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Write Club

Saturday, 29 June 2013 - 10:30am
Mingle and share with your fellow amateur writers. Call 444-7820 for more information.
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Advanced Office: Mail Merge

Saturday, 29 June 2013 - 2:00pm
This class is designed to instruct patron in using Mail Merge, a feature of Microsoft Word. It covers an introduction to the feature and how to use it to create labels, letters, and envelopes.
Patrons should already be familiar with the Word and Excel applications.
The class is free of charge and designed for all library users new to personal computing.
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Call 444-7747 to register.
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Instrumentalists @ the Plaza - Carter and Joanna Laney

Sunday, 30 June 2013 - 2:30pm
Carter Laney is a veteran fiddler that’s played with countless acts like Yahoos String Band, Vulcan’s Britches and more. Join us for an afternoon of fiddle tunes.
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NOOK Simple Touch Class

Monday, 1 July 2013 - 6:30pm
Barnes & Noble partners with the library to teach you to use your NOOK Simple Touch.
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NOOK Color Class

Monday, 1 July 2013 - 7:30pm
Barnes & Noble partners with the library to teach you to use your NOOK Color.
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Global Cuisine @ the Plaza - Celebrate the USA: Foods and Coffees

Sunday, 7 July 2013 - 2:30pm
Taste the world! Coffee-ol-ogy Cafe presents fun and interactive programs on food and coffees from around the globe. We'll celebrate the food and coffees of the United States in July. Complimentary samples provided.
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New!!! Daytime Nonfiction Book Club

Tuesday, 9 July 2013 - 10:30am
Join us for a discussion of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Call 444-7816 for more information.
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First Thursday Fiction Book Group - The Man in the Blue Moon

Thursday, 11 July 2013 - 10:00am
Author Michael Morris will join us to discuss his novel, The Man in the Blue Moon, set during the WWI era in Appalachicola, Florida.

Join us for Hoover Public Library's First Thursday book discussion group. Sessions are the first Thursday of the month from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Theatre level Conference Room. One novel is discussed each session. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Feel welcome to join us!
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A Sweet Strangeness Thrills My Heart: The Journals of Sallie Independence Foster

Thursday, 11 July 2013 - 7:00pm
Sallie Independence Foster was 12 years old when the Civil War began. Her journal, begun in June 1861, and carefully preserved by her family, paints a picture of a child’s innocent world that is gradually darkened by the reality of war. The journal continues through the war and for another 22 years, as Sallie grows to be a young woman, marries, and begins a family of her own.
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Bards & Brews Poetry Performance Series

Friday, 12 July 2013 - 6:30pm
Join us as we co-host Birmingham Public Library’s popular Bards & Brews Poetry series. This will be a SLAM event: First place winner gets $200, second place gets $100. Registration and live music begin at 6:30 pm. Poetry performance starts at 7 pm. Craft beer will be available for sampling. Attendees must be 18 toenter, 21 to drink. IDs will be checked.
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Purl @ the Plaza

Saturday, 13 July 2013 - 3:00pm
Join old friends and make new ones at this crafty meeting of all fiber enthusiasts. Bring your yarn and knit, crochet or embroider.
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Helping Hands

Tuesday, 16 July 2013 - 2:30pm
Stop by to make newspaper rolls that will be donated to a local humane society. Teens and Adults welcome. For more information, call 444-7840.
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Second Thursday Fiction Book Group - The Light Between Oceans

Thursday, 18 July 2013 - 10:00am
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
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You Can Do It @ the Plaza - Easy Floor Upgrades: Hardwood and Tile

Saturday, 20 July 2013 - 10:30am
Jones-Warren Construction and Home Depot show you how to upgrade the flooring in your home.
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How to Find Grants

Sunday, 21 July 2013 - 2:30pm
Learn to use the Foundation Center Cooperative Database to find grants for nonprofits and individuals. Reservations required. Call 444-7816.
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How to Find Grants

Sunday, 21 July 2013 - 4:00pm
Learn to use the Foundation Center Cooperative Database to find grants for nonprofits and individuals. Reservations required. Call 444-7816.
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Playing @ the Plaza - Flying Jenny

Thursday, 25 July 2013 - 6:30pm
Flying Jenny is an old-time string band that plays American music that is the precursor to bluegrass and country. The band features breakdowns on fiddle, banjo, guitar and bass, as well as songs in three-part harmony.
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Nonfiction Book Group

Thursday, 25 July 2013 - 7:00pm
Join us for a discussion of Citizens of London by Lynne Olson. For more information, call 444-7816.
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After Hours @ the Plaza: Game Nite

Friday, 26 July 2013 - 7:00pm
Enjoy your favorite classic Nintendo games, Xbox and Wii games, Apples to Apples, Scrabble and more! We even have space for you to bring your own favorite board games and set up. Free beer tasting. ID required.
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Write Club

Saturday, 27 July 2013 - 10:30am
Mingle and share with your fellow amateur writers. Call 444-7820 for more information.
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Instrumentalists @ the Plaza - Allen Stone, guitarist

Sunday, 28 July 2013 - 2:30pm
Guitarist Allen Stone plays in a variety of bands including Chad Fisher Group, FisherGreen, Hunter Lawley Band and others. He's proficient in many styles as well: jazz, rock, funk, country, reggae and more.
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Monday at the Movies: Sherlock Holmes

Monday, 29 July 2013 - 2:00pm
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. Stars Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.

Free admission and refreshments!
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Monday at the Movies: Sherlock Holmes

Monday, 29 July 2013 - 6:30pm
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. Stars Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.

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Workforce Investment Act

Thursday, 1 August 2013 - 9:00am
Workforce Investment Act
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First Thursday Fiction Book Group - Remarkable Creatures

Thursday, 1 August 2013 - 10:00am
On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip, and the scientific world alight. After enduring bitter cold, thunderstorms, and landslips, her challenges only grow when she falls in love with an impossible man.
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Global Cuisine @ the Plaza - Tour the Islands: Polynesian Foods and Coffees

Sunday, 4 August 2013 - 2:30pm
Taste the world! Coffee-ol-ogy Cafe presents fun and interactive programs on food and coffees from around the globe. We celebrate the foods and coffees of Polynesia for our August program. Complimentary samples provided.
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Second Thursday Fiction Book Group - Man In the Blue Moon

Thursday, 8 August 2013 - 10:00am
“He’s a gambler at best. A con artist at worst,” her aunt had said of the handlebar-mustached man who snatched Ella Wallace away from her dreams of studying art in France. Eighteen years later, that man has disappeared, leaving Ella alone and struggling to support her three sons. While the world is embroiled in World War I, Ella fights her own personal battle to keep the mystical Florida land that has been in her family for generations from the hands of an unscrupulous banker.
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Playing @ the Plaza - Carlos Pino

Thursday, 8 August 2013 - 6:30pm
Jazz guitarist Carlos Pino and his band play a mixture of classic jazz as well as original compositions. A gifted guitarist, Pino is in high demand around Birmingham to play with other groups as well as with his own band.
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Purl @ the Plaza

Saturday, 10 August 2013 - 3:00pm
Join old friends and make new ones at this crafty meeting of all fiber enthusiasts. Bring your yarn and knit, crochet or embroider.
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Instrumentalists @ the Plaza - Roberto Verdi, guitar

Sunday, 11 August 2013 - 2:30pm
Join us for an afternoon with flamenco guitarist Roberto Verdi as he plays the gorgeous music of Spain.
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