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Stowe Free Library September 2015 Newsletter
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A note from the Director:

Future Endeavors
 
The Stowe Free Library is in the process of deciding the focus of our services for the next five years. We have gathered information from two meetings with a group of community leaders, a survey of young readers, and a staff discussion.
 
We have been rewarded with some great comments about the library and services provided. The library is a “joyful gathering place.” Visiting the library makes one feel like “a kid going to a candy store.” “The desk personnel are helpful and welcoming and know stuff.” The library has “outstanding programs for everyone, kids, teens, and adults.” “The Friends of the library has changed and has become really helpful.”
 
Through this process, suggestions for enhanced services gravitated around creating young readers, satisfying curiosity, and connecting to the online world. We are proud of the services and materials that we currently provide to fill those community needs, but are brainstorming new and creative ideas. How do we encourage lifelong learning? How can we reach the community members who are unaware of our services? What new and interesting technology should we pursue? In what areas of literacy (technical, financial, early, etc.) do we need to provide more educational opportunities?
 
These and other questions will be discussed, and a concrete plan will be devised. The plan will be presented at a later date in its entirety in paper format and online.
 
In the meantime, we are always accepting suggestions from the community, so feel free to let us know what you would like to see happen here at the Stowe Free Library. Contact us at 253-6145 or send me an email at cweber@stowelibrary.org.
 
As always, thank you all for your ongoing support of the Stowe Free Library!
 
Cindy Weber, Director
 
Vermont Department of Libraries would love to have help creating a new logo for the DCF Book Award.

Open to grades
4-8...

 
Create a logo for the bookmarks, website and on official communications!  
It must say:
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award

OR

Create a logo for the book spine stickers!
It must say:
Dorothy's List

 

Due December 18, 2015

Winners will be featured on VPR website and will get special recognition at the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Ceremony in the spring.

Send all submissions to:
sharon.colvin@vermont.gov or mail to:
Vermont Department of Libraries
109 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05602

See our website for more information!

 
November is National Picture Book Month!
Happy Thanksgiving!

New Kids Books!

                  
       
  • Mary Cassett  by Barbara Herkert
  • I can’t wait by Amy Schwartz
  • This is my home, this is my school by Jonathan Bean
  • 5 minute Marvel Spider-Man Stories
  • 5 minute Batman stories
  • Who needs a bath?  By Jeff Mack
  • The Wonder Garden by Jenny Broom
  • The curse of King Tut’s mummy by Kathleen Zoehfeld
  • Finding the first T. Rex by Kathleen Zoehfeld
  • Until I find Julian by Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Danger down the Nile by James Patterson
  • Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer
  • Lenny & Lucy by Philip Christina Stead
  • Ninja Bunny by Jennifer Gray Olson
  • Pete the Cat and the Bedtime Blues by Kim Dean
  • Sword of the Summer by Rick Riordan
  • A Passion for Elephants by Toni Buzzeo
  • The Next by Kenneth Oppel
  • and so many more!

New Young Adult Books

              
  • Six impossible things by Fiona Wood
  • Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
  • It’s your World by Chelsea Clinton
  • Keepers of the Labyrinth by Erin Moulton
  • The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
  • The Shepherds Crown by Terry Patchett
  • Liars, Inc by Paula Stokes
  • Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
  • Brillian by Rachel Vail
  • The Golden Compass by Stephanie Durand- Melcior
  • and so many more!

New Adult Books

               
   
 
  • After You by Jojo Moyes
  • Foreign Affairs by Stuart Woods
  • The girl in the spider’s web by David Lagercrantz
  • Mycroft Holmes by Kareen Abdul-Jabbar
  • The Art of Grace by Sarah Kaufman
  • Married SEX by Jess Kornbluth
  • Devoted in Death by JD Robb
  • The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths
  • Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
  • Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young
  • The Murder House by James Patterson
  • The End Game by Catherine Coulter
  • The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati
  • Shanghai Redemption by Xiaolong Qiu
  • My Pantry by Alice Walters
  • House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure
  • Near & Far by Heidi Swanson
  • Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling
  • The company she kept by Archer Mayor
  •  and so many more!
     
 
Mark your calendars!  
Friends of the Stowe Free Library present Author Ellen Stimson!
Anyone who remembers Ellen's last visit to Stowe knows that this FREE talk will be an event full of fun and laughter!  

Ellen Stimson is a bread-and-butter home cook....possibly more butter than bread.  Her table is usually overflowing with friends, family and folks who have come to just listen to her stories.  Some of those tales made it into her best selling memoir, Mud Season.  She cooks and writes from an old farmhouse in Vermont.  



        

In, "An Old Fashioned Christmas", Ellen brings her trademark touch to holiday memories new and old.  A guide to celebrating Christmas in proper Vermont style, from sleigh rides to country stores, a legendary party with family and friends and 98 recipes round out this deeply personal and delicious book that you will return to year after year.

Join us in the Community Room of the library as we kick off the holiday celebrations in Stowe.
Thursday, December 3rd 7-8pm
Please join us for this free event which will include light refreshments.
 
 



 

New Audio Books and DVDs

Audio Books
              
 

DVDs
         
 
         

 

See our website for more!

Staff Picks- what we are reading, watching and recommending! 
Click the image to be directed to Stowe Free Library catalog.


Cindy:
 "The Age of Adaline" 
A new movie where a young woman, born at the turn of the 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After many solitary years, she meets a man who complicates the eternal life she has settled into.
 "Circling the Sun" by Paula McLain
"Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman—Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, who as Isak Dinesen wrote the classic memoir Out of Africa" via Goodreads

"The Red Notebook" by Antoine Laurain
The Red Notebook is about a Heroic bookseller, Laurent Letellier, who  comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it" via Goodreads

Julie:
Young Adult Movie based on the book "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"

Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham  

"Meet Scarlett, a smart, sarcastic fifteen-year-old, ready to take on crime in her hometown. When Scarlett agrees to investigate a local boy's suicide, she figures she's in for an easy case and a quick buck. But it doesn't take long for suicide to start looking a lot like murder" via Goodreads

Jessica:
 "In a Dark, Dark Wood" by Ruth Ware
"Nora hasn’t seen Clare for ten years. Not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back.In a dark, dark wood there was a dark, dark house Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s bachelorette party arrives. Is this a chance for Nora to finally put her past behind her?And in the dark, dark house there was a dark, dark roomBut something goes wrong. Very wrong.And in the dark, dark room…Some things can’t stay secret for ever." via Goodreads


"The Billion Dollar Spy" by David E. Hoffman
"From the author of the Pulitzer Prize- winning history, The Dead Hand, comes a riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and apenetrating portrait of the CIA's Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War"
 via Goodreads

Chef
A feel good movie!


Kelly: Historical Fiction is my favorite genre!

Girl at War by Sara Novic

A more contemporary historical book set in the 90s during the Croatia war.  This is a look into how war changes people forever.

  The Mapmaker's Children by Sarah McCoy
The story is based around an abolitionists daughter during the Civil War and how she helped with the Underground Railroad.  You will like this is you liked "The Invention of Wings"

  The Bronze Horseman by Paulina Simons
Set in Russia as World War II began....this is the first part to an amazing trilogy.  If you liked "Outlander" series or "The Tea Rose" series, this book is for you!

 

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