Month: July 2009

Best Selling Books of the Twentieth Century

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The fifth installment of best selling books of the Twentieth Century as detailed in Publisher’s Weekly:

* 1940
How Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn

* 1941
The Keys of the Kingdom, A. J. Cronin

*1942
The Song of Bernadette, Franz Werfel

* 1943
The Robe, Lloyd C. Douglas

* 1944
Strange Fruit, Lillian Smith

* 1945
Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor

* 1946
The King’s General, Daphne du Maurier

* 1947
The Miracle of the Bells, Russell Janney

* 1948
The Big Fisherman, Lloyd C. Douglas

* 1949
The Egyptian, Mika Waltari

Anyone who has read any of these is welcome to make a comment.

Plant Sale

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Plants are on sale at the library. Prices range from $2.00 – $15.00.

There are some vegetable plants (tomatoes, cabbage, etc.), a few herbs (chocolate mint, & parsley) and lovely flowers.  There’s still time to add some great looking plants to your garden or pretty up your porch with a hanging basket!

Pember Presents: Dealing with Bullies

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Have you ever been bullied? Chances are you have. Nearly all of us run into a bully at some point; name-calling, harassment, rumor spreading, etc. Combating bullies may feel overwhelming.

New York State Trooper Phil Poitier will present a program at the Pember Library on Friday, July 17 at 6 PM about dealing with bullies. He will give an overview of what bullying is, how bullies target their victims, and different types of bullies. He will offer strategies for dealing with bullies and tell how parents, teachers and other adults can help.

Bullying is any behavior that is deliberate, hurtful and repeated over time. Bullying can take place just about anywhere: at school, on the bus, at sports practice, even over the internet. It can be physical, verbal, emotional, social, behavioral or any combination. There are many ways to cope with bullying or to support someone who has been a victim of a bully.

This program is intended for middle school and high school students as well as adults. For more information, contact the Pember Library at 33 West Main Street in Granville, 518 642-2525.

Have you ever been bullied? Chances are you have. Nearly all of us run into a bully at some point; name-calling, harassment, rumor spreading, etc. Combating bullies may feel overwhelming.

New York State Trooper Phil Poitier will present a program at the Pember Library on Friday, July 17 at 6 PM about dealing with bullies. He will give an overview of what bullying is, how bullies target their victims, and different types of bullies. He will offer strategies for dealing with bullies and tell how parents, teachers and other adults can help.

Bullying is any behavior that is deliberate, hurtful and repeated over time. Bullying can take place just about anywhere: at school, on the bus, at sports practice, even over the internet. It can be physical, verbal, emotional, social, behavioral or any combination. There are many ways to cope with bullying or to support someone who has been a victim of a bully.

This program is intended for middle school and high school students as well as adults. For more information, contact the Pember Library at 33 West Main Street in Granville, 518 642-2525.

New videos added

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In June we added these new videos:

30 Seconds over Tokyo
Cary Grant –

  • Indiscreet
  • Operation Petticoat
  • The Grass is Greener
  • That Touch of Mink

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Lethal Weapon 1, 2, 3, & 4 (on two discs)
Stagecoach
Wall-E

Dear Reader Online Book Club

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The following books will be featured at next week’s Dear Reader:

Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming, audio
How to Castrate a Bull by Dave Hitz with Pat Walsh, business
The Night Villa by Carol Goodman, fiction
Until We Reach Home by Lynn Austin, good news
The Stolen by Jason Pinter, mystery
Gangleader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh, nonfiction
The Fitzgerald Ruse by Mark de Castrique, pre-pub
Just One of the Guys by Kristan Higgins, romance
Vixen by Bud Sparhawk,  sci-fi
Peril on the Sea by Michael Cadnum, teen
Illegal by Paul Levine,thriller

To join, click on the “Online Book Clubs, Click Here” icon to the left, put in your email address, and choose which club(s) you would like to get in your email. Thanks to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring this wonderful service for our readers out there!

Friends’ Book Sale – Starts Today!

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The annual Friends of the Pember Library Book Sale will take place at the Mary J Tanner School on Route 22 in Middle Granville. There will be thousands of books available. Most hardcover books will be $1.00 and paperbacks for $.25. Newer or special books will be individually priced.

On Saturday from 1pm to 3 pm will be our $1.00 per bag sale using bags we provide.

Best Selling Books of the Twentieth Century

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The fourth installment of best selling books of the Twentieth Century as detailed in Publisher’s Weekly:

* 1930
Cimarron, Edna Ferber

*1931
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

* 1932
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

* 1933
Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen

*1934
Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen

* 1935
Green Light, Lloyd C. Douglas

* 1936
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

* 1937
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

* 1938
The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

* 1939
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

Anyone who has read any of these is welcome to make a comment. My first thought was that it’s odd that three of them were best sellers two years in a row. Is that a commentary on the books themselves or the decade in which they were published? Then I realized that several were made into movies and did some research on that. They were all made into movies.

Dear Reader Online Book Club

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What do you think of DearReader so far? If you have a Pember Library card you can reply to this post or send me an email and be entered into a drawing for a copy of the new Dean Koontz book Relentless. This contest will remain open until July 9.

The books that will be featured next week are :

Barack, Inc. by Barry Libert & Rick Faulk, business
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, fiction
Lying on Sunday by Sharon K. Souza, good news
Murder She Wrote: A Slaying in Savannah by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain, mystery
The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA by Edward Ball, nonfiction
Rapture’s Tempest by Bobbi Smith, romance
The Trials of Kate Hope by Wick Downing, teen

To join, click on the “Online Book Clubs, Click Here” icon to the left, put in your email address, and choose which club(s) you would like to get in your email. Thanks to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring this wonderful service for our readers out there!

New downloadable audiobooks

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The following new titles are available on the Salon website, our link to OverDrive audio books. Just click on the icon to the left of the blog that says “Download audiobooks OverDrive” for these and many more. If you’re reading by listening, let us know which title(s) you have enjoyed recently.

Children’s eaudiobooks:

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo; read by Cherry Jones

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen; read by Peter Coyote

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos; read by the author

Adult eaudiobooks:

2nd Chance by James Patterson and Andrew Gross; read by Melissa Leo & Jeremy Piven

3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross; ready by Caroly McCormick

Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama; read by the author

Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton; read by Dennis Boutsikaris

Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark; read by Jan Maxwell

Resilience by Elizabeth Edwards; read by the author

2009 New York Statewide Summer Reading Program

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To commemorate the New York State Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial, the New York State Library, in partnership with the New York Library Association’s Youth Services Section and School Library Media Section, has created four selected reading lists that celebrate the history, culture, and diversity of New York State.

Each of the four lists covers one reader age group: Picture Books; Elementary; Tween; and Teen and up.

This summer, our Pember Presents programming will go along with the NYS  summer reading program theme, Explore New York. Our first program on July 15 will be “The Independence Trail.” Later in July, we will have programs about Lake Champlain (Ann Rich Duncan presents Johnny Vic, July 22) and Granville (Ray Gaylord talks about Granville, July 29). Planned programs for August are Iroquios Indians, local geology and the Heritage Quest online genealogy database.