Come to the library at 7:00pm on Tuesday, March 11 to discuss the book, Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. In this novel, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media firestorm that changes her life forever.
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The North Riverside Public Library has joined the Riverside Public Library, the Brookfield Public Library and the Brookfield Zoo for the On the Same Page community reading initiative, with nature as the spotlight. From March 1 through May 3, On the Same Page 2014: Reading, Communities and Nature promises to deliver compelling reading along with discussions, activities for children, art and poetry contests, and much more related programming.
Go to http://www.onthesamepage.info/ for details.
Come to the library at 6:30pm on Wednesday, March 19 to learn how to create habitats for some of the area’s butterflies who need year round habitats. You’ll also learn about the basic requirements and essential practices for butterfly gardens as well as the great diversity of local butterfly species and how they complete their life cycles.
The presenter is Stephanie Walquist who has been gardening for butterflies over the past ten years and has raised different species. She is a founding member of West Cook Wild Ones and is a volunteer for the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network.
This program is an On the Same Page program being presented in partnership with our Youth Services Department and the North Riverside Garden Club who will provide refreshments.