s 2006 novel It’s Kind of a Funny Story follows the adventures of a teenage Craig Gilner, who is checked into a psychiatric hospital after reaching out for help. Vizzini’s book, which critics found believable and honest, was selected by the American Library Association as one of the Best Books for Young Adults in 2007. It was brought to film audiences in 2010’s It’s Kind of a Funny Story, starring Keir Gilchrist, Emma Roberts, and Zach Galifianakis. As Craig, Gilcrist brought the character’s struggles and warmth to the screen in a film that sidestepped psych-ward comedy clichés and leaned into its strong cast and the tender moments between the three.

Book Launch: The Other Side of the Fence
2023-02-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Coronado Historical Association, 1100 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
In celebration of Black History Month, the Coronado Historical Association and the San Diego History Center invite you to the book launch of Cynthia Hudgins’s memoir, The Other Side of the Fence. This compelling and important work chronicles the life of Cynthia Hudgins, a woman who grew up in Coronado in the 1920s and 1930s and was raised there by her formerly enslaved grandparents, Amos and Annie Hudgins. Claire Fishback, an author and Cynthia’s granddaughter, has worked diligently to transcribe Cynthia’s manuscript that was left behind after her passing at the age of 93 in 2015. Kevin Ashley, who publishes the Coronado Black History Project blog was instrumental in bringing Cynthia’s story to the public’s attention. Both will attend the launch to share the background and process of publishing Cynthia’s memoir.
This event is free to attend, but RSVP is required. RSVP at this website. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Important Registration Information: Attendance is restricted to fully vaccinated persons with a booster shot. Capacity is limited and reservations are required. No walk-ins will be admitted.
If you have any questions please email info@coronadohistory.org or call 619-435-7242.

Biography & Memoir Book Club: "Between Two Kingdoms"
2023-02-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join the Through Their Eyes Book Club in reading “Between Two Kingdoms” by Suleika Jaouard. Just a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames.
After four years, in a hospital bed fighting for her survival and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times, Jaouard embarked—with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital. “Between Two Kingdoms” is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again. (Amazon)
Through Their Eyes Book Club meets on the second Wednesday of month.

Emmy and Edgar winning "Law and Order" writer discusses new novel Primary tabs
2023-02-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Edward Zuckerman will discuss and sign his new novel, Wealth Management. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served, subject to availability. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Registration is not required but sign up here to receive e-mail reminders for this event.
About the Author, Edward Zuckerman:
Edward Zuckerman began his career as a journalist, writing about zombies, killer bees, talking apes and other subjects for Rolling Stone, Spy, the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, and many other magazines. He wrote two well-reviewed nonfiction books, The Day After World War III and Small Fortunes, and then moved into writing for television dramas, including “Law & Order” (50+ episodes), “Blue Bloods,” and “Law & Order: SVU.” He has won two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and an Emmy for his work on “Law & Order.” He lives in Manhattan, NY and Manhattan Beach, California. Wealth Management is his first novel.
About the Book, Wealth Management:
For fans of Jess Walter and Gary Shteyngart, this is a financial thriller featuring three Ivy League MBAs who must put their lopsided love triangle aside to snare international terrorists.
In the lush world-banking capital of Geneva, Switzerland, three young wealth managers (Catherine, Majid, and Rafe) are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When problems with troubled investments are “fixed” by murders and bombs, they come to suspect that their clients are Mafiosi and terrorists, but by then they are accomplices, are under threat, and have no easy way to back out.
Their efforts to save themselves — and innocent lives — are complicated by their being in a love triangle, by one of them secretly working with the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence to investigate the other two, and by the unexpected appearance of a detective from Nigeria who may or may not be in league with terrorists himself.

Lessons in Chemistry Author Event with Bonnie Garmas
2023-02-24 19:00 - 21:00 | John D. Spreckels Center, 1019 Seventh Street, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
On Friday, February 24 at 7:00 p.m., Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s bookstore, will host Bonnie Garmus as she discusses and signs her #1 New York Times bestselling book, Lessons in Chemistry in the Grand Room at the Spreckels Center. This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served, subject to availability. Limited preferred seating is available with purchase of Lessons in Chemistry through Warwick’s bookstore. Please visit https://www.warwicks.com/event/garmus-2023 or call the store at 858-454-0347 for more information.
Bonnie Garmus is a copywriter and creative director who has worked widely in the fields of technology, medicine, and education. She’s an open-water swimmer, a rower, and mother to two pretty amazing daughters. Born in California and most recently from Seattle, she currently lives in London with her husband and her dog, 99.
Lessons in Chemistry: Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with – of all things – her mind. True chemistry results.
But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six.
Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.
Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

Spoilers Book Club: "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
2023-02-25 14:00 - 17:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that are 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

Three female African-American mathematicians provide crucial calculations for NASA’s space race against the Soviets, all while dealing with the racist and sexist assumptions of their white co-workers.
Director
Theodore Melfi
Production year
2016
Rating
PG
Studio
Twentieth Century Fox
Runtime
127 minutes
Cast
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons

T. Jefferson Parker: In-Person Luncheon with the Author
2024-07-17 11:30 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Friends of the Coronado Public Library will host T. Jefferson Parker for an intimate luncheon with the author as well as a signing of his new book, Desperation Reef, on July 17 at 11:30 am in the Winn Room at the Coronado Public Library.
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 at cplevents.org. Don’t delay – seating is limited!
T. Jefferson Parker was born in Los Angeles and has lived all his life in Southern California. He was educated in public schools in Orange County, and earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Irvine, in 1976. His writing career began in 1978, with a job as a cub reporter on the weekly newspaper, The Newport Ensign. After covering police, city hall and cultural stories for the Ensign, Parker moved on to the Daily Pilot newspaper, where he won three Orange County Press Club awards for his articles. Parker’s first novel, Laguna Heat, was written on evenings and weekends while he worked as a reporter, and was published to rave reviews and made into an HBO movie starring Harry Hamlin, Jason Robards and Rip Torn. He has written over 28 novels. When not working, Parker spends his time with his family, hiking, fishing, beachcombing, and exercising his dogs. He cannot pass by a body of water without wanting to fish it. He also enjoys rock hounding, cycling and being outdoors.

About Desperation Reef:
Jen Stonebreaker hasn’t entered into a big-wave surfing competition since witnessing her husband’s tragic death twenty-five years ago at the Monsters of the Mavericks. Now, Jen is ready to tackle those same Monsters with her twin sons Casey and Brock, who have become competitive surfers in a perilous sport.

When he’s not riding waves, modeling for surfing magazines, or posting viral content for his many fans, Casey Stonebreaker spends his days helping with the family restaurant — catching fish in the morning and bartending at night. Casey’s love for the ocean and his willingness to expose illegal poachers on his platforms puts him on a collision course with a crime syndicate eager to destroy anyone threatening their business.
Outspoken Brock Stonebreaker couldn’t be more different from his twin. The founder of Breath of Life, a church and rescue mission that assists with natural disasters that no one else will touch, Brock has lived an adventurous and sometimes violent life. Not everyone appreciates the work that Brock’s Breath of Life mission accomplishes, and threats to destroy his mission—and his family—swirl around him.
As the big-wave contest draws closer, a huge, late fall swell is headed toward the Pacific coastline. Jen’s fears gnaw at her — fear for herself, for her sons, for what this competition will mean for the rest of her life.

Author Sandra Bonura Discusses Her Newest Book on the Spreckels Family
2024-08-30 13:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
After immigrating to America and becoming involved in the development of America’s sugar industry, Claus Spreckels became one of the richest Americans in history. He triumphed in an era rife with cronyism and corruption and ultimately transformed California’s agriculture, industry and transportation. But there’s always a cost for single-minded determination; the legendary family quarrels even included a murder charge.
Local author Sandra Bonura gives us a rags to riches story of this colorful and controversial immigrant who started the legacy known in Coronado, San Diego, and beyond. Join Sandra Bonura on Friday, August 30 at 1pm in the Winn Room as she discusses her newest book and all that went into writing this biography.
About the Book
Claus Spreckels (1828–1908) emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the United States with only seventy-five cents in his pocket, built a sugar empire, and became one of the richest Americans in history alongside John D. Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates. Migrating to San Francisco after the gold rush, Spreckels built the largest sugar beet factory of its kind in the United States. His sugar beet production in the Salinas Valley changed the focus of valley agriculture from dry to irrigated crops, resulting in the vast modern agricultural-industrial economy in today’s “Salad Bowl of the World.” When Spreckels gave America its first sugar cube, he became the “Sugar King.”
The indomitable Spreckels was a colorful and complicated character on both sides of the Pacific. A kingpin in the development of the Hawai‘i-California sugarcane industry, he wielded a clenched fist over Hawai‘i’s economy for nearly two decades after occupying a position of unrivaled power and political influence with the Hawaiian monarchy, while also advancing major technology developments on the islands. The Sugar King’s legacy continued as the Spreckels family developed large portions of California, building and breaking monopolies in agriculture, shipping, railroading, finance, real estate, horse breeding, utilities, streetcars, and water infrastructure, and building entire towns and cities from infrastructure to superstructure.
In The Sugar King of California Sandra E. Bonura tells the rags-to-riches story of Spreckels’s role in the developments of the sugarcane industry in the American West and across the Pacific, triumphing in a milieu rife with cronyism and corruption and ultimately transforming California’s industry and labor. Harshly criticized by his enemies for ruthless business tactics but loved by his employees, he was unapologetic in his quest for wealth, asserting “Spreckels’s success is California’s success.” But there’s always a cost for single-minded determination; the legendary family quarrels even included a murder charge. Spreckels’s biography is one of business triumph and tragedy, a portrait of a family torn apart by money, jealousy, and ego.
About the Author
Historian Dr. Sandra Bonura is a retired professor who is busy on her 2nd career resurrecting the forgotten stories of overlooked historical figures. She is a frequent storyteller and lecturer on the importance of using a multitude of primary sources to gain perspective on major historical events. Sandee is an award winning author of eight published works based on found archival treasures.
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George Galdorisi and the Algorithms of Armageddon
2024-09-05 18:30 - 19:30 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
It is unclear if U.S. policy makers and military leaders fully realize that we have already been thrust into an artificial intelligence (AI) race with authoritarian powers. Join George Galdorisi as he discusses how his new book Algorithms of Armageddon examines this most pressing security issue.
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George Galdorisi is Director of Strategic Assessments and Technical Futures for the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. Prior to joining NIWC Pacific, he completed a thirty-year career as a naval aviator, culminating in 14 years of consecutive experience as executive officer, commanding officer, commodore, and chief of staff.
During his career as a naval aviator he completed an array of operational assignments in all five Navy fleets. After completing a tour as Test Director in the LAMPS Mk III helicopter Program Office, he was one of a small cadre of officers who stood up the Navy’s first LAMPS Mk III squadron, HSL-41. His operational assignments culminated in commanding officer tours of HSL-43, the Navy’s first operational LAMPS Mk III squadron, HSL-41, the LAMPS Mk III Fleet Replacement Squadron, USS Cleveland (LPD-7), and Amphibious Squadron Seven. His last operational assignment spanned five years as Chief of Staff for Cruiser-Destroyer Group Three, during which he made combat deployments to the Western Pacific and Arabian Gulf embarked in the USS Carl Vinson and USS Abraham Lincoln. During this final tour he also led the U.S. Delegation for military-to-military consultations with the Chinese Navy.
He began his writing career in 1978 with an article in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. He has written fourteen books, including the New York Times best seller, Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor, the novelization of the Bandito Brothers/Relativity Media film and The Kissing Sailor, which proved the identity of the two principals in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous photograph. His reboot of the best-selling Tom Clancy’s Op-Center Series includes three consecutive the New York Times best sellers, Out of the Ashes, Into the Fire and Scorched Earth. His most recent fiction project is a new series of Rick Holden thrillers published by Braveship Books (The Coronado Conspiracy, For Duty and Honor and Fire and Ice). His most recent non-fiction project is AI at War How Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Are Changing Naval Warfare. Additionally, he has published more than four hundred articles in professional journals and national newspapers.
He has received a number of national and international writing awards, including: the Navy League of the United States Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement, the U.S. Naval Institute General Prize Essay Contest, the Surface Navy Association Literary Award, the Navy League of Australia’s Annual Essay Competition, the Naval Helicopter Historical Association Literary Award, and the Military Writers Society of America Silver Medal Award, among others.
He is a 1970 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and holds a Masters Degree in Oceanography from the Naval Postgraduate School and a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University of San Diego. He graduated from both the Naval War College’s College of Command and Staff and the College of Naval Warfare, and in 1994 he received the Naval War College’s Admiral John Hayward Award for Academic Achievement. Additionally, he is a graduate of MIT Sloan School’s Program for Senior Executives.

You’re Leaving When? with actress and New York Times Bestselling Author Annabelle Gurwitch
2024-09-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
You may recognize actress Annabelle Gurwitch as the longtime cohost of the fan favorite “Dinner & a Movie” or from her appearances on television’s “Seinfeld,” “Murphy Brown,” “Boston Legal,” and “Dexter.” But did you know that she is as talented as she is beautiful? Earning a 2021 New York Times Favorite Book for Healthy Living, a Good Morning America Must Read and a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing 2022, as well as being a New York Times bestselling author, who has written and developed adaptations of her books for HBO, F/X, NBC, Lifetime networks, including a current film project for the Hallmark Channel based on You’re Leaving When? to star Andi MacDowell.
Annabelle has been chronicling living with Stage IV lung cancer and inequities in healthcare in the New York Times and Washington Post since her out-of-the-blue diagnosis during Covid, and she’s given patient advocate talks at scientific conferences around the globe including in Vienna, Rome, Singapore, and Brisbane.
Don’t miss the chance to meet this remarkable woman on Tuesday, September 10 at a special book discussion of her book You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. Books will be available to purchase through our co-sponsor, Adventures by the Book. Click here to pre-purchase a book and reserve your seat.

About the Author:
Annabelle Gurwitch is an actress, activist, and author of five books including the New York Times bestseller and Thurber Prize finalist I See You Made an Effort. She’s written for The New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, and Hadassah amongst other publications.
She was the longtime cohost of the fan favorite “Dinner & a Movie” on TBS and a regular commentator on NPR. She’s performed on the Moth Mainstage, Joe’s Pub, at Carolines on Broadway, The New York and Aspen Comedy Fests, and at arts centers around the country. Her acting credits include: “Seinfeld,” “Murphy Brown,” “Boston Legal,” and “Dexter.” Once in while she returns to acting playing Rabbi Gurwitch on “Better Things” on FX or a therapist for an FBI agent in Michael Bay’s “Ambulance.” Annabelle has been chronicling living with stage iv lung cancer and inequities in healthcare in the New York Times and Washington Post since her out-of-the-blue diagnosis during covid. She’s given patient advocate talks at scientific conferences around the globe including in Vienna, Rome, Singapore, and Brisbane.
About the Book:
You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility is a 2021 New York Times Favorite Book for Healthy Living, a Good Morning America Must Read and a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing 2022. In these essays, Gurwitch embraces homesharing, welcoming a housing-insecure young couple and a bunny rabbit into her home. The mother of a college student in recovery who sheds the gender binary, she relearns to parent, one pronoun at a time. She wades into the dating pool in a Miss Havisham-inspired line of lingerie and flunks the magic of tidying up. You’re Leaving When? is for anybody who thought they had a semblance of security but wound up with a fragile economy and a blankie. Annabelle uses personal stories and humor to illuminate issues in the social zeitgeist including “harnessing resilience and learning how life’s disappointments can teach you about the things that matter most” (Tara Parker Pope, New York Times).

An Evening with Sarah Federman
2024-09-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Library, with the Worldview Project and the San Diego Diplomacy Council, present an evening with Dr. Sarah Federman, author of Last Train to Auschwitz: The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability. Join us on September 11, 2024, at 6:30 pm for an insightful discussion and a unique opportunity to meet the author in person. A “compelling blend of victims’ narratives and rigorous historical and legal analysis, making a significant contribution to our understanding of corporate accountability and transitional justice,” according to Leigh Payne of the University of Oxford, this book shares the story of how the French National Railways were complicit in the Holocaust.
Light refreshments will be provided.
About the Book
In the immediate decades after World War II, the French National Railways (SNCF) was celebrated for its acts of wartime heroism. However, recent debates and litigation have revealed the ways the SNCF worked as an accomplice to the Third Reich and was actively complicit in the deportation of 76,000 Jews and other civilians to death camps. Sarah Federman delves into the interconnected roles—perpetrator, victim, and hero—the company took on during the harrowing years of the Holocaust. Grounded in history and case law, Last Train to Auschwitz traces the SNCF’s journey toward accountability in France and the United States, culminating in a multimillion-dollar settlement paid by the French government on behalf of the railways. The poignant and informative testimonies of survivors illuminate the long-term effects of the railroad’s impact on individuals, leading the company to make overdue amends. In a time when corporations are increasingly granted the same rights as people, Federman’s detailed account demonstrates the obligations businesses have to atone for aiding and abetting governments in committing atrocities. This volume highlights the necessity of corporate integrity and will be essential reading for those called to engage in the difficult work of responding to past harms.
About the Author
Sarah Federman is an author, educator, and conflict resolution practitioner. Prior to this work, she spent a decade as an international executive working with clients such as Google and the NFL. A job transfer from Manhattan to Paris led her to an encounter with her own name on a Holocaust memorial wall. This moment prompted her to turn her attention to helping people avoid mass violence, focusing specifically on corporate complicity. She is now an Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Joan B Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego.

Mystery Book Club: A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh
2024-09-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Conference 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. Registration is not required.
We will be discussing A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh. Check out the book in print or ebook format from the Coronado Library Catalog by clicking here.

Spoilers Book Club: "Postcards From The Edge" by Carrie Fisher
2024-09-21 14:00 - 17:30 | 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.

“Postcards From The Edge” by Carrie Fisher

When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale, she’s feeling like “something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting.” Suzanne is in the harrowing and hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation, trying to understand what happened to her life and how she managed to land in a “drug hospital.”
Just as Fisher’s first film role—the precocious teenager in Shampoo—echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing, her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood. This stunning literary debut chronicles Suzanne’s vivid, excruciatingly funny experiences inside the clinic and as she comes to terms with life in the outside world. “Postcards from the Edge” is more than a book about stardom and drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers—and delights—of all our addictions, from money and success to sex and insecurity.
Film
“Postcards from the Edge” (1990)
Rated R
Runtime: 1h 41m

Best of the Best Book Club: "Firekeeper's Daughter" by Angeline Boulley
2024-09-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Conference Room – Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Public Library’s Best of the Best Book Club meets regularly on the fourth Wednesday of each month to discuss books that have won major awards. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering. Registration is not required.

For our September meeting, we will discuss the 2022 Printz Medal winner Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley, a groundbreaking young adult thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community.
About Firekeeper’s Daughter:
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team.
Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug.
Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims.
Now, as the deceptions—and deaths—keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she’ll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known.

An Evening with World Renowned Drummer, Memoirist and Speaker Zoro
2024-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Spend an evening at the library with a musical legend as he discusses and signs his book Maria’s Scarf: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love, a Son’s Perseverance, and Dreaming Big, and shares a mini musical performance.

As one of the world’s most respected musicians, Zoro the Drummer has commanded some of the most famous stages in the world of rock and R&B music with his drums. Throughout more than thirty years of his career, Zoro has been consistently voted the number one R&B drummer and clinician by the premier music industry publications Modern Drummer, Drum!, and Rhythm Magazine.
He has toured and recorded with Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown, The New Edition, Jody Watley, Philip Bailey of Earth Wind & Fire, and many more. Additionally, Zoro is an educator, motivational speaker, and author of The Big Gig: Big-Picture Thinking For Success.
Zoro’s novel, Maria’s Scarf: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love, a Son’s Perseverance, and Dreaming Big, is a beautiful and transformative memoir that tells the story of a family fighting for survival against almost insurmountable odds. Through laughter, tears, and many misadventures, Zoro touches the heart of every reader—young or old, citizen or immigrant—and speaks to the dreamer in all of us, encouraging everyone to live fantastical lives.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. Books will be available to purchase through our co-sponsor, Adventures by the Book. Click here to pre-purchase a book and reserve your seat.

Spoilers Book Club: The Mist by Stephen King
2024-10-19 14:00 - 17:45 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Spoilers Book Club
The Spoilers Book Club reads books that are 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

In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends…David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies following a freak storm. Once there, they become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town. As the confinement takes its toll on their nerves, a religious zealot, Mrs. Carmody, begins to play on their fears to convince them that this is God’s vengeance for their sins. She insists a sacrifice must be made and two groups—those for and those against—are aligned. Clearly, staying in the store may prove fatal, and the Draytons, along with store employee Ollie Weeks, Amanda Dumfries, Irene Reppler, and Dan Miller, attempt to make their escape. But what’s out there may be worse than what they left behind.
This exhilarating novella explores the horror in both the enemy you know—and the one you can only imagine.
The Mist (Rated R)
2007
2h 6m

Mystery Book Club: The Good Detective
2024-10-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Public Library’s Mystery Book club will meet regularly on the 3rd Monday of each month. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering below. Registration is not required.
We will be discussing The Good Detective by John McMahon. Check out the book in print or ebook format from the Coronado Library Catalog by clicking here.

Mystery Book Club: "Seventeen" by Hideo Yokoyama
2024-11-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Public Library’s Mystery Book club will meet regularly on the 3rd Monday of each month. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering below. Registration is not required.
We will be discussing Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama.

Friends of the Library Holiday Book and Gift Sale
2024-11-23 10:00 - 15:00 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Friends of the Coronado Public Library (FOL) are holding a Holiday Book & Gift Sale on Saturday, November 23, from 10 am to 3 pm, in front of the Coronado Public Library.
Items for sale include gift items, DVDs, holiday cards, Christmas books, coffee table books, and a large selection of books for children, teens and adults.
Please bring your own bags. Credit and debit cards preferred.
All sale proceeds fund Library programs sponsored by the FOL.
The sale will be cancelled in the event of rain.
