The third installment of best selling books of the Twentieth Century as detailed in Publisher’s Weekly: * 1920 The Man of the Forest, Zane Grey * 1921 Main Street, Sinclair Lewis * 1922 If Winter Comes, A.S.M. Hutchinson * 1923 Black Oxen, Gertrude Atherton * 1924 So Big, Edna Ferber * 1925 Soundings, A. Hamilton … Read more
Saturday is the summer reading program kick-off. This year’s theme is Be Creative @ Your Library. A storyteller on July 2 is also part of the summer program. See the post about Karen Pillsworth and Stone Soup. Children and teens can sign up at either of these programs or come in to the library during … Read more
Stories from Stones…Stone Soup and a Little Bit More A “Be Creative @ Your Library” program. Children and teens will be able to sign up for summer reading after the performance. Karen says: “Listen…and you will hear stories from long ago and far away, and stories from today, as we go on an adventure into … Read more
Here’s a continuation of the best seller list I found last week (it’s from Publisher’s Weekly). Best sellers for the second decade of the twentieth century were: * 1910 The Rosary, Florence Barclay * 1911 The Broad Highway, Jeffrey Farnol * 1912 The Harvester, Gene Stratton Porter * 1913 The Inside of the Cup, Winston … Read more
Join us at the Pember for Thursday Tales.
I have been reading with the DearReader online book club for several years. Recently, the Friends of the Library agreed to sponsor the club through the Pember Library website / blog. I just finished reading the nonfiction selection for the week, Write it when I’m gone : remarkable off-the-record conversations with Gerald R. Ford by … Read more
Join us at the Pember Wednesday evening, when Sue Kowaleski will talk about a few options for planting a little garden with/for children. She will have a powerpoint to show with some fun vegetables for adults to grow with children. There would still be time for participants to get a little garden in the ground … Read more
The Pember Library received 78 new books for toddlers through high school in May. The books were awarded to the library through the Libri Foundation of Eugene, Oregon “Books for Children Grant.” The grant is a matching funds grant in which the library can receive up to $1050 worth of books provided they raise one … Read more
Finding a Great Book to Read Just Got Easier So many books, so little time. For all those busy people, the Pember Library has a new service sponsored by the Friends of the Pember Library: an Online Book Club that delivers books electronically. Each day, Monday through Friday, the library e-mails subscribers a portion of … Read more
Since we are celebrating 100 years as a library, I thought it would be interesting to see what the popular books were 100 years ago. The following is a list I found of the top books for each year of the first decade of the twentieth century. (Please note that Winston Churchill is an American … Read more
Our list of new and popular books matches pretty well with the NY Times Bestseller lists. We have twelve of the top fifteen from the fiction list and four of the top five from the nonfiction list. Any one who responds to this post with a comment about one of the books or a review … Read more