Tuesday 10-5, Wednesday 1-5, Thursday 1-5, Friday 10-5 and Saturday 10-1
The annual Friends of the Pember Library Book Sale will take place at the Mary J Tanner School on Route 22 in Middle Granville. There will be thousands of books available. Most hardcover books will be $1.00 and paperbacks for $.25. Newer or special books will be individually priced.
On Saturday from 1pm to 3 pm will be our $1.00 per bag sale using bags we provide.
The fourth installment of best selling books of the Twentieth Century as detailed in Publisher’s Weekly:
* 1930
Cimarron, Edna Ferber
*1931
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
* 1932
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
* 1933
Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen
*1934
Anthony Adverse, Hervey Allen
* 1935
Green Light, Lloyd C. Douglas
* 1936
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
* 1937
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
* 1938
The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
* 1939
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Anyone who has read any of these is welcome to make a comment. My first thought was that it’s odd that three of them were best sellers two years in a row. Is that a commentary on the books themselves or the decade in which they were published? Then I realized that several were made into movies and did some research on that. They were all made into movies.
What do you think of DearReader so far? If you have a Pember Library card you can reply to this post or send me an email and be entered into a drawing for a copy of the new Dean Koontz book Relentless. This contest will remain open until July 9.
The books that will be featured next week are :
Barack, Inc. by Barry Libert & Rick Faulk, business
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, fiction
Lying on Sunday by Sharon K. Souza, good news
Murder She Wrote: A Slaying in Savannah by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain, mystery
The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA by Edward Ball, nonfiction
Rapture’s Tempest by Bobbi Smith, romance
The Trials of Kate Hope by Wick Downing, teen
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!
The following new titles are available on the Salon website, our link to OverDrive audio books. Just click on the icon to the left of the blog that says “Download audiobooks OverDrive” for these and many more. If you’re reading by listening, let us know which title(s) you have enjoyed recently.
Children’s eaudiobooks:
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo; read by Cherry Jones
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen; read by Peter Coyote
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos; read by the author
Adult eaudiobooks:
2nd Chance by James Patterson and Andrew Gross; read by Melissa Leo & Jeremy Piven
3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross; ready by Caroly McCormick
Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama; read by the author
Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton; read by Dennis Boutsikaris
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark; read by Jan Maxwell
Resilience by Elizabeth Edwards; read by the author
The book club will be discussing “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak.
“Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel–a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.”
Newsweek has an interesting feature on What to Read Now. And Why.
They say “The fact is, no one needs another best-of list telling you how great The Great Gatsby is.” These books “open a window on the times we live in, … help us see ourselves in new and surprising ways.”
The list of 50 titles starts with Anthony Trollope’s 1875 book The Way we Live Now, and includes books by William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Mary Shelley. I think I would enjoy reading Air Guitar by Dave Hickey: “a seamless blend of criticism, personal history, and a deep appreciation for the sheer nuttiness of American life, with essays on Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Perry Mason, to name a few.”
Pember presents a series of eight programs about America. This is intended for elementary school age children. Books, videos and and an activity will accompany each program.
Join us at the Pember Library July 15 at 6 PM to learn about the New York State Independence Trail. It will be a virtual tour of some of the most important sites of the French and Indian war and Revolutionary war — from restored forts and historic battlefields to grand government buildings and period homes.
The New York State Independence Trail is a not-for-profit organization headquartered in Lake George, NY. The trail starts at Fort Chambly in Quebec and goes through Valcour Island in Lake Champlain, Crown Point and Ticonderoga, Roger’s Rock, and Whitehall (birthplace of the US Navy). Stops in the Lake George, Glens Falls and Queensbury areas include Fort William Henry, Fort George and Battlefield Park, Knox Trail, Bloody Pond, Halfway Brook, and Cooper’s Cave. The Revolutionary War Cemetery in Salem is also on the trail. There are about 30 more sites from Schuylerville and Saratoga south along the Hudson to NY City.
There will be a short video presentation and map brochures available. We can talk about some of the sites within easy driving distance of Granville and there will be books available if you want to learn more.
The program is part of the New York State Summer Reading Program, Explore New York, for teens and adults. All are welcome.
Linda will be taking the week off from the Summer Reading Program but we will still be having a Story Time.
What do you think of DearReader so far? If you have a Pember Library card you can reply to this post or send me an email and be entered into a drawing for a copy of the new Dean Koontz book Relentless.
The books that will be featured next week are :
Criminal Paradise by Steven M. Thomas audio
The Contrarian Effect : Why It Pays (Big) to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite by Michael Port, Elizabeth Marshall business
Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors fiction
Faith and Doubt by John Ortberg good news
Crosshairs by Harry Hunsicker mystery
Scheisshaus Luck by Pierre Berg with Brian Brock nonfiction
Seeing Things by Patti Hill prepub
To Protect a Princess by Gail Barrett romance
Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter sci-fi
The Baptism by Shelia P. Moses teen
A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell thriller
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!
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 Gibbs
* 1926
The Private Life of Helen of Troy, John Erskine
* 1927
Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
* 1928
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
* 1929
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
I’ve actually read a couple of these.