We currently have a "wish" butterfly bush on the circulation desk! It is loaded with the library's donation needs. Each butterfly hanging from the bush has a wish printed on it. Some of the wishes include paper products, landscaping needs (paving stones), office supplies, and even utility bills. When a patron fulfills a wish item, the butterfly is displayed, with the person's name written on it. Although... we seem to have some humble patrons, who would rather not be recognized.

First published in 1847, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights ranks high on the list of major works of English literature. A brooding tale of passion and revenge set in the Yorkshire moors, the novel has inspired no fewer than four film versions in modern times. Early critics did not like the work, citing its excess of passion and its coarseness. A second edition was published in 1850, two years after the author’s death. Sympathetically prefaced by her sister Charlotte, it met with greater success, and the novel has continued to grow in stature ever since. In the novel a pair of narrators, Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean, relate the story of the foundling Heathcliff’s arrival at Wuthering Heights, and the close-knit bond he forms with his benefactor’s daughter, Catherine Earnshaw. One in spirit, they are nonetheless social unequals, and the saga of frustrated yearning and destruction that follows Catherine’s refusal to marry Heathcliff is unique in the English canon. The novel is admired not least for the power of its imagery, its complex structure, and its ambiguity, the very elements that confounded its first critics. Emily Brontë spent her short life mostly at home, and apart from her own fertile imagination, she drew her inspiration from the local landscape—the surrounding moorlands and the regional architecture of the Yorkshire area—as well as her personal experience of religion, of folklore, and of illness and death. Dealing with themes of nature, cruelty, social position, and indestructibility of the spirit, Wuthering Heights has surpassed the more successful Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre in academic and popular circles.

                Thank-you to Carol Barlow-Clement for the July pick!      

                            Please visit this website for more information      http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/summary.htm

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (2009) is a non-fiction book by American author David Grann. It tells the story of the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon while looking for an ancient lost city. For decades, explorers and scientists have tried to find evidence of his party and theLost City of Z. Perhaps as many as 100 people perished or disappeared searching for Fawcett over the years. Grann made his own journey into the Amazon, revealing new evidence about how Fawcett died and showing that Z may have really existed right under his feet.

Thank-you to Kris Kerr for the August pick! 

Please vist this website for more information: 

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Summer Reading Program

The Summer Reading Program at the Library

is for Kindergarten through High School.

The program starts at 6:00 every 

Wednesday night July 7 - 28.

This years theme is “Science Fun @ the Library”

We’ll have science projects you can make and prizes for the most books read and the most interesting science project.

                       Pizza Party on the Last Day                                  Sign up early, class size is limited!!!!!

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Board of Director's Meeting
 July 20th @ 6:00
   Working on the Budget!
   Public is welcome

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Book Discussion Picks for 2009

Jan.	Persuasion	Austin, Jane	Carol Barlow-Clement
Feb.	Three Cups of Tea	Mortenson, Greg	Kelli Knapp
March	The Art of Happiness	The Dalai Lama	Bev Carlberg
April	East of Eden	Steinbeck, John	Chris Kerr
May	Loving Frank	Horan, Nancy	Lynn Allen
June	The Miracles of Santo Fico	Smith, D.L.	Brenda Peterson
July	The Adoration of Jenna Fox	Pearson, Mary E.	Julie Greenman
August	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	Haddon, Mark	Bev Carlberg
Sept.	The Poisonwood Bible	Kingsolver, Barbara	Mary Summerson
Oct.	Freakonomics	Levitt, Stephen	Thach, Sharrill
Nov.	Isaac’s Storm	Larson, Eric	Debbie Penley

 

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The Annual Meeting
was held April 14th  

Audubon Center & Sanctuary Program
"Wetlands Animals"

Jennifer Schlick  read books about freshwater wetlands. She also introduced  some
of Audubon's live education animals.

Literature about Audubon's Little Explorer's monthly Saturday program and Summer Day camp as well as copies of the current newsletter were available to families who attended.
Refreshments were served.

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