A Wealth of Information Awaits You

November 2015 Volume 3, Issue 11

The Word About Town Coolidge Public Library

Special Points of Interest...

Food For Fines Forgiveness Month

Coolidge Book Discussion— Nov 4

Veteran’s Resources — Nov 6

Tween Titans—Nov 6 & 20

Library Closed — Nov 11

Jan Sandwich Patriotic Show — Nov 13

Lego Club — Nov 13

Book Sale — Nov 20-21

Library Closed — Nov 26-29

Winter Reading Program — Dec 2

Inside this issue:

Veteran’s Resource Spotlight 2

Patriotic Show 2

Friends of the Coolidge Library Book Sale 2

Adult Book Discussion 3

Forgotten Angels Toy Drive 3

Winter Reading Program 3

Tween Titans 7

Lego Club 8

Weekly Storytime 8

Fun Van 9

Tutor.com Homework Help 9

Coolidge Book Signing & Discussion

Local author and historian, Ralph Swain, will visit the library on Wednesday, November 4th at 6:00 p.m. for a book signing and discus-sion of Coolidge, which includes over 200 pictures. Within the book, read-

ers will see not only photos illustrating the his-tory of Coolidge, but they will read stories pro-

vided and confirmed by local residents.

Coolidge was published by Arcadia Publica-tions and is part of the “Images of America” book series. The book costs $22.

Registration for this event is encouraged. You can email us at library@coolidgeaz.com or call (520) 723-6030. Refreshments will be pro-vided.

Food For Fines Forgiveness Month

Between November 1-30, every non-perishable food item donated will equal $1 removed from your library fine. Items must be undamaged and unexpired. Everything that is donated will be given to the House of Hope, which assists those in the community.

If you don’t have a fine but would still like to donate, your contribution will be very much appre-ciated!

If you have questions, please call (520) 723-6030 or email library@coolidgeaz.com

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Patriotic Show with Jan Sandwich

Join us on Friday, November 13th at the Artisan Village of Coolidge (351 N Arizona Blvd) at 11:00 a.m. for our Patriotic Show with Jan Sandwich!

Jan and her pianist will entertain you with a tribute to George M. Cohan. They will take you on a musical trip across our great country, pay tribute to each branch of the

armed services, and honor veterans in the au-dience.

Refreshments will be provided at this event. Registration is encouraged.

Please call (520) 723-6030 or email li-brary@coolidgeaz.com. You can also sign up in person at the front desk of the library.

Veteran’s Resource Spotlight 2015

The Coolidge Public Library is ex-cited to once again partner with local organizations that have a common goal in mind: to assist

veterans in need who might not be aware that help is available and accessible to them.

On Friday, November 6th between 9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., veterans, family members, and other local residents are invited to drop by our Veteran’s Resource Spotlight.

Organizations that provide support to veterans and their families will be available to provide

information and to speak one-on-one to an-swer questions you might have.

Learn about veteran employment programs, education programs, benefits, housing, support groups, and much more.

Registration is not required to attend this event. Simply stop by anytime between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Refreshments will be pro-vided.

If you have questions, please call (520) 723-6030 or email library@coolidgeaz.com.

Friends of the Library Annual Book Sale

All funds will help the Friends of the Coolidge Library with their mission to provide support to the various services and educational pro-grams the library provides to those in the community.

The Friends of the Library will also collect food donations to provide to local food banks who assist families in need. Any non-perishable food items will be appreciated!

Please call (520) 723-6030 with questions.

Our Annual Friends of the Library Book Sale is scheduled for Friday

and Saturday, November 20—21. The sale will run from 8-2 p.m. on Friday and then from 8-12 p.m. on Saturday at the Women’s Club, located at 240 W Pinkley Ave (the street behind the library).

There will be a variety of items available at low, bargain prices, from adult and children’s books to DVD’s.

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The November Book Club title is The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry.

The Book Club will meet Tuesday, November 10th from 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. To sign out a book club selection, simply visit the library before the scheduled meeting date. You need to have a valid contact number prior to sign out and should have a library card. Snacks and drinks are provided.

Adult Book Discussion

Forgotten Angel Toy Drive & Christmas Assistance

The Coolidge Public Library is partnering with the Salvation Army this holiday season to bring toys to the “forgotten angels.”

“Forgotten angels” are children that have not been chosen from the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program.

We invite everyone who is interested in help-ing, to bring in a toy for a child. We will take donated toys at the front desk in the library.

Do you want to apply for Christmas Assis-tance through the Salvation Army? Applicants must have at least one child in the household

who is 16 years of age or below. Applicants must also provide required documentation to complete an application: a picture ID for adults, birth certificates for children, proof of residence, and income verification.

Assistance is provided on a first come, first serve basis and for up to 60 children.

There are two dates to apply for assistance in Coolidge. Visit Bubba’s BBQ at 235 W Coolidge Ave on one of the following dates:

Sunday, November 1 from 2:00—4:00 p.m.

Monday, November 2nd from 10:00 a.m.—noon.

Winter Reading Program

It is imperative that children read each and every day to help ensure they don’t fall behind aca-demically. That’s why the Coolidge Public Library offers children the opportunity to participate in a reading program twice a year, during both summer and winter breaks.

Children ages 0-12 are invited to come into the library starting Tuesday, December 2nd to pick up a winter activity board. The activity board will include both reading activities as well as some other fun things that include the whole family. Turn in the board by Friday, January 8th at 6:00 p.m. to receive a prize.

Please call the library at (520) 723-6030 with questions.

The Heart Goes Last— Adult Fiction (also available as a 3M eBook and soon to be in audio) By Margaret Atwood

Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an eco-nomic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once

their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their "civilian" homes. At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled. — Provided by publisher A.D. 33 — Adult Fiction By Ted Dekker

New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33. They call her the Queen of the Out-casts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who opened her eyes. She found strength in his words, peace from the brutal world around her. Because of what he taught her, she has gathered her own traveling kingdom of outcasts deep in the desert, wielding an authority few have seen.

But when her growing power threatens the rulers around her, they set out to crush all she loves, leaving her reeling as a slave once more. She must find Yeshua to save her people, but when she does, she will be horrified to discover that he faces his own death. Enter a story full of intrigue, heart-wrenching defeat, uncompromising love and staggering victory-one that re-examines eve-rything you thought you knew about the heart of Jesus's stunning message and the power that follows for those who follow his easily forgotten way. — Provided by publisher

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See Me — Adult Fiction (also available in large print and audio) By Nicholas Sparks

Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he's focused only on walking a straight line - getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym relig-iously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rainswept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle the foundations of his carefully structured life. As for Maria, the hardworking lawyer and daughter of Mexican immigrants, Colin will challenge

every notion she's ever had about herself and her future, making her question what truly makes her happy. Before the couple has a chance to envision what a life together might look like, how-ever, menacing reminders of events in Maria's past begin to surface. — Provided by publisher

One More Step: My Story of Living with Cerebral Palsy, Climbing Kilimanjaro, and Surviving the Hardest Race on Earth — Adult Non Fiction By Bonner Paddock

In 2008, Bonner Paddock summited 19,341-foot-high Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest freestanding mountain. Four years later, he earned the elite triathlete title Kona Ironman. Thousands have done each individually. Bonner is the first per-son with cerebral palsy to do both.

Infused with his irresistible charisma, courage, and heart, and illustrated with six-teen pages of color photos, One More Step is a gripping story of human perseverance

that demonstrates how our lives are not defined by limits, but by the moments and lessons that push us past them. — Provided by publisher

My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life — Adult Non Fiction By Ruth Reichl

My Kitchen Year follows the change of seasons as Ruth Reichl heals through the sim-ple pleasures of cooking after the abrupt closing of Gourmet magazine. Each dish Reichl prepares for herself—and for her family and friends—represents a life's pas-sion for food: a blistering ma po tofu that shakes Reichl out of the blues; a decadent grilled cheese sandwich that accompanies a rare sighting in the woods around her home; a rhubarb sundae that signals the arrival of spring. Part cookbook, part per-sonal narrative, part paean to the household gods, My Kitchen Year reveals Reichl's

most treasured recipes, to be shared over and over again with those we love. — Provided by pub-lisher

Rising Strong — Adult Non Fiction Audio By Brene Brown

The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of the Number One New York Times bestsellers Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. — Provided by publisher

Purity — Large Print Fiction (also available in audio) By Jonathan Franzen

Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anar-chists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is haz-ardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother chose to live as a recluse with an invented name, or how she'll ever have a normal life.

Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters--

Californians and East Germans, good parents and bad parents, journalists and leakers--and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Inter-net and as ancient as the war between the sexes. Purity is the most daring and penetrating book yet by one of the major writers of our time. — Provided by publisher

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl — DVD (based on the young adult book by Jesse Andrews) Featuring: Thomas Mann and Nick Offerman

A uniquely funny and moving story about Greg, a high school senior who avoids deep human relationships as a way to safely navigate the social mine field that is teenage life. In fact, he describes his best friend Earl, with whom he makes short-film parodies of classic movies, as being 'more like a co-worker'. But when Greg's mom insists he spends time with Rachel, a girl in his class who has just been diag-nosed with cancer, Greg discovers just how powerful and important true friendship can be. — Product Description

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I Crawl Through It — Young Adult Fiction By A.S. King

Four talented teenagers are traumatized—coping with grief, surviving trauma, facing the anxiety of standardized tests and the neglect of self-absorbed adults—and they'll do anything to escape the pressure. They'll even build an invisible helicopter, to fly far away to a place where everyone will understand them... until they learn the only way to escape reality is to fly right into it. — Provided by publisher

For the Right to Learn — Juvenile Non Fiction By Rebecca Langston-George

She grew up in a world where women were supposed to be quiet. But Malala Yousafzai refused to be silent. She defied the Taliban's rules, spoke out for education for every girl, and was almost killed for her beliefs. This powerful true story of how one brave girl named Malala changed the world proves that one person really can make a difference. — Provided by publisher

How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel — Juvenile Fiction By Jennifer Brown

Luke Abbott's school is the losing-est school in the history of losing. And that's just fine for him. He'd rather be at home playing video games and avoiding his older brother Rob and the Greatest Betrayal of All Time. Now he's being forced to join the robotics team, where surely he'll help uphold the school's losing streak. But it's an unlikely connection with a mysterious boy known only as "Lunchbox Jones" that will change Luke's life. Turns out, Luke and Lunchbox Jones have a lot more in common than just robots . . . . — Provided by publisher

Are you between the ages of 9 and 12? Do you like to do fun, crafty projects and science ex-periments? We have just the thing for you! Tween Titans is both a fun and educational program that tends to focus on art, science, and more!

Tween Titans will meet at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, November 6th and 20th.

Registration is not required for these pro-grams. Call (520) 723-6030 with questions.

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Tractor Mac Harvest Time—Children’s Picture Book By Billy Steers

It's time for the Pumpkin Picking Festival! Everyone is excited except Tractor Mac and Small Fred, a neighbor tractor. Tractor Mac dreads the job of helping harvest apples and Small Fred struggles with pulling the heavy wagon to the pumpkin patch. Pumpkins roll, apples fly and a twist of fate helps the work get done. —Provided by publisher

Boo York, Boo York — Children’s DVD

Its fright lights, big city when the Monster High ghouls head to Boo York. Cleo de Nile is invited to attend a fancy gala celebrating the return of a magical comet and, of course, she brings along her beast friends. But their trip isn't all fun and frightseeing because Nefera, Cleo's sister, uses the comets powers for her own spooktacularly sneaky plans. Can the monsters unwrap the mystery of the comet in time to stop Nefera? — Product description

This is an exciting program for children ages 5-12 years old. We supply the LEGOS and the children supply the imagination! Lego Club will meet at 4:00 p.m. on November 13th.

Lego Club is great for kids because it helps en-hance their fine motor skills, their social and

LEGO Club

problem solving skills as well. With the fun challenges we provide, Lego Club can also be a way to help strengthen those STEM skills, too!

This program is not intended for children un-der the age of 5. Call (520) 723-6030 with questions.

Weekly Storytime

Weekly Storytime is every Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. and is geared to chil-dren ages 1-4. Storytime includes a story or two as well as a fun craft. Occa-sionally we provide snacks.

There will not be any Storytime on November 11th because we will be closed. Registration is not required. Please call (520) 723-6030 with ques-tions.

The Coolidge Public Library helps all residents address the desire for self-directed personal growth and development opportunities throughout their lives by providing materials, programs, and services to meet the citizen’s recreational needs.

Email: library@coolidgeaz.com to subscribe to our monthly newsletter and events calendar!

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Phone: 520-723-6030 Fax: 520-723-7026 E-Mail: library@coolidgeaz.com

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The Fun Van, sponsored by First Things First, is an early childhood program for families with children ages birth-5. Trainings in the form of parent discussions, parent/child activities, educa-tion about available resources, and exposure to early literacy materials assist parents in raising children that are prepared for school and life. The program is on Mondays from 9:30-11:30 a.m. and Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m. Registration is required to attend the Fun Van, and there is a limited number of walk-ins avail-able each week. Please visit http://www.ajpl.org/van/ for instructions, or ask us for a Fun Van flyer.

Fun Van

Need Homework Help?

Tutor.com is a one-on-one online tutoring service that includes an after school program. Grades 4th-12th can connect immediately to qualified tu-tors for up to 20 minutes of individualized, live tutoring sessions. To access this resource, visit pinalcountyaz.gov/library and click on the Research tab

at the top. Tutor.com is found under the Student Resources heading.

You can also download the Tutor.com to Go app for your Apple or Android device.