Top Reads in Scarsdale

With winter weather keeping us inside, residents are busy reading, listening to audio books and watching movies at home. We asked Leni Glauber at the Scarsdale Library to tell us what books and films were receiving the most circulation and here is what she reported. If you're reading something good, recommend it to other Scarsdale10583 readers in the comments section below.

What Scarsdale is Reading

• The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
• The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd
• Still Life with Bread Crumbs – Anna Quindlen
• Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War – Robert Gates
• The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History – Robert Edsel
• Killer: an Alex Delaware novel – Jonathan Kellerman
• The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America – Amy Chua

What Scarsdale is Watching:

• Blue Jasmine
• Gravity
• Captain Phillips
• 12 Years a Slave
• Dallas Buyers Club

What Scarsdale is Listening to:

• The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
• The Invention of Wings – Sue Monk Kidd
• Still Life with Bread Crumbs – Anna Quindlen
• Sycamore Row – John Grisham

And you can do more than borrow books at the library. Here are three events you might want to attend at the library this month:

Film: The Iran Job. a documentary focusing on an American basketball player, Kevin Sheppard, who accepts a job to play in Iran, one of the world's most feared countries, is the March film in the Scarsdale Public Library's monthly new independent or foreign film series. The movie will be shown at the Scarsdale Library on Wednesday, March 12, at 6:30 pm and a matinee on Friday, March 14, at 1:30. In Iran, Kevin finds a country brimming with generosity, acceptance and sensuality. He forms an unlikely friendship with three outspoken Iranian women who share with him their strong opinions on many topics. Kevin's season culminates in the uprising and subsequent suppression of Iran's reforming Green Movement – a power prelude to the sweeping changes currently unfolding across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring. Admission is free, along with snacks and soda.

Theatre: A reading of the three-person play The Grain of the Wood about the life of Justine Wise Polier, a visionary family court judge, will be given at the Scarsdale Public Library on Sunday, March 9, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. The program is sponsored by the Westchester Region of Hadassah. Justice Polier, the first women justice in New York State, and the daughter of prominent Rabbi Stephen Wise, dedicated her life to improving the lives of disadvantaged children and fighting social injustice. Justice Polier worked with close friend Eleanor Roosevelt to open a school for delinquent boys and mobilized to rescue 20,000 German refugee children desperate to escape Hitler Germany, going up against fierce anti-Semitism in the U.S. The play was written by Ellen W. Kaplan, a professor of theatre at Smith College, who collaborated with Debra Bradley Ruder, a journalist and granddaughter of Polier. A discussion and Q&A with the cast and producer will follow the play. Reservations can be made at 914-937-3151. A donation of $10 is suggested and refreshments will be served.

Lecture: Want to have a healthy diet without sacrificing taste? Ronna Corlin, a certified, plant-based whole food nutrition educator and holistic health coach, will describe how at the Scarsdale Public Library on Saturday, March 15, at noon. The Other Affordable Wellness Act" according to Corlin is today's prescription for nutritional excellence and aging well. Through conscious, plant-based food choices and learning how to triumph in the kitchen, she says, one can learn to eat for health affordably. Corlin holds a counseling certification through Columbia University's Teacher's College and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She formerly owned Ronna's Sweet Necessities on Chase Road. Plant-Centered refreshments will be served.