SOUTH SIOUX CITY VOLUME 5, ISSUE 9 PUBLIC LIBRARY SEPTEMBER, 2017 South Sioux City Public Library
Special Points of Interest: Canning Class and Much More Staff Biographies Golden Sower Nominees 25 Popular Graphic Novels
CANNING CLASS AND MUCH MORE an Iowa preacher and the an adult. Family Movie: We show G grandson of a minister who, as and PG movies each Monday a young man in Maine, saw a Canning Fruits is held on at 6:30 p.m. and repeated on vision of Christ bound in Monday September 11th @ Saturday at 1:00 p.m. chains and came west to Kan- 6:30 p.m. Register in advance
sas to fight for abolition: "-- to attend Tangled Yarns is a group of BOOK JACKET. needle workers who explore Cookbook Bookclub crafts like crochet, knitting and A Tale for the Time Being by “Tailgating” will be on Sep- many more crafts on Tuesdays Ruth Ozeki on September tember 14th at 6:30pm. Bring at 6:30 p.m.. 25th. In this book, Nao, who your favorite tailgating treats
lives in Tokyo, who considers along with the recipes on Cover to Cover book club ending her life in order to Thursday September 14th at meets on September 11th & escape it’s pain. Ruth is a 6:30 p.m. Canning Fruits 25th at 3:00 p.m. novelist who finds Nao’s diary September 11th, @ 6:30 p.m. and is draws her into Nao’s Lost in the Stacks will cover We will discuss Gilead by Mari- story. our graphic novel collecton on lynne Robinson on September Monday September 18th at 11th. In this book, "In 1956, Moving Past Ramen meets on 6:30pm toward the end of Reverend Monday September 11th at John Ames's life, he begins a 6:30 p.m. and on Saturday Bullet Journalling Septem- letter to his young son, an September 16th at 3:00 p.m. ber 18th 6:30pm account of himself and his Come and learn what you forebears. Ames is the son of Inside this issue: were never told about being Book Sale 10am-4pm Sept 30
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NEW FICTION (ROMANCE FICTION) Family Movies 2
My Kind of You by Tracy Bro- Worth the Wait by Lori Foster ray (FIC MUR) Gilead Read Alikes 4 gan (FIC BRO) (FIC FOS) Until You Loved Me by Brenda The Strawberry Hearts Diner by Burn by Helen Hardt (FIC Novak (FIC NOV) Books Set in Nebraska 5 Carolyn Brown (FIC BRO) HAR) Any Time, Any Place by Jennifer The Lilac Bouquet by Carolyn Call the Crows: the Yielding by Probst (FIC PRO) September is Football 5 Brown (FIC BRO) Shelly Lauderstein (FIC LAU) A Word of Love by Emily Rob- Reading Month Because You’re Mine by Colleen Forever a Hero by linda Lael bins (FIC ROB) Coble (FIC COB) Miller (PBK M) New Nonfiction 5 Happy is the Bride (PBK W) Under Preasure by Lori Foster Lust: a Seven Deadly Sins Novel Staff Recommendations 6 (PBK F) by Victory Christopher Mur- Page 2
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STAFF BIOGRAPHIES: MEET CRISTIAN JIMINEZ
My name is Tammi. I have worked are Danielle Steel, Linda Lael Mil- 1. Sweet Tomorrows by Deb- for the South Sioux City Public ler, Jodi Thomas, and Fern bie Macomber Library since 1999. I love how Michaels. 2. Two from the Heart by many people I have gotten to James Patterson know since I started here. I grad- When I am not reading, I like to 3. Against All Odds by Danielle uated from SSC High School, and play on the computer, do cro- Steel am still a big Cardinals sports cheting and other crafting pro- 4. The Weekenders by Mary fan. I am married and my children jects. Kay Andrews live in Lincoln. 5. Moonglow by Michael Cha- ______bon I have always loved to read books 6. The Fireman by Joe Hill of all kinds, but right now my Most Popular Romances in 7. A Piece of the World by favorite books are romanc- 2017 Christina Kline Baker Tammi Husk es. Some of my favorite authors
SEPTEMBER FAMILY MOVIES
This month’s movies are: years, Mr. Meacham has told a maniacal developer threatens tales of the fierce dragon deep to build luxury condos in his Pocahontas (9/1) is the love in the woods. To his daughter, own backyard, Norm does story between Pocahontas and Grace, these stories are little what all normal polar bears Captain Smith as told by Walt more than tall tales, until she would do: he heads to New Disney animation. meets Pete. Pete is a mysteri- York City to stop it. With a Secret Life of Pets (9/8) is a hilari- ous ten-year-old with no family cast of ragtag lemmings at his ous comedy about the lives our who claims to live in the woods side, Norm takes on the Big pets lead after we leave for work with a giant, green dragon Apple, big business, and a big or school each day. Max, a terrier, named Elliot. identity crisis to save the day. has his favorite-pet status turned Norm of the North (99//18 & Frozen (9/25 & 9/30) is the pop- Pocahontas upside-down when his owner takes 1/23) A polar bear of many ular movie in which Anna and in a stray named Duke. words, Norm's greatest gripe is Elsa overcome a prophecy of a Pete’s Dragon (9/11 & 1/16) For simple: there is no room for winter kingdom. tourists in the Arctic. But when
SEPTEMBER YOUTH PROGRAMMING
Toddler Time – story time for Aprendan unas frases en ingles Create Book Trailers on Sep- children 2-5 years old; stories, con una de nuestras bibliotecarias tember 11th at 5:00 p.m. – direct craft & snack is on Fridays at mientras ella le lee a usted y su your own mini movie based on a 10:00 a.m. hijo/a book. All trailers will be played in the Teen Room TV. (grades 6-12) Family Movie each Monday at 6:00 Pat-A-Cake Pals is held on Thurs- TAB – High School students gath- p.m. and Saturday at 1:00 p.m. days at 10:00 a.m.– story time for er to help program, plan, and children under 2 years old; sing- suggest ideas and books for the Night of FUN is each Tuesday at ing, dancing, stories, sensory play library (grades 9-12) 6:00 p.m. Tech Explorers is held each (continued on the next page) Bilingual Story Time is held on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.- we will Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m.- learn a explore a new app, we'll show you Tech Explorers few Spanish phrases with one of the ropes and you decide if you our librarians as she reads to you want to download it or not. and your child. Page 3
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NEW AUDIOBOOKS/ DVD’S/ MUSIC CD’S Audiobooks DVDs Music CDs Paradise Valley by C.J. Box (FIC Boss Baby (MCD CHI BOS) From a Room Volume 1 by Chris BOX CD) Hello Kitty (DVD CHI HEL) Stapleton (MCD COUN STA) Beneath Copper Falls by Colleen The Lego Batman Movie (MCD It Goes Like This by Rhett Thom- Coble (FIC COB CD) CHI LEG) as (MCD COUN THO) Deadfall by Linda Fairstein (FIC CHIPS (MCD COM CHI) Tamgled Up by Rhett Thomas FAI CD) Cosmos: the Space Time Od- (MCD COUN THO) Wired by Julie Garwood (FIC yssey (DVD DOC COS) Welcome Home (MCD COUN GAR CD) The Fast and the Furious (DVD ZAC) The Writing Desk by Rachel DRA FAS) Between Dreams and Regrets by Paradise Valley by C.J. Hauch (FIC HAU CD) The Great Wall (DVD DRA Bruce Mandel (MCD FOLK Any Dream will Do by Debbie GRE) MAN) Box Macomber (FIC MAC CD) Beauty and the Beast (DVD FAM Metalica (MCD ROCK MET) Breakdown by B.A. Paris (FIC BEA) Faith: a Holiday Album by Kenny PAR CD) A Dog’s Purpose (DVD FAM DOG) G (MCD SEA G) Two Nights by Kathy Reichs (FIC Ghostbusters (DVD SCI GHO) Soy el Mismo by Prince Royce REI CD) (MCD WOR PRI)
GOLDEN SOWER NOMINEES Primary Books One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and All the Answers by Kate Messner Key Job Wanted by , Teresa Bateman the Recycling Women of the Gambia. The Seventh Most Important Thing Losers Take All by David Klass Duncan the Story Dragon by Aman- By Miranda Paul by Shelley Pearsall A Night Divided by Jennifer Nelson da Driscoll Miss Hazeltine’s Home for Shy and Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest Wolfie the Bunny by Anne Dyck- Fearful Cats by Alicia Porter Appleblossom the Possum by Holly Faceless by Alyssa Scheinmel man Chapter Books Goldberg Sloan Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt We Forgot Brock! By Carter Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate Baker’s Magic by Diane Zahler Goodrick Book Scavenger by Jennifer Novels Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins Chambliss Bertman, Booked by Kwame Alexander Marilyn’s Monster by Michelle Ruby Lee and Me by Shannon Code of Honor by Alan Gratz Knudsen Hitchcock Took: A Ghost Story by Mary New Shoes by Susan Meyer Paper Things by Jennifer Richard Downing Hahn If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nel- Jackson House Arrest by K.A. Holt son A Handful of Stars by Cynthis Lord Terror at Bottle Creek by Watt
YOUTH PROGRAMMING CONTINUED TAB (September 11th & 25th at Pokémon Club (September recreate pins from Pinterest with 5:30 p.m.) – High School students 16th at 1:00 p.m.)– Come and us. You get to decide if it passes gather to help program, plan, and learn to battle in the Pokémon
suggest ideas and books for the Trading Card Game, or show off or fails. your cards and trade with library (grades 9-12) ______friends! Moving Past Ramen – Adulting 101 (September 11th at 6:30 p.m. – Book Wars (September 18th September is Library simple easy steps on grown your at 5:00 p.m.) - We'll be discuss- own life skills (high school and old- ing which book is the best, so Card Sign up Month. er) read up! Discuss and debate for your book choice to be champi- Ask a librarian Yoga Storytime (September 16th on! at 10:00 p.m.)– bring in a yoga mat/ about how to get bath towel; learn some fun dances Pass or Fail (September 25th yours. and new yoga poses at 5:00 p.m.)– Pinterest edition:
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NEWSLETTER TITLE
25 MOST POPULAR GRAPHIC NOVELS Since graphic novels are the focus 8. Maggie the mechanic by Jamie in the Hudson by Mark Siegel of this month’s Lost in the Stacks, Hernandez 17. Cemetery Girl by Charlaine we focus on our most popular 9. French Milk by Lucy Knisley Harris graphic novels for adults 10. Relish: My Life in the Kitchen 18. Bodies by Si Spencer by Lucy Knisely 19. Exquisite corpse by Penelope 1. Tank Girl by Alan C. Martin 11. Troublemaker : a Barnaby and Bagieu 2. A.D.: New Orleans after the Hooker graphic novel by Janet 20. The absolute Sandman by Neil deluge by Josh Neufeld, Evanovich Gaiman 3. Ōoku : the inner chambers 12. The dark tower: The gunslinger, 21. The Dark Tower: the Battle of by Fumi Yoshinaga the Way Station by Peter Jericho Hill by Peter David 4. The dark tower : the man in David 22. An age of license by Lucy Knis- black The gunslinger by Peter 13. The dark tower. The gunslinger, ley David the battle of Tull by Peter 23. Large Print: an Unshelved 5. Duncan the wonder dog by David Collection by Gene Ambaum Adam Hines 14. The dark tower: The long road 24. Too Much InformationL an The Gunslinger series 6. We can fix it! : a time travel home by Peter David Unshelved Collection by Gene memoir by Jess Fink 15. The dark tower: Treachery by Ambaum 7. Gandhi : my life is my mes- Peter David 25. The girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S. : a sage by Jason Quinn 16. Sailor Twain : or, The mermaid Love and rockets book GILEAD READ-A-LIKES
If you have read and enjoyed house for becoming pregnant. dy, looks at the dark side of Alba- Gilead, you will like these titles. The novel describes the girl's ny, New York. impact on their lives, both men Some Luck by Jane Smiley, "An being bachelor epic novel that spans thirty years Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz in the lives of a farm family in Zafon, In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Iowa, telling a parallel story of the Semper and his close friend Fer- changes taking place in America min Romero de Torres find their from 1920 through the early lives violently disrupted by the 1950s"--Provided by publisher. arrival of a mysterious stranger Plainsong by Kent Haruf, The who threatens to divulge a terri- interwoven lives of a community ble secret that has been buried in Colorado. The characters in- for two decades in the city's dark Gilead by clude two cattle farmers who past. Marilynne Robinson take in a girl, thrown out of her Very Old Bones by William Kenne- A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING READ-A-LIKES
If you enjoy the book A Tale for Montefiore, After her South ing with Eloise while investigating the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, African lover Jack makes a shock- the disappearance of his mother these titles will interest you. ing confession on the last day of years ago. And fifteen-year-old Wil- their affair, best-selling children's low Graves may be heading for The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin, book author Angelica must draw trouble. When two feral girls--one of on the lessons she learned to them very pregnant--appear on save her marriage. his homestead, solitary orchardist Darkness My Old Friend by Lisa Talmadge, who carefully tends Unger, Jones Cooper has given up the grove of fruit trees he has his post at the Hollows Police De- cultivated for nearly half a centu- partment and is having trouble ry, vows to save and protect facing a horrible event from his A Tale for the Time Being them. past. Then psychic Eloise Montgom- The Blind Assassin by Margaret ery comes to him with predictions By Ruth Ozeki Atwood. about his future, some of them dire. The Perfect Happiness by Santa Another person in town is also work- Page 5
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BOOKS SET IN NEBRASKA
The following is a list of materi- American wino : a tale of reds, als set in Nebraska. Pick up Landline by Rainbow Rowell whites, and one man's blues by one of these to discover our Dan Dunn state. The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert In Reach by Pamela Carter Joem The Bones of Paradise by Jonis Agee The Meaning of Names by Karen Eagle voice remembers : an au- Gettert Shoemaker thentic tale of the old Sioux world Cornstalked by Patricia Bremmer by John G. Neihardt Bohemian Girl by Terese Sy- Worth Dying For by Lee Child oboda Tell me a riddle, Requa I, and other works by Tillie Olsen The Bones of Paradise by World, chase me down by An- Sixteen Brides by Stephanie Jonis Agee drew Hilleman Grace Whiteson
Haven's wake by Ladette Ran- dolph
SEPTEMBER IS READING FOOTBALL MONTH
The beginning of football season is tus was an attack on that slave's resonance and nostalgia of My So- also a the beginning of reading wife. Called Life in this moving debut season for those who are not fans novel about tradition, family, love, of the game. Here are some sug- The Total Package by Stephanie and football. gestions for you. Evanovich, The bestselling author of "Big Girl Panties" is back with a Until You Loved Me by Brenda Tall Tail by Rita Mae Brown, Re- funny, sweet, and sizzling novel Novak, After catching her fiancé turning to Virginia's post- about the game of love, in which a cheating--with another man-- revolutionary history and to char- hot quarterback must figure out usually straitlaced, workaholic acters introduced in Tail Gait, the how to score big with a beautiful scientist Ellie Fisher liberates her story follows the Garth sisters and talented media analyst after a wild side just long enough to in- and their husbands, neighbors to a heartbreaking fumble. dulge in a passionate one-night brutal slaveholder whose murder stand with a tall, dark stranger she at the hands of one of his slaves is Homeland by Hannah meets at a trendy Miami bar. neither unexpected nor unwar- Gersen, "The heart of Friday Tail Gate by ranted, especially when the impe- Night Lights meets the emotional Rita Mae Brown NEW NONFICTION
The gifts of imperfection : let go of Parkinson (641.5 PAR) (641.5 RAA) who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are by The everything college cookbook : I can't make this up : life lessons 300 hassle-free recipes for stu- Brene Brown (158 BRO) by Kevin Hart (792.702 HAR) dents on the go by Rhonda Lau- Hitler's last days : the death of the Old school : life in the sane lane ret Parkinson (641.5 PAR) Nazi regime and the world's most by Bill O’Reilly (306.2 ORE) PETA's vegan college cookbook : notorious dictator by Bill O’Reilly Ignorance : how it drives science 275 easy, cheap, and delicious (943 ORE) by Stuart Firestein (501 FIR) recipes to keep you vegan at Hero of the empire : the Boer school (641.5 PET) $5 a meal college cookbook : war, a daring escape, and the Hero of the Empire by good cheap food for when you Clueless in the Kitchen: Cooking making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard need to eat by Rhonda Lauret for Beginners by Evelyn Raab Candice Millard (968.0483 MIL) Organization
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STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS Twitter Power 3.0 by Joel Comm party apps that will help you to is near his death and would like and Dave Taylor; I have been on manage your Twitter account to tell his child of his life and his Twitter since 2008, but I still followed by a list of thought fore-bearers. John Ames is in a read to keep up on Twitter as leaders to follow. long line of preachers, his father well as social media. is a minister in Iowa, his grandfa- When i came to this book, I was You can read this book page ther was a preacher in Maine in a position that I was wanting one to the end, or dip in and who receives a vision of Christ to back away from Twitter. I out where you need more di- chained in Kansas, so he heeds didn't think that I was being rection. If you haven't started the call and goes to fight on the effective so I was ready to back Twitter, but have thought about side of the Abolitionists to keep away, but this book breathed it, get started . If you are like I Kansas a free state. He talks new life into my enjoyment of was when you pick up this book about his friendship with John Twitter in my personal level and use it to pick up one new idea Ames Boughton and John's way- in my library account. and move forward. ward son. The book is as fresh as the morning . It is highly The book starts with a brief This book is recommended for recommended for all readers. inspirational introduction from anyone who is interested in Guy Kawasaki. The bulk of the social media, or anyone who is book deals with the basic me- working in social media market- chanics of creating an account, ing. Twitter Power 3.0 creating a brand, crafting tweets, building a following and driving Gilead by Marilynne Robinson; traffic to your brand, and even Gilead is a wonderful rambling making money on Twitter. The letter, of a father, John Ames to finish with a discussion of third his child. Ames is a pastor who