Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation

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The Lafayette Library and Learning Center is the

literary, cultural and educational heart of our community!

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Thanks to individual donors and community partners, the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation sustains the Lafayette Library as a community resource that offers enriching

experiences for all ages.

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  • Distinguished Speaker Series presents --  Charan Ranganath: Why We Remember
    Distinguished Speaker Series presents --  Charan Ranganath: Why We Remember
    Thu, Mar 28
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin CH
    Mar 28, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin CH, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA
    A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering.
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  • Docent Lecture Series WOW presents Blake Garden in Kensington
    Docent Lecture Series WOW presents Blake Garden in Kensington
    Wed, Apr 10
    Lafayette Library Don Tatzin Comm Hall
    Apr 10, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Lafayette Library Don Tatzin Comm Hall, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA
    Blake Garden is a free 10.5 acre public garden located in Kensington, CA. Often called a hidden gem, the garden is both a teaching facility and an East Bay nature escape. Join Kathryn Lincoln, Blake Garden Manager, to hear about how this garden came to be.
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  • Sweet Thursday presents Adam Plantinga : The Ascent
    Sweet Thursday presents Adam Plantinga : The Ascent
    Thu, Apr 18
    Lafayette Library Don Tatzin Comm Hall
    Apr 18, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Lafayette Library Don Tatzin Comm Hall, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA
    Join us as Adam Plantinga discusses his new crime fiction thriller, The Ascent. An ex-Detroit cop, a governor’s daughter, a prison nurse, a chaplain, and several prison guards are locked inside a prison with no way out, due to a computer glitch. All does not go well!
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  • Save the Date - Jessica Shattuck: Last House
    Save the Date - Jessica Shattuck: Last House
    Wed, May 22
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin Comm Hall
    May 22, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin Comm Hall, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family’s deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy, perfect for fans of The Dutch House and The Great Circle.
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  • Save the Date - Joyce Maynard: How the Light Gets In
    Save the Date - Joyce Maynard: How the Light Gets In
    Tue, Jun 25
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin Comm Hall
    Save the Date - Joyce Maynard: How the Light Gets In
    Jun 25, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin Comm Hall, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA
    Join us for this special book launch event, with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard. This eagerly anticipated follow-up to her beloved novel Count the Ways is a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.
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