Readers' Advisory

Farewell Elmore Leonard

1925-2013

Author

 

Books/movies by Elmore Leonard.

Book Recommendation

Tell the Wolves I'm Home
by Carol Rifka Brunt (2013)

It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young of AIDS her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life -- someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart. (Publisher Summary)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • School Library Journal

Adult Program

Evening with Freeport Author Tom Phelan

 

Wednesday, July 31

7 pm



 

Do you want to know where authors get their ideas from? Or what they read when they’re not busy writing? Well, join us for a discussion with local novelist, Tom Phelan and learn first-hand about the writing life. Tom, who was born in Ireland, is the author of Nailer, The Canal Bridge, In the Season of the Daises, and other books.

 

News You Can Use

The New York Health Benefit Exchange

 

New York Health Benefit Exchange is an organized marketplace designed to help people shop for and enroll in health insurance coverage. The enrollment period begins October 1, 2013 and the coverage begins January 1, 2014.  Visit the official New York Health Exchange site and learn about the benefits of this organized marketplace for individuals and small businesses.

http://healthbenefitexchange.ny.gov

Navigator Agencies

These agencies will assist individuals and small businesses to apply for health insurance coverage. There are 50 agencies across New York State selected to answer questions and guide consumers through the health insurance enrollment process.  Listed here are agencies in the Nassau/ Suffolk region that have been selected.

• Nassau-Suffolk County Hospital Council  www.coverage4healthcare.com
• Community Development Corporation of Long Island  www.cdcli.org
• Public Health Solutions   http://www.healthsolutions.org/

Approved Health Insurance Rates

www.governor.ny.gov/assets/documents/Approved2014HealthInsuranceRates.pdf

I Love My Librarian Award

Nominate Your Favorite Librarian

2013 Award

Nominations for the 2013 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Awards are open through September 6.

For more information, click here.

Book Recommendation

Bad Monkey
by Carl Hiaasen (2013)

 

Author, Carl Hiaasen combines familiar themes with an inspired cast in this exercise in Florida zaniness. Andrew Yancy, who became an ex-cop after publicly assaulting his girlfriend's husband with a vacuum cleaner attachment, is now on "roach patrol" as a restaurant inspector, but he soon gets a chance at redemption. Sonny Summers, the new Monroe County sheriff, tells Yancy to take a severed, shark-bitten arm snagged by a fisherman to Miami, where DNA identifies the limb as belonging to Nick Stripling, a retiree in his 40s whose boat was wrecked at sea. Stripling's grown daughter, Caitlin Cox, claims after the funeral that her hated stepmother murdered her father, and Yancy sees proving the stepmother's guilt as a way to return to the force. Add in some real estate shenanigans, a voodoo witch, and a deranged monkey, and you have another marvelously entertaining Hiaasen adventure. (Publishers Weekly).

Special Services

Borrow a Nook!

The Library has begun circulating Nook Simple Touch e-readers, preloaded with a variety of titles.  Additional titles will be added each month.  The Nooks circulate for 14 days, and may be borrowed by Freeport Memorial Library cardholders, 18 years of age or older. 

For a list of titles click here.