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SOUTH SIOUX CITY VOLUME 4, ISSUE 12 PUBLIC LIBRARY DECEMBER 2016 South Sioux City Public Library Special Points of Interest: Winter Fun @ the Library Staff Biographies Most Popular Books of 2016 Military Families Computer WINTER FUN @ THE LIBRARY Video Gaming will be on Mondays LEGO Build 3:00 Wednesday, December 14th Learn to Bend a Candy Cane p.m. at 4:00 p.m. We break out with Science on Tuesday, De- Tuesday Night of Fun 6:00 the Wii and the X-Box this cember 27th at 11:00 a.m. p.m. afternoon. Thursday Pat-a-Cake Pals Learn to do Frozen Painting 10:00 a.m. with Ice on Tuesday at 3:00 Explore the Arts Thursday at Winter Fun: School’s out for p.m. 4:30 p.m. (1st & 2nd ) winter break and the library Hands-on Science Thursday at has some special fun activities On Wednesday December 4:30 p.m. (3rd & 4th ) for the break. 28th we offer Galaxy in a Bot- Toddler Time Friday 10:00 tle at 10:00 a.m. a.m. We will make Rubber Eggs on Wednesday, December 21st Game Day at 3:30 p.m. Pokemon Club is on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Game Night is at December 10th at 1:00 p.m. LEGO Build 6:30 p.m. Dragon Art is at 5:30 p.m. Bring your card decks to bat- Youth Activities @ the Library tle it out! We’ll make Magnetic Slime We will do Oil and Water Thursday, December 22nd at Painting on Thursday Decem- Teen Craft is held on Saturday 1:00 p.m. ber 29th at 3:00 p.m. December 10th at 3:00 p.m. It is a program just for kids in 6- We offer Battery Powered Discover how to make a Jelly- 12 grades Science on Friday, December fish in a Bottle on Friday, De- Inside this issue: 23rd at 2:00 p.m. cember 30th at 2:00 p.m. Meet the Staff 2 Family Movies 2 NEW FICTION (DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY FICTION) New CDs, and DVDs 3 A Toxic Trousseau by Juliet Here Comes the Bribe by Mary Blood of the Earth by Faith Blackwell (PBK B) Daheim (LPFIC DAH) Hunter (PBK H) December Fiction and 3 Out of the Blues by Trudy Nan I Am No One by Patrick Flanery Cinnamon Toasted by Gail Oust Nonfiction Boyce (FIC BOY) (FIC FLA) (LPFIC OUS) Devonshire Screams by Laura The Wedding Cake Murders by The Paris Librarian by Mark Most Popular Music of 4 Childs (LPFIC CHI) Joanna Fluke (FIC FLU) Pryor (FIC PRY) 2016 I Shot the Buddha by Colin Grilling the Subject by Daryl Rob Thy Neighbor by David New Nonfiction 5 Cotterill (FIC COT) Wood Gerber (PBK G) Thurlo (FIC THU) A Catered Mother’s Day by Isis Swimsuit Body by Eileen Reckoning and Ruin by Tina Crawford (LPFIC CRA) Goudge (FIC GOU) Whittle (FIC WHI) Staff Recommendations 6 Page 2 SOUTH SIOUX CITY PUB LIC LIBRARY STAFF BIOGRAPHIES: MEET MARIANA Why hello there! My name is out using the databases and what- I love to listen to music in my Mariana, and it’s okay if you can’t not and thank them! spare time. I’ll listen to anything, say it in your head because most I’m currently enrolled in college except hardcore metal and Taylor people can’t even say it out loud. where I’m studying psychology. Swift. Don’t ask me my favorite I’ve wanted to work at a library Since I’m a great listener and give book because I can’t name just for a while now mainly because I pretty awesome advice, I figured one. I like to bake and though I’ve love being surrounded by books. becoming a psychiatrist was the been told I’m a terrible cook, that When I was growing up, my safe way to go. Do you know they doesn’t stop me from cooking. I haven was the library. I loved make around $70,000 a year? like long walks and my favorite checking out comic books, chap- That, my friends, is a great perk! kind of date is April 25th because ter books, and movies for free! I So is helping people become the it’s the perfect kind of weather. have no idea who came up with best person they can be, which is Props if you get the reference! the concept of a public library, but what I will be doing in 10 to 12 now that I work in one, I can find years… FAMILY MOVIES THIS DECEMBER Family Movies are held on Mon- Frozen (December 12th and destruction. day nights at 6:00 p.m. and on 17th): When a prophecy traps Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Saturday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. a kingdom in eternal winter, Anna, a fearless optimist, teams Stole Christmas (December Muppet Christmas Carol up with extreme mountain man 19th): Why is the Grinch such (December 5th and 10th): In Kristoff and his sidekick rein- a grouch? No one seems to this movie, Miser Ebenezer deer Sven on an epic journey to know, until little Cindy Lou Scrooge learns the true mean- find Anna's sister Elsa, the Snow Who takes matters into her ing of Christmas and reforms Queen, and put an end to her own hands and turns both his heartless and money- icy spell. Encountering mystical Whoville and the Grinch's grubbing ways after being visit- trolls, a funny snowman named world upside down, inside out, The Muppet Christmas Carol ed on Christmas Eve by four Olaf, Everest-like extremes and and funny side up in her search ghosts. magic at every turn, Anna and for the true meaning of Christ- Kristoff battle the elements in a mas. race to save the kingdom from MOST POPULAR CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF 2016 @ THE LIBRARY The following are the most popu- Sisters (series) by Raina Minecraft: Redstone Hand- lar children’s books of 2016. Telgmeier book by Nick Farwell Dragonball Z (series) by Akira Smile (series) by Raina Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Toriyama Telgmeier Luck by Jeff Kinney Attack on Titan (series) by The Amazing Spider-Man Escape from Lucien (Amulet, Hajime Isayama (series) by J. Michael 6) by Kazo Kibuishi Psyren (series) by Toshiaki Straczynski Tales from a Not-so-Dorky Iwashiro Tales of a not-so-perfect Pet- Drama Queen by Rachel Naruto, the Tests of a Ninja Sitter by Rachel Renee Rus- Renee Russell (series) by Masashi Kishimo- sell The Last Counsel (Amulet, 4) to Death Note (series) by Tsu- by Kazo Kibuishi Minecraft Construction Hand- gumi Ohba Lawnmageddon by Paul Tobin Dragonball z book by Matthew Needler Barbie: a Fashion Fairytale by That’s Not My Panda by Fiona by Akira Toriyama Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old Mary Man-Kong Walt School by Jeff Kinney The Long Haul by Jeff Kinney Page 3 VOLUME 4, ISSUE 12 NEW AUDIOBOOKS/ DVD’S/ MUSIC CD’S Audiobooks DVDs MUSIC CDS No Man’s Land by David Baldac- Barbie, Star Light Adventure (DVD Black by Dierks Bentley (MCD ci (FIC BAL (CD)) CHI BAR) COUN BEN) Coconut Cowboy by Tim Dorsey Batman Unlimited: Mechs vs. Dig Your Roots by Tim McGraw (FIC DOR (CD)) Mutants (DVD CHI BAT) (MCD COUN MCG) The Whistler by John Grisham Guess How Much I Love You: Hero by Maren Morris (MCD (FIC GRI (CD)) Autumn Journey (DVD CHI COUN MOR) Every Heart a Doorway by Sean- GUE) Confessions of a Scorpio by Tene- an McGuire (FIC MCG (CD)) Looney Tunes Superstars: 45 ia Sanders (MCD FOLK TEN) First Light by Bill Rancic (FIC Cartoon Classics (DVD CHI LOO) No Fake by Teneia (MCD FOLK No Man’s Land RAN (CD)) Monster High, Welcome to Mon- TEN) by David Baldacci Bloodroot by Cynthia Riggs (FIC ster High the Origin Story (DVD Radioactive Lover by Teneia RIG (CD) FAM MON) (MCD FOLK TEN) Today will Be Different by Mary Star Trek: Beyond (DVD SCI Piece by Piece by Kelly Clarkson Semple (FIC SEM (CD)) STA) (MCD ROCK CLA) Back from the Dead by Bill Wal- Outlander Season 2 (DVD TV Hard II Love by Usher (MCD ton (BIO WAL (CD)) OUT) ROCK USH) DECEMBER FICTION RECOMMENDATIONS An Amish Christmas: December Rachel Hauch Perry in Lancaster County Spirit of Steamboat: a Walt Long- A New York Christmas by Ann Playing the Game by Barbara mire Story by Craig Johnson Perry Taylor Bradford A Baxter Family Christmas by The Wolves of Midwinter by My Kind of Christmas by Robyn Karen Kingsbury Anne Rice Carr Ordinary Grace by William Kent Three Christmas Wishes by Lost December by Richard Paul Krueger Sheila Roberts Evans Dashing Through the Snow: a Tenth of December by George Mistletoe Promise by Richard Christmas Novel by Debbie Ma- Saunders The Wolves of Midwinter Paul Evans comber December 6 by Martin Cruz Christmas Caramel Murder by A Constellation of Vital Phenome- Smith by Anne Rice Joanne Fluke na by Anthony Marra A Wedding for Christmas by A Long December by Donald Silent Night: a Spenser Holiday Lori Wilde Haarstad Novel by Robert B. Parker Winter Brides: A Year of Wed- A Royal Christmas Wedding by A Christmas Message by Ann dings Novella Collection DECEMBER NONFICTION RECOMMENDATIONS Happier at Home: Kiss More, LOW) OUT) Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson and my Oth- Practice to Deceive by Ann No Greater Valor: The Siege of er Experiments in the Practice of Rule (364.152 RUL) Bastonge and the Miracle that Everyday Life by Gretchen Rubin Sealed Allied Victory by Jerome The Wright Brothers by David (158.1 RUB) Corsi (940.54 COR) G.