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Vol. 17 ◊ Issue 2 Mar / Apr 2016

The Preble County District Library Board of Trustees is excited to PC Room & PCGS Host Free Program April 2 announce that Lauren Robinson has been appointed Director of the About the Program: Contrary to popular Preble County District Library. beliefs, the Ohio frontier was not a remote backwoods devoid of style. Trade via the rivers and lakes, and later, the canals, provided easy access to all manner of goods produced in eastern urban centers and in Europe. While early Ohioans did import great quantities of Eaton Branch goods, they produced equally great quantities of goods as Monday, March 21 at 6pm well. Using both documentary evidence and surviving objects, we’ll The force will be strong at the Eaton library when we examine the wide range of goods both made and used on the Ohio offer a Star Wars Family Fun Night! frontier, and how trade networks and consumer choice played key roles in the furnishing of frontier homes.  Play games, win prizes, and make cool Star Wars crafts! About Andrew: Andrew Richmond is the president and CEO of  You’ll have lots of phot ops in front of our green screen! Wipiak Consulting and Appraisals in Sunbury, Ohio. With degrees in  Come dressed as your favorite Star Wars history from Kenyon College and American Material Culture from character - parent too! the Winterthur Program/University of Delaware, Andrew’s passion is the decorative arts of Ohio. He has lectured and published widely on the subject and has curated two major exhibitions: Equal in Goodness: Ohio Decorative Arts 1788-1860 and A Tradition of Progress: Ohio Decorative Arts 1860-1945. He also serves on the boards of several museums and decorative arts organizations. A Lively Monthly Book Club We meet the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30pm at the Eaton Library. Join us for a lively discussion! Saturday, April 2 at 1 PM What we are reading: Library Admin Office 450 S. Barron St. March 17th: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Eaton, OH 937-456-4970 Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

 Library Admin. Office  450 S. Barron St. Eaton, OH 45320  (937) 456-4250  www.preblelibrary.org 2 News from the Reference Desk

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Spring is here and now is the perfect time to visit the Library adds new research tool unique branches of the Preble County District Library. Between baseball games and grilling in your backyard, Searching through Preble County District Library’s online visit the Preble County Room to learn about the resources just got a lot easier. You can now easily search Civilian Conservation Corps in the Dollar a Day Boys thousands of full-text digital resources using the same program. If you are more interested in attending a search you already use to find books, movies, and music. family program, stop by the Eaton Branch for our Star EBSCO Discovery Service combines many of the library’s Wars Family Fun Night. Adults can look forward to a tea academic journals, magazines, newspapers, reference e- party at the West Manchester Branch, crocheting at the books, and more into one search. You can search the West Alexandria Branch, and 3D origami at seven of library’s online resources the same way you search for our branches. Storytime programs (for children under books, movies, and music. After you search the catalog the age of 11) will be held at our Camden, Eaton, New online, you’ll now see a tab at the top of your results labeled Paris, and West Elkton branches throughout March “Articles & Journals.” Clicking that will show you the and April. journals, magazines, and e-books available for instant

viewing. Most are in PDF form, so you can easily save, print, Programs are not the only service the library offers to or share your articles. the community. Remember to stop by one of our branches to check out our gardening books to get a The integration of EBSCO Discovery Service with the jumpstart on your vegetable or flower garden this year. library’s catalog makes researching a school paper easier Or find the perfect fiction novel to read from our vast and faster. Searching through the library’s online resources collection. gives you access to more credible resources faster than a Google search. PCDL has something for everyone - check out our Events Calendar @ www.preblelibrary.org to see just Check it out at www.preblelibrary.org. Click “Catalog/My Account” to begin searching. how much!

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Upcoming Events  Buy Local or By River presented by Andrew Richmond on Saturday, April 2 at 1 pm. Join us at the Library Administration Office (450 S Barron St, Eaton). The program is hosted by the Preble County Room and Preble County Genealogical Society.  Night Owl Prowl Family History Lock-in: Saturday, May 7th from 5pm - 10pm. Join us for an evening of research and camaraderie! Bring a treat to share!

Research Projects being conducted by the PC Room staff:  The Campbell Family  The VanAusdal Family  Korean War Books

 Access the library catalog to search for books, movies, music and more! Sad News

 Place/cancel holds, check due dates, renew items, and The literary world lost two stellar authors on view your account balance. February 19, 2016: Harper Lee at the age of

 While shopping, use BookLook to scan the ISBN of any 89, and Umberto Eco at the age of 84. book to see if it is available from the library. Things to look forward:  Download eBooks & audiobooks The stage rights to Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a  Search digital resources such as Chilton Library, Mockingbird, were obtained by producer Scott Rudin, with EBSCO Discovery, Salem Press, and more! screenwriter Aaron Sorkin handling the stage adaptation. The play  Locate any PCDL Branch using Google Maps. is scheduled for the 2017-18 Broadway season. The Italian version of Umberto Eco’s last book, Pape Satàn Aleppe: Chronicles of a Liquid Society, was released in February. Neither the publication nor the release date for an English translation has, as yet, been set. Developing...

Novels by Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird (1960); Go Set a Watchman (2015)

Novels by Umberto Eco The Name of the Rose (1980); Foucault's Pendulum (1989); The Island of the Day Before (1995); Baudolino (2002); The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2005); The Prague Cemetery The West Alexandria Library gave patrons the opportunity (2011); Numero Zero (2015) to get creative with adult coloring as part of their Be a Kid Again series. So far, Lego-building and playdough- sculpting have been part of the fun! 4 Visit the library wearing your duck slippers… download an eBook right from home! Your PCDL card gives you access to loads of digital magazines! Users have two options for browsing and borrowing magazines—Zinio and the Ohio Digital Library.

Download popular titles for FREE! Love Zinio is accessed directly through the library’s to watch movies? Ohio Digital Library website. All you do is set up an account through offers streaming and downloadable your device. Currently, 47 different types of videos! magazines are available. Try it out at preblelibrary.org. Click on the Zinio for Libraries ohioebooks.org link on the left side of the page. Is the item you’re interested in unavailable? Keep in mind that returns are automatic, so the wait may not be too awfully long. Items can be returned early too!

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Books to Film in 2016

’ ll Find! ll  The rights to Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series has been acquired by Lionsgate to be made into feature films. The first movie will be based on the 29th book in the series, Christmas in Camelot. No

word yet on a title or release date. Mary Pope Osborne will executive produce along with her husband, Will Osbourne. Developing…

 The film, Me Before You, based on the book by Jojo Moyes, will debut in theaters on June 3. It stars Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) and Sam Chafin (Hunger Games). The endearing sequel, After You, was released in September, 2015. Both books are guaranteed to please! The movie will most certainly Nook Periodicals

reignite reader interest. To read a digital magazine, you will be prompted to download the Nook app to your computer or mobile device 5 May Sneak Peek 15th Affair / James Patterson (Women’s Murder Club) The Girl from Summer Hill / Jude Deveraux (Summer Hill Novel) Night Shift / (Midnight, Texas, 3) City of the Lost / Kelley Armstrong (Casey Duncan series) Debut When Breath Becomes Air / Paul Kalanithi: At the Fatal Thunder / Larry Bond (Jerry Mitchell, 5) age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a The Apartment / Danielle Steel decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Troublemaker / Linda Howard Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. All Summer Long: A Novel / Dorothea Benton Frank One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the The Drowned Detective / Neil Jordan next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like Lawyer for the Cat / Lee Robinson (Sally Baynard, 2) that, the future he and his wife had imagined The Weekenders / Mary Kay Andrews evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Mercy / Michael Palmer & Daniel Palmer (Medical Thriller) Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical The Second Life of Nick Mason / Steve Hamilton (Action Thriller) student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given Cape Hell / Loren D. Estleman (U. S. Deputy Page Murdock, 9) that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a The 100 Year Miracle / Ashley Ream neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place Stealing the Countess / David Housewright (Mac McKenzie, 13) for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father The Emperor’s Revenge / Clive Cussler (Oregon Files, 11) confronting his own mortality. The Island House / Nancy Thayer

Flight Patterns / Karen White What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do

when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens June Barkskins / Annie Proulx out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to The Cavendon Luck / Barbara Taylor Bradford nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the Crimson Death / Laurell K. Hamilton questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, First Comes Love: A Novel / Emily Giffin exquisitely observed memoir. The Many Selves of Katherine North / Emma Geen Dishonorable Intentions / Stuart Woods Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his Liberty’s Last Stand / Stephen Coonts words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. Charcoal Joe / Walter Mosley (Easy Rawlins, 14) Bay of Sighs / Nora Roberts (Guardians Trilogy, 2) The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend / Katrina Foreign Agent / Brad Thor Bivald: Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone Shadowed: A Thriller / Karen E. Olson (Nicole Jones, 2) like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just The Pursuit / Janet Evanovich & (Fox & O’Hare, 5) to meet her book-loving pen pal. When she arrives, The Damned of Petersburg / Ralph Peters however, she finds Amy's funeral guests just leaving. Summer Secrets / Jane Green The residents of Broken Wheel are happy to look after their bewildered visitor―there's not much else to do My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s in a dying small town that's almost beyond repair. Sorry / Fredrik Backman: Elsa is seven years

old and different. Her grandmother is seventy- You certainly wouldn't open a bookstore. And definitely not with the seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on- tourist in change. You'd need a vacant storefront (Main Street is full of the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers them), books (Amy's house is full of them), and...customers. crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother’s The bookstore might be a little quirky. Then again, so is Sara. But stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Broken Wheel's own story might be more eccentric and surprising Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is than she thoughts. different and nobody needs to be normal. A heartwarming reminder of why we are booklovers, this is a sweet, When Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of smart story about how books find us, change us, and connect us. letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa’s greatest An International Bestseller! adventure begins. Her grandmother’s instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, T RENDING: The Widow by Fiona Barton. This attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth electrifying thriller is for those who enjoyed Gone Girl about fairy tales and kingdoms and a by Gillian Flynn and Girl on the Train by Paula grandmother like no other. 6/2016 Hawkins. With popularity mounting, it is sure to land

on best seller lists. Barton is a veteran British FYI: Fredik Backman is the author of the New journalist. This is her first novel. York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove. 6

Enjoy these mysteries available as eBooks from A Popcorn Shop Mystery by Kristi Abbott ohioebooks.org! Kernel of Truth: An all-new Popcorn Shop Mystery bursts on the scene, Liliana Hart’s J. J. Graves series: featuring gourmet popcorn entrepreneur Rebecca Anderson and her The main character is J. J. poodle Sprocket. Graves who runs her family’s mortuary and is also the town’s A Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum Mystery by Kirsten Weiss local coroner. The right The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum: When Maddie Kosloski's combination of mystery, career flatlines, she retreats to her wine-country hometown for solace suspense, and romance runs and cheap rent. Railroaded into managing the local paranormal museum, throughout the books. The she's certain the rumors of its haunting are greatly exaggerated. But a writing is solid and the new ghost may be on the loose. A fresh corpse in the museum embroils characters are nicely developed—plus the Maddie in murders past and present. mysteries themselves are well plotted. The mystery behind J. J.’s parents (slowly revealed A Kelsey McKenna Mystery by Marla Cooper through each book) adds an interesting, Terror in Taffeta: Wedding planner Kelsey McKenna is just a few mysterious twist. hours away from wrapping up her latest job: a destination wedding in the charming, colonial Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende. But just There may be a wait list for these titles so place as the priest is about to pronounce them husband and wife, one of the your holds quick to reserve your spot! bridesmaids upstages the couple by collapsing into a floral

arrangement. Worst of all, Kelsey discovers that she hasn't just fainted-  Dirty Little Secrets she's dead...Before she can leave Mexico and get back to planning  A Dirty Shame weddings, Kelsey must deal with stubborn detectives, another dead  Dirty Rotten Scoundrel body, and a rekindled romance.  Down and Dirty (also available in book format)  Dirty Deeds A Carson Stables Mystery by Leigh Hearon  The J. J. Graves Mysteries (Omnibus) Reining in Murder: When horse trainer Annie Carson rescues a beautiful thoroughbred from a roadside rollover, she knows the horse is Lauren Child’s Ruby Redfort lucky to be alive…unlike the driver. After rehabilitating the injured series: This series is for anyone animal at her Carson Stables ranch, Annie delivers the horse to Hilda who enjoys ’s Flavia Colbert--the thoroughbred's neurotic and controlling owner--only to find de Luce series. Child is best she's been permanently put out to pasture. Two deaths in known for her Charlie and Lola three days is unheard of in the small Olympic Peninsula and Clarice Bean children’s county, and Annie decides to start sniffing around.

series. A Magical Book Shop Mystery by Amanda Flower “Everyone knows that Clarice Bean is Crime and Poetry: Rushing home to sit by her ailing grandmother’s exceptionordinarily keen on the Ruby Redfort bedside, Violet Waverly is shocked to find Grandma Daisy the picture of books. Now in her own starring role, Ruby, a perfect health. Violet doesn’t need to read between the lines: her genius code-cracker and daring detective, along grandma wants Violet back home and working in her magical store, Charming Books. with her sidekick butler, Hitch, work for a secret It’s where the perfect book tends to fly off the shelf and pick you…Violet has every crime-busting organization called Spectrum. intention to hightail it back to Chicago, but then a dead man is discovered clutching a Ruby gets into lots of scrapes with evil villains, volume of Emily Dickinson’s poems from Grandma’s shop. but she’s always ice-cool in a crisis. Just take a classic screwball comedy, add heaps of A Lillian Frost and Edith Head Mystery by Renee Patrick breathtaking action, and multiply it by Lauren Design for Dying: Wised-up once-aspiring-actress Lillian Frost meets Child’s writing genius, and what have you got? Edith Head during a murder investigation. Together, they turn Only the most exciting new middle-grade series Tinseltown on its ear. since, like, ever.”

 Look Into My Eyes A Sally Solari Mystery by Leslie Karst  Take Your Last Breath Dying for a Taste: After losing her mother to cancer, Sally Solari quits her  Catch Your Death job as an attorney to help her dad run his old-style Italian eatery in Santa Cruz, California. But managing the front of the house is far from her  Feel the Fear (Hardcover version only)  Pick Your Poison (Hardcover version only) dream job. Then in a sudden twist her Aunt Letta is found murdered in her own restaurant, and Sally is the only one who can keep the place running. 7

Available from publishers in March See a title you like? Request it at your library! For those who read Kate Collins’ Title Author Series Title or FYI No. Flower Shop mysteries, the Devonshire Scream Laura Childs Tea Shop 17 Hallmark Movies Laura Bradford A Churn for the Worse An Amish Mystery 5 and Mysteries Skinny Dipping with Murder Auralee Wallace Otter Lake 2 Channel has Out of the Dying Pan Linda Reilly Deep Fried 2 added the cozy mystery series to its Ripe for Murder Carlene O'Neil Cypress Cove 2 ensemble. The first installment, Between a Book and a hard Mum’s the Word, premiered on Place Denise Swanson Devereaux's Dime Store 5 January 17 and stars Brooke Shields Time of Fog and Fire Rhys Bowen Molly Murphy 5 as flower shop owner and amateur When Bunnies Go Bad Clea Simon Pru Marlowe Pet Noir 6 sleuth Abby Knight. There are 17 books in the series, with book 18 Journey to Munich Jaqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs 12 coming out in April of 2016. And Then There Were Nuns Kylie Logan League of Literary Ladies 6

Death Sits Down to Dinner Tessa Arlen Lady Montfort 2 Reading list: Death of a Bacon Heiress Lee Hollis Hayley Powell 7 1. Mum's the Word (2004) 2. Slay It With Flowers (2005) Available from publishers in April See a title you like? Request it at your library! 3. Dearly Depotted (2005) 4. Snipped in the Bud (2006) Here Comes the Bribe Mary Daheim Bed and Breakfast 30 5. Acts Of Violets (2007) Vanilla Beaned Jenn McKinlay Cupcake Bakery 8 6. A Rose from the Dead (2007) Needle and Dread Elizabeth Lynn Casey Southern Sewing Circle 11 7. Shoots to Kill (2008) 8. Evil in Carnations (2009) Killer Takeout Lucy Burdette Key West Food Critic 7 9. Sleeping With Anemone (2009) Fat Cat Takes the Cake Janet Cantrell Fat Cat 3 10. Dirty Rotten Tendrils (2010) Reading Up a Storm Eva Gates Lighthouse Library 3 11. Night of the Living Dandelion An Unhappy Medium Dawn Eastman Family Fortune 4 (2011) Moss Hysteria Kate Collins Flower Shop 18 12. To Catch a Leaf (2011) Rest in Peach Susan Furlong Georgia Peach 2 13. Nightshade on Elm Street (2012) 14. Seed No Evil (2013) Breach of Crust Ellery Adams Charmed Pie Shoppe 5 15. Throw in the Trowel (2014) Braking for Bodies Duffy Brown Cycle Path 2 16. A Root Awakening (2015) A Clue in the Stew Connie Archer Soup Lover's 5 17. Florist Grump (2015) Blood Orange Susan Wittig Albert China Bayles 24 18. Moss Hysteria (2016) Death Along the River Fleet Susanna Calkins Lucy Campion 4 The Murder of Mary Russell Laurie R. King Russell & Holmes 14 Antiques Fate Barbara Allan Trash 'n' Treasure 11 All Murders Final! Sherry Harris Sarah Winston Garage Sale 3 The Body in the Wardrobe Faith Fairchild 23 Silence of the Lamps Karen Rose Smith Caprice De Luca 5

Moss Hysteria: A Flower Shop Mystery / Kate Collins: Flower shop owner Abby Knight and her husband, Marco, are ecstatic to finally be moving into their new home, despite the prospect of unpacking a seemingly infinite number of boxes. But their idyllic community is suddenly uprooted when a body is found floating in a nearby pond. The police think Abby and Marco’s helpful next door neighbor is the culprit, but the newlyweds aren’t convinced.

Meanwhile, Marco distrusts his mother’s slick new boyfriend, and Abby’s cousin Jillian has agreed to decorate their new home, resulting in comic chaos. Even worse, as Abby and

Marco dig through Brandywine’s secrets in search of a killer, they discover that some flowers come from very bad seeds...and danger stalks even the sunniest small-town streets. 4/16 8

March Accidental Alchemist Series by Gigi Pandian Once a Rancher / Linda Lael Miller (Carsons of Mustang Creek) The Accidental Alchemist: Unpacking her belongings in her Midnight Marked / Chloe Neill (Chicagoland Vampires) new hometown of Portland, Oregon, herbalist and reformed Dark Hearts / Sharon Sala (Secrets and Lies) alchemist Zoe Faust can’t help but notice she’s picked up a The Hearts We Mend / Kathryn Springer (Banister Falls) stowaway. Dorian Robert-Houdin is a living, breathing three- The Total Package / Stephanie Evanovich and-half-foot gargoyle―not to mention a master of French Property of a Noblewoman / Danielle Steel cuisine―and he needs Zoe’s expertise to decipher a centuries- Happily Bedded Bliss / Tracy Anne Warren old text. Zoe, who’s trying to put her old life behind her, isn’t so (Rakes of Cavendish Square, 2) sure she wants to reopen her alchemical past . . . until the dead Vulnerable / Mary Burton man on her porch leaves her no choice. Nobody But You / Jill Shalvis Masquerading Magician: Deciphering an ancient alchemy The Leaving Season / Cat Jordan book is more difficult than Zoe Faust bargained for. She’d much Home on Apple Blossom Road / Sheila Roberts rather be gardening and exploring her new hometown of (Life in Icicle Falls, 9)

Portland, Oregon—but time is running out for living gargoyle April Dorian Robert-Houdin. If Zoe isn’t able to unlock an unusual An Angel’s Touch / Heather Graham alchemy book’s secrets soon, the French gargoyle will remain Reunion Pass / Emily March (An Eternal Springs, 11) awake but trapped in stone forever. What We Find / Robyn Carr Doing It Over / Catherine Bybee (Most Likely To, 1) Island in the Sea / Anita Hughes ‘Til Death Do Us Part / Amanda Quick The Watson Brothers / Lori Foster (3-in-1 collection) Suddenly in Love / Julia (Lake Haven) Fire Bound / Christine Feehan (Sea Haven) Romantic Fantasy = Romantically magical, folkloric storytelling Out Rider / Lindsay McKenna If you have tried Fantasy books, but found them lacking in the romance I Dream of Dragons / Ashlyn Chase (Boston Dragons, 1) Titles not found in the catalog may be requested. department, try books written for the Fantasy Romance subgenre/

Author in the spotlight: Jeffe Kennedy, award-winning author of two The Pages of the Mind: Magic has established fantasy series (Covenant of the Thorns and The broken free over the Twelve Kingdoms. Twelve Kingdoms), with the first book in a brand new series The population is beset by shapeshifters (Uncharted Realms) slated for 2016! Paperback & eBook formats. and portents, landscapes that migrate,

uncanny allies who are not quite Covenant of Thorns was written between 2012 and 2014 and human…and enemies eager to take dealt with the romantic adventures of a woman trapped in the advantage of the chaos. world of Faerie. Titles included, Rogue’s Pawn, Rogue’s

Possession, and Rogue’s Paradise. Unfortunately, the series is not available through the library or ohioebooks. Happily, Dafne Mailloux is no adventurer--she's a librarian. But Jeffee’s most popular series is available! The the High Queen trusts Dafne's ability with languages, her Twelve Kingdoms series tells the epic tale of three way of winnowing the useful facts from a dusty scroll, sisters who must fight to save their kingdom while and even more important, the subtlety and guile that redefining who they are — and falling in love along three decades under the thumb of a tyrant taught her.

the way. Book one, The Mark of the Tala, earned a Dafne never thought to need those skills again. But she Library Journal starred review and was nominated accepts her duty. Until her journey drops her into the for the 2014 RT Book of the Year Award. The Tears arms of a barbarian king. He speaks no tongue she of the Rose and The Talon of the Hawk both have knows but that of power, yet he recognizes his captive as earned four and five starred reviews on a valuable pawn. amazon.com. Her upcoming book, The Pages of the Mind, will begin a sub series titled Uncharted Realms and will be set in Dafne must submit to a wedding of alliance, becoming a the Twelve Kingdoms world. It comes out in May, 2016. prisoner-queen in a court she does not understand. If she is to save herself and her country, she will have to For a complete bibliography of Kennedy’s works go to Novelist Plus offered learn to read the heart of a wild stranger. And there are from the library’s website, fantasticfiction.co.uk, or go to the author’s website more secrets written there than even Dafne could at jeffeekennedy.com. suspect… Amanda Stevens Eye on Romance 9 Graveyard Queen Series  Nora Roberts factoid: Liar published in April, 2015 marked the 214th book Books Four & Five coming in March & September! written by the author! Nora’s projected titles for 2016 include: Amelia Gray, heroine of the series, is a cemetery Brotherhood in Death, 42 ( 2/16), The Obsession (4/16), Apprentice in restorer who sees ghosts. Her motto: Never acknowledge the dead. Never stray far from Death, 43 ( 9/16). hallowed ground. Never get close to the haunted.  SEP Scores! Hey, all you Susan Elizabeth Phillips Chicago Stars football fans! Never, ever tempt fate. A new addition to this beloved, fan-favorite series will be released in

August! First Star I See Tonight tells the story of “a star quarterback and a #4 The Visitor: Restoring lost and abandoned cemeteries is my profession, feisty detective who play for keeps in this sporty, sexy, sassy novel.” A star but I'm starting to believe that my true quarterback and a feisty detective. Sounds like a winner to me! This is the calling is deciphering the riddles of the eighth book in the series: It Had to Be You, Heaven Texas, Nobody’s Baby dead. Legend has it that Kroll Cemetery is But Mine, Dream a Little Dream, This Heart of Mine, Match Me If You Can, a puzzle no one has ever been able to Natural Born Charmer. solve. For over half a century, the answer has remained hidden within the strange headstone inscriptions and intricate engravings. Mary Alice Monroe’s Lowcountry Summer Series “In this enchanting trilogy set on Sullivan’s Island, South Years after their mass death, Ezra Kroll's disciples lie Carolina, New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice unquiet, their tormented souls trapped within the Monroe captures the complex relationships between three half walls of Kroll Cemetery, waiting to be released by sisters scattered across the country—and a grandmother someone strong and clever enough to solve the determined to help them rediscover their family bonds.” puzzle. For whatever reason, I'm being summoned to that graveyard by both the living and the dead. Every lead I follow, every clue I unravel brings me The Summer Girls: For years, Carson Muir has drifted, never closer to an unlikely killer and to a destiny that will really settling, certain only that a life without the ocean is a life threaten my sanity. half lived. Adrift and penniless in California, Carson is the first to

#5 The Sinner: I've come to Seven Gates Cemetery return to Sea Breeze, wondering where things went wrong . . . nursing a broken heart, but peace is hard to come until the sea she loves brings her a minor miracle. Her by…for the ghosts here and for me. When the body astonishing bond with a dolphin helps Carson renew her of a young woman is discovered in a caged grave, I relationships with her sisters and face the haunting memories of know that I've been summoned for a reason. Only I her ill-fated father. As the rhythms of the island open her heart, Carson can unmask her killer. I want to trust the detective begins to imagine the next steps toward her future. assigned to the case for he is a ghost seer like me. But how can I put my faith in anyone when The Summer Wind: It’s midsummer and Eudora, nicknamed supernatural forces are manipulating my every Dora, is staying at Sea Breeze, the family’s ancestral home on thought? When reality is ever-changing? And when Sullivan’s Island. For years, Dora has played the role of the the one person I thought I could trust above all perfect wife and mother in a loveless marriage. Now her others has turned into a diabolical stranger? husband filed for divorce, her child is diagnosed with autism, and her house is on the market. Dora’s facade collapses under Previous novels in the series: The Restorer, The the weight of her grief and she suffers “broken heart Kingdom, and The Prophet. FYI: The novella, The syndrome.” Mamaw and the girls rally around Dora—but it’s up to Dora to Abandoned, which was published in April, 2011, heal herself as she spends the summer prowling the beach, discovering the introduced Amelia Gray, but the story did not focus secrets of the island and her heart. on her character. Abandoned is considered a prequel to the series. The Summer’s End: Harper, the youngest sister, arrived at Sea You won’t want to miss this series! Breeze intending to stay only a weekend, but a rift with her wealthy, influential mother left her without direction or a home. During this remarkable summer, free from her mother’s More Lowcountry Summer Series in May tyranny and with the help of her half sisters, Harper discovered her talents and independent spirit. A Lowcountry Wedding: Nothing could be more enchanting than a summer wedding—or two!—in But summer is ending, and the fate of Sea Breeze hinges on Harper’s courage Charleston’s fabled lowcountry. A centuries-old to decide the course of her own life. To do so she must release her plantation, an avenue of ancient oaks dripping insecurities and recognize her newfound strengths. She must accept love moss, a storied ballroom, a sand dune at sunset. fully into her life—the love of Mamaw, Carson, and Dora, the love of Sea

Breeze and the lowcountry, and most of all, the love of a Wounded Warrior Yet when a stranger arrives, a long held family secret could silence the bells ringing for the Muir sisters. who has claimed her heart. Scandals surface, family bonds are questioned, and promises are broken and renewed. 10

The following titles will be published in 2016. See something that interests you? Please search the library’s online catalog (www.preblelibrary.org). You may also request titles that are not available from the catalog. You may submit four requests per month (within 60 days of the item’s publication date.)

Amish Palooza 2016 New for You: Four Novellas in One Titles not found in the library’s catalog may be requested

An Amish Market: Four Novellas: All the March color and variety of a quaint Amish shop in a Planted With Hope / Tricia Goyer & Sherry Gore ( Pinecraft Pie Shop, 2) charming collection of novellas by four of Sense and Sensibility: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen’s Classic / your favorite authors. Feel free to come in Sarah Price (The Amish Classics) and browse! Includes: Love Birds by Amy Just Plain Sadie / Amy Lillard (Wells Landing, 4) Clipston; A Bid for Love by Kathleen Fuller; A Heart Once Broken / Jerry S. Eicher (St. Lawrence County Amish) Sweeter Than Honey by Kelly Irvan; Love in An Unbroken Heart / Kathleen Fuller (Amish of Birch Creek) Store by Vannetta Chapman. April An Amish Year: Four Novellas / Beth The Rebel / Marta Perry (Keepers of the Promise, 3) Wiseman: Rooted in Love (previously Which Way Home? / Linda Byler (Hester’s Hunt for Home, 2) published in An Amish Garden); A Love for A Dream of Miracles / Ruth Reid (Amish Wonders) Irma Rose; Patchwork Perfect, and When Christmas Comes Again (previously FYI: Rachelle Dekker , oldest daughter of New York published in An Amish Second Christmas). Times bestselling author Ted Dekker, unveils her second book in the Seer series, The Calling. The first book, Choosing, came out in March to good reviews. Wanda Brunstetter’s Novella Serial Novel Amish Millionaire Series The Pinecraft Pie Shop Series, Book 2 Brunstetter introduces the Amish Millionaire series, a six- Return to a town and a family you've already grown to love consecutive-month release of a brand new Amish serial novel,

coauthored with her daughter Jean Brunstetter. The series is set in Ohio’s Holmes County. Publication begins in March and Planted With Hope / Tricia Goyer and Sherry Gore: ends in August. When Hope Miller is offered the plot of land behind the Me, Myself, and Pie shop to start a garden, she The English Son jumps at the chance. Finally--some space away from The Stubborn Father The Betrayed Fiancée her four sisters! But everyone in town seems to have The Missing Will an opinion about what she should grow and how she The Divided Family should grow it. When the widower schoolteacher, The Selfless Act Jonas Sutter, asks if his students at the Amish school can help turn the

plot into a community garden, Hope only halfheartedly agrees, wondering if she will ever get the peace and quiet she craves. And will This September, Wanda will she get anything to grow? release a nonfiction book called Amish Quilt: Giftable Previous title in the series Inspiration Along with Made with Love: Lovina Miller should be thrilled. Quilting Tips. The book Pinecraft, Florida, has everything a young Amish includes photographs of Amish country taken by spouse woman could ask for: sun, sand, volleyball games, and Wanda and Richard Brunstetter Richard Brunstetter, while evening singings in the park. But Pinecraft lacks the Wanda Brunstetter provides a bit of history behind Amish one thing Lovina desperately wants--a pie shop of her quilting traditions along with various quilting tips. own. She longs for a place to gather with the FYI: The Hawaiian Quilt, the fourth book in the Half-Stitched community and serve the treat she loves. Amish Quilting Club series, comes out in September. 11 Keeping your changing needs in mind Latest in Large Print An interactive program Beyond for nursing home Harvest of Blessings / Charlotte Hubbard residents. Books (Seasons of the Heart, 5) Prudence and the Mighty Flynn / Sarah Evans Program Themes The Guest Room / Chris Bohjalian March—St. Patrick’s Day; April—Earth Day My American Duchess / Eloisa James Duel of the Outlaws / John Russell Feam A Rope for Iron Eyes / Rory Black Vengeance Trail / Steve Hayes Losing Me / Sue Margolis: Knocking on Five Shots Left / Ben Bridges sixty, Barbara Stirling is too busy to find Outlaw on Horseback / Will Ermine herself, while caring for her mother, The Bandaged Riders / Gordon Landesborough husband, children, and grandchildren. Kid Fury / Michael D. George But when she loses her job, everything The Someday Jar / Allison Morgan changes. Exhausted, lonely, and Dear Carolina / Kristy Woodson Harvey unemployed, Barbara is forced to face The Paris Key / Juliet Blackwell her feelings and doubts. Then a troubled, vulnerable little Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders / boy walks into her life and changes it forever. Julianna Baggott

Golden Lion / Wilbur Smith: He saw his father executed in battle. He spent his youth avenging that death. And now Henry 'Hal' Courtney is a man with a ship – and a family – of his own. But fate has not finished with Hal. On a voyage along the eastern shore of Africa, a powerful enemy abducts his wife, the fearless warrior Judith… and with her, Hal's unborn child. For Hal, a man all too familiar with loss, there is only one way forward: He must track his nemesis across desert and ocean, through the slave markets of Zanzibar and the dangerous waters of the coast, in pursuit of the woman he loves, the child he sired, and the glorious destiny that awaits him.

Bursting with action and suspense, heroism and heartache, this unforgettable novel proves once more that Wilbur Smith is the world's greatest adventure writer.

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The Passenger / F.R. Tallis: When the German Hammerhead Six: How Green Berets submarine, U-471, collects two prisoners from a vessel Waged an Unconventional War Against the located off the Icelandic coast, ordered to transport Taliban to Win in Afghanistan’s Deadly them to the base at Brest, one of the prisoners, a Pech Valley / Ronald Fry: In 2003, the Spe- British submarine commander, goes rogue, setting in cial Forces soldiers entered an area later motion a series of shocking, brutal events that seem to called "the most dangerous place in Afghan- be linked to the supernatural. istan." Here, where the line between civil- ians and armed zealots was indistinct, they illustrated the Afghan proverb: "I destroy my enemy by making him my friend." Fry recounts how they Passenger 19 / Ward Larsen: Jammer Davis has were seen as welcome guests rather than invaders. Soon after spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. their deployment ended, the Pech Valley reverted to turmoil. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles Their success was never replicated. Hammerhead Six finally of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he reveals how cultural respect, hard work (and the occasional has seen…but for one terrible detail―his young machine-gun burst) were more than a match for the Taliban daughter, who was enroute to a semester abroad in and Al Qaeda. South America, is listed on the passenger manifest.

Border Reprisal / Tim Champlin: Marc Charvein, Wells Fargo express messenger aboard a Southern Pacific train, and his old friend Carlos Sandoval need to find and stop the gang responsible for a series of Written in Fire / Marcus Sakey: For thirty train robberies. years humanity struggled to cope with the brilliants, the one percent of people born with remarkable gifts. For thirty years we Brute Force / Marc Cameron: In the tried to avoid a devastating civil war. We aftermath of a devastating biological failed. attack, America stands on the brink of disaster. The President of the United The White House is a smoking ruin. Madison States is controlled by terrorists. The Square Garden is an internment camp. In Vice President, global mastermind Lee Wyoming, an armed militia of thousands McKeon, is plotting his next move. And marches toward a final, apocalyptic battle. special agent Jerico Quinn is running for his life. Nick Cooper has spent his life fighting for his children and his

country. Now, as the world staggers on the edge of ruin, he NYPD Red 4 / James Patterson & Marshall Karp: It's must risk everything he loves to face his oldest enemy—a another glamorous night in the heart of Manhattan: brilliant terrorist so driven by his ideals that he will sacrifice at a glitzy movie premiere, a gorgeous starlet, dressed humanity’s future to achieve them. to the nines and dripping in millions of dollars' worth

of jewelry on loan, makes her way past a horde of Brilliance Trilogy: Books 1 (Brilliance) & 2 (A Better World): fans and paparazzi. But then there's a sudden loud An adventure from Marcus Sakey that is at once breakneck noise, an even louder scream, and a vicious crime thriller and shrewd social commentary; a gripping tale of a with millions of witnesses and no suspect--and now world fundamentally different and yet horrifyingly similar to NYPD Red has a new case on its hands. our own, where being born gifted can be a terrible curse.

The Indian Ring / Don Bendell: A spy has infiltrated President Grant’s administration. The best man to weed him out: Joshua Strongheart, a half-Lakota warrior/half-white lawman of national repute. But luck isn’t on Strongheart’s side. As soon as word gets out that he’s on the job, a group of well-trained shooters are on his trail.

13 Fascinating Lives & Events

Miracle From Heaven: A Little Girl, Her Journey to A Fondness for History Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Faith / Christy Wilson Beam: Annabel Beam spent most of her Outlaw Tales of Alaska: True Stories of the Last childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her Frontier’s Most Famous Crooks, Culprits, and from living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day Cutthroats / John W. Heaton: Pan for gold with dry when she was able to go outside and play with her gulchers and claim jumpers. Duck the bullets of sisters, she fell three stories headfirst into an old, murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at hollowed-out tree. Implausibly, she survived without a scratch. lawmen turned outlaws. A refreshing new While unconscious inside the tree, perspective on some of the most infamous with rescue workers struggling to get to her, she visited reprobates of the Last Frontier. heaven. After being Miracle From The History and Art of the American Gun / R. L. released from the Heaven is now a hospital, she defied Wilson: Engravers and embellishers of arms major motion picture science and had starring Jennifer are the stars of this loving tribute to the artistry inexplicably recovered Garner and Queen of firearms. from her chronic ailment. Latifah!

Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black

Heroes, at Home and at War / Linda Herieux: In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah Balloon Battalion, a unit of African-American G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black soldiers, landed on the beaches of France. Their Millionaire / Shane White: In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton orders were to man a curtain of armed balloons was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius meant to deter enemy aircraft. One member of the Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to 320th would be nominated for the Medal of Honor, an award he respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. The would never receive. Drawing on newly uncovered military records day after Vanderbilt's death on January 4, 1877, and dozens of original interviews with surviving members of the an almost full-page obituary on the front of the National 320th and their families, Linda Hervieux tells the story of these Republican acknowledged that, in the context of his Wall Street share transactions, "There was only one man who ever fought the heroic men charged with an extraordinary mission, whose Commodore to the end, and that was Jeremiah Hamilton." contributions to one of the most celebrated events in modern What Vanderbilt's obituary failed to mention, perhaps as history have been overlooked. contemporaries already knew it well, was that Hamilton was African American. Hamilton, although his origins were lowly, possibly slave, was reportedly the richest colored man in the Their Story: Fascinating People United States, possessing a fortune of $2 million, or in excess of two hundred and $50 million in today's currency. Harlem Street Singer: The Reverend Gary Davis Story In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, [DVD]: This rich portrait tells the story of Reverend eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger than life story of Gary Davis, the great blues, ragtime and gospel a man who defied every convention of his time. He wheeled and dealed in the lily white business world, he married a white musician. Tracing his journey from the tobacco woman, he bought a mansion in rural New Jersey, he owned warehouses of the rural South to the streets of railroad stock on trains he was not legally allowed to ride, and Harlem, the film is a loving biography of an artist generally set his white contemporaries teeth on edge when he whose unique style and remarkable skills on the guitar made him an wasn't just plain outsmarting them. An important contribution to icon in 1960s New York and inspired a generation of musicians. American history, Hamilton's life offers a way into considering, from the unusual perspective of a black man, subjects that are On My Own / Diane Rehm: In a deeply personal and usually seen as being quintessentially white, totally segregated moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out from the African American past. about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson’s)

of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him. 14

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Eat It! Prep Ahead Meals from Scratch / Alea Milham The Honey Connoisseur / C. Marina Marchese & Kim Flottum Juice + Nourish: 100 Refreshing Juices and Smoothies to Promote Health, Energy, and Beauty / Rosemary Ferguson Busy Day, Slow Cooking: 235 Simmering Slow Cooker Recipes for Every Occasion, Plus Lots of Handy Kitchen Tips (Gooseberry Patch)

Make It! A-Z of Ribbon Embroidery (A-Z series) Pure Soapmaking: How to Create Nourishing, Natural Skin-care Soaps / Anne-Marie Faiola Modern Vintage Gifts: Over 20 Pretty & Nostalgic Projects to Sew and Give / Helen Philipps Pipsquecks: Itsy Bitsy Felt Creations to Stitch and Love / Sally Dixon Magnets Thru the Year / Virginia Lamp Tissue Box Covers (canvas embroidery) Things to Make and Do With Your Children / Myleene Klass A-Z of Smocking

Do It! Container Theme Gardens: 42 Combinations, Each Using Five Perfectly Matched Plants / Nancy J. Ondra What’s Wrong with My Houseplant? / David Deardoff & Kathryn Wadsworth Better Birding: Tips, Tools, and Concepts for the Field / George L. Armistead and Brian L. Sullivan Home Hints and Timeless Tips (Reader’s Digest) The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated / Helaine Olen The Complete Book of Home Organization / Toni Hammersley Hello, World: A Life in Ham Never Too Busy to Cure Clutter: Simplify Your Life One Minute at a Time / Radio / Danny Gregory: To an Erin Rooney Doland outsider, the world of ham The Ultimate Treadmill Workout: Run Right, Hurt Less, and Burn More with radio is one of basement Treadmill Interval Training / David Siik transmitters, clunky Legal Forms for Starting and Running a Small Business / Fred S. Steingold microphones, Morse code, and

crackly, possibly clandestine, Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom for Modern Times / worldwide communications, a Al Roker and Deborah Roberts with Laura Morton: Al Roker world both mysterious and geeky. But the real and Deborah Roberts have sixteen Emmy Awards between story is a lot more interesting: indeed, there are them. They have covered everything from the Olympics and more than two million operators worldwide. This the Gulf War to natural disasters and the AIDS crisis in Africa. book takes us on a seventy-year odyssey through Now these two married journalists and parents have the world of ham radio. collaborated on the most personal and important “story” of

their lives. From 1927 until his death in 2001, operator Jerry

Powell transmitted radio signals from his bedroom

in Hackensack, New Jersey, touring the worlds Been There, Done That is a funny, heartfelt, and empowering collection of life most remote locations and communicating with lessons, hard-won wisdom, and instructive family anecdotes from Al and people from Greenland to occupied Japan. Once Deborah’s lives, from their parents and grandparents, and from dear friends, he made contact with a fellow ham operator, he famous and not. Here, Al and Deborah candidly share childhood obstacles like exchanged postcards known as QSLs cards with obesity and growing up in the segregated south; the challenges and blessings that them. For seven decades, Powell collected come from raising very different kids; hard-won truths about marriage and career; hundreds of these cards, documenting his the illuminating “little things” that adults can learn from children; and the genuine fascinating career in amateur radio. wisdom that the elderly can share with a younger generation. Photo OP

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March means it’s time for Teen Tech Week! The theme this year is Create It @ Your Library! Preble Teens Grades 6-12 have the opportunity to use our DIY Makerspace Kits to create a Polymer Clay Minecraft Creeper and/or a Zombie Launcher! All of our branches will have kits available during Teen Tech Week from March 7th-12th (*Limit one Makerspace kit per teen, while supplies last). Once completed, show your Branch Librarian and fill out a drawing ticket to be entered to win a MegaBot Flashdrive (inspired by Hiro’s Megabot from Big Hero 6). The drawing will be held on March 14th.

To celebrate Teen Tech Week, Teen Services is also hosting a Blended Photo Apps Workshop on March 8th @ 3:30 p.m. @ the Eaton Branch. The apps and iPads will be provided. Teens can learn how to customize and blend cool photos. Also, have fun with our Makey Makey and eat snacks! Registration is required.

In March, Teen Services will be hosting the ever-popular Super Smash Bros Tournament on the Wii U at Eldorado, West Elkton, and New Paris! We can have up to 8 players play at once! The top playing teen will win a Pickachu snapback.

 New Paris: March 7 @ 6 p.m.  West Elkton: March 16 @ 4:30 p.m. (*Registration required by March 14th)  Eldorado: March 31 @ 4:30 p.m.

In April, Teen Services will be hosting a new gaming tournament with the new Wii U game, Pokkén Touranment (released March 18th) at our Camden, West Alexandria, and West Manchester branches. The top playing Teen will win a Pickachu snapback!

 West Alexandria: April 13th @ 3:30 p.m.  Camden: April 21st @ 5:20 p.m. th  West Manchester: April 25 @ 4:30 p.m. Photos taken in January using anime photo booth props against the green screen. Eaton Teen Programming is still REGISTRATION ONLY. Register for multiple programs by calling 456-4331 or stopping by the front desk.

Since our Eaton gaming programs are so popular, we’re hosting 2 gaming programs monthly at the Eaton Branch -- one on a Tuesday and one on a Friday! The Pokkén Tournament for the Eaton Branch will be held on March 22nd at 3:30 p.m. and on March 25th at 3:30 p.m.

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