Reading clubs promising to be exciting

The Delaware County Dis­trict Library’s Sum­mer Read­ing Clubs for chil­dren, tweens, teens and adults kick off next Sat­ur­day, and it’s promis­ing to be a big event. The theme this year is “DREAM BIG, READ” and the library staff has orga­nized dozens of intrigu­ing, excit­ing, edu­ca­tional and fun pro­grams for all ages.

Kick-Off Par­ties for kids will be held at 11 a.m. Sat­ur­day, June 9 at the Ostran­der Branch, at 2 p.m. June 9 at the Orange Branche, and at 2 p.m. Sun­day, June 10, con­cur­rently at the Delaware Main and Pow­ell branches. The par­ties fea­ture jug­glers, magi­cians and lots of infor­ma­tion on the upcom­ing pro­grams. Through­out the sum­mer, chil­dren can attend pro­grams that fea­ture the Colum­bus Zoo, the Tur­tle Lady, Gator Dave, Lyn Ford, Zak Mor­gan, Mr. Pup­pet and the Perkins Observatory.

The line-up of sum­mer pro­grams for teens includes every­thing from Bad Movie Night to Library Mini Golf to dance par­ties, yoga and cheese and choco­late. There is even a zom­bie sur­vival event planned.

And adults don’t need to feel left out. The Adult Sum­mer Read­ing pro­gram begins on June 9, too. As with chil­dren and teens, when you read a cer­tain num­ber of books, you are rewarded with a prize and your name is entered into a grand prize drawing.

Visit delawarelibrary.org for details on all of these pro­grams, or pick up the sum­mer quar­terly newslet­ter and cal­en­dar, “Check It Out,” at any library loca­tion for a com­plete list.

If you’re look­ing for some­thing good to read this sum­mer, check out these books that will be avail­able dur­ing the month of June. Happy Reading!

• Amy, My Daugh­ter by Mitch Wine­house. Writ­ten by her best friend — her father — this can­did account of the life and legacy of Amy Wine­house, filled with never-before-seen pho­tos and span­ning her entire career, goes beyond her pub­lic per­sona, reveal­ing the woman behind one of the great­est tal­ents of our time.

• Ceme­tery John: The Undis­cov­ered Mas­ter­mind Behind the Lind­bergh Kid­nap­ping by Robert Zorn. The son of a con­spir­acy insider pro­files the crim­i­nal part­ner­ship behind the unsolved kid­nap­ping and mur­der of Charles Lindbergh’s infant son, draw­ing on per­sonal doc­u­ments, pre­vi­ously unseen pho­tos and new foren­sic evi­dence to reveal what the author believes actu­ally happened.

• Dead Scared by S. J. Bolton. Going under­cover as a vul­ner­a­ble col­lege stu­dent when a sus­pi­cious rash of sui­cides occurs at Cam­bridge Uni­ver­sity, DC Lacey Flint finds her tragic past and inse­cu­ri­ties ren­der­ing her a more sus­cep­ti­ble tar­get than she realized.

• Do Noth­ing!: How to Stop Over­manag­ing and Become a Great Leader by J. Keith Murn­ing­han. Out­lines a revi­sion­ist approach to man­age­ment that instructs busi­ness lead­ers to think pos­i­tively and become more effec­tive by adopt­ing a pol­icy of non-interference for high per­form­ers, facil­i­tat­ing with­out micro­manag­ing and cre­at­ing a cul­ture of inde­pen­dence and trust.

• The Let­ter: Med­i­ta­tions on Love, Loss, and Life by Marie Till­man. Marie Till­man tells her story of how she moved on with her life after her hus­band, foot­ball player Pat Till­man, was killed in Afghanistan.

• Lit­tle Cen­tury by Anna Keesey. After she moves near the law­less fron­tier town of Cen­tury, Ore­gon, to become a home­steader, 18-year-old Esther Cham­bers finds her­self in a full-out range war, and becomes con­flicted when her love for Ben Cruff, sworn enemy of the cat­tle­men, tests her loy­alty to her cousin, the rancher Fer­ris Pickett.

• Lit­tle Night by Luanne Rice. Estranged from the sis­ter who refused to tes­tify against an abu­sive hus­band and caused her to serve time in jail, Clare pur­sues a quiet life as a nature blog­ger in Man­hat­tan only to be approached by her niece, Grit, with whom she con­fronts a painful shared history.

• Mis­sion to Paris by Alan Furst. Arriv­ing in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appease­ment in 1938, Hol­ly­wood star Fred­eric Stahl is unwit­tingly entan­gled in the region’s shift­ing polit­i­cal cur­rents when he dis­cov­ers that his lat­est film is linked to the des­tinies of fas­cists, Ger­man Nazis and Hol­ly­wood publicists.

• Red­shirts by John Scalzi. Enjoy­ing his assign­ment with the Xeno­bi­ol­ogy lab on board the pres­ti­gious Intre­pid, ensign Andrew Dahl wor­ries about casu­al­ties suf­fered by low-ranking offi­cers dur­ing away mis­sions before mak­ing a shock­ing dis­cov­ery about the starship’s actual purpose.

• Sarah Thorn­hill by Kate Grenville. A final entry in the tril­ogy that began with the best-selling The Secret River con­tin­ues youngest daugh­ter Sarah’s efforts to uncover the Thorn­hill family’s hid­den legacy, which is com­pli­cated by the bru­tal ori­gins of her father’s for­tune and Sarah’s matur­ing love for hand­some Jack Langland.

• Win­ner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for the World by Dambisa Moyo. A report on China’s aggres­sive global cru­sade to secure nat­ural resources offers insight into the way com­mod­ity mar­kets work while pro­fil­ing China’s eco­nomic devel­op­ment goals and how they are influ­enc­ing inter­na­tional markets.

• XO by Jef­fery Deaver. Cat­a­pulted into sud­den fame by her beauty and tal­ent, coun­try pop artist Kayleigh Towne turns for help to Spe­cial Agent Kathryn Dance to stop a sadis­tic stalker who is tar­get­ing the peo­ple clos­est to the singer.

If you have a ques­tion that you would like to see answered in this col­umn, mail it to Mary Jane San­tos, Delaware County Dis­trict Library, 84 E. Win­ter St., Delaware, OH 43015, or call 740–362-3861. You can also email your ques­tions directly to Mary Jane at mjsantos@delawarelibrary.org. No mat­ter how you con­tact us, we’re always glad you asked.

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