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“When reading The becomes a family affair, children are only discover the a away treasure of books.”
best Journeys book By Joanne Brangman
Head Librarian, Bermuda National Library
T
he BNL’s family summer reading pro-
ning simultaneously from July 1st until August
Travel.” This programme is designed
Once the official boarding pass or passport is col-
gramme is titled “Have Book, Will
to improve literacy by helping par-
ents, grandparents and other significant people
in our children’s lives use the summer holidays to model the habit of reading. When reading
becomes a family affair, children discover the
treasure of books. Studies show that the best way to improve literacy in children is to increase their access to books.
The Bermuda National Library is fortunate
to have been able to partner with the Buechner Society of Bermuda as a major sponsor in the planning and execution of this programme.
The programme will include two contests runNewsletter Committee
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17th, one contest for adults and one for children. lected from the library, adult participants will be encouraged to turn in their boarding pass stub
for books read within the specified genres. The
children will get their passport stamped for any
activity they attend at the Youth Library or books read as they visit the different continents.
The Youth Library daily activities include story
times, scavenger hunts, fitness sessions, CPR, etc. All these activities are just $3 each.
There will be seven weekly prizes, ending with a grand prize of an iPad for adults; an iPad mini for children and an iPad and iPad mini for a family.
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Have Book Will Travel Summer Reading Programme 2013
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t’s here... Magical things can happen when your visit a library. Especially when you find that perfect book or series which can take you to almost any place your mind can conceive. Our summer reading programme starts July 1 and runs through to August 17, 2013. This year the theme is “Have Book, Will Travel” The theme, adopted from libraries across the U.S. Head Librarian of the Bermuda National Library, Joanne Brangman said that the idea for the programme is to do things a bit more differently. “The hope is not only to get families reading together, but also to get people to read outside of their normal comfort zone,” said Brangman. So where did the idea for “Have Book Will Travel” come from? Ms. Brangman sheds some light, “This year’s theme came from an organization called iRead. Each year iRead solicits ideas for
By Keith Caesar themes from Librarians around the world. These ideas not only include recommendations for themes but also for additional activities that can be held during the Summer Reading Programme period.” She added, “Michele Wyss, 2013 iRead Chair, writes, “ A good book is a window into another place, another time, another life.” The Youth Services Department is also participating in this programme. There you can pick up a reading passport for the kids. Back at the Adult Library you simply come in sign up and collect a boarding pass to begin your travels through literature. Our programme consists of seven genres to choose from located throughout the library. You read a book in that particular genre. When you’re done you fill out the information and hand in the stub from your boarding pass. From there you are automatically entered into a contest win a weekly
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prize. More importantly, we want to hear from you as the reader. What are some of the things you liked about the book? What are the things you maybe didn’t? At the end you will be given a final boarding pass which will be used for the final draw for travel vouchers and iPads. This year we have a sponsor in the form of The Buechner Society of Bermuda who have donated many of the prizes. We will be handing out weekly prizes to those who complete books and hand in their boarding passes. Last year during, “Reading is So Delicious” the Summer Reading Programme. There were 41 people signed up and half of which completed. One good sign was that many of the par-
ticipants went on to take part in our next programme “Winter Reading Fever.” What is certain is that we would love to hear ideas on various programme you would like to see at the library. “We would love to hear ideas from the public on the types of programme they would like to see held at the Library,” said Brangman. Brangman has high hopes for this programme and a way to bridge the gap between libraries and the public. “I would love to see lots of families participate, parents reading books from the Adult Library; children and teens participating in the activities and reading books from the Youth Library. My ultimate hope is for more Bermudians to use the Library.”
The Buechner Society of Bermuda
The Buechner Society of Bermuda is dedicated to the life and continuing literary career of writer and theologian Frederick Buechner, who forged an enduring connection to the island during his childhood in Paget, Bermuda. In tribute to his continued and growing literary legacy, the Society organizes public readings and cultural events to support causes championed by Rev. Buechner, including the promotion of youth literacy efforts and child support services in Bermuda. Frederick Buechner has been honoured as a featured writer in the Bermuda National Library’s “READ” Poster Campaign and many of his books are available in the Bermuda author section of the Bermuda National Library. For more information, please visit http://buechnersociety.org/.
Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to be elected to the US Congress, visited Bermuda soon after her election in 1975. She was a guest speaker of the-then Opposition Progressive Labour Party. The first British monarch to visit Bermuda on November 23, 1953 was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, only five months after her glittering Coronation in London. With the world-wide publicity it generated, Bermuda received its first visit - a 24-hour stay - from her. She is the surviving daughter of Britain’s and Bermuda’s last ever King-Emperor, George VI. Bermuda was her first stop on her Coronation tour of the Commonwealth. With her on her British Overseas Airways Corporation Constellation Canopus was her Greek-born Consort, His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. When she left, it was to the sound of a bagpipe played by Tommy Aitchison, official piper to the Caledonian Society.
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Dr. Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Soyinka, political activist, visited Bermuda in 2006. He is Africa’s first Nobel Prize winner for Literature. He fled his native Nigeria to escape the clutches of a dictator who wanted to execute him.
Beach Reads S izzling
selections !
F BRO Inferno
By Dan Brown
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n the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces--Dante’s Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle.
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By Sasha Campbell
By Sophie Divry
hen Trinette Montgomery is caught in an affair with her married boss, she flees to the St. Louis home of her best friend, Nikki, who is having marital problems of her own.
ne morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She starts to talk to him, a one-way conversation that soon gathers pace as an outpouring of frustrations, observations and anguishes. Two things shine through: her shy, unrequited passion for a quiet researcher
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By Fern Michaels
By Eric Jerome Dickey
Consequences
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The Blossom Sisters
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windled out of his home by his golddigging wife, successful accountant Gus Hollister returns to his grandmother Rose’s Virginia farmhouse where he helps the residents of Blossom Farm expand their business and finds the courage to love again.
The Library of Unrequited Love
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Decadence
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tale set four years after the events of Pleasure finds successful writer Nia in Los Angeles, where she continues her struggles with turbulent emotions and contemplates her prospects for marriage and parenthood while immersing herself in a hedonistic role-playing resort that challenges her grasp on reality.
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Books from Arou White Teeth/Zadie Smith Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand/Helen Simonson The Casual Vacancy/J.K.Rowling American Gods/Neil Gaiman Snuff/Terry Pratchett Small Island/Andrea Levy Sweet Tooth/Ian McEwan Yesterday’s Weather/Anne Enright A Week in Winter/Maeve Binchy
U.K.
North America
In the name of Salomé : a novel/Alvarez, Julia (Dominican Republic) Love, anger, madness : a Haitian trilogy/Marie Chauvet (Haiti)
Someone knows my name/Lawrence Hill (Canada) Fall on your knees: a novel/Anne-Marie MacDonald (Canada) Alias Grace/Margaret Atwood (Canada) The Beautiful Mystery/Louise Penny (Canada) Room/Emma Donoghue (Canada) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie/Alan Bradley (Canada) Carried Away: a selection of stories/Alice Monroe (Canada) A Fine Balance/Rohinton Mistry (Canada) Divisadero/Michael Ondaatje Ondaatje (Canada) Life of Pi/Yann Martel (Canada) Unless/Carol Shields (Canada) What we all long for/Dionne Brand More/Austin Clarke The New Moon’s Arms/Nalo Hopkinson
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ith so many literary choices, we had a hard time pulling this together. This is a sample of some of our favourite authors available for circulation from our collection. To find more check out caalougue or stop by the info desk for help.
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Solibo magnificent/Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique) More/Austin Clarke (Barbados) Segu : a novel/Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe)
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The Farming of Bones/ Edwidge Danticat (Haiti) The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao/Junot Diaz (Dominican Republic) See now then/ Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua) In the castle of my skin/George Lamming (Jamaica) Salt : a novel/Earl Lovelace (Trinidad) He drown she in the sea /Shani Mootoo (Trinidad) The enigma of arrival : a novel/V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad) A small gathering of bones/Patricia Powell (Jamaica) Unburnable/Marie-Elena John (Dominica)
South America
AFRI Lyrics Alley / Leila Aboulela (Sudan)
Things Fall Apart/Chinua Achebe (Niger The famished road/ Ben Okri (Nigeria) Disgrace/J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
The pickup/Nadine Gordimer (South Afr Knots/Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
und the world The Dinner/ Herman Koch (Netherlands) Suite Francais/Irene Némirovsky (France) Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress/Dai Sijie’ (France) The Reader/Bernhard Schlink (Germany) April in Paris/Michael Wallner (Germany) The Prague Cemetery/Umberto Eco (Italy) The Age of Doubt/Andrea Camilleri (Italy) Don’t Move/Margaret Mazzantini (Italy) Raised from the Ground/Jose Saramago (Portugal)
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War Trash/Ha Jin (China) Becoming Madame Mao/Anchee Min (China) Beijing Coma/Ma Jian (China) The Bonesetter’s Daughter/Amy Tan (China) 1Q84/Haruki Murakami (Japan) The Tale of Genji/Murasaki Shikibu (Japan) Out/Natsuo Kirino (Japan) The Housekeeper and the Professor/Yoko Ogawa (Japan)
The City of Devi/Manil Suri (India) Luka and the Fire of Life/Salman Rushdie (India) The White Tiger/Aravind Adiga (India) The Tree Bride/Bharati Mukherjee (India) If Today Be Sweet/Thrity Umrigar (India)
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People of the Book/Geraldine Brooks (Australia) The Light Between Oceans/M.L. Stedman (Australia) The Secret Keeper/Kate Morton (Australia) Antony & Cleopatra/ Colleen McCullough (Australia)
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By Lisa Scottoline
By Elizabeth Lowell
Don’t Go
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leeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.
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Little Green: an Easy Rawlins mystery
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urviving a near-fatal car wreck and cruising the streets of the Sunset Strip during the heyday of the late 1960s, Easy Rawlins investigates the disappearance of a young African-American, a case that is complicated by Rawlins’s
Dangerous Refuge
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hen two opposing sides - environmentalist Shaye and big city cop Tanner -
are forced to work together to investigate a suspicious death on the track of land Shaye wants to preserve, passion explodes
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By Rhonda Bowen hen her family’s gourmet pastry business is put in jeopardy by her brother’s wife, Sheree, Sydney Isaacs creates a deception of her own to find the truth, but when her lies are exposed, the consequences are disastrous.
changing perspectives.
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By Harlan Coben
By Iris Johansen
Six Years
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arboring an enduring love for Natalie six years after her marriage to another man, Jake Sanders learns of his rival’s death and attends the funeral only to discover that Natalie is not the woman she seemed to be, a situation that compels a determined search for
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oping for a more peaceful time after learning the tragic truth about her child’s disappearance years earlier, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is entreated by desperate father Jim Doane to learn the truth about his missing son, a case that is complicated by Jim’s twisted agenda.
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By John Sandford
The Tooth Tattoo
Silken Prey
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nvestigating the murder of a young woman whose only identifying mark is a tattoo on one of her teeth, British criminal investigator Peter Diamond teams up with violinist Mel Farran, who is being scouted by a mysterious and elite classical quartet that reveals frightening truths about fandom and the cutthroat world of professional music.
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Taking Eve
nvestigating the murder of a political fixer who had blackmailed his ambitious heiress employer dur-
ing a vicious smear campaign, Lucas Davenport follows disturbing leads to the Minneapolis police department and a ruthless woman who threatens his life.
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Before you drop $20 on a movie ticket and popcorn check out the book (annoy your friends by explaining in how many ways the book was superior to the film)!
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World War Z (2006) By Max Brooks
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In World War Z, life as we know it ends the way many horror fans knew it would: zombies rise up! After the post-war devastation, author Max Brooks (son of actors Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft) “interviews” survivors and records their stories as well as details on what causes zombies, how they spread, what will stop them, and effective strategic warfare methods against them. -- Description by Dawn Towery. Film release: June 21, 2013 See SUMMER MOVIES/BOOKS Page 4 SUMMER
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Under the Dome (2009) By Stephen King
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After an invisible force field seals off Chester’s Mill, Maine, from the rest of the world, it is up to Dale Barbara, an Iraq veteran, and a select group of citizens to save the town, if they can get past Big Jim Rennie, a murderous politician, and his son, who hides a horrible secret in his dark pantry. Mini Series release: CBS; Mondays starting June 24, 2013 Paranoia (2004) By Joseph Finder
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Trapped in a job he hates, Adam Cassidy, a young employee at a high-tech corporation, is caught attempting to manipulate the system and is offered a choice--prison, or spying at
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Film release: August 16, 2013 The Great Gatsby (1925)
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By F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. Film release: May 10, 2013 Much ado about Nothing (1599) 822.33 S By William Shakespeare A modern retelling of the bards classic comedy about twopairs of lovers wih diffrent takes on romance and a way with word Film release: April 2013
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fter four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has
Barbequed Lamb Pizza
2 Pizza bases (either homemade or store bought) Caesar Dressing (see below) 60 Eggplant chips (see below) Rocket( Arugula) 4 Lamb backstrap, flattened out Parsley for garnish
with eggplant chips and rocket
Caesar Dressing: 3 Egg yolks Vegetable Oil Olive Oil
To make Caesar dressing, beat egg yolks and mustard and slowly add vegetable oil and olive oil. Stir in combined Tabasco, Worcestershire, red wine vinegar and lemon. Finally combine with processed ingredients.
Dijon mustard 2 drops Tabasco sauce 2 drops Worcestershire sauce Red wine vinegar Lemon juice Process in Blender: ¼ Onion 1 Clove garlic Capers Anchovies ¼ bunch parsley
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Cook pizza base at high heat (or as per instructions on the package). Remove from oven and spread with Caesar dressing. Place eggplant chips on base and pile high with Rocket (Arugula). Barbeque lamb on grill (or on grill plate if indoors) until medium rare and place on
To make eggplant chips, slice thin eggplant rounds and fry in hot oil until crispy. Drain on absorbent paper.
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