Pember Library

This wonderful service is provided by the Friends of the Pember Library. We would love to have your feedback on this. Have you read books you would never have picked up otherwise? What is your favorite genre? Have you shared these books with friends and family?

If you haven’t tried it yet, click on the online book club link to the left to get started getting five-minute reads in your email.

Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent, Audio
Inside Drucker’s Brain by Jeffrey A. Krames, Business
The Grift by  Debra Ginsberg, Fiction
When You Need a Miracle by Ann Spangler, Good News
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain, Mystery
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment by A. J. Jacobs, NonFiction
The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt, PrePub
His Captive Lady by Anne Gracie, Romance
The Sword of the Lady by S. M. Stirling, SF
Lifting the Sky by Mackie d’Arge, Teen
Collision of Evil by John J. Le Beau, Thriller

The Friends of the Pember Library sponsor this service. If you want to sign up to get a short read in your daily email in any (or all) of several categories, click on the ‘book club’ icon in the left panel of the page.

This week’s titles are:

Putting the Public Back in Public Relations by Brian Solis & Deirdre Breckenridge, Business
Lovesick by Alex Wellen, Fiction
A Passion Denied by Julie Lessman, Good News
Dixie Divas by Virginia Brown, Mystery
A Slave No More by David W. Blight, NonFiction
Matters of the Heart by Danielle Steel,  Romance
Hush by Donna Jo Napoli, Teen

Most of these books are available from other libraries.  You will find Matters of the Heart in the ‘new and popular’ section at the Pember (if it isn’t already checked out).

The quilling classes have been well attended. Two more classes are planned for February.

Quilling is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. Pre-registration is not required, materials provided. Beginners welcome. For information, call 518-642-2525.

I was checking over the NY Times Best Sellers lists and comparing it to the Pember Library holdings. For the top 35 hardcover fiction, 29 are available at our library with 22 books in regular print, 7 in large text and 7 on audio book. Eight of the titles are available through our downloadable audio book service, SALON.

Several of the books are available in more than one format. Of the top 16, only one is not available at the Pember in any of these formats.

We have 13 of the best selling non-fiction books with 7 in regular print and 3 in large text. Two are available as audio books and 11 can be downloaded through SALON.

The lists with the Pember’s holdings highlighted is near the “new and popular” section if you want to look it over.

We will continue to have a “knit-in” group at the library. People can come in every Friday (2PM) and work on their knit or crochet projects and get help or encouragement or just have someone to chat with while they work.

We have a pattern and yarn to begin the “lapghan’ for the Haynes House.  If my calculations are correct, we should have enough yarn to make a second one that will then be raffled off for the library.

All knitters or crocheters welcome and donations of yarns or materials cheerfully accepted!

Please contact us at the library if you have any questions.

UPDATE: There has been quite a bit of interest in the afghan (lapghan). I have decided to buy more yarn and we can make another one. Respond to this post letting me know what colors you might like and I will buy the yarn this weekend.

The current project is using Red Heart yarns in Sage, Buff, and Sage Mary (variegated with the sage, buff and some purple).