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January 14, 2015 · 0 Comments

Here we go with all our programs starting up again.
• Lego Club on Wednesday, January 14
• Teens on Thursday evening, January, 15
• Storytime, Friday morning, January 16 at 10:30 a.m.
Even though the times and routines are the same , there will be lots of new activities and lots of fun.
New Books
I have just read three of the funniest and most endearing books around. I read them one right after another because of their light-hearted yet well developed characters; the way the author nails the deep inner reflections of each character and therefore makes you feel so connected to their joys and their heartaches. The books are in a series called the Big Stone Gap Novels and revolve around an extended family in the Appalachian village of Big Stone Gap. The family extends all the way to Italy, a most unlikely combination. However, author Adriana Trigiani draws on her own background to bring out the realistic details in both areas. The juxtaposition and weaving of the characters back and forth is well done and believable. As one reviewer states “Trigiani can make you laugh in one sentence and break your heart in the next.”
For some really heartwarming stories that take your mind off everything else, read, The Big Stone Gap, Cherry Holler and Milk Glass Moon.
Then, if you want a different kind of read look at How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. This is an entertaining book in quite another way as it outlines all the ins and outs of the high tech world and how Google became the ultimate standard for information on the Internet. The authors explain some of the strategies that lead to the success of Google and their belief and support of the “ smart creatives” of their employees to which they attribute the success. Extrapolating their conviction in this theory of “smart creatives “ can be applied to any business large or small. A substantial but easy read.
Fiction:
The Woman who stole my life by Marian Keyes
The Year I met you by Cecelia Ahern
Darkness, darkness by John Harvey
Honeyville by Daisy Waugh
All days are night by Peter Stamm
Deceived by Irene Hannon
Flesh and blood by Patricia Cornwell
All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr
Non fiction:
Rise to greatness: the history of Canada by Conrad Black
The Digital economy (anniversary edition) by Don Tapscott
Two days in June by Andrew Cohen
Aging backwards by Miranda Esmonde-White
Dogs in cars by Lara Jo Regan
Bread-free bread by Nerissa Oden
We are your leafs by Mike Ulmer
Dispatches from the Front by David Halton
A Slip of the keyboard by Terry Pratchett
Party of one by Michael Harris
Into the blizzard by Michael Winter
Sarah style by Sarah Richardson
The Happiness advantage by Shawn Achor