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The Geneva Reads Initiative is a partnership between schools and libraries, government and community agencies, and others in Geneva, to raise the level of literacy in people of all ages and to increase the importance of reading and the reader in the community.

Memoir Writing a focus of “The Color of Water” Community Read in March

People have the opportunity to share their own memoirs as part of the month-long community read in March of James McBride’s "The Color of Water," sponsored by the local literacy coalition, Geneva Read

Geneva Reads Launches Community Read of The Color of Water by James McBride

If Geneva Reads--a local literacy coalition--is successful in promoting its 1st Annual Geneva Community Reads, the month of March 2010 will be an extraordinary opportunity for the community to read and discuss The Color of Water by James McBride, an American memoir of family, race, religion and culture.

Friends & Volunteers Set-up Annual March Book Sale

The Friends of the Geneva Public Library have completed their drive for books and have begun setting up its 2010 Annual Book Sale in the library community room, which is scheduled to begin Thursday, March 4, and run through to Sunday March 7.

Jan 25: Library Hosts Author Reception - Three Cups of Tea

The Geneva Public Library will host a reception for David Oliver Relin, co-author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time and featured speaker at the 2010 Hobart

Book Discussion Series Begins in February 2010

Beginning in February of 2010, the Library will again host the popular Reading Between the Lines book discussion series. "Immigration and the Idea of America" will be facilitated by Dr. Neeta Bhasin, Assistant Professor in the Writing and Rhetoric program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Upcoming "Geneva Reads" Events for Adults at the Library

The library plans a number of book discussions in the coming months that will include Three Cups of Tea, a series of four books in the New York Council for the Humanities Reading Between the Li