Do you want to know what's happening at the Library? Watch @Your Library on CityCable 11, the Library's own half hour television show. Host Joanne Hamilton-Selway interviews visiting authors, highlights special library events, introduces library services, and recommends great books and movies, all available at the Scottsdale Public Library.
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Joanne goes on location to the Scottsdale Room in the Civic Center Library where she talks with Lead Librarian Extraordinaire Leigh Conrad. Leigh highlights the Room's many treasures, like the kachina collection and the Allan Houser statue "Contented". Then Joanne is joined by movie maven Louisa Aikin, who brings her recommendations of the cream of the crop of sports movies. If it's too hot to play outside, check out a good movie from the library!
 Author Karen Essex's is Joanne's guest for the September show. Karen's newest book, Stealing Athena, is the fictionalized story of Mary Nisbet, Lady Elgin, who was married to the man who took the Parthenon's sculptural treasures from Greece to England during the Napoleonic Wars. Mary, a independent, wealthy Scottish heiress, was the one who financed the controversial rescue of the Elgin Marbles. Essex alternates Mary's story with one two centuries earlier, the life of Aspasia, the companion to Perikles whose vision built the Parthenon. Rich in detail and character, Stealing Athena is an engrossing historical novel! |
