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LEGO Builders Club
Love building with LEGOs?
Love building with LEGOS? Get creative and build with the library’s LEGOs. Build on the monthly theme or just make an awesome creation. All LEGOS provided by the library (please don’t bring your own.)
Ages 6 and up.
Friday May 17th @ 4pm
Emily Fowler Library
See you then!
Stacey
Using a Mouse and a Keyboard
Using a computer mouse and keyboard are essential skills for the novice computer user. Learn to effectively use these important parts of the computer and begin building the skills needed for basic computer use, at the South Branch Library on Wednesday, May 8. This is a very basic computer class, but we will not cover typing.
The class will be about an hour and a half. Class size is limited, so please call to register.
Where: Denton Public Library – South Branch
3228 Teasley Lane in Denton
When: Wednesday, May 8 at 2:00
For more information and to register, please call (940)349-8752. You may also get more information by e-mailing Fred Kamman at Fred.Kamman@cityofdenton.com .
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In The Weeds 3/30/13: Dark Days For an Early Denton County Family
Searching through our Shepard Funeral Home Indexes from the early 20th C, we found the following information (names witheld):
Deceased: (withheld)
Charged to: (withheld)
Secured by: Mortgage on Horse
Date of Funeral: Mar. 11, 1906
Place of Death: 5 miles east of city
Cause of Death: not known
Date of Death: Mar. 10, 1906
Age: One Month
Interment: Ballew or Cooper Cemetery
In order to pay for his daughter’s funeral the father had to mortgage his horse.
Thanks to Leslie for finding this.
What We’re Reading
I’m listening to the audiobooks Parable of the Sower, and the sequel Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler. She describes a not too out of the question apocalyptic future where global warming, conservative politics, and a bad economy has forced people to live a more agrarian lifestyle. The characters become close friends and you wince with sympathy for their pain and struggles.
Kayci
I am reading Wild by Cheryl Strayed. It’s about a woman’s struggle to hike the Pacific Crest Trail alone one summer after the death of her mother. She manages to survive the wild despite being woefully underprepared and inexperienced. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for upcoming summer adventure inspiration!
Sunny
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
In the opening pages of The Lifeboat you discover that young bride, Grace Winters, is a survivor. In early 1914, she has lived through the unimaginable terror of a destroyed ocean liner and the trauma of an overcrowded lifeboat stuck at sea for weeks. But instead of celebrating being alive she finds herself on trial for murder. The whole saga is told through flashbacks and only Grace’s claustrophobic point of view. The reader will enjoy trying to figure out who are the saints and who are the sinners caught with her in the middle of nowhere as everything begins to unravel. A smart first novel.
Kimberly
What should I read after Gone Girl?
Feeling a void for more suspenseful fiction like Gone Girl? Check out these new and newish titles that you will be unable to put down.
Never Look Away: A Thriller
A warm summer Saturday. An amusement park. David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife, Jan, and their four-year-old son. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a nightmare after an inexplicable disappearance. A frantic search only leads to an even more shocking and harrowing turn of events.
by Lisa Unger
While Kate pens an evocative historical novel based on family journals, her neighbor, Emily, flees a volatile relationship to an island in the Adirondacks where she, Kate, and Kate’s mother, Birdie, face the consequences of their pasts.
From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Sister comes a gripping, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child. The school was on fire, and Grace’s last memory is of trying to reach her daughter, Jenny, trapped inside the inferno. While their burned bodies are frantically cared for by doctors, Grace and Jenny awaken in the hospital in a strange in-between state. When they learn that someone purposefully set the fire, and Jenny may still be in grave danger from someone who wants her dead, Grace realizes she may be the only one who can discover who might be responsible. The police are looking at Adam, Jenny’s younger brother, who is struck mute by the horror he witnessed and can’t defend himself when he is accused of the arson.
by Jenny Milchman
In the wake of her stalwart police officer husband’s shattering suicide in their otherwise peaceful Adirondack village, house restorer Nora Hamilton notices strange inconsistencies in her husband’s past and in the behaviors of his police force co-workers before stumbling on deadly local secrets.
by Herman Koch
Meeting at an Amsterdam restaurant for dinner, two couples move from small talk to the wrenching shared challenge of their teenage sons’ act of violence that has triggered a police investigation and revealed the extent to which each family will go to protect those they love.
by Willian Landay
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own– between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive.
by Elizabeth Black
Returning to the insular Galveston home town of her youth in the wake of a family tragedy, photographer Clare Porterfield is drawn into a century-old mystery involving a woman who drowned during the Hurricane of 1900.
by Therese Bohman
In the Swedish countryside during the summer, a woman becomes enamored with her older sister’s husband, a charming-yet-violent writer.
by Heidi Julavits
A power struggle between a leading student at an elite institute for psychics and her jealous legendary mentor culminates in the student being forced to relive her mother’s suicide during a brutal psychic attack.
Secrets of the Denton Public Library
In the style of WE DENTON DO IT’S Secrets of Denton County, I submit to you; Secrets of the Denton Public Library.
Did you know that we have an after hours pick up?
Yup, it’s at the North Branch. Just call until 45 minutes before we close and we will place your holds in a locker in the foyer. You will get a code (sounds mysterious!) that will enable you to open that locker.
You can get (almost) any book in the world for free? (InterLibrary Loan)
We are awesome, but we can’t stock EVERY book. If you want a book that we don’t have, just send an InterLibrary Loan request and we will try to get it from another library. (This can take anywhere from one to three weeks, but usually it is just a few days)
Often, if it is a new book or something we feel that we need in our collection, we will purchase the book.
*Currently, this service is down, but should be up and running again in April
Want fries with that Stephen King? * The North Branch has a drive thru!
Got something on hold, but don’t want to come in because you are wearing pajamas? We’ve got you covered! North Branch’s drive through even stocks dog treats (because they can’t read).
(Please don’t come through and ask for fries.)
We have study rooms and meet up spaces!
You don’t want a bunch of strangers in your house! Meet up with your physics study group at any of our branches! Call for more information.
We have an app!
You don’t have to pay “the man” for your e-books and downloadable audio books.
Download Overdrive and gain on the go access to books and audiobooks!
You can place a hold on those big blockbusters before they come.
Just make sure to check our blog, twitter, facebook or the new titles page to see what’s coming in. Beat the rush and you can often get items the day they are released on DVD!
You can learn a new language (even pirate!) FREE!
Using our subscription to Mango Languages, you can learn almost any language free of charge.
We have a huge selection of local music.
RTB2? Sarah Jaffe? Fishboy? Brave Combo? Midlake? Ella Minnow? Man Factory? Shiny Around the Edges?
We got em.
You can request that we purchase items.
Think we need more underwater basket weaving books? Just send a request. (Although, you might get denied on that request.)
We offer free computer classes.
Tired of Grandma or your crazy aunt asking you to help her sign up for “the facebook?” We can help.
North branch has a used bookstore!
We order a copy of every movie that has made at least 3 million at the box office.
Sick of going to Dallas to see that precious indie? We will probably get it in a few months, if it did even reasonably at the box office.
We offer laptop check outs!*
(Not available at North.)
Need library privileges at another library? Get a Tex Share card.
You can check out at other participating libraries, including UNT and TWU. For a list of participating libraries click here.
We have a ghost at Emily Fowler, possibly Emily Fowler.
This cannot be confirmed or denied.
Library Offers Career Guidance
Are you looking for or job? The Emily Fowler Central Library, 502 Oakland Street, will host a series of practical career guidance classes presented by Deborah Wolf from the JOB FIT program at the University of North Texas. These free classes will be held on Mondays during the month of March from 1 to 2 pm and will cover many of the challenges faced by job hunters, including: resumes and cover letters, written and online applications, and how to prepare for an interview.
JOB FIT is a program that was started with a grant from the Meadows Foundation to help people find real, competitive employment that is the “right fit” for their likes, skills and abilities.
For more information, contact Laura Douglas, Public Services Librarian, at (940) 349-8749 or at Laura.Douglas@cityofdenton.com.
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For other news items on the City of Denton, visit our website at www.cityofdenton.com, go to Quick Links and click on Press Releases.
Library Offers Career Guidance Classes by JOB FIT
Are you looking for or job? The Emily Fowler Central Library, 502 Oakland Street, will host a series of practical career guidance classes presented by Deborah Wolf from the JOB FIT program at the University of North Texas. These free classes will be held on Mondays during the month of March from 1 to 2 pm and will cover many of the challenges faced by job hunters, including: resumes and cover letters, written and online applications, and how to prepare for an interview.
JOB FIT is a program that was started with a grant from the Meadows Foundation to help people find real, competitive employment that is the “right fit” for their likes, skills and abilities.
For more information, contact Laura Douglas, Public Services Librarian, at (940) 349-8749 or at Laura.Douglas@cityofdenton.com.
Crochet 101 for Adults
Want to learn a new craft? Need to brush up on an old skill? Want to get a really early start on holiday gifts? Denton Public Library is offering a series of classes for adults who never learned to crochet or who learned long ago and just need a little help getting started again. A basic crochet program for adults will be held at the Emily Fowler Central Library from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on March 7, 14, 21, and 28. Mary Cresson will demonstrate basic stitches and how to read patterns, and attendees can choose project patterns from among a scarf, a draw-string bag, and a teddy bear. Yarns and hooks will be provided for practice, but feel free to bring supplies from your own “stash” if you have one.
The program is free, but space is limited, so please call to register by March 5. To register, or for more information, please call 940-349-8752.
For other news items on the City of Denton, visit our website at www.cityofdenton.com, go to Quick Information, and click on Press Releases.
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