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By Joanne Brangman
Head Librarian, Bermuda National Library
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am frequently asked “what is the relevance of a library in the 21st Century”? In preparing to write this article, I found what I believe is a great response, which I have paraphrased here. The real purpose of a library is to amass and disseminate knowledge. So, even if printed matter were to disappear, libraries would still be a cultural necessity. The introduction of technology, which was predicted to be the end of libraries, has resulted in an evolution of libraries. Instead of being limited, libraries have expanded by introducing new services to their communities through the use of new technology. One of the new services we are providing is eBooks. EBooks and eAudiobooks are provided via the Library’s website www.bnl.bm. We have a small but varied collection with something for library users of all ages. Library members can borrow books using their existing library cards. The eBooks and eAudiobooks can be read or listened to with almost all devices; one of the only exceptions is Kindle. Amazon has allowed US libraries to lend books for Kindles, but unfortunately, they have yet to extend this privilege to International Libraries. However, our eBook vendor is in negotiations with Amazon, and who knows, may be one day the service will be offered. We, at the Library, accept that many people in Bermuda now have busy schedules that do not afford them the time to visit the Library. eBooks allow us to serve you. Via the Library’s website, you can signup for an Online Membership. A membership number will be emailed to
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you within 48 hours and this will allow you to borrow eBooks. You’ll never have to come through our doors, unless of course, you decide you wish to have a full membership to borrow a book that you happen to see on our online catalogue. To get a full membership, you only need to bring in a photo ID and recent piece of official mail. Children can also take advantage of the eBook service. Please note their Youth Library card will only allow them to check out children’s eBooks. Soon, the Library will be offering a new language learning service, “Tell Me More”. Again, via the Library website, library users will be able to use their library card number to sign-on and learn English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Arabic, Japanese or Chinese all to advanced levels. In a recent survey we learned that people would like to see the Library providing more programming . Some of the ideas suggested to satisfy this request are “Lunch & Learn series”; Meet the Author events and programmes geared to the entire family. If there are programmes that you would like to see, please email me at jbrangman@gov.bm. Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and technology enthusiast, says: “My idea of a library is it’s both a sort of a refuge—it’s just a safe, wonderful place with lots of leather—and at the same time it’s a dangerous place intellectually where you can find you don’t know what. Some of the pleasure of danger is when you walk around in the stacks…and adventure happens.” Why don’t you come and start your next adventure at the Library!
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contents FROM THE HEAD 2 AUGUSTUS COLLECTION
PRE VALENTINE DID YOU KNOW? HOT PICKS FAME PERFECT PAIRINGS PUZZLES
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t’s not everyday you get a chance to showcase a fragment of the Island’s history. In that same vein, it’s not everyday you get the chance to showcase portraits featuring some of Bermuda’s important figures of the 70’s. Whatever your take it is a part of Bermudiana which reminds us of the way we were. For the next few months, through the kindess of the Bermuda Historical Society, we’ve been honoured to hang several portraits from the Augustus collection. You can find several portraits from the collection on the walls of the Upper level of the Bermuda National Library. The portraits are a portion of a series of 50 portraits which were produced in the 70’s. Each featured notable figures of the time. The portraits were commissioned by June and Alfred Augustus. While on a trip to the U.S. the couple came across student/artist Esther Dai. Having become friends with Dai, the couple flew her to the Island where she spent about a week creating the pieces. It is believed that the early portraits were completed within a week. Some of the figures included in the collection is a young former Premier Dame Jennifer Smith, Dr. Edgar F Gordon, Mr. James “Dick” Richards, Dr. Eustace Cann, Sir E.T. Richards, Robert Crawford, Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Bedsford Swan just to name a few.
The portraits were created from photos and painted in chalk. The collection was donated to the Bermuda Historical Society in June of 2011, after spending many years on display in a private museum run by the Augustus’s. To see more of the collection please visit the Bermuda Historical Society and the Bermuda History and Cultural Studies Room.
On the Cover George D. Trott (1907-1988) Master craftsman George Trott left an impressive body of work that includes cedar souvenirs and period furniture and the 500-pound white pine chandeliers at City Hall. One of Bermuda’s celebrated Dockyard apprentices, he was in training for five years. In 1935, he opened the Village Craft Shop. He turned out more than half a million Bermuda cedar handbag handles for the tourist market during his career. His work appears in numerous private households and he was commissioned to make cedar furniture pieces as gifts for members of the Royal Family. He was a posthumous recipient of the Bermuda Arts Council Founders Award in 2002.
– p.139, Bermuda 1609-2009, 400 years - 400 portraits / Meredith Ebbin, editor
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Pre V alentine ’ s Ladies’ Night
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he Lovely Ladies that attended ing decadent chocolate desserts and the our Pre-Valentine’s Ladies’ opportunity to browse vendors offering Night experienced an exciting items to help spice up their Valentine’s evening that certainly showed Day (or any day!) Dy-Ann Simmons the wilder side of the library of Fusion Fitness amped (transformed by soft lighting, “I didn’t know up the evening by conred, gold and animal prints)! ducting a belly dancing librarians Guests were treated to class – complete with hip were so wild!” scarves! (Besides being a reading by Bermudian author, Tracey Caswell from a great workout, I think her latest book, “Twelve that we all learned a few Nights with Tracey” that highlighted new, sensual moves!) Look out for more her journey to keep her marriage spicy. activities offered by the Library to “think Guests enjoyed light refreshments, includoutside the book!”
Did
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Bermuda had two well known buccaneers (Pirates). They were two Bermudians by the name of John Bowen and Nathaniel North. These men were born in Bermuda and spent most of their lives far away at sea. Bowen was a well-educated captain who became a clever pirate aboard the ship Speedy Return. He ended up in Mauritius where he died of yellow fever. North left Bermuda as a teenage cook. He journeyed to the Indian Ocean and settled in Madagascar, but was later killed by warlords. In 1678, a Bermudian captain discovered the Turks Islands, now called the Turks & Caicos. They were half the size of Bermuda, but the climate was perfect for making salt. Every April, Bermudian slaves would sail south to the Turks. They used pumps, canals and waterwheels to fill shallow ponds with seawater. Heat and wind evaporated the water, leaving behind a coarse salt. This was packaged in cloth bags to sell in foreign ports in exchange for meat, grain and tobacco. There are still strong family connections and Bermuda architecture in the Turks and Caicos islands. On Good Friday, March 30, 1923, the first Azorean immigrants were brought into Bermuda. This move was largely due to a return to the policy of importing farm labourers. This all took place under the spur of His Excellency Sir J. J. Asser, the Immigration Labour Board took action in late 1922 to arrange agricultural labour to be brought in from the Azores.
Hot Picks
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie By Ayana Mathis
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races the story of Great Migration-era mother Hattie Shepherd, who in spite of poverty and a dysfunctional husband uses love and Southern remedies to raise nine children and prepare them for the realities of a harsh world.
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By Janis Owens
By Tie Ning
American Ghost
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richly woven story about how unresolved family history and the racial tensions of the past
threaten a love affair between two young Floridians.
The Bathing women
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ollows the lives of four women from childhood during China’s Cultural Revolution to adulthood in its new
market economy.
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By Christopher Buehlman
By James Rollins
Between two fires
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fter a Black Plague orphan predicts a coming apocalypse, Thomas, a disgraced knight,
finds himself in the middle of a second war in heaven as angels fight demons.
Bloodline
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fter a pregnant woman is kidnapped by Somali pirates, Sigma Force, with the help of former army ranger Captain Tucker Wayne and his military war dog Kane, finds this rescue mission turning into a conspiracy of epic proportions.
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By Peter Ames Carlin
By Stuart Woods
Collateral Damage
Bruce
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stunning biography of Bruce Springsteen describing his life and work in vivid intimate
detail.
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The Dead Man’s Wife By Solomon Jones
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aking up covered in her murdered husband’s blood with no knowledge of what
happened, defense lawyer Andrea Wilson flees the police and turns to detective
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eturning to New York where he is approached by CIA assistant director and sometime lover Holly Barker, Stone Barrington is drawn into a dangerous game of murder and vengeance against an enemy who is engaged in a nefarious plot beyond Stone’s imagining.
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A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless By Danielle Steel
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resents a memoir of the author’s long-time work with San Francisco’s homeless while shar-
ing a call for more effective action.
Mike Coletti, a man from her past, to help prove her innocence.
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By Susan Isaacs
from crosstown to oblivion
Goldberg Variations
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septuagenarian business owner evaluates her grandchildren as possible successors to her multi-
million-dollar beauty empire, including New York movie studio editor Daisy, womanizing sports PR representative Matt, and religious Legal Aid lawyer Raquel.
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Poseidon’s Arrow By Clive Cussler
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latest entry in the best-selling series by the father-and-son team of Crescent Dawn continues the
high-stakes adventures of the intrepid director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency.
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Merge--Disciple : two short novels By Walter Mosley
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wo speculative tales include “Merge,” in which a heartbroken lottery winner discovers true joy through an otherworldly entity; and “Disciple,” in which a dead-end employee is rendered a pawn in an evil plot against the life forces on Earth.
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The Racketeer
By John Grisham
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hen a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked
clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why.
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Reflected In You By Sylvia Day
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ontinues the story of Eva and Gideon, whose violent backgrounds compel them to avoid each other in spite of a passionate, obsessive attraction that threatens to destroy them both.
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The Secret Keeper By Kate Morton
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ithdrawing from a family party to the solitude of her tree house, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking murder that throughout a subsequent half century shapes her beliefs, her acting career, and the lives of three strangers from vastly different cultures.
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By Janet Evanovich
By Joy Fielding
Notorious Nineteen
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fter a slow summer of chasing lowlevel skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it’s on Stephanie to track down the con man.
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The Snow Child By Eowyn Ivey
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childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.
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A Wedding in Great Neck
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By Yona Zeldis McDonough
ith the whole Silverstein clan gathering in Great Neck, Long Island for her lavish, fairy-tale wedding to her former fighter pilot fiancée, Angelica discovers that her teenage niece has put the whole celebration in jeopardy.
Shadow Creek
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n unlikely group of campers including a woman, her two oddball friends, her teen daugh-
ter and her ex’s fiance embark on a trip in the Adirondacks only to be targeted by a pair of teenage killers.
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By Will Self
psychiatrist at a mental hospital in a London suburb, Zachary Busner investigates a group of unconscious patients who exhibit a peculiar type of physical tic and stumbles upon a miracle drug that could save them, but the hospital has other, darker ideas.
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The Kashmir Shawl By Rosie Thomas
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n 1941, newlywed Nerys Watkins accompanies her husband to a missionary posting in the exotic lakeside city of Srinagar, where she is swept up in a liaison that completely changes her life, a transformation that is explored by a descendant generations later. FEBRUARY/MARCH
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The Last Man By Vince Flynn
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The Woman who went to Bed for a Year By Sue Townsend
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he day her gifted twins leave home for university, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she’s wanted to yell at the world, ‘Stop! I want to get off.’ Finally, this is her chance. Perhaps she will be able to think. Her husband Dr Brian Beaver, an astronomer who divides his time between gazing at the expanding universe, an unsatisfying eight-year-old affair with his colleague Titania and mooching in his shed, is not happy. Who will cook dinner?
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F KIN
By Nelson DeMille
By Barbara Kingsolver
The Panther
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nti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his FBI agent wife, Kate Mayfield, search
for the mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen.
Flight Behavior
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ellarobia Turnbow is a discontent farmwife engaging in a flirtatious relationship with a younger man when she discovers an unsual fire in a forested valley behind her house. This curiosity causes a stir in the scientific and local communities, garnering a great deal of media attention and leads to Dellarobia confronting and questioning everything she thought she believed in.
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By Patricia Cornwell
The Sins of the Mother By Danielle Steel
aving missed much of her children’s lives while she built a home-furnishings empire, Olivia
Grayson arranges a family vacation in the Mediterranean in the hopes of rekindling ties only to confront painful interpersonal dynamics and unexpected revelations.
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A Season of Angels
By Thomas Kinkade & Katherine Spencer
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t Christmas, a graduate student studying in Cape Light falls in love with his complete opposite,
while an ailing family matriarch returns to Angel Island to heal a family rift.
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hen a CIA black ops master with ties to disreputable figures in Afghanistan goes missing, Mitch Rapp is ordered to track down the missing man at all costs and finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous plot involving the interests of numerous countries.
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The Bone Bed
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eceiving a grisly communication in the wake of an eminent Canadian paleontologist’s disappearance, Kay Scarpetta investigates the discovery of a body in Boston Harbor and clues about other unsolved cases, a situation that makes Scarpetta wonder who she can trust.
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Kind of Cruel
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By Sophie Hannah hen Amber Hewerdine consults a hypnotherapist as a desperate last resort, she doesn’t expect that anything much will change. She doesn’t expect to hear herself, under hypnosis, saying words that mean nothing to her: ‘Kind, cruel, kind of cruel’ - words she has seen somewhere before, if only she could remember where … She doesn’t expect to be arrested two hours later, as a result of having spoken those words out loud, in connection with the brutal murder of Katharine Allen, a woman she’s never heard of . . .
fAME By Keith Caesar
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ou know how when you are looking for one thing you
Scanning through one can find stories which range from local
stumble across something different...
celebrities like Earl Cameron, to the fashion of the moment and
... this is one of those cases.
to the winners of various pageants as well as the BELCO riots of
During the 60’s thru the mid seventies while change was happening all around the Island, there was a magazine that was there for it all. Fame in particular brought a black perspective to the style mags of Bermuda. By one source, Fame has been described as the Bermudian version of Ebony. Through its pages it explored black life here in Bermuda Fame premiered in 1965 and ran until 1976 when it sadly produced it’s last issue. This monthly Bermuda publication was published by Mrs. June Masters. At the time the magazine was printed by the Mid-Ocean News Limited. After a brief hiatus the magazine was revived started anew from 1974 until 1976 and was printed by Engravers Limited.
1965. Notable contributors to the magazine include Dame Jennifer Smith and Will Francis to name a few. There are still a number of issues which we’d like to add to the collection at the Library. So if you know someone who may have been a collector, we’d like to hear from you. What Fame offered was a look into Bermudian life through the black experience in Bermuda. A viewpoint which has been negated in our world of today. Fame was the fashion, the culture, the trends, the people, all of which make who we are, forging the identity of black Bermuda. There are truly gems hidden in the pages of these magazines. So if you are ever in the area, stop by and ask at the info desk. It’s worth the journey. And at the point of seeming cheesy… Remember, Remember, FAME!!!
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1865: The American Civil War is ending. Eliza Duane Mulvey sets out from Lafayette, Louisiana, the town her mother Mary Duane called home. Alone, she walks across a devastated country in search of a youngster she has not seen in four years. One of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war, his fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary. It’s a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: a love-struck
Pan-Seared Fillet of Salmon with Roasted Peppers and pineapple Compote Salmon
4 8oz. salmon fillets 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 teaspoon dill 2 tablespoons white-wine vinegar ¼ cup diced fresh pineapple 1 teaspoon brown sugar 20 green asparagus spears, washed and trimmed 2 tablespoons butter Salt and white pepper to taste 1 each roasted green, yellow and red pepper, peeled, seeded and diced fine.
1. In a large skillet, over high heat, sear salmon fillets on both sides in the olive oil. 2. Season with chopped dill, salt and white pepper. Remove from skillet and keep warm. 3. In a separate saucepan, over medium heat, cook gently the mixed peppers without colouring. 4. Add wine vinegar to the peppers and cook slowly for 6-8 minutes 5. Add the diced pineapple and finish with brown sugar.
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cartographer, a beautiful Latina poetess, rebel guerrilla Johnny Thunders, runaway slave Grace McNeile, the mercurial revolutionary Giacomo O’Keefe, who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army and is now Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as it seems.
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1. With string, tie asparagus ito 3 upright bundles 2. Fill 2-quart saucepan (tall enough to hold the asparagus upright) ¾ full with water, add ½ teaspoon salt, and bring to a boil. 3. Place the asparagus spears with the tips pointed upwards into the water (tips protruding above the water), simmer for 1 minute. Remove from saucepan and shock in ice-cold water. 4. Remove string from asparagus. Heat asparagus gently, about 10 seconds, in a saucepan with warmed butter. Gently lift the asparagus with a slotted spoon onto warmed serving dish. *To prepare, place the peppers on aluminum foil, lightly brush with oil, and roast in a 350 preheated oven for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and seal in a plastic bag, allow to cool, peel, seed and dice. FEBRUARY/MARCH
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