True Grit: Read the book and watch the films.

True Grit by Charles Portis first started out as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post in 1968. Mattie Ross, 14 years old, tracks Tom Chaney, the man who murdered her father. Mattie hires U. S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn to apprehend her father’s murderer. Texas Ranger, LaBoeuf, soon joins them on the hunt for Tom Chaney into Indian Territory.

Shortly thereafter, in 1969, the book was adapted for the screen starring John Wayne as Cogburn with Kim Darby as Mattie Ross and Glen Campbell as LaBoeuf.

In 2010, True Grit was remade with Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn, Haliee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Matt Damon as LaBoeuf.
Very successful at the box office, True Grit garnered many Academy Award nominations and Academy Awards for John Wayne and Jeff Bridges.
True Grit: book and movie versions are available in our library and through the Arrowhead Library System Interlibrary Loan.

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Kiwanis Little Ones Indoor Park

The Kiwanis Little Ones Indoor Park located in the library auditorium has reopened.  The park was closed during the State of MN shut down.  There are regularly scheduled hours but, the schedule does change when there is a conflict with other library programs.  Generally, the Indoor Park is scheduled to be open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM and Tuesday and Thursday from 3:00 PM until 7:00 PM.  Please check the library calendar for the days and times the park will be closed. 

Cost is $1/child per day OR $60 for an annual family membership (unlimited usage) payable to the Indoor Park attendant.  All children must be accompanied and monitored by their caretakers.  If you have questions or comments about the park please direct them to Melissa Grzybowski at 218-929-3125.

Hotwire by Alex Kava

Special Agent for the FBI, Maggie O’Dell, is sent to Nebraska to check out cattle mutilations on her way to teach at a law enforcement seminar. The x-file style of cattle mutilations becomes less important when high school students partying out in the woods, see a mysterious light show ending in the death of two students and injuries of others. Maggie with local state patrol investigator, Donald Fergusson, conduct interviews where the victims stories are hallucinogenic in nature. Were students attacked and electrocuted by governmental experiments or UFOS or something more sinister?

Army Colonel Ben Platt is investigating an outbreak of suspected food poisoning at a local school in Washington D.C. Platt, new- found friend of Maggie’s is just as stumped with the origin of the poisoning as Roger Bix, both experts on infectious diseases.

The two stories run parallel until the last few pages when suddenly the investigations shockingly merge. Hotwire is ninth in the Maggie O’Dell series. Alex Kava has a website: http://www.alexkava.com/

Flying Yo-Yo's!

The last show for the Summer Reading Program will feature the energy and fun of Yo-Yo Master Dazzling Dave.  A former middle school teacher, Dave’s heart and soul are still in teaching – but now he’s found a better way. Delivering intensely fun freestyle performances followed by friendly hands-on instruction, Dave teaches his “students” hand-eye coordination, goal setting & achievement, performance techniques, and the fundamentals of physics, all through the Science of Spin program and his hand-held classroom on a string.

The show starts at 2:00pm on Tuesday, July 26.  As always, this show is free and open to the all ages.

Speaking of the Summer Reading program, if you have reached your reading goal, make sure you get to the library by 5:00pm on Friday, July 29 to pick up your prizes.

The Wikkelinng by Steven Arntson

Illustrated by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini, c 2011.
Cataloged in Juvenile Fiction at the Hibbing Public Library, this book drew my attention because it is slightly wider than the average hardcover and it had no jacket.  The cover art is printed right on the fabric cover.  What is this book? 

A strange tale of three children who attend the same school, all get terrible headache and can sometimes see, or at least feel, a strange presence near them.  They live in a huge metropolis where the Old City and the Addition is divided by a large highway that keeps growing wider.  But Henrietta finds a wild house cat in the attic of her family's old house where she and her new friends can see how the town looked long ago, when people walked rather than driving in cars with computers telling them every turn to make and every thought to think.  Car horns don't honk, they blare advertisements.  These children meet because they are different than others.  They learn that there is much to be valued, including books: handwritten or printed on paper, like the mysterious Bestiary (sample pages included) that describes animals they've never seen or even learned about in their school where "Sensible Students Succeed Splendidly" and safety is all important.
A great adventure ensues as Henrietta and her new friends Gary and Rose gather information about what the Wikkeling is and why it follows them.

Read Lee Child's Jack Reacher Series This Summer

Author, Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England but grew up in the nearby city of Birmingham.  He attended law school and eventually had an 18 year career as the presentation director for British TV.  He was fired in 1995 and decided to try something new.  Child’s biography says he bought six dollars’ worth of paper and pencils, sat down, and wrote “Killing Floor”, the first novel in the Jack Reacher series.  The 16^th Jack Reacher installment, “The Affair”, will be available on September 27, 2011.

Jack Reacher is a former United States Army Military Police Major. He was born on a military base in Berlin on October 29, 1960. At age 24, he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. After graduation, he served 13 years as a Military Policeman, during which time he became part of a fictional military police unit, the 110th Special Investigations Unit, formed to handle exceptionally tough cases, especially those involving members of the United States Army Special Forces.

Since leaving the military, Reacher spends his time travelling.  He owns nothing.  The only things that he carries with him are money, a foldable toothbrush, and the clothes on his back.  One of his strict rules is – never leave a paper trail.  Rather than spend time at a laundromat he stops at a discount store every couple of days and buys something new.  There is a quick change of clothes in the dressing room and the old clothes go to the trash.   Nothing in this description describes a dependable person but what Jack Reacher does have is a very strong moral code.  If you are the underdog and you have been wronged by an evil person; Jack Reacher is the man you want at your back.

The Reacher character develops a little more in each book.  The reader eventually finds out what type of music he likes, his religious beliefs, bits and pieces of his years growing up, and why he doesn’t want the responsibility of ownership.  Jack is not adverse to using violence to solve problems and never shows any remorse for his actions.  He is great in any type of a fight and an excellent marksman.

The Reacher series is an excellent summer vacation choice. 

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough: Audiobook

Listen to the book about Paris between 1830 and 1900 when many great American writers and authors lived and created in Paris. Writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain and Henry James as well as artists Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent flourished and were inspired by French masters and their lives in Paris. David McCullough is also known for Truman and John Adams as well as many other historical subjects.
David McCullough has a publisher's page: http://pages.simonandschuster.com/greaterjourney

The Rich and the Dead: Audiobook

Mystery Writers of America presents The Rich and The Dead, new short stories by many of your favorite mystery writers: Nelson DeMille, S. J. Rozan, Lee Child, Jonathan Santlofer, Michael Connelly and many more.
Check out our audiobook collection when you have a long drive, household and outdoor chores, or some other mind numbing exercise to get through.
We have many audiobooks available through our audiobook collection: http://www.hibbing.mn.us/ or you can download books through Arrowhead Library System on many electronic devices: http://arrowhead.lib.overdrive.com/

Where the sidewalk ends...

Shari Sweetnam, author and story teller, will present a special story time based on the works of children's author Shel Silverstein.  It will begin at 10:00am, Monday, July 18, in the kid's room.

This program is free and open to all ages.

Indoor Park Fundraising Festival

In addition to having ice cream with the Friends in front of the library on Thursday, July 21st at 1:00 p.m., you will want to take your little ones to the Sidewalk Day Festival.

The Hibbing Kiwanis Little Ones Indoor Park supporters will be having a fundraising festival on Howard Street from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.  Enjoy bounce-houses, face-painting, food, beverages, and take a turn at the dunk tank.  Money from the fund raiser will be used to pay for site supervision at the indoor park.

The Kiwanis Little Ones Indoor Park is located in the library auditorium and is managed by the Indoor Park’s Board of Directors. Scheduled hours do change when they conflict with other library programs. Please check the library calendar for the days and times the park will be closed. Cost is $1/child per day OR $60 for an annual family membership (unlimited usage) payable to the Indoor Park attendant. All children must be accompanied and monitored by their caretakers. Generally, the Indoor Park is scheduled to be open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM and Tuesday and Thursday from 3:00 PM until 7:00 PM. If you have questions or comments about the park please direct them to Melissa Grzybowski at 218-929-3125.  Questions about the fund raiser should be directed to Miriam Kero 218-262-3486, ext 743 or email her at miriamkero@ci.hibbing.mn.us.

Friends of the Library Event

The Friends of the Hibbing Public Library will be serving ice cream on the front lawn on Thursday, July 21st starting at 1:00 p.m.

Stop by and visit with them and then check out the rest of the Sidewalk Day Bargains on Howard Street.

Lincoln Lawyer

If you have not read Michael Connolly’s The Lincoln Lawyer then it is definitely a recommended vacation read.

Mick Haller is a defense lawyer who works out of his Lincoln. When a wealthy realtor is accused of raping a prostitute, Haller is asked to defend him and it is the case of a life time. The man claims that the woman is trying to get some money out of him. But when Haller looks at the evidence against the realtor, he learns that this case might be linked to an older case of his. 

Mick Haller is a great, likable character. His ethics are not always the best but he realizes this and knows it is a weakness he really should work on.  The story is told from the first person point of view, so you always know what Mick is thinking. 

Michael Connolly writes a good, solid mystery.  The courtroom scenes are well crafted.

The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey and Marisa Tomei is now available on DVD.  Rolling Stone called it “A slam-bang twister of a legal thriller”.  McConaughey is the perfect Mick Haller – sleek and charismatic. 

Pick up the book at the library before you see the movie.  It is available in both hardcover and paperback.

Harry Potter Film Festival

Get ready for the final installment of the Harry Potter film series by watching the first seven on the library's big screen!  Admission is free...and so is the popcorn!



July 11 at 10:00am:                       
HP & the Sorcerer’s Stone (PG)                            
July 11 at 1:30pm:                         
HP & the Chamber of Secrets (PG)
July 12 at 1:30pm:                      
HP & the Prisoner of Azkaban (PG)              
July 13 at 10:00am:                     
HP & the Goblet of Fire (PG-13)                      
July 13 at 1:30pm:                         
HP & the Order of the Phoenix (PG-13)                                         
July 14 at 1:30pm:                       
HP & the Half-Blood Prince (PG)                         
July 15 at 10am:                           
HP & the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (PG-13)

Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich

Alway a delight to read for the humor and situations that Stephanie Plum and friends get themselves into, this latest madcap adventure features more bail bond antics. Stephanie continues to see Morelli and Ranger while her mother finds her a new boyfriend who can cook. Vinnie is operating the bail bond business out of Mooner's bus while trying to rebuild the office. Progress slows to a halt when a body is recovered on the building site. Beach reading at its finest, Janet Evanovich has a website: http://www.evanovich.com/

The Help

Kathryn Stockett’s first novel, The Help, became wildly popular after its publication in 2009 and has been on the NYT’s bestseller list for months.  The movie version starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, and Octavia Spencer is due out in August.  Stockett grew up in Jackson, Mississippi and had a close relationship with her family’s maid.  Her book is based on this experience in her life.

The story is set in the South during the 1960s.  Skeeter Stone, a privileged society girl returns home from college with her sights set on becoming a writer.  In the process she manages to cause uproar in the community.  Skeeter actually decides to interview the black women who have worked for and taken care of the children of the town’s prominent families.  She wants to tell their stories.  “The Help” definitely had special relationships with their employers and their children but racism and enforced segregation kept these feelings buried.  Making them public is against everything that society believed to be proper.

In the book, the various women alternate in telling their stories.  Even though the powerful message concerning these volatile times in the South is always present the individual characters and their complicated racial relationships do not get lost.  One story is about a woman whose own son was tragically killed in an accident and how she lovingly dedicates herself to raising the children of the families she works for.  Eventually, new friendships are forged but not everyone in the community is willing to accept that times may be changing.

In addition to the printed copy, The Help, is available on compact disc and as a downloadable title.  Put your name on the reserve list today, so you can read it before the movie opens in August.

Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo

Third in the Chief of Police Kate Burkholder series, Kate investigates the hate crimes against the Amish as well as an accidental death of three Amish family members in a manure pit. John Tomasetti, recently transferred to the a small BCI field office near Cleveland, again works with Kate to solve recent crimes in Painters Mill.
Tomassetti and Kate find themselves stymied when Amish locals refusing to press charges against assault and vandalism because they don’t want to deal with non Amish people or “The English” and the courts.
Are the “accidental” deaths linked to hate crimes? Does Kate want a more permanent commitment from Tomasetti? Read what happens next.
Website: http://www.lindacastillo.com/

Scavenger Hunt

Stop by the library anytime between 9:00am and 5:00pm, Thursday, July 7, to participate in an inside scavenger hunt. Complete the hunt and win a special prize offered that day only!

Try The Dave Robicheaux Series This Summer

James Lee Burke was born in Houston, Texas, in 1936 and grew up on the Texas-Louisiana gulf coast.  Burke's work has been awarded an Edgar twice for Best Crime Novel of the Year. He has also been a recipient of a Breadloaf and Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant. His novel The Lost Get-Back Boogie was rejected 111 times over a period of nine years, and upon publication by Louisiana State University press was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

His best known reoccurring character is Iberia Parish detective, Dave Robicheaux.  It’s a miracle Robicheaux is still a cop.  He doesn’t follow the rules, takes the law into his own hands, and always becomes personally involved in his cases.  Robicheaux sees the depravity in the world but he also sees beauty and grace.

Burke’s novels have been read by millions all over the world and he is often on the top of the New York Times’ bestseller list.  The most recent Robicheaux title, The Glass Rainbow had great reviews.  Library Journal stated, “It takes an incredible writer to keep fresh an 18th novel featuring a character that refuses to change, but Burke does so with what may be one of the best in his Robicheaux series.”  This title along with many of Burke’s others are available in the library’s adult fiction section.

Two of the Robicheaux novels are also movies.  Heaven’s Prisoners with Alex Baldwin as Dave Robicheaux and In The Electric Mist with Tommy Lee Jones playing Dave can both be found on DVD.

The Heart and the Fist: the education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL by Eric Greitens

Men who want to become Navy SEALs must survive Hellweek where "a man enters a new world with the aim of becoming something greater than he once was. He is tested once, twice, three, four, five times, each test harder than the last. Then comes the most difficult test of his life. At the end of the week, he emerges a different man. He has met the hardest test of his life, and he has passed or he has failed."
Eric Greitens became a Navy SEAL after time spent in college and extensive travel to countries where he worked in refugee camps and helped the poor.
359.9 GREITENS can be found in the new book section.

Real Simple - the magazine that tries to make life easier

Check out these two websites brought to you by Real Simple Magazine:
www.realsimple.com/lastminutetravel for last minute travel help. It's not too late to book a summer vacation.

www.realsimple.com/kidactivities Try one of these 29 fun ideas to keep kids entertained during those long summer days.

Browse our magazine collection  and check out back issues of Real Simple Magazine for 14 days or read the current issue at the library and enjoy our air conditioning.

Dennis Warner

Musician Dennis Warner returns to the library on Tuesday, June 28 at 10:00am.  Dennis is a favorite with kids and families, combining well-known songs with his recorded songs from "Beads on One String."

This program is free and open to the public.

NOTE: Pre-school Storytime will not be held on June 28 in order for the library to present Dennis' performance.

Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen was a 2006 bestseller and since, a favorite read for book clubs.  It is the story of Jacob Janowski’s life with the circus.  It is billed as a romance but Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the crude, poor, and dirty circumstances in which Jacob finds himself. The animals are underfed and abused. Jacob, once it becomes known that he has veterinary skills, is put in charge of the "menagerie" and all its ills. Uncle Al, the circus impresario, is a self-serving, creep who slaps people around because he enjoys it. August, the animal trainer, is a certified paranoid schizophrenic whose occasional flights into unreality and brutality often have Jacob as their object.   Jacob spends most of the novel beaten, broken, concussed, bleeding, swollen and hung-over. But he is the self-appointed “Protector of the Downtrodden”, and... he falls in love with Marlena, crazy August's wife. Not your usual romance.

The book was a page turner and now it is a movie starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.  If you have read the book and have also seen the movie let us know how you think they compare.  The library has the book in the adult fiction section.

Dad's Eye View: 52 family adventures in the Twin Cities by Michael Hartford

In the Introduction, 'a good outing should include surprises not only for the kids but also for the dad.'
Next time you are in the Twin Cities, pick up this book and select a few attractions that you have never seen before. Como Park Zoo, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota History Center and the Science Museum of Minnesota are just a few places where families can enjoy a fun weekend south of the Iron Range.
Find the book in the new book section under: 977.65790454 HARTF

Today at 5 pm, The Science Museum of Minnesota will be visiting the library with science experiments. Everyone is invited!

Relaxing Summer Reads

We suggest the books by Jennifer Weiner as great summer reads.  According to her website, Jennifer was born in 1970 on an army base in Louisiana. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University in 1991. She worked as a newspaper reporter in central Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Philadelphia until the publication of her first novel in 2001, and has been a full-time fiction writer ever since.

Her books include GOOD IN BED (2001); IN HER SHOES (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; LITTLE EARTHQUAKES, (2004); GOODNIGHT NOBODY (2005); the short story collection THE GUY NOT TAKEN (2006); CERTAIN GIRLS (2008), the sequel to GOOD IN BED, BEST FRIENDS FOREVER (2009); FLY AWAY HOME (2010), and THEN CAME YOU, which will be published in July, 2011. She is also the co-creator and executive producer of the ABC Family show State of Georgia, premiering June 29th, 2011.

THEN CAME YOU is the tale of four women and a baby and how they form a very modern family.  Her publicity states “With her laugh-out-loud humor, startling tenderness, and spot-on characterizations, Jennifer once again takes readers into the hearts and minds of women everywhere in a timely story that intertwines themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, parental rights and the definition of motherhood.”

You will find Jennifer’s books in the adult fiction section.  There are also some titles on compact disc for those that prefer to listen.

Website: Museum of Science, Boston

Brought to you by the Best of the Scout Report, The Museum of Science has many podcasts on a variety of topics including: Emerging technologies of 2011, billion dollar bats, addicted to chocolate and more. You may want to check out their videocasts as well: Comparing recent quakes, spitting cobras take aim as well as building a better light bulb.

Exploring Bright Ideas

The Minnesota Science Museum will be at the library on Thursday, June 23 from 5-6:30pm.  Kids get the opportunity to explore the physical world with great hands-on experiments with fun objects (think slinky!).

The program will also look at some famous inventors and how their creations helped the world.  The program starts with a 30-minute presentation, then the kids will break out into groups for 30 minutes of science fun.

As always, this program is free and open to all.

The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen

Detectives Jane Rizzoli and Barry Frost investigate a near decapitation and murder of a woman on a rooftop in Chinatown. When the victim’s GPS is found with addresses of a retired detective and a martial arts academy in Chinatown, the death is soon connected to the Red Phoenix Restaurant murders nineteen years before where the cook kills a waiter, diners, and then himself.

The Red Phoenix murders soon become a curse when the disappearance of two daughters of the victims happens before and after the attack. Whether the cook committed suicide or was murdered is the question as Rizzoli and Frost reexamine the evidence from 19 years ago. Quick images of a dark thing not quite human are glimpsed first by Detective Frost moving across the roof out of the Red Phoenix building; then by Rizzoli, as she stumbles across an assassin in a nearby alley. Ancient Chinese legends, an ancestral sword, and missing girls lead to an electrifying conclusion.

Ninth in the Rizzoli and Isles series, The Silent Girl, delivers a satisfying mystery with plenty of action and suspense.  The television series Rizzoli and Isles starts season 2 on July 11 on TNT.
Website: http://www.tessgerritsen.com/

SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an elite Navy SEAL sniper by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin

Howard E. Wasdin says: "When the U.S. Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six, the navy's equivalent to the army's Delta Force - tasked with counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, occasionally working with the CIA. This is the first time a SEAL Team Six sniper's story has been exposed. My story."
Read all about the Navy SEALs from the selection process of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training, the Marines' Scout Sniper School and some of the missions of SEAL Team Six.

All the way from Africa!

African Drums

Wednesday, June 15th at 10 a.m.

The theme of this program is "Mi na mi fe" or "Children let's play." Come dance and drum with the Titambe West African Dance Ensemble! African dance and drumming helps bring people together, and is a lot of fun!

They will teach specific dances (including rhythms and live music), dancing and drumming techniques, related dress and cultural protocols of West Africa, and the interrelationship of drum rhythms and dance.

Please note that the performers will be in West African costume. This Kids' Stuff program is sponsored by the Arrowhead Library System and the Hibbing Public Library.

Book Lover's Tea

Thursday, June 30, 2011
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Hibbing Public Library Dylan Room

The Friends of the Library wish to invite everyone to this book lovers event.  Tea and cookies will be served at 2:00 p.m. and there will be a book review from 2:30 until 3:30 p.m.

The participants will be discussing The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Borrows.  In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.

Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of  Eat, Pray, Love said, "I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one, a world so vivid that I kept forgetting this was a work of fiction populated with characters so utterly wonderful that I kept forgetting they weren't my actual friends and neighbors. Treat yourself to this book please — I can't recommend it highly enough."

Pick up a copy of the book at the library, Wildwood Books, or Howard Street Booksellers and join the Friends for tea and conversation.

Buried Prey by John Sandford

Workers, demolishing an old house close to downtown Minneapolis, find the bodies of two girls wrapped in plastic under a concrete basement floor. Lucas Davenport goes back in time to one of his first cases in this book about two girls missing since the mid 1980s.

Lucas describes his first contact with the job: “In his first year as a cop, working patrol and then briefly, as a dope guy, he’d felt that he was learning things at a ferocious rate: about the street, life, death, sex, love, hate, fear, stupidity, jealousy, and accident, and all the other things that brought citizens in contact with the cops.”

John Sandford has a website: http://www.johnsandford.org/

Great Summer Reading!

Travis Chase is the hero in Patrick Lee’s first two paperbacks.  “The Breach” published in 2009 introduces Chase, Paige Campbell and the secret organization she works for called Tangent, and some radically advanced technology not created by human hands.  Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review and stated, “It's all here: brilliantly devious enemies; nifty, innovative gadgets and weaponry; hang-on-to-your-hat action; and razor-sharp plot twists aplenty."

The main characters appear again in the recently published, “Ghost Country”.  Someone is about to commit murder on a global scale and one of the alien gadgets shows Travis and Paige the future, featuring a desolate, dead world.  Lee’s second novel has betrayals and assassination wrapped up with time travel in a science fiction thriller. 

Great summer reading!  Find both titles in the paperback section at the library.

National Air and Space Museum

According to the website: "The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. It is also a vital center for research into the history, science, and technology of aviation and space flight, as well as planetary science and terrestrial geology and geophysics."
"The Museum has two display facilities. The National Mall building in Washington, D.C. has hundreds of artifacts on display including the original Wright 1903 Flyer, the Spirit of St. Louis, the Apollo 11 command module, and a lunar rock sample that visitors can touch. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center displays many more artifacts including the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay and Space Shuttle Enterprise."

Visit the various Smithsonian Museums online, take a trip to Washington D. C. and enjoy an experience of a lifetime.

Native American Legends

Lori Pickell-Stangel of the McLeod County Historical Society, will bring stories and artifacts that bring out key themes about Native American legends, as well as the beliefs of native peoples.  This program is for children grades 4-7, but all are welcome.

The program will be in the children's room on Friday, June 10 at 3:00pm.  It is free.

Lost in Shangri-La: a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff

In Note to the Reader: “Near the end of World War II, a U. S. Army plane flying over the island of New Guinea crashed in an uncharted region inhabited by a prehistoric tribe.” A true adventure story: Three people survive the crash and must find their way through cannibals, the Japanese and down a mountainside. Badly injured, dehydrated and hungry, they travel through dense jungle to find help.

Well researched by Mitchell Zuckoff with interviews from the sole surviving American, find this book in the new nonfiction section under: 940.548 ZUCKO

Visit the Tweed Museum of Art

The Tweed Museum of Art located on the UMD campus has art for every age.  It houses a permanent collection of over five thousand objects that represent a wide range of cultures and histories.  It also hosts special exhibits.

Museum hours:
Tuesday - 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Wednesday thru Friday - 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday - 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Closed on Mondays and University Holidays

See their web site for more information:
www.d.umn.edu/tma

No biking in the house without a helmet by Melissa Fay Greene

Melissa writes: "This book is the story of the creation of a family. It began in the usual way: a woman, a man, some babies. But then it took off in a modern direction, roping in a few older children from distant countries. In retrospect, I see that Donny and I have steered by the light of what brings us joy, what makes us laugh, and what feels right and true. Those instincts have served us well." Read a book about the true joy one family found raising children.
In the new book section: 362.734092273 GREENE

Summer Reading Program

June 3 is your first day of summer vacation. So, what are you going to do with yourself, bunkie?

That's right! You're going to head down to the library to sign up for the Summer Reading Program!

Just like last year, you set a reading goal in order to receive a bag full of really great stuff in July.  Stuff you really, really, REALLY want!

You have till July 22 to sign up, but why wait? See you this Friday!

What else is going on this summer you ask? Well, watch this spot...

Dylan Days

Join us Friday for Beatty Zimmerman's Chocolate Chip Banana Bread at Hibbing Public Library. Visit the Dylan Room, look at the browsing collection of books about Bob Dylan and sign the guest book. 

Plan your summer vacation: Visit a State Park this summer.

Never been camping? Want to enjoy the outdoors for more than an afternoon? Visit the MN DNR website and learn how to camp. State parks offer many opportunities for family fun: tenting, picnics, biking, fishing and more. New this year: learn how to camp with your family. Attend an I Can Camp! overnight workshop offered at Minnesota State Parks this summer and learn all the skills you'll need for a lifetime of camping fun — no experience necessary! See website: http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/can_camp.html

Check out the publication, Minnesota Conservation Volunteer published by the MN DNR in the periodical section of the library.

New in the Kid's Room

Part story, part graphic novel - a tender slice of life and death from the creators of "The Savage". Do you believe there's life after death? Slog does. He reckons that the scruffy bloke sitting outside the pork shop is his dad come back to visit him for one last time - just like he'd said he would, just before he died. Slog's mate Davie isn't convinced. But how does this man know everything Slog's dad would know? Because Slog says it really is his dad, that's how.

Duane Barnhart

Artist, Duane Barnhart will be presenting an "Appreciation of Watercolors" program at the library on Wednesday, May 25th beginning at 6:00 p.m.

Check out his website to see his wonderful artwork.

All artists and art lovers are welcome.  This program is free and was funded in part or in whole with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage fund.

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

Erik Larson says in the prologue “Once, at the dawn of a very dark time, an American father and daughter found themselves suddenly transported from their snug home in Chicago to the heart of Hitler’s Berlin. They remained there for four and a half years, but it is their first year that is the subject of the story to follow, for it coincided with Hitler’s ascent from chancellor to absolute tyrant, when everything hung in the balance and nothing was certain. That first year formed a kind of prologue in which all the themes of the greater epic of war and murder soon to come were laid down.”

“I have always wondered what it would have been like for an outsider to have witness firsthand the gathering dark of Hitler’s rule.”

Known for his previous books, Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and Isaac’s Storm, In the Garden of Beasts gives an eyewitness view of Hitler’s rise to power. Website: http://eriklarsonbooks.com/

70 Years and 70 Songs

Check out the May 26th issue of Rolling Stone at the library.  Bob Dylan is on the cover and in honor of his upcoming 70th birthday, Rolling Stone asked the world's Dylan experts to pick 70 of his best songs.

The number one spot goes to "Like a Rolling Stone" from the "Highway 61 Revisited" album which was released in 1965.  There is also an introduction which describes what makes a "Great Dylan Song".

Can't even come up with 70 individual songs?  Well there are that many -- and more!

Also new to the library's Dylan Collection is a piece of original art painted by Madame Claude Angele Boni.  She is also the author of "Stuck Inside of Mobile with a Rhapsody for Bob Dylan".  The painting arrived from France a couple of weeks ago and is now on display in the library's Dylan Room.

Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris

Sookie Stackhouse is back working for Sam at Merlottes with two of her fairy relatives, Dermot and Claude, living with her in her grandmother’s old home. In the eleventh book in the series, Eric, Sookie’s vampire boyfriend, is having trouble with Victor, Louisiana leader by proxy of the vampires. Victor is trying to shut down Merlotte’s and Fangtasia by luring away the local customers into his new establishments while plotting to kill Eric, the local sheriff of the vampires. Sookie’s troubles are just beginning when she finds out the Sandra Pelt is out of jail and still gunning for Sookie for the disappearance of Sandra’s sister.


Vampires, werewolves, fairies, elves and demons! For Sookie and more, check in with the Charlaine Harris website: http://www.charlaineharris.com/

Spring Fling

Support your library by having some fun this Wednesday night! The library is hosting the Spring Fling on May 18, starting at 5pm.  There will be a book give away (hosted by the Literacy Action Center), open play at the Play Park, treats, coloring and a performance by the Amazing Charles.

All activities are free.

The Ranger by Ace Atkins

Quinn Colson, U. S. Army Ranger, returns home to Tibbehah County, Mississippi to attend the funeral of his uncle, the sheriff. Quinn, on leave, quickly gets pulled into the uncertainty of whether his Uncle Hamp shot himself or was killed over a land deal. Deputy Lillie Virgil shares her doubts about suicide at the funeral.


Quinn soon finds out that Johnny Stagg, local real estate mogul, claims the sheriff owed him money and he plans on taking over the family farm to settle the debt. When Quinn doesn’t agree with Stagg and starts investigating his uncle’s death, Quinn runs afoul of meth dealers and skin heads out to kill him.

With friends and family for support, Quinn takes on the local corruption with his skills learned as a Ranger. A great start to a new series, Quinn Colson will be back for more.

Ace Atkins is known for the Nick Travers novels.

Website: http://www.aceatkins.com/

25 Dylan Albums, One Iconic Image

Bob Dylan turns 70 this May and it seems only right that AARP recognize the event.  Artist, Robert Silvers has created a "photomosaic" for the cover of their May/June publication.  It is fantastic!  To see the mosaic and more information about the project just click on the following link:

http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/arts-music/info-03-2011/bob-dylan-photomosaic-discography.html

Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders by Rajeev Peshawaria

"Of all the bosses you've had in your career, how many would you call truly great leaders?... A great leader is someone who inspired you to show up every morning and do your best possible work, someone who made you believe in yourself, someone who genuinely cared about your success, and someone whom you wanted to follow willingly." Ask yourself, what types of bosses have you had and what type of leader would you want to be? Check out this book and find out the three essential principles you need to become an extraordinary leader. 658.4092 PESHA 

Story and Toddle Times

Story Time and Toddle Time have ended for the season.  Story Time will resume on June 7 and Toddle Time will Resume June 9, both at 10:00am.

The Indoor Play Park will remain open through May.

Popular Crime by Bill James

Bill James: "Crime stories rush by us like oncoming traffic. New crime stories emerge in the national media almost every day. Each one roars by us for a few days, is remarked upon in casual conversation and filed away as something less than a memory. Occasionally a crime story turns and follows us, visible in our mirror for months or years afterward. Each one is important to somebody and a few of them - something less than 2% of the murders - become books." New nonfiction: 364.10973 JAMES

Essar Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

The library has the "Draft Supplemental Environmental Imact Statement" available for public viewing.  It includes proposed modifications that would increase the production of taconite pellets from 3.8 million metric tons per year of low flux taconite pellets to 6.5 million metric tons per year of high flux pellets or 7.0 million metric tons per year of low flux taconite pellets.  It has also been proposed to decrease the length of the mine plan time period from 20 years to 15.

The draft statement describes how the project would affect surface water quantity and quality, wild rice, solid wastes, project-specific and cumulative air quality, greenhouse gases and climate change, and socioeconomics.

The public review period will be until 6/8/2011.  The draft policy is held at the front desk and must be used in the library.

Website of the Week: Panama Canal

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and signaling America’s emergence as a global superpower. American ingenuity and innovation had succeeded where, just a few years earlier, the French had failed disastrously. But the U.S. paid a price for victory. (from Website)
Read all about the Panama Canal here and check out a book at the library.

Music with Robi Meyerson

Come join Duluth area singer/songwriter Robi Meyerson as she brings books alive through music.  This family event in free and open to all.

Join us at the library at 6pm on Tuesday, May 4, 2011, for all the fun!