Teen Summer Reading Program 2009
“Express Yourself @ your library!”

“Express yourself” at the Coventry Public Library this summer by reading books of your choosing!  From humor to dragons, sports heroes to school bullies, graphic novels to classics.  You can find a book that “speaks” to you. *Register beginning Monday, June 22nd at the library OR from home on the Teen page on the library website. For more information please click here.

The fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. Joseph Needham, much like China, was a paradox.  The Chinese spun silk in 2850 BC, used an abacus, made paper, gun powder (and don't forget that Great Wall) and discovered thousands of advances but was a backward nation embroiled in war when Needham, in 1938, first came to China.  Needham, himself, was a brilliant English scientist with a photographic memory who advocated free love and nudism.  His Chinese mistress persuaded him to visit her native land where he embarked on a fascinating lifelong journey researching and writing 17 volumes about the technologies of China.