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Los Gatos Library News - June06/01/2016
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Los Gatos Library News is an easy and convenient way to help you stay informed about what is happening at the library. You will find event listings, brief descriptions of some of our useful library resources, and recommended readings from our staff.
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ESL Conversation Club Tuesdays @ 11AM Teen Room Drop-in. All are welcome. Los Gatos Library and NUMU Present 3 Nights of History's Mysteries Socials Thursday, June 16th, July 21st, and August 18th 6:00-7:30 PM @New Museums Los Gatos (NUMU) 106 E. Main St. Los Gatos CA 95030 Join us for a fun social event with light refreshments and music provided by local musician Richard Katz. We will be presenting photographs from our libraries local history collection that need identification. Come share your knowledge of our town and listen to other's share their stories about our collection's unknown images. Please RSVP to Melissa Maglio 408-399-5724 or mmaglio@losgatosca.gov Tuesday Evening BookclubTuesday, June 21st 6:30 PM Library Conference RoomWe will be reading and discussing the book, "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins. Discover (Lost) Gatos Tuesday, June 28th 6:30 PM Library 2nd Floor Grand Reading Room Join us for the premiere of Discover (Lost) Gatos, the newest way to explore our historic downtown. |
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No Closures Scheduled Items checked out will not be due back on any of the days the library will be closed. Please contact the circulation desk at 408-354-6891 for any questions about your account. We're happy to help.
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Summer Reading Programs Happening All Summer Long, Even for Adults!!
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Summer Reading isn't just for our amazing Los Gatos kids, we have an exciting program this year for our adult library enthusiasts thanks to the generous support of our Friends of Los Gatos Library. How to Participate: 3. Submit up to 2 drawing cards per week at the adult reference desk. 4. Last day to submit any cards for each week's drawing is Saturday @ 5pm. Winners are announced on Mondays. 5. Turn in 8 cards anytime during the Summer to be qualified as a program finisher. Finishers receive a special Finisher’s Packet filled with free goodies and they are entered into the grand prize drawing for a new Fitbit Charge HR What you can Win:
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Our Children's Summer Reading Program is in full swing. Have you and your family signed up yet? Family and Children’s Programs are happening each week: Meet up with one of our enthusiastic volunteer readers in the kids room every Wednesday from 3PM to 4:00PM to hear stories in a one to one or group setting. Furry Friends Reading Buddies – Therapy dogs are in the library every 4th Thursday of the month starting at 4PM (Ages 4+) ************************************************************ As a reminder to all of our parents out there: your child’s library card provides access to all the many wonders of the library. We encourage you to take an active role in helping your child choose materials that are just right for your family. Here are some tips on how to do that: 1. Come in and talk to one of our librarians on the Children’s Information desk. With information such as your child’s age, interest, reading abilities and your comfort level with content, we can provide suggestions for your child. NextReads provides many lists including those for children, tweens and teens, with descriptions and reviews.
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Upcoming Local History Events: Discover (Lost) Gatos Tuesday, June 28th 6:30 PM Library 2nd Floor Grand Reading Room Join us for the premiere of Discover (Lost) Gatos, the newest way to explore our historic downtown. Los Gatos Library and NUMU Present 3 Nights of History's Mysteries Socials Thursday, June 16th, July 21st, and August 18th 6:00-7:30 PM @New Museums Los Gatos (NUMU) 106 E. Main St. Los Gatos CA 95030 Join us for a fun social event with light refreshments and music provided by local musician Richard Katz. We will be presenting photographs from our libraries local history collection that need identification. Come share your knowledge of our town and listen to other's share their stories about our collection's unknown images. Please RSVP to Melissa Maglio 408-399-5724 or mmaglio@losgatosca.gov Stay informed:
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Sunday: 12pm-5pm Tuesday: 12pm-5pm Wednesday: 12pm-5pm Thursday: 12pm-5pm Friday: 12pm-5pm Saturday: 12pm-5pm CLOSED: Mondays Stop by and pick up a good read at a great price. No time to come by but want to make a purchase? Shop the Friends of the Los Gatos Library bookstore online at amazon.com. Friends of Los Gatos Library – Please join Us. Your membership will support library adult and children’s programs, services, and equipment. The Friends' Off the Shelf newsletter will keep you informed of special Friends Friday Forum programs and speakers, special events, book sales, Young Writers Workshops and more. Membership envelopes are available at the library, the Friends Book Store, or online at www.friendsoflglibrary.org.
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A fireproof home for the bride : a novel
by Amy Scheibe
Coming of age in her parents' mid-20th-century rural Lutheran world, Emmeline and her sister, Birdie, are swept up in an ugly family secret when she tries to step outside of strict expectations and marry according to her heart.
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She : fiction
by Michelle Latiolais
Fleeing her evangelical upbringing for a free life in Los Angeles, a 15-year-old girl observes the city's flagrant wealth and survives among lost souls from all walks of life, from a dancer whose hyperactive sense of smell estranges her relationships to a penniless botanist who creates wedding-cake sugar-icing flowers.
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Unknown Remains
by Peter Leonard
After her Wall Street trader husband dies the in the September 11 attacks, a woman discovers that he has left her completely broke and owing three-quarters of a million dollars to the mafia, in a novel by the son of crime novelist Elmore Leonard.
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Back from the dead
by Bill Walton
An NBA sports star and cultural icon discusses his catastrophic spinal collapse in 2007, the excruciating pain he suffered and his slow recovery, as well as his childhood, sports career and the political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s.
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Lust & wonder
by Augusten Burroughs
The best-selling author of Running with Scissors continues the story that began in Dry to examine the rise and fall of his relationships while living in New York and his beliefs about being in love, in lust and in a state of figuring things out.
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My Paris dream : an education in style, slang, and seduction in the great city on the Seine
by Kate Betts
An award-winning fashion journalist looks back at her adventures in Paris in the 1980s, where she, fresh out of Princeton University, started an apprenticeship at Women's Wear Daily and was initiated into the high fashion world during the explosion of a new generation of talent, while finding herself falling in love and exploring a dazzling new world.
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The gypsy morph
by Terry Brooks
With the fall of the last cities, demons and other minions roam the ravaged landscape of the former United States, while a few survivors--the Elves of Cintra, a group of human children, and their protectors, including two Knights of the Word--journey toward a safe haven, led by a boy named Hawk, the legendary gypsy morph, in a best-selling finale to the Genesis of Shannara series. Reprint.
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The lost island of Tamarind
by Nadia Aguiar
When thirteen-year-old Maya's marine biologist parents are washed overboard in a storm, Maya, her younger brother Simon, and their baby sister Penny land their sailboat on a mysterious, uncharted island filled with danger
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Cinders
by Kate Klimo
"Cinders is a dappled gray Percheron horse during the 1871 Great Chicago Fire"
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