Friday, May 20, 2022

This Week - May 22 - 28 2022

 


May 22 - 28, 2022 ....

It seems like yesterday we were waiting for the arrival of spring and here we are… starting the fourth week of May… Let’s slow down a bit! 

We, at the library, have been quite busy taking care of daily tasks and planning for some fun up-coming events…. It is that time of year! Continue reading for our upcoming events, photos of a brand new display, information for magazine fans, and a list of new categorized (non-fiction) books just added to our collection.




Saturday, June 11th from 9 until noon – It’s our Spring Fling! Stop by and support your local library… hundreds of books for sale, plants – perennials and annuals – to perfect your yards, baked goods offered by Rumney’s best, Earth Day is 365 Days a Year table highlighting our latest books, Summer Reading Information, Sign up for a Library Card, fun activities for the kids, and live music. We are planning on perfect weather with all this taking place outside so the library will be closed this day. See you at our Spring Fling!


 


Monday Morning Family Time will continue each week from 10 until noon… Meet other families, enjoy some play time as well as adult conversation… Check the weather and enjoy the area behind the library and behind Susan’s house as well as downstairs in Merrill Hall… the apple tree will soon be in bloom for story time!






 Thursday, May 26th from 12 noon until 2 PM the next NH Food Bank Mobile Food Pantry in Plymouth will be held at the Walmart Parking Lot. This is a FREE drive thru event, open to all.


Have you tried Libby? Check out the top downloaded magazines from Libby that patrons are loving! Titles like US Weekly, The New Yorker, Prevention, Cooks, Oprah, Yoga Journal and Good Housekeeping are among the thousands of magazines offered with unlimited use and available anytime. There's something for everyone including kids and teens. To get started just install the Libby app from the app store on your Android or iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch) device… Or, visit libbyapp.com in your Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge browser.   

There are also thousands of ebooks and audio books for all ages to check out. Give it a try!

For more info and/or to get your passcode -  contact Jane at jkelso@rumneylibrary.org 

 



Clear, James – Atomic Habits (2018) – Tiny changes, remarkable results – An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones

Mansfield, Howard – Chasing Eden (2021) – When Thomas Jefferson committed the new nation to the “pursuit of happiness”, he set up the primary occupation of every American. Seekers of happiness are all around us… they are seeking God, seeking freedom, seeking peace. In Chasing Eden we meet a gathering of Americans – the Shakers in the twilight of their utopia, the Wampanoags confronting the Pilgrims, the landscape painters who taught American that in wilderness was Eden, 40,000 Africans newly freed from slavery granted 40 acres and a mule only to be swiftly dispossessed. These and other seekers were on the road to find out, all united by their longing to find in America “a revolution of the spirit”.

Lives

Averill, Robert W – Daniel Clement’s Moosilauke Journal 1879 (2020) – Many years ago, in 1879, a New Hampshire man named Daniel Clement decided to set down his experiences on the top of Mt. Moosilauke, one of the few high White Mountain peaks with a summit house. With him was his older brother James, the original builder of the Prospect House. Together they explored the wildlife, forests, and geology of the mountain, observed a full year of seasons and storms, and debated all of life’s intricacies – from the challenges of life above tree line to death and the hereafter.

Becker, Elizabeth – You Don’t Belong Here, How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War (2021) – Kate Webb, a brave Australian, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blooded American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Cate challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately, altered the craft of war reportage for generations. This is the story of three women forging their way in a land of men, often at great personal experience.

Gordon-Reed, Annette – The Hemingses of Monticello, an American Family (2008) – National Book Award Winner – Review by Edmund S Morgan, author of American Slavery – …Ms “Reed has broken a path into territory that has hitherto eluded historians: what happens to intimate human relations, those between lover and loved, parent and child, brother and sister, when one among them is enslaved to another. The result is not simply a fascinating story, but a new perspective on how the humanity of slaves and a slave owner could adjust and survive in circumstances designed to obliterate it.” (FYI… Jim just finished it and thought it was enlightening and excellent.)

Rembert, Winfred – Chasing Me to My Grave (2021) – Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgian field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. Years later, with the encouragement of his wife Patsy, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth. This book celebrates Black life and summons readers to confront painful and urgent realities at the heart of American history and society. And we already have two reserves on this book!

Philbrick, Nathaniel – Travels with George – In Search of Washington and his Legacy (2021) – When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome collection of states and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about the new government and the idea of being Americans. In 2018, Mr. Philbrick set out to follow the same route (which included New Hampshire) to talk with folks and compare the times.

Nature

Orlean, Susan – On Animals (2021) – “How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages”, writes Susan Orlean. In this volume, she examines animal human relationships through the compelling encounters she’s had over the course of her career. These tales bring to life a range of creatures – the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to become meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner… a neat read for all of our animal loving patrons.

Jahren, Hope – The Story of More – How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (2021) – Hope was the author of Lab Girl, a memoir that many of us enjoyed. In this book, she details the science behind key inventions, clarifying how electricity, large scale farming, and automobiles have both helped and harmed our world. Ms. Jahren maintains that our ever broadening science-based knowledge can help us counter the dilemmas we are faced with and shares this with us in a very readable format.

Times

Hyde, Anne F. – Born of Lakes and Plains – Mixed descent peoples and the making of the American West (2022) – Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex households using intermarriage to link disparate communities and create protective circles of kin. In this book, Ms. Hyde follows five mixed descent families whose lives intertwined major events: battles over the fur trade, the extension of American authority in the West, the ravages of imported disease, the violence of Indian removal, encroaching American settlement… a different look at the settlement of the west by a well-respected author.



Our new Animal display in the Children's Room... Isn't this the cutest?? (Thanks to our latest discovery... Peel & Stick wallpaper!!!)

 


…with a visit to the library ...  and take home puzzles, DVDs, audio books, as well as all your favorite author’s latest offerings. Take a break from the gardening chores!!

Open Mondays 10 – 1, Wednesdays 1 – 5, and Saturdays 10 – 1)

Wishing you a week of everything good… Susan and the Library Ladies





Sunday, May 8, 2022




It is May and Time for New Fiction Books for our adult readers! 
Hope you find something that tickles your fancy!!



Box, C J – Shadows Reel (2022) – CJ’s latest Joe Pickett adventure… Chapter One: The Moose That Wasn’t to The Reckoning… 27 chapters of “can’t put it down” … but what about the moose that wasn’t…guess we must read to find out!

Coben, Harlan – The Boy from the Woods (2020) and The Match (2022) – These two mysteries are the start of a new series by fan favorite, Harlan Coben. It all begins with a man whose past is shrouded in mystery trying to find a missing teenage girl before her disappearance brings about disastrous consequences for her community and the world beyond.

Coulter, Catherine – Labyrinth (2019) – A newer offering from Catherine Coulter… an amazingly eerie and complex thriller all taking place in the small town of Gaffer’s Ridge, Virginia…. Anxious to know if we have Coulter fans among our patrons.



Deaver, Jeffrey – The Midnight Lock (2021) – After a two-year absence, Deaver is back with another Lincoln Rhyme novel… Can brilliant forensic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme decipher the identity of the deranged criminal known as the locksmith and stop him before his horrifying games turn deadly? Any takers?

Foley, Lucy – The Paris Apartment (2022) – From the author of The Guest Room comes a new locked-room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide… Everyone’s a neighbor. Everyone’s a suspect, And everyone knows something they’re not telling.



Green, Jane – Sister Stardust (2022) – In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green reimages the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the swinging sixties. Ah, the sixties just keep coming back!

Hendricks, Greer – An Anonymous Girl (2019) – From the author of The Wife Between Us comes a novel about doubt, passion, and just how much you can trust someone. Watch out for an ad like this: Seeking Women ages 18 – 32 to participate in a study on ethics and morality. Generous compensation. Anonymity guaranteed.

Meyerson, Amy – The Imperfects (2020) – From the author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays comes a captivating novel about a priceless inheritance that leads one family on a life-altering pursuit of the truth. Dive in and meet the Millers!



Osman, Richard – The Man Who Died Twice ((2021) - A second Thursday Murder Club Mystery just added to our collection… Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim, the Thursday Murder Club, are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Coopers Chase, their posh retirement village… but, as you can guess, that does not happen!

Scottoline, Lisa – What Happened to the Bennetts (2022) – Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same. Now you must choose between law and justice and sometimes justice is a one-man show. And Jason Bennett is just a suburban dad on his way home from work… Yikes!

Steel, Danielle – High Stakes (2022) – In this ‘riveting’ novel, a group of remarkable women navigate the challenges of balancing their families, their personal lives, and the high stakes of ambition at the top of their game…. Sure sounds familiar!



 

Sunday, May 1, 2022

2022 - 5 - 1 Welcome Month of May!

 


Greetings from the Byron G Merrill Library in Rumney
 on this beautiful first week of May…
 Hello May! Please be awesome!!

Upcoming Events

Each Monday morning in Merrill Hall we host our gaggle of young families from ten until noon. On sunny days the children enjoy outdoor fun with bikes, balls, and playing tag. Inside we have all sorts of fun things to play with and offer a story time and craft. Hope you can join us for some fun Family Time with other families.

This week is Children’s Book Week… the annual celebration of books for young people and the joy of reading. During this week, children will receive a free gently used book to keep each time they visit the library.



May 6th is National Space Day celebrating all the advancements and achievements made in space exploration throughout the years. Get out your telescopes and explore the night sky and stop by the library this week, look at our astronomy books and see if you can name the planets in our solar system.

May 8th is Mother’s Day, and we are here to help our little ones celebrate their moms. We will have story time with Susan whenever you come our way… The Mother’s Day Sandwich by Jillian Wynot… and we will learn how to make this sandwich just in time for next Sunday!

May 10th is National Clean Your Room Day… nothing to add here!



And looking ahead… June 11th from nine until noon will be our Spring Fling and we need some volunteers to help us set up and take down… We will be having a plant sale (let us know if you have plants to offer), a book sale (we especially need some children’s books donated), a bake sale (need donations and the items do not need to be individually wrapped), and several more surprises. We hope you will mark your calendar and lend a hand…crossing my fingers for a beautiful day!

What would you like to see happening at our library? We always welcome your ideas!

Your library card entitles you to check out books (real, audio, and downloadable), DVDs, and puzzles. We invite you to stop in and see what we offer… Library hours are Mondays 9 – 1, Wednesdays 1 – 5, and Saturdays 10 – 1 and additional times when you see the flag out! You are welcome to contact us at sturbyne@rumneylibrary.org

Wishing everyone a great start to the month of May! Susan and the Library Ladies

 


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