Cover to Cover Livingston Municipal Library Winter 2016 Volume 2, Issue 4 @ Our Library A new year, a new bookish you... The holidays are in full swing at Livingston Municipal For many of us, the New Year means new resolutions. Library, and we wanted to share with you some of the This year, how about making a few bookish New Year’s events and activities happening in our area. resolutions? Here are a few to get you started… On December 9 (6:00pm - 8:00pm), Santa comes to Read a nonfiction book. If you love thriller and town at Miss Effie’s Cottage in Livingston. Children suspense novels, try a true crime novel like Devil will have the opportunity to take a photo with Santa, so in the White City by Erik Larson. please be sure to attend. Hometown Christmas kicks Read outside of your comfort zone. If you off at the library on December 10 (10:00am - 11:00am) typically read romance novels, why not add a little with a puppet show presented by the Carranza fantasy or sci-fi with a paranormal romance book? Puppets. Upcoming Events Kelley Armstrong and Anne Bishop are a good place to start. Dec. 9 Santa Comes to Harbor Hospice will host a workshop on “Emotional Read a classic novel. Remember those books Town (Miss Effie’s Losses in the Elderly” on December 12 at 12:00pm. Trade Days will take place December 16 thru on the assigned reading lists in school or college, Cottage) December 18 at Pedigo Park. like The great Gatsby, Their eyes were watching God, or Romeo & Juliet? Try re-reading (or Dec. 10 Carranza On December 28, popular storytellers The Earlys will reading for the first time) a classic to discover Puppets/Hometown present three programs at the library, including a something new about the book. Story Time, activities for teens, and a presentation Listen to ten audiobooks. Give your eyes a rest Christmas about Mark Twain. The fun starts at 10:30am. The and listen to the audiobook version. Dec. 12 Emotional Friends of the Library will hold its first Book Sale of Read more books than you did last year. The 2017 on January 20 (10:00am - 2:00pm). The Friends book site GoodReads let’s you challenge yourself! Losses in the Elderly will also begin their Membership Drive in January, and Watch the movie before you read the book. there are many ways you can be involved. For more (Harbor Hospice) Switch it up to see how the book compares to the information, please see “Friends of the Library News” movie. Dec. 16 - 18 Trade Days on the next page. Watch at least five movies based on books. (Pedigo Park) For a complete list of all the events (and times) at See the “From Page to Screen in 2017” list for a few Movie Night suggestions. Dec. 28 The Earlys Livingston Municipal Library, please visit the News & Events section of our website, (Story Time/Teen www.livingstonlibrary.net/news-events/lib-cal. Those are just a few bookish resolutions. Have any Activities/Mark Twain) you’d like to share? Jan. 20 Friends of the Library Book Sale From Page to Screen in 2017 The American Library The boss baby - Marla Frazee Before I fall - Lauren Oliver Live by night - Dennis Lehane Association’s 2017 Youth Media Awards will be Captain Underpants - Dav The death cure - James The lost city of Z - David Grann announced on Jan. 23, Pilkey Dashner The mountain between us - 2017. These will include Jumanji - Chris Van Allsburg The knife of never letting go - Charles Martin the Newbery, Caldecott, Patrick Ness Printz, and Coretta Scott Wonder - R. J. Palacio My friend Dahmer - Derf King Book Awards. Be on A monster calls - Patrick Ness Backderft A wrinkle in time - Madeleine the lookout for these L’Engle Big little lies - Liane Moriarty Ready player one - Ernest Cline honorees who create exceptional literature and All the bright places - Jennifer The dark tower - Stephen King Logan (based on the graphic materials for children and Niven novel Wolverine : Old man It - Stephen King Logan) - Mark Millar & Steve young adults. Allegiant (Pt. 2) - Veronica Roth McNiven If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ~ Oscar Wilde Shelf Space Reader’s Corner If you liked The Devil in the White City, try... The girls of murder city - Douglas Perry (364.152 PER) Livingston Municipal Library The jinx (DVD 364.152 JIN) The suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Kate Summerscale (364.152 707 N. Tyler Avenue SUM) Livingston, TX 77351 936.327.4252 Death in the city of light - David King (364.152 KIN) [email protected] Manhunt - James L. Swanson (364.152 SWA) Hours Sunday - Closed In cold blood - Truman Capote (e-book) Mon - Fri : 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Saturday : 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Cool Fiction for the Winter Months The library will be closed: FIC BAR Winter study FIC MAL A fatal winter FIC DOD Obsession Falls Nevada Barr Christina Dodd G. M. Malliet Dec. 23 - Dec. 26 (Christmas) Jan. 2 (New Year’s Day) FIC BIN A week in winter CD FIC GOL Snowblind CD FIC MAR Death and the Maeve Binchy Christopher Golden dancing footman Ngaio Marsh Friends of the CD FIC CAS Heat rises FIC GOS The dead of winter Richard Castle Paula Gosling FIC MCM The winter people Library News Jennifer McMahon FIC CHI 61 hours FIC KAS Mind of winter Lee Child Laura Kasischke FIC SAN Winter prey Book Sale John Sandford Jan. 20, 2017 The Friends of the Library Author Spotlight: Erik Larson Membership Drive will begin in January. We will send out Historical Nonfiction (Adapted from eriklarsonbooks.com) letters asking you to join or renew your membership. Due Born in Brooklyn not well received. “I loved that book. No to our members’ generosity, and raised on one else did. This was hard, but I was we have been able to increase Long Island, Erik happy.” the number of fun summer Larson originally programs that have become aspired to be a Today the historical nonfiction writer has very popular. We are also cartoonist for The written five New York Times bestsellers, able to fund the library’s New Yorker, and including Dead wake: the last crossing of OverDrive e-book/e-audiobook as a student in the Lusitania, In the garden of beasts: love, subscription, newspaper sub- junior high school, terror, and an American family in Hitler’s scription, large print collection, submitted several Berlin, Thunderstruck, Isaac’s storm, and children’s books, as well as of his cartoons for The devil in the White City: murder, magic new after-school programs. publication, only to and madness at the fair that changed None of this would be possible be rejected. America, which won an Edgar Award for without you! nonfiction crime writing and was a finalist for Larson earned a a National Book Award. The Friends are always eager Master’s degree in Journalism from to accept help from volunteers Columbia University, and began working for Larson currently lives in Seattle with his wife to work book sales, help with the Bucks County Courier Times (PA). After (whom he met on a blind date) and their programs, assist at the front he was passed over for a promotion, Larson three daughters. desk, as well as sorting book took a job as a features writer for The Wall donations. Let us know if you Street Journal. Eventually growing tired of For more information about Larson and his would like to get involved! journalism, he moved to Baltimore to start books, please visit ericklarsonbooks.com. his family and to write his first book, The Find us anywhere! naked consumer (about corporations spying on their customers), which he admits was www.livingstonlibrary.net .