June eBook challenge
Help Help us to improve our eBook circulation. The Southern Adirondack Library System has entered its libraries in a contest to see if we can improve our circulation by 25% in June. If we can, we get $1500 credit to buy new eBooks. If we can increase by 50%, we get $2500 credit! Bring your eReader in to  the library and show me your eBook downloads, and you will be entered in to a small contest at our library.  
Pember Presents
Pember Presents: “Rescued from Slavery: The Story of Solomon Northup,” on Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 2 PM at the Pember Library in Granville. The one hour program by David Fiske will include a lecture and slide presentation about Solomon Northup, a free black man who lived in New York State. In 1841 he was lured away from home and sold as a slave. For nearly twelve years, he was a slave in Louisiana. Finally he was able to get …
February Books!
Other new books not pictured: Command Authority; Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the real Downton Abbey; Out of the woods : a memoir of wayfinding; In the Blood
Big Library Read
http://blogs.overdrive.com/featured-post-library-blog/2014/02/10/big-library-read-cooks-up-something-new/ Big Library Read, OverDrive’s “global book club,” is back once again for libraries to lend millions of users around the world the same eBook simultaneously for free! The program that in 2013 brought us Michael Malone’s Four Corners of the Sky and Jane O’Connor’s Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth is now bringing the secrets of the kitchen to your eReaders, tablets and computers. Food Network and Cooking Channel star Aida Mollenkamp has provided her culinary guide Keys to the Kitchen …
Book Club
The next selection for the Pember Book Club is Emily Dickinson, her letter to the world by Polly Longsworth KIRKUS REVIEW says: Emily Dickinson is a personality with a special attraction for adolescents. Her poems require little experience to scan, and once read retain their fascination by the elusive inscrutability of the message coupled with the simplicity of the images. Her own life enhances this interest. She was a woman who never seems to have grown old, and the mystery …
Book Club
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray will be up for discussion at December’s book club meeting. Goodreads says: Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural isolation and steeped in religious fundamentalism grew into a passion to save the …
New DVDs added in August and September
Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter. The call Dark shadows. Fan favorites Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days Downton Abbey. Season 3 . The Flock The great Gatsby The hobbit : an unexpected journey I love Lucy. Season one. Volume one . Life of Pi . The Lucy Show. Vol. 1 . Mission: impossible. The complete first TV season Mud Skyfall .
New Non-fiction added in August and September
American gun : a history of the U.S. in ten firearms Kyle, Chris, Does This Church Make Me Look Fat? : A Mennonite Finds Faith, Meets Mr. Right, and Solves Her Lady Problems Janzen, Rhoda Finding your Slovak ancestors Alzo, Lisa A. Proof of heaven : a neurosurgeon’s journey into the afterlife Alexander, Eben. Recovering from religious abuse : 11 steps to spiritual freedom Watts, Jack (John T.) A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and …