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!
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
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