SOUTH SIOUX CITY VOLUME 6, ISSUE 12 PUBLIC LIBRARY DECEMBER 2018 South Sioux City Public Library
Special Points of Interest: Happy Holidays New Fiction (Adventure Fiction) Staff Biographies New Audiobooks/ DVDs/ Music CDs
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE STAFF OF THE LIBRARY
vember. We are open to new December Holidays: The Happy Holidays members and welcoming to following are a list of Decem- We will have special holiday new members. We meet on ber Holidays. hours for the last two weeks Monday, December 10th at of December. 6:30 p.m. Hanukkah (December 2-
December 24th and 31st we 10) ______are open from 9:00 a.m. to Christmas (December
12:00 p.m. 25th) Cookbook Book Club: De- Boxing Day (December cember Cookbook Book Club December 25th and January 26) is serving cookies on Thurs- 1st the library will be closed day, December 13th at 6:30 Kwanza (December 26- for the holiday celebrations. p.m. To participate bring January 1) Have a safe and happy holiday cookies to share with the Omisoka (December 31) season. group, along with the book,
magazine, or newspaper from Whatever you celebrate this ______which you got the recipe. season, have a safe and happy
Also bring an ingredient list, so holiday. Writer’s Group: November that we can don’t have any was National Writing Month. allergic accidents. This meeting we will share
what we have been working ______on during the month of No- Inside this issue:
December Movies 2
NEW FICTION (ADVENTURE FICTION) December Cover to Cover 2
Iron Gold by Pierce Brown (FIC False Witness by Andrew The Crossing by Jason Mott Gifts and Donations 3 BRO) Grant (FIC GRA) (FIC MOT) The Gray Ghost by Clive The Wildlands by Abby Gemi Revenger by Alastair Reynolds Job and Career Accelerator 3 Cussler (FIC CUS) (FIC GEM) (FIC REY) Shadow Tyrants by Clive The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin Pharoah by Wilbur A. Smith Cussler (FIC CUS) (FIC JEM) (FIC SMI) NebraskAccess 4 Seek and Destroy by William C. The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Dietz (FIC DIE) Johnson (FIC JOH) (FIC VAN) Audio & E-books... 5 All the Little Children by Jo Fur- Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman Shoot First by Stuart Woods New Nonfiction 5 niss (FIC FUR) (FIC MAL) (FIC WOO) Page 2
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STAFF BIOGRAPHIES: MEET ODESSA COOLEY
I am no doubt the loudest librari- job. So, I needed to find a differ- with that job for the next four In-between my teens’ activities, an on staff here. My name is ent path for my life. years, while I lived in Omaha. my job, and my schooling I love Odessa and I am the Youth Li- to dig into my ancestry and fol- brarian. I have a love of working I moved to Omaha and was a I missed being in my “home- low the trails of history. I enjoy with children and encouraging stay at home mother and volun- town” of South Sioux City and reading, but, I do not have a se- them to read and release their teered with my sons’ school. I decided to move home. My fami- lect genre that I stick to. In the creative and imaginative side. really enjoyed that time I had to ly is all close to this city and I warmer months you may find me be with him while he was young. missed them while living in Oma- in my flower garden loving my Right after graduating from South As he aged, I found that he didn’t ha. I decided to take a move out flowers to death. My grandmoth- Sioux City High School, I thought “need” me as much, so I re- of the public schools and applied er says I have a “brown thumb” technology was my chosen ca- turned to the work force. I went for my current position. I have because my plants usually die. reer and went to college for to work for a public school dis- loved every minute of my career Scrapbooking, digital photog- computer programming. I discov- trict in Omaha and fell in love choice and have even started raphy, baking, crafting and sewing ered have a passion for technolo- with working with children. I attending college again, but work- are all other time fillers for me. gy, but I didn’t want it to be my knew that I had found a passion ing on my library science degree. that I needed to follow. I stayed DECEMBER MOVIES Family Movies: We show mov- 8th) Scott, a busy toy company Whoville and the Grinch's ies each Monday at 4:00 p.m. executive, and his son Charlie world upside down, inside out, and each Saturday at 1:00 p.m. hear a noise on the roof on and funny side up in her search Christmas Eve. Scott goes out for the true meaning of Christ- Early Man (Sat, Dec. 1st) Set to investigate and accidentally mas. at the dawn of time, when pre- kills Santa Claus. Because of historic creatures and woolly "the Santa clause," Scott inher- Polar Express (Dec. 17th & mammoths roamed the earth, 22nd) When a doubting young its the job of Santa. this tells the story of Dug, along boy takes an extraordinary with sidekick Hognob as they Doctor Seuss’ How the train ride to the North Pole, he October Movies unite his tribe against a mighty Grinch Stole Christmas embarks on a journey of self- enemy Lord Nooth and his (Dec. 10th & 15th) Why is the discovery that shows him that Bronze Age City to save their Grinch such a grouch? No one the wonder of life never fades home. seems to know, until little Cin- for those who believe. dy Lou Who takes matters into The Santa Claus (Dec. 3rd & her own hands and turns both
December Cover to Cover
Cover to Cover book club meets prison for the crimes of rape and Home by Tomi Morrison on Monday, December 10th at 3:00 murder. Unable to reconcile Carl's King and Maxwell by David p.m. They will discuss The Life We valor in Vietnam with the despica- Baldacci Bury by Allen Eskens. In this book, ble acts of the convict, Joe throws Winter’s Bone by David Wor- College student Joe Talbert has the himself into uncovering the truth. rell modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His ______ Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmil- task is to interview a stranger and lian write a brief biography of the per- If you Like The Life We Bury Student Body by Susan Rogers son. With deadlines looming, Joe Night Passage by Robert B. Cooper heads to a nearby nursing home to Parker If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio The Life we Bury by find a willing subject. There he The First Rule by Robert Crais Welcome to Braggsville by T. meets Carl Iverson,a dying Vietnam Grave Secrets by Charlaine Geronimo Johnson Allen Eskens veteran-- and a convicted murder- Harris Kill Me If You Can by James er, medically paroled to a nursing Patterson home, after spending thirty years in The Bone Orchard by Paul Dori- on Page 3
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NEW AUDIOBOOKS/ DVD’S/ MUSIC CD’S
Audiobooks DVDs We Made Ourselves a Home when we did not Know by Cardboard and Christmas The Star (DVD CHI STA) the Rough and Tumble lights by the Rough & Tum- The Disaster Artist (DVD DRA (MCD FOLK ROU) ble (MCD FOLK ROU) DIS) Music CDs Murder on the Orient Express Now That’s What I Call (DVD DRA MUR) Country 11 (MCD COUN Outlander Season 3 (DVD TV NOW) OUT) Cardboard and Christmas 13 Reasons Why Season 1 Lights by the Rough and (DVD TV THI) Tumble (MCD FOLK Dog Training 101 (DVD 636.7 Cardboard and Christmas ROU) DOG) Pieces and Pieces by the Lights by the Rough & Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philos- Rough and Tumble (MCD ophy (DVD 791.436 SCI) Tumble FOLK ROU)
GIFTS AND DONATIONS
The Library accepts gifts of books Specific memorial books can be ______and other materials with the un- ordered for the Library upon the derstanding that the donated request of a patron if the request Tax forms will be at the library items will be added to the collec- meets the criteria established by during the month of January. Tax tion only if appropriate and need- the Library Board. forms are changing this year. The ed. If they are not needed be- library provides you with tax cause of duplication, condition of Items we can’t accept are old forms, but library staff are not donated materials, or dated infor- encyclopedia sets, National Geo- qualified to answer tax questions. mation; the Library Director can graphic magazines and water dam- place them into the used book aged materials. sale materials. The South Sioux City Public Li- Memorial gifts of books or money brary encourages and appreciates Gifts and Donations are also accepted with suitable gifts and donations. bookplates placed in the book.
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HOLIDAY FICTION
The following are some of the Winter Solstice by Elin Hilder- The Color of Fear by Marcia Mul- latest holiday fiction. brand (FIC HIL) ler (FIC MUL)
The Noel Diary by Richard Paul Seven Days of Us by Francesca A Christmas Revelation by Anne Evans (FIC EVA) Hornak (FIC HOR) Perry (FIC PER)
Christmas Cake Murder by Jo- Thomas Kinkade's Cape Light Chasing Christmas Eve by Jill anne Fluke (FIC FLU) Christmas blessings by Katherine Shavlis (PBK S) Spenser (FIC KIN) Raspberry Danish Murder by Tangled up in Tinsel by Candis Joanne Fluke (FIC FLU) Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Ma- Terry (PBK T) comber (FIC MAC) People we Hate at a Wedding by Sugar Pine Trail by RayAnne Grant Ginder (FIC GIN) Do Not Become Alarmed by Thayne (FIC THA) Malie Meloy (FIC MEL) A gift of Bones by Carolyn Haines (FIC HAI)
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STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol. make a living on his own. The We recently got in a new graph- The novel is set in Minneso- reader gets a look at his work ic novel called "Be Prepared" ta and Iowa, in which Joe, a life as cowboy in the Southwest by Vera Brosgol. nontraditional college student and in Mexico. I found little works at a bar as a bouncer, nuggets that I had never consid- It's about a young girl trying to goes to class and takes care of ered, like when Jesse James find her place where she just his alcoholic mother and autistic went to New Mexico to recruit doesn't fit in. She finds out there brother. An assignment for the Kid for his gang after the is a camp full of kids who share writing class leads him to inter- Northfield, Minnesota bank her family's culture and she is view a convicted murderer and robbery. These things may be excited to finally feel "normal". rapist and murderer in order to totally fictional, but it added To her surprise, it isn't as easy write his biography. The assign- color to the novel. Readers of as she expects. Young Vera ment leads him into a world of a westerns will love this encounters wild animals, bullies, Vietnam vet and that of a pedo- book. Lovers of western history and worst of all, the phile and killer. will love this too. "Hollywood" (the outhouse). This story is full of laughs and The Kid by Ron Hansen; Ron super relatable for anyone who Hansen writes a fast-paced, has ever felt like they don't fit in historical fiction, biography of (and those of us who prefer the Billy the Kid in The Kid. Hansen indoors).— Michaela Frerichs begins with the origins of his family in Ireland, their immigra- The Lives we Bury by Allen Eskins; tion to the United States, as well Allen Eskens presents a fast- as his mother's battle to raise a paced thriller in The Life We family. The author follows Billy Bury. as he leaves home to raise try to