The La Mesa Branch Library continues to offer fantastic programming as spring begins.

We’re hosting Art in The Evenings: Wonderful Weaving on March 26 at 5:30 p.m. for adults. A local artist will teach attendees how to create a circular loom to weave a beautiful fiber art piece. Register online at www.sdcl.org/LaMesa to participate.

On Saturday, April 13 at 10:30 a.m., Classics4Kids presents String Trio & Instrument Petting Zoo for all ages. Three musicians with different stringed instruments will demonstrate melody, harmony, and rhythm. For kindergarteners through middle schoolers, every Thursday from 4-5:45 p.m. we offer Homework Help where volunteers help students with homework and reading practice. This is a drop-in event, so no appointment is needed. Check www.sdcl.org/LaMesa for further details and other free programming.

Some great book titles are coming to the big and small screens and SDCL has access to all of these source titles.

Hulu will be presenting the mini-series We Were the Lucky Ones, based on the novel by Georgia Hunter. This emotional historical novel, based on the author’s family ordeals, explores the diaspora as experienced by the Krucs, a family of Polish Jews, just before and during the Second World War and their struggles to reunite after the conflict ends. We follow each family member as they do whatever they must to survive this frightening time while spread across many different countries.

Coming to theaters in early April, Someone Like You is the movie based on Karen Kingsbury’s novel. This inspirational tale follows Maddie after she learns that she was adopted as a frozen embryo and that she had a biological sister that has recently died. Maddie is hurt and angry with her parents for keeping this secret and travels to Portland where her sister lived. Although this is an entry into the “Baxters” series, it can be read as a stand-alone novel.

In 2016 Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer Prize for his debut novel, Sympathizer. HBO will be premiering the mini-series adaptation on April 14. This bestseller follows a double agent narrator, known only as “The Captain,” after the fall of Saigon in 1975. He flees with the refugees to America to report on what other Vietnamese are doing here while rebuilding their lives. This is a great examination of history and human nature as The Captain’s loyalty begins to blur.

The next title does not have a release date from Netflix yet, but that’s okay as it’s almost 700 pages long.

Man In Full follows Charlie while he scrambles to stop the repossession of his Atlanta plantation and skyscraper, possibly through hushing up a rape. Publisher’s Weekly describes this novel as examining “the obsessions, preoccupations, habits and lingo of life at the top and bottom of American society … and resona[tes] with a sense of the vast mystery and comedy of contemporary life in this amazing country.”

To get your hands on these physical or digital novels visit La Mesa Branch Library or www.sdcl.org.

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