Friends of the Sonoma Valley Library Newsletter

February 2014

2014 BOOK SALES

Winter: February 19, 20, 21, 22

..From

the Editor

Spring: May 14, 15, 16, 17 Summer: August 20, 21, 22, 23 Fall: November 19, 20, 21, 22 Wednesdays: Member Preview 11:00 am to 3:30 pm Open to Public 3:30 to 7:30 pm Thursdays & Fridays: Open to Public 10:00 am to 5:30 pm Saturdays: Open to Public 10:00 am to 3:30 pm Non-profits 1:30pm to 3:30 pm STUDENTS PRESCHOOL THROUGH GRADE 12 Dont forget to get your free book! NOTE: The Book Sale functions on the Honor System. Mark your purchases on the back of a book mark, and pay the cashier when you leave. You may also pay by credit card.

February, the month of love. The next Friends book sale is sure to appease those lovers of great reads, and to whet appetites further, there will be a new book club starting in the summer.. Read the details in this newsletter. The Mystery Book Discussion Group is going full steam. This popular discussion group has a very loyal following. Lisas column talks about the Young Adult crowd, and how they are served at our Library by having their own space referred to as the Teen Room. Handsome new furniture that includes the Blob chairs were funded by the Friends. Look in and see how the young adults are using their dedicated space. The former New Ideas committee is renamed the Initiatives Committee chaired by Friends Vice President Bob Pincus. Interesting proposals are on the table including a coffee cart, so stay turned. Bob has also submitted content for the new Book News column which will be an ongoing feature in our Friends newsletter. If youre reading this on line and wish to email Bob, click on this link:

rpincus@nextvisiontv.com
Friends Board Member, Dave Dobbins is striving to reach a 90% membership number who receive the newsletter electronically (by email). This will allow you to read it on line, in color, with email addresses hyperlinked. It is easy to sign on.just click on this link if youre reading this on line:

THANK YOU MUCHAS GRACIAS

daveddobbins@earthlink.net
Bring your book bags and be prepared to shop til you drop at the next Friends book sale. No items over $2.what a bargain! Please note that non-profits (including educators) can stock their libraries by picking up free books at 1:30 on Saturday of the book sale. Preschool through grade 12 students can choose a free book any time during the sale. WE LOVE YOU, OUR FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY!

The Friends of the Sonoma Valley Library send heartfelt thanks to Sonoma Market for donating hundreds of paper bags for the book sales, and Lucky Market and Safeway for the many empty banana boxes donated for storing sorted books for our book sales.

In This Issue From the Editor Book News Last Book Sale Stats Mystery Book Discussion Group New Book Club starting in Summer Book pickup Volunteer Lisas Column

Robyn Makaruk

JOIN THE FRIENDS!

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Book Discussion Group For Mystery Lovers

From Lisa Musgrove,

Manager
The Young Adult crowd is rising in significance in the literary world and in our Library as well. An increasing number of authors, even authors of grown -up literature like Harlan Coben, James Patterson and Carl Hiaasen, are writing for this set. Young Adult literature is also booming in popularity with adults, as can be seen with the book and movie success of the Twilight series, The Hunger Games, Enders Game, and The Book Thief. Our Sonoma Valley Library has a special space specifically for Young Adults. In this room students are free to talk, read, do homework and group projects. There are comfortable new chairs, purchased by the Friends and plenty of books considered to be of the Young Adult ilk. The goal in setting aside this area is to make the library welcoming, safe, and enticing for Young Adults. Some might be wondering, What exactly is a Young Adult? Childrens Librarian Clare OBrien replies, There is no exact in our library! Young Adult (YA) materials are geared towards grades 7-12. Anyone visiting the Teen Room needs to be accompanied by a Young Adult, and YA programming, including participation in the Teen Leadership Council (TLC) is for students in grades 8-12. Please encourage the Young Adults in your life to come to the library and enjoy their space! Keep up with your Library events and Like the Sonoma Valley Library on Facebook. If youre reading this on line, just click on this link: www.facebook.com/SonomaValley Library Until next time.. Club Meets on the First Thursday of the Month at 4 pm All meetings held in the Forum Room at the Library 2014 Feb 6 Mar 6 Apr 3 His Majestys Hope, Susan Macneal Little Elvises, Timothy Hallinan Munsters Case, Hakan Nesser

May 1 One Fearful Yellow Eye, John MacDonald Jun 5 July 5 Aug 7 Sep 4 Oct 2 Nov 6 Dec 4 Broken Harbor, Tana French Untold Damage, Robert Lewis The Second Rule of Ten, Gay Hendricks Finding Nouf, Zoe Ferrais Beastly Things, Donna Leon Dark Winter, David Mark The Affair, Lee Child

The 2014 offerings will reunite us with familiar sleuths and some new ones who sound very interesting, including...a Japanese American gardener and unwitting detective, Mas Arai, and Tenzing Norbuex-monk and ex-cop, and Katya, a liberated Saudi woman. The club is open to everyone including new members. A library card is all you need to get the book for the next meeting. For more information about the club contact Kassandra Miller at 935-9415 or click on the link below if you are reading this on line:

Kassandra4@comcast.net
Please put the words mystery book club in the subject line.

Lisa
Boxes in sale Paperbacks boxes Total sold Non-Profits Pickups Total $ books sold

BOOK SALE STATS November Book Sale

345* 10 262 93 $ 11,297 $ $ 405 (379)

The Friends are sponsoring a new book club group starting in July. It will be the Greek and Roman influence on later literature. Mary-Kaye Gamel, Professor of Greek, Roman and Comparative Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz will lead the group. More information in the next newsletter.

Total memberships Less Expenses NET SALES * Approx. 30 books/box KUDOS TO THE BOOK SALES TEAM!!!

$11,323

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BOOK NEWS
Welcome to Book News which will be an ongoing feature in this newsletter. We welcome your feedback on what youd like to see in this column, but for a kickoff, we are offering some statistics on how our Library serves the Sonoma Valley, a few book reviews from the wellrespected Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and a list of the most borrowed books selected at libraries nationwide during the previous month. Statistics: Approximately 100 new books are added to our Librarys collection each month that include 50% fiction and 50% non-fiction. For the month of December 2013, there were 8,346 visits, 14 programs/presentations, 466 attendees, 18,619 items checked in, 17,355 items checked out, and 2,711 items pulled from shelves. The total number of visits to the Sonoma Valley Library in 2013 was 129,171! Book Reviews: How to Choose what to Read? As a first stop in the Library, check out the Power Wall to the right as you enter. Here you will find the New Titles, both Fiction and Non-Fiction, and Recommended Reading books. Book Reviews: The following are six reviews. Blair, Joe. By the Iowa Sea: A Memoir of Disaster and Love. (non fiction). A startling, bleak and thoroughly honest memoir from husband and father Blair, it documents a flood, a marriage in danger, a family in flux and an inscrutable but mesmerizing boy...While the midlife crisis memoir might seem typical, this one isnt. (LJ12/11. Molly McArdle) Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. (non fiction) India may have a thriving economy and expansive future, but Boo shows us the lives excluded from those attainments as she follows members of a ragged Mumbai slum improvised on the edge of the citys 21stcentury expansion..Boo charts how Abdul, Fatima, Kalu and others assert power and hope in the midst of their calamitous existence. (LJ2/15/12. Margaret Heilbrun) Cash, Wiley. A Land More Kind Than Home. (fiction). Snakehandling preachers and bizarre, dysfunctional families are clichs of Southern fiction, but they can still make a great story. Cashs debut novel centers on Jess, a boy who keeps his counsel when his mothers church attempts to cure his disabled brother, unleashing a torrent of sadness and misadventure..(LJ3/1/12. Henrietta Thornton-Verma).

Tullet, Herve. Press Here. (juvenile picture book). A bright, interactive picture book that offers concepts of colors, counting, left/right, and following directions all while playing! A simple yellow dot is joined by red and blue dot friends as they are pressed, counted, tilted, and shaken at the command of the readers. Great for sitting on the couch together and giggling. The reader is sure to hear Again! (Clare OBrien) Applegate, Katherine. The One and Only Ivan. (juvenile fiction, 2013 Newbery Award). Ivan the silverback gorilla has lived a solitary life for 27 years, watching TV and painting still -life representations of objects in his domain. His companions are an elderly elephant and a stray dog.Life changes dramatically for Ivan, though, when a baby elephant arrives and he vows to give her a better life than he had..based on a true story. (SLJ12/13 Mary- Ann Karre) Whaley, John Corey. Where Things Come Back. (young adult, 2012 Printz Award) Cullen, a young man of dry humor and sarcastic wit, is determined to break free of his life in Lilly, Arkansas. .. . A mysteriously tense and surprisingly tender story about friendship, the bonds of brotherhood and what is means to believe in second chances. (Jennifer Kendall) Most borrowed books in US Libraries: Fiction: 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. Never Go Back, Lee Child The Cuckoos Calling, Robert Galbraith And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini Zealot: the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Asian This Town: Two Parties and Funeral Plus Plenty of Valet Parking in Americas Gilded Capital, Mark Leibovich Still Foolin Em: Where Ive Been, Where Im Going and Where the Hell Are My Keys?, Billy Crystal.

Non-Fiction:

Did you know.. That the Sonoma Valley Friends

of the Library have raised almost $400,000 from book sales, memberships and donations. All funds go to the Library in funding programs, purchasing furnishings, contributing to the Librarys collections, and subscribing to periodicals such as The New York Times. Doesnt YOUR Library look wonderful? We thank you, our Friends, one and all.
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Editor: Robyn Makaruk. Letters to the Editor, or submissions for upcoming newsletters should be sent to: makvision@comcast.net