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. McCullough (629.13 The Midnight Assassin: Panic, MCC) The Girls in the Atomic City: Scandal, and the Hunt for Ameri- the Untold Story of the Women ca’s First Serial Killer by Skip Hol- Dirt Songs: a Plains Duet by who Helped win World War II No Greater Valor Twyla Hansen and Linda M. landsworth (364.152 HOL) by Denies Kiernan ((976.8 ) by Jerome Corsi Hasselstrom (811 HAN) Who Killed These Girls?: Cold The Autobiography of Mark Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders The Outlaw Bible of American Twain Volume 1 by Mark by Beverly Lowry (364.152 Poetry by Alan Kauffman (811 Twain (BIO TWA) Page 4
NEWSLETTER TITLE
MOST POPULAR BOOKS OF 2016 @ THE LIBRARY Here are the most popular books 11. Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet 22. Find Her by Lisa Gardner for 2016. Evanovich 23. The Promises We Keep by 1. Cross Justice by James Patter- 12. The Guilty by David Baldacci Susan Mallery son 13. The Lake House by Kate Mor- 24. A Treasure Concealed by 2. Easy English by Christopher ton Tracie Peterson Warnasch 14. The Bitter Season by Tami 25. What We Find by Robyn 3. A Girl’s Guide to Moving On by Hoag Carr Debbie Macomber 15. Starlight on Willow Lake by 26. The Apartment by Danielle 4. Make Me by Lee Child Susan Wiggs Steel 5. The Murder House by James 16. The Survivor by Vince Flynn; 27. The Girl on the Train by Paula Patterson Kyle Mills Hawkins 6. Rogue Lawyer by John Gri- 17. Silver Linings by Debbie Ma- 28. Truth or Die by James Patter- sham comber son 7. Blue by Danielle Steel 18. The Nightingale by Kristen 29. The Rumor by Elin Hiller- 8. All Dressed in White by Mary Hannah brand Cross Justice Higgins Clark 19. Under Cover by Danielle Steel 30. The Crossing 9. Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann 20. The Scam by Janet Evanovich by James Patterson Krentz and Lee Goldberg 10. Off the Grid by C.J. Box 21. The Promise by Robert Crais MOST POPULAR MUSIC CDS OF 2016 @ THE LIBRARY
These are the top music CDs at A Head Full of Dreams by tion by Manheim Steamroller the library for 2016 Coldplay Paraiso Express by Alejandro Lemonade by Beyoncé How Big, How Blue, How Sanz Prince Royce by Prince Royce Beautiful by Florence & the Chief by Eric Church WOW Hits 2015 Machine The Ultimate Christmas Album We Love Disney Damn Country Music by Tim volume 5 Wow hits 2010 30 of today's McGraw Independiente by Ricardo top Christian artists and hits Tangled Up by Thomas Rhett Arjona Greatest Hits Chapter 1 by Mr. Misunderstood by Eric Clasicas musicales by Kelly Clarkson Church Joansinger Sebastian Lemonade by II Volo by Volo Fetty Wap by Fetty Wap Greatest Hits by the Ramones Thrive by Casting Crowns Abbey Road by the Beatles I Told You So the Ultimate Hits Beyoncé Frozen Movie Sound Track Mannheim Steamroller Christ- of Randy Travis by Randy Travis 25 by Adele mas 25th anniversary collec- MOST POPULAR MOVIE OF 2016 @ THE LIBRARY
These are the top DVDs at the Alvin and the Chipmunks. The Home Alone library for 2016 Road Chip Despicable Me presents Min- The Little Mermaid Minions ion Madness Alvin and the Chipmunks. Pixels The Incredibles Chipwrecked Ant-Man Terminator Genisys Inside Out The Croods Vacation Cinderella Pitch Perfect 2 The Lion King Barbie: Princess Charm School The Good Dinosaur Hotel Transylvania Big Hero 6 Despicable Me 2 Ghouls Rule Home The Spongebob Movie Beauty and the Beast The Little Mermaid Barbie: in the Pink Shoes The Book of Life Beverly Hills chihuahua 3 viva San Andreas Cinderella (live action movie) la fiesta! Descendants Furious 7 Tangled Hotel Transylvania 2 Ted 2 Page 5
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 12
DECEMBER TECHNOLOGY CLASSES Mon 5th 2pm E-Book Reader 10am-12pm Tech Tuesday 1pm Spanish Tech 3pm Learn Your Library Web 1pm-3pm Microsoft Excel 2pm Spanish Tech Page: 5pm E-Book Reader 6pm-8pm Tech Monday 4pm Facebook Basics: . Wed 21st Tues 6th Mon 12th 3-5pm Tech Wednesday 10am-12pm Tech Tuesday 6pm-8pm Tech Monday Thurs 22th 1pm-3pm Microsoft Word Tues 13th 2pm E-Book Reader 5pm E-Book Reader 10am-12pm Tech Tuesday Tues 27th 6pm Spanish Tech 1pm-3pm Microsoft Excel 10am-12pm Tech Tuesday 7pm Spanish Tech 5pm E-Book Reader 1pm-3pm Microsoft Excel Wed 7th Wed 14th 5pm E-Book Reader 1pm Spanish Tech 3-5pm Tech Wednesday Thurs. 29th December Technology Classes 2pm Spanish Tech Thurs 15th 2pm E-Book Reader 3-5pm Tech Wednesday 2pm E-Book Reader Thurs 8th Mon 19th 10am-12pm Microsoft Power- 6pm-8pm Tech Monday point Tues 20th
MOST POPULAR COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY BOOKS
The following are the most pop- book 2014-2015 (331.702 9. Practical permaculture for ular books on computers and OCC) home landscapes, your com- technology available at the li- 5. What if? : serious scientific munity, and the whole earth brary. answers to absurd hypothetical by Jessi Bloom questions by Randall Munroe 10. Final jeopardy : the story of 1. The iPhone pocket guide : (500 MUN) Watson, the computer that ginormous knowledge, pocket- 6. How we got to now : six inno- will transform our world by sized by Christopher Breen vations that made the modern Stephen Baker (006.3 BAK) (004 BRE) world by Steven Johnson 11. The beginning of infinity : 2. You Are Not a Gadget: a (338 JOH) explanations that transform Manifesto by Jaron Lanier 7. Blown to bits : your life, liberty, the world by David Deutsch (303.48 LAN) and happiness after the digital (501 DEU_ 3. The information : a history, a explosion by Harold Abelson 12. Medical medium : secrets theory, a flood by James (303.48 ABE) behind chronic and mystery Gleick (020.9 GLE) 8. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaac- illness and how to finally 4. Occupational Outlook Hand- son (BIO JOB) heal by
NEW NONFICTION
Habit Changers: 81 Game Landscape by James Rebanks Revival: You’re Among Friends Changing Mantras to Mindfully (338.1 REB) by Tim Seeley (741.5 SEE) Realize Your Goals by M.J. Ryan (158.1 RYA) The Pope of Physics Enrico Fermi Revival: Live Like You Mean It and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Tim Seeley (741.5 SEE) Millennium: from Religion to by Gino Segre (530.092 SEG) Revolution; How Civilization Has Standard Catalog of United Changed Over a Thousand Years Sweetness : Southern recipes to States Paper Money by Maggie by Ian Mortimer (303.4 MOR) celebrate the warmth, the love, Judkins (REF 769.5 STA) and the blessings of a full life by Star Wars Propaganda: A His- The Only Investment Guide You Christy Jordan (641.5975 JOR) Will Ever Need by Andrew To- tory of Persuasive Arts in the Standard Catalog of bias (332.024 TOB) The New Healthy Bread in Five Galaxy by Pablo Hildago United States Paper Money Minutes a Day by Jeff (791.4375 HIL) The Shepherd’s View: Modern Hertzberg (641.81 HER) Photographs from an Ancient Organization
SOUTH SIOUX CITY PUB L I C LIBRARY MISSION STATEMENT: "The South Sioux
2121 Dakota Avenue City Public Library is an innovative and re- South Sioux City, Nebraska 68776 sponsive community center that supports cultural programming, lifelong learning, Phone: 402-494-7545 Fax: 402-494-7546 literacy, and open access to the world of E-mail: [email protected] information and ideas, with a staff commit- ted to excellence and personal service."
On the web at www.southsioux city.org/library
Where quality of life is a cardinal rule.
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS Admit One: An American Scrap- century. She puts on display Year. They encapsulate the book by Martha Collins; Martha America's love affair with eugen- careers of the ball players in one Collins takes a look at the un- ics. This book is not easy to page biographies. derbelly of American history in read. The subject matter is her new book of poems Admit disturbing, but the book holds Code Talker: a Novel about the One: An American Scrap- together artfully to create a Navajo Marines of World War book. Her book begins with a narrative that is both beautiful Two by Joseph Bruchac; This trip that the family of her narra- and prophetic. It is a must read novel tells the tale of one Nava- jo young man who was discour- tor made to the World's for a time like this. Fair. She moves on with trips to aged from speaking his language, the zoo. She then tackles the Rookies of the Year: New Kids but when World War II breaks American obsession with finding Who Took the Field by David out, the United States military the fitter or fittest. Finally, she Craft; This is a great book for found the Navajo useful in creat- focuses on the American passion those who await the beginning ing code to relay messages with- for eliminating the undesirables of the baseball season. Rookies out the Japanese, deciphering Admit One: An American Scrapbook of the Year celebrates the men the code. Interestingly, this from their midst. Collins com- by Martha Collins bines poetry with news clip- who made a difference from the book tells of the dangers that pings, advertising of the time, beginning of their careers. You the code talkers faced as they along with lists of startling facts will walk down the memory lane traveled with their units, as they that help her to point to some of great rookies. In this book island jumped their way to an of the very worst of American we focus on Willie Mays, Willie Allied Victory in the Pacific. history. McCovey, Vince Coleman and This is a must read for the many more. The illustrated whole family. This book speaks truth to the chapters begin in 1940 and tell racist history of the early 20th the stories of the American and National League Rookies of the