The library staff has asked that I thank everyone for your patience as we stumble our way through the first weeks with our new system. Library users are being very kind and understanding. We promise to improve!
Don’t forget our Summer Preview Party tomorrow, May 7. Outdoor games for kids at 1:00 pm, ice cream for everyone at 2:00 pm and a rock n’ roll concert at 3:00. If it rains, we’ll have it on May 21st instead.
Also, another big event coming up is the Library Foundation’s annual pie event. This year we will have actor Duffy Hudson’s Einstein show. It is at 7:00 pm May 14 at Morehouse Hall. Tickets are $5.00. They are on sale at the library and at the door. Duffy promises that one does not have to understand mathematics to enjoy the program. Remember: buy a ticket for the event and pie and coffee afterwards are part of the package. No better deal in town!
May 20th, at 7:00 pm at the Springvale Room in the library, we will take a tour of Norway with our own Vivien Hansen as our guide. Viv used to regale us with stories of her Norwegian travels, so I know we will all have a good time. Please join us-everyone is welcome.
New @ the library:
Jenniemae & James: A Memoir in Black & White by Brooke Newman. The author’s father, James Newman, was a famous mathematician and a friend of Albert Einstein. Jenniemae was the family’s illiterate African American maid. The book is the story of their unlikely firiendship.
The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart: An Emotional and Spiritual Handbook by Daphne Rose Kingma. Who hasn’t needed this book a time or two? I’ll give you a clue…Step One is “Cry Your Heart Out.” Apparently, I’ve been using her method all along!
This Is Not the Story You Think It Is…A Season of Unlikely Happiness: A Memoir by Laura Munson. This book is an expanded version of her essay that appeared in the “Modern Love” column of The New York Times. One of my kids told me about this column and I often read it on line. I missed her essay, but apparently it was very wise and comforting. A hint: the column is not always based on romantic love.
A Twisted Faith: A Minister’s Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church by Gregg Olsen. The body of the wife of young youth minister in Bremerton, Washington was found in the burned remains of her home. It was discovered years later that she was dead before the fire even began. This one is a true story.
Paul and Me: 53 Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal Paul Newman by A. E. Hotchner. Hotchner and Newman met in 1955 and remained friends until Newman’s death. It was the two of them who founded Newman’s Own food company as a prank, only to watch it grow into a major enterprise that has donated all of its $300 million profit to charities.
Whiter Than Snow by Sandra Dallas. This one is fiction. It is the story of an avalanche that destroys everything in its path in Colorado in 1920. Every one of Dallas’s eight earlier books is worth reading, but The Persian Pickle Club is my very favorite. She has a talent of putting her readers into the moment of the book. If this one is checked out when you come in, give one of her others a chance.
The Pallbearers: A Shane Scully Novel by Stephen J. Cannell. Cannell writes terse, hard-bitten crime fiction. They are always a dependably good read. Anyone could put him/her self in the roll of Skully. It’s hard not to feel affection for the guy-he’s had a hard life.
The Mapping of Love and Death: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear. Maisie is the intrepid psychologist/detective heroine of this series set in the 1930s. Her stories are both gripping and satisfying.
The One Amazing Thing: a Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. This short little book had the most amazing reviews in Booklist and Library Journal magazines. It’s the story of nine assorted folk who find themselves trapped in a struggle to survive in an American passport office when an earthquake strikes.
Whether you need a book of inspiration, jubilation, confrontation or friendship, we have just what you need @ your library.