Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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.

Friday, April 26, 2013

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.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

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 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


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The Strangeness of Beauty The Strangeness of Beauty
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9780393321401 Check Our Catalog

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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

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Beneath the Covers
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
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
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
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
Swamp Man
By Goines, Donald, Jr.
2007-04 - Holloway House Publishing Company
9780870679476 Check Our Catalog

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The Sunshine When She's Gone
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
The Autumn Bride
By Gracie, Anne
2013-02 - Berkley
9780425259252 Check Our Catalog

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

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

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The Husband She Couldn't Forget
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
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
Eleven Little Piggies
By Gunn, Elizabeth
2013-03 - Severn House Publishers
9780727882363 Check Our Catalog

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

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

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The Midwife of Hope River
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
Smooth Play
By Hart, Regina
2012-01 - Dafina Books
9780758258823 Check Our Catalog

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Benediction
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
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
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
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
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
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

Saturday, April 20, 2013

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
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

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Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land
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
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
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
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
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.
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