Fireside Readers Select Fall Titles

The Fireside Readers have chosen the following titles for Fall.  Mark your calendars and plan to join us for a lively discussion!

• Monday, August 20, 2012: In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson 
• Monday, September 10, 2012: The grace of silence by Michele Norris 
• Monday, October 1, 2012: The heart and the fist: the education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL by Eric Greitens 
• Monday, November 5, 2012: A train in winter: a story of resistance, friendship and survival by Caroline Moorehead 
• Monday, December 3, 2012: In a sunburned country by Bill Bryson. 

Stay up to date with the Fireside Readers by checking out the current selections and future consideration boards on Pinterest. See the complete list of titles discussed over the past several years on the book club's website.

Food For Fines

For the month of MARCH, Wayne College Library will be accepting non-perishable food items in lieu of money owed on fines.

Canned and non-perishable food items will be accepted at one item for every dollar owed.

Donations will also be accepted.

Items most needed are:
-canned tuna
-canned fruit
-paper products
-baby food
-peanut butter

All items collected will be given to People to People Ministries.

Questions? Contact Abby Silchuk at ais1@uakron.edu

Fireside Readers December Selection

Please join the library's book discussion group, the Fireside Readers, for our next meeting on Monday, December 3rd at 7 p.m. in the community room.

We will be discussion Ishmael Beah's A long way gone: memoirs of a boy solder.

Find out more about the author at the publisher's website and on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia entry also includes a link to an interview of the author by the Daily Show's John Stewart.

As always, you do not need to have read or finished the book to join in on the conversation. New members and guests are always welcome. Light refreshments are provided.

Hope to see you there!

Maureen

Got Fines? Help a Library in Need!

During the month of October the library will be offering patrons a discount of 50% off of fines. All funds collected will be donated to the Findlay Hancock County Public Library which was devastated by flooding this August. We are not able to discount any charges for lost materials.

You can view pictures of the library damage and recovery efforts at FHCPL's online picture album at: http://picasaweb.google.com/findlaylibrary.

We are hoping that all collected fines and any additional cash donations will assist the library in their recovery efforts.

Banned Books Week - Sept. 29th - Oct. 6

Treasure your freedom to read during the 26th annual banned books week presented by the library. Help celebrate banned books week with the library. During the week of September 29th through October 6th the library will be hosting a college-wide banned books treasure hunt!

To play is simple: grab a treasure map from the library, follow the map around the college and fill in the map with the correct banned book title that matches the clues on the posters. Be sure to turn your maps into the library by October 6th for a chance to win prizes which include t-shirts, mugs, and of course, banned books!

Happy Hunting!

Fireside Readers announce upcoming selections

The Fireside Readers book discussion group has announced the list of titles to be discussed in the fall and winter:

• September: Behind the veil : an American woman's memoir of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis by Debra Johanyak

• October: The glass castle : a memoir by Jeannette Walls

• November: I've got a home in glory land : a lost tale of the underground railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost

• December: A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah

• January: No meeting.

• February: Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The group plans to continue meeting on the first Monday of the month at 7 p.m. New members and guests are always welcome. Refreshments will be served.

If you would like more information or are interested in joining the group, contact Maureen Lerch at (330) 684-8951 or mlerch@uakron.edu.

The Fireside Readers also has a MySpace page at: http://www.myspace.com/firesidereaders.

Fireside Readers June 2007 Selection

The June selection of the Fireside Readers Book Discussion Group is Chris Gardner's The Pursuit of Happyness. Join our discussion on Monday, June 4, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in the Community Room (next to the library).

At the age of twenty, African American Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year in shelters and soup-lines. Never giving in to despair, Gardner went from being part of the city's invisible to being a powerful player in its financial district. (From the publisher's description)

Read the book that inspired the recent film, starring Academy Aware nominee, Will Smith.

Possible discussion questions to consider are available here.

New members and guests are always welcome to join the discussion, even if you haven't read or finished the book. Light refreshments will be served.