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Vol. 11, No. 2 Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 Spring 2009

Writers will gather Mark your calendar Writing in the Garden of the Gods These events take place in the The fourth Annual Field’s received a Washington drama, has been voted one of the year’s library unless otherwise stated. End Writers’ Conference State Book Award for best novels by Library Journal.com. will be held once again at the the picture book Rabbit’s Jonathan Evison is making a splash Through April 15 legendary Kiana Lodge, on Gift, illustrated by Laura with his debut book, All About Lulu. • AARP Tax Assistance. Downstairs conference room. M, W, F 10:30-1 p.m. the shores of Agate Passage Dronzek. Powell’s says, “…it reads like Salinger M 5:30-7:30 p.m. near Poulsbo, on Saturday, Kathleen Alcalá’s for the Freaks and Geeks-meets-Wes March 1 – March 31 April 18. latest book, The Desert Anderson crowd. . . an auspicious debut • Art Exhibit, Bainbridge Library Meeting Bainbridge Island Remembers My Name; for a writer with equal parts heart and Room: Bill Johnson, paintings authors will be well On Family and Writing, reckless verve.” Wednesday, March 4 represented at this year’s has been called “…an Mary Guterson, author of We Are All • Bainbridge Library Book Group. The conference, covering topics George Shannon important contribution to Fine Here, will talk about “Beginnings, Knitting Circle by Ann Hood 7 p.m. from children’s books to discussions of ethnicity, Middles and Ends” in fiction. Amy Thursday, March 5 creative nonfiction. identity, and the literature of place” by Tan says this about Guterson’s novel, a • Friends of the Library Book Sale 1-4 George Shannon, who acts the Bloomsbury Review. witty take on a middle-aged mother’s p.m. as master of ceremonies at the Author Carol Cassella is a practicing attempts to escape her dull existence; “A Friday, March 6 conference, is the author of more than anesthesiologist and freelance medical real winner. What a voice; laugh-aloud • Movie Matinee: Harry and the Hendersons 3 p.m. 30 books for children, and recently writer. Her novel, Oxygen, a taut medical hilarious, full of naked truth.” Saturday, March 7 • Great Decisions. Co-Sponsored by Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council 9:30-11 a.m. Living Books Monday, March 9 • A Good Yarn knitting and book group 7-9 p.m. Tuesday, March 10 • CLICK! Computer Class. Internet Meet the neighbors 101. 10-11:30 a.m. Pre-register at the Bainbridge Library, 842-4162 Wednesday, March 11 • Low Vision Support Group 1-3 p.m. you may not know • Island Film Group: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Film & Discussion 7 p.m. Last October, Islanders by the Dozens of Islanders turned out on the The second Bainbridge Living Saturday, March 14 • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 hundreds – most likely thousands – could Saturday morning to meet with people Library, now scheduled for 1 p.m. be found with paperback copies of To who had volunteered to be Living Books. April 19 at the Bainbridge High School Tuesday, March 17 • CLICK! Computer Class. Internet 201. Kill a Mockingbird. The human books included a variety Library, will give readers that chance. 2-3:30 a.m. Pre-register at the Bainbridge They were not alone. Throughout of individuals who had felt at some There is still time for potential living Library, 842-4162 Kitsap County friends and neighbors time to be the object of stereotyping or books to be a part of the April event. • Senior Center Book Discussion. Three joined the Kitsap Regional Library misunderstanding, or who held a little Typically, “books” represent groups or Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson 1:00 p.m. Location: Bainbridge Island Senior Center System’s One Book, One Community known point of view. They included individuals who feel they are the target of celebration of Harper Lee’s classic novel. an African American father, an anti- stereotyping or misunderstanding or who Wednesday, March 18 • Travelogue: “South Africa Safari” presented On Bainbridge, special events violence activist, and atheist, a Baha’i hold a little-known viewpoint. To apply, by matthew Brumley. Co-sponsored by The included panel discussions, book group faith practitioner, a voluntary simplicity email bainbridgelivinglibrary@gmial. Traveler Bookstore 7:30 p.m. conversations, a film showing at the advocate, and a female cop. com or phone 842-4162 extension 9802. Friday, March 20 Lynwood Theatre and – near the end of Also present were representatives from Many Island organizations will serve • Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society: the month – a Bainbridge Island Living the Islamic Center of Tacoma, a vegan/raw as program partners for the April 19 Gary Zimmerman, President of Fiske Library. foods enthusiast, a libertarian, a Bainbridge Living Library: JustKnow Coalition, the Genealogical Foundation in Seattle, presents “Accessing European Databases “You never really understand a houseboat liveaboard, a Japanese Bainbridge Island Japanese American on the Web” 10 a.m.-12 person until you consider things from his internment survivor, a former Marine and Community, Interfaith Council, Saturday, March 21 point of view,” says Atticus Finch in To FBI agent, a parent of a lesbian daughter, Bainbridge Island Historical Society, and • Great Decisions. Co-Sponsored by Kill a Mockingbird. a south African citizen, a gay man, a the City of Bainbridge Island. The Living Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities In the spirit of Lee’s book, the quadriplegic, and a survivor of a World Library project is co-sponsored by the Council 9:30-11 a.m. Bainbridge library offered a unique War II Japanese concentration camp. Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities • “Highlights from the Northwest History Collection” with KRL librarian Carolyn opportunity for Islanders to explore Both the “living books” and the Council, the Friends of the Bainbridge Neal 2 p.m. common stereotypes and different “readers” (those who interviewed them) Library, and Kitsap Regional Library. Tuesday, March 24 viewpoints in a structured environment: the said they found the experience • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 first-ever Bainbridge Island Living Library. worthwhile. • CLICK! Computer Class. Open At a Living Library, community “I enjoyed the experience Lab. 10-11:30 a.m. Pre-register at the members “check out” a conversation very much. Many of my Bainbridge Library, 842-4162 with a person who may seem very readers told me about their own Thursday, March 26 different from themselves. experiences of prejudice or • Club Cervantino de Lectores (Spanish Founded in 2000 by Danish discrimination, so my sessions Book Club). Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina by Eduardo H. Galeano antiviolence campaigner Ronni Abergel, were very much about sharing (Ihland Way Bldg) 7 p.m. who was present for the October 25 experiences,” said one of the Saturday, March 28 event, the Living Library has appeared books. “Future books need to • Great Decisions. Co-Sponsored by in more than a dozen countries. It made approach the experience with Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities its North American debut last fall, and a sense of humor, and readers Council 9:30-11 a.m.

Bainbridge was one of two libraries in should not be afraid to ask all Lau, photographer Rachel Sunday, March 29 the U.S. to launch the program (the other the questions they have always Iftikhar A. Chowdhry from the Islamic Center • BPL Speakers Forum: Karen Haas presents library was Santa Monica). wanted to ask.” of Tacoma served as a Living Book. “Narcissa Whitman: Lady at the Crossroads“ $10 at the door. Students free. 4 p.m. April 1 – April 30 • Art Exhibit, Bainbridge Library Meeting Also in this issue: Room: Nancy Rekow, student poetry Wednesday, April 1 Spring brings memories of Junkoh...... Page 4 • Bainbridge Library Book Group: Please call information desk for title. 7 p.m. Young People’s Library activities...... Pages 6 & 11 Continued on page 3 Authors: What they’re doing now...... Page 9 People, Books page 2 Spring 2009

Writers’ Roundtables: Are you ready to change the world?

Need to refuel that New Year’s Angela Fountas is a writer-in- chair of the Positive Futures subject line), or write to resolution to be the best writer you residence at Richard Hugo House and Network, which publishes Field’s End at the library, can be? Then come along to a spring runs WriteHabit.org, a website in support YES! Magazine. 1270 Madison Ave. Roundtable. of new and emerging writers. Her work North, Bainbridge Island, Local author Michael Lisagor will has appeared in Quick Fiction, Sentence, WA 98110. present “How to Share the Words You and Redivider, in addition to other What is a Field’s End, the Live By” at the March 17 Roundtable. literary publications. Angela earned Roundtable? writing community Have you ever thought about doing her MFA in creative writing from the The monthly Field’s affiliated with the an MFA? On April 21 Angela Fountas University of Alabama and has recently End Roundtable, free and nonprofit Bainbridge will speak on this subject in a session completed her first book, a collection of open to writers of all levels Public Library, conducts entitled, “What are the Pros and Cons of short stories. and interests, takes place the monthly Roundtables. an MFA?” And on May 19, Dr. David Known around the world through his the third Tuesday of each Additional support Korten will address the question: “How writing and lectures as a critic of corporate month at the Bainbridge comes from the City of Can a Writer Change the World?” globalization, Dr. David Korten holds Library. Bainbridge Island Arts Planning the future is degrees from Stanford Business School, The guest author David Korten and Humanities Fund, challenging—especially these days. has served as a Harvard Business School introduces the topic, and administered by the But Michael Lisagor believes in the professor and has 30 years experience then participants join in a Q & A period Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities power of the written word, how it as a development professional in Asia, followed by a large group discussion. The Council. For other Field’s End programs helps us learn from the past and chart Africa, and Latin America. The author evening closes with coffee and cookies, go to www.fieldsend.org. our future. Michael is the author of of The Great Turning: From Empire to providing an opportunity to network with Romancing the Buddha, which he has Earth Community, his previous books other writers. also performed as a one-man play. include the international best-seller If you have an idea for a Writers’ News Briefs A frequent speaker at corporate and When Corporations Rule the World and Roundtable topic or guest author, send THE BIGS group, Bainbridge Island association events, his latest book is The Post-Corporate World: Life after an e-mail to [email protected] (please Genealogical Society, will meet March The Enlightened Manager. Capitalism. Korten is co-founder and board include Writers’ Roundtable in the 20 (when Fiske Library director Gary Zimmerman will speak) and April 17, a workshop day with election of officers. Workshops are given by members, who focus on the previous month’s program, New travel essay books of note and always include a beginners’ group. For more information call Priscilla By Gail Goodrick Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Greenlees at 842-0210 or e-mail her at Non-fiction collections manager Kapuscinski revisits the great classical Thubron, who must be considered one [email protected]. travel writer and historian for inspiration. of the best travel writers currently at FOR AUDIO BOOK, ebook and Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Kapuscinski refers to Herodotus as the work. In this book, he traces the ancient music downloads from the library, go to Spain and Its Secret Past by Giles “original foreign correspondent” and network of trade routes that crossed from krl.lib.overdrive.com. Tremlett is a book written by a British claims that his books were his traveling China to the Mediterranean, examining SEATTLE OPERA Previews journalist who has resided in Spain companions on almost all his journeys. the many, varied lives of past traders who continue through April 25, when for 20 years. Tremlett goes below the Working for the Polish news agency, he traveled this route as well as looking at Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro will be surface of the typical tourist’s Spain could never jet in and out of exotic lands what is happening in these lands today. heard. Starting time is 2 p.m. of art, bullfights, and beaches. He and file his stories breathlessly while en It is a real dream trip for most of us who DID YOU KNOW the Bainbridge examines why Spain has avoided facing route to the next crisis. Instead, he used would not be willing or able to negotiate Review and The Islander are both on tape the disasters brought by the victory of his sensitivity to people to write stories crowded railroads, rattle-trap buses and for the convenience of visually impaired Franco and how the country was able behind the big news events of his time. cars, and uncertain food and lodging. persons? Call 780-2835 to sign up. to embrace democracy so quickly. For anyone who has visited Spain or is intending to visit, this is a must read. Down the Nile: Alone in a Field’s End Calendar Bainbridge Eye Physicians Fisherman’s Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney These events take place in the library, should win readers solely for the author’s unless otherwise stated. and Eyeland Optical courage in rowing down this river in a Tuesday, March 17 country facing civil unrest and a very Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable. Michael Lisagor discusses: Local Convenience, different traditional view of women. Learn “How Can You Share the Words You Live By?” 7 p.m. about Egyptian history and culture, the Monday, April 6 Exceptional Service Registration closes for the Field’s End Writers’ Confernce poverty of rural life, and how to survive • Complete Eye Exams crocodiles while alone in a small boat. 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By REBECCA JUDD and award-winning grounds are proudly owned and Incoming members are Heidi Maron Blair, Clark Bainbridge branch manager maintained by you, the people of Bainbridge Island, Gaulding, Linda Meier, Lois Reitz, Ann Sievertson, Many hands make the Bainbridge Library a vibrant funded entirely by private donations (see Page 10 for and Jan Stanton. We know you will continue the community center for Island residents. a special thank you to our 2008 donors) and managed tradition of building and nurturing the best possible The Kitsap Regional Library, through your tax by a volunteer board of directors of a non-profit 501c3 library for Bainbridge Island. dollars, provides staffing (those friendly faces you see organization called Bainbridge Public Library. And we wish to extend a special thank you to those every time you come to the library), books, programs, This dedicated body of 18 board members held their board members who will be serving as officers in 2009: and technology. annual meeting in December. It was a time to say goodbye Delight Willing, president; Pat Miller, vice president; Our outstanding Friends of the Library raise money to all those who had so ably and generously served the Lois Reitz, treasurer, and Jan Stanton, secretary. to support library programs and services, now and for library and to welcome new members to the group. Where will you see our six new board members? You the future. Outgoing board members included Marc Adam, will find them at Bainbridge Gardens, Town & Country, Our volunteers, over 200 strong, keep the library Joan Gardiner, Caryl Grosch, Jim Laughlin, Jenifer the bank, the post office, and of course, at the Bainbridge beautiful, active, and organized. Shipley, John Sinclair, Janet Brookes, and president Library. They are your friends and neighbors. But who owns the building? Our library building Val Tollefson. We thank you for all you have done on Please take a moment to thank them for helping to behalf of the Bainbridge Library. make the library, and the community, a better place for all. Continued from front page Mark your calendar Thursday, April 2 Tuesday, April 28 Wednesday, May 20 Tuesday, May 26 • Friends of the Library Book Sale 1-4 p.m. • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 • Travelogue at the Library. Co-sponsored by • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 Saturday, April 4 • Neil Baker Poetry event 7 p.m. The Traveler Bookstore 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 28 • Great Decisions. Co-Sponsored by Bainbridge Thursday, April 30 Monday, May 25 • Club Cervantino de Lectores (Spanish Book Island Arts and Humanities Council 9:30-11 a.m. • Club Cervantino de Lectores (Spanish Book • Library Closed for Memorial Day Club). La casa de la Laguna by Rosario Club). La Colmena by Camilo Jose Cela Ferre. (Ihland Way Bldg) 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 8 (Ihland Way Bldg) 7 p.m. • Low Vision Support Group 1-3 p.m. • Island Film Group: The Apartment (1960) May 1 – May 31 Film & Discussion 7 p.m. • Art Exhibit, Bainbridge Library Meeting News Briefs Saturday, April 11 Room: Tove Pisarelle, paintings BAINBRIDGE ARTS AND APRIL will mark National Poetry • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 Saturday, May 2 CRAFTS conducted its fifth annual Month and special events will be held in • “Landscaping with vegetables” with WSU • Great Decisions. Co-Sponsored by book drive to benefit the library during the Bainbridge Library all month long. Extension Master Gardeners 2 p.m. Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council 9:30-11 a.m. February. Donated art books are either Student poetry will be displayed, poetry Sunday, April 12 added to the library’s collection or sold readings held, and First Class, a special Library closed: Easter Wednesday, May 6 • Bainbridge Library Book Group: Please to raise money for new books on art, Island Theatre play reading by poet Monday, April 13 call information desk for title. 7 p.m. architecture, and design. David Wagoner, will be presented. A Good Yarn knitting and book group 7-9 p.m. Saturday, May 9 Wednesday, April 15 • Great Decisions. Co-Sponsored by Travelogue: “In the Sahara with the Tuareg Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Nomads” presented by Grant Winther. Co- Council 9:30-11 a.m. A book group challenge sponsored by The Traveler Bookstore 7:30 p.m. • Friends of the Library Book Sale 10 a.m.-3 Friday, April 17 Monday, May 11 For several years one Island book group, Friends of Mrs. Bomblatt, has made Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society: • A Good Yarn knitting and book group 7-9 p.m. Workshop focusing on European databases an annual gift to a nonprofit group or community cause. This year the group is available on the Internet. Mentors will be Wednesday, May 13 inviting other Bainbridge book groups to join them in support of the Bainbridge available to help beginners 10 a.m.-12 • Low Vision Support Group 1-3 p.m. Public Library. • Island Film Group: Palm Beach Story “It’s close to home, a building owned and administered by a nonprofit group Saturday, April 18 (1942) Film & Discussion 7 p.m. • Great Decisions. Co-Sponsored by representing our community, open to all, and a bastion of the book,” a club Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Thursday, May 14 spokesman said. Council 9:30-11 a.m. • Friends of the Library Book Sale 1-4 p.m. • Island Theatre Play Reading at the Library: To donate and name a library shelf for your group, simply submit a check for “First Class” by David Wagoner, directed Friday, May 15 $250 made out to Bainbridge Public Library with a note mentioning the Book by Kimberly King. Funded, in part, through • Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society: Karl Kumm, Director of Fiske Group Shelf Project. the BI Arts and Humanities Fund as part of Forms and additional information are available at the library, from National Poetry Month. 7:30 p.m. Genealogical Foundation in Seattle, presents “Revolutionary War Research” 10 a.m.-12. Bainbridge branch manager Rebecca Judd. Sunday, April 19 (It’s not necessary to belong to a club to name a shelf. Since the Bainbridge • Living Library. Location: Bainbridge Island Tuesday, May 19 High School Library. 1 p.m. • Senior Center Book Discussion. Madonnas Public Library opened its enlarged quarters in 1997 many Islanders have named • Island Theatre – Repeat performance 7:30 p.m. of Leningrad by Debra Dean 1:00 p.m. shelves for beloved friends and associates, as well as family members.) Location: Bainbridge Island Senior Center Tuesday, April 21 • Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable: David • Senior Center Book Discussion. Lost Korten presents “How can a writer change the German Slave Girl by John Bailey 1:00 p.m. world?” 7 p.m. Location: Bainbridge Island Senior Center • Field’s End Writers’ Roundtable: Angela Fountas presents “What are the pros and cons of an MFA?” 7 p.m. Love them Saturday, April 25 • Great Decisions. 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By VERDA AVERILL Library News Editor

On another page in this issue is a story by Barbara Winther about a young hero – a teacher in Zimbabwe. It reminded me that we also have some quiet heroes here on Bainbridge. We lost one of the best and brightest just a few months ago. And somehow, the very cold, gray winter seemed more bleak without Junkoh Harui’s welcoming smile at Bainbridge Gardens. With spring bulbs now timidly pushing through the frost, we think often of Junkoh and the beauty he brought into our lives. His family-owned nursery became a day’s destination for garden lovers, and the bulbs and plants they took home have multiplied into millions of bright harbingers of spring throughout the Northwest. Perhaps nowhere, though, is Junkoh’s presence felt The Haiku Garden in late winter more than in the exquisite Haiku Garden at our library. — Library News file photo The Bainbridge Island Japanese-American Community created that unique place to honor their ancestors and provide a peaceful spot for the public to Junkoh Harui pause and appreciate nature. — Courtesy of the Harui Family It would be impossible in this small space to mention every BIJAC member who contributed to the garden. But Junkoh was especially committed to the project. I still see his smile as he pored over sketches and described the A single leaf falls, process by which the haiku verses would be permanently then suddenly another, etched onto stones, for the pleasure of generations to come. stolen by the breeze JUNKOH DIDN’T plan to be a florist when he graduated from the University of Washington with a Ransetsu major in business. Lou Goller had offered him a job at Bainbridge Island’s first home-owned bank (now American Marine). But Uncle Sam intervened, and by the time Junkoh completed his military service that job was no longer You gave us a book available. So he and his wife Chris opened a florist shop. The first small Town and Country Florist (at the and we got a boomerang market) soon grew into larger quarters on Winslow Way, later becoming Town & Country Nursery on High School Road. There was room for expansion there, until By CHARLES BROWNE its way back to us Safeway moved into The Village in the early 1990s. President, Bainbridge Island much like a well- And that’s when Junkoh and Chris decided it was time Friends of the Library made and well-thrown to restore the old Bainbridge Gardens site left behind boomerang. by his parents during the evacuation of the Island’s In the library, a familiar sight is a patron dropping off Some books we Japanese-Americans in World War II. an armful of books they’ve donated to the Friends of the see multiple times, The ruined building was removed, land cleared, and Library (FOL). evidently very high- years of hard work by the Haruis and a dedicated staff What’s odd is that I’ve seen many of those books quality boomerangs. resulted in the showplace we know today. We gather transformed into boomerangs. So a book donated there to enjoy plants, to create holiday wreaths, take the You may ask, “What is the connection between a has given delight and children on pumpkin walks, lunch with friends on warm book and a boomerang?” enlightenment and days – and much more. The answer lies in one of the interesting aspects of generated financial living in the Bainbridge community. support multiple times BAINBRIDGE GARDENS continues, to our For decades the Friends of the Library (FOL) have for needed library great pleasure, as a family business now into its third supported additional programs and materials at the programs. Someone Charles Browne generation. Daughter Donna has joined Chris in Bainbridge Library. The Children’s Library aquarium, story referred to this as the managing the company, and it’s not unusual to see her time, marionette shows, opera and symphony previews, “ideal recycle”. It seems fitting for Bainbridge Island. children at the nursery. upgrades to the library staff area, the flag atop the flagpole, To find out more about becoming an FOL So as spring planting season begins, Junkoh’s spirit subscriptions for many of the magazines available to library volunteer, book sale dates, donating books, is still very much with us. At the nursery, in our home visitors, and a library endowment are some of the examples contributing to the library endowment, coming gardens, and always in the Haiku Garden at the library, of the wide variety of support provided. library events, reading recommendations, and to which he gave so much. At the thrice monthly FOL book sales, you’ll find information about what we do with your generous wonderful books, music CDs, and DVDs, all of which donations, please visit our website www.bifriends.org. have been donated by the community residents. Turn your books into library support boomerangs! Twice weekly, the Friends gather in the downstairs bookroom to sort and classify by genre, subject, and often by author all these donations. There’s good 1270 Madison Avenue, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 conversation and the feeling that something worthwhile Briefly The Bainbridge Island Library News is published every is being done. And often, when a bag or a box is opened, The library has over 100 titles in its book quarter by the Bainbridge Library Board, a non-profit we find books still carrying our price stickers and group collection. Your book discussion group can place organization, and distributed to all Island residents and occasionally a note urging us to “sell them again!” holds on titles up to a year in advance on collections of local library users. Delight Willing is Library Board (Actually some of the items inadvertently left in 30 copies of books that are the most popular. president. Verda Averill is Library News editor. the pages of the donated books are fascinating bits of Over 200 homebound library users are served history, but that’s a tale for another occasion.) by Kitsap Regional Library. Staff select titles to take to Contributing writers are all regular library volunteers. And here, dear reader, is the boomerang connection. those who can not visit the library and visit them once © Copyright 2009 by Verda Averill Communications. A wonderful book that a patron has given us was placed a month. For the visually impaired, talking books and on our shelves, sold, and then some months later, found large-print books are available. Spring 2009 page 5 People An enduring partnership Bainbridge Public Library and Kitsap Regional Library

By JILL JEAN Public Library is a part, offering a growing variety of every library branch with something for everyone. Last Director, Kitsap Regional Library services to a diverse population throughout Kitsap County. year programs ranged in interest from the History of No matter your age, you’ll find something at the Tattoos to opera Previews. Every library has story times Bainbridge Public Library has been known and loved library to help in your quest for lifelong learning: for the smallest children through early elementary age. by Islanders for years. The building was designed by Staff: Our capable, helpful, and knowledgeable staff Many libraries have active teen programs that engage John Rudolph and first opened in 1962. is happy to assist you. one of the most difficult audiences to reach. The original small, centrally located building has Books, CDs, DVDs, and other materials: Our Special events: We are continually thinking of been enlarged twice (in 1982 and 1997), built entirely by collection is the heart of our library system, and even in new ways to connect Kitsap Regional Library to the donations from the community. times of budget reductions, we are always adding to it. public. Last year, we launched our first “One Book One In 1945, Bainbridge Public Library became With KRL’s inter-library loans, the public has access to Community” program that had thousands in the county part of the Kitsap Regional Library system. A millions of books – virtually anything that circulates, far reading To Kill a Mockingbird. unique partnership was launched; Kitsap Regional more than any one library could stock. Most Islanders agree that the library is worth the Library furnished Computers: Every Kitsap Regional Library branch very small portion of real estate taxes that support Kitsap books and personnel, has public computers. Users have access to free e-mail Regional Library. On Bainbridge, a homeowner with and the Bainbridge and access to the internet, also free of charge. property valued at $500,000 paid about $143 in library Public Library paid all Variety of formats: Large-print books and a special taxes last year. That seems a small price to pay for such expenses of the library enlarged-type computer are available for the visually a wealth of services. building—maintenance, impaired, in addition to audio books which are also For more about Kitsap Regional Library services and repairs, utilities, and available for the general public. A newer service is KRL’s upcoming events, check out the website www.krl.org and grounds upkeep. downloadable audio service, where you can download look for the summer Library News in late May. This partnership books and music directly to your computer or mp3 player. continues today with Summer reading is a system-wide program that (Bainbridge resident Jill Jean is director of the Kitsap a nine-branch Kitsap engages young people in reading. Every year it draws Regional Library. Althea Paulson is the Island’s representative on Regional Library system, thousands of young readers to all our branches. the Kitsap Regional Library Board of Trustees. Rebecca Judd is of which Bainbridge Programming: Special events are happening in the Bainbridge branch manager.) Jill Jean Islander is named KRL Foundation director Peter Raffa, a Bainbridge resident and experienced are indeed fortunate to have someone with his experience fundraiser, was named last month to the new position to lead our Kitsap Regional Library Foundation’s Ultimate Book Club “We are also starting the inaugural “Author Circle”, of executive director of the Kitsap Regional Library fundraising efforts. . .Before joining us he was executive which will be the Ultimate Book Club. Donors who Foundation. director of the Seattle Public Library Foundation, the contribute a minimum of $2,500 annually to the KRL Raffa, his wife Christie and daughter Taylor have nation’s second largest library foundation. . .” Foundation will be invited to very special gourmet lived on Bainbridge Island for the past 15 years, and Raffa, with the help of the KRL Foundation Board, dinners in a private Island home on the water with a are all enthusiastic patrons of the Bainbridge Public will work to raise significant resources for the county’s nationally bestselling author. Donors will receive a book Library. Taylor, now a teenager, was in fact featured in nine-branch library system, which includes branches at a month prior to the event and have the ability to discuss the Bainbridge Library News 10 years ago, as a young Bainbridge Island, Bremerton, Kingston, Little Boston, the book with the author over an evening of fine dining philanthropist who had donated her allowance to the Manchester, Port Orchard, Poulsbo, Silverdale, and and conversation. Jill Jean, KRL director, will also be Children’s Library at the KRL Bainbridge branch. Sylvan Way, as well as a bookmobile. on hand to lead the discussion and answer any questions A professional fundraiser for 25 years, Raffa served “The economic downturn has caused even more people may have about the future of the library Author previously as director of the Seattle Public Library people to use the library for books, media, computers Circle members will also have the chance of getting their Foundation, the Northwest Kidney Centers Foundation, and various programs. We must raise more money to book signed by the author. (For more information, about and the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind. He is currently increase the quality of our collections, services, and the Author Circle, call Peter at (360) 475-9039.) on the board of the Association of Fundraising programs for the public,” Raffa said. Peter is grateful to his fellow Islanders who support Professionals and Peace Trees Vietnam. He has also “We’re planning on raising money in traditional ways, the Bainbridge Island Public Library. served on the boards of Bainbridge Island Childcare to increase the visibility of our many needs,” Peter noted. “Libraries are more than a place for information; they are Center, Northwest Development Officers Association, “We’re also planning a special Romance Writers event a place of transformation,” it has been said. Peter agrees. and the John Moffitt Foundation. in May and a Library Gala in October to raise funds for (To learn more, visit the web at www.krl.org.) Jill Jean, director of the Kitsap Regional Library special programs such as summer reading, third graders to system, welcomed Raffa with a strong endorsement. “We the library, adult literacy, and to build our collections.”

Library seeks Living Books

The Bainbridge Library seeks volunteer Typically, the live “books” represent groups “Living Books” for the second Living Library or individuals who feel they are the target of event Sunday, April 19. stereotyping or misunderstanding or who hold a At a Living Library, community members are little-known viewpoint. invited to “check out” in conversation persons To apply, email bainbridgelivinglibrary@ who may seem very different from themselves. gmail.com or phone 842-4162, extension 9802. Peter Raffa

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By Carmine Rau Youth Services Librarian

If you have been to the library on a Friday these last six months, you have probably had a chance to talk with Christina, the lovely library assistant who was on loan to us from our Silverdale branch. Her smile, knowledge of children’s materials, knack for bulletin boards and ability as a DJ for a room full of toddlers will be missed around here. Thank you, Christina, for everything. Check out our rug A big thank you Dana’s Showplace for donating the bright and cheery rug that now resides in the children’s new book area. Teddy bear picnic Bring your bear or special stuffed friend to a picnic Calder, Jenny, John and Nat Lange. at the library. We will enjoy stories, snacks and crafts and the Bear Hospital will be open for minor repairs to Courtesy of Tricia Kurtzman Photography. your friend. Follow the reader Poisson d’Avril! Celebrate April Fool’s Day French style. Come Books are life-long friends decorate a paper fish to attach to someone’s back without them noticing. Fishing making supplies will be By Jenny Lange Sesame Street begs us not to turn the page! on hand all day, Wednesday, April 1. At almost 7, Calder’s brother Nat is looking for Every once in a while in the Library, if I’m lucky, I see a treachery, daring, and heroics in his reading. In the series book I remember from my childhood. If it was a favorite, I readers, he loves the Frannie K. Stein books, by Jim Perform a poem might even gasp! It’s like bumping into an old, good friend. Benton. Franny is a normal girl who just happens to be a Get seriously silly with skits of poetry by Jack That’s the way I feel when I see books like The Snowy mad scientist. Another favorite series is Secrets of Droon, Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein. Just bring yourself, all Day, by Ezra Jack Keats, or Will I Have a Friend?, by by Tony Abbott (on the shelf below Magic Tree House.) props and poems will be provided. Miriam Cohen, or Amos and Boris, by William Steig. They Three kids find a secret entrance to another world, and transport me back to my pre-reading days, when so much of join up with powerful wizards to do battle against the evil Volunteers needed the mystery of a story is captured in the illustrations. Lord Sparr. Nat and I enjoy reading anything by master Do you like to read aloud? Do you like working with And I wonder sometimes, as I read to my two boys. storyteller Roald Dahl, especially James and the Giant little kids? Are you looking for a way to volunteer in Which books will become their old, dear friends? Their Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The your community? Are you free Tuesday mornings this favorites seem to change all the time. So when we go to B.F.G. (which stands for “The Big Friendly Giant”). For summer? If you said “Yes!” then you might be interested the library, we bring a big bag. something really clever, try Half Magic, by Edward Eager. in applying to volunteer at the library. We are looking for Calder is a 3 year-old with a dear heart. Right now he A family of bored children finds an ancient coin that grants readers age 8 to 18 to join our corps of Reading Friends. loves Knuffle Bunny, by Mo Willems, because it reminds him wishes – well, half of what you wish for, anyway. We will offer a 30 minute orientation on Wednesday, of his favorite stuffed animal, who is Peter Rabbit. (Calder It’s reassuring to know that no matter how big the kids May 27 at 5 pm for people interested in volunteering also knows where the books by Beatrix Potter are shelved, get, or how old we get, we can always revisit a time in our during this summer. This will give parents and kids age 8 and once grabbed an armload.) He enjoys adventurous but lives by pulling a special book off the shelf. It’s part of and up the chance to decide if this volunteer opportunity tender stories, like The 3 Bears and Goldilocks, by Margaret the magic of reading. And like introducing old friends to will work for you. Attendance is strongly encouraged. Wiley, with beautiful illustrations of what a bear’s home might new, I hope you enjoy some of our family’s favorites. Returning Reading Friend volunteers do not need to actually look like. And In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice attend an orientation session. Please call Youth Services Sendak, which shows a sleepy boy romping through a warm If you would like to share your family’s recent Librarian Carmine at 842-4162 for more information. kitchen while the bakers make fresh coffee cake. And recently favorite children’s and young adult books for our he all but memorized one of my old favorites, The Monster Follow the Reader column, please contact Carmine at the End of this Book, by Jon Stone, where Grover from Rau at 842-4162. Storytime calendar Monday, March 2 Monday, March 16 Tuesday, April 7 Wednesday, April 22 Monday, May 11 Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Baby Storytime, 12:30pm Preschool storytime, 10:30am Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Tuesday, March 3 Tuesday, March 17 Pajama storytime for little ones, 7:00pm Monday, April 27 Tuesday, May 12 Baby Storytime, 12:30pm Baby Storytime, 12:30pm Wednesday, April 8 Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Baby Storytime, 12:30pm Pajama storytime for little ones, 7:00pm Pajama storytime for little ones, 7:00pm Preschool storytime, 10:30am Tuesday, April 28 Pajama storytime for little ones, 7:00pm Wednesday, March 4 Wednesday, March 18 Monday, April 13 Baby Storytime, 12:30pm Wednesday, May 13 Preschool storytime, 10:30am Preschool storytime, 10:30am Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Pajama storytime for little ones, 7:00pm Preschool storytime, 10:30am Guest: Bainbridge Island Fire Dept. Monday, March 23 Tuesday, April 14 Wednesday, April 29 Monday, May 18 Preschool storytime, 10:30am Monday, March 9 Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Baby Storytime, 12:30pm Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Tuesday, March 24 Pajama storytime for little ones, 7:00pm Monday, May 4 Tuesday, May 19 Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Tuesday, March 10 Baby Storytime, 12:30pm Wednesday, April 15 Baby Storytime, 12:30pm Baby Storytime, 12:30pm Pajama storytime for little ones, 7:00pm Preschool storytime, 10:30am Tuesday, May 5 Pajama storytime for little ones, 7:00pm Pajama storytime for little ones, 7:00pm Wednesday, March 25 Monday, April 20 Baby Storytime, 12:30pm Wednesday, May 20 Pajama storytime for little ones, 7:00pm Wednesday, March 11 Preschool storytime, 10:30am Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Preschool storytime, 10:30am Preschool storytime, 10:30am Monday, April 6 Tuesday, April 21 Wednesday, May 6 Preschool storytime, 10:30am Toddler Storytime, 10:30am Baby Storytime, 12:30pm No storytimes in June. 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Bainbridge Dental Park 525 High School Rd, NW Bainbridge Island, WA 98110 (206) 842-4794 for appointments Spring 2009 page 7 Travel A visit with Moyo, a Zimbabwe hero By Barbara Winther in 1972. However, by 1975, during the country’s struggle for independence, many My husband, Grant, and I traveled rural schools were closed, including the to Zimbabwe as tourists in November one in Ngamo. When Mr. Williams learned of 2007. Our intention was to go only to that the black man who so ably worked for Victoria Falls and Hwange National Park. him had a young son who had been without We did this, but also ended up learning a school for four years, he sent for Moyo, firsthand about the economic conditions and saying the boy should be educated. hardships under which the country’s citizens “In 1978,” said Moyo, “Mr. Williams are trying to survive. And, we visited a personally took me to the all-white, primary school where we met a teacher who segregated school in Bulawayo. He made a lasting impression on us. demanded I be allowed to attend. At first Conditions are frightful in Zimbabwe. the principal would not have it. He said that Cholera is endemic. A great number of admitting a black child into a white school educated people have fled, moving to South would result in a great protest and that it Africa or Botswana where they can find could not and should not be done. But Mr. productive jobs and feed their families. Williams persevered. Finally I was enrolled In Zimbabwe, grocery store shelves there in fourth grade. Although the parents sit bare, the poor are close to starvation, of the students were unhappy, there was no all gasoline stations have closed, fewer great protest.” and fewer doctors, nurses and teachers are Moyo was older and much taller than available, and about the only way to do the white students. For a year he struggled, business is on the black market. not only with the academics but with When we were there, a $200,000 discrimination. There were times when he Zimbabwe bill was worth a mere 20 cents; wanted to give up, but his father and Mr. now it is worthless. This means if you want Williams insisted he was doing better, told to conduct a business transaction using him he would succeed, and drilled into him Zimbabwe currency, you must carry bags how important education was. full of money to do it—thus the necessity Year by year he improved, until for dealing on the black market. academically he stood at the head of his class. During our stay in Hwange National Also, he excelled in sports, and Moyo Mthenjwa. Park, our guide asked us if we wanted to everyone wanted him on their team. — Photos by Grant Winther visit a primary school in nearby Ngamo In 1982, two years after independence village. Being a retired school teacher, I was was finally achieved in the country, Moyo eager to go. What would it be like teaching graduated from primary school. That year under the awful conditions in this country? Mr. Williams sold his home to another white At the school, the headmaster and man and left for the United Kingdom. Before fourth grade teacher was Moyo Mthenjwa. leaving, he gave Moyo’s father enough On the day we visited his class, we were money for Moyo to attend a boarding school met by an energetic group of children, and finish his secondary education. singing as they ran out of the compound Moyo began teaching at Ngamo gate to greet us. Inside, they performed a Primary School in 1998. Education became vigorous dance, accompanied by two boys a beacon in his life. While teaching, he playing drums. went on to college, achieving his first Then, I told a story, asking for and degree in 2003 by distance-learning getting help from the children with motions through Zimbabwe Open University. to illustrate the actions. The story was about “I felt it was important to learn more. an impala that strayed too far from the herd I got my Masters in 2005,” he said. “All and nearly became a meal for a lion. achieved from my village of Ngamo. I read After that, we looked at the workbooks, under a candle light because during those talked to the students and examined lessons days the school had no electricity.” on the blackboards. I gave the teacher a He smiled. “You see, I was given a copy of a book I wrote while I lived in chance to be educated. I was encouraged Kenya, Plays from African Tales, to share to stay in school. Because of this, I feel with the students. committed to help educate the children in It was a joyous and educational time, my village. There are not enough teachers although we noticed some barefoot children, here. Our school has lost one, and we must a number without uniforms, and for lunch combine two grades. We try our best. We Two students. many had only a piece of fruit. But Moyo do what we can.” obviously had done much to instill the desire He sighed and looked away. to learn. Before we left, I asked him why he “Unfortunately, after the students finish our had decided to stay in the country, when so seventh grade curriculum, it is unlikely they many teachers had left. will go further in their schooling. They would “Too much to tell,” he answered. I said, have to travel a great distance for a secondary “Please. I want to know.” Reluctantly, he school. Few can do that, for they are poor. Books on Zimbabwe told me his story. Many have dreams they can never realize.” He looked at the ground for a moment, Love in the Driest Season, Neely Tucker—an American couple in then straightened his shoulders and walked Zimbabwe fights to save the life of an abandoned infant girl. A teacher’s story back into his classroom. House of Stone, Christina Lamb—the true story of a family divided in When Moyo was young, his father Most likely, there are many heroes in war-torn Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe, people who stay because they worked in the city of Bulawayo, 220 km. Our Vote, Our Guns: Robert Mugabwe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe, away from the family’s home in Ngamo. At love their country and want to help others; that time Zimbabwe was called Rhodesia we feel honored to have met one. Although Martin Meredith—the decline of national idealism as Mugabe becomes and was under colonial rule. it was obvious that poverty encompassed increasingly autocratic and corrupt. Moyo’s father worked for a white his life and the lives of those around him, Zenzele, a Letter for my Daughter, J. Nozipo Maraire—extraordinary man, Mr. Jake Williams. He mowed his Moyo Mthenjwa did not once speak ill of the novel about love, war, separation and being a woman written as a letter lawns, waited on him, and took good care government that created this present situation. from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter at Harvard. of his home. Most likely it would have been Moyo started primary school in Ngamo dangerous for him to do so.

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By Julie O’Neill, an author with writer’s block when he meets Black & White and Dead All Over by Dry Storeroom No.1: The Secret Life Reference Librarian Glendon Hale, a charming former outlaw John Darnton. The editor of a New York of the Natural History Museum by Richard on his way to Mexico to find the wife he newspaper is found stabbed with an editor’s Fortey. This is a fascinating look at the Last year was the year of “Twilight”, the walked out on many years ago. They set off spike in the paper’s newsroom. Darnton, a inner workings of London’s Natural History phenomenally popular series of novels (and together from Minnesota on the road trip former New York Times reporter provides Museum which houses surprising treasures, movie) about vampires in the town of Forks. to end all road trips, run afoul of the law, a mystery with great pacing and plot that many never seen by the public. Even more If reading about vampires isn’t your thing, escape in hilarious style, join a rodeo, all the skewers the modern newspaper business. interesting are the people who work behind the however, there were many notable books while being pursued by a Pinkerton agent. scenes. Fortey, who worked there for 30 years, published in 2008 that you might want to try. The story is improbable but irresistible and describes it all with understated British wit. Here are just some of the books that the characters practically jump off the page. NONFICTION A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Bookmarks magazine called the best books The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich. of Cabeza de Vaca by Andres Resendez. A through Peace and War at West Point by of 2008. In North Dakota in 1911, a farm family is Spanish expedition of over 400 men started Elizabeth Samet. An English professor at All titles are available through the library. murdered except for a baby who survives. from southern Florida in 1528 with the West Point Military Academy talks about Three Ojibwe Indians find the baby, but then intention of finding riches, conquering the her students and colleagues, and challenges are blamed for the murder and are lynched legendary cities of gold and colonizing the vast many stereotypes of the military community. FICTION by a mob. The descendants of the surviving land for Spain. They traveled across Florida, She demonstrates the importance of reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by baby, the Ojibwes and the lynch mob find the Gulf Coast, up the Mississippi, and across in their lives. David Wroblewski. In this modern take their lives entangled many generations Texas and the Southwest, enduring starvation, The Good Rat by Jimmy Breslin. on Hamlet, Edgar, a 14-year-old mute later. The individual stories told by many disease, drowning, cannibalism, slavery and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Breslin establishes a special relationship with the characters form a multilayered plot full of capture by various Indian tribes. Seven years writes a memorial for the Mafia, its best dogs his family raises in the Wisconsin magical details, humor, horror, mythology later just four survivors walked out of the hills days long gone, as he recounts the trial of woods. When his father dies mysteriously, and history which are brought together like on the west coast of Mexico with an incredible mobster Burton Kaplan and other events of Edgar flees with three loyal dogs on a brave pieces of a puzzle in a stunning revelation of tale to tell. Cabeza de Vaca was one of the the mob’s last half century. and dangerous odyssey. the person responsible for the murder. four and his written account, a best-seller in its The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. time, is the basis for this riveting story. Adventures in the World of Chinese Food Muriel Barbery. In this bestseller from When her corgi dogs stray into a bookmobile Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 by Jennifer 8. Lee. A second-generation France, a friendship develops between near Buckingham Palace, the Queen of Billion Year History of the Human Body Chinese American, Lee gives a fascinating a disillusioned 12-year-old girl and the England discovers a passion for reading which by Neil Shubin. The author, a professor look at the peculiar institution and hybrid concierge at her family’s exclusive Paris throws the palace into turmoil and causes the of biology and anatomy made headlines in cuisine of the American-style Chinese apartment. Booklist said “you will fall in Queen to question her role in the monarchy. 2006 with his discovery of a 375-million- restaurant which, it seems, is not authentic love with them both.” This very short novella is charming and witty year-old fossil, the missing link between Chinese food at all. Netherland by Joseph O’Neill. Hans is a and may cause you to laugh out loud. You will ancient sea creatures and land dwellers. He The Rest is Noise: Listening to the transplanted Dutchman living in New York at also wish it were a bit longer. explains with humor and enthusiasm how Twentieth Century by Alex Ross. The New the time of the 9/11 bombings. When his wife The Commoner by John Burnham the human body may have evolved from Yorker music critic provides a cultural history leaves him, he joins a cricket team made up Schwartz. In a fictional account of the these early ancestors and how our anatomy of classical music in the 20th century. mostly of Asian and Caribbean immigrants, Imperial Japanese court, a commoner marries links us to all living creatures. Counselor: A Life at the Edge of some of whom are dangerous friends to have. the Crown Prince of Japan in 1956, enters the Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific History by Ted Sorensen. Sorenson recalls This is a deep, hard look at the nature of time, cloistered world of the royal household and Exploration into the World of Phasers, his years in the Kennedy administration as memory, friendship and marriage. discovers an oppressive world of mysterious Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Special Counsel, speechwriter and close Dear American Airlines by Jonathan rules and protocol. Travel by Michio Kaku. Kaku, a Harvard confidante of JFK. Miles. Bennie Ford is stranded overnight in The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng. and Berkeley grad and physics professor, is Little Heathens: Hard Times and O’Hare Airport when his flight is cancelled. Just before World War II, Phillip, a half- one of the best popular science writers today. High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Since he will miss his daughter’s wedding, British, half-Chinese young man lives on a He frequently appears on TV and radio, Great Depression by Mildred Kalish. A he begins a ranting letter to the airline which small island in Malaysia which is soon to be always with an enthusiasm for explaining retired English professor fondly recalls her turns into a soul-searching memoir of his invaded by the Japanese. He is befriended difficult science and making it accessible formative years during the depression. badly-led life. By the time his flight takes by a Japanese diplomat, Endo, and becomes to the non- scientist. Here he takes on Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi off he has overcome his despair and found a his student in the martial art of Aikido. invisibility, teleportation, precognition, star Espionage, Love and Betrayal by Ben measure of redemption. When the Japanese invade, Phillip must ships, antimatter engines, time travel and Macintyre. When the Nazis invaded Jersey Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart decide where his loyalties lie. He is torn more – all regarded as impossible today but in the Channel Islands, Eddie Chapman was O’Nan. The Red Lobster restaurant in a small between trying to save British citizens and which might be possible in the future. He captured but convinced the Germans to train town in Connecticut is slated for closure and his friendship with Endo. throws in lots of references to Star Wars and him as a spy. He parachuted into England and the crew must get through one last evening. Star Trek to liven things up. offered himself to the British as a double agent. This is a poignant story that seems very Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of relevant to today’s economic realities. CRIME Do (and What It Says About Us) by The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber. Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Groff. Willie Upton has come home to a Seattle author Gruber spins a literary thriller Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Continued on page 11 small town in New York state just as a strange involving art forgery and madness. Chaz, a Dolnick. Han van Meegeren, lake monster washes up on shore. She is talented artist who can duplicate any painter’s a failed artist, turned to determined to discover the identity of her style, is recruited for a medical study, testing forging Vermeers, becoming unknown father and in the process, discovers a “creativity” drug and is approached to forge wealthy and conning many a few other family secrets and ancestral some masterpieces by Velasquez. art critics around the world. monsters. This is an original, witty first novel/ Winter Study by Nevada Barr. The latest This Republic of fantasy/mystery/ghost story. in Barr’s popular Anna Pigeon series takes Suffering: Death and the The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss. place in Isle Royal National Park during a American Civil War by It’s 1917 and so many young men are away bitterly cold winter. Homeland Security agents Drew Gilpin Faust. Harvard fighting in WWI, that 19-year-old Martha – halt a scientific wolf study to evaluate border President and historian too tall and painfully shy – gets the chance security, then Anna notices that wolves in the Gilpin explains the many to use her unique skills as a horse breaker or park are acting strangely. social and cultural changes conservative approach The Legal Limit by Martin Clark. This that followed the Civil War “gentler.” Northwest author Gloss sets this digital radiographs endearing story in rural northeastern Oregon outstanding legal thriller is based on a by focusing on the massive and quietly conveys the loneliness of ranch life true story. Two brothers find themselves death toll of the war (2% friendly atmosphere and the satisfaction of well-led ordinary lives. on opposite sides of the law, one a drug of the total population) and So Brave, Young and Handsome by trafficker, the other a district attorney who its effect on families and 842 0324 Leif Enger. It’s 1907and Monte Becket is finds himself in a moral quagmire. society. Spring 2009 page 9 Books, People

Your favorite authors Home improvement What are they doing now? books available

By Susan Wiggs and she’s excited about the Cedar Cove Festival in Port at the library & Suzanne Selfors Orchard. www.cedarcoveassociation.com By Julie O’Neill Jodi Picoult’s next book is Handle with Care, Reference Librarian For over five years, we’ve been interviewing local coming in March 2009. The movie version of My authors for Bainbridge Library News. With a new year Sister’s Keeper, starring Cameron Diaz, will be out in How would you like to have Ty Pennington and under way, we thought we’d take this opportunity to 2009. www.jodipicoult.com the Extreme Makeover team completely renovate touch base with our authors and find out what they’ve Sheila Rabe, AKA Sheila Roberts’s novel Bikini your house? been up to. Here’s a partial update. Season was chosen by Target as a Breakout Book Sorry, we can’t make that happen, but we do have Anjali Banerjee’s novel, Looking for Bapu, was Selection. She has two books coming out this year, plenty of books and DVDs to help you plan your nominated for the 2009 Sasquatch Reading Award and is Love in Bloom (February) and a Christmas Book with own remodel. If you are planning to make a major on three Global a working title, addition to your home, want to renovate your kitchen Reading Challenge Angel Lane. She or bathroom, or just need some fresh ideas for paint lists this fall. She intends to keep colors, the library can help you find books and is busy writing her her writing group instructional DVDs to inspire you. third children’s very busy. www. novel. www. sheilasplace.com Here are some recent arrivals at the anjalibenerjee.com Katherine library: Robyn Ramsland’s • Creating Your Dream Kitchen: How to Plan Carr’s popular latest is True and Style the Perfect Space Virgin River Stories of C.S.I. • Finishing a Basement (DVD) series continues Her upcoming • Stairscaping: A Guide to Buying, Remodeling, with three more books is The and Decorating Interior and Exterior titles in 2009. Devil’s Dozen: Staircases She continues to How Cutting- • Master Bathroom Rehab (DVD) host the visiting Edge Forensics • House Plus: Imaginative Ideas for Extending author program, Took Down 12 Author Warren Read Sheila (Rabe) Roberts Your Home Carr Chat, for Notorious Serial • Porches and Sunrooms: Planning and Henderson Public Libraries, NV. www.robyncarr.com Killers. www.katherineramsland.com Remodeling Ideas, Creative Homeowner Press Carol Cassella has completed her whirlwind book tour. George Shannon just won the Washington • The Renovated Home: Redesigning, Oxygen was selected as an Indie Next Book and as one of State Book Award and the Burr/Worzalla Award for Reorganizing, Redecoration the best debut novels of 2008 by Library Journal. She is outstanding picture book. And the 2008 Lifetime • Curb Appeal: Exciting Ways to Enhance the working on her second novel. www.carolcassella.com Achievement Award from the Pacific NW Writers Appearance of Your Home Jonathan Evison’s debut novel, All About Lulu, Association. He just signed with a new agent and is • Concrete at Home: Innovative Forms was optioned for film by Crossroads Films. He has busy working on his next project. Pop into Eagle Harbor and Finishes: Floors, Walls, Fireplaces, finished his next novel, West of Here, which will be on Books and you might see him. www.georgeshannon.com Countertops shelves in February 2010 and he’s busy working on the Garth Stein has had a meteoric rise since the • Complete Built-ins, Shelves and Bookcases next one. www.jonathanevison.com interview. The Art of Racing in the Rain sold in a • Fireplace Design and Decorating Ideas Michael Hauge continues to lecture and consult heated auction and became a blockbuster international • House Transformed: Getting the Home You with writers. He is working for Overbrook, a production bestseller as well as a Starbucks pick. Wow! Want With the House You Have company owned by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett. Bonnie Wallace is currently working on a book • Design Ideas for Bathrooms Woodleigh Marx Hubbard, picture book writer and intended to create community and revolutionize theatre • Garage Conversion (DVD) illustrator, is busy writing her first adult novel. Best of in America. She is also attending the Bainbridge • Moneysmart Makeovers: Living Spaces luck! www.woodlieghhubbard.com Graduate Institute. • Kitchens for the Rest of Us: From the Kitchen Stephani Kallos’s Sing Them Home received Warren Read has been busy speaking to writing, You Have to the Kitchen You Love a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and her genealogical and academic audiences about his debut, work-in-progress is titled Katie and Mags. www. The Lyncher in Me. He just finished a historical novel stephaniekallow.com and is shopping it around. Best of luck! Debbie Macomber’s most recent book, A Cedar And what have we been up to? Well, if you’d like to News Briefs Grove Christmas was a national bestseller. Her next check in with us, you can visit at www.susanwiggs.com THE LIBRARY NEWS is also available on the hardcover is Summer on Blossom Street, coming in May and www.suzanneselfors.com. Thanks for reading and we Kitsap Regional Library website (krl.org), a convenience 2009. Her work-in-progress is A Cedar Cove Cookbook hope to introduce you to more authors in the coming issues. for visually impaired as well as off-Island readers.

Book review The banality of evil In My Brother’s Shadow: A Life and Death in the SS by Uwe Timm

Reviewed by Pat Miller Arendt’s conclusion finds current expression in Uwe Timm’s book, In My Brother’s Shadow. In 1961, Hannah Arendt, reporting for the New Yorker, Timm is haunted by the ghost of his older brother, Karl- witnessed the trial of Otto Eichman for his crimes against the Heinze, the apple of his father’s eye. He was a toddler when Jewish people, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. 18-year-old Karl-Heinze proudly volunteered for the Nazi SS She observed that “the man (Eichman) in the glass booth Death’s Head Division. was not even sinister.” Deployed to the Russian front, he slogged dutifully While “his deeds were monstrous, the doer was quite through the horrors of war, was wounded, lost both legs and ordinary, commonplace, and neither demonic nor monstrous”. She summed up her impression in four words: “the banality of evil”. continued on page 12

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died. In his trek across Russia, Uwe’s big brother symbolizes obliged to probe the wounds and bear the terrible sense of guilt Representing Extraordinary the many German citizens who fell into step behind Hitler, and that followed the war. he becomes the embodiment of Arendt’s characterization, “the Though it was forbidden by the SS, Karl-Heinze kept Island Properties! banality of evil”. a diary and it made its way home along with the pitifully It was this easy acceptance of duty that allowed the murders few belongings sent to his mother. The diary records the at Babi Yar where Jews were led to a ditch outside of a Russian astoundingly mundane day to day march of the German troops village, made to strip and step up line after line to be shot, their and renders the deaths of millions of Russians all in a day’s bodies tumbling, some still alive, into the yar (ditch). work. “Bridgehead on the Donez,” writes Karl-Heinze, “75 Afterwards, German soldiers went through the piles of m away Ivan smoking cigarettes, fodder for my mg.” His off- clothing to loot and to seek out and kill infants hidden by hand observation bodes ill for Uwe’s search for evidence to their doomed mothers. Meanwhile, in Uwe’s town, neighbors “express justification of killing in my brother’s diary.” Indeed, looked away as their Jewish neighbors were led away, and they he finds “nothing resembling the ideological instruction given “maintained that silence after the war”. the SS. It is just a normal view of daily life in war.” Karl-Heinze’s death haunted the family, but most of all Did Karl-Heinze reach some dim realization of the horror Uwe, whose only memory of his brother was a game of hide inflicted upon the Russians and the Jews? Perhaps. He closes and seek just before he left for the Russian front. his diary with this statement: “I close my diary here, because I Years later Uwe concedes at last that he must write about don’t see any point in recording the cruel things that sometimes his brother. As he does so, the book evolves into a picture of happen.” But the author resigns himself to the fact that “there three generations; his stiff-backed father’s, the generation that can be no attempt at explanation. Nothing written with a view to venerated duty and Germanic superiority; his brother’s, the tracing the causes of those events, classifying, or understanding is generation that paid the terrible price of blood and suffering any help; it can only act as self-defense against what was found.” that his father’s pride exacted; and Uwe’s, the generation The book, non-fiction, is available through the library.

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