Volume 1, Issue 3 July 2016

Pigeon District Library

RECENTLY ADDED USING YOUR RESOURCES BOOKS When visiting a library you often expect a Services Available at the Tell Us Something YA room full of books all of kinds to be spread True FIC Pigeon District Library: from one wall to the other. However, Pigeon The Last Ever After JA District Library offers more than just books. Books by Mail by Soman Chainani FIC We offer many different resources and pro- Computer Use The Black Widow grams that the community is not familiar FIC by with. We would love to see you stop by this Copy and Fax Services Summer and see what we have to offer. The Singles Game Lamination Services FIC by Lauren Weisberger We also offer a variety of online sources Material Requests/Reserves The Girl Who Escaped NON with the MeLCat being one of them. Mel is Isis FIC the Michigan eLibrary that is available to Services for the Visually Impaired Michigan residents. In the many Databases Hillary’s America NON Obituaries by Dinesh D’Souza FIC offered on the Mel you can find academic info, health and psychology articles as well Newspapers on Microfilm Visit our website for

more! as information regarding family history. One particular database, Early World of UPCOMING ADDED Learning, is a site that offers educational MOVIES activities for young children.

July Emma’s Chance 5

July London Has Fallen 12

July The Young Messiah 12

July Allegiant 12 LIBRARY HOURS July Batman vs Superman 19 Monday 9 a.m.—5 p.m. Tuesday 9 a.m.—7 p.m. July Eye in the Sky 26 Wednesday 9 a.m.—5 p.m.

Visit our website for Thursday 9 a.m.—7 p.m.

more releases! Friday 9 a.m.—5 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m.—2 p.m. P a g e 2 Pigeon District Library

UPCOMING MOVIE RELEASES

Allegiant Emma’s Chance Eye in the Sky The Young Messiah After the earth-shattering While fulfilling her community Col. Katherine Powell, a mili- At the age of 7, Jesus Bar- revelations of Insurgent, Tris service hours at a horse rescue tary officer in command of an Joseph lives with his family in must escape with Four and go ranch, Emma forms an unlikely operation to capture terror- Alexandria, Egypt, where beyond the wall enclosing bond with an abused show ists in Kenya, sees her mis- they have fled to avoid a Chicago. For the first time horse who won't let anyone sion escalate when a girl massacre of children by King ever, they will leave the only ride him. Gaining new skills enters the kill zone triggering Herod of Israel. Jesus knows city and family they have ever and confidence, Emma hatches known. Once outside, old dis- a plan to redeem herself and an international dispute over that his parents Joseph and coveries are ultimately save the implica- Mary have se- quickly ren- the ranch she's tions of mod- crets they are dered meaning- grown to love. ern warfare. keeping from less with the him, secrets Emma’s Chance revelation of Eye in the Sky about his birth stars Greer shocking new will be avail- and about Grammer, Joey truths. able on July traits that Lawrence and 28th and make him very Missi Pyle. stars Helen different from Mirren. other boys.

“A classic UPCOMING BOOKS FOR THE YOUNGER CROWD is a book Tell Us Something True River doesn’t know what to addictions. He fakes his way that has by Dana do with himself when Penny, into the meetings, and begins Reinhardt never the girl he adores, breaks up to connect with the other For fans of Sarah with him. He lives in LA, kids, especially an amazing finished Dessen, Jennifer where nobody walks girl. River wants to tell the saying what Smith, E.L. anywhere, and Penny was his truth, but he can’t stop lying, Lockhart, and ride; he never bothered and his tangle of deception is has to John Green, this getting a license. He’s stuck. may unravel before he learns say.” delightful, often He’s desperate. Okay . . . how to handle the most po- comic coming-of-age novel stars -Italo he’s got to learn to drive. But tent drug of all...true love! the lovable, brokenhearted first, he does the unthink-

Calvino, The River, the streets of LA, and an able—he starts walking. He Uses of irresistible cast of stumbles upon a support characters. Seventeen-year-old group for teens with various

NON-FICTION ADDITIONS

The Girl Who Escaped Isis and Farida's realization that chance along with 5 other Others include: by Farida the more difficult and women, and set out across College Handbook 2017 Khalaf resistant she became, the the Syrian desert This is a Getting Financial Aid 2017 harder it was for her captors story of incredible courage in This is the Scholarship Handbook 2017 to continue their atrocities the face of unthinkable story of what by College Board against her. So she atrocity. As the battle happened to House of Nails struggled, she bit, she against ISIS continues to Farida after by Lenny Dykstra kicked, she accused her ravage the Middle East, The she was cap- Campus Visits & College captors of going against their Girl Who Beat Isis provides tured: the Interviews religion, and then, one day, an astonishing perspective beatings, the rapes, the mar- by Zola Schneider the door to her room was on this very terrifying global kets where ISIS sold their left unlocked. She took her threat. female prisoners like cattle, Volume 1, Issue 3 P a g e 3

ADULT FICTION UPCOMING ARRIVALS

The Black Widow chief of Israel's secret intelligence Russia to the Middle East. From its by Daniel Silva service. But on the eve of his promo- shocking opening to its explosive de- tion, events conspire to lure him into nouement in Washington, D.C., The #1 New York the field for one final operation. ISIS Black Widow reveals itself as Silva's Times bestselling has detonated a massive bomb in the most timely and powerful novel yet. author Daniel Silva Marais district of Paris, and a Following the success of his smash delivers another desperate French government wants hit , this electrifying spellbinding Gabriel to eliminate the man thriller showcases Silva's consummate international thriller - responsible before he can strike skill and brilliant imagination, and is one that finds the again. Acclaimed novelist Daniel Silva sure to be a must read for his legendary has thrilled, entertained and edu- multitude of current and future fans. grappling with an ISIS mastermind. cated readers with eighteen thought- Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, ful and gripping spy novels featuring a and assassin described as the most Other novels by Daniel Silva include diverse cast of compelling characters compelling fictional creation "since , , The and ingenious plots that have taken Ian Fleming put down his martini and Fallen Angel and The Rembrandt them around the globe and back - invented James Bond" (Rocky Moun- Affair. from the United States to Europe, tain News), is poised to become the

The Singles Game Wimbledon officials deem her carbohydrate, but he makes by Lauren sneakers in violation of their over her image as well. Gone is Weisberger strict uniform standards. At the good-girl Charlie with her last minute, she's forced to bright outfits and ribbon woven Bestseller Weis- “Sleep is scramble and play one of the through her cheery braid. After berger (Revenge biggest matches of her life in all, did she really work her Wears Prada, good, he someone else’s shoes, resulting whole life to settle for being 2013, etc.) in a fall that injures both her “the twenty-third best female follows her said, and wrist and her Achilles tendon. tennis player on earth”? formula of As she heals, she knows she'll Rebranded and restyled as the launching a books are have to fire her good friend and “Warrior Princess,” she feels naïve young sweetheart of a coach, Marcy, fierce in her all-black tennis woman into uncharted better.” and sets her sights on Todd garb. Todd even goes so far as territory. After a devastating Feltner, a tough men’s coach to help orchestrate a steamy injury at Wimbledon, tennis pro -George known for his brash attitude romance with tennis champion Charlotte “Charlie” Silver and cultivation of champions. Marco Vallejo, giving plenty of knows she needs a major R.R. Todd not only overhauls fodder to the press. While change if she wants to take her Charlie’s training and fitness Charlie’s tennis game definitely career to the next level. Known regimen, barking at her if she improves, she struggles with Martin for her squeaky-clean and even glances at a cup of coffee some of the nastier aspects of always-polite image, Charlie or a simple doesn’t argue when the her new life.

Deadly Fate by Heather Graham When Clara Avery, an posed to resemble the victims of "Suspenseful and dark.... The transi- entertainer working on notorious murderers. The prime tions between past and present flow the Fate, an Alaskan suspect is a serial killer Thor once put seamlessly, and the main characters cruise ship, goes to behind bars. The man escaped from a are interesting and their connection nearby Bear Island, she prison in the Midwest, and all the to one another is believable." comes across a scene evidence says he was headed to -RT Book Reviews on The Unseen of bloody mayhem. She Alaska… Thor and Clara share an Also by Heather Graham: also comes across Thor unusual skill: the ability to Erikson, who will soon communicate with the dead. Their Phantom Evil be a member of the FBI's elite para- growing love—and their contact with normal unit, the Krewe of Hunt- the ghosts of the victims—brings them The Unholy ers. Thor's been sent from the Alaska together to solve the case…and The Hexed field office to investigate several prevent a deadly fate of their own! Realm of Shadows grotesque killings, with the dead

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Story Hour Dates to Remember: 1000 Book Read Program Every Tuesday bring your little Children Crafts available daily in For those who are too young to one’s in for a story and activity! Lap the children’s room. participate in the Summer Reading Sit is for toddlers and is held at 10 Program, we also offer the 1000 HAWG- 21st– 6:30 PM a.m. Book Read Program. The goal is Pre-School aged children Summer Reading Program: read one book per day. This helps to are at 10:30 a.m. July 16th– End of Program develop language skills, vocabulary and also can prepare your children July Themes July 28th– Party for the Readers! to enter kindergarten. 5th– No Story Hour There will not be a family or adult The staff will keep track of your 12th– Bears movie this month. reading using a book chart. If you 19th- Sugar Cookies For more upcoming events, check have questions about the program, 26th– Cows out our Facebook page! please contact Sherry Helmuth, Junior Jive All activities take place in the Program Coordinator at 453-2341. Every Friday at 10 a.m. for children Community Room unless otherwise Information sheets are available at 1 1/2 to 5 years old. Enjoy music noted. the circulation desk. and movement led by Sara DuToit.

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