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.

Readers' Advisory

Serious about Series

Series Title: Song of Ice and Fire
Author:  George R. R. Martin

Description: In the shadow of an oncoming winter likely to last longer than a decade, families ruthlessly vie for power in the Seven Kingdoms. As war threatens to erupt, the last heirs to a fallen dynasty wander the continent, and dragons make their return to the world.

Order of books:

#1 Game of Thrones: (1996) The aristocratic Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, and the arrival of barbarian hordes.

#2 Clash of Kings: (1999) Five separate factions vie for control of the Seven Kingdoms, while an ancient form of magic, an everlasting winter, and an unearthly army threaten to return.

#3 Storm of Swords: (2000) The three surviving contenders for the throne of the Seven Kingdoms continue to struggle among themselves, Robb Stark defends his kingdom from the Greyjoys, Jon Snow confronts an escalating threat, and Danerys Stormborn and her dragon allies continue to grow in power.

#4 Feast of Crows: (2004) The uneasy peace is threatened by new plots, intrigues, and alliances that once again will plunge the Seven Kingdoms into all-out war for control of the Iron Throne.

#5 Dance with Dragons: (2011) New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms, as Daenerys Targaryen fights off a multitude of enemies, while Jon Snow faces his foes both in the Watch and beyond the great Wall of ice and stone.


More about this series: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=noh&tg=UI&an=763648&site=novelist-live