Well… not really at your fingertips as in using an electronic device but a printed book that you can hold in your hands and curl up with in the shade with a glass of lemonade! The opportunities couldn’t be easier – just slip into the library as you continue on to fellowship time after Sunday morning services. Or, if that doesn’t work for you – come by during the week and someone – Deborah or Antonio – can let you into the room. We would love to have you consider the books in the library for your summer entertainment and enlightenment.
The following books have been reviewed recently in the Sunday bulletin:
- Lions of the West by Robert Morgan: He starts the history of the West with Thomas Jefferson’s dream of expanding America to the west coast. He tells how that dream became a reality through the adventurous spirit and lust for land of nine other Americans.
- The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson by Wendell D. Garrett: This tells of the different worlds where he lived as seen by a photographer, a historian and Thomas Jefferson himself.
- Johnny Appleseed, the Man, the Myth, the American Story by Howard Means: It is a tale of Johnny Appleseed’s true story and of the taming of the wilderness.
- Pioneer Women, voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna Stratton: This book is based on a set of autobiographical manuscripts of pioneer women that she found in her grandmother’s attic. Their intimate recollections of day to day life reveals their special heroism and industriousness.
- Here Rolled the Covered Wagons by Albert and Jane Salisbury: This story takes you on a journey that follows historic markers across the west. It is organized with photographs and directions to those markers so you can take an armchair or actual trip through North Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington with the covered wagons.
- The Church Library has three new books written for teenagers. Two of these books focus on the Holocaust during World War II. My Bridges of Hope by Livia Bitton-Jackson is about how 14 year old Elli, her brother and mother try to rebuild their lives in Czechoslovakia once they are freed from Auschwitz. Heroes of the Holocaust by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun is a collection of stories about five teenagers who put their lives in jeopardy to save Jews from the Nazis. The final book, is J.B. Cheaney’s My Friend the Enemy. It takes place in Oregon right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This is a thought provoking story of patriotism, loyalty and belonging as the main character learns how to be a true American and friend.
- Three classic books for older children are by Laura Ingalls Wilder. In Little House in the Big Woods she tells the story of a little girl living in a little log house in the Wisconsin woods.
- Farmer Boy is the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s husband’s early school days. Little House on the Prairie is the most familiar of her books and relates her family’s leaving the woods in Wisconsin to live and farm on the prairie. They bring the wisdom and spirit of her childhood to the present.
- For young children there are four picture or easy reader books. The Golden Egg by A.J. Wood, an Easter book you would want to read to the young child in your family even though it is after Easter. It is a beautifully illustrated board book with bright Easter Eggs “hidden” on each page. Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit by Il Sung Na is a picture book celebrating the change of seasons from winter to spring. On Beyond Bugs, All About Insects by Tish Rabe is an easy reader to help a new reader learn about nature. The Story of Ferdinand by Munroe Leaf is the classic story of the big, strong bull who does not like to fight.
The Library is open on Sunday mornings before and after Worship and also Tuesday mornings from 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
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