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The pizza and board games evening is scheduled one Tuesday a month from 6-8 pm. Cost is 7 euros (covers pizza and non-alcoholic drinks, 5 euros for children 12 and under and native English speakers). No reservations necessary, just come and enjoy!

The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people.

The September read is “The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo” by Steig Larsson. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch—and there’s always a catch—is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that has remained unsolved for nearly four decades: Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues. Little is as it seems, but there is at least one constant: you really don’t want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo.

When and where: Meetings will be held in the library once a month on Saturday afternoons starting at 3:00. Cost: FREE to all members of the library. To join: Please contact Anne Kaar at bookgroup@ellia.org

The library is pleased to announce a new Speaker series in English that will take place from September 2017 through June 2018 with a variety of different topics*.

The kick-off event will take place on Friday, September 15th at 10 am with Marjorie Spruill who will be talking about her controversial book “Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics.” The book focuses on the transformation of American political culture and the origins of the highly partisan, deeply polarized politics of today.

No reservations necessary. Limited seating so come early!

*This program has been made possible through a generous grant from the American Embassy.

This is a special moment when the community gathers together to talk about everything and anything (…in English of course!) and sips coffee and tea. Coffee House is free and open to all library members. Just drop in, no need to reserve! Coffee house is every Friday except during school holidays.

On this date we will have a special guest, author Marjorie Spruill, speaking starting at 10 am.

Love those French restaurants? Feel like you need to speak English more but in a relaxed atmosphere? Join this club which schedules a lunch in a great local restaurant. Click here to send an email to the coordinator for more information and the full schedule and to sign up!

Time to get outside! Get on those hiking boots and take some time to revel in the great outdoors! The idea is to organise an easy walk once a month – approximately 10 km, 2 to 3 hours, in the afternoon – in order to discover or re-discover the beautiful hiking paths of the Maine-et-Loire. Come along with good walking shoes, protection against rain, cold or heat according to the season…. a bottle of water and a little “en-cas” to keep you going ! Maximum group is 20 so make sure to sign up!

Want to sign up? Easy as pie!

Sign up by sending your name, email address and phone numbers (perferably cell phone) to this email address. You will be sent full details of the walk in due time.
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Get ready for three days of great street theater in Angers and some delicious food made specially by the volunteers at the library!

The Accroche-coeurs is a yearly festival and has for their theme this year “So British”! Full program can be found by clicking here but do make a point of coming by the library’s food stand on the Place Freppel…come and see the team in costume, eat some of the lovely food (coronation chicken, scones and much more!) and support the library all in one fell swoop… The theme of our food stand is the Beatle’s Sergent Pepper’s album so come and sing along with us!

The garden club invites you to discover the beautiful gardens in the area! This free activity is open to library members and is organised once a month.

The September visit will be at the Château de Bazouges-sur-le-Loir. The château is dramatically positioned on the banks of the River Loir, next to the last operating needle dam (barrage à aiguilles) in Sarthe with a 15th-century watermill.  Built from the XV to XVII centuries, the château has a moat and towers, with traditional french terraced gardens. Both the mill and the explanatory exposé on the workings of the dam can be visited.  Entrance fee is 6 euros.

For more information and/or to sign up for this visit please send an email to gardenclub@ellia.org.

You can sign up to take your TOEIC test here in the library. To sign up please consult the ETS website.

Midsummer picnic and pool party, generously hosted once again by June Duckworth will take place on August 3rd. For more information, for the schedule for 2017 and/or to sign up for visits please send an email to gardenclub@ellia.org.