First Monday Movies at Excelsior on September 10 (2nd Monday due to Labor Day holiday), 6:30-8:30

The movie for August is Suspicion (1941, 99 mins) with Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

A handsome playboy meets and marries a shy heiress-to-be. But after their honeymoon, she starts believing her husband is a murderer and fears that she could be his next victim.
Joan Fontaine won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1941. Alfred Hitchcock can be seen making his signature cameo appearance about 45 minutes into the movie, mailing a letter at the village postbox.

Computer Basics for Adults and Seniors, Tuesday, September 4, 7-8:30pm

Learn how to use a mouse, the keyboard and other basic computer function in this class for computer beginners.

This class is part of a three-part computer class series. Part 2 will take place on Tuesday, October 2, 7-8:30pm. Students will learn how to search the Internet and how to use the library website and catalog.

Part 3 will take place on Tuesday, November 6, 7-8:30pm. Students will learn how to set up an Email account and basic Email functions. Basic mouse and keyboard skills are required for parts 2 and 3.

Attendance is limited to 10 people. Please contact Excelsior Branch to sign up.

On the Same Page author reading and talk, Wednesday, August 29, 7pm

Filipino-American author Lysley Tenorio will be at Excelsior Branch to talk about and read from his short story collection Monstress, the On the Same Page city-wide bookclub selection for July/August.

Monstress introduces a bold new writer who explores the clash and meld of disparate cultures. Lysley Tenorio reveals the lives of people on the outside looking in with rare skill, humor, and deep understanding, in stories exploring the fantastical and the realistic, the familiar and the strange.

A book sale and signing follows the event. Please join us for this literary treat!

Cómo resolver el misterio de planificar su jubilación, miércoles, 22 de agosto, de 6:30-8pm


Taking the Mystery Out of Retirement Planning, Wednesday, August 22, 6:30-8pm. This program will be in Spanish.

Programa para los hispanohablantes.

La jubilación ya no incluye una pensión garantizada ni un seguro médico de por vida. En efecto, para muchas personas, jubilarse en este siglo y en este país es un misterio. Si usted es una de esas personas que desea planificar - y que está a unos 10 ó 15 años de jubilarse - le recomendamos este programa. Este programa le dará pistas sobre cómo controlar su dinero y sus finanzas de modo que cuando se jubile, cuente con el dinero y el tiempo para disfrutar de esa etapa de su vida. Le ayudará a resolver el misterio que rodea los asuntos financieros después de la jubilación y a descubrir qué cambios puede hacer para asegurar su futuro económico.

Global Lens Films: The Prize (El Premio), Wednesday, August 15, 7-8:30 pm

Under the cloud of a military dictatorship, a young mother and her daughter flee Buenos Aires for the seclusion of a ramshackle cottage along the windy dunes of an Argentine beach. As her mother listens for news from the radio with sad stoicism, restlessly curious seven-year-old Cecilia joins a nearby school overseen by a kindly teacher. A childhood idyll, however, soon becomes contaminated by the general political crisis, as the teacher recruits the class for a patriotic essay contest sponsored by the army—the very people that may have already disappeared Cecilia’s father—in this superbly acted and engrossingly atmospheric drama about innocence in illicit times. Directed by Paula Markovitch. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Una joven madre y su hija, en su huida de la dictadura militar, cambian la ciudad de Buenos Aires por el aislamiento de una casita destartalada en las dunas ventosas de una playa argentina. Mientras la madre escucha las noticias en la radio con triste estoicismo, Cecilia, de 7 años, asiste a la cercana escuela supervisada por un amable maestro. No obstante, este idilio juvenil se ve pronto contaminado por la crisis política general cuando el maestro inscribe a la clase para escribir un ensayo patriótico en un concurso patrocinado por el ejército --las mismas personas que hicieron desaparecer al padre de Cecilia-- Drama espléndidamente interpretado, apasionante y sugerente sobre la inocencia en tiempos ilegales.
Directora: Paula Markovitch
Película en español con subtítulos en inglés.