Salem Township Public Library What’s In It for You? Serving Southeastern Warren County: The Townships of Salem, Hamilton, Harlan, and Southern Washington Mon-Tue: 10:00 am-8:00 pm 535 W. PIKE STREET Wed-Thu: 10:00 am-6:00 pm MORROW, OH 45152 Fri: 10:00 am-5:00 pm (513) 899-2588 Sat: CLOSED www.salem-township.lib.oh.us Sun: CLOSED August 2015 Salem Township Public Library would like to thank you for your participation in the 2015 Summer Reading Program, 1. Every Hero Has a Story, Be Your Own Hero. STPL Come In Summer Reading Program Sponsors Salem Township Public Library thanks these businesses for their generous donations. Our summer reading program would not be the same without them! Chubby’s Pizza of Morrow Kings Island 1st National Bank Subway McDonald’s LCNB Isaacs’ Shaker Hill The Newport Aquarium Walmart Super Events for Adults Adult Book Discussion Group Join a lively discussion group of book lovers and get in on the fun! Adults are welcome to sign up to attend monthly Dog Days of August are coming and what a fun book discussions, which take place the first Tuesday time to show off your favorite picture of your dog evening of each month from 6:30-8:00 pm. The group here in the library! discusses a different book each month, which can be picked • Take your doggone selfie and upload it to up at the library. Interested participants can stop in to pick FaceBook, Instagram, or bring it in August 3- up the next book. 14! • Pics will be displayed in the library August August 4: To the Hilt by Dick Francis 17-28! Alexander Kinloch, a reclusive young Scottish • Patrons can vote for their favorites and a painter, is called to London to attend to his prize will be awarded for the winning selfie on stepfather, who in turn unwittingly threatens to August 31! take his stepson to the grave with him because Definition of Dog Days: of a dangerous secret. 1. The hot, period of summer between early July and early September. September 1: Her Royal Spyness 2. The sultry part of summer when Sirius, the by Rhys Bowen Dog Star, rises at the same time as the sun. A penniless twenty-something member of the extended British royal family puts her sleuthing 3. A period marked by lethargy, inactivity, or talents to work when an arrogant Frenchman, indolence. who is determined to gain control of her 4. A period of stagnation. family's eight-hundred-year-old estate, ends up dead in her bathtub. Now that we know what “Dog Days” are, let’s make this a fun time in the library! Bring on the dogs! October 6: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned- Pawfiles by Kim Levin Resistance tracker struggle with their respective Pawfiles presents a dog-by- beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. dog glimpse at the personalities and character quirks behind some of the author’s favorite subjects. Writing Circle Meetings Calling all adults and high school students Dogs in Cars by Lara Jo who are interested in writing! The library’s Regan Writing Circle is a group that meets twice monthly A laugh-out-loud array of on Saturdays from 10:30 am-12:00 pm at Earle J images featuring exuberant, Maag Community Room to share their creative tongue-lolling, and ear- writing pieces. Prompts are decided by the group flapping pooches enjoying and sharing ideas is welcomed and encouraged. rides in cars. Free coffee is served at each meeting. Join the group by contacting the library or emailing Dylan at: [email protected]. August 8 and 22 Tuesday, August 18: 6-7:30 pm The sense of style : The Thinking Come meet Warren County Person's Guide to Writing In the 21st Sherriff’s Deputy Jack Century by Steven Pinker A renowned Simpson and his K-9 partner, cognitive scientist shares reflections on Axel! the art of writing well, discussing such Learn how Axel sniffs out topics as the role of imagination in criminals and watch a special writing and the influence of texting in obedience demonstration. shaping language. A barking good time! Suitable for everyone! Joseph Finder The Fixer by Joseph Finder oseph Finder’s plan was to J Forced to move to the ramshackle home of his become a spy. Or maybe a professor youth after a career setback, Rick Hoffman of Russian history. Instead he became begins a laborious renovation only to make a a bestselling thriller writer. Born in discovery that threatens his life and challenges Chicago, Joe spent his early everything he thought he knew about his late childhood living around the world, father. including Afghanistan and the Philippines. In fact, Joe’s first Paranoia by Joseph Finder language — even before English — Trapped in a job he hates, Adam Cassidy, a was Farsi,which he spoke as a child in Kabul. After young employee at a high-tech corporation, is taking a high school seminar on the literature and caught attempting to manipulate the system for a history of Russia, Joe was hooked. He went on to friend and offered a choice--prison or to become major in Russian studies at Yale, where he also sang a spy at the headquarters of their competitor, with the school’s legendary a cappella group, the Trion Systems. Whiffenpoofs (and likes to boast that he sang next to Ella Fitzgerald, an honorary Whiffenpoof). Joe High Crimes by Joseph Finder graduated summa cum laude from Yale College, where High-profile attorney and Harvard Law he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then completed a professor Claire Heller Chapman puts her career master’s degree at the Harvard Russian Research on the line to defend her husband after he is Center, and later taught on the Harvard faculty. He was revealed to be a former secret operative for the recruited to the Central Intelligence Agency but U.S. government and is arrested for an eventually decided he preferred writing fiction. unspeakable atrocity committed some thirteen years earlier. Did you know... - Two of Joseph Finder’s novels have been adapted into films? High Crimes (2002), starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, and Paranoia (2013), starring Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford. If You Like Joseph Finder, You Might Also Like….. Silent Partner by Stephen Frey Invasion of Privacy by Christopher Reich Angela is in trouble. First, she is offered a job by Refusing to believe the official story behind an eccentric billionaire whom several people her FBI agent husband's death, Mary Grant is want dead. Then she discovers a means of pitted against a new generation of cutting-edge determining the race of an online mortgage surveillance technology and the most deadly applicant. Only a lawyer like Frey knows how conspiracy in America. dangerous that could be. Choke Point by Ridley Pearson Don’t Look Back by Gregg Hurwitz Hired to investigate allegations of a sweat-shop Embarking on a rafting and hiking tour operation in Amsterdam that is enslaving young through southern Mexico, single mom Eve girls, Knox and tech information expert Grace spots a man throwing machetes at a human- Chu embark on a rescue mission that is shaped target before finding a missing challenged by a crime organization that has woman's digital camera containing images of seduced local neighborhoods with showy the same man. goodwill practices. More Similar Authors….. 1. Thomas Perry 2. John Lutz 3. Alton Gansky 4. Robert Crais 5. Brad Thor Books Other Readers Have Liked Charleston by Margaret Bradham Thornton When Eliza Poinsett left the elegant world of Charleston for college, she never expected it would take her ten years to return. Now almost a decade later, she is an art historian in London with a charming Etonian boyfriend who adores her. 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