KRAEMER LIBRARY AND COMMUNITY CENTER NEWSLETTER FOR February 16, 2015

Kraemer Library News Saturday, February 21, 1:30 pm - Winter Book Group Bash. Call 608- E-COMMERCE 588-7638 to RSVP. South Central AMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE Library System Monday, February 23, 7:00 pm, member libraries Touchstone Theatre Winter Words will soon begin Play-Reading Series: “Red Velvet,” by Lolita accepting credit Chakrabarti. and debit cards for library fine payments. Fine balances of $10 or more may be paid from the AARP Tax Assistance library LINKcat web site or from a dedicated catalog workstation resident at each library. The Free tax assistance will be provided at the Spring process is simple: log into your account and then Green Community Church through April 15, 2015. access your fine balance under the Patron This service is offered to low and moderate Summary tab. Then, simply click on a button that income taxpayers, especially those 60 and older. will appear in your record allowing you to pay by Contact the Aging and Disability Resource Center credit or debit card. Enter your 14-digit card office at 608-930-9835 to schedule an number and credit card information to conclude appointment. the transaction. For more details, please contact the library at 546-4201 or e-mail us at New Arrivals at the Library [email protected] Fiction

LIBRARY KEY CARDS All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr Hope to Die, James Patterson Library patrons who would like a key card to carry on their key ring should request one at the In Your Dreams, Kristan Higgins Information Desk. The Job, Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg The Marriage Charm, Linda Lael Miller PLAIN PAGE TURNERS BOOK GROUP Obsession in Death, J.D. Robb Tuesday, February 17, 7:30 pm - The Reef by Nora Redeployment, Phil Klay Roberts. Rizzoli & Isles: Die Again, Tess Gerritsen A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler Tuesday, March 17, 7:30 pm - The Orphan Train, Thieves of State, Sarah Chayes by Christina Baker Klein. Large Print Upcoming Literary Events The Job, Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg ARCADIA BOOKS, SPRING GREEN Farewell to Cedar Key, Terri DuLong Wednesday, February 18, 7:00 pm - Table Play A Place Called Harmony, Jodi Thomas Reading. The Wishing Season, Denise Hunter (Continued)

Kraemer Library & Community Center – 546-4201 – www.kraemerlibrary.org Inferno: The Loner, J.A. Johnstone his friend Finlay encourage him to return to Gateway to Freedom, Eric Foner to confront Nagase, who they Death of a Liar, M.C. Beaton discovered was still alive and served as a docent A Dream of Home, Amy Clipston at the prison camp where the torture occurred. During the visit, Lomax confronts Nagase and Board Books relives those horrible scenes, but also learns that Chu’s Day Nagase was also suffering intense guilt for his Old Macdonald’s Farm role in allowing the torture. By the end of the One Love film, both men take steps to resolve their anger Welcome to Bob’s Building Yard and move on. Who Sleeps, Cat the Cat? The movie’s plot takes dramatic license with DVD Review: The Railway Man actual events. Lomax’s 1995 memoir, The Railway Man: A True Story of War, BY NIKI JOHNSON Remembrance, and Forgiveness, provides a This 2013 film about war, torture, and complete picture of his childhood and how he forgiveness is powerful. Eric developed his interest in radios and railways, his Lomax (played by ), a early involvement in signal communications, soldier in the British Royal Corps post-war teaching, and the long process of of Signals, had been fascinated therapy with the Medical Foundation for the Care with radios, engines, and railways of Victims of Torture that led Lomax to begin since childhood. Lomax and his communicating with Nagase. Eric Lomax died in company were sent to Malaya in 1942 and were 2012 at age 97. captured by the Japanese following their defeat of the British in Singapore. The Japanese Spotlight on Mysteries! intended to use the prisoner corps to construct BY CAROLYN FORDE the Burma-Siam Railway. During a routine inspection, the Japanese discovered pieces of a Inspector Gamache is one of my new heroes! radio constructed by Lomax and his friends to Every now and again I like to pick up a mystery listen to BBC broadcasts and improve camp and when I want to make sure it’s a really good morale. They targeted Lomax and several others one, I often turn to Dave Robicheaux as ringleaders and possible spies. The most the Louisiana Sherriff’s deputy powerful scenes focus on the torture Lomax created by writer James Lee Burke. received at the hands of the Kempetai (Japanese Robicheaux is a man of action Military Police), including intensive cross- righting the wrongs of a sin filled city examinations, beatings, waterboarding, and the and surroundings and breaking outdoor cages where the prisoners were kept. every code while exacting justice. In contrast, Gamache, the creation of Canadian Lomax eventually returned to Britain after the writer Louise Penny, is a more war, but for years suffered from PTSD-type introspective character who symptoms as well as intense hatred for Takashi outmaneuvers corruption by Nagase, the interpreter who served as a go- outthinking his opponents. If you between with the Kempetai during Lomax’s haven’t tried either of these writers I torture sessions. In the mid-1990s, Lomax’s recommend you do so-you’ll be keeping company second wife Patty (played by ) and with some finely crafted characters!

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