Simple Literacy Projects for Preschool

Wild About Group Time by the Between the Lions Staff

This resource offers 100 plans that will help children develop and practice literacy skills that are needed to become a successful reader.  Each chapter focuses on a familiar early childhood topic, such as friends, feelings, colors, and homes.  Lessons are perfect for large groups of children but can be scaled down.  All projects are based on the award-winning PBS KIDS Literacy Series.

Find this book in the “New Nonfiction” in 372.6.

October Fest Fall Party

Tuesday, October 29th

10:00 a.m.

Come to story time dressed as your favorite character.  Bring a treat to share.  There will be games, crafts, and fun in the library auditorium.  Pick up a library treat bag when you are ready to leave.

Storm Front by John Sandford

 

 

Virgil Flowers, working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, based in the farming country of Mankato, tries to retrieve an artifact stolen from a dig in Israel. Seventh in the Virgil Flowers series. Website: http://www.johnsandford.org/books.html 

If this series is new to you, start with Dark of the Moon.

Kovels' Antiques and Collectibles Price Guide

We have the 2014 edition in the reference collection and the 2013 is available to check out.
Look up your antiques and collectibles in the book or check out the Kovels' website:
http://www.kovels.com/

Sycamore Row by John Grisham

In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and some of the original characters of A Time To Kill. Jake Brigance is back with another controversial trial in Ford County twenty-five years later.
John Grisham's Website: http://www.jgrisham.com

Recommended Reading

Pick up one of the following books at the library that were listed in the “Top Ten First Novels of 2013” in Booklist magazine.

The Death of Bees By Lisa O’Donnell.

In this deeply human page-turner, O’Donnell portrays two sisters who have just buried their wretched parents behind their Glasgow housing development and must now steer clear of their nosy neighbor.

Fellow Mortals By Dennis Mahoney.

Mahoney’s quietly powerful debut tracks the impact of a sudden tragedy on a suburban neighborhood after a mail carrier accidentally starts a fatal fire.

Lotería By Mario Alberto Zambrano.

Zambrano’s stunning and engaging debut takes the form of the journal of 11-year-old Luz Castillo, who has been taken into the state’s custody and only communicates by writing entries inspired by illustrations on the cards for Lotería, a Mexican bingo-like game.

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie By Ayana Mathis.

Hattie, 16, flees Jim Crow Georgia and settles in Philadelphia. As Mathias tracks Hattie’s long struggles and those of her many children, she illuminates, with blazing insight, the crushed dreams and complexly tragic legacy of the Great Migration.

200 Tips for Jewelry Making by Xuella Arnold and Sara Withers

Learn threading and beading techniques, working with wire, clay, resins, found objects, plastics and metal to make jewelry in new and innovative ways. For beginners and advanced jewelry artists.
Find in the new book section under 739.27028 ARNOL

Just one evil act by Elizabeth George

"As her devoted readers know, George’s D.I. Lynley procedurals are more about characters than crime. This entry is certainly no different, but, unlike the most recent books, which center on a distraught Lynley, recovering from his wife’s murder, the focus is on Lynley’s partner (and polar opposite), D.S. Barbara Havers. It begins when Taymullah Azhar, Barbara’s neighbor, asks for help in finding his beloved daughter, Hadiyyah, with whom his wife has absconded."
Excerpt from Booklist

The first book in the series, A Great Deliverance (1988), was a 1988 Agatha Award for Best First Novel, 1989 Anthony Award for Best First Novel, Finalist 1989 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and Finalist 1989 Macavity Award for Best Novel.

Elizabeth George has a website: http://www.elizabethgeorgeonline.com/

Once upon a time: The lives of Bob Dylan by Ian Bell

Called the greatest songwriter of his time and the voice of a generation or three, Bob Dylan is an American Icon.
The author: "What's so special about Bob Dylan? You could offer the minimum, Pulitzer or Grammy award style: a greatly gift songwriter who through a long and distinguished career has influenced...etcetera."
"All the strands of American popular music save one (jazz) come together in Dylan... and he has turned it into a literary form."
Find in the new book section under 782.42164092 BELL

King's Mountain by Sharyn McCrumb

Part of her popular Appalachian historical novels in the Ballad series, Sharyn McCrumb takes us back to the American Revolution.

"King's Mountain (Sept. New York: St. Martin’s Press) tells the story of the Revolutionary War battle that changed the course of the war. Told from the points of view of Patriot leader John Sevier and Tory camp follower Virginia Sal, the novel brings to life the people and events in the southern front of the Revolution—a story largely ignored by the history books. "
from http://www.sharynmccrumb.com/kings_mountain.html

Never go back by Lee Child

Jack Reacher has been featured in 18 books by Lee Child and you can read about Reacher here: http://www.leechild.com/jack-reacher/

Start with the first book, Killing Floor.

Never Go Back  has Reacher going back to 110th Military Police, his old unit in Washington, D.C. to meet the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, who had just been thrown in the brig on a bribery charge. Reacher finds trouble of his own with a couple of trumped up charges and recalled to his unit to face those charges. This popular series requires putting your name on the reserve list to read this book.

Monster Mash

Monster Mash

Fun New Books for little ones about not-very scary monsters @ The Hibbing Public Library!

Inherit the Dead

 Twenty best selling mystery authors get together and write a serial noir story. Authors who wrote a chapter in this unique form of storytelling to benefit Safe Horizon, that assist victims of violent crime are:

• Mary Higgins Clark
• John Connolly
• Charlaine Harris
• CJ Box
• Mark Billingham
• Lawrence Block
• Ken Bruen

• Alafair Burke
• Stephen L. Carter
• Marcia Clark
• Max Allan Collins
• James Grady
• Heather Graham
• Bryan Gruley

• Val McDermid
• SJ Rozan
• Jonathan Santlofer
• Dana Stabenow
• Lisa Unger
• Sarah Weinman 

Website: www.inheritthedead.com

Tamarack County by William Kent Krueger

Put your name on the reserve list for the latest in the Cork O'Connor series by one of Minnesota's favorite authors.
Read more about William Kent Krueger and his books on his website: http://www.williamkentkrueger.com/

Operation Storm by John J. Geoghegan

The true story of Japan's top secret plan to change the course of World War II using a squadron of submarines designed as under water aircraft carriers. Each submarine was equipped with attack bombers painted to look like U. S. aircraft with the daring plan to launch a deadly air attack on the eastern coast of the United States. Find in the new book section under 940.545952 GEOGH

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

The long awaited sequel to The Shining.

The Longest Road by Philip Caputo

From Key West, Florida to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, Philip Caputo drives with his wife, 2 dogs and an old airstream trailer the longest road across the continental United States.
From the author: "With enough time, gas money, and nerve, I could drive from the southernmost point to the northernmost reachable by road. At one end, I would look upon the Gulf Stream and the Southern Cross, and at the other the Arctic Ocean and the Northern Lights."
Find in the new book section under 973.93 CAPUT

The Road from Gap Creek by Robert Morgan

"When Robert Morgan’s novel Gap Creek was published in 1999, it became an Oprah Book Club Selection and an instant national bestseller, attracting hundreds of thousands of readers to its story of a marriage begun with love and hope at the turn of the twentieth century. Set in the Appalachian South, it followed Julie and Hank Richards as they struggled through the first year and a half of their union.

But what, readers asked, of the years that followed? What did the future hold for these memorable characters?

The Road from Gap Creek holds the answers to these questions, as Robert Morgan takes us back into their lives, telling their story and the stories of their children through the eyes of their youngest daughter, Annie. Through Annie, we watch as the four Richards children create their own histories, lives that include both triumphs and hardship in the face of the Great Depression and then World War II." Barnes and Noble overview

The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys - the true story by Dean King

South Appalachian Mountains.
"Before the war, Hatfields (of English blood) and McCoys (of Scots-Irish roots) lived on both sides of the Tug River, which separates West Virginia and Kentucky, in relative harmony, intermarrying and working and trading together. After the war, a West Virginia faction of the Hatfield family and a Kentucky branch of the McCoy family found themselves at each other's throats. Their hostilities would stretch over the course of three decades - from 1865 to 1890." from the author
Read the true and complete story about the legend of the Hatfields vs the McCoys.

Free Tickets to Rose Ensemble Concert

The Rose Ensemble will be presenting “The Roots of Bluegrass: a Journey through America’s Folk, Old-time, and Gospel Traditions” in the Hibbing High School Auditorium on Friday, October 11, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.  

Return to America's folk roots.  Rousing hymns, Appalachian foot-stomping songs, Southern Harmony shape-note singing, and Shaker spirituals:  the music that gave birth to bluegrass.  "The Roots of Bluegrass" explores our country's musical heritage with close vocal Harmonics, banjo, guitar, and fiddle.

Free tickets to this event are available at the library.

This project was funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

New Books

W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton
The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Millhone's name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the morgue to see if she could ID him. from the website. http://www.suegrafton.com/



The Mayan Secrets by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery—the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them—as the Fargos are about to find out. from the website
http://www.cusslerbooks.com

Alabaster Falls Concert

Tuesday, October 8th

1:00 p.m.

Hibbing Public Library

Alabaster Falls is an acoustic "folk grass" band based in the Minnesota North Woods.  Consisting of four accomplished musicians, their crystal clear harmonies showcase the powerhouse vocals of lead singer Julie Kaiser while Paul Jones and Bill Kaiser create guitar and dobro magic with finger picking "as delicate as fine lace."  Bassist Cal Aultman provides a solid foundation, creating an easy groove that makes Alabaster Falls one of the most listenable bands around.

Join is for this free concert and remember that a day with music is a better day!

This event is sponsored by ALS and funded by money from Minnesota's Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

Hollow Bones by C J Lyons

 

Maria Alvarado uses a cruise with college friends to disguise joining an archeological expedition in Guatemala which her parents would disapprove of. Her friends guarantee they can put her parents off while she discovers Mayan treasure with Prescott, assistant to well known archeologist Professor Zigler who is already on site at the temple. Prescott picks up Maria at the port of Santo Tomas and they drive off deep into the jungle. After several hours of driving, Prescott and Maria meet a truck with armed men blocking the road. In the scuffle that follows, Prescott is shot and Maria escapes into the jungle.

Back in the states, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Caitlyn Tierney is just finishing up a case when Special Agent Jake Carver shows up, bored from hiding out after a lengthy deep undercover assignment while waiting for the trial in which he must testify against a biker gang. He plans to hang out with Caitlyn once her case wraps up. Unfortunately, Caitlyn is called to investigate the disappearance of Alvarado and she is off to Guatemala. Carver wishes to go with her but she tells him to stay safe at her apartment and research the Alvarado family for the Alvarado family once lived in Guatemala but had fled to the United States decades ago.  

I enjoyed reading about FBI Special Agent Caitlyn Tierney and look forward to reading Blind Faith and Black Sheep, the first two books in the series.

Friends Annual Membership Meeting

A Question of Honor by Charles Todd

 Bess Crawford is back in this fifth book in the series where all the killing is not on the battlefield during World War I.
Flashback to ten years before when Bess and her family are stationed in India. Her father is a colonel in the British Army. Lieutenant Wade, a soldier in her father's regiment, is accused of killing five people and escapes before he is prosecuted and presumed killed in Afghanistan.
Now in 1918, Bess Crawford is a nurse working on the battlefields of France when she hears a dying Indian sergeant say he thinks Wade is still alive and fighting the Germans. Bess can't let it go and enlists family friend Sergeant-Major Simon Brandon to help her find out the truth about Lieutenant Wade.
Website: http://charlestodd.com/

Community Education/Hibbing Public Library Computer Class

“Computers for the Beginner” will be offered in October for those that are just learning to use one.  There will be four 90 minute sessions (75 minute session and 15 minute question period) from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, October 15, 22, 29, and November 5.  These sessions will be held in the Library computer lab and there are 9 spots available.  The cost is $15.00 per person.  Please contact the Community Education Office at 218-208-0852 to sign up.

These sessions are for the “true beginner”.  We will be spending time on how to use the mouse and keyboard.  Very basic needs such as turning on, shutting down properly, etc. will be covered.

Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs

Sixteenth book in the series, you may want to start with the first book, Deja Dead, a best seller and Ellis award winner for Best First Novel.

The TV series, Bones, has also been inspired by Kathy Reichs.

Kathy Reichs has had an interesting life as a forensic anthropologist.
See her website: http://kathyreichs.com/

Mary, The Kayak Lady

Meet author and kayak adventurer Mary Shideler at the Hibbing Public Library on Monday, September 23rd at noon.

How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny

Inspector Gamache of the Surete de Quebec (homicide division of Quebec) fights his biggest battle yet against his corrupt bosses and a shadowy network of people who have much to lose if the Inspector figures out what their plan is. With the best transferred out of the homicide squad, Gamache is left with an insolent and incompetent squad who taunt him that his life as a respected inspector is over.
Three Pines, a safe haven for the lost and disenfranchised, is getting ready for the holidays. Myrna, bookstore owner and a psychiatrist a lifetime ago, gets a visit from an old friend and former patient.  Constance Pineault visits and makes friends with the fascinating and eccentric villagers of Three Pines, an obscure village that has been missed by maps and the Internet. Invited back for the holidays, Constance doesn't arrive and Myrna, concerned, asks Inspector Gamache to find out if something is wrong.  Inspector Gamache and Inspector Lacoste, loyal and the only one left in what was once the best arm of the Quebec police, take on a case of murder when the last of the world famous Ouellet Quints, is murdered. For Constance is the last of the Ouellet Quints.

Building to a satisfying conclusion in this ninth book in the series, Inspector Gamache is helped by the loyal friends of Three Pines to conceal his three colleagues in the Surete who believe in him and realize the corruption reaches the highest levels of the Quebec government.

Winner of the Agatha Award five times and many other best book awards for mysteries, more can be read about Louise Penny at her website: http://www.louisepenny.com/

Downfall by Jeff Abbott

Fourth book in the series, start with Adrenaline, which introduces Sam Capra, CIA agent.

"Sam Capra is a brilliant CIA agent, loving husband, and soon-to-be father. But in one horrifying moment in London, he loses everything that matters to him.
Sam becomes a new kind of hero: an owner of bars in cities around the world, using his skills to track down those who took his family from him. And then, in turn, to help the helpless and protect the innocent."  from the website

Jeff Abbott has a website: http://jeffabbott.com/

New Young Adult Fiction

 


Etiquette Espionage by Gail Carriger
"Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality."
However, young ladies learn death, diversion and espionage as well as dance dress and etiquette at the finishing academy.




Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
"On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, their daughter, Tandy, is one of the last people to see her powerful parents alive."
Tandy and her brothers are the only suspects.

Peterson's Guides to Higher Learning

We have the follow Peterson Guides to Higher Learning: Two Year Colleges and Four Year Colleges. We also have the book: How to Get Money for College.
All three books can be found in the 370s in the Reference section of the Reading Room.

This Old House

Begun in 1979 as a one-time, 13-part series on the Boston PBS station WGBH, it has grown into one of the most popular programs on the network. It has produced spin-offs (notably The New Yankee Workshop hosted by Norm Abram), a magazine, and for-profit web sites. The show has won 17 Emmy Awards and received 82 nominations. from wikipedia


We have This Old House available for checkout with our magazines.


Website: http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/

or watch episodes on the PBS Video: http://video.pbs.org/program/old-house/

or sign up for their free newsletters.

Best job hunting book ever!

The latest copy of What Color is Your Parachute? is in.
"This new 2014 edition features up to the minute information on what has changed about the job-hunt, plus recommendations for the most helpful sites on the Internet and strategies to find jobs where everyone tells you there are none."
 Updated insights into social media and entrepreneurship; new ways to network effectively, write resumes and cover letters; interview and negotiate your salary, make job hunting more effective for the job seeker.

The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton

Reeve LeClaire, 22, lives in California and weekly sees psychiatrist Dr. Lerner, the leading authority on captivity syndromes. When Reeve was kidnapped at the age of 12, she disappeared without a trace. Held in captivity for four years, she is set free by accident when the car she is concealed in is involved in an accident. Daryl Wayne Flint, kidnapper and abuser, is sent to a mental institution by a crafty lawyer. Through determination and support, Reeve has transformed herself and found a job.  

Then Dr. Lerner gets a call from nearby Jefferson City that another girl, Tilly Cavanaugh, has been found alive after being held captive and chained in a basement for thirteen months. Asking Reeve for her help and insight, Dr. Lerner and Reeve help Tilly while trying to determine if she has knowledge of Abby Hill or Hannah Creighton who have also disappeared in the last 2 years. Randy Vanderholt, 35, with a criminal record has been held for the kidnapping, but proclaims he has no knowledge of the other two missing local girls.

Suspenseful, The Edge of Normal keeps the reader engaged until the final page. Will Abby and Hannah be found alive? Is there a connection between the abductions that will lead the investigators to the missing girls.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

A fairytale for adults, Neil Gaiman gives you the tale of a man returning home for a funeral and remembering an incident when he was seven years old.
Neil Gaiman has a website: http://www.neilgaiman.com/

New Large Print Books

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

Bean and Liz Holladay go to live with an uncle they hardly know on an old plantation in Virginia after their mother takes off to find herself.
See the NPR book review here: http://www.npr.org/2013/06/10/188996832/jeannette-walls-silver-star-lacks-spunk-and-direction

The Eye of Moloch by Glenn Beck

By the end of Glenn Beck’s #1 bestselling political thriller The Overton Window, a young rebel named Molly Ross had torn aside the curtain to reveal a shadow war being waged for the future of America. In the six months since then, her fight for freedom hasn’t gone well. Marked as traitors and hunted by ruthless government-sanctioned mercenaries using the most advanced surveillance technologies ever created, Ross and her “Founders’ Keepers” find themselves cornered and standing alone. but the fight is far from over.  from Glenn Beck's website: http://www.glennbeck.com/moloch/ 

Frozen in Time: an epic story of survival and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff

The story moves between past and present: World War II, November 1942 and October 2011. A C-53 cargo plane slams into Greenland and all five men aboard survive the crash. However, one of the search planes goes down and strands nine more men on the ice. Then a Coast Guard rescue plane vanishes with three men aboard. Move ahead to October 2011 and a civilian and military team use new technology to locate the crash site. Find in 940.544973 ZUCKO

Mental Floss Emagazine

Mental Floss has amazing facts, lists and quizzes to engage the brain.

For example: Thirteen houses with secret passageways: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51949/13-houses-secret-passageways
or Film of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51974/film-san-francisco-after-1906-earthquake

Here is the link to see what other emagazines are available through Hibbing Public Library and Arrowhead Library System with your library card: https://www.rbdigital.com/arrowheadmn/service/zinio/landing

Mental Floss also has a website: http://mentalfloss.com/

It Happens in the Dark: a Mallory Novel by Carol O'Connell

Winter in The Theater District of New York City: Peter Beck, playwright, watches the play, The Brass Bed, which he originally created until a ghostwriter started rewriting all the lines.  Drunk and bitter, Peter Beck shows up at the theater for his reserved seat to find he is shunted towards the wall in the front row. During a point in the play when all the lights go out, Peter Beck is stabbed in the neck. When found by the theater folk, they groan, for Peter Beck is not the first to die during the performance of The Brass Bed.

Detectives Mallory and Riker from the Special Crimes Unit are called to investigate – suicide or murder? In this eleventh book in the Mallory series, Kathy Mallory, half the age of her partner, Riker, is a legend in the police department. Mallory has her own code and idea of justice; though the department respects her, many also fear her. 

The eccentricity of the actors and the backstage workings of the theater make this an entertaining and exceptional story. Axel Clayborne, a famous actor, has disappeared from Hollywood and shown up as a central character in The Brass Bed. Bugsy, the gopher; Leonard Crippen, theater critic; and Nan Cooper, wardrobe lady; all have surprising backgrounds which when revealed could point to any one of them being the mysterious ghostwriter.  One of the best books for characterization this year. Start with he first book in the series, Mallory's Oracle.

Sandrine's Case by Thomas H. Cook

 A man on trial, for the murder of his wife - did he murder her or did she commit suicide?

Read the Kirkus Review of Thomas H. Cook's latest book:
http://tomhcook.com/2013/06/18/kirkus-starred-review-of-sandrines-case/

Light of the World: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke

Louisiana Sherriff’s Detective Dave Robicheaux and his longtime friend and partner Clete Purcel are vacationing in Montana’s spectacular Big Sky country when a series of suspicious events leads them to believe their lives—and the lives of their families—are in danger. from cover.
Twentieth book in this long running mystery series, start with The Neon Rain.

Bad monkey by Carl Hiassen

Carl Hiassen spins a tale that is funny but pointed towards the greedy and corrupt who try to destroy a once pristine and unspoiled Florida.
Yancy, who once worked for the Miami Police and the Monroe County sheriff's department has a human arm in his freezer. Many eccentric characters and bizarre situations make a Hiassen book hysterical and sometimes grisly to read.
Visit www.carlhiaasen.com for more information about himself and his books.
Read the book or listen to the audiobook.

Event offers Back-to-School health checkups - Hibbing Daily Tribune: Health

Event offers Back-to-School health checkups - Hibbing Daily Tribune: Health

Smoking: Quit or Cut Back?

Study shows that quitting is more beneficial than just cutting back.  But do what you can!

MedlinePlus: Trusted Health Information for You