MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Location: file:///C:/8D791512/SwanLibraryNewsletterOctober.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Swan Library has a number of activities planned for the enjoyment of= all ages in July and August

            =     Swan Library has some fine programs planned for October. Michael Czarnecki= will come on Tuesday, October 9th for a program around his new poetry book “Along Blue Ontario Shores” at 7:00 pm. This program is ma= de possible, in part, by a grant from Poets and Writers, Inc.

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Page Turners Book Club will meet Wednesday, October 17th at 7:00 pm w= ith Kathy Gleason.

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Stanley Vanderlaan will visit Swan Library for a book t= alk on his new book Growing Up and Growing Old on the County House Road on Thursday, October 18th at 7:00 pm. Please register by calling 589-4246.

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Swan Library will offer two computer classes in October. On Mondays, October 15<= sup>th, 22nd, and 29th from 9:30 am to 11:00 am the classes w= ill be on “Intro to Computers.” On Tuesdays, October 16th, 23rd, and 30th from 9:30 am to 11:00 am the classes w= ill be on “Intro to Microsoft Word.” Please pre-register for these = free classes by calling 589-4246, space is limited.

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Fall Storytimes are on Tuesdays at 10:30 am. On Octo= ber 9th the theme will be sports, on Oct. 16th the theme will be Hats. T= he theme will be Seasons/Weather on October 23rd, and on October 30= th the theme will be Pond Life. Please pre-register by calling the Children’s Library at 589-4246.

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   There will be a “Wilbur the Ghost” Halloween Party at the Pullman Universalist Church= on Wednesday, October 17th from 4:30 to 5:00 pm for children age= s 4 to 10. There will be Halloween giveaways and activities. Please pre-registe= r by calling 589-4246.

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Tuesday, October 23rd will be a “Crafting for Fun” program at= the Children’s Library from 6-7 pm. The craft will be a “Hand Print= Bat Craft.” Please register by calling 589-4246. Space is limited.

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B= ook Review:

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   The World Without Us by Alan Weisman is a thought exercise in how long it w= ould take the world to recover from our presence if the people were gone. Some of the pieces he talks about—the physical manifestations show that, with= in a hundred years or so the things we think will last—houses, bridges, buildings, etc. will be buried in a tide of vegetation. In the South, likel= y, for the first few hundred years or so, kudzu vines will take over until something comes along that will eat the vines.

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   According to Mr. Weisman dogs will likely disappear fairly quickly, while cats will probably survive, although not, perhaps, in their present numbers. Species = we have not completely eliminated will probably return, or other species will develop that will fill the same ecological niche.

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   The one ineradicable problem is that created by plastic. There are huge plastic islands forming in the oceans made of plastic foam, bags, and plastic rope = and string, that will likely be around for centuries—either floating, as = now, or at the sea bottom. This is a fascinating book. He does offer a palliativ= e at the end – if the whole world committed to a one-child policy, many of= the disasters we see ahead could be averted in the next 100 years. We live in a world where 1 million people are born every 4 days. Think about it.        &= nbsp;  

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N= ew Fiction:

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Meet me in Venice by Elizabeth Adler

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   The Elves of Cintra by Terry Brooks<= /span>

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Play Dirty by Sandra Brown

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Critical by Robin Cook

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Saturnalia: A Marcus Didius Falco Novel by Lindsey Davis

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Thursday Next in First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Shoe Addicts Anonymous by Elizabeth Harbison

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Sandworms of Dune by Brian Herbert

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   The Dead Don’t Lie: An Abe Lieberman Mystery by Stuart M. Kaminsky

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Crusade by Robyn Young

N= ew Non-Fiction:

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War by Clarissa W. Confer

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy by C. David Heymann

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be Pres= ident by Jill Norgren

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck by Michael B. Rubin

<= span style=3D'mso-tab-count:1'>        &= nbsp;   Weight Watchers Easy Weeknight Favorites