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June 2009

 Summer Reading Program @ GPL

by Karen Barron

Avoid the summer doldrums and Read on the Wild Side during the Glenview Public Library Adult Summer Reading program. Just read six books between June 8th and August 1st – including audiobooks or e-audiobooks, fiction or nonfiction. We’ll help you get started with great suggestions for fiction and nonfiction titles. Just ask!

 

Stop by the Reader Services desk to register and pick up your log sheet - you’ll receive a signup prize too! Each time you read a book (or two or three!), bring your log to the desk and receive an entry for the weekly prize drawing for each book read.

 

When you finish your first six books, you’ll get an eco-friendly tote bag.  And for every six books you read, you will be entered into the Grand Prize Drawing. (Limit 8 Grand Prize entries per person.) Grand prizes include 1-year family memberships to the Brookfield Zoo, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Field Museum, the Grove, and the Morton Arboretum. In addition, Glenview’s own Chocolate Potpourri and Roti Mediterranean Grill of Northbrook have donated mouth-watering surprises.

 

So don’t miss out on the fun –  Read on the Wild Side at the Glenview Public Library!

 

 

On Display in the Library: 

I'd Like to Buy
a Vow
Wedding Fiction 

Pier Pressure
Fishing Fiction and Nonfiction

Everybody Loves Roamin'
Travel

The Audacity of Taupe
Home Decorating

Look for these author displays:
Thomas Hardy
Ken Follett
Maxine Kumin 

In the Teen Corner:

New Teen Releases

Graphic Novels

Viva la France!
Quarterly Mystery Discussion Group
Thursday, June 11, at 7:00 pm

Join us in the Maynard Room for Les Mysteres Sont Fantastiques, or Mysteries Set in France! Authors Cara Black, Sharan Newman, Georges Simenon, and others will bring the City of Lights to life. Light refreshments will be served; new members are always welcome.

 

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Volunteers Needed!

NEW! Reading Buddies (entering grades 7 and up, adults)
Youth Services at the Glenview Public Library is looking for volunteers to be Reading buddies for the new Book Buddies summer program. Reading Buddies will meet once a week with a child entering grades 1-3 to read aloud together and talk about the stories. Play a vital part in helping new readers retain their skills during summer vacation. One training session is required, as well as one hour of service per week for six weeks. Completed application packets are due by June 8.
Training Sessions:
Monday, June 15, 4-5 pm or 7-8 pm
Saturday, June 20, 10-11 am
Buddy Sessions:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Thursdays, June 23 - July 30

Star Volunteers (entering grades 8 and up, adults)
Help the children with the summer reading game by becoming a Star Volunteer in the Youth Services department. Volunteers should complete a total of eight hours of service during the eight-week reading program. One training session is required.
Training Sessions:
Monday, June 1 and Friday, June 5, 4-5 pm
Wednesday, June 3, 7-8 pm
Saturday, June 13, 10-11 am  ___________________________________________________________

Did You Know? Magazines Available @ GPL
by Nancy Ashbrook

BOOKFORUM

Wondering what to read next? This monthly, sometimes bi-monthly, is filled with book reviews for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Three feature articles cover a broad range of topics such as the current issue, Apr/May, 2009, on Commuter Literate - a literary bio on John Cheever, The New Geography - a roundtable of authors who have written on space and spatial concepts, and Nobody's Everyman - Richard Ford's take on his character, Frank Bascombe. Regular columns include Pub Dates - annotated upcoming releases in books, art, film, music and miscellaneous, The Moviegoer - The Great Gatsby and The Informer, Interview - with Geoff Dyer, Last Things - the end of black nationalism, Word For Word - Lucretius's De rerum natura, and Luxury & Degradation - catalog shopping.

E-Mail Services for Book Lovers Award winning books, bestsellers and book newsletters.

     BookNews

Receive genre specific electronic newsletters, called e-newsletters delivered directly to your desktop e-mail or click here to view a sample e-newsletter posted on the Library's website.

Select the newsletters of your choice via the BookNews link and receive your e-newsletter on the 15th of each month. The newsletters highlight four different books in a specific genre and have reviews, descriptions and author commentaries plus a link to the GPL catalog. What's your favorite category? Whether it's new non-fiction, new fiction, home & garden books, or something else, the Glenview Public Library's BookNews can help you decide what to read next! 

Online Book Clubs            Chapters delivered to your email inbox.

Each day, Monday through Friday, the Library   e-mails a portion of a book that takes about five minutes to read directly to your e-mail. You can read two or three chapters each week. If you like the book, check it out from the library. A new selection of books is provided each week.

Choose from 10 different Online Book Clubs like  Fiction, Non-Fiction, Business, Teen, Mystery, Science Fiction, or Horror. You can also listen to Audio Books in your e-mail, or subscribe to the Pre-Publication Club. You can start reading (or listening to) books in your e-mail before they're even published! And best of all, you can forward the e-mails to your friends and family.

This month's Thriller Book Club subscribers will receive:

Easy Innocence by Libbry Fischer Hellmann

Former cop-turned-PI Georgia Davis investigates an apparently open-and-shut case involving hazing and a clique of high school classmates.

 

The Illumination by Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori

Reporter Dana Landau is murdered in Iraq after buying the Eye of Dawn, an amulet believed to have supernatural powers. Fortunately, Landau managed to send off the talisman to her sister, a curator at a New York City museum devoted to the ancient Near East, before the bad guys who want to use it for evil tracked her down.

 

A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell

Hannah Vogel, a 32-year-old crime reporter for the Berliner Tageblatt, recognizes a photograph of a naked corpse on a riverbank as that of her beloved brother, Ernst, an unabashedly gay transvestite cabaret singer and searches for his killer.

  

Sign up for the Online Book Club service here: http://www.supportlibrary.com/su/su.cfm?x=44521

 

 

Forthcoming Books

By Kim Comerford

 

FICTION 

My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
In this final collection of short stories, the late author reflects on the American experience in his childhood through the aftermath of 9/11.

The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale
In this romantic fantasy, a Mormon housewife meets a celebrity heartthrob and an unlikely friendship develops, but can this friendship co-exist with their everyday lives?

Dune Road by Jane Green
The author of The Beach House writes a story about life in an exclusive beach town after the tourists have left and the eccentrics remain.

In The Kitchen by Monica Ali
As the chef at a luxury hotel, Gabriel Lightfoot already has his hands full with his customers and kitchen staff, but when a porter is found dead in the kitchen basement and his father is diagnosed with cancer, his life and plans to open his own restaurant start to spiral out of control. By the author of Brick Lane.

Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson
When the wine connoisseurs of the world come to Sun Valley Idaho for a wine auction, Sheriff Walt Fleming must ensure that the event goes as planned despite the highly anticipated auction of three expensive bottles that were a gift from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams.

NON-FICTION

Prairie Tale by Melissa Gilbert
Gilbert describes her personal life off-camera and how she found herself after years of substance abuse and dysfunctional relationships.

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
Grandin tells the little known story of Henry Ford's attempt to create an American town in the Amazon jungle in order to establish a rubber plantation.

American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato
Based on primary sources, Cannato tells the story of Ellis Island through the eyes of the people who were there- immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers.

The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency by Matthew Aid
In the first complete history of the NSA, Aid provides a revealing look at the agency that is the most important source of intelligence for the US government.

Magnificent Desolation: The Long Road Home from the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
Aldrin describes the experience of being the second man to walk on the moon and how his life lost purpose after achieving his dream at such a young age.

Literary Happenings
@ the Library

Monday, June 1
Monday Afternoon Book Discussion
GPL Conference Room, 1:00 pm
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn.

Monday, June 8
Monday Evening Book Discussion
Maynard Room, Downstairs, 7:30 pm
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.

Monday, July 6
Monday Afternoon Book Discussion
GPL Conference Room, 1:00 pm
White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway.

Friday, July 10
BOOK IT! on Friday Nights
Glenview Park Center, Room 102, 7:00 pm
A NEW! book group discussing nonfiction every other month.
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama.

In Glenview and Beyond

Tuesday, June 2 
Surprised by God, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Author visit at Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, 610 S. Michigan, Chicago, IL 5:30 pm

Thursday, June 4 
Pay to Play: How Rod Blagojevich Turned Political Corruption Into a National Sideshow, Elizabeth Brackett
Author visit at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL   7:00 pm

Wednesday, June 10 
This One Is Mine, Maria Semple
Author visit at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL   7:00 pm

Friday, June 12 
Atlas of Unknowns, Tania James
Author visit at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL   6:00 pm

Friday, June 14 
The Serpent and the Scorpion, Claire Langley-Hawthorne
Author visit at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL   1:00 pm

Tuesday, June 16
The Accidental Guerilla by David Kilcullen
Member reception at 5:00 pm; Presentation & Live Webcast at 6:00 pm
Pritzker Military Library, 610 N. Fairbanks Court, 2nd Flr, Chicago IL

Wednesday, June 24 
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
Author visit, and Tea, at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL  4:00 pm

Thursday, June 25 
Cost, Roxana Robinson
Author visit at The Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm Street, Winnetka, IL   7:00 pm

Saturday - Sunday, July 6-7
Printers Row Lit Fest
200 booksellers of new, used and antiquarian books, and seven stages with more than 100 free literary programs.
Five city blocks on Dearborn, from Congress to Polk, Chicago,  IL

Friday, July 10
BOOK IT! on Friday Nights
NEW! Book Discussion Group meets at Glenview Park Center, Rm 102, 7:00 pm
If you agree that truth is stranger than fiction, join this Nonfiction book group discussing The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama.

Monday, July 13
Shelabration: A Tribute to Shel Silverstein
Millennium Park celebrates their 5th birthday with a tribute to poet, author, illustrator, songwriter and performer Shel Silverstein. Famous for Where the Sidewalk Ends and other children books, Silverstein was also a Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated songwriter. 
Millennium Park, 55 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago,  IL  6:00 pm

Thursday - Sunday, July 23-26
The 25th Annual Book Fair
More than 100,000 donated books sorted into 60 categories for your browsing convenience.
Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St, Chicago,  IL

Saturday, July 25
Bughouse Square Debates
Exercise your first-amendment rights and relive the days of soapbox oratory and public debates. If you have a hot topic, call 312-255-3700 to become a soapbox speaker. Join past speakers like Studs Terkel and others in this unique, and fun, event.
Washington Square Park, across from the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St, Chicago,  IL 

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