Way Library

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The library has resumed Sunday hours, 1-5 p.m. We will be closed on Easter Sunday, April 4.

On Thursday, March 11, at 10 a.m., Way's Reel Talk classic movie series will feature the 1942 film "Roxie Hart."

On Friday, March 26, at 7 p.m., the Reel Art foreign film will be "Secret of Roan Inish" (Irish).

The Friends of Way Library will hold a used book sale on Thursday, March 11, from 3 to 7 p.m. on the lower level of the library. Buy individual items or fill a bag full of books for $15... by doing so you are helping to support the programs and activities of the library.

The Topical Tuesday program on March 16 will address "Women and Islam." Islamic scholar Dr. Fatima Agha Al-Hayani, who has a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan, will be the speaker at this free event which begins at 7 p.m. Women's rights, divorce, the Veil, and polygamy are some of the issues which will be covered.

On Thursday, March 18, the PBS Program Club co-sponsored by Way Library and WBGU-TV (Channel 27) will watch and discuss a Frontline program, "The Suicide Tourist." The program will be shown at 10:30 a.m. with the discussion to follow at 11:30 a.m. 

This Frontline documentary will air on Channel 27 at 9 p.m. on Tuesday,March 2. Do we have the right to end our lives when life becomes unbearable, or when we enter the late stages of a painful, terminal illness? As medical technology allows us to live longer and several U.S. states have legalized physician-assisted suicide, these questions become more pressing. Witness a couple facing the most difficult decision of their lives and one Chicago native's trip to Switzerland for what will be the last day of his life.