Author Craig Johnson Discusses New Novel "Hell and Back"
2022-09-21 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

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
