June E-Newsletter - Verlander Book Signing via @detroitlibrary

Detroit Public Library June 2012 In This Issue Veteran's Hiring Fair Exhibits @ Main Detroit 24/7 Finale Celebration Verlander Book Signing Hot Read of the Month Free Veteran's Hiring Fair Detroit   If you know a Veteran who is seeking a new job opportunity and could benefit from some career coaching assistance, please refer them to the Veteran Hiring Fair on June 26-28, 2012 at Detroit's COBO Center.   Click here for more information on the Free Veteran's Hiring Fair Detroit  .         Join the Conversation about the Detroit Public Library...                        Join Our Mailing List         Exhibits @ Main      Stop by the Detroit Public Library as we showcase some of Metro Detroit's top artists this summer   at Exhibits @ Main, a series of exhibitions at the Detroit Public Library's - Main Library all summer long:            Doogle 4 Google Michigan Finalists\ Now on Display     Dylan Hoffman of Caledonia, Wisc., is the 2012 United States Doodle 4 Google National Winner. We Are A Musical People   Now on Display  Dale Rich - Freedom Seekers Now on Display        Reveal Your Detroit  Opens on June 15   The DIA, in collaboration with the Detroit Public Library, and with support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will be hosting a community display of photographs submitted through the Detroit Self-Portrait project and the Reveal Your Detroit program.          Coming in July  Timothy Orikri  SuVon & Siana Treece            Join Us Tonight!   Detroit 24/7 Game Finale Celebration @ the Main Library's Adam Strohm Hall       Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.  Join the fun with free food, fun activities and cool prizes for top game participants. This event is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the employees lot off of Putnam Street. Detroit 24/7 sponsored by Detroit Works Project Long Term, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and CommunityPlanIt.org.                    Rocks Across the Pond by Richard and Kathy Verlander Regardless of how much talent they may possess, young people will not thrive and reach their full potential without the guidance and mentoring of key individuals and loved ones in their lives.    Meet and greet the parents of A.L. Cy Young winner and Detroit Tigers star pitcher Justin Verlander as they discuss the journey and life lessons they have learned along the way in raising successful young adults.      To pre-purchase the book just fill out a form for the inscription at the Detroit Shoppe in person or by phone 248-816-5470.       Richard and Kathy Verlander Book Signing Thursday, June 14 Noon - 3:00 p.m. & 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. The Detroit Shoppe Somerset Collection - North 2nd Floor, Near Macy's     A portion of the proceeds from this event to benefit the Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation.                        2012 Comerica Java & Jazz Concert Series   Tuesday, June 19th @ 6:00 p.m.    You're in for a musical treat this month as we welcome a jazz music legend to the Comerica Java & Jazz concert stage.  Come out and join us for the amazing sounds of the Marcus & Joan Belgrave Jazz Ensemble.  The renowned trumpeter and his vocalist wife perform jazz and blues at its finest as they take a musical journey from the '30s to the present. Marcus Belgrave, known for his longtime gig as the master jazz trumpeter for Ray Charles, has enthralled audiences world-wide with his musical virtuosity.  Enter in the powerful, yet alluring voice of his wife Joan Belgrave and you have a must see event to mark on your calendar.        Hot Read of the Month    Home   by Toni Morrison          The power comes not from the world-famous author's name printed on the cover but from the story within.    And what a story it is: a tale of post-war homecoming that captures the United States' chilling history of racism, but also celebrates the courage of those strong enough to face it.    The latest novel from Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.    An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His home--and himself in it--may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from, which he's hated all his life.     As Frank revisits the memories from childhood and the war that leave him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood--and his home.