Called “the greatest rock film ever made,” the love generation collides with a few Hells Angels during a 1969 Rolling Stones concert in San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway.

Produced by Clint Eastwood, this unique cinematic portrait combines documentary footage of the great jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk with interviews of his relatives, associates and friends. The film sheds light on the notoriously private Monk's genius by providing us with a never-before-seen look at the extraordinary work of this musical revolutionary.

The importance of family legacy can never be over emphasized. Do your children know their heritage? Who were your ancestors? What were their traditions? During this 2-hour workshop, author Linda Weaver Clarke will teach how to turn family histories into a variety of interesting stories by discussing character, plot, conflict, and emotion. Learn to make you ancestors come alive on paper!

The Montana Avenue Branch Book Group discusses both fiction and nonfiction. Led by Randi Hutchinson, book club leader extraordinaire, we try to mix it up a little to keep everyone on their toes. We try to choose books that are readily available in the library so that everyone can be read up for a fun discussion. Meet new people, stimulate your mind, and have a good time!

We meet on the third Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm, at the Montana Avenue Branch Library community room, 1704 Montana Avenue.

Check below for current and future selections.

 Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: Being the First Jane Austen Mystery

by Stephanie Barron

Jane goes to visit her friend Isobel, who has just wedded the elderly Earl of Scargrave. During a well-attended ball at the manor, the Earl ruins the weekend by getting murdered. Will the resourceful Jane be able to solve the mystery?
 

One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Todd

by Jim Fergus

In 1854, a Cheyenne chief requested that the U.S. Army provide a thousand white brides for the young warriors in his tribe. The U.S. refused, but Fergus considers what might have happened if a brides-for-Indians program had been instituted. The novel focuses on a young volunteer who was about to be institutionalized by her family for an unfortunate love affair.

We meet on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00pm.

Drawing on the same sources as Shakespeare used to create Twelfth Night, a comedy of misunderstandings, Gordon takes us back to Illyria fifteen years later to give us this mystery of misperceptions, misdirection, and double crosses.
 

Paranoia

by Joseph Finder

In this fast-paced and suspenseful novel, Adam Cassidy is a young, low-level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a crime. Corporate Security gives him a choice: going to prison - or becoming a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems.