Upcoming Events at HPL

Saturday Computer Class-Basic 11 am, Saturday November 1 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes this fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic--Basics of computers: Basic Computing will offer an introduction to what a computer is and how to use it. It is designed for beginners with little or no knowledge of computers. Topics covered will include an explanation of Windows and files, how to turn on a computer, and how to use the mouse. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Saturday Computer Class-Basic 12:15 pm, Saturday, November 1 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes this fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic--Basics of computers: Basic Computing will offer an introduction to what a computer is and how to use it. It is designed for beginners with little or no knowledge of computers. Topics covered will include an explanation of Windows and files, how to turn on a computer, and how to use the mouse. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

JOEL TACEY'S SPOOKTACULAR COMEDY SHOW 2:00 PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2014 Let's stretch Halloween for another day! Come watch Joel Tacey's wild, wacky, not-too-spooky comedy show. Amazing fun for the whole family.

Hackley Handicrafts 6:00 pm, Monday, November 3 Learn a new craft with Nancy Hartman! This month she will introduce you to the new craze, Arm Knitting. Nancy will start by teaching how to finger knit using worsted weight yarn to make it bulky enough to use for arm knitting. Bring your own worsted weight or super bulky yarn. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Muskegon-A Step Back in Time 6:00 pm, Tuesday, November 4 Take a step back in time and see Muskegon as it was-the Occidental Hotel on Western Ave, the bustling Union Station and Goodrich Docks, and the Wonderful Lake Michigan Park. Featuring vintage postcards that told Uncle Ben and Aunt Mary back home what a great city Muskegon was. Tom Buettner has been giving his programs to West Michigan communities for 22 years. A resident of Caledonia, Michigan, Tom is noted for presenting programs addressing a multitude of topics – each one well-researched - each one presented in a refreshing manor. This one will be no exception. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Saturday Computer Class-Word 11:00 am, Saturday, November 8 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes this fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic--Word: Learn the basics of word processing, including opening and saving a document, entering text and making changes. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Saturday Computer Class-Word 12:15 pm, Saturday, November 8 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes this fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic--Word: Learn the basics of word processing, including opening and saving a document, entering text and making changes. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Local author Kevin Estes 1:00 pm, Saturday, Nov 8 Kevin Estes will talk about his new comic book, Kevin Kaos, and sign books.

LEGO MANIA FAMILY FUN DAY 2:00 PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014 Bring all the kids to our fun LEGO day! Enjoy some quality family time creating interesting items with our LEGOs here at the library. We've got both LEGOs and Duplos - so all ages from 1 - 101 (at least) are welcome.

Matthew Ball-Boogie Woogie Pianist 6:00 PM, Monday November 10 The Hackley Public Library is pleased to announce the next performance in its monthly concert series. This month features Matthew Ball, Boogie-Woogie Pianist. The Holland Sentinel says, "Matthew Ball is one of Michigan's premier blues & boogie-woogie pianists!" With a performance history spanning jazz fests to symphony appearances throughout the Mid-west and Canada, as well as recent appearances on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition" Matthew has been described as a "rising giant in the field." Remarkably Ball's start in Jazz only began in 2001 after he attended a hometown boogie-woogie festival. He was so awestruck by the performances he saw that night, he left his career as an attorney to become a blues & boogie-woogie performing artist. With a lot of time, work, and effort over the next few years Ball would reach a breakthrough in 2005 with a career launching performance at the exclusive Arches Piano Stage in Cincinnati where he shared the stage with some of the same musicians that first inspired him to play back in 2001. For more information check out his website: http://www.boogiewoogiekid.com/ Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Orphan Train 6:00 pm, Tuesday, November 11 Did you know 12,500 orphans from New York City and the Boston area were placed in Michigan from 1854 to 1927. The production company spent a year and a half in research and searching for photos of the Orphan Train Riders in Michigan. They have produced a television documentary about this event in Michigan’s history, depicting in great detail the selection process and being an Orphan Train Rider. The first Orphan Train Riders (14 boys), arrived in Dowagiac, Michigan on a Sunday morning in late September 1854, traveling on the Michigan Central Railroad. By 1927, forty-three Michigan towns would also receive orphans from the “Baby Train”, as it was sometimes called. Most of the children came from the New York Children’s Aid Society and the New England Home for “Little Wanderers”. Thirty nine percent were girls, and most children were never adopted. Learn more about the Orphan Train when Program Source International comes to HPL to present a program on this fascinating part of Michigan history. For more information check out their website at: http://www.program-source.com/orphan-train-in-michigan/ Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Ipad Class 1:30 pm, Wednesday, November 12 Want help using your Ipad or Kindle? Hackley Public Library can help! On November 12 at 1:30 pm HPL staff will hold a class on iPads. On November 19 at 1:30 pm HPL staff will hold a class on Kindles Both classes run about an hour and will be held in the lower level meeting room (the former Local History space). Class size is limited to 15, so call 231-722-7276 to register. This program is sponsored by Hackley Public Library.

Tech Wednesday-Instagram 3:00 PM, Wednesday, November 12: Tech Wednesday Bring your laptop or tablet and follow along while we explain tech topics in an informal setting. Today we will look at Instagram.

Saturday Computer Class-Internet 11:00 am, Saturday November 15 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes this fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic--Internet: Learn how to "surf the net" and find your away around cyberspace. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

Saturday Computer Class-Internet 12:15 pm, Saturday November 15 De'ondra Pentecost will teach computer classes this fall on Saturdays at 11 am and 12:15 pm. Registration is required. Call HPL at 231-722-7276 to register. This weeks’ topic--Internet: Learn how to "surf the net" and find your away around cyberspace. Brought to you through the generosity of the Friends of Hackley Library.

KIDS' WEAVING 2:00 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2014 Learn a great new craft! Weaving is fun, and there is no end to the things you can make once you learn the basics. Join us at the library, where Ms. Shaw will show you how. We'll provide the yarn and boxes.

The Reader's Shelf

From Library Journal

City of Lights:  Paris in Books

Murder in the Marais: An Aimee Leduc Investigation, Vol. 1 By Black, Cara 2011-01 - Soho Crime 9781569479995 Check Our Catalog Aimée Leduc, a Parisian private investigator, has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation--no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an old Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aimée unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she …More

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris By McCullough, David 2012-05 - Simon & Schuster 9781416571773 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author McCullough presents the enthralling story of the American painters, writers, sculptors, and doctors who journeyed to Paris between 1830 and 1900 and how they altered American history. …More

Sarah's Key By De Rosnay, Tatiana 2011-07 - Griffin 9781250004345 Check Our Catalog Haunting and suspenseful, life-affirming and beautiful, "Sarah's Key" offers a compelling portrait of occupied Paris and reveals the taboos and silence that surround a little-known episode in French history. ("The King's Speech"), opening in theaters on July 29 and starring Kristen Scott Thomas and Aidan Quinn. …More

Paris in Love: A Memoir By James, Eloisa 2013-03 - Random House Trade 9780812981902 Check Our Catalog In 2009, "New York Times"-bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. This memoir chronicles her joyful year in one of the most beautiful cities. …More

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 By Prose, Francine 2014-04 - HarperTorch 9780061713781 Check Our Catalog A richly imagined and stunningly inventive story of love, art, and betrayal in Paris of the 20's, 30's, and 40's. …More

The Food Lover's Guide to Paris: The Best Restaurants, Bistros, Cafes, Markets, Bakeries, and More By Wells, Patricia Photographer Tamorri, Gianluca With Buchanan, Emily 2014-03 - Workman Publishing 9780761173380 Check Our Catalog Patricia Wells has revisited more than 450 eating establishments in Paris to update this authoritative guide. Some have been dropped but more than 100 new places have been added to provide a broad review of the best places to eat out in the city. …More

New Books at HPL

Below is a partial list of our new books. To see the full list, download the Excel file for 2014.  To see new books from other years try: 2013 , 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, or 2006.

The Bone Clocks By Mitchell, David 2014-09 - Random House 9781400065677 Check Our Catalog The Washington Post dubbed him the novelist who's been showing us the future of fiction. David Mitchell is an eloquent conjurer of intricate, interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist. Rich with character and realms of possibility, The Bone Clocks is a hypnotic puzzle of a novel that makes you want to take it apart and and put back together the very moment you …More

Rose Gold By Mosley, Walter 2014-09 - Doubleday Books 9780385535977 Check Our Catalog Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache. In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, from her dorm at UC Santa Barbara. If they don't receive the …More

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage By Murakami, Haruki Translator Gabriel, Philip 2014-08 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780385352109 Check Our Catalog A "New York Times" #1 Bestseller "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" is the long-awaited new novel--a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan--from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami. Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and …More

Low Profile By Oldham, Nick 2014-08 - Severn House Publishers 9780727883902 Check Our Catalog "A gripping police procedural featuring Detective Chief Superintendent Henry Christie" Responding to a desperate phone call, Henry Christie stumbles across a gangland-style execution in progress and only just escapes with his own life. One of the murder victims is a successful local jeweller, but the motive for his brutal killing remains unclear. Meanwhile, ex-cop Steve Flynn is …More

The Dog By O'Neill, Joseph 2014-09 - Pantheon Books 9780307378231 Check Our Catalog ***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014*** The author of the best-selling and award-winning "Netherland" now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai. Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, our unnamed hero leaves New York to take an unusual job in a strange desert metropolis. In Dubai at the height of …More

Burn By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2014-09 - Little Brown and Company 9780316211031 Check Our Catalog Detective Michael Bennett finally returns to New York City--and to the most unsettling, horrific case of his career. At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family into hiding has been brought down for good. Back in the city that never sleeps, Bennett takes over a …More

Blood on the Water By Perry, Anne 2014-09 - Ballantine Books 9780345548436 Check Our Catalog As her "New York Times" bestselling novels always remind us, Anne Perry is a matchless guide to both the splendor and the shame of the British Empire at the height of its influence. In her twentieth William Monk mystery, she brings us to London's grand Mayfair mansions, where the arrogant masters of the Western world hold sway--and to the teeming Thames waterfront, where one summer afternoon, Monk …More

Bones Never Lie By Reichs, Kathy 2014-09 - Bantam 9780345544018 Check Our Catalog "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER The evidence is irrefutable: In sixteen "New York Times" bestsellers over the course of as many years, Kathy Reichs has proven herself "a genius at building suspense" (New York "Daily News"). In forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, Reichs has created a detective fiction heroine who's brilliant to the bone. "Every minute in the morgue with Tempe is golden," …More

Festive in Death By Robb, J. D. 2014-09 - Wheeler Publishing 9781410471444 Check Our Catalog Eve Dallas deals with a homicide--and the holiday season--in the latest from #1 "New York Times" bestselling author J.D. Robb. Personal trainer Trey Ziegler was in peak physical condition. If you didn't count the kitchen knife in his well-toned chest. Lieutenant Eve Dallas soon discovers a lineup of women who were loved and left by the narcissistic gym rat. While Dallas sorts through the …More

Something New By Roberts, Nora 2014-07 - Silhouette Books 9780373281824 Check Our Catalog From #1 New York Times bestselling author NORA ROBERTS comes two classic stories about following your heart...and falling in love. Impulse For once in her life, Rebecca Malone has decided to follow her impulses. After quitting her job and selling all of her belongings, she heads to Greece in search of adventure. So when a sexy local restaurant owner pursues her, she can't resist …More

Troubled Waters By Shinn, Sharon 2010-10 - Ace Books 9780441019236 Check Our Catalog Zoe Ardelay receives astonishing and unwelcome news: she has been chosen to become the king's fifth wife. But Zoe is a coru prime ruled by the elemental sign of water, and she must decide how to use her power to rise above the intrigue of the court. …More

Guilty by Association By Simmons, Pat 2011-12 - Moody Publishers 9780802403681 Check Our Catalog The Jamieson Family Legacy series follows the lives of the two Jamieson brothers in Boston, Kidd and Ace and their cousin Cameron from St. Louis. "Guilty by Association" is the story of Kevin "Kidd" Jamieson. Kidd has a chip on his shoulder because of his absentee father. How dare his father insist that his sons carry his last name when he did nothing but abandon his family? As far as he's …More

Queen Bee Goes Home Again By Smith, Haywood 2014-09 - St. Martin's Press 9781250003515 Check Our Catalog In "Queen Bee Goes Home Again "by bestselling author Haywood Smith, it's been ten years since Linwood Scott had to move back home to Mimosa Branch, Georgia the first time. Now, with her work in real estate at a stand-still because of the economy, and her ex-husband and his alimony payments (and his former stripper-current wife) nowhere to be seen, Linwood finds herself back in the place she'd …More

The Candy Shop By Swinson, Kiki 2010-01 - Dafina Books 9780758238917 Check Our Catalog In this drama-filled page-turner, an "Essence"-bestselling author presents the raw tale of one woman's struggle with her demons, and the depths she will go to feed her addiction to street candy. HPL patron: Kiki tells all about how Faith loses it all because of a drug addiction.  I had hoped it would have a happy ending, but Kiki had a dose of reality for you.  Not …More

Still Candy Shopping By Swinson, Kiki 2010-01 - KS Publications 9780984529001 Check Our Catalog Faith Simmons checks into a rehab but quickly checks out after she receives bad news from her ex-husband. Back on the streets she will run into a new breed of sharks and her life will hang in the balance once again. …More

Party Girl By Tucker, Pat 2012-02 - Strebor Books 9781593094027 Check Our Catalog After her car breaks down, Hope Reed accepts a ride from two neighborhood thugs. Later they are pulled over and arrested for a deadly convenience store robbery--and Hope is arrested too. An unforgettable novel, "Party Girl" asks the question: Is being at the wrong place at the wrong time reason enough to ruin your life? …More

Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel By Ulinich, Anya 2014-07 - Penguin Books 9780143125242 Check Our Catalog "Funny, painful, outrageous . . . Anya Ulinich is the David Sedaris of Russian-American cartoonists." --Gary Shteyngart Anya Ulinich turns her sharp eye toward the strange, often unmooring world of "grown-up" dating in this darkly comic graphic novel. After her fifteen-year marriage ends, Lena Finkle gets an eye-opening education in love, sex, and loss when she embarks on a string of …More

The Paying Guests By Waters, Sarah 2014-09 - Riverhead Books 9781594633119 Check Our Catalog The "New York Times" bestselling novel that has been called "a tour de force" ("Wall Street Journal)," "unputdownable" ("The Washington Post"), "a delicious hothouse of a novel" ("USA Today"), "effortless" ("The Economist"), "seductive" ("Vanity Fair") and "pitch perfect" ("Salon") "Superb, bewitching...Forget about "Fifty Shades of Grey"; this novel is one of the most sensual you will ever …More

Haunted By White, Randy Wayne 2014-08 - Putnam Adult 9780399169762 Check Our Catalog Hannah Smith returns in the stunning new adventure in the "New York Times"-bestselling series from the author of the Doc Ford novels. The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith can do something about it. She's been hired by a wealthy Palm Beach widow to prove that the house's seller didn't disclose everything he knew …More

Daddy's Little Girl By Williams, Brittani 2008-12 - Q-Boro Books 9781933967691 Check Our Catalog Two women who are accustomed to being treated like royalty by the men in their lives find that everything comes with a price. …More

The Execution: A Jeremy Fisk Novel By Wolf, Dick 2014-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780062064851 Check Our Catalog Ten days after the Mexican presidential election, twenty-three bodies are discovered beheaded on the United States border, each marked with a carving of a Hummingbird. Detective Cecilia Garza of the Mexican intelligence agency recognizes it: it is the signature of an assassin called Chuparosa. Garza has been pursuing the killer for years, yet knows little about him, except that he's heading to New …More