Lighthouse 2010 Scholarship and Career Awards
Lighthouse International is now accepting applications for their 2010 Scholarship and Career Awards. These scholarships reward excellence, recognize accomplishments and help students who are blind or partially sighted pursue their academic and career goals. Please note that applications must be submitted online by 3/14/2010.
Spring and Summer Book Group at the Seattle Public Library
LEAP is the Library Equal Access Program. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, they meet on Level 4, Room 5 of the main branch of the Seattle Public Library. For more information, please contact leap@spl.org.
| Date | Title/Author | Description |
|---|---|---|
| April 13 | Lolita Vladimir Nabokov |
In this dark, comic novel, Vladimir Nabokov paints a complex portrait of obsession that reveals his protagonist, Humbert Humbert to be both a middle-aged monster and a wild romantic who fails to attain his ideal. |
| May 11 | Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi |
A book about one woman's experience living in pre and post revolution Iran. Events are interlaced with the stories of her book club's members: seven women who met weekly at the author's house to discuss works of Western literature including Vladimir Nabokov's controversial Lolita. |
| June 8 | The Madonnas of Leningrad Debra Dean |
Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories--yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye. As the Luftwaffe's bombs pounded her proud, stricken home, Marina built a personal Hermitage in her mind--a refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more.... |
| July 13 | Lottery Patricia Wood |
Perry Crandall has an IQ of 76, but is not retarded, as he'll have you know: his IQ would need to be less than 75 for that, and he knows the difference. When he wins $12 million in the lottery, everyone is paying attention to him, but who can he trust? Even his friends from the marine supply store behave differently, and on top of everything else, Perry finds himself falling for a woman with problems of her own. |
| August 10 | Being Invisible Thomas Berger |
Things are not going well for Fred Wagner. His wife has left him, his job as a catalog copywriter is becoming increasingly unsatisfying, and his novel, after six years, has not progressed beyond the opening pages. Wagner discovers, however, that he does have a talent--he can make himself invisible. The novel recounts his struggle to make the best of this unique gift. |
| September 11 | Pegasus Descending James Burke |
Detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his placid life. Twenty-five years ago, lost in a drunken haze in Florida, Robicheaux was too far gone to save his friend, who was murdered in cold blood for gambling debts. Now, the arrival of Dallas's daughter opens a door locked long ago, and extracting her motives points Robicheaux to the suicide of a local "good girl" pulled into a vortex of power, sex--and death. |
Read Our Agency Brochure in Six Languages!
Our agency brochure is now available in 6 languages (PDF). Read about our programs and services, agency history and contact information in Chinese, English, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese!
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