Month: December 2012

Holiday Wish List

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The Holiday Wish List is up at the Pember Library. Help us add to our collection. Each item will have a special bookplate with donor’s name.

2012 Holiday Wish List

Supplies we need:

  • Copy paper in Colors to make brochures and flyers $10.00 per ream
  • Storm Door for handicap entrance $250.00
  • Case of Copy Paper $35.00
  • Tri-fold paper towels $45.00
  • 2 6-foot folding tables $42.00 each

Here are some books, movies, and audios we would love to have. Contact the library if you would like to make a donation of any of these materials. All prices are the list price. Most are cheaper on Amazon or elsewhere.

New and Popular Fiction:

  • Heartache Falls by Emily March (fiction paperback) $7.99
  • Witch & Wizard: The Fire by James Patterson and Jill Dembowski (YA fiction)$17.99
  • Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton (fiction) $25.00
  • Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult & Samantha Van Leer (YA fiction) $19.99
  • My Fair Concubine by Jeannie Lynn (fiction paperback) $6.25
  • Wisdom’s Kiss by Catherine Murdock (YA fiction) $16.99
  • Cop to Corpse by Peter Lovesy (fiction) $25.00
  • Rooted in Danger by Terry O’Dell (fiction) $25.95
  • An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd (fiction) $24.99
  • In One Person by John Irving (fiction) $28.00
  • Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper (Sci-fi fantasy) $24.99
  • Gilly Salt Sisters by Tiffany Baker (fiction) $24.99
  • Being Flynn by Nick Flynn (movie tie-in) $15.95

AudioBook Wish List

  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game [Audiobook, Unabridged] by Michael Lewis Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game [Audiobook, Unabridged]$ 19.99
  • A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One [Audiobook, Unabridged] by George R R Martin $45.00 donated!
  • Down the Darkest Road [Audiobook, Unabridged] by Tami Hoag $40.00
  • Dead Man’s Chest (a Phryne Fisher mystery) [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] by Kerry Greenwood $29.99
  • Changeling (Order of Darkness) [Audiobook, Unabridged] by Philippa Gregory $29.99
  • I’ve Got Your Number: A Novel [Audiobook, Unabridged] by Sophie Kinsella $40.00 donated!

Movies we’d love to have:

  • Breakfast At Tiffany’s (Centennial Collection) (1961) $16.99
  • Romeo and Juliet (1936) $19.98 donated!
  • Destry Rides Again (1939) $14.99
  • Oklahoma (50th Anniversary Edition) $13.00 donated!
  • High Noon (2-disc Collector’s Edition) $29.99
  • Tootsie (25th Anniversary Edition) $14.99 donated!

 

Childrens’ Books:

  • Mouse & Lion by Rand Burkhart (JP fiction) $17.95 donated!
  • Ghost Buddy #1: Zero to Hero  by Henry Winkler (JF) $ 5.99 donated!
  • Wonder  by  R J Palacio (JF) $15.99
  • Create with Maisy by Lucy Cousins (JP) $16.99 donated!
  • Charley’s First Night by Amy Hest (JP) $15.99 donated!
  • Ruby Redfort by Lauren Child (JF) $16.99 donated!
  • Saving Arm Pit  by Natalie Hyde (JF) $9.95 donated!
  • Jangles – a Big Fish Story by David Shannon (JP) $17.99 donated!
  • Caddy’s World by Hilary McKay (JF) $16.99
  • Black Dog by Levi Pinfold (JP) $15.99 donated!
  • Boot & Shoe by Marla Frazee (JP) $16.99
  • A Perfect Day by Carin Berger (JP) $16.99 donated!

NonFiction:

  • The  Great Northern Express by Howard Frank Mosher $25.00 donated!
  • It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership by Colin Powell $27.99
  • I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern $16.99
  • The Book for Dangerous Women: A Guide to Modern Life by Clare Conville $20.00 donated!
  • A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman $35.00
  • Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre $26.00

JP = juvenile picture book
JF = juvenile Fiction
J NF = juvenile non-fiction
Fic = fiction
NF = non-fiction
SF = science fiction
YA = young adult
DVD = digital video disk
CD = audio book on disk
PB = paperback

Free Publications from the Department of Education: Information on Safety, Crime and Violence in the Nation’s Schools

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We received this information from the US Department of Education:

During the past several years the U.S. Department of Education has produced a variety of free information on the topics of safety, crime and violence in the Nation’s schools. The intended audience for this information is educators, administrators, safety officials and parents. All of the information is available at no cost from the ED Pubs website at http://www.edpubs.gov.

From the homepage of this site, select the link marked FIND PUBLICATIONS BY and select Subject. In the alphabetical list choose “S” for Safety.  This will display the complete list of the available publications, some of which may be downloaded online and others ordered for delivery by mail.

Publications available by mail may also be ordered by calling toll-free 1-877-4-ED-PUBS (1-877-433-7827), Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. (ET). Please note certain quantity limitations apply on printed publications.

Toys for Tots

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UPDATE: as of 12-18-12 ~ The Toys for Tots collection has been picked up. Check with your local church if you still have items to donate.

We are a collection station for Toys for Tots. Bring new, unwrapped toys to the Pember.

The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.

 

Please help if you can.

Christmas & New Year Holidays

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The Pember Library will be closed December 22 through December 25.

We will have regular hours December 26-29 and be closed December 30-January 1.

Book Club

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The Pember Book Club will continue their discussion of  1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann.

BookBrowse.com’s summary says:

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.

In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them:

  • In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe.
  • Certain cities–such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital–were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore, Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets.
  • The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids.
  • Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as “man’s first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering.”
  • Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it–a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge.
  • Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively “landscaped” by human beings.

Mann sheds clarifying light on the methods used to arrive at these new visions of the pre-Columbian Americas and how they have affected our understanding of our history and our thinking about the environment. His book is an exciting and learned account of scientific inquiry and revelation.

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