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Vol. 15 ◊ Issue 4 July / Aug 2014

New Genealogy Database

The Preble County Room unveiled a new genealogy database to researchers several months ago. Although it is still in its testing phase (with new records being added every day) the Preble County Genealogy Database will thrill anyone researching their family history. Images are A Play by Jennifer crystal clear (and easily manipulated), and the types of Hickok DeFratis Presenting at our PCDL records provide a broader subject matter (such as records for historic homes and Sexton Reports) along Branches in October! with obituaries and marriage records. Try it out! www.preblelibrary.org!

Please continue to use the Preble County Historical Presented by Minnetrista Theater Preserves Marriage and Obituary Records database.

Furry Tails with a Twist

Furry Tails with a Twist takes you on an adventure with Sam and Alex—two blundering actors with a scrambled script—as they perform GoldiSOCKS and the Three WOLVES, the Three Billy TROLLS Gruff, and The Three Little BEARS, who battle the Big Bad BILLY GOAT in the end. This play will engage audiences in understanding what elements build a story. Children can get involved in reimagining—by helping deconstruct and reconstruct—three beloved and classic fairy tales. This play will delight audiences with whimsically eye- catching puppets, eccentric costumes, and enchanting sets.

Branch Schedule: Camden: Oct. 7 @ 5:30pm West Alexandria: Oct 25 @ 12pm West Elkton: Oct. 8 @ 6pm Eaton: Oct 27 @ 6:30pm New Paris: Oct. 13 @ 6pm West Manchester: Oct. 15 @ 6:30pm Eldorado: Oct. 23 @ 6:30pm PCDL Visited National Trail Elementary to Promote Summer Reading!

Front row (L-R): Christina Jones, Teen Librarian; Teresa Deaton Youth Services Coordinator; Pam Kessler, Branch Librarian for Eldorado; West Elkton & West Manchester; Lisa Stall, New Paris Branch Librarian; and (back row, left) Malynda Davis, Homeschool

Coordinator.

 Library Admin. Office  450 S. Barron St. Eaton, OH 45320  (937) 456-4250  www.preblelibrary.org 2 Library Inklings: Director’s Column Abby Noland, Library Director

It is with great regret that I must say farewell to you. I have accepted a library directorship position in Vermont. This is my opportunity to thank you for the passion you have for your library.

During my stay here, we have passed a levy together, created a Young Librarian, Adult Librarian, and Marketing Available NOW! Coordinator position. With your support, PCDL has achieved (except for building size and collection size) an excellent from www.preblelibrary.org rating by Ohio Public Library Standards. And that is why our circulation and program attendance is the highest it has ever RBdigital from Recorded Books will offer library patrons been in the history of this library. access to over 500 online continuing education courses FREE I am leaving you with the knowledge that the PCDL Staff is through your Preble County District Library! superb. We are set to move forward in joining the SEO Consortium. This will allow you to receive over 7 million materials through the catalog. I think you will be pleased. This is something the library has been striving to join for a long time. The staff is working to have the SEO Consortium catalog go live in early October. You can take a sneak peak here: http://enterprise.seo.lib.oh.us/client/seo.

I do want to make you aware that our Public Library Fund is dropping down to the year 2009 level. This means the levy you support is the only thing allowing your library to maintain it's current hours and materials. That's how important you are to PCDL and the community!

I want to thank you, the patrons, for allowing me to serve Universal Class offers courses in Exercise and Fitness, you. It has been a pleasure. I also want to publicly Entrepreneurship, Arts and Music, Home and Garden Care, acknowledge my appreciation for the devotion of our Board Cooking, Computers and Technology, Health and Medicine, of Trustees, whom I have been honored to work Homeschooling, Job Assistance, Law and Legal, Parenting and alongside. And finally, to the staff of PCDL: I will miss each Family, Pet and Animal Care plus 100s more. and everyone of you. You have risen to the challenge of excellence in library service, lifted me up, and changed my Some of the interesting and helpful courses you will find: life for the better. I wish for all your dreams to come true. Caring for Seniors Crafts & Hobbies

~Abby Noland~ Digital Photography Cooking

A big “Thank You” goes out to Eaton Walmart Manager Josh Event Planning Pet & Animal Care Maggard for the $25 gift card that was donated to the Teen Nutrition 101 Reflexology Basics Drop a Beat, Grab a Mic Program held at the Preble VAC in April. Home & Garden Homeschooling

The Eaton Rotary Club graciously Professional Organizing Training donated $549 to the teen And many more! Summer Reading Program. The

money was used to purchase 100 copies of the book Best of all, it’s FREE from your library! Divergent by Veronica Roth. The books were given out to the first 100 teens who signed up for Summer Reading! Enroll NOW! 3

News from the Reference Desk Lauren Robinson, Reference Librarian

Library Admin. Office  450 S Barron St  Eaton, OH 45320 Database Tues. - Thurs. 9-5 / Fri 9-3 / 1st & 3rd Sat. 9-5 Highlight Reminder: The PC Room has two historical databases people can check when searching for records belonging to their ancestors. The first one is the Genealogical & Historical Records of Preble County, Ohio and the second is the new Preble County Genealogy Database. Both are available from the PCDL Homepage at www.preblelibrary.org.

The new database offers many new features, along with much clearer images. Also, new records and images are being added to The Reference USA resource contains two parts. A Residential the new database every week, so researchers will want to check Database with addresses and phone numbers for 120 million back frequently. For example, obituaries from the Lewisburg households and 65 million homeowners. Leader and the Eaton Democrat have been added to our collection, but they will only show up on our new database. The second part is a Business Database containing information about 14 million businesses, which can be searched by 27 Samuel and Sarah Ann Reid. Information regarding another ex-slave who came to Preble County has been discovered. different data elements. A detailed business listing is provided Samuel Reid, along with his wife, Sarah Ann, seven children and containing everything on a business, from a list of executives and his mother settled in Preble County in the late 1860s. They had financial information to public filings and news articles. followed Sarah Ann’s brother to the county and decided that it was a good place to make a free life for themselves. ReferenceUSA is available to PCDL cardholders from home or at any PCDL branch. Go online to www.preblelibrary.org and click Samuel became a successful farmer and was very well thought of in the community. His biography appears in the Preble County on the Reference Desk link. history book, A Biographical History of Preble County, Ohio. A Whether you’re researching a class family history about the Reid family has been compiled and project or simply need an engine added to the other African American family histories in our schematic of your car, the PCDL collection. The title is Samuel and Sarah Ann Reid Family. Reference Databases can help with it all! Biography Reference Bank, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Chilton Library, Ohio Legal Forms, and so much more! http://www.pcdl.lib.oh.us/reference/ index.html

Download popular magazines for free. Once downloaded, they New Laptops are yours to keep forever!

Try it out! www.preblelibrary.org The Eaton Library has acquired four new Dell laptops with Click on Online (Zinio) Magazines Available to see our list of Windows 8. Adult patrons can check out a laptop for use in titles! the library. All that is needed is a valid driver’s license (or Ohio State ID) and a Preble County District Library card. To download the magazines, all you need is a PCDL card and the PIN to your library card account. For more information, visit your For more information regarding checking out and using the library today! library’s laptops, please inquire at the Circulation Desk. Download Magazines! 4 Your library has its finger on the pulse of entertainment!

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eBook News Love to watch movies? Ohio Digital Library now offers Streaming and Downloadable Videos.

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Into the Future July Gutenberg’s Apprentice: A Novel / Alix The Awakening of Miss Prim / Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera Christie: An enthralling literary debut that Friendship / Emily Gould evokes one of the most momentous events in history, the birth of printing in medieval August Germany—a story of invention, intrigue, What I Remember Most / Cathy Lamb and betrayal, rich in atmosphere and Driving with the Top down / Beth Harbison historical detail, told through the lives of Lock In / John Scalzi the three men who made it possible. 9/14

September Queen Bee Goes Home Again / Haywood Smith Delicious! / Ruth Reichl: Billie Breslin has Bitter Greens: A Novel / Kate Forsyth (Repunzel re- traveled far from her home in California to telling) take a job at Delicious!, New York’s most A Place Called Hope: A Novel / Philip Gulley iconic food magazine. Away from her (A new series starring Harmony series character, Sam Gardner.) family, particularly her older sister, Genie, Billie feels like a fish out of water—until she October is welcomed by the magazine’s colorful Full Measure: A Novel / T. Jefferson Parker staff...Then Delicious! is abruptly shut Leaving Time: A Novel / Jodi Picoult down, but Billie agrees to stay on in the empty office, Paris Match / Stuart Woods (Stone Barrington, 31) maintaining the hotline for reader complaints....

November To Billie’s surprise, the lonely job becomes the portal to a The Blue Labyrinth / Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston miraculous discovery. In a hidden room in the magazine’s Flesh and Blood / Patricia Cornwell (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 22) library, Billie finds a cache of letters written during World War December II by Lulu Swan, a plucky twelve-year-old, to the legendary Woman with a Gun / Philip Margolin chef James Beard. Lulu’s letters provide Billie with a richer Saint Thomas / Dean Koontz understanding of history, and a feeling of deep connection to the young writer whose courage in the face of hardship inspires Billie to comes to terms with her fears, her big sister Your library offers even more convenience than ever and her ability to open her heart to love. before with the addition of advance holds.

It is now possible for you to place advance holds on many items that are in the process of being Simply place a hold as you normally acquired by the library. The record from our online would. Your PCDL branch will contact catalog will look like this: you when the item is available for you.

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Take a sneak peek at a new mystery series unveiling in Stained-Glass Mystery by Jennifer McAndrews November! Ill-Gotten Panes: Stained-glass aficionado Georgia Kelly packed up her city life for the quiet of small town Wenwood, New York. But the sleepy village’s peace is about to get shattered—by murder… A Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery by Maia Chance Overview of the series: Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even Book Retreat Mystery by Ellery Adams quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Murder in the Mystery Suite: Tucked away in the rolling hills of rural Black Forest, she’ll need more than a bit of charm… western Virginia is the storybook resort of Storyton Hall, catering to book lovers who want to get away from it all. To increase her number of Snow White Red-Handed: 1867: After bookings, resort manager Jane Steward has decided to host a Murder and being fired from her latest variety hall Mayhem week so that fans of the mystery genre can gather together for engagement, Ophelia acts her way into a some role-playing and fantasy crime solving. lady’s maid position for a crass American millionaire. But when her new job whisks her off to a foreboding castle straight out But when the winner of the scavenger hunt, Felix Hampden, is found dead of a Grimm tale, she begins to wonder if in the Mystery Suite, and the valuable book he won as his prize is missing, her fast-talking ways might have been too Jane realizes one of her guests is an actual murderer. Amid a resort full of hasty. The vast grounds contain the fake detectives, Jane is bound and determined to find a real-life killer. suspected remains of Snow White’s There’s no room for error as Jane tries to unlock this mystery before cottage, along with a disturbing dwarf skeleton. And when another vacancy opens up… her millionaire boss turns up dead—poisoned by an apple— the fantastic setting turns into a once upon a crime scene. Read Em and Eat Mystery by Terrie Farley Moran

Well Read, Then Dead: Nestled in the barrier islands of Florida’s Gulf To keep from rising to the top of the suspect list, Ophelia Coast, Fort Myers Beach is home to Mary “Sassy” Cabot and Bridget fights through a bramble of elegant lies, sinister folklore, and priceless treasure, with only a dashing but mysterious Mayfield—owners of the bookstore café, Read ’Em and Eat. But when scholar as her ally. And as the clock ticks towards midnight, they’re not dishing about books or serving up scones, Sassy and Bridgy are she’ll have to break a cunning killer’s spell before her own keeping tabs on hard-boiled murder. time runs out… Food Festival Mystery by Penny Pike A Cormoran Strike Novel Death of a Crabby Cook: When restaurant reviewer Darcy Burnett gets served a pink slip from the San Francisco Chronicle, she needs to come up Silkworm / Robert Galbraith: When with an alternative recipe for success quickly. Her feisty aunt owns a novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his tricked-out school bus, which she’s converted into a hip and happening wife calls in private detective Cormoran food truck, and Darcy comes aboard as a part-timer while she develops a Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her cookbook project based on recipes from food fests in the Bay Area. husband has gone off by himself for a few days-as he has done before...But as Strike But she soon finds someone’s been trafficking in character assassination— literally—when a local chef turns up dead and her aunt is framed for the investigates, it becomes clear that there is murder…. With her aunt’s business—and freedom—on the line, it’s up to more to Quine's disappearance than his Darcy to steer the murder investigation in the right direction and put the wife realizes. The novelist has just brakes on an out-of-control killer…. completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives-meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.

When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before. 6/24

FYI: Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J. K. Rowling. 7

Available from publishers in July - See a title you like? Request it at your library! Fans will be pleased to learn that after a Title Author Series Title or FYI Series # three year hiatus, Stephanie Barron The Wedding Soup Murder Rosie Genova Italian Kitchen 2 will unveil the 12th To Fudge or not to Fudge Nancy Coco Candy-Coated 2 book in her celebrity sleuth Cookies and Scream Virginia Lowell Cookie Cutter Shop 5 series, Being a Jane Some Enchanted Éclair Bailey Cates Magical Bakery 4 Austen Mystery. The new book, Jane Crime Rib Leslie Budewitz Food Lovers' Village 2 and the Twelve Days of Christmas, Maple Mayhem Jessie Crockett Sugar Grove 2 will come out in October -- just in A Vision in Velvet Juliet Blackwell Witchcraft 6 time for the holiday season! Tailing a Tabby Laurie Cass Book Mobile Cat 2 Muffin But Murder Victoria Hamilton Merry Muffin 2 A new series by Kate Carlisle will be Grace Against the Clock Julie Hyzy Manor House 5 introduced this Silence of the Lambs Wool Betty Hechtman Yarn Retreat 2 November. The first To Kill a Matzo Ball Delia Rosen Deadly Deli 5 book in the Fixer Be Careful What You Witch For Dawn Eastman Family Fortune 2 Upper Mystery series A Grave Matter Anna Huber Lady of Darby 3 will be A High End Finish and will Available from publishers in Aug- See a title you like? Request it at your library! introduce amateur sleuth contractor Samantha Hammer. Title Author Series Title or FYI Series #

The Book Stops Here Kate Carlisle Bibliophile 8 Pseudonymous Blackwoods Farm Enquiry Ann Purser Ivy Beasley 5 Tips Helping you keep Yarn Over Murder Maggie Sefton Knitting 12 tabs on those pesky pen names. Queen of Hearts Rhys Bowen Royal Spyness 8 If Catfish Had Nine Lives Paige Shelton Country Cooking School 4 Nancy J. Parra writes the Candy- Book Fair and Foul Erika Chase Ashton Corners Book Club 4 Coated mystery series under the Taken In Elizabeth Lynn Casey Southern Sewing 9 pseudonym, Nancy Coco. Julie Goodson-Lawes writes under the Death by Devil's Breath Kylie Logan Chili Cook-Off 2 name Juliet Blackwell. Juliet Extra Sensory Deception Allison Kingsley Raven's Nest Bookstore 4 currently offers two mystery series: The Cat, the Vagabond, and the Leann Sweeney Cats in Trouble Witchcraft mysteries and Haunted Victim 6 Home Renovation mysteries. Daryl Shear Trouble Elizabeth Craig Southern Quilting 4 Wood Gerber (Cookbook Nook To Die Fur Dixie Lyle Whiskey, Tango and Foxtrot 2 mysteries) also writes as Avery Adams (Cheese Shop mysteries).

New mystery series to look forward to in 2015: A Chocolate Whisperer series by Collette London, A Snow Globe mystery series by Christine Husom, and A Greek to Me mystery series by Susannah Hardy.

Do you crave culinary mysteries? Do yourself a favor and pop over to http://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com/ for some deliciously satisfying recipes and culinary mystery title suggestions from Krista Davis, Cleo Coyle, Avery Adams (AKA Dary Wood Gerber), Lucy Burdette, Sheila Connolly, Peg Cochran and Victoria Abbott. 8 Fall Releases The Perfect Witness / Iris Johansen: A new stand alone thriller about a woman with a July photographic memory who has lived her life For All Time / Jude Deveraux (Nantucket Brides Novel) in the Witness Protection Program. What she once saw put her entire family in Magnolia Drive / Rochelle Alers (Cavanaugh Island) jeopardy and now, years later, her cover is No Stings Attached / Susan Andersen blown. She’s on the run, and the lives of The Escape / Mary Balogh (Survivor’s Club) those she holds dear hang in the balance. As Tamed / Emma Chase (The Tangled series #3 - Matthew and Dee) only Iris Johansen can do, the pages turn themselves and In the Mood for Love / Beth Ciotta (Cupcake Lovers series, #4) you won’t see the twists coming. 9/14

August The Silent Sister / Diane Chamberlain: Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life The Hot Zone / Jayne Castle (Rainshadow, Bk 3) believing that her older sister Lisa Jane Austen’s First Love / Syrie James (Inspired by actual events.) committed suicide as a teenager. Now, Close to Home / Lisa Jackson over twenty years later, her father has Sweet Spot / Stephanie Evanovich passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she September finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. The Betrayed / Heather Graham (Krewe of Hunters) Alive and living under a new identity. But Going, Gone / Sharon Sala (Forces of Nature) why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover Virtue Falls / Christina Dodd the truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought she knew about her family. Riley must decide October what the past means for her present, and what she will do Only Enchanting / Mary Balogh (Survivor’s Club) with her newfound reality. 10/14 Mr. Miracle / Debbie Macomber

Shopaholic to the Stars / Sophie Kinsella: (Soon to be a Hallmark Channel original movie.) Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) has stars in her eyes. She and her daughter, Minnie, have joined husband Luke in LA—city of herbal smoothies, multimillion-dollar yoga retreats, and the lure of celebrity. Luke is there to help manage the career of famous actress Sage Seymour—and Becky is convinced she is destined to be Sage’s personal stylist, and go from there to every A-list celebrity in Hollywood! But things become complicated when Becky joins the team of Sage’s archrival. How will charming and supportive Luke deal with this conflict? Is it possible that what Becky wants most will end up hurting those she loves most? 10/14

Life in Icicle Falls series by Sheila Roberts There are five books in this loveable, small-town series Sheila Roberts written by Sheila Roberts. If you love close-knit, family oriented stories than you’re in for treat! Sit back with a cup of hot tea and enjoy Icicle Falls, Washington! The sixth book will be out in October! 1. Better Than Chocolate (2012) 2. Merry Ex-Mas (2012)

3. What She Wants (2013) 4. The Cottage on Juniper Ridge (2014) 5. The Tea Shop on Lavender Ridge (2014) 6. The Lodge on Holly Road (10/14) www.sheilasplace.com/ 9 Paranormal & Suspense  Author Sarah Addison Allen will release her next book in January, Seventh Grave and No Body / Darynda Jones: 2015 through publisher St. Martin’s Press. The title is being advertised Twelve. Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever as First Frost. However, please keep in mind that titles are subject to forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto change. our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out the jugular of Charley Davidson and  If you were one of the millions who enjoyed the Fifty Shades serve her lifeless, mangled body to Satan for of Grey series by E. L. James, you might want to try the new dinner. So there’s that. But Charley has more on her plate erotica series by Jodi Ellen Malpas called The One Night than a mob of testy hellhounds. Trilogy. The first book, One Night: Promised, introduces For one thing, her father has disappeared, and the more readers to Livy and M. Who is M? “He's obnoxious but well- she retraces his last steps, the more she learns he was mannered. He's a gentleman but aloof. He's passionate but conducting an investigation of his own, one that has emotionless. Yet the fascination is so powerful, Livy can't deny him . . Charley questioning everything she’s ever known about him. . or herself.” Sounds like a Fifty Shades contender to me! It comes out in August. ALERT: This book is for readers aged 18 and older. Add to that an ex-BFF who is haunting her night and day, a rash of suicides that has authorities baffled, and a drop FYI: Jodi Ellen Malpas is also the author of the dead sexy fiancé who has attracted the attentions of a bestselling erotica trilogy, This Man. local celebrity, and Charley is not having the best week of her life. But all of that combined barely scratches the  Cassandra Clare, who has just ended the Mortal Instruments series surface of her problems. with City of Heavenly Fire, will unveil a new series in the fall of 2015

Recent developments— and a few distressing called The Dark Artifices. prophesies—have forced her to become a responsible Sadly, popular author Mary Stewart died on May 9, 2014. She adult. Exactly the kind of adult she’s never aspired to be. To conquer such a monumental task, she’s decided to was 97 years old. Best known for her romantic suspense novels start small. Really small. She gets a pet. But how can she -- she is credited with launching this postwar, modern popular save the world against the forces of evil when she can’t form -- Mary’s career spanned 40 years, beginning in 1955 even keep a goldfish alive? with the US publication of Madam, Will You Talk? and ending

A tad north of hell, a hop, skip, and a jump past the realm in 1997 with her last book, Rose Cottage. In between, Mary Florence Elinor she would write 12 more romantic suspense novels, of eternity, is a little place called Earth, and Charley Rainbow Stewart each one introducing readers to her own brand of Davidson, grim reaper extraordinaire, is determined to do Sep 17, 1916 - May 9, 2014 everything in her power to protect it. We’re doomed. lyrical storytelling. You could always count on four 10/14 things in a Mary Stewart novel: exotic settings that unfolded before your eyes

Undead and Unwary / MaryJanice Davidson: like poetry, intelligent and daring heroines who never shied from whatever How do you out-devil the devil? For Vampire adversity the author threw their way, darkly handsome heroes who could queen Betsy Taylor, the answer is relative— both frighten and intrigue the heroine with one smoldering glance, and smart literally—as MaryJanice Davidson’s “sexy, mysteries guaranteed to satisfy any armchair sleuth. steamy, and laugh-out-loud funny” (Booklist) New York Times bestselling series continues….“ Mary changed course in 1970 when she published The Crystal Cave, the first This is the 13th book in the series. 10/14 book in a fictional trilogy based on the life of Merlin. The book stayed on the

best seller list for weeks. The Hollow Hills was published in 1973 and The Last Vampires of Manhattan: The New Blue Bloods Coven / Melissa de la Cruz: You'll devour Enchantment in 1979. A fourth book, The Wicked Day, was added to the series Melissa de la Cruz's hot new adult novel, in in 1983. Today, the Arthurian Saga is still considered a must-read by anyone which her Blue Bloods immortals have matured who enjoys the Merlin/Arthurian Legend. and are now exposed to new challenges, new loves, new threats, and a haute, hot hipster Romantic suspense titles: Madam, Will You Talk? (1955), Wildfire lifestyle. It is ten years after the great War with Lucifer, at Midnight (1956), Thunder on the Right (1957), Nine Coaches and the Coven has rebuilt. Leader of the Fallen, Oliver Waiting (1958), My Brother Michael (1959), The Ivy Tree (1961), Hazard-Perry, plans to celebrate this prosperity by The Moon-Spinners (1962), This Rough Magic (1964), Airs Above throwing a 400 Year Ball-and all Blue Blood society will be the Ground (1965), The Gabriel Hounds (1967), Touch Not the Cat there. And then, all hell breaks loose.... 8/14 (1976), Thornyhold (1988), The Stormy Petrel (1991), Rose Cottage (1997). This Mary Stewart fan plans to reread every one! 10 Gals like ‘em too!

Reign of Evil: A SEAL Team 666 Novel / Weston Ochse: Legend holds that when Britain is in I Spy Great Summer Reads! its darkest hour, King Arthur will return to save the country, if not the world. That Counterfeit Lies / Oliver North & Bob legend is dead wrong. When a Grove of Hamer: Veteran undercover FBI agent Druids sacrifice the lives of a group of Jake Kruse is investigating a smuggling innocent people, including the fiancée of a ring in southern California when his member of SEAL Team 666, the ancient king assignment is cut short by a prominent is brought back from the dead and sets his criminal defense attorney, who wants to sight on subjugating humanity and cleansing his land of all who hire Jake to kill the daughter of a local are not true Britons. Because of political sensitivities, Triple 6 is crime boss. ordered to stand down, but that order is ignored by one of them seeking his own vengeance. In a shocking twist, Triple Six is ordered to bring in What begins as a "contract killing" soon their own man instead of hunting down what they consider to be the real captures the attention of the CIA, the US threat. Now, the members of America's elite supernatural-hunting team Secret Service, and high-level Washington must decide what is more important: their orders or their loyalty to their officials. Before he knows it, Kruse finds own team member. himself plunged into the life-threatening underworld of North Korean espionage, Hezbollah FYI: Film rights to the SEAL Team 666 series were optioned terrorists, and a plot to bring down a commercial by MGM, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson recently signed airliner over the US. 6/14 on to star in the feature film adaptation. Act of War / Brad Thor: After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset Rain on the Dead / Jack Higgins: In the past few years, surfaces with a startling and terrifying the killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has claim. There’s just one problem—no one left the terrorist organization wounded—but by no knows if she can be trusted. But when six means dead. And they intend to prove it. exchange students go missing, two

airplane passengers trade places, and one On a dark summer night, two Chechen mercenaries political-asylum seeker is arrested, a deadly chain of emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill a high- events is set in motion. value target, the former president of the United States,

Jake Cazalet. Unfortunately for them, Cazalet has With the United States facing an imminent and guests with him, including black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his devastating attack, America’s new president must turn colleague, Afghan war hero Captain Sara Gideon. to covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath to

help carry out two of the most dangerous operations in The Chechens do not survive the night, but Dillon is curious as to how they the country’s history. 13th book in the series. 7/14 even got on the island. What he discovers sends a chill through his bones—

a name from very far back in Dillon’s past. If this man is working with the Days of Rage / Brad Taylor: In former terrorists now, the assassination attempt is only the beginning—and the delta force operator and New York Times next time, the results might be much, much bestseller Brad Taylor’s latest Pike Logan different. Coming in October, 2014. thriller, the Taskforce must stop their

most devastating threat yet—a weapon Author FYI: Jack Higgins is a pseudonym used by of mass destruction. Harry Patterson. He also writes under the names of Martin Fallon, James Graham, and Hugh Marlowe. Keeping your changing needs in mind Latest in Large Print

An interactive program for The Prince She Never Knew / Kate Hewitt nursing home residents Defiant in the Desert / Sharon Kendrick In July, residents will be Second Chance with Her Soldier / Barbara Hannay learning interesting Another Man’s Moccasins / Craig Johnson information about our (Walt Longmire Mystery) country’s flag. Bladen Cole: The Fire of Greed / Bill Yenne (Bladen Cole Western) The theme for August is “Dog Days of Summer”. Saddlemates / Max Brand Love and Treasure / Ayelet Waldman Stone Cold / C. J. Box (Joe Pickett) Favorite Authors Miss Dimple Picks a Peck of Trouble / Betting the Rainbow / Jodi Thomas (Harmony Novel) Mignon F. Ballad Woman of Courage / Wanda E. Brunstetter The Reading Circle / Ashton Lee Harbor of the Heart/ Katherine Spencer (Cherry Cola Book Club) (Thomas Kinkade’s Angel Island series) Dancing with Fireflies / Denise Hunter (Chapel Springs Romance)

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All e-Readers can be set to LARGE PRINT! No more waiting for your favorite books to come out in large print! 12 Wine tastings have been a popular form of entertaining for quite a while. Beer tastings are on the rise - especially by those who are into brewing their own. But what about the teetotalers of the world? What type of beverage-based party can they host?

I’ve got an answer that might surprise you. What about hosting a tea tasting? A tea tasting can be as simple or as complicated as you wish to make it. It’s up to you.

Tea Tasting or Tea Party Steps to hosting a tea tasting Tea Tasting Tips What’s the difference? http://www.wikihow.com/Arrange-a-Tea-Tasting-Party A tea tasting is different from a tea party in that its guiding force is focused on the guests tasting, experiencing, and Learning how to taste: becoming more knowledgeable about different types of www.steamykitchen.com/15329-art-of-tea-tasting.html tea. A tea party is basically a social event. This website also offers a flavor wheel to help tasters with their descriptions. It also gives directions for properly steeping your teas. The complexities of tea What to serve: Who knew? Serve high quality loose leaf teas, not brand name tea bags found at Tasting different varieties of tea can be as complex as the local grocery. tasting wine. What is the appearance of the dry tea leaves? What color is the tea liquid? What aroma does it have? What flavor notes do you detect when you taste it? What Tea Pairing is the tea’s finish when swallowed -- long or short?

And to think I’ve just been swallowing it all these years! If you can pair wine and beer to food, why not tea? Check out this informative tea pairing website: Learn tea tasting language: www.arborteas.com/pages/tea-and-food-pairing.html http://greenleavesredberries.com/2010/09/13/tea-tasting -language-taste-and-flavor/ If hosting a tea tasting seems too daunting, start with a more casual tea pairing. Ask each guest to bring a covered dish, cheese, or dessert along with a paired tea. Ask them to give a brief description of the tea and then explain why it pairs well with the food. Guests could then discuss whether the tea was a good pairing and why.

This site offers a handy chart of food and tea pairings: Tea Flavor http://ourhometea.com/universi-tea/tea-food-pairing/

So many factors contribute This commercial site offers an excellent tea tasting how-to: There are many factors that affect the way a tea will taste. www.mightyleaf.com/how-to-taste-tea/ These factors include: Variety of the tea (black, green, oolong, Learn more about tea from your library white, or flavored & herbal), the region where it was grown, how and when it was harvested, drying methods, and the Tea Culture / Beverly Dubrin other ingredients with which it was mixed. Download the eBook from your library

The Everything Healthy Tea Book / Water temperature is important when making tea for your Babette Donaldson Read the book from your library tasting. White and green teas should be steeped between

170-185°F; oolong between 180 - 190°F; and black and herbal between 208 - 212 °F. The Book of Tea / Kakuzō Okakura Read the book from your library A tea thermometer is recommended. 13 Tastes of the human tongue

How many tastes does the human tongue identify? Scientists now recognize five - sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory (or, as the Japanese call it, imami). Loosely translated, imami means “a pleasant savory.” Imami is used to describe L-glutamate. L-glutamate is a by-product of glutamate, an organic matter found in most living things. When glutamate breaks down, it become L-glutamate. L-glutamate is found in such foods as ripened parmesan cheese, stocks, soy sauce, anchovies, and ripe tomatoes to name just a few. Tasting Chart

A. Sweet D. Bitter B. Salty E. Imami

Immerse Yourself Learning about tea can lead to all kinds of other interesting discoveries!

Did you know tea leaf reading is also known as tasseography or tasseomancy? Those versed in tasseography interpret patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, and wine sediments to foresee the future.

お茶 is Japanese for ‘tea.’

is Chinese for ‘tea tray.’

Cooking with tea: Chart available at www.teatulia.com/cooking-with-tea.htm http://ourhometea.com/universi-tea/tea-food-pairing/ www.rivertea.com/blog/the-secrets-of-tea-cooking/

Additional materials to help you learn about tea are

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The New Tea Book: A Guide to Black, Green, Herbal, and Chai Tea / Sara Perry: Includes Discover some of the utensils used in serving tea: 50 recipes for cooking with tea. www.peonyts.com/introduction-to-commonly-used-tea-

utensils/

The Tea Enthusiast’s Handbook: A Guide to Enjoying the World’s best Teas / Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss: Offers advice on understanding, buying, and enjoying tea. 14 Stories of Love and Faith

Upcoming from Publishers! Beiler Sisters by Jerry Eicher

June Finding Love at Home: Debbie is A Mother’s Secret / Amy Clipston (Hearts of Lancaster Grand Hotel) poised to marry Alvin Knepp, the Amish farmer she's loved all along. Child of Mine / David Lewis & Beverly Lewis Seeing Your Face Again / Jerry S. Eicher (Beiler Sisters) Ida Beiler is recovering from the tragic loss of her husband-to-be in a farming July accident, while her younger sister, Lois, is still running away from her faith. The Revealing / Suzanne Woods Fisher (Inn at Eagle Hill, 3) A Plain Love Song / Kelly Irvin (New Hope Amish, 3) Debbie takes it all in stride as she brings calm to the Abandoned Memories / Marylou Tyndall (Escape to Paradise, 3) sorrowing Beiler family while finding happiness with The Confession / Robert Whitlow the young man of her dreams.

This third and final book in the series will be out in August September. Crossroads / Barbara Cameron (Amish Roads, 2) The Healing Quilt / Wanda E. Brunstetter Herb of Grace / Adina Senet (A Healing Grace Novel, 1) Wait for it…2015 (Three Florida Mennonite Romances) Patience is a virtue. The following inspirational The Amish Blacksmith / Mindy Starns Clark & Susan Meissner romances will be published in January, 2015. If you see (The Men of Lancaster County, 2) a title you like, please request it at your local PCDL Prelude for a Lord / Camille Eliot branch starting in November, 2014. The Healer’s Touch / Lori Copeland January The Beekeeper’s Son / Kelly Irvin September Love’s Abundant Harvest / Beth Shriver Finding Love at Home / Jerry S. Eicher (Beiler Sisters) (Sprout of American, 2) An Unexpected Match / Gayle Roper (Between Two Worlds, 1) The Promise of Palm Grove / Shelley Shepard Gray (Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club, 3) Wonderful Lonesome / Olivia Newport (Amish Turns of Time, 1) (Brides of Pinecraft, ) The River / Beverly Lewis A Woodland Miracle / Ruth Reid (Amish Wonders, 2) Courting Emily / Amy Lillard (Wells Landing, 1) October Steadfast Heart / Tracie Peterson (Brides of Seattle, 1) The Bachelor / Stephanie Reed (Plain City Peace, 2) Like a Flower in Bloom / Siri Mitchell When Mercy Rains / Kim Vogel Sawyer (Zimmerman Restoration Trilogy) Beyond a Dreams / Elizabeth Camden A Simple Charity / Rosalind Lauer (Lancaster Crossroads Novel, 3)

November Amish Buggy Ride / Sarah Price

15 Sprouting Off: Life in the Garden

I thought I was finished planting my I always plant too many and put Indeterminate and Determinate garden when I suddenly realized I them too close together. They look Tomato plants are classified into two categories had forgotten the green beans. more like a tomato hedge than Indeterminate and determinate plants, depending on Yikes! I looked at my carefully individual plants. I do try to sucker their growth habits, . planted garden wondering where on them. This means that I pinch out Determinate (or bush) plants grow to a certain height earth I was going to put them. I the side shoots that grow between (about 4’-5’) and then stop growing. They also set their eventually worked out a spot, but the crotch of the stem and the fruit all at once and then stop producing. Thus, there the process wasn’t pretty. I had branch. This is supposed to give you is no reason to sucker determinate tomato plants. made so much extra work because I a more compact tomato plant rather Some determinate varieties: Celebrity, Marglobe, had gone a little crazy at the garden than one that is large and unwieldy. Rutgers and many roma tomatoes. center and purchased more plants It also reduces the quantity of fruit Indeterminate tomato plants, on the other hand, can than I should. I always start the so that the plant produces a higher become extremely large and will continue to produce gardening season with good quality. But I’m always afraid I’m fruit all season. Suckering the plants will help control intentions, swearing not to overplant going to remove too much and kill growth of the plant and production of the fruit. our small urban space, but every the plant. This timidity leads to too Some indeterminate varieties: Most heirlooms and year I fail. And why not? Who can much growth and too many cherry types, Beefsteak, Big Boy, and Brandywine. resist all those beautiful varieties of tomatoes and, before I know it, they tomato, squash, cucumber, zucchini, have TAKEN OVER my garden. I look Learn more about it online: To sucker or not to sucker and cabbage? Not to mention all of around at the overgrown mess and Neutral: http://gardening.about.com/od/ the herbs and flowers? I know I make the same old vow I make totallytomatoes/qt/Tomato_Suckers.htm can’t. Besides, only a fool would every year: “I will not plant this many Pro: www.agardenforthehouse.com/2012/05/de- plant one or two of everything - the tomato plants next year.” And what suckering-my-tomatoes/ hungry rabbits would laugh at you do you think happened? You guessed Con: http://tallcloverfarm.com/326/tomato-plants- before your spade hit the dirt. it. I over bought and over planted leave-the-poor-little-suckers-alone the tomatoes again. But by July, when my garden is an overgrown jungle of abundance, and Oh, well...as philosopher Thomas In the Kitchen I can only make my through it with a Cooper once said, “A garden is never firm hand and a sharp machete, I so good as it will be next year.” Back Home with the Neelys / Pat Neely and Gina Neely regret my impulse to buy and plant Amen to that! The Good Housekeeping Cookbook to my heart’s content. Indeterminate The Chopped Cookbook tomato plants are the biggest culprit. Good Call: Reflections on Faith, Family, and Fowl / Jase Robertson

Suckering Tomato Plants Guy on Fire: Grilling, Tailgating, Camping, and More! / Guy Fieri The verdict isn’t in as far as suckering your The Nolan Ryan Beef and Barbeque Cookbook / determinate tomato plants is concerned. Nolan Ryan Some gardeners adhere to the practice while others do not. It really just depends on your situation and how much garden space you have to devote to tomatoes.

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Science of Henna at New Paris. Teens have fun doing science

Edible Gardening at West Alexandria for experiments at Camden. So Much Fun! Adult Summer Reading.

Freaky Food Week Experiments at Eldorado

Brush Bot Wars at West Manchester. Children at Eaton Science of Henna Program at West had a great time Alexandria. watching some very cool science experiments performed by Dr. Watson.

Brukner Nature Center at West Elkton.

Henna artist Lily from Ohio Learning about clouds through crafts at Henna at Eaton. Brukner Nature Center Visits New Paris Eldorado.

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