Vineland Library Events: June 23-June 28

Monday, June 23
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. “History of the Jersey Shore” Program with Kevin Woyce, in the Community Event Room(856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Tuesday, June 24
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Free Job Search Assistance, in the Computer Lab(856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Wednesday, June 25
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Book Club Discussion of The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman, in the Community Event Room(856) 794-4244 ext. 4243
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Lenwood Covet Homeowners Association in the Community Event Room
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reading Buddies Meet-and-Greet, in the Children’s Event Room(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246

Thursday, June 26
5:30 p.m. Board of Trustees Meeting, in the Community Event Room
(856) 794-4244 ext. 4734

Janet Evanovich's Top Secret Twenty-One

Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he’s out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in. Leads are quickly turning into dead ends, and all too frequently into dead bodies. Even Joe Morelli, the city’s hottest cop, is struggling to find a clue to the suspected killer’s whereabouts. These are desperate times, and they call for desperate measures. So Stephanie is going to have to do something she really doesn’t want to do: protect former hospital security guard and general pain in her behind Randy Briggs. Briggs was picking up quick cash as Poletti’s bookkeeper and knows all his boss’s dirty secrets. Now Briggs is next on Poletti’s list of people to put six feet under.

To top things off, Ranger—resident security expert and Stephanie’s greatest temptation—has been the target of an assassination plot. He’s dodged the bullet this time, but if Ranger wants to survive the next attempt on his life, he’ll have to enlist Stephanie’s help and reveal a bit more of his mysterious past.

Death threats, highly trained assassins, highly untrained assassins, and Stark Street being overrun by a pack of feral Chihuahuas are all in a day’s work for Stephanie Plum. The real challenge is dealing with her Grandma Mazur’s wild bucket list. A boob job and getting revenge on Joe Morelli’s Grandma Bella can barely hold a candle to what’s number one on the list—but that’s top secret.

To reserve a copy of this book call the Information Desk (856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Vineland Library Events: June 16-June 21

Tuesday, June 17
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Toddler Time, age 2, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Book Discussion, ages 9 & up, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s) (856) 794-4244 ext. 4246

Wednesday, June 18
10:00 – 10:45 a.m. Preschool Story Time, ages 3 – 5, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Teen Gaming Program, ages 13 – 18, in the Community Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246

Thursday, June 19
5:00 – 7:30 p.m. Writer’s Society Meeting, in the Community Event Room (856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Friday, June 20
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Baby Time, ages 6 – 23 months, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246

Saturday, June 21
1:30 – 3:00 Pokémon Club, ages 7 – 16, in the Community Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246

Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

Read the book then see the movie! Movie comes out Friday, July 11, 2014

 Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.

In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.

To reserve this book, please call the Information Desk (856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Hillary Rodham Clinton's Hard Choices

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future.

“All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at the center of world events. “Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become.”
To reserve this book, please call the Information Desk (856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Diana Gabaldon's Written in My Own Heart's Blood

The next book in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.

1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington’s troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie’s wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces.

The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is  searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family’s secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy . . . never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself.

To reserve a copy of this book, or the first in her series, call the Information Desk (856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Vineland Library Events: June 9-June 14

Monday, June 9
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. “The Brilliant Life of a Butterfly” Program with Phillip Ballou, in the Community Event Room(856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Tuesday, June 10
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Toddler Time, age 2, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Free Job Search Assistance, in the Computer Lab(856) 794-4244 ext. 4243
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Father’s Day Craft, ages 12 & younger, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246

Wednesday, June 11
10:00 – 10:45 a.m. Preschool Story Time, ages 3 – 5, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Teen Club Meeting, ages 13 – 18, in the Teen Room (856) 794-4244 ext. 4246
Thursday, June 12
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Book Discussion, ages 6 – 8, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s) (856) 794-4244 ext. 4246
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. ARC of New Jersey in the Community Event Room

Friday, June 13
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Baby Time, ages 6 – 23 months, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246

Saturday, June 14
1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Apple Clinic hosted by Atlantic City Area MAC User’s Group, in the Computer Lab

The Fault in Our Stars

Read the book then see the movie! Movie comes out Friday, June 6, 2014

 Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.

To reserve this book, please call the Information Desk (856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Alan Furst's Midnight in Europe

Paris, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun. Alan Furst, whom Vince Flynn has called “the most talented espionage novelist of our generation,” now gives us a taut, suspenseful, romantic, and richly rendered novel of spies and secret operatives in Paris and New York, in Warsaw and Odessa, on the eve of World War II.

Cristián Ferrar, a brilliant and handsome Spanish émigré, is a lawyer in the Paris office of a prestigious international law firm. Ferrar is approached by the embassy of the Spanish Republic and asked to help a clandestine agency trying desperately to supply weapons to the Republic’s beleaguered army—an effort that puts his life at risk in the battle against fascism.

Joining Ferrar in this mission is a group of unlikely men and women: idealists and gangsters, arms traders and aristocrats and spies. From shady Paris nightclubs to white-shoe New York law firms, from brothels in Istanbul to the dockyards of Poland, Ferrar and his allies battle the secret agents of Hitler and Franco. And what allies they are: there’s Max de Lyon, a former arms merchant now hunted by the Gestapo; the Marquesa Maria Cristina, a beautiful aristocrat with a taste for danger; and the Macedonian Stavros, who grew up “fighting Bulgarian bandits. After that, being a gangster was easy.” Then there is Eileen Moore, the American woman Ferrar could never forget.

To reserve a copy of this book, please call the Information Desk (856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes

In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.

In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the “perk” and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy.

Brady Hartsfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of highly unlikely allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady’s next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.

Call the Information Desk to reserve a copy! (856) 794-4244 ext. 4243

Vineland Library Events: June 1-June 7

Monday, June 2
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. “Royals, Revolution and Roots of the Garden State” Program with storyteller Kathryn Ross, in the Community Event Room (856) 794-4244 ext. 4246

Tuesday, June 3
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Toddler Time, age 2, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. Annual Friends of Vineland Library Meeting, in the Community Event Room
5:30 p.m. “Floating Cabins of the Delaware” Program by Bill Jenkins, in the Community Event Room(856) 794-4244 ext. 4734

Wednesday, June 4
10:00 – 10:45 a.m. Preschool Story Time, ages 3 – 5, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Teen Reading Buddies Training, ages13-18, in the Children’s Department (856) 794-4244 ext. 4246

Thursday, June 5
6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Fido and Friends, ages 6 – 12, in the Children’s Department (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246

Friday, June 6
10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Baby Time, ages 6 – 23 months, in the Children’s Event Room (Register – Children’s)(856) 794-4244 ext. 4246