JULY / AUGUST 2018

Summer Reading for All Ages! Join a Reading Club at the Library and enjoy a fun summer of reading! Report on the books you read this summer and take home great prizes including gift certificates generously donated by local businesses. See inside the newsletter for program details or visit www.goldcoastlibrary.org/librariesrock!

End-of-Summer Reading Celebration with Bubblemania! Monday, August 13th @ 4pm @ American Legion 190 Glen Head Rd. Glen Head All Ages. Casey Carle is considered one of the greatest "bubble artists" in the world! During his shows, he creates a plethora of dazzling bubbles in various shapes and sizes, even "trapping an audience member inside a gigantic soap bubble. Humor and audience interaction are part of his charm.” Casey has created bubble routines and scenes for Cirque du Soleil, Bailey's Irish Cream and Pepsi Cola. He's performed at Lincoln Center, on the Discovery Channel and for toymaker Fisher-Price. In addition to his bubble art skills, Casey is also a veteran juggler and mime who clowned for two years with Ringling Bros. Greatest Show on Earth !

Meet the Author Series - Registration Begins Tuesday, June 12th

Rosalie Knecht Thursday, July 19th @ 7pm Rosalie Knecht, author of Relief Map (2016), has just published her second novel Who is Vera Kelly? (2018). It has received excellent reviews and is currently being called a “Most Anticipated Book of 2018” by ELLE, The Huffington Post, Library Journal, Bustle, Book Riot and more. Reviewers agree that the author has created a truly unique heroine in the character of Vera Kelly and has put her own spin on the female-driven spy novel. You don’t want to miss this author visit! After her talk, Rosalie will sign copies of her latest book and take questions from the audience. Light refreshments will be served.

Reduced Fines on Overdue Materials

New, Lower Fines on DVDs and Blu-Rays are Now in Effect!

Fines on New DVDs and Blu-Rays are now fifty cents per day. All others DVDs are now twenty-five cents per day. These were reduced from $1 per day. Please note that the new fine schedule applies only to items that became overdue on May 1st, 2018 or later.

50 Railroad Avenue, Glen Head, NY 11545 • Phone: 516-759-8300 • Fax: 516-759-8308 www.goldcoastlibrary.org THE CHILDRENS ROOM Registration begins Monday, June 18th at 9:30AM for Gold Coast Public Library residents and one week later for non- residents. All registrants are contacted via either phone or email just prior to each program to confirm their attendance. If it is not confirmed, patrons wait-listed are contacted so that as many people as possible may be accommodated.

A Time for Kids Play Hooray Kids (10AM)- Ages 25 Mos. to 4 Years Ages 18 Months to 5 Years. Play Hooray (11AM) - Ages 3 to 24 Months A Time for Kids presents a fun, Friday, July 27th interactive, and educational experience Tuesday, August 7th designed to help children gain Friday, August 17th important school readiness and developmental skills. Interactive classes filled with Tuesday, July 24th 1pm music and movement activities based on a theme. Thursday, August 2nd 10am Tuesday, August 21st 1pm Play Hooray Families Thursday, September 6th 10am Saturday, July 21st 10:30am Ages 3 Months to 6 Years This family-oriented light Tot's Night Out exercise program is a fun way to get everyone up and Tuesday, July 17th @ 7pm - 1,2,3 Blast Off Rocket Ship moving with hula hoops, balls, shakers, an obstacle Tuesday, August 14th @ 7pm - Jumping Frogs course and more! Ages 18 Months to 5 Years This evening A Time for Kids PRE-SCHOOL STORYTIMES program is a fun, interactive experience that includes a craft, stories, and music based on a theme. Lego Duplo Storytime Tuesdays, July 17th, 31st; August 14th, 28th 10am Ages 2 to 4 Years. Flannelboard stories, fingerplays, Game Night Buddies songs, and building time keep the children delighted! Tuesday, July 31st 6pm

Grades 1-5 Bring your favorite board games, card games, and try some new ones. Play these games with Snacks and Stories teens at the Annex. Thursday, August 9th 5pm Ages 3 to 5 Years. Come to the Kindness Rocks Design Contest library to hear great stories and Participate from Saturday June 16th - August 31st have a few snacks. Food, friends, and fun...a fantastic time! Draw or paint an inspirational saying, word and/or picture on a rock. Rocks will be judged, protected with silicone, then placed around the community for people to enjoy! Wigglin' Wednesdays Wednesdays, July 11th, 25th 10:30am Letterboxing: A Family Adventure Participate from Saturday June 16th - August 31st Ages 3 to 5 Years. Enjoy listening to song classics and great stories read by Mr. V! Letterboxing provides an intriguing mix of treasure hunting, navigation, and exploration. Stop by the Children’s Room, pick up your clues, and go on an amazing journey! Father Goose Mondays, July 16th, 30th 10th Annual Bookmark Contest 9am OR 10am Participate from Saturday June 16th - August 31st Ages 12 to 35 Months. This Create an original bookmark based on the 2018 Summer 30-minute Circle Time features Reading Program theme, “Libraries Rock” and submit it no later than Saturday, August 18th. Two bookmarks will be nursery rhymes, stories, and selected, printed, and available at the library in September. songs.

2 THE CHILDRENS ROOM Read to Your Own Beat this Summer at the Library! Join the 2018 Libraries Rock Summer Reading Program! Grades K-5. Hey, Kids! Register for the 2018 Summer Reading Club! Select the books YOU want to read, and report your reading activity to the Library each week to receive a prize! It's Fun.....It's Reading.....It's Summer Reading!

Read-to-Me Kids Club This program is a fun way to introduce reading to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Parents, grandparents, and caregivers read to their children each week; then visit the Library each week to report on their books and receive a prize!

PROGRAMMING FOR GRADES K-2

STEAM Storytime: Jellyfish Salt Painting Crafty Kids: Clouds Thursday, July 12th 4pm Thursday, August 2nd 4pm Grades K-2. Want to make this cool jellyfish Grades K-2. Miss Lauren will read Cloudette painting? It's easy! Make a jellyfish or see by Tom Lichtenheld and It Looked Like Spilt what other design you can make using plain Milk by Charles Green Shaw; then you will old Elmer's Glue, table salt and watercolors! make 3-D cloud pictures using cotton balls, glue, shaving cream and other fun supplies!

Candy Xylophones Edible Sand Castles Friday, July 27th 4pm Friday, August 17th 4pm Grades K-2. Make a delicious Grades K-2. Make delicious edible sand castles using edible instrument using Rice Krispie Rice Krispie Treats®, crushed graham crackers, icing, Treats® and Twizzlers! candy and more!

PROGRAMMING FOR GRADES K-5

Aquarium in a Jar Overstuffed Pancake Tacos Tuesday, July 10th 4pm Thursday, July 26th 4pm Grades K-5. Miss Shirley shows you Grades K-5. Chef Rob brings all the ingredients how to create a colorful aquarium for a down home pancake taco: banana, caramel, with blue water, fish, gravel, glitter marshmallows, chocolate, M&M's®, whipped cream, and plastic plants. Give it a shake, and watch the fun! apples and more.

Painted Rock Terrarium Book Bingo Tuesday, August 7th 4pm Tuesday, July 24th 7pm Grades K-5. Have a rockin' good Grades 1-5. Come to the Annex, be the first to yell, time painting and decorating a bowl, “Bingo!” as loud as you can, and win great books! rocks, and shells; then add a living plant to carry home!

Join the Lego Club! Monday, July 16th; August 20th 4-5pm Grades 3-8. We’ll supply the LEGO®, you supply the creativity! Join the Library's new LEGO® Club to freely imagine and build to your heart’s content! 3 'TWEEN SCENE (GRADES 3-6)

Musical Cake Decorating Edible Cookie Dough Cone Wednesday, July 11th 6:30-7:30pm Tuesday, July 31st 4-5pm Come to the library and learn how to decorate a cake Miss Kathy shows you how fun with a musical theme! and tasty it is to make edible cookie dough with no eggs or flour. Mix in different candies and top with Coastal Monogram Letter sprinkles and whipped cream on an ice cream cone. Monday, July 23rd 4:30-5:30pm Make a beach-themed monogram Solar Pizza Box Oven letter on canvas using seashells, sand Thursday, August 9th 4:30-5:30pm and acrylics to hang in your room. Make and decorate your own solar powered “oven” to take home to cook s'mores outside!

YOUNG ADULTS (GRADES 6-12) Registration is required, and begins Monday, June 18th @ 9:30AM for Gold Coast Public Library residents and one week later for non-residents. Register online or in-person at the Reference Desk.

Read the Greatest Hits This Summer at the Library! Join the 2018 Summer Reading Program! Report on Books from Monday, June 18th through August 10th Grades 6-12. Participate in our summer reading club this summer! There will be weekly raffles for fun prizes and a grand prize for one lucky winner!

End-of-Summer Reading Celebration Thursday, August 9th from 7-8pm Celebrate the end of summer reading with pizza and snacks while making kindness rocks designed and painted with inspirational phrases and quote. Take them home and put them wherever you choose-in a park, at school, with friends-anywhere you think someone could benefit from a kind word. Everyone who attends receives an hour of community serviceAND will be entered into a raffle to win our Summer Reading grand prize!

Seaside Mirror Craft Fruit Flower Arrangements Monday, July 9th 7-8pm Saturday, August 4th 11am - Noon Make a beach-themed mirror using sand, paint, seashells and Make your own fruit “flower” bouquets by cutting crystals. Great piece of decor to hang in your room! different types of fruit into floral shapes and arranging them. Makes a healthy, delicious summer dessert!

Pottery Making Tuesday, July 17th 7-8pm 3-D Jewelry Pens: Musical Crafts Learn to use a pottery wheel to make two clay objects of your Fridays, July 6th; August 3rd 4-5pm choosing! Make music-themed jewelry and other objects with our 3-D jewelry pens! We supply the pens and material, you supply Southwestern Taco Flatbread Pizza the creativity! Thursday, July 26th 6:30-7:30pm Chef Rob teaches you to make this delicious pizza! Everyone who comes will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a Learn to Paint this Summer! boom box at the end of summer! Watch the Library's Website for dates and details!

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Registration is required for all adult programs. Unless otherwise noted, adults only please. Registration begins Tuesday, June 12th at 9:30am for Gold Coast Public Library residents and one week later for non-residents.

Those CSI Shows; Fact or Fiction Candle Making Monday, July 9th 7pm Monday, August 6th 7pm Join Linda Frank of the Long Island Author's Series. Using dry, scented, recycled candle wax Investigate the protocols, procedures and laboratory world powdered granules, create your own of crime scene investigation. unique candle. A non-refundable $3 materials fee is due at time of registration. Guitar Pick Earrings and Holder Wednesday, July 11th 6:30pm Make a Seaside Tote Bag Rock the summer with a pair of awesome guitar pick Tuesday, August 7th 6:30pm earrings! Shirley Ruby shows you how! A non-refundable Make this gorgeous tote bag to carry your things around $3 materials fee is due at time of registration. in style this summer! A non-refundable $3 materials fee is due at time of registration. Learn to Use Craigslist Monday, July 16th 6:45pm Essential Oils In this lecture and Wednesday, August 8th 7pm demonstration, learn how Andrea Giordano discusses essential oils and assists you to buy and sell items using in making an amazing body spray! A non-refundable $3 Craigslist. Topics covered materials fee is due at time of registration. include creating an account, checking reliability of sellers and buyers, and online safety. Navigating the Gig Economy Monday, August 20th 6:30pm Make a Mosaic Sea Horse Monday, July 23rd 7pm The gig economy focuses on alternatives to full or part-time Create a sea horse floating in a colorful water world jobs. Learn ways to identify using mosaic pieces, glue, glitter, and paint applied to potential sources of income canvas. A non-refundable $3 materials fee is due at time and develop an individualized of registration. plan to tap into these sources.

At the Barricades: The Stage Door Experience Paint Party at the Library Wednesday, July 25th 7pm Monday, August 27th 6:30pm Brian Stoll shares his knowledge of the role theatre fans Join Celicia from Authentic HeARTworks to paint an have played in the theatre community over the centuries awesome beach scene! A non-refundable $10 materials fee and his experiences on both sides of the barricades. is due at time of registration.

Jewelry Making with Diane Phillips Your Body: The Missing User's Manual Wednesday, August 1st 7pm Wednesday, August 29th 7pm Open to ages 10 & up. Make a beautiful summer bracelet Join Coach Marney White to learn why diets don't to dress up any outfit.A non-refundable $6 materials fee is work, how to eat healthy, good versus bad carbs, how due at time of registration. to eat on the go, and how to avoid cravings. Enjoy delicious samples and free wellness handouts! 5 ADULTS (CONTINUED)

Adult Summer Reading 2018! We invite all adult patrons to participate in this Summer’s 2018 “Libraries Rock!” Reading Challenge. This summer’s challenge will begin on June 15th and end on August 10th. Pick up your postcard at the Library, and after reading a book, come in to get your postcard stamped. Collect five stamps and receive a beach-ready water bottle with lemonade mix inside. As an added bonus, for each stamp you get, you’ll also be entered into a weekly raffle drawing for various prizes donated by local businesses.

Share Your Favorite Reads of the Summer! Thursday, August 23rd @ 7pm Hear about new books to add to your reading list and share your favorite recent reads.

MEET THE AUTHOR ART DISCUSSION / BUS TRIP

Rosalie Knecht Georgia O'Keeffe at the Botanical Gardens Tuesday, August 21st 7pm Hear Professor Thomas Germano's brilliant presentation on the current exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden entitled Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawaii... especially if you plan to join us on the bus trip on October 9th! Details about the bus Thursday, July 19th @ 7pm trip are available at the Circulation Desk. See Page 1 for Details! Page Turners Book Discussion with Ida Weiss Idaho by Emily Ruskovich Thursday, August 2nd 7pm Emily Ruskovich has written a stunning debut novel about “...love and sacrifice, family and friendship, memory...and its loss.”(Kirkus) Named Buzzfeed’s 2017 Best Book of the Year and described in People Magazine as “...haunting, propulsive and gorgeously written,” this unforgettable literary thriller will provide the Page Turners with lots to discuss. Join us!

Good Reads Book Discussions with Sarah Siegel

The Music Shoppe by Rachel Joyce Self Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon Wednesday, July 18th 2pm Wednesday, August 15th 2pm A record shop owner with a gift for A compulsively readable and staying in tune with other people's electrifying debut about an ambitious needs seems incapable of connecting young female artist who accidentally with the one person who may prove to photographs a boy falling to his be his soulmate. This journey of two, death—an image that could jumpstart quirky characters speaks to the healing her career, but would also devastate her power of music...and love. most intimate friendship.

Copies of Book Discussion Selections are Available to Check Out at the Circulation Desk! 6 TUESDAY AND FRIDAY MOVIES AT THE ANNEX Doors open 20 minutes prior to showing. Movies begin promptly at 2pm unless otherwise noted. Movies listed are subject to change.

New Release Tuesdays Film Buff Fridays

Hunt for the Wilderpeople July 3rd Judge Priest (1934) July 13th A manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle A small-town judge (Will Rogers) in the old south stirs things (Sam Neill), who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. (101 up with stinging humor and common-sense observances as minutes). he tangles with prejudices and civil injustices. (80 minutes). Will “Sugarfoot” Hutchins will be on hand to introduce the Journey’s End July 17th movie and talk about his lifelong hero, Will Rogers. Set during World War I, Journey’s End is the story of a group of British soldiers - led by a mentally-disintegrating officer (Sam Woman on the Run (1950) July 27th Claflin) - as they await their fate. Also with Asa Butterfield.(107 When a man goes into hiding after witnessing a gangland minutes). execution, police bird-dog his wife (Ann Sheridan), certain she’ll lead them to him. (79 minutes) Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool July 31st The passionate affair between a young English actor (Jamie Bell) The Narrow Margin (1952) August 10th and the eccentric Hollywood legend Gloria Grahame (Annette A gangster’s moll (Marie Windsor) travels by train from Chicago Bening) is tested to the limit by events beyond their control. to Los Angeles to testify before a grand jury. With Charles (106 minutes) McGraw. (71 minutes)

Lean on Pete August 14th A Study in Terror (1965) August 24th A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer Sherlock Holmes (John Neville) and Dr. Watson (Donald and befriends a fading racehorse. With Charlie Plummer Houston) join the hunt for the notorious Jack the Ripper. Judi and Steve Buscemi. (121 minutes) Dench appears in one of her earliest screen roles. (95 minutes)

Finding Your Feet August 28th A middle class snob is forced to live with her bohemian Friday Night Movie Nights at the Library sister in an inner-city housing project. With Joanna Lumley will return in September! and Imelda Staunton. (111 minutes)

STREAMING MUSIC AND VIDEO COME TO GOLD COAST!

Check Out Kanopy and Freegal Today! Kanopy video streaming is now available to Gold Coast Public Library cardholders. The Kanopy is a collection of more than 30,000 feature films, documentaries, foreign language films, and training videos including: The Criterion Movie Collection, Great Courses, and the Frontline television series. Enter your Gold Coast Public Library card number when creating an account and up to 5 films can be watched each month, anywhere, anytime, on smartphones, tablets, PCs and Smart TVs.

The downloadable music service, Freegal, now has a completely redesigned website and mobile app. Gold Coast Public Library cardholders can continue to download up to 5 songs per week and - after July 1st - can also stream up to 3 hours of music each day, from a catalog of millions of songs!

For more information about Kanopy and Freegal, please visit the Library or the Library's website!

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Library Hours Monday through Thursday, 9AM to 9PM Meet Author Christopher Bollen friday and saturday - 10am to 6pm Friends of the Gold Coast Library The library is closed on: 3rd Annual Author Luncheon at Swan Club Wednesday, July 4th (Independence day) Wednesday, September 26th 11-2:30pm Monday, September 3rd (Labor Day) Christopher Bollen is a novelist and magazine writer whose novels Sundays through labor day include Orient and The Destroyer. Reserve your seat early to hear this 2019 Budget and Trustee Election talented author and enjoy a wonderful lunch. The non-refundable cost of Serve the Community, Become a Trustee! the luncheon is $50, due at time Petitions will be available June 4th at the Circulation Desk for any district resident age 18 or older who is of reservation. Please make check interested in running for one of three Trustee positions payable to Friends of the Gold Coast on the Gold Coast Public Library Board. Completed Library. petitions with no less than 50 valid signatures are due at the Library no later than Wednesday, August 30th @ 5PM. 7th Annual Blood Drive Give Blood to Save a Life! Public Budget Hearing & Sponsored by Assemblymen Montesano & Ra Meet the Candidates Night Wednesday, September 5th @ 7pm Monday, July 30th 1:30-7:30pm Help the library achieve its goal: to donate 50 pints this 2019 Budget Vote and Trustee Election year. Please give! Wednesday, September 12th, from 9am to 9pm (Vote will take place in Library Annex at 40 Railroad Avenue) Library Board of Trustees Information on the Library's current budget is Nancy Benchimol, President available online at goldcoastlibrary.org/budget Rosemarie Ryba, Vice-President Barbara Palermo, Treasurer Upcoming Meetings and Events Amy Kempton, Secretary Library Board of Trustees Meetings Jennine Bernesby Wednesdays, July 18th, August 15th - 7pm Rudolph Hertlein Craig Henneberger Friends of the Gold Coast Library Meetings David Martin Monday, August 6th - 10:30am Anthony Papiro Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving Library Director — Michael Morea Saturday, September 22nd from 10am-4pm Newsletter Editor — Susan Zaremba