Athens Regional Library System

Film Noir Confidential!

Film Noir Confidential!
November 6 & 19 at 7:00 PM

Join us in November for two film noir classics in the newly refurbished and upgraded Appleton Auditorium! On Wednesday, November 6, we will present the story of a calculating divorcée who risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.

The following week, on Tuesday, November 19: a well meaning crack shot husband is pressured by his beautiful marksman wife to go on an interstate robbery spree, where he finds out just how depraved and deadly she really is.

The film screenings are free and open to the public. For further information (including film titles and actors), visit www.athenslibrary.org/rslathens, or call 706 613 3650 x343. The Athens-Clarke County Library is located at 2025 Baxter Street, Athens.

An American Marriage

November 28, 2019

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 

Summary: Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. In this deft exploration of love, loyalty, race, justice, and both Black masculinity and Black womanhood in 21st century America, Jones achieves that most-elusive of all literary goals: the Great American Novel.