Book Club
Silver Springs Book Club
Selections for November 2009 are: “Push” by Sapphire
Non-Fiction: “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell
“Blue Gold - World Water Wars” by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke
Selections for December 2009 are: “Breaking the Sound Barrier” by Amy Goodman
Non-Fiction: “Going Rogue” by Sarah Palin
Selections for January 2010 are: Fiction - “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson
Non-Fiction - “Common Sense” by Glenn Beck
Selections for February 2010 are: Fiction - “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett
Non-Fiction: “Who Turned Out the Lights- Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis” by Jean Johnson and Scott Bittle.
See online discussion at: http://www.publicagenda.org/whoturnedoutthelights
Selections for March 2010 are: Fiction - “The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint” by Brady Udall
Non-Fiction: “Super Freakonomics” by Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Selections for April 2010 are: Fiction - “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” by Muriel Barbery and Alison Anderson
Non-Fiction: “Spoken From the Heart” by Laura Bush
Selections for May 2010 are: Fiction - “Atonement” by Ian McEwan
Non-Fiction: “I Am A Strange Loop” by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Selections for June 2010 are: Fiction - ” Little Bee” by Chris Cleave, Anne Flosnik
Non-Fiction: “First Do No Harm” by Lisa Belkin
Selections for July 2010 are: Fiction - “Overton Window” by Glenn Beck
Non-Fiction: “Learned Optimism” by Martin Seligman
Selections for August 2010 are: Fiction - “Pariah” by Dave Zeltserman
Non-Fiction: “Talking to Rudolf Hess” by Desmond Zwar
Selections for September 2010 are: Fiction - “31 Hours” by Marsha Hamilton
Non-Fiction: “There Is No Freedom Without Bread: 1989 and the Civil War that Brought Down Communism” by Constantine Pleshakov
Selections for October 2010 are: Fiction - “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” by David Wroblewski
Non-Fiction: “Adland: A Global History of Advertising” by Mark Tungate
Terrific Tomes - February 2009
Terrific Tomes - December 2008
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- Silver Springs Book Club: We have found that diversity is the key to an interesting and stimulating group. This book club provides a place where neighbors can meet, not necessarily to agree with every book selection, but as people getting to know each other and appreciating different lifestyles, backgrounds, ages, abilities, and ideas. The discussions begin with a half-hour social gathering around dessert and beverages. Book presentations and discussions follow.
- Program: We recognize that our neighbors have preferences for fiction, biographies, science fiction, global, history, or some other genre. To accommodate all tastes we provide opportunities for members to select the book(s) they want to read. Each meeting provides opportunities for members to give a 5 to 10 minute review of a book of their choice and provide author interviews to the group. Lists of Terrific Tomes are provided as a handy resource to find newly published and highly rated books. Members can also select books to be read together monthly by the group. Discussion leaders rotate each month.
- Membership: Members are from the Silver Springs Community. To join, or for answers to questions, call 649-4663. No dues are requested.
Recycle Utah’s Green Book Club
starts with “Hot, Flat and Crowded” By Thomas Friedman. Pick up a copy of the book at the library, Recycle Utah or Dolly’s Bookstore. There will be a Lecture by Thomas Friedman at Abravanal Hall in SLC on Tuesday night March 10th. We will have a book discussion at the Park City Library the following week on Thursday March 19th at 7 pm. Feel free to call the center for more information.
March 2009
3/19 at 7 pm at the Park City Library – The First Green Book Club Discussion. More info to come. Copies are available for purchase at Dolly’s Book Store on Main Street at a 10 percent discount to Green Book Club members.
To register for the Quarterly Green Book Club, find out how to borrow books, or other questions call Britte Kirsch at 649-9698 or stop by Recycle Utah at 1951 Woodbine Way. Additional information is also posted at recycleutah.org
3/10 at 7 pm Abravanel Hall - Hot Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America, Author Thomas Friedman Lecture in Salt Lake City. Check back here for details!! Recycle Utah will organize the trip. For ticket information go to:
http://www.arttix.org/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=3500
April-May 2009
The Green Book Club book for 2nd Quarter is Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mike Lynas. We will have a book discussion on Tuesday, May 19th at Recycle Utah starting at 6 pm. Jessie Turner, our Park City High School Intern will lead the discussion. For more information go to http://www.marklynas.org/ or http://www.amazon.com/Six-Degrees-Future-Hotter-Planet/dp/142620213X
July-September 2009
“The Population Bomb” by Paul Ehrlich, “An Essay on the Principle of Population” by T.R. Malthus, and “Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit” by Daniel Quinn. In conjunction, Recycle Utah plans to present the 2007 award-winning documentary “What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire” in September.
October-December 2009
”Earth: The Sequel – The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming” by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn. Volunteer Kathy Stanger suggested this book and a holiday discussion event. However, the topic of green jobs and green economy may be more relevant, causing a change in the selection to “The Green Collar Economy” How One Solution Can Fix our Two Biggest Problems” by Van Jones.
Contact webmaster@silverspringscommunity.com for information
If you cannot sit to read perhaps you can listen to a good book.
Several Libraries have downloadable books for your computer, iPod, or MP3 player.
The Salt Lake City Library has over 250,000 audio downloadable books.
Get online here, follow the directions to set up a NetLibrary Account
until you get your own Internet Library card use the Guest Pass 21120007396311
ALSO: Try the OCLC Online Computer Library Center for additional titles.
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Text a Librarian
http://www.textalibrarian.com/
It is a corporate member of the American Library Association (ALA) and was established in 2008. Basically it’s a mobile questions-and-answers style, for instance if the patron has a question to ask but is on a vacation out of state or country, they can text to our Microboard (a secure, web-based area where your mobile questions and answers will live. It’s like a password-protected message board). Reference Desk librarians will receive the message through their existing e-mail or IM service and they reply back to the Microboard which sends back directly to the patron’s phone, much like a text message. I personally think this is a neat thing to have at the library, especially those who surfs the net on their iPhone or any latest mobile phone out there.
They also have a Twitter and Facebook page.
http://twitter.com/TextALibrarian
http://www.facebook.com/textalibrarian
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