Tuesday 10-5, Wednesday 1-5, Thursday 1-5, Friday 10-5 and Saturday 10-1
We regret that we can’t accept any more book donations until after July 22.
Our storage area is filling up Fast!
Please remember that we can’t accept books that are torn or dirty and if they smell “funky,” we will put them in the garbage.
The Friend’s book sale (and Slate Valley Garden Club plant & bake sale) will take place Friday, July 11, 12:00 -5:00 PM and Saturday, July 12, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
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: “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 a message to friends in New York, and returned home as a free man. After writing a book about his experiences, he traveled around the Northeast giving speeches, and even helped fugitive slaves get to Canada thanks to his work on the Underground Railroad. Mr. Fiske is co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave.
Great new books for April!!
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
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 to all participating libraries for their users to enjoy from February 17 through March 5, free for the program duration with simultaneous worldwide usage rights, without wait lists or holds.
Keys to the Kitchen is a cookbook by definition, but it’s much more than simply directions to get from page to plate. Author Aida Mollenkamp provides helpful how-to information on everything from proper knife skills and finding the right ingredients to throwing a show- stopping cocktail party. It doesn’t just provide ideas on what to cook, but also walks the reader through how to cook.
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 of her seclusion is totally romantic. Despite the absence of any specifically juvenile biographis of Emily Dickinson, teenagers are probably more familiar with the framework of her life than they are with many poets who have been popularized for the young. To fill the gap, if there truly is one, the author has managed very well in overcoming the difficulties involved. The thesis is that “”Emily Dickinson’s `letter to the world'”” was “”a testimonial of rejoicing to that incredible quality called life.”” Just how she bridged the paradox of her voluntary separation from the world to a concentration on the essences of life leads to endless speculation, and in this book theorizing has necessarily been limited. The way is left open, however, for readers to continue wondering. The known influences have been fairly presented here — her family ties, the people she looked to for guidance, the two men that she clearly fell in love with, her Boston upbringing, her education, her religious struggles. The book is smoothly written and very readable. Her poetry is excerpted where it is illustrative of the life of the poet; it is not analyzed separately. The only drawback to the otherwise meticulously careful narrative is the occasional dramatization of events that could have been portrayed by quoting letters.
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 almost vanished longleaf pine ecosystem that once covered the South. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems two Souths. “Suffused with the same history-haunted sense of loss that imprints so much of the South and its literature. What sets Ecology of a Cracker Childhood apart is the ambitious and arresting mission implied in its title. . . . Heartfelt and refreshing.” – The New York Times Book Review.
| Abraham Lincoln [DVD] : vampire hunter. |
| The call [DVD] |
| Dark shadows. Fan favorites [DVD] |
| Diary of a wimpy kid [DVD] : dog days |
| Downton Abbey. Season 3 [DVD]. |
| The Flock [DVD] |
| The great Gatsby [DVD] |
| The hobbit [DVD] : an unexpected journey |
| I love Lucy. Season one. Volume one [DVD]. |
| Life of Pi [DVD]. |
| The Lucy Show. Vol. 1 [DVD]. |
| Mission: impossible. The complete first TV season [DVD] |
| Mud [DVD] |
| Skyfall [DVD]. |
| Title | Author | |
| Maggot moon | Gardner, Sally. | |
| Midwinterblood | Sedgwick, Marcus. | |
| Pivot point | West, Kasie. | |