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Perry Public Library Adult
Department Newsletter
April 2008
An IMPORTANT Reminder:
The Library will be
**OPEN**
ON SUNDAYS
Through May 25.
Thanks!
Upcoming Programs
Registration is suggested for all programs but not required.
To
register, please call the library @ 259-3300
or
register online at
www.perrypubliclibrary.org/reg
Raising Autism Awareness
Thursday, April 3 @ 7pm
April is Autism Awareness Month. Autism is the fastest growing developmental
disability in the U.S., effecting 1 in every 150 births.
Roy
Mclean, President of the Autism Society of Greater Cleveland
will provide valuable
information regarding this alarming, costly, and seemingly skyrocketing
disorder among children.
Celebrate National Library Week!
2nd
Annual Author Tea—Sunday, April 13 @ 2pm
Join mystery author Casey Daniels of Don of the Dead, The Chick and the
Dead, and tombs of Endearment, for tea & sweets and tales of her super
sleuth, Pepper Martin. Books available for sale and signing.
Plain
Dealer Food & Restaurant Editor—Joe Crea
Thursday, April 17 @ 7pm
Joe
Crea remembers and shares stories about Julia Child and other culinary
greats—Paul Prudhomme, Martha Stewart, Wolfgang Puck, and more.
Join
us for Third Thursday Movie Nights!
Popcorn will be provided.
April
24 @ 6:30 pm——Singing in the Rain (G)
KidLit Book Group
Monday, April 14 @ 7:00 pm
The
KidLit Book Group is a group for adults who enjoy reading children’s
literature. Each month, we will discuss selected titles as well as
highlight new and notable titles. We will feature both fiction and
non-fiction for teens and children. Led by librarians Kara Cervelli and
Noelle Dull, there are sure to be some lively discussions.
Events for Teens
TAG is
back!
The
Teen Advisory Group is starting back in January. If you know a teen that
likes to meet new people, play games, and help out the library, this is the
group for them.
Meeting Dates:
Wednesday, April 9 @ 7:00pm
To register, please call the library at 440-259-3300 or register online
@
www.perrypubliclibrary.org.
Hot off the
Press
The Third Coast
Ted McClelland
Chronicling
the author’s 10,000-mile “Great Lakes Circle Tour,” this travel memoir seeks
to answer a burning question:
Is
there a Great Lakes culture, and if so, what is it?
Largely associated with the Midwest, the Great Lakes region actually has a
culture that transcends the border between the United States and Canada.
United by a love of encased meats, hockey, beer, snowmobiling, deer hunting,
and classic-rock power ballads, the folks in Detroit have more in common
with citizens in Windsor, Ontario, than those in Wichita, Kansas—while
Toronto residents have more in common with Chicagoans than Montreal's
population. Much more than a typical armchair travel book, this humorous
cultural exploration is filled with quirky people and unusual places that
prove the obscure is far more interesting than the well known.
The
Chameleon’s Shadow
Minette Walters
“Suspense-filled . . .
This multi-layered story by England’s best-selling female crime writer
blends current events, the politics of sexual relationships and the
development of personal identity into a psychologically compelling novel.”
–USA Today
“A Walters novel is like no other.
She bases her books on facts gathered from real life [and] then embosses
with her own painstaking research and fertile imagination . . . The
revelations are astounding.”
–Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
“A sizzling psychological thriller.”
–Publishers
Weekly
A
Golden Age
Tahmima Anam
Publisher’s
Weekly
Starred Review. The experiences of a
woman drawn into the 1971 Bangladesh war for independence illuminate the
conflict's wider resonances in Anam's impressive debut, the first
installment in a proposed trilogy. Rehana Haque is a widow and university
student in Dhaka with two children, 17-year-old daughter Maya and
19-year-old son Soheil. As she follows the daily patterns of
domesticity—cooking, visiting the cemetery, marking religious holidays—she
is only dimly aware of the growing political unrest until Pakistani tanks
arrive and the fighting begins. Suddenly, Rehana's family is in peril and
her children become involved in the rebellion. The elegantly understated
restraint with which Anam recounts ensuing events gives credibility to
Rehana's evolution from a devoted mother to a woman who allows her son's
guerrilla comrades to bury guns in her backyard and who shelters a Bengali
army major after he is wounded. The reader takes the emotional journey from
atmospheric scenes of the marketplace to the mayhem of invasion, the ruin of
the city, evidence of the rape and torture of Hindus and Bengali
nationalists, and the stench and squalor of a refugee camp. Rehana's
metamorphosis encapsulates her country's tragedy and makes for an immersive,
wrenching narrative.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All
rights reserved.
Venetian Betrayal
Steve Berry
Publisher’s Weekly
In
bestseller Berry's predictable third novel to feature Cotton Malone (after
The Alexandria Link
and The Templar
Legacy),
Malone takes on another villain bent on world domination, Irina Zovastina,
supreme minister of the Central Asian Federation, who's plotting to use a
bioweapon to destroy Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Malone races around the
globe trying to find the means to foil the minister, aided by longtime
allies Cassiopeia Vitt, an enigmatic and deadly operative, and his former
Justice Department boss, Stephanie Nelle. The answer may lie buried with
Alexander the Great's remains. Both the good and the bad guys let their
opponents live in circumstances that make no sense except to prolong the
plot, and the genuine mysteries surrounding the death of Alexander the Great
receive short shrift. Despite some pedestrian prose (He shook his head.
Choices. Everybody made them), this international yarn, full of shoot-outs
and explosions, won't disappoint fans of Berry's previous action-packed
thrillers.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All
rights reserved.
New Books on
CD
Landsman
Peter Charles Melman
from Publisher’s Weekly:
A
barely literate hard-bitten gambler and petty criminal, Elias Abrams, the
20-year-old cardsharp hero of Melman's solid debut, flees hometown New
Orleans (and a bogus murder charge), joins the Confederate Army and realizes
"every circumstance of his life now conspires to kill him." He survives the
infantry as he had the city—using his wiles, card skills and fists—until his
colonel hands over an envelope containing a charming missive from Nora
Bloom, a young New Orleans maiden who wrote a support-the-troops letter at
the urging of her rabbi. Unexpectedly stirred, Elias begins a correspondence
and finds himself obsessively fantasizing about her. A battlefield injury
leads to a furlough during which he returns to the city to meet both Nora
(he falls in love) and cronies from his seedy past, who use his new flame as
leverage to draw him into a sinister plot. Readers will find no fault with
the colorful portrait of Civil War–time New Orleans, its squalid underworld
and small Jewish enclave, or Melman's portrayal of army life (more
hurry-up-and-wait than cannons and sabers). There is certainly no shortage
of Civil War fiction; this is one of the better offerings. Copyright © Reed
Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Around the World in 80 Days
Michael Palin
Best
known to Americans as the former star of
Monty
Python's Flying Circus,
author and adventurer Michael Palin circumnavigates the globe following in
the famous footsteps of Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg. By camel,
train, dog-sled, dhow, and container ship he races against the clock. Palin
shares his adventures and misadventures - from a garbage-collecting gondola
in Venice to his close shave in Bombay with snakes and mongoose - with humor
and delight.
His
boundless curiosity about people and places, his wry sense of humor and
remarkable eye for local color, make
Around
the World in 80 Days
a marvelous adventure story for everyone!
The
Uses of Enchantment
Heidi Julavits
from The New Yorker:
The author's third
novel is a spooky coming-of-age tale set in West Salem, Massachusetts, a
town whose witch-hanging history both captivates and circumscribes the lives
of the teen-age girls who reside there. One afternoon in 1985,
sixteen-year-old Mary Veal disappears from field-hockey practice at the
austere Semmering Academy; she reappears a few weeks later claiming to have
been abducted. The truth of what happened is only hinted at in Mary's
sexually charged experiences with her supposed captor and in her provocative
exchanges with the therapist assigned to her case. He decides that Mary is
lying - aspects of her story seem taken from a previous student's faked
abduction, itself inspired by a centuries-old fable involving a kidnapped
girl and witchcraft - but, it turns out, he is not without his own agenda.
Julavits expertly keeps the reader baffled until the end, but beneath the
mystery is a sophisticated meditation on truth and bias.
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the Friends!
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library services in our community. With your paid membership, you receive
many benefits including admittance to all book sale pre-sales, and discounts
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Golden
Buckeye Cards
The
library has updated applications for the Golden Buckeye card. Ohio
residents aged 60 and over and people aged 18-59 with permanent and total
disabilities are eligible for the card. Applicants must show proof of age,
and in the case of disability, proof of permanent and total disability.
They will be issued a temporary card at the time of application with a
permanent card to be mailed by the Department of Aging.
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