Advance tickets for author Barbara Ehrenreich’s special Common Hour presentation on her New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America are no longer available.

A limited number of free tickets will be available at the door (first come, first served). The Box Office will be open at 12 noon for the extra tickets.

There will be overflow seating in Wish Theater (located below Pickard Hall) where Ms. Ehrenreich's presentation will be projected for anyone who was unable to obtain a ticket.

This event will be recorded and a podcast will be posted to the Brunswick-Bowdoin Community Read website a few days after the event.

Ms. Ehrenreich’s author talk and book signing will be held on Friday, January 27 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall at Bowdoin College.

For more details on this event, please visit:
http://library.bowdoin.edu/communityread/

Winters nights in Maine are long. So come warm up with hot beverages (& non-alcoholic "mocktails") and watch the fourth and final movie in the Curtis Library's critically acclaimed film noir series, "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", featuring Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer and Michelle Monaghan.

Our resident cinema scholars Robert Long and Melissa Orth will contribute a brief introduction to both the film and its genre. They are sure you will agree that Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang is "slick, sassy and downright delicious."

TIME: Friday January 27, 7:30pm

LOCATION: "Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang" will be screened in the Curtis Memorial Library historic 1904 room. Please enter the building through the library's main entrance on Middle Street.

NOTE: If the library is closed due to inclement weather conditions, this program will be regrettably canceled with no snow date.

"Hard to believe it was last Christmas…

…that me and Harmony
changed the world.

And we didn’t mean to.
And it didn’t last long, you know.

A thing like that can’t."

Did you know that Curtis Friends and Curtis Memorial Library offer a free book delivery service to cardholders from Brunswick and Harpswell who are unable to get to the library themselves?  It’s called Books on Wheels.  Click to learn more!

The newest Curtis News newsletter is now available online. Download your copy directly with this link:

CurtisNews v23-1

or go to the newsletter page for a link. There  you will also find a link to the puzzle answers – but don’t give up too soon! You can also subscribe to the newsletter from a link on the newsletter page.

The paper copies of the Feb.-March edition will be mailed Monday Jan. 30

Appointments are being taken for AARP Tax Help.  Sessions begin February1 and end April 16.

Wednesdays: 10:30 – 2 and 3:30 – 7

Fridays:            12:30 – 4

Call 725-5242 ext. 510 to reserve a time or stop in at the reference desk on the 2nd floor.

We are close to our goal for this year’s Annual Book Fund! If you haven’t made your gift yet, we encourage you to help us close out the campaign before Tuesday, Jan. 31.

Thanks to many, donations have been strong. So far we’ve heard from 206 new donors, and 225 families have increased their gifts from their past level.

We now have $6,300 left to raise by the end of the month to reach our goal of $85,000. All Book Fund donations help us get new books and other materials on the shelves for all our library users to enjoy. You can help CML to be the best library in Maine!

Please help us get over the top with a donation today. Annual Book Fund envelopes are available in the lobby, or go online to curtislibrary.com/donate.
Thank you!