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SUMMARY:Books Sandwiched In: "The Ministry of Time"
DESCRIPTION:Each year in January and February\, the The Friends of the Southeast Steuben County Library present Books Sandwiched In (BSI)\, a lunchtime book series featuring local speakers reviewing notable works of fiction and nonfiction. Additional support for Books Sandwiched In comes from Card Carrying Books & Gifts.\nIn 2026\, as in recent years\, the program will take place on Wednesdays\, from January 7 through February 11\, at the First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 171 W. Pulteney Street in Corning. The presentations will start promptly at noon.\nPresenters usually speak for 30 minutes or so\, and allow 15-20 minutes for questions. \nThis year’s first book presentation will be The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley\, and is presented by Dr. Jennifer O’Hara.\nFrom the publisher: An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas\, The Ministry of Time asks: What does it mean to defy history\, when history is living in your house? Kaliane Bradley’s answer is a blazing\, unforgettable testament to what we owe each other in a changing world.\nThe book has won and been nominated for several awards\, and was named a “book of the year” by the New York Times\, Guardian\, Independent\, Evening Standard\, NPR\, Vanity Fair\, Slate\, Advocate\, Goodreads\, and Smithsonian Magazine. This is the author’s first novel. \nAbout the presenter: Dr. Jennifer O’Hara earned a BA in Philosophy and BA in Law & Society from Binghamton University\, a JD from Western New England Law School\, and an EdD from Vanderbilt. For 23 years she has been a Professor at Corning Community College; she also teaches at the Elmira Correctional Facility.
URL:https://ssclibrary.org/event/bsi-jan-7-2026/
LOCATION:First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 171 W. Pulteney Street\, 171 W. Pulteney Street\, Corning\, 14830
CATEGORIES:For Adults
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SUMMARY:Adult Book Club: “The Serviceberry" by Robin Wall Kimmerer
DESCRIPTION:This month’s book is The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer. (128 pages) \nAbout the book: As Indigenous scientist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds\, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How\, she asks\, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity\, competition\, and the hoarding of resources\, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile\, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity\, interconnectedness\, and gratitude.\nAs Elizabeth Gilbert writes\, Robin Wall Kimmerer is “a great teacher\, and her words are a hymn of love to the world.” The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times\, and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save us\, all flourishing is mutual.” \nAbout the Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother\, scientist\, professor\, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom\, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Syracuse\, New York\, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology\, and the founder of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. \nThe Adult Book Club meets in-person at the Library on the second Friday of each month. If you have questions about the Book Club\, please email Linda Reimer: reimerl@stls.org \nCheck our calendar for future dates and book selections.
URL:https://ssclibrary.org/event/adult-book-club-january-2026/
LOCATION:Southeast Steuben County Library\, 300 Nasser Civic Center Plaza\, Corning\, NY\, 14830
CATEGORIES:For Adults
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SUMMARY:Online Author Talk | David Brooks : The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply
DESCRIPTION:NYTimes columnist and bestselling author David Brooks talks about his book\, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply\, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know a person\, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to? The act of seeing another person\, Brooks argues\, is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them and\, in turn\, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection\, and yearning to be understood.\nTake part in a riveting and timeless conversation on how to connect with people from all walks of life\, and why doing so is paramount to our individual and communal growth. \nYou can register for this free\, live\, online talk here.\nThis is one of a series of free\, live-streamed author talks made possible through the Library’s partnership with Library Speakers Consortium (LSC). You can learn more about upcoming presentations on our LSC microsite\, as well as watch recordings of presentations that you were unable to attend live. \nAbout the Author: David Brooks is one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times\, a writer for The Atlantic\, and appears regularly on PBS Newshour. He is the bestselling author of The Second Mountain\, The Road to Character\, The Social Animal\, Bobos in Paradise\, and On Paradise Drive.
URL:https://ssclibrary.org/event/online-author-talk-david-brooks/
CATEGORIES:For Adults
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michelle Wells":MAILTO:wellsm@stls.org
LOCATION:https://ssclibrary.org/event/online-author-talk-david-brooks/
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SUMMARY:Books Sandwiched In: "The Sunflower Boys"
DESCRIPTION:Each year in January and February\, the The Friends of the Southeast Steuben County Library present Books Sandwiched In (BSI)\, a lunchtime book series featuring local speakers reviewing notable works of fiction and nonfiction. Additional support for Books Sandwiched In comes from Card Carrying Books & Gifts.\nIn 2026\, as in recent years\, the program will take place on Wednesdays\, from January 7 through February 11\, at the First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 171 W. Pulteney Street in Corning. The presentations will start promptly at noon.\nPresenters usually speak for 30 minutes or so\, and allow 15-20 minutes for questions. \nThis year’s second book presentation will be The Sunflower Boys by Sam Wachman\, and is presented by Jessica O’Connor.\nFrom the publisher: A harrowing and gorgeous tale of love\, identity\, lost innocence\, and survival set in a time of devastating war\, The Sunflower Boys is a powerful\, heartrending exploration of young queer love\, the Ukrainian spirit\, and a family’s struggle to survive.\nThis is the author’s first novel.
URL:https://ssclibrary.org/event/bsi-jan-14-2026/
LOCATION:First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 171 W. Pulteney Street\, 171 W. Pulteney Street\, Corning\, 14830
CATEGORIES:For Adults
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SUMMARY:Online Author Talk | Julia Hotz : Nature\, Art\, and Service as Medicine
DESCRIPTION:NYTimes columnist and bestselling author Julia Hotz talks about her book\,The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement\, Nature\, Art\, Service\, and Belonging. The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting\, moving patient success stories\, and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally\, when we get sick\, health care professionals ask\, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world\, teams of doctors\, nurses\, therapists\, and social workers have started to flip the script\, asking “What matters to you?”\nScience shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments—depression\, ADHD\, addiction\, trauma\, anxiety\, chronic pain\, dementia\, diabetes\, and loneliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art\, nature\, movement\, and volunteer service into patient’s daily lives\, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lessons for depression\, “culture vitamins” for anxiety\,  a fishing club for ADHD\, a farm-based day-care for dementia\, a phone-buddy program for social isolation\, and many more. \nYou can register for this free\, live\, online talk here.\nThis is one of a series of free\, live-streamed author talks made possible through the Library’s partnership with Library Speakers Consortium (LSC). You can learn more about upcoming presentations on our LSC microsite\, as well as watch recordings of presentations that you were unable to attend live. \nAbout the Author: Julia Hotz is a solutions focused journalist based in New York. Her stories have appeared in TheNew York Times\, WIRED\, Scientific American\, TheBoston Globe\, Time\, and more. She helps other journalists report on the big new ideas changing the world at the Solutions Journalism Network. The Connection Cure is her first book.
URL:https://ssclibrary.org/event/online-author-talk-julia-hotz-2/
CATEGORIES:For Adults
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SUMMARY:Books Sandwiched In: "Kingmaker"
DESCRIPTION:Each year in January and February\, the The Friends of the Southeast Steuben County Library present Books Sandwiched In (BSI)\, a lunchtime book series featuring local speakers reviewing notable works of fiction and nonfiction. Additional support for Books Sandwiched In comes from Card Carrying Books & Gifts.\nIn 2026\, as in recent years\, the program will take place on Wednesdays\, from January 7 through February 11\, at the First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 171 W. Pulteney Street in Corning. The presentations will start promptly at noon.\nPresenters usually speak for 30 minutes or so\, and allow 15-20 minutes for questions. \nThis year’s third book presentation will be Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power\, Seduction\, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell\, and is presented by Sky Moss.\nFrom the publisher: There are few at any time who have operated as close to the center of power over five decades and two continents\, and there is practically no one in 20th Century politics\, culture\, and fashion whose lives she [Pamela Harriman] did not touch…Written with the novelistic richness and investigative rigor that only Sonia Purnell could bring to this story full of sex\, politics\, yachts\, palaces and fabulous clothes\, KINGMAKER re-asserts Harriman’s rightful place at the heart of history.\nThis is the author’s fourth novel. \nAbout the presenter: Sky Moss earned a BA from the University of Rochester\, and and MA from SUNY Cortland. A professor of history for many years at SUNY Corning Community College\, he has taught Latin American History\, American History I\, American History II\, Comparative Politics\, Modern Africa\, African American History\, Middle East and Islam\, and Contemporary World Affairs.
URL:https://ssclibrary.org/event/bsi-jan-21-2026/
LOCATION:First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 171 W. Pulteney Street\, 171 W. Pulteney Street\, Corning\, 14830
CATEGORIES:For Adults
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SUMMARY:Books Sandwiched In: "Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gaugin"
DESCRIPTION:Each year in January and February\, the The Friends of the Southeast Steuben County Library present Books Sandwiched In (BSI)\, a lunchtime book series featuring local speakers reviewing notable works of fiction and nonfiction. Additional support for Books Sandwiched In comes from Card Carrying Books & Gifts.\nIn 2026\, as in recent years\, the program will take place on Wednesdays\, from January 7 through February 11\, at the First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 171 W. Pulteney Street in Corning. The presentations will start promptly at noon.\nPresenters usually speak for 30 minutes or so\, and allow 15-20 minutes for questions. \nThis year’s fourth book presentation will be Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gaugin by Sue Prideaux\, and is presented by Katherine Fultz.\nFrom the publisher: In the first full biography of Paul Gauguin in thirty years\, Sue Prideaux illuminates the extraordinary oeuvre of a visionary artist vital to the French avant-garde. The result is “a brilliantly readable and compassionate study of Gauguin—not just as a painter\, sculptor\, carver and potter\, but as a human soul perpetually searching for what is always just out of reach” (Artemis Cooper\, Spectator).\nThis is the author’s fourth biography.. \nAbout the presenter: Katherine Fultz has many interests and skills: she is illustrator and surface designer\, teaching Digital Art at 171 Cedar Arts Center; and she is an education specialist at the Rockwell Museum. Katherine earned a BA\, MA and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan\, and an MSEd in General Education from Elmira College.
URL:https://ssclibrary.org/event/bsi-jan-28-2026/
LOCATION:First Congregational United Church of Christ\, 171 W. Pulteney Street\, 171 W. Pulteney Street\, Corning\, 14830
CATEGORIES:For Adults
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SUMMARY:Online Author Talk | Liz Moore : Secrets and Second Chances
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome Liz Moore to discuss her latest work\, The God of the Woods\, an instant New York Times bestseller and one of NPR’s 2024 “Books We Love” highlights. [This book will also be the final book of the Library’s Books Sandwiched In series on February 11.]\nEarly morning\, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant\, Barbara Van Laar\, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago\, never to be found.\nAs a panicked search begins\, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow\, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet. \nYou can register for this free\, live\, online talk here.\nThis is one of a series of free\, live-streamed author talks made possible through the Library’s partnership with Library Speakers Consortium (LSC). You can learn more about upcoming presentations on our LSC microsite\, as well as watch recordings of presentations that you were unable to attend live. \nAbout the Author: Liz Moore is the author of five novels: The Words of Every Song\, Heft\, The Unseen World\, the New York Times bestselling Long Bright River\, and The God of the Woods. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature\, she lives in Philadelphia and teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University. \n\n\n 
URL:https://ssclibrary.org/event/online-author-talk-liz-moore/
CATEGORIES:For Adults
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