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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
Plans for all the library's summer activities are taking
shape. The annual Friends of the Library Book Sale will be on
Saturday, July 27th. We always need lots of volunteers to help
with this big event. Sign-up sheets for volunteer pre-sale sorters
and for workers at the sale itself are now at the circulation
desk. Please volunteer to help if you can.
The big "Raise the Roof" party, a fundraiser
for a new roof and other structural repairs to the library, will
be on Sunday, June 30th from 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Howlyn Acres,
the North Butler Road home of Howard and Lynde Lafever. There
will be a silent auction, live music and lots of great food
catered by SUNY Morrisville. Bill Magee, Nancy Larraine Hoffman,
Sherwood Boehlert and Rocco DeVeronica will all be on hand to
chat with guests and help us raise funds. Tickets for this party
will be ten dollars apiece or twenty dollars per family. Put
this worthwhile event on your calendar now, and plan to join
in the fun.
The library's Summer Reading Program for school-age children
will begin on Thursday, July 11th at 10:30 a.m. and will continue
on Thursday mornings on July 18th, 25th, August 1st and 8th.
There will be fun, prizes, crafts and lots of reading. Children
may sign up at the circulation desk at the library. We will
also be holding Pre-School Story Hours this summer. These will
be on Tuesday mornings, July 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th and August
6th. The library wants to be the "summer place to be"
for children of all ages in the community.
Thanks to Bob Hasagawa for the beautiful hanging plants
that make the library porch look even more beautiful this summer.
Remember that you can order any of the books mentioned in
this column simply by clicking on the title and completing the
order form at our website version of each week's Morrisville
Library News column . The library's website can be found at
www.midyork.org/morrisville.
Harry Potter fans take notice! The VHS and DVD versions
of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone are now available at
the library.
On the New Books cart this week are several new titles,
among them Girl from the South by Joanna Trollope. In this
novel, a young woman from South Carolina goes to London where
she meets a young man who comes to her home in South Carolina
for a visit. The contrast of the two cultures makes the adventures
and romances even more interesting. A Thousand Country Roads:
An Epilogue to the Bridges of Madison County by Robert Waller
brings to a moving conclusion his story of the love affair between
a wandering photographer and the conventional wife of an Iowa
farmer. Confessions of a Sociopath Social Climber: The Katya
Livingston Chronicles by Adele Lang is the dryly humorous, private
account of Katya's expenses, but rapidly becomes, through her
chronic delusions of grandeur, and candid tales of putting up
with loser friends, mortal enemies, thoroughly bad restaurants
and of her love life, an outrageously funny book.
Fire Ice: A Novel from the NUMA Files by Clive Cussler
is the newest addition to the Kurt Austin series. When a U.S.
Navy sub is missing and a mysterious tidal wave swamps a Maine
coastal town, Austin and the NUMA team figure out that a czarist
tycoon is mining "fire ice", unstable and explosive
solid methane, in the high-pressure deep-sea bottom. Austin and
his oceanographic team set out to foil the deadly plot. The
Oath, the ninth in the Dismas Hardy series by John Lescroart,
brings back lawyer Dismas Hardy and his best friend, homicide
cop Abe Glitsky to investigate a string of suspicious deaths
at a San Francisco HMO. They don't look like murder at first,
until the head of the HMO, dies from injuries received in a
hit-and-run accident. When the good guys start thinking that
the injuries were not the cause of death, the suspense and action
begins. Finally this week, Maya Angelou's A SongFlung Up to
Heaven completes the six volumes of autobiography that began
nearly 30 years ago with Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings. This book deals with the years 1964-68, a turbulent
period in which Angelou came back to America after her African
sojourn. Thanks to Nancy McPherson for donating this wonderful
autobiography to the library.
Summer is nearly here and the library has lots of events
and resources to make it a wonderful one for you and your family.
Take advantage of all it has to offer.
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