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Library App Workshops

The Library has a number of apps you can use to get eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, eComics, and even an app to learn a new language.  Join us to find out how they work and don’t forget to bring your device!
No sign up required, just drop in and get some help.

Monday, April 1st 10 am
Thursday, April 11th 6:30 pm
Monday, April 15th 10 am
 
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Get help with your mobile device from our group of teen voulnteers. 

Dont forget to bring your device and all your passwords.

Monday, April 1st 4 pm
Monday, April 15th 4 pm

 
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Cabaret Screening and Chat with Coronado Playhouse Cast 
Wednesday, April 3rd at 6pm

In cooperation with the Coronado Playhouse, we present a screening of Cabaret, followed by a reception with Ccst members on hand to talk about their work on the production.

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Coronado Community Read
The Practice House by Laura McNeal

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Book Discussion; Thursday, April 4th 11am; Winn Room

Music From the '30s with the Coronado Big Band; 5:30 Spreckels Park

2020 Community Read: What are you reading? Nominating Event; Sunday April 7th 3:30 pm Winn Room

 

 

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Author Event Ernest Snowden Thursday, April 4 at 6:30pm Winn Room 

Winged Brothers recounts the service exploits of two brothers, Ernest and Macon Snowden, through more than forty years of naval aviation history in both peace and war. They were             deeply committed to each other and to advancing their             chosen profession, but due to the vast difference in their ages and the fourteen years between their respective graduations from the U.S. Naval Academy, they experienced carrier           aviation from very different perspectives. Through personal           letters, official reports, first-hand accounts, and first-person             interviews, their symbiotic relationship is revealed to the reader.  
 Book sale and signing will follow the author’s presentation.

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Music from the '30s with the Coronado Big Band
Friday, April 5th 5:30 Spreckels Park Gazebo

See the Coronado Big Band Close out this year's Community Read with a concert featuruing the music of the '30s. 

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A Continental Breakfast Discussion:   
Media Bias & Information Consumption 
Saturday, April 6 
9:30-11:30a.m. in the Winn Room

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Presented by Steve Miska, Executive Director, First Amendment Voice.  With over 25 years of experience as an active duty Army officer, he has served as Director for Iraq on the National Security Council and as an Infantry Task Force Commander during war-time in Iraq. The author of multiple publications to protect soft networks, he has taught at West Point and Marine Corps University.  A motivational speaker, discussion facilitator and mentor for high performing young professionals, Steve strives to inspire a service culture.  

 

With all the divisive rhetoric and challenges we face as a nation today, we must band together to stay informed and protect our freedoms. 

 
Learn how to make sense of the media and understand freedom of the press
Understand today’s media landscape and sources of reliable information 
Gain vital tools necessary to advocate and engage as conscientious citizens 
Survey other issues in the First Amendment space
RSVP to 619-522-7390 or email ehauser@coronado.ca.us 
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Saturday Book Club
Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
Saturday April 6th 1pm

From bestselling author Dave Eggers, the incredible true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astonishing history of coffee and Yemen's central place in it. He leaves San Francisco and travels deep into his ancestral homeland to tour terraced farms high in the country's rugged mountains and meet beleaguered but determined farmers. But when war engulfs the country and Saudi bombs rain down, Mokhtar has to find a way out of Yemen without sacrificing his dreams or abandoning his people.

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Haiku Writing Class-Sign-Up Required
Saturday April 6th 1pm

Capturing your Creativity with Haiku! ….for the fun and health of it.

Free Workshop on Saturday, April 6th 1-2:30pm  Winn Room

Sign up for this engaging, non-traditional,  interactive (and hopefully fun) journey by calling the Library at 619-522-7390.

Bring your open mind, active imagination, sense of humor, zest for life, quest for fun while learning and willingness to participate. Satisfaction? Poetically guaranteed!   Taught by Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN, participants will explore the benefits and  value of Haiku as a cathartic,  therapeutic, stress management tool and actively participate in several  creative Haiku         opportunities and challenges.
Space is limited, registration is required.

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Document Managment Workshop.

Saturday, April 6th
2:30pm Conference Room
 

 

 
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POV Film and Discussion: Voices of the Sea
Tuesday, April 9th 6pm. 

Revealing stark realities for the poorest of rural Cubans with unique access and empathy, this is the story of a 30-something mother of four longing for a better life. The tension between wife and aging husband—one desperate to leave, the other content to stay—builds into a high stakes family drama after her brother and the couple's neighbors escape. A co-production of American Documentary | POV and ITVS. A co-presentation with Latino Public Broadcasting.

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Adult Craft:  Pysanky Workshop Tuesday, April 10th at 1:30pm
Sign-Up Required

Adriana has been practicing this colorful art of Ukranian decorating since she was six years old.  She will talk about the history and teach the technique. 

Materials and instruction will be provided.
Space is limited, registration is required.  
Call 619-522-7390 to register for the class.
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Anime Club
Stiens Gate: Load Reagion of Deja Vu
Saturday, April 13th 2pm

A year has passed since Okabe reached the Steins Gate world-line where Mayuri is alive, Kurisu hasn’t been killed, and time only moves forward. Visiting Japan, Kurisu stops by the Future Gadget Lab where everyone is up to their usual shenanigans. But something’s not quite right—memories of other timelines continue to haunt Okabe… or are they visions? Out of nowhere, a message is left for Kurisu: cell phone, microwave, SERN. Strong emotions blur the world-lines and trigger déjà vu. Before she knows it, Okabe disappears. Unable to let go of the one who never existed, Kurisu makes a daring return to the past. Hoping to save the mad scientist who tried countless times to save her, she must make a decision—risk everything, or live in a world without Okabe.

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Author Event: Bridget Grimes
Thursday, April 11 6:30pm Winn Room


Corner Office Choices: The Executive Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom 

Corner Office Choices offers a holistic approach to financial,          career, and personal planning that will give you the tools you need to build your ideal life. Mining her years of experience helping female  professionals, Bridget Grimes addresses           common obstacles to reaching your goals and shows you how to get past them, covering everything from how to protect your assets to how to nurture your personal passions.  It's time to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to   be--and Corner Office Choices is your road map to success.  
 A signing reception will follow the author’s presentation. 

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Mystery Book Club:
Murder in the White House by Margaret Truman
Monday April 15th 2pm

In a town where the weapon of choice is usually a well-aimed rumor, the strangling of Secretary of State Lansard Blaine in the Lincoln Bedroom is a gruesome first. White House counsel Ron Fairbanks is ordered to investigate. There are persistent rumors that the Secretary was an accomplished womanizer with ties to a glamorous call girl. There is also troubling evidence of unofficial connections with international wheeler-dealers.
In death as in life, Blaine is a power to be reckoned with. For Fairbanks, who loves the President's daughter, one point is soon clear: only a few highly placed insiders had access to the Lincoln Bedroom that fateful evening. And one of them was the President. . . .

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Dr. Seuss Documentary Screening
April 17th at 6:30pm 

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Digital Media Lab Workshops

Make Eye Catching Fliers: Thursday, April 18th 6:30pm


Graphics Tablet Workshop: Creating Texture: Thursday, April 25th 6:30 pm

Space is Limmited Sign-up Required

 
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Piano Concert:  Gerald Robbins
Saturday, April 20th 3pm

 

   
 
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Everything is Elemental
Saturday, April 27th
10:30-12:00 Winn Room

LET’S TALK ABOUT…. FAMILY COMMUNICATION

Different personality traits have an affect on interpersonal communication styles. When we know who we are, we have the power to improve our relationships and results. Attend this free session to learn how you can use the Four Elements to improve your family, personal and professional relationships, reduce family stress and improve communication and conflict-solving skills.   

Fire is quick to flare and burn. Fire can also light the way. 
Earth may bury its anger — only to have it explode or quake in the future. Earth can also keep us grounded and realistic.
Water has a tendency to evaporate — or flood — or turn to ice — when distressed. Water can also bring the literal “solution” to problems. 
Wind will do whatever is necessary to get attention when angry— even moving things around with sudden force.  
button Call 619-522-7390 or email ehauser@coronado.ca.us to register. 
 
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Wordpress Workshop
Monday, April 23rd 2pm

Interested in creating your own blog or website? Learn how to design one using WordPress.com. This workshop will cover the basics such as making pages and posts, adding photos and customizing website appearances.   
Web coding experience not required. 
Space is limited to 10 patrons. 
Sign-up at the Reference Desk .

 

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Microsoft Word Workshop
Wednesday, April 24th

Want to make your documents look more professional?  Learn how to create documents and do basic editing in Microsoft Word.  Topics will cover changing fonts, formatting paragraphs. and understanding some of the different features found on Microsoft Word.  Sign up is required.  Space is limited.  

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Spoilers Book Club:
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion.

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