Wednesday, November 3rd at 7:00pm - Open Mic Poetry Night with special guest poets Oscar Peqa, Donna Pauley, and Rebecca Travis. Oscar hosts the Barnes & Noble 4th Tuesday Poetry Reading Series and has served as master of ceremonies for the 2009 Houston Poetry Fest's Poetry Out of Bounds reading series. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and publications. Donna Pauley won 2008 Marrow and Bayousphere Poetry Awards, and Rebecca Hatcher Travis, author of Picked Apart the Bones, won the First Book Award for Poetry from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. Come read your own poems or share poems by other authors.

Thursday, November 4th at 6:30pm - Computer Class: Microsoft PowerPoint. No registration needed. Just come!

Monday, November 8th at 2pm - Computer Class: Email Basics. No registration needed. Just come!

Tuesday, November 9th at 7pm - Book Club meets to discuss The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee. Refreshments are provided.

Monday, November 15th at 10:30am - Genealogy Resources available at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center. Elizabeth (Liz) Sargent, CA, Special Collections Librarian and Lead Archivist, will discuss the genealogical research materials available at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center (HMRC) located in newly renovated Julia Ideson Building, a historical landmark located at 500 McKinney in downtown Houston. The HMRC is part of the Houston Public Library System's Special Collections Division which also includes the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research and the African American Library at the Gregory School.

Thursday, November 18th at 6:30pm - Classic Movie Night with From Here to Eternity starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, and Donna Reed. Directed by Fred Zinnemann in 1953. This black and white film is not rated and is 118 minutes long.

Wednesday, December 1st at 7pm - Cozy Mystery Author Leann Sweeney. Leann is the author of The Yellow Rose Mysteries series and the Cats in Trouble mystery series. The Cat, The Quilt and The Corpse was the #1 bestseller on the Independent Mystery Bookseller's List when it debuted and made several top twenty lists for 2009 at bookstores across the country.

Friendswood Public Library, 416 S Friendswood Dr., Friendswood, TX 77546

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