Creating a Facebook Page for your Business - Are you on Facebook? Have a profile but thinking about adding a business page? Started reading a page and gave up in frustration? Have a page, but don't know what to with it?
The Heart of Vermont Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Greensboro Free Library will be having a workshop to help you create your own business page on Facebook. Bring your own laptop or use one of the Library's computers for this very practical, very easy to understand workshop led by Nancy Kish, Heart of Vermont Chamber of Commerce.
Cost: $25.00 or free for HVCC members.
Time: Tuesday, March 9th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Where: Greensboro Free Library
Please register by February 26th by calling 472-5906 or email Nancy at enkagape@aol.com
Monday, February 15, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
Chili dinner
The January 29th Chili Dinner was a great success. Despite the cold, stormy weather 48 people attended to warm-up with homemade chili and all the fixings. Willey's donated supplies, the Buffalo Mountain Coop cheese and various individuals brought cornbread, coleslaw, desserts and chili. The chili's were of all types - vegetarian, Cincinnati chili, chicken/beer chili and many others. The homeschoolers presented some haiku readings and there was also musical entertainment. All in all it was a great success and our thanks go to all those who helped.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
New books
ADULT FICTION
"Under the Dome" by Stephen King - "The frequent accusation that King writes too long is sometimes deserved. However, when he works in an epic mode, depicting dozens of characters and all their interrelationships, he can produce great work. He did it with The Stand and with It, and he has done it again here. A small Maine town is enclosed one October morning by an impermeable bell jar of unknown origin. Within this pressure cooker, the petty differences and power struggles of village life are magnified and accelerated. Opposing camps develop, one headed by Big Jim Rennie, the Second Selectman, and the other by Dale Barbara, a drifting Iraq vet who was nearly out of town when the Dome fell. The characters are well rounded and interesting while retaining the familiar appeal that has drawn and kept King fans for decades. Verdict Regular King readers will rejoice at his return to his strengths. Some will balk at the page count, but a fast pace and compelling narrative make the reader's time fly."--Karl G. Siewert, Library Journal
Listen Up! Vermont
76 new titles have been added. Everything from current best-sellers to classics. Log into Listen Up! Vermont choose your book and download to your iPod, MP3 player or computer. You can do this from anywhere in the world you have internet access with your Greensboro Free Library card number. Over 1,000 titles are available.
"Under the Dome" by Stephen King - "The frequent accusation that King writes too long is sometimes deserved. However, when he works in an epic mode, depicting dozens of characters and all their interrelationships, he can produce great work. He did it with The Stand and with It, and he has done it again here. A small Maine town is enclosed one October morning by an impermeable bell jar of unknown origin. Within this pressure cooker, the petty differences and power struggles of village life are magnified and accelerated. Opposing camps develop, one headed by Big Jim Rennie, the Second Selectman, and the other by Dale Barbara, a drifting Iraq vet who was nearly out of town when the Dome fell. The characters are well rounded and interesting while retaining the familiar appeal that has drawn and kept King fans for decades. Verdict Regular King readers will rejoice at his return to his strengths. Some will balk at the page count, but a fast pace and compelling narrative make the reader's time fly."--Karl G. Siewert, Library Journal
Listen Up! Vermont
76 new titles have been added. Everything from current best-sellers to classics. Log into Listen Up! Vermont choose your book and download to your iPod, MP3 player or computer. You can do this from anywhere in the world you have internet access with your Greensboro Free Library card number. Over 1,000 titles are available.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Chili Dinner
Chili Dinner Will Take the Chill Out of Winter!A potluck dinner will be held at Fellowship Hall, Greensboro United Church of Christ, January 29th at 5:00 pm.
People of all ages are invited to come take the chill out of winter by partaking of chili etc.
Following a period for all to fill their tummies, you can settle in for a performance by the library's home schooling group. This year it is a Japanese inspired play entitled SUSA-NO-WO (The Dragon Slayer). Come enjoy the performance.
Thanks to the food provided by volunteers all of this only costs you a donation to support the library. Call the library at 802-533-2531 for more information.
New Arrivals
ADULT FICTION
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver - "Kingsolver's novel focuses on Harrison William Shepherd, the product of a divorced American father and a Mexican mother. After getting kicked out of his American military academy, Harrison spends his formative years in Mexico in the 1930s in the household of Diego Rivera; his wife, Frida Kahlo; and their houseguest, Leon Trotsky, who is hiding from Soviet assassins. After Trotsky is assassinated, Harrison returns to the U.S., settling down in Asheville, N.C., where he becomes an author of historical potboilers (e.g., Vassals of Majesty) and is later investigated as a possible subversive. Narrated in the form of letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings, the novel takes a while to get going, but once it does, it achieves a rare dramatic power that reaches its emotional peak when Harrison wittily and eloquently defends himself before the House Un-American Activities Committee (on the panel is a young Dick Nixon). 'Employed by the American imagination,' is how one character describes Harrison, a term that could apply equally to Kingsolver as she masterfully resurrects a dark period in American history with the assured hand of a true literary artist. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
YOUNG ADULT
"Eternal" by Cynthia Leitich Smith - "..this novel is a witty, dark love story of death and redemption. Miranda dreams of one day being a star, but she's already captured the heart of one fan: her lifelong guardian angel Zachary. When he sees her death approach, he desperately breaks the rules to prevent it, an act that dooms both of their souls: Zachary is cast out of Heaven, and Miranda lives long enough to be made a vampire. A year later, Miranda has settled into her wicked life as the glamorous daughter of the vampire king, and Zachary has been sent to their estate on a mission that may earn back his wings. Forced to confront the monster Miranda has become, Zachary is determined to save her soul and redeem them both. Smith's take on aristocratic vampire society is a sometimes humorous, sometimes horrible mix of the niceties of high society and the blase violence of monsters, while angels appear to be a largely bureaucratic organization. Miranda and Zachary are complex, sympathetic characters, and their hopeful ending is well earned." - Krista Hutley, -Booklist
"The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver - "Kingsolver's novel focuses on Harrison William Shepherd, the product of a divorced American father and a Mexican mother. After getting kicked out of his American military academy, Harrison spends his formative years in Mexico in the 1930s in the household of Diego Rivera; his wife, Frida Kahlo; and their houseguest, Leon Trotsky, who is hiding from Soviet assassins. After Trotsky is assassinated, Harrison returns to the U.S., settling down in Asheville, N.C., where he becomes an author of historical potboilers (e.g., Vassals of Majesty) and is later investigated as a possible subversive. Narrated in the form of letters, diary entries and newspaper clippings, the novel takes a while to get going, but once it does, it achieves a rare dramatic power that reaches its emotional peak when Harrison wittily and eloquently defends himself before the House Un-American Activities Committee (on the panel is a young Dick Nixon). 'Employed by the American imagination,' is how one character describes Harrison, a term that could apply equally to Kingsolver as she masterfully resurrects a dark period in American history with the assured hand of a true literary artist. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
YOUNG ADULT
"Eternal" by Cynthia Leitich Smith - "..this novel is a witty, dark love story of death and redemption. Miranda dreams of one day being a star, but she's already captured the heart of one fan: her lifelong guardian angel Zachary. When he sees her death approach, he desperately breaks the rules to prevent it, an act that dooms both of their souls: Zachary is cast out of Heaven, and Miranda lives long enough to be made a vampire. A year later, Miranda has settled into her wicked life as the glamorous daughter of the vampire king, and Zachary has been sent to their estate on a mission that may earn back his wings. Forced to confront the monster Miranda has become, Zachary is determined to save her soul and redeem them both. Smith's take on aristocratic vampire society is a sometimes humorous, sometimes horrible mix of the niceties of high society and the blase violence of monsters, while angels appear to be a largely bureaucratic organization. Miranda and Zachary are complex, sympathetic characters, and their hopeful ending is well earned." - Krista Hutley, -Booklist
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Menu for the Future
Thursday, January 21, 7:00-8:30 pm
Greensboro Free Library
First session of a six-session community discussion group “Menu for the Future” about food and food systems. The readings, compiled by the Northwest Earth Institute, consider food from multiple perspectives – cultural, economic, ecological, health and social – each presenting a different, though often complementary, angle on the complex modern food systems that most of us depend on. Course book are available on loan or for purchase ($21) from the library. For more information contact Greensboro Free Library at 802-533-2531 or see www.nwei.org. Participants should read the first session for January 21.
New Arrivals
ADULT FICTION
"Precious" by Sapphire - "Sapphire returns to the themes of incest and child abuse that were a part of her daring American Dreams (1984) but with a starkness that is truly horrifying and unforgettable, perhaps because of the horror. Precious Jones is a victim of abuse. At 16, Precious finds herself pregnant again by her father, untrained, uneducated, and unable to care for herself or her baby. She is astute enough to know that there is a better way to live but is clueless as to how to get there. She meets a black teacher, Ms. Blue Rain, who challenges Precious to learn to read and write and improve her way of life. In her literacy class, Miss Rain instructs all of her students to maintain a journal; readers experience Precious' transformation in her journal entries. Her development and growth are astonishing in the short period of time we share her writings. Push is an intense work, both heartbreaking and frightening." - Lillian Lewis, BOOKLIST
ADULT NON-FICTION
"The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War" by James Bradley - "His new book, about U.S.-Japanese diplomacy in 1905, represents a departure. Asserting a causal connection between diplomatic understandings reached then and war 36 years later, Bradley dramatizes his case with a delegation Theodore Roosevelt dispatched to Japan in the summer of 1905. Led by Secretary of War William Taft and ornamented by the president's quotable daughter Alice, it sailed while TR hosted the peace conference between victorious Japan and defeated Russia. As he recounts the itinerary of Taft's cruise, Bradley discusses attitudes of social Darwinism and white superiority that were then prevalent and expressed by TR and Taft. They modified their instincts, Bradley argues, in dealing with nonwhite Japan, and secretly conceded it possession of Korea. This is what Bradley asserts was a prerequisite to Pearl Harbor in 1941, a dubious thesis when the tensions of the 1930s stemmed from general Japanese aggressiveness, not its control of Korea per se. Bradley does fine on 1905 but falters when predicting the future." Gilbert Taylor, BOOKLIST
"Precious" by Sapphire - "Sapphire returns to the themes of incest and child abuse that were a part of her daring American Dreams (1984) but with a starkness that is truly horrifying and unforgettable, perhaps because of the horror. Precious Jones is a victim of abuse. At 16, Precious finds herself pregnant again by her father, untrained, uneducated, and unable to care for herself or her baby. She is astute enough to know that there is a better way to live but is clueless as to how to get there. She meets a black teacher, Ms. Blue Rain, who challenges Precious to learn to read and write and improve her way of life. In her literacy class, Miss Rain instructs all of her students to maintain a journal; readers experience Precious' transformation in her journal entries. Her development and growth are astonishing in the short period of time we share her writings. Push is an intense work, both heartbreaking and frightening." - Lillian Lewis, BOOKLIST
ADULT NON-FICTION
"The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War" by James Bradley - "His new book, about U.S.-Japanese diplomacy in 1905, represents a departure. Asserting a causal connection between diplomatic understandings reached then and war 36 years later, Bradley dramatizes his case with a delegation Theodore Roosevelt dispatched to Japan in the summer of 1905. Led by Secretary of War William Taft and ornamented by the president's quotable daughter Alice, it sailed while TR hosted the peace conference between victorious Japan and defeated Russia. As he recounts the itinerary of Taft's cruise, Bradley discusses attitudes of social Darwinism and white superiority that were then prevalent and expressed by TR and Taft. They modified their instincts, Bradley argues, in dealing with nonwhite Japan, and secretly conceded it possession of Korea. This is what Bradley asserts was a prerequisite to Pearl Harbor in 1941, a dubious thesis when the tensions of the 1930s stemmed from general Japanese aggressiveness, not its control of Korea per se. Bradley does fine on 1905 but falters when predicting the future." Gilbert Taylor, BOOKLIST
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