Henry Ford and the Company He Kept.Bloomfield Historical Society, Wednesday October 2nd at 7pm.Bloomfield Township Library. Free Admission.

                                 

Program sponsored jointly by Bloomfield Historical Society and the Bloomfield Township Library. 

Detroit Symphony Orchestra String Quartet at Baldwin Public Library. This Wednesday October 2nd at 7pm.

The Baldwin Public Library and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) will present an evening of music at the Library on Wednesday, October 2 at 7 p.m. The event features a performance by a string quartet comprised of DSO musicians.

The quartet consists of First Violinist Laurie Goldman and Assistant Concert Master Hai Xin Wu, both on violin, Paul Wingert on cello, and Hang Su on viola. Their concert will feature String Quartet #2 by Alexander Zemlinsky and Lullaby by George Gershwin.

“The Library is proud to offer cultural programming of all kinds, but we are particularly happy to welcome members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to perform in our community,” said Library Director Doug Koschik.

This performance is funded through the support of the Jane Cameron Endowment Fund and will be offered free of charge to the public. The concert will take place in the Rotary Room, in the lower level of the Library.

To put you in the mood we have included this You Tube Clip of the Paray String Quartet playing Beethoven Opus 18 no.4  at  Masta (Michigan Chapter of American String Teachers Association).

Amazing the power and range of just  four instruments.

The Baldwin Public Library can be reached at 248-647-1700 or www.baldwinlib.org. The Library is located at 300 West Merrill Street in downtown Birmingham.  

Michigan Library Association Picks Local Resident Larry Neal as Librarian on the Year.

 Locally, In 2011 the Birmingham Bloomfield  Chamber of Commerce  picked  Larry Neal as it's 2011 Person of The Year.  That year ended with the successful passage of a millage in which the City would contract with the Baldwin Library for services.  That ended a seven year drought of full Library Services  for the City. 

The efforts that resulted in a Library for the City began in the Summer of 2010 when Mr. Neal first appeared before Commission to discuss ideas for renewed library services.

New Stephen King and Sandra Browne novels highlight Baldwin New Titles 9/24/2013

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri:  Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives - Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America - until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds. Check Availability

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King:  On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep."  Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. Check Availability

Deadline by Sandra Brown:  Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source within the FBI. A new development has come to light in a story that began 40 years ago. It could be the BIG story of Dawson's career one in which he has a vested interest. Soon, Dawson is covering the disappearance and presumed murder of former Marine Jeremy Wesson, the biological son of the pair of terrorists who remain on the FBI's Most Wanted list. As Dawson delves into the story, he finds himself developing feelings for Wesson's ex-wife, Amelia, and her two young sons. But when Amelia's nanny turns up dead, the case takes a stunning new turn, with Dawson himself becoming a suspect.

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Killing Jesus by Bill O’Reilly:  Millions of readers have thrilled to author Bill O'Reilly and historian Martin Dugard's Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion people attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God. Killing Jesus will take readers inside Jesus's life, recounting the seismic political and historical events that made his death inevitable - and changed the world forever. Check Availability

Iron Man 3 (DVD): When Tony Stark/Iron Man finds his entire world reduced to rubble, he must use all his ingenuity to survive, destroy his enemy, and somehow protect those he loves. But a soul-searching question haunts him: Does the man make the suit, or does the suit make the man? Check Availability.