Upcoming FREE Programs and Events All events take place in the Community Room, unless otherwise noted. Non-Fiction Addiction Book Club Brick it Up! Lego Club Adults of all ages are welcome to attend! Please LEGOS are provided by the Library for ages 5-12 read the book selection of the month beforehand to build, create, and imagine! and join us for a lively discussion. Date: Third Wednesday of each month (8/19) August 2015 Date: First Thursday of each month Time: 4-5pm Time: 6:00-7:30pm

Upcoming Books: Main Street Book Club 8/6: Red Notice by Bill Browder Adults of all ages are welcome to attend! Please From the Directors Desk... 9/3: 81 Days Below Zero by Brian Murphy read the book selection of the month beforehand What a summer this has been! Summer Reading officially ended in July, but

and join us for a lively discussion. we hope all of you will continue to read with the same level of enthusiasm! We are Family Film Friday Date: Third Tuesday of each month Free movie on a big screen that is family friendly. Time: 6:00-7:30pm still compiling our statistics and uploading photos from the fun programs that Sponsored by the Azle Library Trust. Free Upcoming Book: were held and we will share those results with you in the September newsletter. popcorn provided by the Friends of the Library. 8/18: Black River by S.M. Hulse. Be sure to check out our list of Summer Reading sponsors located inside this Time: 4:00pm newsletter. The Summer Reading Program would not be possible without their Dates & Movies: SNAP/CHIP/Medicaid Sign-Up generous support, so please thank them when you patronize their businesses or 8/7: The Incredibles (PG) Representatives will be on hand to help you sign up for SNAP food stamp assistance, and CHIP/ see the individuals around town. Also, please let the Library Staff know about your What’s Cookin’? Children’s Medicaid assistance. For CHIP/Medicaid, Summer Reading experience. We want to hear your feedback and suggestions so Learn cooking tips and tricks, discover new please bring your child's SS# and birth certificate, that we can make next summer even better. recipes, and try tasty samples. All are welcome. proof of income and daycare/adult care/child If you have visited the children’s area in the past month, you may have Date: Second Monday of each month support expenses. Time: 4:30pm Date: Fourth Tuesday of each month (8/25) noticed a new special computer. Our Library is proud to offer an AWE Early Dates & Topics: Time: 2:00-4:00pm Literacy Station. It is an all-in-one computer that has been specially formatted for 8/10: International Foods Location: Library Foyer use by young children ages 2-8. It offers 70 educational games based in seven 9/14: Foods You’ve Never Tried to Make at Home Senior Cinema areas of curriculum. Kids will have so much fun playing games featuring popular TAG: Teen Advisory Group Free movie for adults of all ages on a big screen. characters like Arthur, Dora and SpongeBob that they won’t even realize they are Calling all teens in middle and high school! Meet Sponsored by the Azle Library Trust. Free learning! Many games are bilingual or available in Spanish. The AWE station was other teens, learn about new YA books and earn popcorn provided by the Friends of the Library. purchased through funding from the EDGE Initiative which supports technology community service hours. Time: 2:00pm enhancements in public libraries. We hope your children will enjoy using it! Date: 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month Dates & Movies: Time: 5:00pm 8/31: McFarland USA (PG) Location: Teen Room -Curren McLane *Storytime resumes on September 9* READ to a Dog Storytime: Toddler Tales Children of all ages will be able to read to a Ages: 18 - 36 months Azle Memorial Library certified therapy dog. Date: Wednesdays/Thursdays 10:00am 333 W. Main St. Date: Second Saturday of each month (8/8) Azle, Texas 76020 Time: 2:00-3:30pm (come and go) Storytime: Preschool Storytime Phone-817-444-7216 Ages: 3 - 6 years Fax-817-444-7064 Date: Wednesdays/Thursdays 10:45am www.azlelibrary.org

Hot New Releases

For a complete list of new items, glance at the New Books shelf when you visit Up & Coming What’s Up in the Teen Room? the library or go to catalog.mypcla.com and click on the New Titles link. Young Adult What have you read recently? Would you Bradstreet Gate Go Set a Watchman Books By Harper Lee recommend it to other teens? Fill out a book By Robin Kirman ********************** (FIC KIRMAN) (FIC LEE) review sheet (located in the Teen Room) An addicting book about Available in regular print, Alive large print, audio CD, rating a recent book and turn it in to the three college friends By Chandler Baker eBook and digital audio. Information Desk to receive a piece of affected by campus murder. The Witch Hunter candy. Book reviews will be posted on the board in the Teen Room by a staff member. Armada Circling the Sun By Virginia Boecker By Ernest Cline By Paula McLain (FIC CLINE) (FIC MCLAIN) Foulsham A scifi novel with A novel set in colonial Check it out! By Edward Carey videogames, alien Kenya in the 1920’s by the invasions and pop culture. author of The Paris Wife. Cinder by Marissa Meyer is about a Cyborg named The Heir Cinder. Cinder somehow gets mixed up with a The Oregon Trail The Mercy of the Sky By Kiera Cass By Rinker Buck prince who is soon to become king. The prince’s By Holly Bailey (363.34 BAI) (978 BUC) father is dying from a disease that comes from the A suspenseful account of An epic account of The Truth Lunars that live above. When Cinder is sent to be human courage in the face traveling the length of the About Us of deadly tornado. Oregon Trail. tested to find a cure, they give her the disease and By Janet Guntler it starts to disappear in her body.

Kitchen of the Great Nemesis Devoted This is one of my favorite books. When I first Midwest By Catherine Coulter By Jennifer Mathieu picked it up I thought it would just be a fun read, By J. Ryan Stradal (FIC COULTER) (FIC STRADAL) Part of the FBI Thriller but it ended up being so much more than that! A debut novel that foodies Series with Agents Savich The Heart of Plus, it’s a series so there are more books to read will devour. & Sherlock. Betrayal next! By Mary E Pearson -Melia (TAG member)

All the Rage *Teens ages 13-17 (middle & high school) can join us for our On By Courtney Summer bi-monthly TAG meetings. Meet other teens, talk about books, and earn community service hours. Join us on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of DVD the month at 5pm in the Teen Room. Odds & Ends Musings, helpful hints, book reviews and more from Adult Services Librarian, Meg Treseder

As librarians, we are constantly asked the

questions, “What should I read?” and “Have you

read anything good lately?” That’s actually one of my favorite parts of my job, but as someone who reads a lot, I find myself forgetting books I may have read a month ago. If you’re like me and you’ve been looking for a really simple way to better remember what you read and how you felt about it, I want to recommend Goodreads to you.

Goodreads is a website that allows you to keep track of the books you read. As you read or hear about books you want to read, you can add them to your own virtual library by placing them on specific bookshelves, which you can personalize. After you finish a book, you can add it to your “read shelf,” and at the same time, you have the option to rate the book (1 to 5 star rating system), write a personal review, and include the date you started and finished the book. This is one of the most powerful aspects of Goodreads. You’ll be better able to remember books you’ve read, and you can instantly add books that you want to read as soon as you hear about them because it’s accessible from your smartphone and tablet. It’s your own mobile library!

There is a very strong and active community of readers on Goodreads. As you set up your account, you can begin to “friend” people. You have the option of finding your Facebook friends on Goodreads, or you can find friends by searching for them. Because you can see other people’s book reviews, you have the ability to make friends with people who like the same kinds of books that you do, making them a valuable resource when you’re looking for your next book to read.

So, how do you set up an account? It’s easy! Just go to www.goodreads.com and under “New Here?” enter your name, email address, and choose a password. Click “Sign Up.” You can now start searching for books you want to add to your library and begin looking for your friends. If you need any help setting up your account, please feel free to come to the Library and ask for Meg. Happy reading!

Beat the Heat with

STARFISH

COLD READS! All About the World of Kids and Reading The frozen settings and chilly subject matter of these books will make you forget all about the Texas summer heat! Early Reader Series

We have some awesome series in our collection, just right for beginning or emerging readers. School 81 Days Below Zero The Call of the Wild will be starting this month, so this is a great time to become familiar with books that will help kids By Brian Murphy By Jack London develop a great foundation for what’s to come. The call numbers for these books are listed at the 940.54 MUR FIC LONDON end of each description. Try them out and see what happens to your little reader. The Incredible Survival Story of a A dog is stolen from his home World War II Pilot in Alaska's and thrust into the merciless life Margaret Hillert - Hillert’s Dear Dragon series and other titles focus on sight words, the words in Frozen Wilderness. (Also the of the Arctic north to endure September Non-fiction Addiction hardship and bitter cold. our language that are common, frequent and should be learned as a whole, without any strategies to Book Club pick!) decode them. They are short little books and definitely help kids get into reading. ER HIL

Ice Cold Impasse Syd Hoff - Hoff’s books are older, but classic. Great, fun stories, and much repetition. My favorite By Tess Gerritsen By Royce Scott Buckingham is Mrs. Brice’s Mice, but there are many fans of Danny’s Dinosaur out there. And what little kid FIC GERRITSEN FIC BUCKINGHAM doesn’t like a dinosaur? ER HOF Boston Homicide Detective Jane A city-dwelling attorney is Rizzoli must solve the mystery abandoned by his friends in the of a murder that takes place Alaskan winter wilderness. He I Like To Read - This is a fairly new series which features books by well known authors with fabu- after a blizzard in Wyoming. learns what it takes to survive lous illustrations. There is a LOT of repetition in the stories, an essential element of beginning liter- and plans his revenge. acy. The stories are super fun. Unlike typical early readers, they are picture book size, and use the In the Kingdom of Ice Journey illustrations to transition kids to books without pictures. Kids are very visual these days, and this series capitalizes on that. ER I L I By Hampton Sides By James A. Michener 910.4 SID FIC MICHENER Tadpoles - Little books with large type and simple words that are perfect for beginning readers. The grand and terrible polar Five men brave the frozen voyage of the USS Jeannett as Canadian wilderness during the Bright colors abound and will capture a beginning reader’s attention. ER TAD the ship’s crew attempts to map Klondike gold rush of 1897. the North Pole. Programs Just for Kids Toddler Tales and Preschool Storytime The Long Winter The Shipping News We offer Storytime on Wednesdays and Thursdays. No By Laura Ingalls Wilder By Annie Proulx Storytime in August - we will resume on September 9 Read To A Dog J FIC WILDER FIC PROULX Second Saturday of the month, 2-3:30pm The Wilder family survives a A father and his two daughters harsh winter in the Dakota move back to their ancestral LEGO Club Third Wednesday of the month, 4-5 pm Territory in 1880. This autobio- home on the starkly beautiful graphical novel will fascinate Newfoundland coast and must *See the back of the Newsletter for more info.* children and adults alike. adapt to their new (cold) lives.