tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1599827095009097452024-02-20T10:58:51.780-05:00Shelf ReflectionThe Kirtland Public Library BlogKPLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264577981135940003noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-77170466349076411492016-12-07T18:09:00.001-05:002016-12-07T18:09:30.598-05:0075th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December 7<sup>th</sup> marks the 75<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the bombing of the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii. This attack by the Japanese Imperial Forces,
and the later declaration of war by Nazi Germany, pushed the United States into
the war on the side of the Allies.
Naturally, an event as pivotal as Pearl Harbor has attracted many, many
writers and historians. This anniversary
has seen the release of several new books and there is a vast back catalog of
materials to satisfy anybody’s search for answers about that fateful day. The Kirtland Public Library has several books
in our collection for anybody interested in finding out more about what
occurred all those years ago. If you cannot find what you are looking for you can ask any one of our helpful librarians to help you find what exactly you are looking for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://search.clevnet.org/client/en_US/krt-main/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:1950877/one" target="_blank">A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest For Justice</a> by Anthony Summers (2016)</span></div>
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KPLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264577981135940003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-21008998687392725152016-04-06T17:12:00.002-04:002016-04-19T20:18:01.111-04:00World War II Reenactor at Kirtland Public Library<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Join us on<b><span style="color: red;"> May 17<sup>th</sup> at 7:00 pm</span></b> at the <b><span style="color: blue;">Kirtland
Public Library</span></b> as reenactor Peter Booth brings the story of an American soldier
to life. Told in the first person,
Peter shows us what it was like for American soldiers landing on the beaches
of Normandy, France on D-Day in June 1944.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To help bring this story more fully to life Peter will be
bringing historical objects from the time period to show what types of
equipment and weapons American soldiers used and fought </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">against. The public is invited to bring any items of
historical interest along to the event, however we ask that any weapons be left
at home. This event is made possible
through the generosity of the Friends of the Kirtland Public Library.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The library has many great resources, for adults and young
readers, which can help illuminate more fully the story of D-Day and America’s
involvement in the Second World War. If you don't see the book you want on this list ask a librarian and they will be able to help you find what you want.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This month the Kirtland Public Library recognizes Black History Month.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we feature short biographies of famous African Americans, which are also part of the second children’s scavenger hunt for February.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are interested in reading more about the people featured in these short biographies ask a librarian for help in locating more information about them.</span></div>
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contributions African Americans have made to American history, culture,
science, and literature and their central role in U.S. history. Black History Month grew out Black History
Week, which was first celebrated in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson, a
Harvard-trained historian, and other prominent blacks. It was celebrated in February to coincide
with the week between Abraham Lincoln’s and Frederick Douglass’ birthdays. By the 1960s, thanks to the Civil Rights
movement and a greater awareness of black contributions to the U.S., Black
History Month was celebrated on many college campuses. In 1976 Gerald Ford was the first President
to officially recognize Black History Month, and since then every President has
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well-known sociologist, historian, and civil rights leader, Dubois was the
first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. During his lifetime Dubois published several
works that are still widely-read today, such as <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6029012048_the_souls_of_black_folk" target="_blank">The Souls of Black Folk</a></i> and <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5517708048_black_reconstruction_in_america" target="_blank">Black Reconstruction</a></i>. Dubois died in 1963
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immigrants, in Harlem, New York City. He was raised in the South Bronx. During a 35 year career in the United States
Army, Powell rose from the rank of Second Lieutenant to General. He ended his career as the 12<sup>th</sup>
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which made him the youngest officer, at
52, to hold that position, the first African-American of Caribbean descent, and
the first to receive his commission through the ROTC program.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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the soul of a free man.”<b> </b>Loverture
was born on the island of Saint-Domingue sometime between 1739 and 1746. He was a leader in the Haitian Revolution
(1791-1804). Inspired by the French Revolution, the slaves of Saint-Domingue
rebelled against their masters. The
Haitian Revolution led to the end of slavery on Saint-Domingue and the
establishment of the Republic of Haiti, and it was the most successful slave
rebellion in the Americas.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and was the court’s first African
American justice. He is perhaps best
known for arguing the landmark desegregation case <i>Brown v. Board of Education</i> before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1967 President Lyndon Johnson named him to
the Supreme Court, on which he served until his retirement in 1991.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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rights activist.. On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on
a bus for a white man after the white section filled up. Her act of civil disobedience helped ignite
the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which would last for 381 days and would lead to the
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Maryland, Frederick Douglass was a prominent abolitionist, social reformer, and
writer. During his life he fought for
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Missouri, Carver is best known as a botanist and inventor. He advocated growing alternative crops, such
as peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes, as ways to improve the health and
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humanitarian, and during the Civil War, a spy.
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northern states and Canada. Later in life Tubman promoted the cause of women’s
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American/Native American cook and restaurant owner. He started off as a cook in Saratoga Springs,
New York, but by 1860 he owned and operated his own restaurant in Malta, New
York. Legend has it that he invented the
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The Holiday is a time to spend with friends and family. As we dig out our old decorations and add new
ones our homes are transformed into a wonderland of twinkling lights, candy
canes, gingerbread, and homemade cookies.
At the library we also bring out our Holiday items and make displays
featuring movies, books, cookbooks and CDs.
Here at the Kirtland Public Library we would like to take a moment to
talk about some our Holiday favorites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anybody who knows me knows that I am a huge history buff.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love all types of history, but I’m most
interested in World War II and the U.S. Civil War.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first book of Weintraub’s I read was<i>
Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That book revealed to me a little known event
from the First World War where British and German troops temporarily laid down
their weapons to share a common Christmas celebration: setting up Christmas
trees, singing carols, trading food and tobacco, and even playing a game of
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, as the war
progressed, these sorts of temporary truces disappeared; discouraged on both
sides by the officers.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Weintraub has
also written extensively on Christmas during other conflicts.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His books run the gamut from the <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5026156048_general_washingtons_christmas_farewell" target="_blank">AmericanRevolution</a>, to the <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5929656048_general_shermans_christmas" target="_blank">U.S. Civil War</a>, World War I, <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6187005048_pearl_harbor_christmas" target="_blank">World War II</a> (and this <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6616801048_11_days_in_december" target="_blank">one</a>), and <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6833116048_a_christmas_far_from_home" target="_blank">Korea</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What’s my favorite Christmas story? That is a very difficult question for me…you see, I have a collection of over 125 Christmas books and it’s hard to pick just one. So what’s my favorite?<b> </b><i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/617203048_christmas_on_jane_street" target="_blank">Is it Christmas on Jane Street</a></i> by Billy Romp or <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/284183048_the_birds_christmas_carol" target="_blank">The Bird’s Christmas Carol</a></i> by Kate Douglas Wiggin? Could it be <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5351454048_a_christmas_memory" target="_blank"><i>A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote</i> </a>(the edition illustrated by Beth Peck) or <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1548432048_skipping_christmas" target="_blank">Skipping Christmas</a></i> by John Grisham, or possibly, <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/3636073048_wombat_divine" target="_blank">Wombat Divine</a></i> by Mem Fox?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After careful consideration I have decided that my favorite Christmas story is <i>The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: an Appalachian Story </i>written by Gloria Houston and pictures by Barbara Cooney. This is a wonderful story set at the end of WWI, in a tiny community in the Appalachian Mountains. It’s Ruthie’s family’s turn to provide the Christmas tree for Pine Grove. But Papa has been called to war; Ruthie and her Mama wonder how they will get the tree to town. This is a fictional account of a story that was passed down by the author’s grandmother and the illustrations are lovely. Check it out; it’s sure to become one of your favorites too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Must see Christmas movies are: <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6787489048_holiday_inn" target="_blank">Holiday Inn</a></i>, <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5599974048_its_a_wonderful_life" target="_blank">It’s a Wonderful Life</a></i>, <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6113831048_white_christmas" target="_blank">White Christmas</a> </i>and <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6101814048_elf" target="_blank">Elf</a></i>. Remember, the best way to spread Christmas cheer is by singing loud for all to hear!!]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A favorite Christmas movie of mine that I have to watch every year is <i>The Family Man</i> starring Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni. It's a funny modern day take on A Christmas Carol where a single, wealthy Wall Street trader, who's living the high life in New York City, wakes up one Christmas morning in suburban New Jersey. He finds he now has a wife and two kids and has traded in his Ferrari for a minivan. All through the movie he's trying to figure out how to get his old life back and not lose his mind. It's one of my favorites because it's a funny, heartwarming tale of figuring out what's most important in life. It's perfect for people who like second thoughts and second chances. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My favorite Christmas movie is </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, an animated film from the 1960's. It basically follows the Christmas Carol plot, but adds original music, humor, and the cutest cartoon characters ever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since, for lack of a better word, I am a bit of Scrooge when it comes to this holiday, I wouldn't say I have much of a favorite holiday movie. But, since there is a contingency of people who believe <i>Die Hard</i> is a Christmas movie, Then I contest that <i>Iron Man 3</i> totally counts as a Christmas movie as well and has been my December tradition since the dvd was released.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sure, the movie MAY be about Tony Stark coming to grips that after the Avengers incident, the universe is much bigger and scarier place than he thought. While dealing with his demons he also goes toe to toe with terrorist threat, The Mandarin, and business threat Aldrich Killian and his thugs while trying to figure out their dangerous Extremis compound. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But let's run the checklist: Takes place during holiday time, has numerous Christmas carols throughout the soundtrack, follows a <i>Christmas Carol</i> pattern of facing his past, a present situation, and re-prioritizing his future complete with a small boy working as a Tiny Tim style character, has gift giving, snow, and a revelation at the end which helps Tony with his outlook and making him better for it. In my book this movie totally counts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our celebration of Thanksgiving owes more to our Presidents
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By now we know that what the menu for the first Thanksgiving
celebration in 1621 differs from what is found on most of our tables today. The first Thanksgiving, celebrated among the
Puritan Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe would’ve featured venison, shellfish,
corn, and other roasted meats. These
would’ve been cooked using Native American spices and cooking methods. The meal most likely did not have any
desserts or other sweets as the Pilgrim’s exhausted their provisions over the
previous winter. Although, cranberries
were probably present at both the first Thanksgiving and on our tables today. The Pilgrims held a second Thanksgiving in
1623 after a long drought ended that threatened that year’s crops. Days of fasting and thanksgiving became
common features of many New England settlements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first national proclamation of a day of thanksgiving
issued by the Federal Government came in 1789.
George Washington called the day to celebrate the end of the American
Revolution and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. John Adams and James Madison also proclaimed
days of thanksgiving during their administrations. Thomas Jefferson, our third president, felt it
was not appropriate to issue proclamations for days of Thanksgiving, because of
the separation of church and state. By
1817 New York became the first of several states to declare an annual day of
Thanksgiving, celebrated on different days.
As with many of our holidays the celebrations began as regional or state
affairs, only becoming nationally recognized later on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1827 Sarah Joseph Hale, author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,”
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday,
expanding the holiday from its traditional home in New England throughout the
rest of the country. During that time
she sent dozens of letters to politicians, senators, representatives, leaders,
and government officials urging them to establish Thanksgiving as a national
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, at the height of the American Civil War, Abraham
Lincoln scheduled Thanksgiving to be celebrated on the final Thursday of
November. In a speech written by
Secretary of State William Seward, President Lincoln declared that the fourth
Thursday in November would be an official U.S. holiday, Thanksgiving Day. Lincoln also used this opportunity to thank
God for recent Union victories in the American Civil War. This marked the first time since 1815 that an
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which made the last Thursday of November Thanksgiving Day. This tradition held until 1939. That year the last Thursday in November did
not occur until the 30<sup>th</sup>, leaving less than a month until
Christmas. Several retailers approached
the President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and urged him to move Thanksgiving up
by a week to allow for a longer shopping period. It was hoped that consumers, who shopped
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This decision caused a great deal of confusion and
anger. FDR’s opponents questioned his
disregard for tradition by moving Thanksgiving to another date. The mayor of Atlantic City pejoratively
called the new date “Franksgiving.”
Aside from irritating his opponents the effect of transferring
Thanksgiving had a very real impact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Schools that had vacations and tests set had to revise their
schedules. Then, as now, Thanksgiving
was a big day for football games. Many
teams needed to examine and revise their schedules. To make matters worse many of the country’s
governors did not agree with Roosevelt’s decision to change the date of Thanksgiving. Twenty-three state governors decided to follow
Roosevelt’s lead and moved Thanksgiving to November 23. Twenty-three other disagreed and chose to
keep Thanksgiving Day on its traditional date of November 30. The governors of Texas and Colorado decided
to recognize both days as Thanksgiving Day.
These decisions by the state governors split families whose members
lived in different states and could not get together to celebrate the holiday
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Thirty-one states followed suit while 17 continued to follow the traditional
date. In 1941, many people anticipated
the new date and celebrated Thanksgiving Day on November 20. In October 1941, the House of Representatives
passed a joint resolution making the last Thursday in November a legal,
national holiday. The Senate agreed,
however they amended the resolution to make the fourth Thursday in November a
legal holiday, which takes into account years where November has five
Thursdays. President Roosevelt agreed and signed the resolution into law on
December 26, 1941. Since then
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5203981048_marthas_classic_thanksgiving" target="_blank">Martha's Classic Thanksgiving</a> (DVD)</span><br />
<a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1535407048_the_thanksgiving_table" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2;">The Thanksgiving Table: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1;">Recipes and Ideas to Create your Own Holiday Tradition</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their are many great websites out there that feature traditional Thanksgiving recipes, or if you want to try something different, new twists on the originals or something new and exciting. Check out these following websites:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Better Homes & Gardens <a href="http://www.bhg.com/thanksgiving/menu/" target="_blank">Thanksgiving Dinner Menus</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://whatscookingamerica.net/Menu/TurkeyDinner.htm" target="_blank">Thanksgiving Dinner Menu Ideas and Recipes</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/thanksgiving/thanksgiving-menus.html" target="_blank">Thanksgiving Menus & Recipes</a> from the Food Network </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://dish.allrecipes.com/thanksgiving-menus-for-beginners-to-experts/" target="_blank">Thanksgiving Menus for Beginners to Experts</a> from allrecipes.com or their other page for more <a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipes/198/holidays-and-events/thanksgiving/" target="_blank">Thanksgiving Recipes</a></span></span><br />
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“Shelf Reflection” is the blog of the Kirtland Public
Library. It’s one way the library staff
tries to keep in touch with and reach out to the local community. Through the blog readers can get
recommendations for new books or the staff’s favorite movies. Since it is the internet our audience isn’t
just limited to Kirtland or Ohio or even just the United States. Our audience is truly global.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(Sept. 23 to Oct. 24) I saw some interesting things. The most remarkable statistic is that 30%
percent of our traffic comes from outside of the United States! Of our foreign visitors Germany had the most
(23). Russia (14), the United Kingdom
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The roots of Halloween stretch back over the centuries. Today we will examine the origins of the
holiday and a few of its most cherished traditions. Do you have any cherished Halloween
traditions? Share them in the comments
section for others to read and enjoy. Also, visit the library and see some of the
Halloween books in our collection the librarians have set out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced Sah-ween)
fell around the time corresponding to November 1<sup>st</sup> on our modern
calendars. This festival marked both the
beginning of the Celtic New Year and the beginning of winter. The Celts believed that during this festival,
which lasted approximately three days, the line dividing the spirits of the
dead from the living was thinner and more permeable. At this time ghosts, fairies, and demons
walked and mingled with humanity for a short period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Celts divided their year into two halves. A light half (summer) when the earth produced
fruits and vegetables and was green, and a dark half (winter), a time when the
earth went dormant and lost its greenery.
As with other festivals, Samhain provided a time for feasting, dancing,
and other merrymaking. It was a way to
enjoy the waning days of warmth and to prepare for the cold dark days that lay
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As barbarian Europe converted to Christianity, pagan
holidays were incorporated into the Christian liturgical calendars and given
new Christian meanings. In the Christian
calendar, November 2<sup>nd</sup> is All Souls’ Day, when the dead are
traditionally prayed for. November 1<sup>st</sup>
was All Saints’ Day or All Hallows Day.
This was the day of the year when all the Saints of the Church were
remembered. October 31<sup>st</sup>
became known as All Hallows Eve, or with the English propensity to shorten and
contract everything: Halloween.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The history of Jack O’ Lanterns originates with the story of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Stingy
Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. Jack, unwilling to pay for the drink,
convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin to pay for the drink. Instead of paying for the drink, Jack stuck
the coin into his pocket next to a silver cross which prevented the Devil from
regaining his original shape. After
forcing the Devil to agree not to harm him for a year or to take his soul after
he died Jack left the devil go.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next year Jack tricked the Devil into climbing the tree
to pick a piece of fruit. While the
Devil was in the tree Jack carved a cross into the bark of the tree, preventing
the Devil from climbing back down. Once
again Jack was able to extract a promise from the Devil. This time the Devil agreed not to bother Jack
for ten years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shortly after the second agreement with the Devil, Jack
died. Jack appeared at the Pearly Gates
and God, wary of having such a duplicitous character in heaven, refused him
admittance. The Devil, still upset at
being tricked so easily and yet true to his word, would not take Jack into
hell. Instead, the Devil gave Jack a burning coal to help him find his
way. Jack put the coal into a carved
turnip and has been roaming the earth since.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Ireland and Scotland people made their own Jack O’
Lanterns by carving scary faces into potatoes and turnips and displaying them
on their windowsills. This was to
frighten Stingy Jack and other malevolent spirits away. In England, large beets were carved. Immigrants from the British Isles brought
these traditions to America, where it was soon discovered that pumpkins, a
gourd native to North America, made the perfect Jack O’ Lantern.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As mentioned above the ancient Celtic peoples believed that
during the festival of Samhain the line between the living and the dead was
thinner. The Celts would take
precautions so as not to draw any unwanted attention from wandering ghosts and
spirits. Adults would dress themselves
in costumes made of animal skins to frighten away spirits. Others would fill tables full of goodies in
order to satisfy wandering spirits and make them leave the local villagers
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the year 1000 CE poorer members of the local community
would visit the homes of the better off during this particular season.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In exchange for pastries, called soul cakes,
they promised to pray for the souls of that family’s departed members.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This custom was known as souling, and was
later taken up by children demanding food, treats, and ale.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is reminiscent of the Christmas
tradition of “wassailing” where the poor would converge upon the homes of their
betters and demand food and drink – think “O give us some figgy pudding,” and
“we won’t go until we get some.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Scotland and Ireland the young would visit other homes
while dressed in different types of costumes.
In exchange for performing a little song or dance or reciting a poem or
some other “trick” they would be given a “treat” of fruit, nuts, or some coins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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them when they arrived in the United States.
This helped to cement the various celebrations associated with Halloween
firmly in the states. In the early 20<sup>th</sup>
century many American youth seemed to take the idea of a “trick” literally and
began engaging in vandalism, assaults, and occasionally violence. In an effort to curb more destructive
behaviors, local authorities organized community trick-or-treat programs in the
1930s. After a hiatus during World War
II due to sugar rationing the traditions picked back up and now the newly
emerging baby boomers gave a boost to this tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although associated with Halloween parties and fall
festivals now this game was originally associated with finding love and
divination. Like some of our other
Halloween traditions this one originated in the British Isles and made its way
to the New World with Scottish and British immigrants. There are several variations of this game
with different rules and superstitions attached to the outcome of the game.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the first version of the game apples are assigned the
name of a potential mate. Young ladies
would then take turns bobbing for apples.
In this game the girl would try to bite the apple. If it took only one turn to bite the apple
they would marry. A second attempt meant
the man would court the girl, but the love would fail. If it took three tries the relationship was
doomed. Another variation of the game
consisted of a race and the first to bite an apple would be the first to
marry. Another related superstition held
that if the girl placed the apple she bit under her pillow she would see her
future mate in her dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These games are pretty tame compared to another
apple-themed game popular in the 1800s.
The game of Snap Apple consisted of an apple stuck to the end of a
stick. A lit candle was affixed to the
other end. The goal of this game was to
take a bite of the apple while it was spun around and trying to avoid a face
full of candle wax. Definitely not the
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The library has many books and CDs available to help you get into the Halloween spirit. Here are a few examples of the items we offer:</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6473255048_it_came_from_ohio" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">"It Came From Ohio..."</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by James Renner</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2046310048_haunted_ohio" target="_blank">"Haunted Ohio"</a> by Chris Woodyard, we also have volumes <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/217353048_haunted_ohio_ii" target="_blank">II</a>, <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/980572048_haunted_ohio_iii" target="_blank">III</a>, <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/194290048_haunted_ohio_iv" target="_blank">IV</a>, and <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1381850048_haunted_ohio_v" target="_blank">V</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5014049048_ghosthunting_ohio" target="_blank">"Ghosthunting Ohio"</a> by John B. Kachuba</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6117909048_a_discovery_of_witches" target="_blank">"A Discovery of Witches"</a> by Deborah Harkness</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6595826048_dark_witch" target="_blank">"Dark Witch"</a> by Nora Roberts</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1551891048_hocus_pocus#bib_info" target="_blank">"Hocus Pocus! Halloween Crafts for a Spooktacular Holiday"</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/711666048_the_pumpkin_carving_book" target="_blank">"The Pumpkin Carving Book"</a> by Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5600688048_graveyard_terror" target="_blank">"Graveyard Terror"</a></span><br />
<a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5030003048_halloween" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">"Halloween: Monster Mix"</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Mannheim Steamroller</span><br />
<a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2684647048_spooky_scary_sounds_for_halloween" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Martha Stewart Living "Spooky Scary Sounds for Halloween"</a><br />
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As we inch closer and closer to Halloween the sun starts to go down sooner and the ghouls start to come out earlier. And as is the trend at many libraries around the country this is when horror movies start to rise in checkouts. So the staff here wanted to share with you some of our absolute favorites for the spooky movie season.<br />
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Amelia lives a strained lifestyle after losing her husband the day she gave birth to her son. He is troubled by imaginary monsters and behavioral outbursts that get him removed from school. One evening he has Amelia read him a haunting children's story book about Mr. Babadook, which ultimately consumes his fear. She denies it's real, but slowly is forced to question that and confront the dark entity from the story as it presses the limits of her sanity.<br />
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This film has a rough start because of some exceptional emotional acting from the two main characters, but it's incredible use of silence and darkness pushes the tension in this film so fiercely that I was literally at the edge of my seat for nearly the entirety of the film. To cause legitimate horror without jump scares is a rare feat these days and from one pivotal point a 3rd of the way into the movie, I was completely locked in and glued to the screen. Easily one of the scariest films I've seen in a number of years. <br />
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<strong><u><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5714467048_the_ghost_and_mr_chicken" target="_blank">The Ghost and Mr. Chicken</a></u></strong> <i>(Jane's pick)</i><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCKjqTf_LyBt-P8WXS09DA5ZlUyzyTaxUTdQPe26yfbQ2farZRG77owpdHtxlsIJ5OSCHU_ubBhMTffpT2Kc9VJ4AmSnDCXv6kmsfVmzCAhDXr9TXvT3t_2VW8cCQvNUcAJ64GXVft66M/s1600/Mr+Chicken.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCKjqTf_LyBt-P8WXS09DA5ZlUyzyTaxUTdQPe26yfbQ2farZRG77owpdHtxlsIJ5OSCHU_ubBhMTffpT2Kc9VJ4AmSnDCXv6kmsfVmzCAhDXr9TXvT3t_2VW8cCQvNUcAJ64GXVft66M/s200/Mr+Chicken.jpg" width="135" /></a>Ok, so I'm not a big scary movie or book person. In fact I don't read Stephen King novels and I haven't watched a horror movie in years. The last scary book I read on purpose was The Amityville Horror when it was first published. That said, the very first, and probably last, scary movie I saw was <i>The Ghost and Mr. Chicken</i> which came out in the late 1960s. It’s really more comedy than horror, but at the time I thought it was very scary.</div>
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Don Knotts stars. His character works as a typesetter at a small-town newspaper and wants to be a full-fledged reporter. So he takes on the task of spending the night in the town’s haunted house. The situation allows many opportunities for Knotts to react to sight gags with the special brand of eye-popping nervousness that made him a star. This one is suitable for the whole family! Of course, there's a love interest and in the end Knotts solves the mystery of the haunted house and gets the girl!.Oh man, when that cobwebby, creepy organ started playing by itself I about jumped out of my skin! You would too!</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><u style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5349072048_the_omen" target="_blank">The Omen</a></u> </span><i>(Chad's pick)</i><br />
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A secret cabal of Satanists strives to protect the
Antichrist from being detected and their plans thwarted. The Antichrist, Damien, is the adopted son of
the American Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert Thorn. At first Thorn refuses to believe his son is
anything more than a little boy. After
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This movie is my one consistent go to after all these
years. There are many things about this
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soundtrack with its eerie sounding chant music sets the tone throughout. The rest of the time the music is subdued
enough to add a general air of impending horror. The scene, which occurs within the first
fifteen minutes of the movie, with the nanny at the birthday party, still sends
shivers up my spine. If you don’t know
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<strong><u><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6582163048_storm_of_the_century" target="_blank">Storm of the Century</a></u></strong><i> (Gina's pick)</i></div>
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My favorite horror movie is actually a TV mini-series, Storm of the Century. Written by Stephen King, it is set in a small village in his home state of Maine during a major snowstorm. While all the townspeople are frantically scrambling for food and supplies to prepare for the storm, a stranger appears. </div>
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He knows all the darkest secrets of the inhabitants, making them increasingly paranoid, and keeps repeating, "Give me what I want, and I'll go away." The suspense builds as the storm gets more intense and we all try to figure out what he wants, and if he will get it. The conclusion is shocking and quite disturbing.<br />
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<strong><u><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6850197048_psycho" target="_blank">Psycho</a></u></strong> <i>(Maria's pick)</i><br />
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I'm not a huge of fan of horror, but I do love good suspense/thriller movies. I've recently become a Hitchcock fan, and I'm recommending the movie Psycho since it's the closest movie of his that could be considered horror. It's about a young secretary who steals $40,000 from her boss and runs away to meet up with her boyfriend. Trying to avoid the police, she travels on back roads and stops for the night at the Bates Motel and meets the polite but odd proprietor, Norman Bates.</div>
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I wouldn't say it's my favorite of the Hitchcock's films, but it's definitely the one that sticks with me and will never forget. So if you like a good classic and are in the mood to watch a good psychological thriller, this is perfect for you. And if you've never seen it, this is definitely a movie that everyone should watch at least once in their lifetime.</div>
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<a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6210815048_frank_capras_arsenic_and_old_lace" target="_blank"><strong><u>Arsenic and Old Lace</u></strong> </a><i>(Patti's pick)</i><br />
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I also am not a big fan of horror films, but an all time favorite of mine is Arsenic and Old Lace. Cary Grant plays a drama critic who falls in love with his next door neighbor, played by Priscilla Lane. </div>
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His eccentric but lovable and also very scary relatives keep him running and thinking everyone is nuts and he might be next. This movie will make you laugh and be memorable for years. This could be called a comedy/thriller also starring Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre. CHARGE!</div>
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<strong><u><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5062926048_the_village" target="_blank">The Village</a></u></strong> <i>(Mary's pick)</i><br />
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The Village is a psychological thriller set in a closed
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nirvana whereby family life, respect, and kindness prevail. Soon we realize that all of this has fear as the
supreme motivator. Boundaries are
created not only in thinking, but also physical travel. Somewhat like the theme music from Jaws, a
bell sounds when there are any transgressions.
Evidence of a cruel “of that we cannot speak” curtails any
considerations of breaking the law. As beliefs are questioned, the unexpected backgrounds of all
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12318898258523726512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-62145666303484017632015-09-20T12:17:00.002-04:002015-09-20T12:43:38.586-04:00The 1920s in Fact and Fiction<div class="MsoNormal">
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seems to offer a rich and exciting tapestry of booze, flappers, and jazz.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The reality, however, was much different than
what we imagine or even what we see in period photos.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Recently, many non-fiction and fiction books
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are a small sample of the books available through the library. If there is another topic or subject that
interests you the librarians will be more than happy to help you choose your
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">First here are some recent fiction books set during the 1920s:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Evangeline
Mary O’Neill, Evie to all of her friends, has a special power that allows her
to see the secrets of people whose personal items she holds. When she uses this power during a party and
reveals the hidden secret of the son of a wealthy and powerful townsperson, Evie is exiled by her parents from her hometown of Zenith, Ohio to live with
her Uncle Will in Manhattan. Along with
her pen pal and friend, Mabel, Her Uncle Will, and his assistant and ward
Jericho, Evie is drawn into the search for an elusive killer stalking the
streets of 1920s New York City. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book is
the first of an anticipated triology.
The second book, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6775206048_lair_of_dreams" target="_blank">Lair of Dreams</a></b></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
has recently been released and picks up where the first</span><span style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">book left off. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although marketed for a YA audience this book
has plenty for adults to like. If you
enjoy mysteries and supernatural/paranormal thrillers this book will definitely
interest you. Occasionally the 1920s-era
slang can be a little much, but fortunately its usage doesn’t derail the
storytelling to any serious degree.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Paul
Elwork, <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6145650048_the_girl_who_would_speak_for_the_dead" target="_blank">The Girl Who Would Speak For the Dead</a></i> (2011)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It’s the summer
of 1925. Thirteen year-old Emily Stewart discovers she has a unique gift.
Without any noticeable movements she can produce a distinct knocking
noise from her ankle. Along with her twin brother, Michael, they begin to
convince neighborhood children that they can speak to the dead. Soon,
news of these “spirit knockings” leaks out to the adults. From there
Emily and Michael discover that this game of theirs gets too close to real
grief and family secrets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">These non-fiction books examine different aspects of the 1920s and are sure to include stories to interest readers with many different tastes.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Karen Blumenthal, <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6880439048_tommy" target="_blank">Tommy: The Gun That Changed America</a></i> (2015) YA </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Karen Blumenthal has written an
entertaining and fact-filled account of the gun that came to symbolize the
1920s. Designed by the Auto-Ordnance
company to be used in the trenches of Europe during WWI it came too late to see
service. After the war, the gun was
marketed to foreign governments and police departments as a way to control
striking workers and rioters. Its high
rate of fire along with its compact frame soon drew the attention of criminals,
who saw the gun as a way to gain a competitive edge against their underworld
rivals. In response to the murder of an
Illinois Assistant State Attorney, and the robbery of a mail truck carrying
company payroll money the Federal government, along with state governments,
such as New York, began passing the first federal and state laws regulating the
carrying and ownership of firearms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interest to local readers will be that the Thompson submachine gun was designed
and tested primarily in Cleveland in a two-story house on Euclid Avenue, near
Millionaire’s Row. The book is full of
period photos and illustrations, which adds nicely to the text. Although, designated for Young Adults, readers
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never been a stranger to scandals and salacious stories involving its stars.
This was particularly true of Hollywood in its infancy. William J. Mann has
written a fascinating history of Hollywood centered on the murder of William
Desmond Taylor, president of the Motion Picture Directors Association. This murder had remained unsolved since 1922,
until Mann unraveled all of the details and discovered the identity of the murderer. Besides the glitz and glamor one would expect
in a book on Hollywood, the scandals, violence, drugs, and booze of the era are
all laid bare for the reader. This book won the 2015 Edgar award for Best Fact
Crime Book of the Year. NPR called it,
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Eric Burns, <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6857026048_1920" target="_blank">1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar</a></i>
(2015) </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Many
of the same concerns we have today concerned Americans in 1920.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The economy seemed to be faltering, many
Americans wanted closed and secured borders, and acts of terrorism were a
constant threat.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As Burns believes 1920
not only set the stage for the Roaring Twenties, but also for the remainder of
the 20</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> century and the beginning of the 21</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">st</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> century.</span></div>
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new book, tackles the year 1920 in a piecemeal fashion. Each chapter
discusses separate subjects and could be read individually without the reader
losing the main thrust of the argument. Despite these reservations Burns
has put together a readable and interesting look into how one year laid the
framework for the rest of the 20th century and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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KPLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264577981135940003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-76080522212121414592015-09-08T10:55:00.000-04:002015-09-08T10:55:42.936-04:00Urban Fantasy: Zombies, Wizards, and Pyromancers! Oh My!<div style="text-align: justify;">
As the summer slowly approaches it's end, kids start going back to school, and the days start to be come shorter many people start gearing up for the fall and winter months. Some try to squeeze in their last minute vacations, some people start gearing up for Halloween already, and some are just trying to hang on to that last bit of summer before the temperature drops on us.</div>
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Not me. This time of the year means one thing: AMC's <i>The Walking Dead </i>is coming back. And since its fresh in my head, its reminding me that over the past year I have really fallen in love with a new subset of narrative that has really become one of my favorites in recent readings: Urban Fantasy. Urban fantasy is for the most part exactly what it sounds like; The fantastical and unbelievable in the current day modern setting as opposed to High Fantasy where the world and its rules are completely fabricated. In preparation for the return of one of my favorite programs, I wanted share some of the tidbits I've been nibbling on to hold me over.</div>
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Well let's just get this one out of the way. This is comic and graphic novel series that started of the flag-bearers of the the zombie boom. Written by Robert Kirkman (who you might remember from my <a href="http://kirtlandlibrary.blogspot.com/2013/08/fun-time-to-be-comics-fan-pending-review.html" target="_blank">Marvel Zombies </a>review), this series lays the groundwork for what fans of the show will remember. But if you came into this series of comics expecting to see the same story from the show, you will be very much surprised. </div>
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As the show takes liberties to this source material, reading through you will find that the story moves at a much faster pace than its television counterpart, You will find that some of the characters aren't the same the first time around, some of the characters were created specifically for the show, in the comic a number of them develop differently and have very different personalities, and some scenes that I thought were highly memorable sometimes didn't even happen in the comic series. </div>
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Arguably you can consider the zombie genre to be more dystopian than it is urban fantasy, but since you are dealing with monsters I feel it fits here. It is always interesting to me to see how when a book or comic series gets translated to more visual medium like TV or Movies. <i>The Walking Dead</i> is a great example of both of them can sustain life and maintain an interesting level of involvement of each other without feeling like one is doing an injustice to the other. There are <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?t=smart&q=Walking%20Dead%20Compendium" target="_blank">two Compendiums of the comic series available</a> and I suggest you give them a read if like me you are bitten by the zombie bug. </div>
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This series... THIS SERIES.. Man. My friend at my local game night started recommending when I explained to them how much I liked <i><a href="http://www.kirtlandlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/12/young-adult-reading.html" target="_blank">Hold Me Closer, Necromancer</a></i> as one of my first real entries of urban fantasy genre. As explained to me, Harry Dresden is a private eye working in Chicago, but he is also the city's only practicing Wizard (you can find him in the yellow pages). So along those lines, I expected to read murder mysteries with an occasional splash of magic in some of the hairier moments.</div>
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What I wasn't expecting was some of the funniest and cleverly written dialog between an incredibly lovable cast of characters spanning through pretty much every single realm of fantasy I can think of. Seriously, this series has everything: Wizards, necromancers, teens who turn into werewolves, evil fairy godmothers, pixies with an uncontrollable affinity for pizza, three different families of vampires, holy knights, fallen angels, archangels, living temple dogs, mobsters, Valkyries, Greek gods, Santa Claus, and one poor diminutive police sergeant just trying to do her job. </div>
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I ate this series up. I think in the span of like 3 months, I read <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?page=1&q=dresden+files&t=keyword&from_login=true" target="_blank">all 15 released volumes of this series, all of the available graphic novels, a series of side stories from compilation books</a>, and even gave a few episodes of the failed TV show a try. Fans of this series tend to be pretty ravenous about it, and it didn't take me long to see why. The first few kind of set the stage but when the main narrative starts to roll, it was next to impossible for me to put this series down. If you are a fan of fantasy in any capacity, this series has a little bit for everyone. </div>
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This YA novel is what I am currently reading. It is set in the same universe as the previously mentioned <i>Hold Me Closer, Necromancer</i>. Written by Lish McBride, this story focuses around Ava, a young girl who is half Human and half Firebug. This gives her innate ability to control pyrokinetic powers. Quite simply, she is able to form a massive fireball to the tiniest wisp of a flame using only her thoughts.</div>
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Many of these titles can be found in our very own Kirtland Library and all of them can be found in the<a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/" target="_blank"> Clevnet catalog.</a> So if you are a fan of fantasy, or perhaps put slightly off by classic fantasy, give the urban fantasy genre a try. It's a very entertaining way to try to fit the fantastical into modern mundanity. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For most of
us, Labor Day signals the unofficial end of summer. Vacations are finished, the kids are back in
school and the cool autumn weather isn’t too far off. Labor Day is sometimes one of the few
remaining days left to fire up the grill and to enjoy one last summer cookout
and picnic. Have you ever wondered why
we celebrate Labor Day and what its origins are?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The first
Labor Day was celebrated in New York City in 1882. Even with its relatively recent history there
is some controversy over who first championed the idea of a labor holiday. According to the Department of Labor’s
website, Peter J. McGuire, general secretary for the Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners and later a founder of the American Federation of Labor, suggested
a day to honor </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">those </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"who
from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold." Initially, this version of Labor Day’s
history went unchallenged until the late 1960s, when a retired machinist
claimed a deceased union brother of his, Matthew Maguire, originated the idea
of a labor holiday.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“workingman’s holiday” be celebrated. The
Central Labor Union was made up of members from many different unions as a way
to increase their collective strength.
In May 1882 a “monster labor festival” was proposed for September. Although the first Labor Day parade began
haphazardly with a small number of participants, by the time the parade
concluded at Wendel’s Elm Park, located at 92<sup>nd</sup> Street and 9<sup>th</sup>
Avenue in New York City, nearly 10,000 workers had assembled. The post-parade activities included a picnic,
speeches by union officials, and "Lager beer kegs... mounted in every
conceivable place." The festivities
of the first Labor Day carried on until 9:00 pm that evening.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Initially
Labor Day celebrations were an entirely local affair. During 1885 and 1886 various cities and
municipalities passed ordinances recognizing the holiday. New York, New Jersey
and Colorado were among the first states to legally establish the holiday. New
York legislators first introduced a bill recognizing Labor Day. However, Oregon holds the record as being the
first state to pass a bill, February 21, 1887. It wasn’t until 1894 that Senator James
Henderson Kyle of South Dakota introduced a bill establishing the first Monday
in September as Labor Day, making it a Federal holiday. The bill was approved on June 28, 1894.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">From its
origins as a way to commemorate workers and their unions, Labor Day has become
a civic holiday. Besides featuring labor
unions, Labor Day parades will also include various civic and fraternal groups,
business members and elected officials.
This year, while having one last picnic take a little time to remember
all of America’s workers-past and present, male and female who work hard to
make this country what it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Check out
these links from the Department of Labor for more information on Labor Day and
its history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If you would
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Here are some of the available titles:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2198324048_good_girl_work" target="_blank">Good Girl Work: Factories, Sweatshops and How Women Changed Their Role in the American Workforce by Catherine Gourley</a></span>KPLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264577981135940003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-80391897708513527982015-08-01T11:12:00.000-04:002015-08-19T20:02:42.876-04:00New Graphic Novels at Kirtland!<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Kirtland Public library proudly introduces its new
and expanded collection of graphic novels.
We have a wide selection of graphic novels that will appeal to children,
young adults, and adults. We have
favorite superheroes, such as Batman, Spider Man, and Captain America as well
as stories that will appeal to young adults and those interested in trying
different comic styles, such as Manga.
If you are interested in reading something new or something familiar I’m
sure we will have a graphic novel that will interest you. The graphic novels described below are meant
to give Kirtland library patrons a sense of the variety of graphic novels we
have available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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O’Connor. <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&t=smart&search_category=keyword&q=olympian&commit=Search&genre=Graphic%20Novels" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Olympians</span></a></i>. (First Second:
New York, 2010). </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
acclaimed author, George O’Connor, in his series <i>Olympians</i>, uses ancient Greek mythology to re-tell the stories of
the gods in this series of brightly illustrated graphic novels. The library has <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5995626048_zeus" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>Zeus</b></span></a>, <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5995626048_zeus" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>Ares</b></span></a>, and <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6827366048_athena" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>Athena</b></span></a> </span>with
more available! Come and check out these
entertaining books. Readers of all ages
will find the stories and artwork highly entertaining.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dembicki, ed. <a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6029881048_trickster" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Trickster: Native AmericanTales: a Graphic Collection</span></a>. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b>(Fulcrum
Books: Golden, CO, 2010). </b>Matt Dembicki, a comic book creator in his own
right, assembled a group of Native American storytellers to create a book of
trickster tales and legends from various native cultures. The stories are visualized through the
efforts of many talented artists and illustrators, who worked hand-in-hand with
the storytellers to get it all just right. This book will provide an
entertaining, beautifully presented view into one aspect of Native American
culture and storytelling. This is a must
read for anybody interested in Native American stories or looking for something
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Himekawa. <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5856417048_the_legend_of_zelda" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons</span></a></i>. (Perfect Square: San Francisco, CA, 2014). </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This series of Manga graphic
novels ties their stories into that of the popular videogame series from
Nintendo. The books are laid out in the traditional
Manga format: the book is read from right to left and is started from what
American readers would consider the back of the book. One does not need to be familiar with the
videogames or their plot to enjoy the story and artwork in these books. If you are looking for something a little
different this may be the place to begin.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Hine and Fabrice Sapolsky. <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5980955048_spider-man" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Spider-Man: Noir</span></a></i>. (Marvel: New York, 2009).</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> This series takes familiar characters and
re-imagines them in 1930s New York City.
Prior to be bitten by a spider Peter Parker, along with Aunt May, are
socialist agitators trying to stir up the unemployed. The arch-villain, the Goblin, is one of the
most powerful gangsters in the city. The
drawings successfully capture the feel of earlier pulp and noir artwork. If you are looking for a new twist to
traditional superhero stories, this one will be just right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mechner, A.B. Sina, LeUyen Pham, and Alex Puvilland. <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5754965048_jordan_mechners_prince_of_persia" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Prince of Persia: The Graphic Novel</span></a></i>. (First Second: New York,
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game series, this graphic novel is a story separate from the main storyline of
the game. The graphic novel follows two separate, yet related, stories set
several hundred years apart in the city of Marv. Visually, the story set in Marv in the 9<sup>th</sup>
century, is told using bright pastel colors.
The other story, also set in Marv, however in the 13<sup>th</sup>
century, is visualized using darker hued colors. As the two stories intertwine and co-mingle
with each other the only way to sometimes to tell them apart is through their
coloring. If you are a fan of the 2010 movie
<i>The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time</i>,
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Jamieson. <i><a href="https://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6853610048_roller_girl" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Roller Girl</span></a></i>. (Dial Books
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story follows Astrid as she explores a new sport, roller derby, and the
changing dynamics of her friendship with Nicole, who prefers ballet to roller
derby. It sensitively handles the
difficulties young people have in trying to find themselves and their way in
the world. After reading this book you
will also have a good overview of the rules of roller derby by an actual roller
derby racer. This book is appropriate
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KPLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264577981135940003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-80719154261609256912015-06-17T18:34:00.000-04:002015-08-19T20:03:08.891-04:00Meet Our New Librarians<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Kirtland Public Library is proud
to welcome two new librarians to its staff.
Below we feature brief profiles of our new librarians to help you to get
to know them. When you’re in the library
next please stop by and say “hi” to them and we’re sure they’ll be as thrilled
to get to know you as you will them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chad is originally from Pennsylvania
and only came to the Cleveland area in 2011 after his wedding. He earned his library degree from Kent State
in December 2014. Prior to coming to
Kirtland Public Library, Chad worked as a Reference Assistant at the Northeast
Ohio Medical University and he is also currently a Reference and Instruction
Librarian at Lakeland Community College.
He currently lives in South Euclid with his wife, Amy, daughter, Evelyn,
and their dog, Inky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve always loved books and enjoyed
reading, and wanted to pass that enthusiasm onto other people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your first memory of a library?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Going to the library during summers
for story time. It was always my
favorite day of the week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway,
Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, R.A. Salvatore & Hunter S. Thompson, to name
a few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shining</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
by Stephen King, <i>A Christmas Carol</i> by
Charles Dickens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stan Sakai’s <i>Usagi Yojimbo: The Brink of Life and Death</i> (a great series of
graphic novels re-telling classic Japanese tales and Samurai stories with a
Samurai rabbit as the main character), Mark Adams, <i>Meet Me in Atlantis: My Quest to Find the 2,500 year-old Sunken City. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Several podcasts from Infopeople, a
podcast about comics, graphic novels, and YA books from some librarians in
California; the New York Public Library podcasts with authors and assorted 80s
and 90s heavy metal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Describe
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ice cream, chocolate, and peanuts, especially
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Kent State University in 2011. Prior to joining the staff at Kirtland Public
Library she worked as a Reference Assistant at Madison Public Library and as a
substitute at Medina County District Library. Sandra currently resides in North
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Rich Asians</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
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KPLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264577981135940003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-59125431852491725992015-02-24T11:57:00.000-05:002015-02-24T11:57:25.368-05:00Oscar Winning Books<h3>
And the winner is....</h3>
Here are the books that made it to the Academy Awards in 2015...check them out!<br />
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<b>Best Picture </b><br />
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Winner:<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i>What We Talk About When We Talk About Lov</i>e</span>, a short story by Raymond Carver became<i> Birdman or (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).</i><br />
<a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/13082048_what_we_talk_about_when_we_talk_about_love" target="_blank"><img alt="What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" height="200" src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=0679723056/MC.GIF&client=216-623-2800&type=xw12&oclc=" title="" width="128" /></a><br />
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Other Nominees<br />
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<i><span style="color: red;">Still Alice </span></i>by Lisa Genova. Julia Moore won the award for Best Actress<br />
<i><span style="color: red;">Traveling to Infinity, My Life With Stephen</span></i> by Jane Hawking -- became <i>The Theory of Everything. </i>Eddie Redmayne won the award for Best Actor.<br />
<span style="color: red;"><i>Alan Turing: The Enigma</i></span> by Andrew Hodges became <i>The Imitation Game</i><br />
The writings of Stefan Zweig became <i>The Grand Budapest Hotel</i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;">American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in the U.S. Military History</span></i> by Chris Kyle & Scott McEwen became <i>American Sniper</i><br />
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<b>Books nominated other categories:</b><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i>Foxcatcher: the True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness & the Quest for Olympic Gold</i></span> by Mark Schultz & David Thomas became <i>Foxcatcher</i>, starring Steven Carrell.<br />
<span style="color: red;"><i>Gone Girl</i></span> by Gillian Flynn<br />
<span style="color: red;"><i>Wild</i></span>, by Cheryl Strayed<br />
<span style="color: red;"><i>Unbroken</i></span>, by Laura Hillenbrand<br />
<span style="color: red;"><i>Inherent Vice</i></span> by Thomas PynchonKPLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08264577981135940003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-69235631052077081912014-12-08T16:13:00.000-05:002014-12-08T16:13:28.695-05:00Cookbook Club FavoritesThe Cookbook Club has been meeting at Kirtland Public Library since June, 2012. We meet the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6 pm, except for November and December. (For these months, we meet once in early December.)<br />
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So far we've cooked from 25 books and one blog!<br />
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Our top three favorite cookbooks so far:<br />
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We follow the Cleveland food blogger at <a href="http://thisgirlsgottaeat.com/">http://thisgirlsgottaeat.com/</a> and were lucky enough to have her as a guest at one of our meetings! Check out this girl's delicious recipes today. </div>
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We've sampled at least 150 dishes and shared many recipes, laughs, and tips. Of the dishes, our favorites have been twice baked potatoes, turkey sandwiches, tomato crostini, and chicken pot pie casserole.</div>
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Our favorite ingredients to cook with are chocolate, olive oil, vegetables, and pasta.</div>
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Here is a list of our favorite kitchen tools:</div>
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immersion blender</div>
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Vitamix blender</div>
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crockpot liners</div>
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See all of the cookbooks we've used at the Library's website: </div>
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Want to start your own cookbook club? Grab some friends and a cookbook. The Library has cookbooks of all kinds!</div>
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We recently had the Ghost Lady of Willoughby, Cathi Weber, come by to give a talk about some of the local haunts here in northeast Ohio, and it proved to be a very entertaining evening. She gave us a rundown of some of the various haunted locales that she has visited such as the historic Willoughby Coal Co. haunted by the Ghost of Don Norris, one of the business owners who was found bloodied and broken outside the coal company. She discussed the Fairport lighthouse and ghastly mummified cat who's ghost still scampers around its grounds, and the Lake County Historical Society, who's long time superintendent Mrs. White still tries to enforce the rules to would be ghost hunters who visit.<br />
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But surprisingly, out of all the local haunts that she discussed that evening, not one mention of any of the hauntings in the Kirtland area. Seeing as Ohio is notorious for its haunted locales I did a little digging to see what haunts we were most known for, and there was certainly no shortage of them.<br />
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One of the first thing I dug up in my search was the Witch's Grave. Located on Hart Rd. in Kirtland Hills, the Witch's grave has an urban legend which says that if you stand before the grave and turn your back to it, it will encroach upon you. The lore is that the grave belongs to a witch who was punished for her crimes and buried off in solitude because they did not want her in their cemeteries. The reality is a bit less exciting, as it is the grave of a pair of settlers who traveled from Connecticut to here and were more than likely buried on the family plot. Still, local paranormal investigators have felt energies and experiences here.<br />
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Our next famous Kirtland haunt is one that is certainly popular with local teens. On Wisner Rd., off of Kirtland-Chardon Rd., you'll find a bridge on a private drive. This is one of the nation's many famous "Crybaby bridges". But special mention goes to this one because of the frequency of events people have reported here.<br />
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Supposedly, should you park on half of the bridge and roll your windows down, the sound of water from the passing river will start to be accompanied by sound of a child crying. This is a heavily wooded area so its host to all manner of sounds, but its very hard to deny the sheer number of cases who claim to have heard crying. I mention this one because it ties to one of Kirtland's most well know hauntings.<br />
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You knew this one was coming, but when people go to check out the Crybaby Bridge, they are looking for Melon Heads. There are various tellings of the legend, that in the 1800's a doctor by the name of Crowe (or Crow, Crowely, or Crowstein). The stories are mixed in the details, but they typically are based around the good doctor adopting a series of children who suffered from Hydrocephalus (taking water on the brain). Dr. Crowe would often conduct experiments on the children. Some say in an attempt to cure them, others say they were for.... darker reasons.<br />
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Supposedly after the death of Mrs. Crowe, the mother figure to the children, they became unruly and violent, and the ensuing scuffle resulted in a fire of the orphanage that saw the demise of Crowe. The children were assumed to be lost, but numerous sightings of them have been reported near the Crybaby Bridge and King Memorial Cemetery. Nearly everyone knows about the legend and there was even a film produced about it.<br />
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This is just a snippet of the various haunts I was able to dig up about our little area. There are a number of other haunted places and many many more around the state of Ohio. Many of them have been written about and are <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?t=smart&q=haunted%20ohio" target="_blank">available through our very own library system.</a> Everyone is encouraged to form their own opinions about hauntings,but the exploration of it all is what makes it fun and interesting. What local haunts do you know about?</div>
Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12318898258523726512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-41736068923125647692014-08-05T16:04:00.001-04:002014-08-05T16:04:47.115-04:00What We're Reading Now! <b style="text-align: justify;"><u>Jamie: <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/3635430048_bundori" target="_blank"><i>Bundori</i> by Laura Joh Rowland</a></u></b><br />
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Bundori is the second novel in Laura Joh Rowland's historical mystery series featuring samurai detective Sano Ichiro. In feudal Japan, Sano is the shogun's sosakan-sama: Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People. In this book, he must find a serial killer who has been leaving clues in the form of an ancient war ritual: severed heads to nailed boards. The clues lead Sano to several suspects. The problem is, one suspect is the shogun's Chamberlain. The shogun himself has asked Sano to catch the murderer. Sano is torn between serving the shogun and serving justice. Sano's life is always in danger. Luckily, he has a loyal assistant helping him. A knowledgeable, scholarly elder, and deadly female ninja complete the cast. As Sano learns hidden secrets and narrows his list of suspects, suspense mounts.<br />
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This is only the second book about Sano but I enjoy reading about historical Japan and samurai culture and I love to see the character of Sano develop. His integrity and skills are admirable and I'm always cheering for him. Rowland's historical details are accurate and contribute to the story. The shogun of Sano's time is a real historical figure: Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. There are currently seventeen novels in the series, so there is still much to learn about Sano and historical Japan. (This series may not be for everyone due to graphic scenes and violence.)<br />
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<strong><u>Chris: <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?commit=Search&page=2&q=Attack+on+Titan+&search_category=keyword&t=keyword&utf8=%E2%9C%93" target="_blank"><em>Attack On Titan</em> by Hajimie Isayama</a></u></strong><br />
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I had a mystery lined up for my new post, but since this series is so hot right now and I'm apparently the sole anime/manga fan in Kirtland, I wanted to talk about this one.<br />
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<em>Attack On Titan</em> takes place in a Concentric city that is protected by three giant stone walls. For the past 100 years, these walls protected humans from monstrous humanoids called Titans. For youths such as protagonist Eren Yeager, his adopted sister Misaka, and their friend Armin, life within these walls are all they know and the peace from it. Until one day, a massive 50 meter tall skinless Titan appears above the wall and smashes a hole through it, allowing smaller yet incredibly deadly Titans to breach through. The ensuing chaos for escape is gruesome as the Titans begin to tear apart and devour humans. People are evacuated to the inner walls, but not without Eren losing his family in the most brutal of fashions. Swearing vengeance, Eren joins up with the Survey Corps to leave the walls and take the fight to the Titans.<br />
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When I tell another adult I watch anime or read manga, I will occasionally get a scoff, an eyeroll, or am told that cartoons are for kids. This series is <u style="font-style: italic;">decidedly not</u> for kids, and I challenge readers to give it a try. It has drama, betrayal, mystery, gruesome combat, and for the most part moves at a fast pace. You could tear though 3 volumes of these graphic novels in less than an hour, so there is no reason not to give it a shot.<br />
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<b><u>Maria:<a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6431842048_me_before_you" target="_blank"> <i>Me Before You</i> by Jojo Moyes</a></u></b><br />
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Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has never left her tiny village. Recently let go from her waitressing job at the Butter Bun Cafe, she finds she needs a job fast because her parents rely on her paychecks. So when the job center recommends Lou try for a job as a caretaker for a quadriplegic, she reluctantly goes for the interview. Lou's interview takes her to the affluent side of town, to the Traynor family mansion. They are moneyed and infamous in Lou's small town, but she never knew about the troubles they've had at home . . . the eldest Traynor child, Will, was in an accident two years ago that has left him a quadriplegic. He has movement of his neck, but minimal control of his hands and fingers. Everything else is paralyzed, and he is confined to a chair and needs 24/7 care, especially after a suicide attempt that put the family on high-alert. Mrs. Traynor is adamant that she does not want a nurse-maid for her son. She just wants him to spend time with someone who will entertain him and be companionable. Louisa is chatty and quirky, dressing in colorful tights and sparkly gumboots. She's just the sort of positive influence Will needs in his life right now. <br />
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Since the publication of <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1127186048_girl_in_hyacinth_blue?search_tag=">Girl in Hyacinth Blue</a> and <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2326988048_girl_with_a_pearl_earring">Girl with a Pearl Earring,</a> historical fiction about art and artists has remained popular. The following titles are just a few examples of novels featuring artists.<br />
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American 19<sup>th</sup>-century painter Mary Cassatt’s work
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<span style="font-size: small;">These titles and many more, including novels about <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&t=subject&search_category=subject&q=claude%20monet%20fiction&commit=Search&f_status=KRT-MAIN">Claude Monet,</a> <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&t=subject&search_category=subject&q=degas%20fiction&commit=Search&f_status=KRT-MAIN">Edgar Degas</a>, <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&t=subject&search_category=subject&q=michelangelo%20fiction&commit=Search&f_status=KRT-MAIN">Michelangelo</a>, and <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?audience=adult&commit=Search&f_status=KRT-MAIN&q=leonardo+da+vinci+fiction&search_category=subject&t=subject&utf8=%E2%9C%93">Leonardo da Vinci</a>, are available in our fiction collection. Please ask a reference librarian for more recommendations.</span></div>
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<br />Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15938178019270930979noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-90761153990600728492014-06-19T15:15:00.000-04:002014-06-21T09:38:45.246-04:00What we're reading now! {June}<div style="text-align: justify;">
In a new addition to our little blog here, we thought it would be fun if we shared with you what it is we are following from month to month. Could be books, could be movies, could be crafts or games. So as we roll through this hot summer, here's what we're read reading now!</div>
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<strong><u>Chris: <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6150339048_ready_player_one" target="_blank"><em>Ready Player One </em>by Ernest Cline</a></u></strong><br />
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As a child of the 80's and a guy who plays a lot of video games, I'm suggested this book often. It's 2044 and the world is basically falling apart. There are no jobs, less food, and even less space to live. The only solace many people have is in a virtual world called OASIS. Both the real and online worlds are sent into a frenzy when the game's creator James Halliday passes away and leaves his multibillion dollar estate and fortune to the one who can solve his game within OASIS by finding his three keys which open three gates. Five years pass with nobody finding a clue and people begin to question if there was really a contest at all.<br />
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Until an unassuming student named Wade finds the first clue and is ranked on the world leader board. Now it becomes a race as he's thrust into the limelight and now pitted against his friends, idols, and people very willing to kill to get ahead. So now, just to survive Wade needs to use his knowledge of Halliday's passion for 80's pop culture and video games to get the jump on the rest of the world to be the first to find Halliday's easter egg. The entire world is an MMO (massively multiplayer online game), everyone in it is a player, and the real world is the prize. But when push comes to shove, is it really what Wade wants?<em> </em><br />
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This one can feel like fan-fiction at times but the story is fun and really starts to sprint to the finish as you read along. Its a little thick with references but ultimately it was very fun to read.<br />
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<b><u>Gina: <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6663745048_the_weight_of_blood" target="_blank"><i>The Weight of Blood</i> by Laura McHugh</a></u></b><br />
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Set in a small town in the Ozark Mountains, The Weight of Blood tells the story of Lucy Dane, a seventeen-year-old who is searching for the truth behind two mysteries: the brutal murder of her friend, Cheri, and the disappearance of her mother when Lucy was a baby.<br />
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The story is told from alternating points of view, including Lucy; her mother, Lila; and several other main characters. At first I found this confusing, since the chapters narrated by Lila are set in the time before Lucy was born, so that the plot is not chronological. But telling the story this way allows the reader to feel more involved and to better understand the characters. Since Lucy never really knew her mother, the author allows Lila to tell her own story, and we learn much more about Lucy’s father and uncle from her point of view. As Lucy’s investigation broadens, she learns that there may be a connection between the two cases, and those closest to her may not be who they seem.<br />
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This is a suspenseful debut novel with fascinating characters and a descriptive setting. I look forward to her next book.<br />
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<strong><u>Jane: <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6400863048_flight_behavior" target="_blank"><em>Flight Behavior </em>by Barbara Kingsolver</a></u></strong><br />
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There is an anonymous quote that says "when a butterfly flaps it's wings in one part of the world it can cause a hurricane in another part of the world." This is what happens when Dellarobia Turnbow finds a mountaintop covered in monarch butterflies in rural Tennessee. Somehow the butterflies have gotten off their natural course. Is it an act of God or is it global warming? Whatever the cause, it is bringing scientists, environmentalists and gawkers to Dellarobia's mountain and creating havoc with her family. Dellarobia's father-in-law wants to clear cut the mountain, for much needed money. Her mother-in-law, Hester, is sure it's a spiritual sign. For Dellarobia, the butterflies signify her desire to get something more out of life.<br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12318898258523726512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-82078796990541367052014-05-12T11:18:00.000-04:002014-05-12T11:18:09.232-04:00Turhand KirtlandOur city's namesake, Turhand Kirtland, was born in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1755 (the village of Kirtland Hills is named for Turhand's son, Jared Potter Kirtland). Turhand Kirtland was the resident general land agent for the Connecticut Land Company which sold parcels of land in the Western Reserve during the 1800s.<br />
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Turhand had nine siblings. His great-grandfather, Nathaniel Kyrtland, came to Massachusetts from England in 1635. Turhand began work by manufacturing carriages and stagecoaches, and acted in the provisional service of New York.<br />
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Turhand and other land agents formed the Connecticut Land Company and purchased the Western Reserve from the state of Ohio in 1795. In 1796, General Moses Cleaveland began a survey of this land. Two years later, the land was divided among the Connecticut Land Company stockholders by a draft. Turhand drew the township of Mecca, part of the township of Auburn, Poland, Burton, and 2,000 acres in Kirtland.<br />
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Turhand owned much of the township that was Kirtland but sold most of it and never lived there. He lived in Poland, Ohio with his wife, Mary Potter, and three children: Henry, Nancy, and Mary. (Son Jared remained in Connecticut to be educated. He gained fame as a physician, teacher, naturalist, horticulturalist, and ornithologist.) Turhand helped establish libraries and schools among the reserve, including Western Reserve College.<br />
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In 1798, Turhand, along with a group of surveyors and settlers, began surveying and laying out the townships. Turhand kept a diary of this time. You can read it <a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5r78nw5c;view=1up;seq=9" target="_blank">here</a> or you can follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/KirtlandLibrary" target="_blank">Twitter</a> as we tweet entries beginning May 12.<br />
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For more Kirtland history, check out <i><a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1737578048_a_history_of_kirtland,_ohio" target="_blank">A History of Kirtland</a></i> by Anne B. Prusha or read<i> 20th Century Memoirs of Kirtland, Ohio</i> by Grace E. Parks which is available for purchase at the Library.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-57507989614860554642014-04-28T16:33:00.001-04:002014-04-29T16:21:47.983-04:00Books into Movies: Coming soon!<div class="MsoNormal">
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Sixteen-year-old Hazel is a stage IV thyroid cancer patient who has
accepted her terminal diagnosis until she meets fellow cancer survivor Augustus
Waters and the two fall in love, despite their inevitable fate. This story is both hilarious and
heart-wrenching. Coming to the big
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</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">When tragedy pushes Hassan and his family
out of India, they eat their way around the world, settling in Lumière, a small
town in the French Alps. The family opens an Indian restaurant that becomes
wildly popular among the residents, infuriating their French rival Madame
Mallory. After she wages a culinary war with the family, Mallory finally agrees
to mentor Hassan, leading him to Paris and the launch of his own restaurant.
The hundred foot distance between a new Indian kitchen and a traditional French
one can represent the gulf between different cultures and desires. Opening August 8<sup>th</sup> and starring Helen Mirren;
produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1618200048_the_giver" target="_blank"> </a></span></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1618200048_the_giver" target="_blank">The Giver</a></span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1618200048_the_giver" target="_blank"> by Lowis Lowry.</a> In
this classic young adult novel everything is perfect: diseases have been eradicated, everyone is
equal and society is under control. Each
person is assigned a position in the Community and 12-year old Jonas has been
named “Receiver of Memories.” He becomes
the receiver of memories shared by one other, “The Giver”, in the community and
discovers the terrible truth about the Community. Stars Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, and Taylor
Swift and will be released on August 15<sup>th.</sup></span><br />
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When Libby Day was 7 years old, her mother and sisters were murdered in
what was called The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas. After Libby’s testimony her brother Ben was
sent to prison for the crime.
Twenty-five years later and needing money, Libby starts selling off
family artifacts causing her to re-examine her memories of the crime. The movie debuts on September 1<sup>st</sup>
and stars Charlize Theron and Christina Hendricks. Flynn also authored <i>Gone Girl</i> which will be released as a movie in October, 2014.</span><br />
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Leave You</a></span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/5886122048_this_is_where_i_leave_you" target="_blank"> by Jonathan Tropper.</a> Judd
Foxman’s father has died and his wife is having an affair with his boss, a
radio shockjock. Now Judd must spend
seven days and nights sitting shiva with the entire dysfunctional Foxman
family, facing the loss of his father, his wife, and dealing with family
confrontations and longstanding
grudges. The book is a very funny
and emotionally raw description of love, marriage, divorce, family and the ties
that bind whether we like it or not.
Starring Jason Bateman and Tina Fey, this movie will be released on
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This week of April, every day is a palindrome: it reads the same backward as forward. </div>
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The last palindromic year was 2002. The next will be 2112!</div>
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Palindromes occur in numbers, words, even sentences and music. </div>
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We also have a wide selection of poetry in our literature section. Whether you prefer classics like<a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?t=author&search_category=author&q=frost+robert&commit=Search&f_status=KRT-MAIN"> Robert Frost</a> or<a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?t=author&search_category=author&q=emily+dickinson&commit=Search&f_status=KRT-MAIN"> Emily Dickinson</a>, or something contemporary like <a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/search?t=author&search_category=author&q=billy+collins&commit=Search&f_status=KRT-MAIN&formats=BK">Billy Collins</a>, come check out a book of poetry this month.</div>
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Lapsit storytime is essentially a baby storytime for 0-23
month olds and their caregivers that lasts 15-20 minutes. Big brothers and
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Lapsit will help<span style="color: red;"> </span>parents/caregivers understand the importance of teaching their child early literacy skills beginning at birth. For years, babies were considered
to be too young for the library. Programming was geared toward children aged 2 years and up because babies were thought to be
too little to pay attention or even care. However, studies have shown that
storytime helps children develop language and social skills. Babies are unable
to make sense of what they hear at this age, but their brain still receives
stimulation. This early exposure to
language will help them become successful readers and writers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Our lapsit program uses a variety of activities, such as
rhymes, puppets and instruments to foster speech development, songs, motor
coordination, bounces, baby signs, and bubbles! The program is
based on research which shows that children learn best through repetition and
routine. In other words, children have more self-confidence if they come to
storytime and know the songs and rhymes that are sung each week. It is also a
great way to meet other new parents and have some bonding time with your child!
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So if you have a little one, come to the library to
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you there! Every Tuesday at 10:45am from
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Janehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14004150611542348136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-159982709500909745.post-52883358128100608512014-03-10T10:44:00.000-04:002014-03-10T10:44:10.288-04:00National Craft Month<br />
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March is National Craft Month. The Library is a great place to learn a new craft. We have books on all crafts from sewing to painting. We also have many crafting groups that meet here at the Library in the Community Room: Dreamweavers Basket Guild, Tuesday Threaders (Quiliting), American Needlepoint Guild, Cloth Souls Doll Club, Tri-County Artists, and The Paint Company.<br />
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<a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6080980048_the_new_encyclopedia_of_watercolor_techniques" target="_blank">The New Encyclopedia of Watercolor Techniques by Diana Craig & Hazel Harrison</a><br />
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<i>Full color step-by-step photography of dozens of watercolor techniques.</i><br />
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<a href="http://kirtland.bibliocommons.com/item/show/6053402048_the_ohio_knitting_mills_knitting_book" target="_blank">The Ohio Knitting Mills Knitting Book by Steven Tatar with Denise Grollmus</a><br />
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<i>Simple crafts for the home using repurposed materials.</i><br />
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Get started today! Whether you're an experienced crafter or a beginner, March is the time to CREATE!<br />
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