September 6, 2010LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED

LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED ON:
             Mon, SEPT 6
 in observance of Labor Day.
             Enjoy your holiday!

ANNUAL BOOK SALE

Our Annual Book Sale will take place
        SEPTEMBER 13 - 18
         Mon-Thurs  9:30-3:00
         Fri         9:30-5
         Sat     9:30 -noon

CRIBBAGE

                                                
                                     CRIBBAGE                      10:00am                        Sept 13                                       

Children's Programming

B A B Y G A R T E N (1st & 2nd Wed) Sharing rhymes, songs, finger plays, bounces & books.  Sessions conclude with free play period.  (up to 2 years old)
**First Session - Oct. 6 & Oct. 13 @ 11:00am
 
R H Y M E   T I M E(3rd Wed) - Includes the development of nursery rhymes through crafts,
                      movement, music, drama and rhyme. (3 - 5 yrs old)
**First Session - Oct. 20 @ 11:00am

S T O R Y   T I M E (4th & 5th Wed) - We will be reading books, doing crafts and having 
                       lots of fun.  (all ages)
**First Session - Oct. 27 @ 11:00am 

Programs will run from October through April.

There will be no formal registration for these programs.  There may be a sign up sheet of interest at the first session that you can sign up if you want to receive a reminder phone call or email.  You can obtain more information by calling us at (920) 867-3742.  Also, check our website [wegalibrary.org] or our facebook page for updates.

                                               

September 27, 201010:00 AMBOOK DISCUSSION

  Title:  Glass Lake
                       Author:  Maeve Binchy

The next Book Friends meeting will be Monday, SEPT 27 at 10:00 am at the library. We will be reading Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy.  If interested in this book, please click on either the title or the book jacket above to be taken to the correct page in infosoup.  From there, you may place a hold or find out more information.  

Book Friends is a group that meets once a month to discuss the book they have just finished. Anyone is welcome to join this group.  Please ask for information at the desk if you are interested in participating. 

KINDERGARTEN PARTY!

Thank you to everyone who helped make our first ever Kindergarten Party a huge success!  Here are a few highlights:  
  
 
 
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choose "view image".

We heard some wonderful comments from parents who felt it was definitely a worthwhile event.  We will probably do it again next year. 

Thank you one and all!

New Bench

Thank you to those who donated this lovely bench in the memory of Michael & David Borchardt.  It will be enjoyed by many.

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and choose view image.

OWLS TOP 10

8/25/10Top 10 Books 1   Sizzling Sixteen       Evanovich, Janet
2   Mockingjay             Collins, Suzanne
3   Girl Who Kicked        Larsson, Stieg
        the Hornet’s Nest  
4   Postcard Killers       Patterson, James   
5   Wicked Appetite        Evanovich, Janet
6   Girl With the Dragon   Larsson, Stieg
    Tatoo   
7   Fly Away Home          Weiner, Jennifer
8   Don’t Blink            Patterson, James     
9   Safe Haven             Sparks, Nicholas
10  Search                 Roberts, Nora
 
Top 10 DVDs   1    The Last Song  
2    Bounty Hunter
3    Date Night  
4    Valentine’s Day  
5    It’s Complicated  
6    Dear John  
7    Remember Me  
8    Back-up Plan
9    Book of Eli  
10    When in Rome 

HOURS

We are closed on Saturdays until after Labor Day.
We will be open from 9:30-3 beginning on
Saturday, September 11, 2010
             
        

NATURE'S NICHE

Nature's Niche from Stevens Point presented a great program.  Thanks Dino!
Here are a few highlights:
 
 
 

2010 SLP TOP READERS

2010 TOP READERS

Ages 12 & up:  1st place  ALEX VOSS>>>
                                 <<<2nd place  KOREY DOBBERT
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Ages 9-11: [tied]   LEAH PIOTTER>>>  
                                 <<<Elizabeth Kempf
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Ages 6-8: [tied]     ETHAN FELTZ>>>
                                 <<<Sophya Lubinski
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Ages 5 & under: [tied] GABRYEL BRIGHTMANN>>>
                                          <<<LAUREN FELTZ
CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!
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What Have We Read Lately?

In this area, we will tell you about books that we have read and what we thought of them.  You may click on the book jacket or the book title if you would like to place a hold or receive more information.

Title:   Shadow Country
Author:  Peter Matthiessen


The Wild, Wild West had nothing on the Florida Everglades of the nineteenth century. The murky dealings that went on in the mosquito-infested, mangrove-anchored environs of the Ten Thousand Islands area have long been overshadowed by today’s relentless real estate development and rampant materialism.  Matthiessen’s epic novel sweeps aside the Spanish moss and opens a decaying door to the pioneer days of the Florida peninsula, particularly focusing on the gulf stretch from the current city of Naples to Key West.  

Initially written as three sequential novels, Shadow Country is an edited compilation of the three books into one.  It supposes the life and illuminates the legend of Edgar Watson, at once a respected pioneer sugar cane planter and a feared and violent murderer with a hair-trigger temper and reckless soul.

E. J. Watson, born E. A. Watson, was a real person who changed his middle name in a futile attempt to distance himself from an ambiguous murder in the Oklahoma Territory, an event that launched his vicious reputation and a life of flight from justice.  As he moved around he also moved from wife to wife, with three legal and two common-law spouses, but he never quite got over the death of his first wife, his true love. He managed to father ten children that he owned up to, moving in and out of their lives as well. The middle of the book takes you along with Watson’s favorite son as he tries to learn the truth about his father and make restitution for his acts.

As a naturalist, Peter Matthiessen was able to paint a vibrant portrait of early Florida’s primitive landscape and the wild creatures that roamed so freely and abundantly there.  He skillfully blended indigenous Native Americans and freed slaves into the miasma of characters that swirled in and around Watson’s deadly adventures.  This is a masterful work filled with greed, murder and injustice  balanced against history, human interest and the resilient wonders of the natural world.  I didn’t think I would like Shadow Country when it was passed on to me, but I was willing to give it a try. By the second chapter, and the chapters are short and continuously shifting, I was hooked.  By the middle of the book I was hopelessly entangled in the lives of the characters.  At the end, I closed the book with a very satisfied sigh and added it to my mental list of “all-time best reads”.  What a story.  What a writer.

Submitted by:  Sharon Koenigs - Adult Services Librarian

Title:  Captivate
                      Author:  Carrie Jones


Captivate is the sequel to the book Need.  All of the familiar characters return in this second book.  Captivate begins with Zara and her friends still hunting stray pixies and trapping them inside the iron enforced hidden mansion with her pixie king father. Zara is increasingly anxious about her werewolf boyfriend Nick's solo missions, while he is just as upset by her sudden softening toward one particular pixie. Astley is a pixie king and he challenges Zara's belief that all pixies are evil. He makes it very clear that he wants Zara to be his queen, but he is respectful of her and will not force her. He encourages her to consider the fate of the humans she loves as they are in danger once again with more and more pixies arriving and the reality of the temporary "pixie prison's" inevitable collapse, not to mention another king whose evil surpasses any that Zara has imagined. She is still trying to come to terms with both her human and pixie heritage and the nature of good and evil within all of us.  I did enjoy the love triangle that was created with the introduction of Astley.  Can a “Team Nick vs. Team Astley” be far behind?  While I completely enjoyed Need, I found Captivate to be a little lacking.  I especially didn’t like what happened to Zara, and how she felt she had no choice in the matter.  Carrie Jones proved her talent to me with the first book in this series, and while this second effort was not as good as it could have been, I'm hoping the third book will be worth waiting for.

Submitted by:  Kelly Kneisler – Children's Librarian

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WIRELESS INTERNET NOW AVAILABLE

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NEW ONLINE LANGUAGE PROGRAM

Check out our new online language program, Mango.  There are several languages to choose from.  Some of those offered are:        

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Spanish
• Japanese
• French
• German
• Italian
• Greek
• Russian
• Mandarin Chinese
• and more