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The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people. For this meeting, the group will read Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra

(Also adapted as a film in 1996) Sleepers is the true story of four young teenagers who live in Hell’s Kitchen, in Manhattan. Just like any other teenagers who are their age, Michaël, Lorenzo, Tommy and John enjoy living in Hell’s Kitchen, where they feel like absolute rulers until one day, when they accidentally kill a man. Following a court decision, the four kids are sent to the Wilkinson Home for Boys, where they will be living the worst ill-treatment in their lives. The guards will go so far as beating and abusing them. A few years later, torture is over and the kids have become adults. Payback time is soon. One night, as Tommy and John enter a bar, in downtown Manhattan, they come across one of the guards from the Wilkinson Home for Boys. They come up to that guard and decide to kill him. They go as far as shooting seven bullets inside the bar itself, where other patrons enjoy their afterwork drinks. From now on, the plot is all about who is going to win, as Tommy and John are sent to court. As strange as it may seem, one of their friends (Michael), who is a lawyer, will not be defending them. Michael will be on the other side (the guard) whereas an alcoholic lawyer will defend the shooters. Why so? Read the book, watch the film and you will learn the whole truth at the very end of the story.

Meetings are once a month on Saturday afternoons starting at 3 pm. Open to all library members. To sign up please contact the group coordinator at bookgroup@ellia.org.

The garden club invites you to discover the beautiful gardens in the area! Some members enjoy having lunch at a restaurant prior to the visits and others only take part in the visits.

The July visit will be at the Jardin des Plantes in Nantes with (optional) lunch beforehand at the Café de l’Orangerie in the Jardin.  The Jardin des Plantes in Nantes is one of four “grands” botanic gardens in France, having more than 10,000 species of plants, 800 square meters of greenhouses, and 50,000 flowers.  If you are interested, you must sign up before June 15 at the email address below.

The “Garden Club” activity is open to library members and offers visits once a month to a garden between April and October. For more information and/or to sign up for this visit, please send an email to Diane Bonneau  at gardenclubellia@yahoo.com.

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“Books and Tea” is a monthly meeting for bookworms and tea drinkers. Bring a book you’ve really enjoyed, talk about it and pass it on! The group meets at 1PM. The place will be Le Jardin du Musée des Beaux-arts (entrance either through the Musée itself or Boulevard du Roi René or 47 rue Toussaint)

Don’t forget to bring your own picnic!
No need to sign up, just come and enjoy!

Treat yourself to an afternoon of a collective reading of one of Shakespeare’s plays. This activity consists of watching a BBC production on DVD and then reading relative scenes. This is a great activity for lovers of language and fans of the great wit. Free and open to all library members. For more information or to sign-up, please contact the group coordinator here. The number of participants is limited.

If you enjoy exploring all forms of textile and multimedia art, this activity is for you.

We experiment with many different techniques (embroidery, weaving, patchwork, quilting, collages…) and we take pleasure in sharing and exploring various types of work together.

Lately we have completed individual and shared projects which may be displayed.

No previous expertise required. Just come and join us!

This will be the last walk of the season, but not the least ! We’ll make
a whole day of it to celebrate a year of great walks and stimulating
talks in the beautiful countryside around Angers. So come along with
good walking shoes, protection against rain, heat… and mosquitoes if
necessary, lots of water and a picnic lunch.

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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The June read for the book club is “Silverview” by John Le Carré.

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a few months into his new career, Edward, a Polish émigré, shows up at his doorstep with a very keen interest in Julian’s new enterprise and a lot of knowledge about his family history. And when a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea…

To join the book club please send an email to the group coordinator here.

The members of our writing workshop “WRITE HERE WRITE NOW” have done it again: our wonderful participants threw themselves into theatre and dramatic writings this time. You’re cordially invited to come and see members of the group perform monologues and duos they have produced on Friday, June 16^th between 10 and 10:45am at the last Coffee House meeting before summer !

Free and open to the public. No need to reserve, just come and enjoy !

The library is an authorised test center for the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test (the Test of English for International Communication). For more information please visit our TOEIC page or to sign up go to the official ETS website.

Come and play (simple) Bridge (cardgame) at the library! Engage in a brain-stimulating sport: the Mini Bridge Exclusive Society. Discover, learn and play Mini Bridge in a relaxed, casual and informal ambiance. Mini Bridge, as developed by MBES allows and encourages

• conversations while playing the game,
• comments and remarks before, during and after the game,
• second thoughts,
• not taking oneself too seriously,

…in a nutshell, MBES (Mini Bridge Exclusive Society) proposes a different concept from the competing conventional Bridge Clubs.

Feel free to sign up and come and discover this new activity for library members! It is free and open to members of the library. Please contact the library to join!