Do you need one-on-one technical support for some of those more difficult technology challenges you’re facing?
This “intensive” offers 15-minute slots with Paul Zimmerman, the Library’s tech guru, to help you answer your most pressing questions.
The help desk is hosted on Zoom. Meeting information will be sent to registered attendees.
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.
Do you need one-on-one technical support for some of those more difficult technology challenges you’re facing?
This “intensive” offers 15-minute slots with Paul Zimmerman, the Library’s tech guru, to help you answer your most pressing questions.
The help desk is hosted on Zoom. Meeting information will be sent to registered attendees.
Email bringit@comlib.org to sign up.
Do you need one-on-one technical support for some of those more difficult technology challenges you’re facing?
This “intensive” offers 15-minute slots with Paul Zimmerman, the Library’s tech guru, to help you answer your most pressing questions.
The help desk is hosted on Zoom. Meeting information will be sent to registered attendees.
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.
Join us for a virtual conversation with Michael Cannell, author of the new book, A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc., the riveting true story of a coast-to-coast mob network and the executioner-turned-informant whose mysterious death became a turning point in Mob history.
In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was underway that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York’s most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a mob network known as the Commission. But the man responsible for coolly silencing hundreds of informants was about to become the most talkative snitch of all. In exchange for police protection, Reles was prepared to rat out his murderous friends, from Albert Anastasia to Bugsy Siegel—but before he could testify, his shattered body was discovered on a rooftop outside his heavily-guarded hotel room. Was it a botched escape, or punishment for betraying the loyalty of the country’s most powerful mobsters?
A Brotherhood Betrayed traces the history of Murder, Inc. through Reles’ rise from street punk to murder chieftain to stool pigeon, ending with his fateful death on a Coney Island rooftop. It resurrects a time when crime became organized crime: a world of money and power, depravity and corruption, street corner ambushes and elaborately choreographed hits by wise-cracking foot soldiers with names like Buggsy Goldstein and Tick Tock Tannenbaum.
For a brief moment before World War II erupted, America fixated on the delicate balance of trust and betrayal on the Brooklyn streets. This is the story of the one man who tipped the balance.
Michael Cannell is the author of four non-fiction books, most recently A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc. His previous books are Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling, The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit and I.M. Pei: Mandarin of Modernism. Cannell has worked as a reporter for U.P.I and Time, and as an editor for The New York Times. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and many other publications.
A recording of this program will be available on Friday, Nov. 20 on our Livestream.
The Children’s Library is introducing some very limited in-person programming.
A Quick Class is a quick (30 min, or so) class or activity at the library. For September: Back to School means Back to School Supplies. Come color your own canvas pencil bag in this Quick Class at The Community Library. All supplies are provided.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions Flash Classes are currently restricted to 4 participants.
Participants must:
Please call the Children’s Library at 208-726-3493 x3 to reserve a spot. Slots will be filled on a first come, first served basis.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE RECORDING
Are trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers.
Join The Community Library and the Wood River Land Trust for a virtual conversation with Wohlleben, who will be joining us live from his home in Germany, as he shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland. After learning about the complex life of trees, a walk in the woods will never be the same again. Wohlleben will be in conversation with the Library’s executive director, Jenny Emery Davidson.
Peter Wohlleben spent over twenty years working for the forestry commission in Germany before leaving to put his ideas of ecology into practice. He now runs an environmentally friendly woodland, where he is working toward the return of primeval forests, as well as caring for both wild and domestic animals. Wohlleben has been celebrated for his distinctive approach to writing about nature; he brings to life groundbreaking scientific research through his observations of nature and the animals he lives among. His first work translated to English, The Hidden Life of Trees is an international bestseller.
In partnership with the Wood River Land Trust.
