OnLine Book Club

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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 Thomas M. DeFrank. Over five days, I was able to read the first 19 pages of the book and get a feel for whether or not I would like to finish it.

Ford is interesting because of his unique position as the only unelected president of the United States. I realize that even though I lived through those years, I didn’t really understand what was happening. I was a teenager, after all, and there were certainly more interesting things in the world than politics!  I would like to read more of this book and perhaps gain some insights into that period of our history.

I definitely want to hear other people’s opinions of the books they might have read through DearReader this week. Reply to this post or send me an email.

The books that will be featured next week are :

Man vs. Weather by Dennis Diclaudio, nonfiction
Washington’s Lady by Nancy Moser, good news
Dead is a State of Mind by Marlene Perez, teen
Roastbeef’s Promise by David Jerome, fiction
Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office by Russ Edelman, Tim Hiltabiddle & Charles Manz, business
Captain Wentworth’s Diary by Amanda Grange, romance
Murder on Bank Street by Victoria Thompson, mystery

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!

Pember Presents

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Lisa Hoyt from the Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center will present an informational program about staying safe in the outdoors. Information will be given on rabies, Lyme disease and West Nile Virus. At the end of the program, participants will know what to look for, how to protect themselves and be able to feel secure venturing outdoors. She will also talk about native wildlife and safety around wild animals in general. Bernadette Hoffman, educator from the Pember Museum, will also be on hand to help answer any questions.
For more information, contact the Pember Library 518 642-2525.

Friends’ Meeting

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Join us for a discussion of the upcoming book sale and other events. Becoming a member of the Friends is easy. Fill out a form and decide on your level of particpation. You can volunteer once a year to help with the book sale or the annual Open House, you can join our once a month meetings or volunteer on a regular basis helping out at the library. Dues categories are $2 for Junior Friends (under 18) , $5 -$50 for other levels.   Forms are available at the library.

Did you know…?

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…that you can see a list of new items we have added to the Pember Library’s collection by going to the catalog link and clicking on the arrow near ‘New Stuff’ at the bottom of the left column…
Your choices are Fiction, Nonfiction, Children’s Books, or Videos/DVD.
There is a link to New Stuff in the left column on this page that will get you there also.

You can choose to subscribe to ‘New Stuff’ in RSS Reader if you use one.

Pember Presents: Jack and the Scarlet Runner Beanstalk: Gardening with Children

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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 after June 17. Think about kids picking beans they planted themselves to have for supper! Or carving their own jack-o-lantern in October after watching it grow all summer!

All Pember Presents programs are free and open to the public. For more information call the Pember Library – (518) 642-2525.

Libri Grant

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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 third of the cost outside of the library’s regular budget process.

The Friends of the Pember Library gave the $350 needed to receive the full amount of the grant. The Friends raise funds through their annual book sale. Thanks to a generous donation The Libri Foundation received from Hal Berenson and Laura Ackerman, our library also received a bonus of $350 worth of math and science books.

The new books include both fiction and nonfiction. Historical and scientific topics are covered in the nonfiction. The fiction consists of picture books for little ones, early reader books, and juvenile and young adult fiction. There should be something for everyone. The books are processed and ready for checkout and will be on display at the library for the rest of the month. They will then be shelved with the rest of the children and youth collections.

The Libri Foundation, which awards the Books for Children Grant, was established in 1989 with the sole purpose of helping rural libraries acquire new, quality, hardcover books for children and young people. Since October of 1990, the foundation has donated over $3,500,000 worth of new books to more than 2,600 libraries in 49 states.

The Pember Library received the following books from The Libri Foundation:

Children’s Fiction

Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?
Best Best Friends
Big Bad Bunny
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever
Cowboy Slim
Diary of a Fly
Garmann’s Summer
A Good Day
Good Enough to Eat
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hurry! Hurry!
Julia Gillian
Just in Case
A Kitten Tale
Leaves
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster
Library Lion
Lilly’s Big Day
The Moon Over Star
Mouse Shapes
My Colors, My World
Not a Box
Olivia Forms a Band
One Boy
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
Rules
Skunkdog
Stinky Stern Forever
Thank You, Bear
A Visitor for Bear

Children’s Nonfiction:

A is for Art
Ain’t Nothing but a Man
Animal Poems
Cookies
Good Brother, Bad Brother
Heavy Equipment up Close
Here’s a Little Poem
How High Can a Dinosaur Count
Jazz on a Saturday Night
Knucklehead
Ladies First
Listen to the Wind
Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose
Our Eleanor
Ox, House, Stick
Paleo Bugs
The Real Mother Goose
A Second is a Hiccup
Sisters and Brothers
The Three Snow Bears
Tracking Trash
Tuttle’s Red Barn
Washington at Valley Forge
The Way We Work
What the World Eats
Who Was First?

Young Adult:

Guys Write for Guys Read
Here Lies the Librarian
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
A Small White Scar
Waiting for Normal

Math & Science:

Albino Animals
American Women Inventors
Animals on the Edge
Cool Stuff and How It Works
Cryobiology
Forensic Science
Full House
Go Figure!
Killing Germs, Saving Lives
Learning from Fossils
Medicine in the Middle Ages
Nontechnology
One Hundred Hungry Ants
One Well
Recycling
Where in the Wild?
The Wishing Club

Library Launches Online Book Club

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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 a book that takes about 5-minutes to read. They’re able to read two or three chapters from a book during the week. If they like a book, they can check it out of the library.

Each week the library features new books, so if the current book is not one that interests you, the editor/moderator, Suzanne Beecher, encourages you to “hit the delete key without guilt”.  Suzanne also has a personal message at the beginning of the read every day. It is like getting a note from a close friend every day.

There’s a book club for just about everyone, including: fiction, non-fiction, romance, mystery, science fiction, audio, business, pre-publication (be the first to see these soon-to-be-released books), teen, good news, and thriller. Now you can discover great books, even if you’re too busy to visit the library.

On Mondays and Thursdays, Suzanne, your book club editor, offers a link to AuthorBuzz, where she introduces you to three or four authors and their books. Suzanne also holds giveaways where you can win funny or cool prizes–and once a month, Suzanne bakes homemade chocolate chip cookies for the winners of her monthly Chocolate Chip Cookie giveaway. This new service makes it easy for people to get back into the habit of reading. It only takes 5-minutes a day and it’s fun.

Currently subscribers are reading the following books:

Furious Improvisation by Susan Quinn, nonfiction;
Suspicious Minds by Christy Barritt, good news;
Boot Camp by Todd Strasser, teen;
Daemon by Daniel Suarez, fiction;
Habit: The 95% of Behavior Marketers Ignore by Neale Martin, business;
The Rebel and the Lady by Kathryn Albright, romance;
What Lies in Shadow by Tina Wainscott, mystery.

Next week the following books are featured:

Write It When I’m Gone by Thomas M. DeFrank, nonfiction;
Don’t Let Me Go by David W. Pierce, good news;
Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost, audio;
Triskellion by Will Peterson, teen;
The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright, fiction;
Create Marketplace Disruption by Adam Hartung, business;
High Noon by Nora Roberts, romance;
Chambers of Death by Priscilla Royal, pre-pub;
Scone Cold Dead by Kaitlyn Dunnett, mystery;
Invincible (Star Wars Legacy of the Force) by Troy Denning, sci-fi;
The Illumination by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori, thriller.

You can sign up for the service at the library or on our web site. Click on the box at the left that says Online Book Clubs.

The online book clubs are a fun and stress free way to read. And, as Suzanne always ends her columns, “It’s so good to read with friends.”

Best Selling Books of the Twentieth Century

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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 author, not the British statesman.)

* 1900
To Have and To Hold, Mary Johnston
* 1901
The Crisis, Winston Churchill
* 1902
The Virginian, Owen Wister
* 1903
Lady Rose’s Daughter, Mary Augusta Ward
* 1904
The Crossing, Winston Churchill
* 1905
The Marriage of William Ashe, Mary Augusta Ward
* 1906
Coniston, Winston Churchill
* 1907
The Lady of the Decoration, Frances Little
* 1908
Mr. Crewe’s Career, Winston Churchill
* 1909
The Inner Shrine, anonymous (Basil King)

Ice Cream Social and Art Reception

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Join us Saturday, June 6 from 2-5 PM, for Kid’s Day, the kick-off event in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pember. Stewart’s has generously donated the fixings for kids to make their own ice cream sundaes. Other highlights of the day will be music with DJ Brent Tuttle and balloon animals and other activities with Melody the Clown. There will be goodie bags for the kids.

Artwork created by students at Mary J Tanner and Granville Elementary School will be on display all week in the Library and Museum.