April computer classes

Microsoft Word Basics: 04/10/2014, 2-3:30 p.m.:   Get an overview of Microsoft Word 2007.

Introduction to Computers and the Internet, 4/15/2014, 2-4: Those with their own laptops or other portable computing devices may bring them, as we have wifi throughout our building.  

Advanced Computers and Internet Class, 04/29/2014, 2-4:   Those with their own laptops or other portable computing devices may bring them, as we have wifi throughout the building.  

Social Networking Websites, 04/24/2014, 2-3:30: Learn about popular social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more!

Please register for each of these classes by calling 386-322-5152, extension 20936.

April movies

Monday Afternoon at the Movies 

(All Films Start at 2 p.m.)

04/07/2014: Gravity, Rated PG-13, 91 minutes: Director Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity stars Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone, a scientist on a space shuttle mission headed by astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney), a talkative, charismatic leader full of colorful stories that he shares with his crewmates as well as mission control. As the two are on a space walk, debris hits the area where they are working, and soon the pair finds themselves detached from their ship and stranded in space.

04/14/2014: Saving Mr. Banks, Rated PG-13, 125 minutes: The story of how Walt Disney courted P.L. Travers into letting him option the rights to Mary Poppins is brought to the screen in this non-fiction drama starring Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, and Colin Farrell.

04/21/2014: The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, Rated PG-13, 161 minutes: The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.

04/28/2014: Catching Fire, Rated PG-13, 146 minutes: The Hunger Games saga continues in this sequel that finds a revolution brewing as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) take a "Victor's Tour" of the districts, and President Snow (Donald Sutherland) plots their downfall during preparations for the Quarter Quell, which only occurs every 25 years in celebration of the Capitol's victory over the districts.

April Friends and library programs

Port Orange Library Book Club

Join us as we discuss The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman.   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 and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, 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.

Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.  Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 10am.

Burlesque at the library

Go back to a bygone era with the help of burlesque entertainer and educator, Mini Grand.Mini is trained in ballet, jazz, musical theatre, and high kick and constructs all her own burlesque costumes. Mini’s presentation takes us from the roots of burlesque through the neo-burlesque movement and concludes with a live demonstration on the art of the tease! You don’t want to miss this!

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 2:00pm at the Port Orange Library.
For more information call 386-322-5152, option 4.