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Smythie

The monthly e-newsletter of the Smyth Public Library

May 2020

Volume 14, No.2

Slowly…

We are reopening and adding virtual programs, but for now…

Welcome to the second edition of the Smythie’s pandemic issues! Unfortunately, as you all know, the library is closed until further notice but we thought you might want some news, stuff and new books to which to look forward. On-line books and materials are still available from the Overdrive/Libby, Kanopy and Hoopla, and many more new ones (SEE BELOW), so, as they say, we are still here for you…sorta’.

We understand the desperate!

The library is still closed but we are now putting out reserved materials for your pickup.  Please reserve online or call or email if you would like to access any materials.  Materials will be left under cover behind the large intralibrary ‘mailbox’ next to the meeting room door.  We will let you know when the materials are there so you can pick them up safely with no human contact.  Be safe.  Read well.

The fine print: At this point, we do not have a policy on the return of the books, so they will be automatically renewed until we have one.  We are working with the state library and ALA to develop a process that is safe for everyone.

 

Events…

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       Zoom in on Wednesday, May 27 at 7 pm with Smyth Public Library

Michael Tougias Slide Presentation on The Coast Guard’s Most Daring Rescue

New York Times bestselling author Michael Tougias will give an on-line slide presentation on his book The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue.  The Disney Corporation has made a movie based on the book, and will stars Chris Pine and Casey Affleck.   

   On February 18th, 1952 an astonishing maritime event began when a ferocious nor’easter split in half a 500-foot long oil tanker, the Pendleton, approximately one mile off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.   Incredibly, just twenty miles away, a second oil tanker, the Fort Mercer, also split in half.  On both fractured tankers men were trapped on the severed bows and sterns, and all four sections were sinking in 60-foot seas. Thus began a life and death drama of survival, heroism, and a series of tragic mistakes. Of the 84 seamen aboard the tankers, 70 would be rescued and 14 would lose their lives.

    Michael Tougias, co-author of The Finest Hours, will use slides of the storm, the sinking tankers, the rescues, the victims, the survivors and the heroes to tell the story of this historic event.  Tougias will describe the harrowing attempts to rescue the seamen, especially focusing on four young Coast Guardsmen who must overcome insurmountable odds to save the lives of 32 crewmen stranded aboard the stern of the Pendleton. Standing between the men and their mission were towering waves that reached 70 feet, blinding snow, and one of the most dangerous shoals in the world, the dreaded Chatham Bar. The waters along the outer arm of Cape Cod are called “the graveyard of the Atlantic” for good reason, yet this rescue defies all odds.  

     The author will also discuss the making of the movie, working with the screenwriters, and will share some humorous stories about the actors and his cameo in the movie.

    “I enjoy doing these programs,” says Tougias, “because I like to transport the audience into the heart of the storm so that they ask themselves ‘what would I have done.’  I don’t like to do author readings because I think they are boring, but with a slide presentation, the viewer can visually relive the adventure.” 

    Tougias goes on to say, “This event was--and still is-- the greatest and most daring sea rescue ever performed by the Coast Guard, and it happened right here off the New England coast.  I felt this episode of heroism and tragedy needed to be told in its entirety because it’s an important piece of overlooked history.         

     Michael Tougias is the author and coauthor of 29 books including Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea, which the Los Angeles Times called “breathtaking…a marvelous and terrifying tale.” Tougias’ previous book Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do During the Blizzard of ‘78 received an Editor’s Choice Selection from the American Library Association which selected it as one of the top books of the year. He has also co-written a new book about the Cuban Missile Crisis titled Above & Beyond. Visit   for more information or to purchase a personalized book.

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New on our shelves…

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New Fiction...[pic] [pic] [pic] [pic]

The library of shadows Birkegaard, Mikkel.

Three hours in Paris Black, Cara

The night watchman: a novel Erdrich, Louise

Camino winds Grisham, John

This side of murder Huber, Anna Lee

Treacherous is the night Huber, Anna Lee

Simon the fiddler: a novel Jiles, Paulette

The book of longings Kidd, Sue Monk

Dead land Paretsky, Sara

The secret orphan Peters, Glynis,

Masked prey Sandford, John

Redhead by the side of the road Tyler, Anne

Afterlife Alvarez, Julia

One perfect summer Novak, Brenda

The book of lost friends Wingate, Lisa

One fatal flaw Perry, Anne

A silent death May, Peter

Who speaks for the damned Harris, C.

The wedding dress Steel, Danielle

Revenge Patterson, James

New Non-Fiction...

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Fortitude: American resilience in the era of outrage Crenshaw, Dan,

Running with Sherman: the donkey with the heart of a hero McDougall, Christopher

Faster: how a Jewish driver, an American heiress, and a legendary car beat Hitler's best Bascomb, Neal

The house of Kennedy Patterson, James

In search of Amos Clough Averill, Robert

Alex: The life of a child Deford, Frank

The spymasters Whipple, Chris

Untamed Doyle, Glennon

The camping life Leonard, Brendan

New Books on CD…

Fake truth CD Goldberg, Lee

Camino winds: a novel CD (7) Grisham, John

Sunrise on Half Moon Bay CD Carr, Robyn

Masked prey CD Sandford, John

Revenge CD Patterson, James

New Video…

Little Women [PG]

Doolittle [PG]

The Emoji Movie [PG]

Good Will Hunting [R]

Platoon [R]

Taking Chance [PG]

The Winning Season [PG]

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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Tip from the front desk

 

Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading

These are unprecedented times – but, even so, comparisons are being made to the second world war in terms of the magnitude of the crisis that coronavirus represents. With early reports that book sales are soaring while bookshops and warehouses close down and publishers reassess their lists, what can the reading patterns of an earlier generation tell us about getting through a crisis and staying at home?

The restrictions at the beginning of the second world war affected all aspects of day-to-day life. But it was the blackout that topped most people’s list of grievances – above shortages of food and fuel, the evacuation, and lack of news and public services. Households were reprimanded and fined for showing chinks of light through windows, car lights were dimmed, and walking around, even along familiar streets, late at night became treacherous.

With the widespread limitations to free movement, the book trade was quick off the mark. Books were promoted by libraries and book clubs as the very thing to fight boredom and fill blacked-out evenings at home or in shelters with pleasure and forgetfulness. “Books may become more necessary than gas-masks,” the Book Society, Britain’s first celebrity book club, advised.

Throughout the second world war, the Book Society varied its lists between books that offered some insight on the strangeness of contemporary life and works of fiction – especially historical fiction – that took readers’ minds off it. More topical non-fiction became a priority as the devastation of the Blitz kicked in. Winged Words: Our Airmen Speak for Themselves (1941) and Into Battle: Winston Churchill’s War Speeches (1941) were especially popular.

The other fail-safes in the second world war were the classics. As books already in print became scarce, the Book Society reissued new editions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina. These were books that Walpole said he believed he could sit down with even through an air raid. Indeed, Neilsen BookScan has reported a rise in sales of classic fiction as the coronavirus crisis deepens – including War and Peace – as readers use this unfamiliar time to knuckle down to the heavyweights.

You can also join a War and Peace reading group online if you want a bit of company. After the homeschooling, working from home, and everything else.

Excerpt by Nicola Wilson Associate Professor in Book and Publishing Studies, University of Reading, 4/9/20

Check our website Free Resources and find links to all your home reading pleasures~

Heidi Deacon, Director

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Did you Know???

One of the oldest puns in the world comes from the book of Judges, which was written some 3,000 years ago. The tenth chapter of the book of Judges tells the tale of 30 sons, who "rode around on thirty burros and lived in thirty boroughs." While these words are homophones in English, they were also very similar in the original Hebrew: ayirim for burros and ayarim for boroughs.

LOVE TO SHARE A GOOD BOOK?

Now! 2 Book groups! 2 times!

How about sharing your thoughts on a book at the friendly monthly book discussion group?

One on hold and one on Zoom!

Wednesday, May 20 @ 7pm

Contact the library if interested in joining.

Wednesday, May 20, 7pm Monthly Reading Group meeting via Zoom

Book feature: No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod (pick up your copy via member)

Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it.

Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of life. Alexander, orphaned as a child by a horrific tragedy, has nevertheless gained some success in the world. Even his older brother, Calum, a nearly destitute alcoholic living on Toronto's skid row, has been scarred by another tragedy. But, like all his clansman, Alexander is sustained by a family history that seems to run through his veins. And through these lovingly recounted stories-wildly comic or heartbreakingly tragic-we discover the hope against hope upon which every family must sometimes rely.Next month: A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel

Thursday Morning Book Group –canceled for now:

Smyth Public Library is making space for a new reading club on the fourth Thursday of the month at 11-noon.  Here’s a look at the title for the next meeting after we reopen:

A Change of Climate, by Hilary Mantel

Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and thirty years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.

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My problem with reading books is I get distracted…

by other books

How do YOU stack up???

Here is a list of the countries that read the most, measured in hours spent per week…so how are you more Indian or Korean?

Hours Spent Per Week Reading

1. India — 10 hours, 42 minutes

2. Thailand — 9:24

3. China — 8:00

4. Philippines — 7:36

5. Egypt — 7:30

6. Czech Republic — 7:24

7. Russia — 7:06

8. Sweden — 6:54

8. France — 6:54

10. Hungary — 6:48

10. Saudi Arabia — 6:48

12. Hong Kong — 6:42

13. Poland — 6:30

14. Venezuela — 6:24

15. South Africa — 6:18

15. Australia — 6:18

17. Indonesia — 6:00

18. Argentina — 5:54

18. Turkey — 5:54

20. Spain — 5:48

20. Canada — 5:48

22. Germany — 5:42

22. USA — 5:42

24. Italy — 5:36

25. Mexico — 5:30

26. U.K. — 5:18

27. Brazil — 5:12

28. Taiwan — 5:00

29. Japan — 4:06

30. Korea — 3:06

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I asked the librarian if she had a book about Pavlov's Dog and Schrodinger's Cat

She said it rang a bell but wasn't sure if it were there or not.

Library On Line Assets…

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Digital Movies, Music and More –Instantly Available –24/7 –Free with your Library Card!

Movies, TV,Music Albums, eAudiobooks , eBooks, and Comics/Graphic Novels. All in one location, from your computer, tablet or Smartphone!

With hoopla, there are no hold lists, no extra apps or accounts needed or special steps to use it.

It just works! On a mobile device, borrowed content may be temporarily downloaded and accessed offline or, in either the app or on a computer, all borrowed content may be enjoyed while connected to the internet by streaming.

KANOPY

OUR NEW FILM STREAMING SERVICE

Smyth Library Patrons Now Have Access to Kanopy featuring more than 30,000 Films, For Free!

Library card holders can access Kanopy and view up to four films per month. Films can be streamed from any computer, television, mobile device or platform by downloading the Kanopy app for iOS, Android, AppleTV, Chromecast or Roku.

With the motto of "thoughtful entertainment," Kanopy provides patrons with access to films of unique social and cultural value; films that are often difficult or impossible to access elsewhere, and programming that features diversity, with a wide array of foreign language films and films on race, and current affairs.

TRY IT AND DOWNLOAD NOW AT: smythpl.

NEW: FREE MidAmerica Books Online

Elementary Digital Bookshelf Prek-8

Secondary Digital Bookshelf 5-12

ABDO Zoom Research Database

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The TumbleBook family of online libraries is available for free to our public library until at least August 31, 2020.

Its flagship product, TumbleBooklibrary () is a collection of animated talking picture books, read-alongs, ebooks, quizzes, lesson plans, and educational games which is used by thousands of schools and public libraries in over 100 countries across the world.

TumbleBooks can be accessed by our patrons from the comfort and safety of their homes! The sites are easy to use, and access is completely unlimited.

Visit our website at to access the collections!

TumbleBookLibrary. K-5

TumbleMath. K-5

TeenBookCloud. 5-12

AudioBookCloud. Teen/Adult

RomanceBookCloud. Adult

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Try any of these through links on website and catalog-Electronic Resources

Access Video On Demand offers an expansive collection of thousands of high-quality videos that complement and enhance your library’s content offerings. We bring exceptional content from around the world that they may never have had the opportunity to see: from Oscar®, Emmy®, and Peabody Award-winning documentaries, to how-to programs that make life easier and richer, top-quality performances spanning the arts, biographies of history-makers past and present, a variety of TV shows and movies, and more.

 

Just for Kids Streaming Collection gives children—and their parents—a thoroughly kid-safe, advertisement-free media platform they can freely explore and enjoy.  Just for Kids has the educational videos children want to watch—Sesame Street, The Electric Company, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, The Berenstain Bears, Franklin, and thousands more—plus songs, games, and other interactives that are sure to entertain, educate, and inspire young patrons. Plus, the collection is ideal for librarians hosting a video storytelling hour, activities for preschoolers and early learners, an after-school or ESL/ELL program, homework help for students, or resources for homeschoolers that they can access anywhere, anytime.

 

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive resource for career exploration and planning that allows users to quickly find the valuable career information they need, whether it’s industry and professions articles, school planning resources, or skills and career advice. Working in partnership with , we have Live Links to Outside Jobs and Internships.

 

Health Reference Center is an essential resource that serves both the reference and practical needs of your patrons, including comprehensive, in-depth coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information specific to men, women, children, teens, and seniors. This important resource also helps improve decision-making skills, addresses social pressures and influences, and provides functional health knowledge that encourages users to practice healthy behaviors.

 

World News Digest — For more than 75 years, World News Digest has been a go-to resource for context and background on key issues and events in the news, presenting more than eight decades of authoritative news summaries and background articles. World News Digest also offers an editorial newsfeed featuring current newspaper editorials, many from international sources, via NewsEdge. These thought-provoking new editorials will keep users on top of trending topics, offering broad context and perspective to current and recent news events—and complementing the historical editorials already in the database.

 

Today’s Science bridges the gap between the science taught in class and real-world discoveries—giving in-depth explanations of important advances in biology, chemistry, environmental science, space, physics, and technology. An extensive backfile dating back to 1992 illustrates how one scientific advance leads to another. This essential STEM resource shows how the scientific method can be applied to everyday life, helping students think like scientists—applied science in a nutshell.

 

The World Almanac for Kids

The World Almanac® for Kids is the ideal one-stop reference resource for intermediate-level students. Convenient new search filters make it even easier for students and teachers to find the content they need most.  The World Almanac® for Kids includes content from award-winning The World Almanac®, Chelsea House, and Facts On File sets and series. Each topic area provides resources for homework, reports, and projects, and kids can explore age-appropriate subjects while developing online research skills with a trusted content source.

 

The World Almanac for Kids Elementary

The World Almanac® for Kids Elementary is an exciting, fun resource especially for elementary school students. Providing a wealth of elementary-level content—including engaging illustrated articles, videos, interactives, Fun Facts, and more—in a colorful, kid-friendly format perfect for helping young children develop online research skills.

 

Science Online

Science Online offers a comprehensive overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines, with a wealth of content and a dynamic design that facilitates STEM research and learning.  The Topic Centers feature specially selected content on core science disciplines to help students find a starting point for their research.

 

now available from home.

(see the link on our catalog here: )

Search billions of records and discover your family story

Rosetta Stone

EBSCO is providing free access for NH public libraries to for at home language learning. Access via this link:



Making Your Life Easy:

By going to our website, you can search our entire catalogue for books, CD’s, DVD’s and movies. Once found, you can check to see if what you want is in. If so, just to our website and reserve the book. The next time you come in, it will be waiting for you at the front desk. WITH OUR NEW WEBSITE YOU CAN DO IT WITH YOUR MOBILE DEVICE!

PLUS!! Check out our website updates and Smyth Library’s Public Catalog featuring:

- A new signup button for new library card accounts! Tell your friends and neighbors!

- A crawl of new items.

- “What’s Hot” now covers several choices.

-“Most Popular” titles (a combination of checkouts and reserves are used to determine this list).  

- “More Search Options” includes Medium that lets members search by DVD or Large Print, etc.

More Research Options:

Full text articles from thousands of magazines, journals and national newspapers, plus NoveList. Call or e-mail us and provide your name and your library card number, and we’ll give you the password.

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Downloadable Books!!!!

Ipods and Kindles work and you can

Order right from our website!

CHILDREN OF ANY AGE, TRY THIS FUN OUTDOOR SCAVENGER HUNT:

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New books for children…

The boy who dreamed of infinity Miyares, Daniel

The boy who thought outside the box Wessels, Marcie

A dolphin’s wish McCurdie, Trevor

Hike Oswald, Pete

I’m sorry Timms, Barry

Magic Eye III Thing, N.E.

Baby playtime DK

New books for Juniors…

Spy camp Gibbs, Stuart

Crown Prince McLoon, Linda Snow.

The mousehunter Milway, Alex,

The wrinkled crown Nesbet, Anne

A frozen heart Rudnick, Elizabeth,

Maleficent: mistress of evil Rudnick, Elizabeth,

The shadow thieves Ursu, Anne

The boy at the end of the world van Eekhout, Greg

The book of lost things Voigt, Cynthia

Minecraft Guide to Survival

City spies Ponti, James

The star dunes Trueit, Trudi

From the Junior Shelves~

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The Boy at the End of the World

by Greg Van Eekhout 

Fisher is the last boy on earth-and things are not looking good for the human race. Only Fisher made it out alive after the carefully crafted survival bunker where Fisher and dozens of other humans had been sleeping was destroyed.

Luckily, Fisher is not totally alone. He meets a broken robot he names Click, whose programmed purpose-to help Fisher "continue existing"-makes it act an awful lot like an overprotective parent. Together, Fisher and Click uncover evidence that there may be a second survival bunker far to the west. In prose that skips from hilarious to touching and back in a heartbeat, Greg van Eekhout brings us a thrilling story of survival that becomes a journey to a new hope-if Fisher can continue existing long enough to get there.

Goodreads

New books for young adults…

Hunger winter Currie, Rob

The wanderers Ormand, Kate,

Devil's advocate Maberry, Jonathan,

Between burning worlds Brody, Jessica

Crown of bones Wilder, A.K.

Havenfall Holland, Sara

Battlemage Matharu, Taran

From the Young Adult Shelves~

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Between Burning Worlds(System Divine #2)

by Jessica Brody, Joanne Rendell 

Laterre is on the brink of war. The Third Estate are rioting against the injustices of a corrupt system. The Patriarche, reeling from the murder of his only heir, makes brutal attempts to quash the unrest, while a new militant faction launches a series of deadly attacks.

Marcellus is now a traitor to his planet, willing to do anything to stop his grandfather from seizing control of Laterre, even if it means joining the Vangarde, a rebel group back from the dead.

Chatine is a prisoner on Bastille. Desperate to survive the harsh conditions of the moon, she becomes embroiled in the Vangarde’s dangerous attempt to free their infamous leader.

Alouette is a fugitive who has been lied to her entire life. Searching for the truth about her mysterious past, she soon finds herself hunted by the Regime for reasons she’s only beginning to understand.

But when Laterre is threatened by the emergence of a deadly new weapon, these three renegades must risk everything, traveling to the far reaches of the System Divine and into the white hot center of a planet ready to ignite. Goodreads

Trivia Time!

Every month we ask a trivia question. If you know the answer, drop it off at the front desk or e-mail it here. We will randomly select the winner from the correct answers and the WINNERwill win ONE FREE WEEK of OVERDUE FINE AMNESTY ON ONE BOOK

Last month’s question and answer:

Q. From where does the title Fahrenheit 451 come?

A. That is the temperature at which paper burns.

This Month’s Trivia Question:

Who was Harry Potters non magical cousin?

From the New and Recent Shelves~

We (being I) are always looking for contributors to this reviews section. The editor has a limited range of taste, so any reviews would be more than welcomed. Just e-mail them in reply to this, or to librarian@

Fiction…

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This story is set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart.

In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty but following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position in a regimental band.

Weeks later, on the eve of the Confederate surrender, Simon and his bandmates are called to play for officers and their families from both sides of the conflict. There the fiddler can’t help but notice Doris Mary Aherne, an indentured girl from Ireland, who is governess to a Union colonel’s daughter.

After the surrender, Simon and Doris go their separate ways. But Simon cannot forget the fair Irish maiden, and vows that someday he will find her again. Goodreads

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From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.

Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever. An intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who finds those around him just out of reach, and a funny, joyful, deeply compassionate story about seeing the world through new eyes, Redhead by the Side of the Road is a triumph, filled with Anne Tyler's signature wit and gimlet-eyed observation.  Goodreads

Feel good non-fiction…

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"From the first page to the last, Running with Sherman is a delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor. I quickly fell in love with Sherman and the colorful cast of two- and four-legged characters that surrounded him. Christopher McDougall is a gifted storyteller who gets to the heart of the human-animal connection." --John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

A heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most challenging races in America.

When Chris McDougall agreed to take in a donkey from an animal hoarder, he thought it would be no harder than the rest of the adjustments he and his family had made after moving from Philadelphia to the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country. But when he arrived, Sherman was in such bad shape he could barely move, and his hair was coming out in clumps. Chris decided to undertake a radical rehabilitation program designed not only to heal Sherman's body but to heal his mind as well. It turns out the best way to soothe a donkey is to give it a job, and so Chris decided to teach Sherman how to run. He'd heard about burro racing--a unique type of race where humans and donkeys run together in a call-back to mining days--and decided he and Sherman would enter the World Championship in Colorado.

Easier said than done. In the course of Sherman's training, Chris would have to recruit several other runners, both human and equine, and call upon the wisdom of burro racers, goat farmers, Amish running club members, and a group of irrepressible female long-haul truckers. Along the way, he shows us the life-changing power of animals, nature, and community. Goodreads

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We welcome contributors (less for us to write!), especially children and teens to review and recommend favorite books. Just drop Heidi Deacon an e-mail at librarian@ or “reply” to this and we’ll include it here. It need not be a new book – it can be a golden oldie, a classic, a trashy beach book or whatever you have enjoyed.

I hope you have enjoyed this edition. Comments, suggestions and, of course, reviews are always welcomed.

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