M.G. PARKER MEMORIAL LIBRARY From the Desk of the Participating is easy. Library Director MAY 2016 The grass is turning green,  Visit the SYNC website tulips have begun to sprout from May 6 - August and pretty soon, summer 17th. (and summer reading) will be  Select available audio- upon us. Here at the Library, books to download as we are busy preparing. Miss mp3s. Penny is booking programs  Sign up for alerts for the that as usual, are sure to next titles.  The Autobiography of an delight. She is currently ac-  Share comments with Ex-Colored Man by cepting applications for vol- other listeners, narrators, James Weldon Johnson unteers entering grades 9 and authors.  Boy Meets Boy, by David through 12 to help run the Levithan summer reading program and The following is a list of titles  Donny's Brain by Rona help out in the Children's that will be available: Inside this issue: Munro Room. Volunteering is a  The Omnivore's great way to rack up those  Vivian Apple at the End Dilemma: the Secret From the Desk of the 1-2 community service hours, of the World by Katie Behind What You Eat, by Director 1-2 while simultaneously having Coyle Michael Pollan fun and helping out the little  The Great Tennessee  Grasshopper Jungle, by ones. Many of our paid, stu- Monkey Trial by Peter Andrew Smith Friends of the Dracut 2 dent Pages were formally Goodchild  The Young World by Library Book Sale volunteers in the Children's  The Sin Eater's Daughter Chris Weltz Room. Pick up your applica- by Melinda Salisbury  Symphony for the City of tion soon. You don't want to  Divine Collision: An Afri- Meet our new Trustee 2 the Dead: Dmitri miss out. can Boy, an American Shostakovich and the Lawyer, and their Re- Siege of Leningrad by markable Battle for Cake Pan Collection 2 There's something exciting in M.T. Anderson Freedom, by Jim Gash store for teens this summer  Fat Angie by  100 Sideways Miles by as well. From May 5th e.E. Charlton-Trijullo Andrew Smith through August 17th, teens  On the Jellico Road by  This Boy's Life by Tobias Special Programs 3 age 13 and up, will have ac- Melina Marchetta Wolfe cess to two free audiobook  Mandela: an Audio  Every Last Word by downloads per week. These History by Nelson Tamera Ireland Stone New Fiction 4 audiobooks are being offered Mandela  Egg & Spoon, by via SYNC. SYNC is a free  Things Fall Apart by Gregory Maguire summer audiobook program Chinua Achebe  Words in the Dust by for teens. Starting May 5th  Juba! by Walter Dean Trustees and Staff 4 Trent Reedy 2016, SYNC will give away Myers  The Boy Born Dead: a two complete audiobook  Pennies for Hitler by Story of Friendship, downloads a week - pairs of Jackie French Courage, and Triumph high interest titles, based on  The Book of Unknown by David Ring weekly themes. Sign up for Americans by Cristina  Zac and Mia by A.J. email or text alerts and be Henriquez Betts first to know when new titles  Most Dangerous by  I'll Give You the Sun, by are available to download at Steve Sheinkin Jandy Nelson www.audiobooksync.com.  Bone Gap by Laura  How It Went Down, by This is a great way to get Ruby Kekla Magoon your summer reading done. Continued on page 2...

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 Classic American Short is your library and we want New This Year: Used Stories by Jack London, to hear what you think! Jewelry Sale! Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Kate Nanci Milone Hill, Hours: Chopin, James Library Director Fenimore Cooper, Mark Friday, May 20th 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM Twain, and O'Henry. Don’t Forget!

Friends of the Library Saturday, May 21st Keep a look out on our Book Sale 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM website for school summer reading lists and assign- ($5.00 per bag from 12:00 ments, children's and teen The Friends of the Library PM to 3:00 PM on programming, and adult will be holding their Annual Saturday) summer reading incentives. Book Sale on Friday and Saturday, May 20th and 21st. Come by for a great For more information, As always, I am available to selection of titles at a frac- contact John Hassan, meet and talk with you. This tion of their original cost. President of the Friends of

Meet our new Library Trustee Cake Pan Collection Meet the newest member Liam (4), who love to visit Minions. She listens to all of our Board of Library the library to sit with the types of music. Some of her Graduation season is Trustees, Monique hamster and check out favorite artists are Adam here. Why spend money Virville. Monique has books to read. Monique Levine, Bruno Mars, Adele, on a cake pan when you been a 7th grade mathe- spends her free time doing Luke Bryan and Dierks Bent- can borrow one of ours? matics teacher at the crafts and playing games ley. She is looking forward to The library owns an Richardson Middle School with her boys, watching New supporting the Dracut com- assorted variety of cake for the past ten years. England sports with her hus- munity in her new role as pans for check-out. She reports that her band and friends. Whenever Library Trustee. classroom is equipped she gets a chance for some Some of the pans we own with its own mini library of alone time, she spends it Welcome Monique. We're include: books and lots of minions. reading books recommend- thrilled to have you. · Tractor She says that she finds ed by her students, as well teaching one of the most as books in the mystery and · Heart gratifying jobs and could magical genres. She also enjoys watching movies and not picture herself doing · Train anything else. listening to music.

Monique currently holds a Some of Monique's favorite · Bear Master's Degree in Math- authors are Mary Higgins ematics Education from Clark, Steve Berry, and · Skull Leslie University. She is a Gwendoline Butler. Some of happy wife and mother of her favorite movies are Star · Winnie-the-Pooh two boys, Cole (5) and Wars, Disney movies, and Special Programs describes growing up in the age of sixteen, was sen- Holocaust SurvivorPage to 3 Tehran, a country plagued tenced to life in an adult pris- Speak at the Parker by political upheaval and on for a murder he commit- ted in 1993 in a high school vast contradictions between public and private life. classroom. Twenty years later, in 2013, he became one of the few men in Mas-

You need not have attended sachusetts to sue the Parole the previous discussions in Board and win his freedom. Celebrating 10 Years in order to participate. Copies our New Building of the book are available at The emotional and devastat- the Circulation Desk. Please ing narrative takes us step May 7th marks the 10 year ask for the Common Good by step through Karter's Thursday, May 26th anniversary of the opening Reads program. crime, trial, punishment, and 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm of the building. On May 9th, survival in prison, as well as his readjustment into regular from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, we This program is supported Mark your calendars for this society. In addition to being will be celebrating with cake through a grant from the exciting, after-hours event a powerful portrayal of one and coffee in the Circulation Massachusetts Humanities, that you won't want to miss! boy trying to come to terms area of the Library. We who supports thought, with the consequences of his invite you to join us for this conversation, and action in As one of the last Holocaust tragic actions, Boy With A special occasion. Massachusetts: survivor's employed by Knife is also a searing cri- masshumanities.org Oskar Schindler during tique of the practice of sen- Common Good Reads: World War II, Rena Finder tencing youth to adult pris- Competing Notions for a The Conversation will tell her compelling story ons, providing a wake-up starting as a child in Poland, Common Good Continues… call on how we must change the Krakow ghetto, life in the the laws in this country that Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, If You Liked Defending allow children to be sen- Jacob, You’ll Love A Boy and ultimately, her story of tenced as adults. survival as a child in Oskar with a Knife Schindler's factory. This sto- Jean Trounstine is the au- ry, immortalized in the film thor of the highly praised Schindler's List, as told by Shakespeare Behind Bars: Rena's own experience is a The Power of Drama in rare opportunity to hear an Join us for our last discus- Women's Prison about her incredible story of courage, sion on competing notions decade directing plays and faith and hope first-hand. for a common good. Led by teaching at Framingham Jill Silos-Rooney, Ph.D, we Women's Prison in Massa- "As a survivor of the Holo- have read three texts so far. Author - Jean Troustine chusetts. She has written caust, I am an eyewitness to We have asked, To what Monday, May 23rd numerous articles on prison some of the most horrible extend we are responsible 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm issues for publications in- murders committed against for each other? What do we cluding Boston magazine, innocent people, but as a owe each other as members the Boston Globe, Working Nearly a quarter of a million survivor on Schindler's list, I of the same nation? To what youth are tried, sentenced, Woman magazine, the am also an eyewitness to extent do we take responsi- or imprisoned as adults Women's Review of Books, what can happen when bility for what happens in the every year across the United and Truthout. people make a difference, country at large? The world? States. On any given day, when people get involved." - On May 9th at 6:30 pm, we ten thousand youth are Rena Finder. will discuss Persepolis by detained or incarcerated in Marjane Satrapi. This graph- adult jails and prisons. Space is limited, so register ic novel collects a ground- soon. breaking memoir, in which Putting a human face to the- the great-granddaughter of se sobering statistics, Boy Co-sponsored by the Iran's last emperor and the With A Knife tells the story of Richardson Middle School daughter of ardent Marxists Karter Kane Reed, who, at and the Parker Library. M.G. PARKER MEMORIAL LIBRARY Page 4 28 ARLINGTON ST. DRACUT, MA 01826 New Fiction Historical Fiction  Nettmann, Nadine. 978-454-5474 Decanting a Murder DRACUTLIBRARY.ORG Fantasy  Belfer, Lauren.  Salvalaggio, Karin. And After the Fire Walleye Junction STAFF  Harris, Charlaine. Night  Cleave, Chris. Everyone  Sweazy, Larry D. Shift Brave is Forgiven See Also Deception Nanci Milone Hill  Howard, Kat. Roses and  Viets, Elaine. Library Director Rot Horror The Art of Murder  Novak, Naomi. Diane Annunziato League of Dragons  Hill, Joe. The Fireman Romance Assistant Director General Fiction Mystery  Ashley, Jennifer. 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