Birthday gift helps adult readers

The Sperling German Band presents a program of folk music from around the world at 7 p.m. Thursday in the meeting room. Instruments include accordion, saxophones, Lithuanian accordion, drum, Bohemian button box and Polish button box. The music styles will include polkas, waltzes, Polish songs, Schottische dancing and Lithuanian music. You won’t want to miss this free program brought to you by the Friends of the Library. Refreshments served.

Last year, the family of LeMae Urbaniak decided they wanted to do something special to celebrate LeMae’s 80th birthday. Since she was interested in literacy, they decided in her honor to purchase and donate to the library 62 books from New Readers Press written for adult new readers. They include a wide variety of books about math, literature, social studies, science, and reading and my favorite: “A Dictionary of Homophones.” They are now ready for check-out. You can find them in the Adult New Reader section, located at the end of the videos section. You can see the entire list of our 169 adult new reader titles by selecting a call number search of ANC in our online catalog.

The artist for January in our lobby display is Ed Newman. He put together a wonderful display of paintings and drawings he has done of Bob Dylan, and included some of his Dylan memorabilia.

Friends of the Library membership forms are in the Friends corner, to your left as you come in.

New non-fiction includes: “Purebred & Homegrown: America’s County Fairs,” “Horse Crazy,” “Sweet and Sour Pie: a Wisconsin Boyhood,” “The Truth About Psychics” by Sylvia Browne, “Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul” by Deepak Chopra, “Petite Sweets” by Beatrice Ojakangas, “Last Words” by George Carlin, and “Scott House Souvenirs” by Marlene Wisuri.

New fiction includes: “Sizzle” by Julie Garwood, “Catalyst” by Anne McCaffrey, “La’s Orchestra Saves the World” by Alexander McCall Smith, “Noah’s Compass” by Anne Tyler, “I, Sniper” by Stephen Hunter, “Not My Daughter” by Barbara Delinsky, “The Suicide Run” by William Styron, “Days of Gold” by Jude Deveraux, and “The Hidden Flame” by Janette Oke.

New DVDs include: “Happiness 101,” “Angels & Demons,” “Love Finds a Home,” “(500) Days of Summer,” “The Mentalist,” “My Sister’s Keeper,” “Star Trek,” “Into the Storm,” and “Food, Inc.”

New books on CD include: “Ford Country” by John Grisham, “Her Fearful Symmetry” by Audrey Niffenegger, “U is for Undertow” by Sue Grafton, and “I, Alex Cross” by James Patterson.

New children’s books include: “Firefighter Ted,” “Where Teddy Bears Come From,” “Here Comes Jack Frost,” “Nate the Great and the Hungry Book Club,” “The Magic Ballet Shoes,” “The Case of the Stinky Socks,” “The Secret of the Sphinx,” and “Is that an Angry Penguin in Your Gym Bag?”

Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in Superior; 2-7 p.m. Monday and 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday in Solon Springs; and 2-7 p.m. Wednesday in Lake Nebagamon. Call 394-8860 in Superior, (715) 378-4452 in Solon Springs, or (715) 374-3477 in Lake Nebagamon.

Janet Jennings is the director of the Superior Public Library.

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