How and Why You Should Write a Social Media Will

From the USA.gov Blog:

What happens to content on your social media accounts after you die? Learn how and why to write a social media will.

Dispose of Prescription Drugs on April 27

From the USA.gov Blog:
Saturday, April 27 is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

If you have unwanted prescription drugs or over-the-counter medicines, this is a great opportunity to safely discard them.

Enter your ZIP code to find a collection site near you.

Properly disposing of medicines is important to human health and environmental protection. 

• Don’t flush medicines down the toilet or drain. Doing so could affect drinking water sources.
• Don’t throw medicines directly in the trash. Doing so could lead to the poisoning of a child or pet, or drug abuse by a teen or adult. 
• Do find out how to properly dispose of medicines (PDF).

Upcoming Events at HPL

Basement Sale 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Friday, April 26: Used, worn & obsolete items from the Hackley Library closets & basement Thurs. 4/25 & Fri. 4/26 only. Thurs. numbers starting at 10 am, sale hours 10:30 - 5:00 Fri. 10 am - 4 pm. No books. 316 W. Webster Ave. downtown Muskegon. Cash and checks only.

LEGO MANIA FAMILY FUN DAY 2:00 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2013 Come join in the family fun. Build a great structure, win a treat, and display your fabulous creation to all Youth Services Library patrons. Remember--we will supply the Legos, you supply the imagination.

Poet Melba Joyce Boyd 6:00 pm, Monday, April 29 Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd is the author of 13 books, nine of which are poetry. Her latest book, Death Dance of a Butterfly, received a 2013 Michigan Notable Books Award. Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall received a 2010 Michigan Notable Book Award, an Independent Publishers Book of the Year Gold Award, and was a finalist for a ForeWord Book of the Year Award and a 2010 NAACP Image Award in Poetry. Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press (Columbia University Press) received a Honor for Nonfiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In 1981, she received a Michigan Independent Artist Award for her book project, Song for Maya. In 1997, she was commissioned to write the official poem for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, which is inscribed inside the museum. Lines from her poem, “We Want Our City Back,” appear in the sculpture, Transcending: Michigan’s Tribute to Labor, in downtown Detroit. She is the producer, writer and director of The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press, co-producer of Star by Star: The Poetry and Publishing of Naomi Long Madgett. Boyd is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Wayne State University, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Ann Arbor, where she received a Doctor of Arts degree in English (1979).

Spring Story Time 6:45 PM MONDAY, APRIL 29 FOR AGES 3 - 7 Storytelling, picture books, finger plays, holiday tales, and special fun. Each session ends with a craft project. Signup is required. To register, phone 722-7276, Ext. 230.

Good Yarn Knitters 5:30 pm, Wednesday, May 1 : Good Yarn Knitters Open to knitters of all skill levels, from beginners to advanced. Learn to knit, hone your skills, help other knitters! For more information call 231-722-7276 and ask for Jocelyn. Meets every Wednesday, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm.

Good Yarn Knitters 5:30 pm, Wednesday, May 8: Good Yarn Knitters Open to knitters of all skill levels, from beginners to advanced. Learn to knit, hone your skills, help other knitters! For more information call 231-722-7276 and ask for Jocelyn. Meets every Wednesday, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm.

FOR MOTHER'S DAY MOTHER'S DAY CRAFT FOR KIDS 2:00 SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013 It's that time of year again, when we get to show our Moms how much we love them. Kids, drop in and create a wonderful gift and a card, just for Mom.

Book Review: The Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar

What makes you choose to read a book?  The title?  The book cover?  A review?  Favorite author?  For me, it can be any of those reasons, or even a combination.  As part of my job, I read book reviews so I see the titles of lots of new books, as well as read their reviews.  Some of my review sources even show the front cover.  Of course, I also have my favorite authors.
When I saw the title The Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar I was intriqued.  The first review I read was very good, so I put it on my list of books to read (which I keep on Goodreads.com, a great place to keep track of books).  One of the book review blogs that I follow also reviewed it and that really piqued my interest, so I put it on reserve.  Oh, the cover is very intriquing as well.  Warm yellows with an early 20th century woman cyclist standing in front of the mountains of an Asian desert.
The book tells two stories, one in 1923 of three British women missionaries (Millicent, Eve, and Lizzie) to Kashgar.  The other of a young British woman-Frieda, and a young Yemeni man-Tayab, in present day London.  The missionaries witness a young girl trying to give birth outside of her town as they arrive in Kashgar.  Millicent, the lead missionary, helps the girl give birth, but the young woman dies and the community blames Millicent.  Millicent gives the baby to Eve to take care of.  As it turns out, Eve is not interested in the missionary work, but her sister Lizzie is, and she didn't want to be parted from her.  She is writing a book about their travels.  The three are put under house arrest while the authorities decide what to do about Millicent.  She continues with her unorthodox missionary style, which does not help her cause.
Frieda is just back from an overseas trip when she notices Tayab sleeping in the hall outside her flat.  He is in the country illegally and is in hiding.  While going through her mail, Freida discovers that she has been named next of kin to someone who has died and she is asked to clear out that woman's flat.  She asks her father if he knows this woman, but he doesn't, so she decides to get in contact with her mother, who left Frieda when she was seven.  One of the things Frieda finds when cleaning the flat is the book Eve wrote!
The book is beautifully written, and the stories are fascinating.  I wondered how they would come together, and if my guess about it was right. (It was!) 

A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar By Joinson, Suzanne 2012-05 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781608198115 Check Our Catalog Like "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" or "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," a wondrous, richly conceived, irresistible debut novel that sweeps the reader away to a different world. …More

Complimentary Reads

Cousin Rosamund By West, Rebecca Foreword by Glendinning, Victoria 1987-05 - Penguin Books 9780140101300 Check Our Catalog …More

Primrose Square By Douglas, Anne 2012-03 - Severn House Publishers 9780727881151 Check Our Catalog Edinburgh, 1911. When intelligent Elinor Rae leaves her crowded tenement family home to become a maid in an exclusive ladies' club in the idyllic Primrose Square, she doesn't look back. Two years later and Elinor is still in love with the square, and now also with Stephen Muirhead, her evening tutor. But it all goes wrong. …More

The Strangeness of Beauty By Minatoya, Lydia Y. 2001-01 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393321401 Check Our Catalog Three generations of American and Japanese women face a strained reunion in pre-World War II Japan. Etsuko and her young motherless niece travel to the ancient Japanese household of Etsuko's mysterious samurai mother. With Japanese militarism mounting, the women must learn to make peace in a world where mothers are childless, and warriors are pacifists. …More

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BASEMENT SALE

Used, worn & obsolete items from the Hackley Library closets & basement Thurs. 4/25 & Fri. 4/26 only.  Thurs. numbers starting at 10 am, sale hours 10:30 - 5:00  Fri. 10 am - 4 pm.  No books.  316 W. Webster Ave. downtown Muskegon.  Cash and checks only.

New Books at HPL

Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for: 2013.  To see new books from other years try:  2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006.

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Into the Dark By Gaylin, Alison 2013-01 - Harper 9780061878251 Check Our Catalog …More

Beneath the Covers By Girard, Dara 2011-03 - Kimani Press 9780373862078 Check Our Catalog Bestselling author Claudia Mason is single and loving it. Her book is being made into a TV show, and her co-host, Peter Warren, happens to be the man she almost married. As desire reignites, Peter's suddenly dreaming of walking down the aisle--with Claudia. Original. …More

Body Chemistry By Girard, Dara 2009-01 - Harlequin Presents 9781426826641 Check Our Catalog New BSS member Brenda Everton has excelled in a man's world at the expense of her personal life. Now, pairing sexy black stockings with a sexy attitude, she's meeting with her ex-husband Dominic to find out whether passion can strike twice. Original. …More

Pages of Passion By Girard, Dara 2010-10 - Kimani Press 9780373861859 Check Our Catalog Noreen Webster is a divorced romance novelist who has given up on love. While on a cruise to Barbados, she becomes intrigued by handsome stranger Michael Vaughn. Except this tall, dark, and so-hot brother may not be who he seems. Original. …More

Round the Clock By Girard, Dara 2009-07 - Kimani Press 9780373861224 Check Our Catalog In high school, Desmond had barely noticed Anna Marie. But now, thanks to a new, independent attitude--and some sexy black stockings--the former good girl has caught his interest. Original. …More

Swamp Man By Goines, Donald, Jr. 2007-04 - Holloway House Publishing Company 9780870679476 Check Our Catalog …More

The Sunshine When She's Gone By Goodman, Thea 2013-03 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805096620 Check Our Catalog A fresh, funny, and wisely observed debut novel about marriage--about the love, longing, and ambivalence exposed when a husband takes the baby on a highly unusual outing. …More

The Autumn Bride By Gracie, Anne 2013-02 - Berkley 9780425259252 Check Our Catalog …More

Flowers for His Funeral By Granger, Ann 1996-01 - Thorndike Press 9780786205387 Check Our Catalog …More

Undertow By Granger, Henry 2010-11 - Createspace 9781453816233 Check Our Catalog …More

The Husband She Couldn't Forget By Green, Carmen 2009-09 - Silhouette Books 9780373654802 Check Our Catalog Melanie Wysh wasn't one to wallow in heartbreak. So when her husband served her with divorce papers with no warning and disappeared, she took a new job in a new state. And met a new man--her therapy client Rolland Jones. Rolland was new in more ways than one: after a car accident, he required extensive reconstructive surgery and it had left him with no memory. It was up to Melanie to rebuild this brave, beautiful man's mind. And soon Rolland was rebuilding her heart. Melanie knew these familiar feelings of love were forbidden for a client. Yet Rolland was the second chance she was looking for--in ways that would shock her to her very soul.... …More

Out of the Black Land By Greenwood, Kerry 2013-02 - Poisoned Pen Press 9781464200380 Check Our Catalog From the often wildly differing conclusions of professional Egyptologists, Greenwood, best known for her mysteries has fashioned a fascinating, plausible and erotic tale. …More

Eleven Little Piggies By Gunn, Elizabeth 2013-03 - Severn House Publishers 9780727882363 Check Our Catalog …More

Naughty 4: Naughty by Nature By Hampton, Brenda 2011-08 - Urban Books 9781601623119 Check Our Catalog …More

Outback Wife and Mother By Hannay, Barbara 2011-07 - Harlequin Romantic Suspense 9781459252912 Check Our Catalog …More

The Midwife of Hope River By Harman, Patricia 2012-08 - William Morrow & Company 9780062198891 Check Our Catalog A debut novel featuring Patience Murphy, an Appalachian midwife in the 1930s struggling against disease, poverty, prejudices, and her own haunting past to bring new light and life into an otherwise cruel world. …More

Smooth Play By Hart, Regina 2012-01 - Dafina Books 9780758258823 Check Our Catalog …More

Benediction By Haruf, Kent 2013-02 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307959881 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title From the beloved and bestselling author of "Plainsong" and "Eventide" comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado. Haruf gives an indelible portrait a small town and reveals the humanity of its inhabitants. …More

Hellhole Awakening By Herbert, Brian Author Anderson, Kevin J. 2013-03 - Tor Books 9780765322708 Check Our Catalog General Adolphus knows the Monarchy crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together all the resources of the Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. …More

Telling the Bees By Hesketh, Peggy 2013-03 - Putnam Adult 9780399159053 Check Our Catalog With echoes of "The Remains of the Day," Albert, an elderly beekeeper looks back on his quiet life. When his friend Claire is killed in a senseless accident during a burglary, Albert is haunted by the loss, and by the secrets and silence that hovered between them for so long. …More

Salvation of a Saint By Higashino, Keigo Translator Smith, Alexander O. With Alexander, Elye J. 2012-10 - Minotaur Books 9780312600686 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning "The Devotion of Suspect X" comes the latest novel featuring Detective Galileo. The detective returns in a new case of impossible murder, where instincts clash with facts and theory with reality. …More

Heart's Reward By Hill, Donna 2010-08 - Kimani Press 9780373831838 Check Our Catalog Melanie Harte's reputation as a matchmaker depends on her not breaking the rules: never get involved with a client. Yet suddenly, she has Rafe Lawson, a senator's son, and Claude Montgomery, the senator's assistant, pursuing her. Original. …More

If I Were Your Woman By Hill, Donna 2007-01 - Kimani Press 9780373860043 Check Our Catalog A messy affair left Stephanie Moore determined to never again mix business with pleasure. But her powerful attraction to Tony Washington has her reconsidering, though she suspects Tony may be married. Original. …More

The Reader's Shelf

From Library Journal

Surviving Genocide:  Memoirs of the Unthinkable

The Knock at the Door: A Mother's Survival of the Armenian Genocide By Ahnert, Margaret Ajemian 2012-06 - Beaufort Books 9780825306839 Check Our Catalog …More

Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land By Nomberg, Przytyk Sara Author Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara Editor Pfefferkorn, Eli 1986-08 - University of North Carolina Press 9780807841600 Check Our Catalog "From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached. I disconnected my heart and intellect in an act of self-defense, despair, and hopelessness." With these words Sara Nomberg-Przytyk begins this painful and compelling account of her experiences while imprisoned for two years in the infamous death camp. Writing twenty years after her liberation, she recreates the events of a dark past which, in her own words, would have driven her mad had she tried to relive it sooner. But while she records unimaginable atrocities, she also richly describes the human compassion that stubbornly survived despite the backdrop of camp depersonalization and imminent extermination. Commemorative in spirit and artistic in form, "Auschwitz" convincingly portrays the paradoxes of human nature in extreme circumstances. With consummate understatement Nomberg-Przytyk describes the behavior of concentration camp inmates as she relentlessly and pitilessly examines her own motives and feelings. In this world unmitigated cruelty coexisted with nobility, rapacity with self-sacrifice, indifference with selfless compassion. This book offers a chilling view of the human drama that existed in Auschwitz. From her portraits of camp personalities, an extraordinary and horrifying profile emerges of Dr. Josef Mengele, whose medical experiments resulted in the slaughter of nearly half a million Jews. Nomberg-Przytyk's job as an attendant in Mengle's hospital allowed her to observe this Angel of Death firsthand and to provide us with the most complete description to date of his monstrous activities. The original Polish manuscript was discovered by Eli Pfefferkorn in 1980 in the Yad Vashem Archive in Jerusalem. Notknowing the fate of the journal's author, Pfefferkorn spent two years searching and finally located Nomberg-Przytyk in Canada. Subsequent interviews revealed the history of the manuscript, the author's background, and brought the journal into perspective. …More

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge By Him, Chanrithy 2001-04 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393322101 Check Our Catalog In this luminous memoir, Chanrithy Him takes readers into the chaotic world of the Khmer Rouge. Over the course of four years five members of her family, including her parents, die, and so do nearly two million other Khmer. Out of shards of memory, she has assembled a spirited account of coming of age in a dark time, and a heart-breaking elegy for everything that was lost along the way. Photos. …More

Fax from Sarajevo By Kubert, Joe 1998-11 - Dark Horse Comics 1569713464 Check Our Catalog In 1945, we told the world, "Never again". In 1992, the promise was broken into bloody shards. That was the year the war broke out in Sarajevo, Bosnia, the year that genocide revisited the planet. It was the year that Ervin Rustemagic -- an international businessman whose clients included author Joe Kubert -- found himself and his family trapped in a city under siege. When the shells and gunfire tore the city asunder, Ervin's only means of communication to the outside world was via his fax machine -- he sent messages to Joe which could be refaxed to his friends on the outside. As Joe began to receive these messages from Ervin, he did what he had done for years -- what he had become famous for doing -- what he put the story to paper. This full-color graphic non-fiction book is one that anyone can read, that everyone should read. What Maus is to World War II, Fax from Sarajevo will be to the Bosnian War. …More

An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography By Rusesabagina, Paul With Zoellner, Tom 2007-03 - Penguin Books 9780143038603 Check Our Catalog The riveting life story of Rusesabagina--the man whose heroism inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda"--is sure to become a classic of tolerance literature. "An Ordinary Man" explores what the film could not: the inner life of the man who became one of the most prominent public faces of that terrible conflict. 8-page photo insert. …More

Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur By Bashir, Halima With Lewis, Damien 2009-09 - One World 9780345510464 Check Our Catalog Born into the Zaghawa tribe in the Sudanese desert, Halima Bashir received a good education away from her rural surroundings (thanks to her doting, politically astute father) and at twenty-four became her village's first formal doctor. Yet not even Bashir's degree could protect her from the encroaching conflict that would consume her homeland. Janjaweed Arab militias savagely assaulted the Zaghawa, often with the backing of the Sudanese military. Then, in early 2004, the Janjaweed attacked Bashir's village and surrounding areas, raping forty-two schoolgirls and their teachers. Bashir, who treated the traumatized victims, some as young as eight years old, could no longer remain quiet. But breaking her silence ignited a horrifying turn of events. Raw and riveting, Tears of the Desert is the first memoir ever written by a woman caught up in the war in Darfur. It is a survivor's tale of a conflicted country, a resilient people, and an uncompromising spirit. …More