Shape Notes Film Screening: Tangerine

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It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend (James Ransone, STARLET, “Generation Kill”) hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the sex worker and her best friend, Alexandra (newcomer Mya Taylor), embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles. 

This film is Rated R.

Shape Notes Film Screening: Anything

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In this 2017 film, a Southern widower moves to Los Angeles, where he falls in love with a transgender sex worker. They help each other face their trauma, loneliness and unhealthy coping mechanisms, but their clashing lifestyles could threaten their romance's future.  The film stars John Carroll Lynch, Matt Bomer, and Maura Tierney. 

Rated R.

FFL Book Discussion Group - Dora Bruder

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Check out this monthly book discussion group each second Wednesday at 6:30pm.  Free copies of the book are available for checkout at the library’s circulation desk.  In September, we will discuss Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano.

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2014 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Food For Talk Cookbook Book Club: Basic Fermentation

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The summer harvest is coming in.  How to preserve it all?!  Check out Sandor E. Katz’s Basic Fermentation and you will learn an easy, healthy way to ferment all kinds of ingredients. Discuss your experiences with recipes from the book with fellow home cooks and our culinary consultant, Richard Witting.

 

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Booked For Lunch: Anne Frank's Neighbor's: What Did They Do?

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Anne Frank's Neighbors: What Did They Do?

About Anne Frank's Neighbors: What Did They Do?:

Although Anne Frank’s Diary is the most widely read nonfiction book in the world after the Bible, little attention has been paid to her neighbors—the people who lived alongside the Jewish population as persecution intensified.

Booked For Lunch: Louella Bryant

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Author Louella Bryant joins us for our first Booked for Lunch program. She will discuss her new book, 'Cowboy Code'.

Fletcher Free Library's Booked For Lunch program returns with a lineup of inspiring authors and scholars on a variety of subjects.

Bring your lunch!  We will provide drinks and dessert.  All books are available at the library!

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Shape Notes Book Club: She's Not There

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By turns hilarious and deeply moving, She's Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan – a cast member on I Am Cait; an advisor to the television series Transparent, and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times -- explores the territory that lies between men and women, examines changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming power of love and family.