Friends of the Slater Public Library
DESIGNED & CREATED BY KURT SERNETT
AUTUMN 2013
Fall Book & Bake Sale
The Friends annual fall book and bake sale will start on Saturday, October 19 at 9 a.m. and run until Wednesday, October 23. Please bring
donations of baked goods on Friday the 18th by 5 p.m. We are getting
very close to our fundraising goal to help purchase our new circulation
desk!
Support the Friends as they work to support the library!
Slater Nite Hawks in a Book!
Join us Thursday, October 10 at 6 p.m. for a special program featuring author
Michael Wellman. Wellman’s latest work of historical fiction takes place in
Iowa and has several excerpts mentioning Slater and our own Nite Hawks.
Don’t forget to Trickor-Treat at the library
during Beggar’s Night
in Slater on
October 31st from 6-8
pm!
As a boy he often visited Slater for Sunday supper at the home of his grandmother, Anna Ersland Hillestad, and in Versus the Demons the story of Shorty
Irslund runs right through the heart of town, highlighted by the big game in
1948 between the Nite Hawks and Shorty’s Snooseville Spent Hens from the
eastside of Des Moines that christened the new lights at Slater’s ballpark.
Excerpt: “Lots of folks made the short trip to Slater
from time to time for extended family potlucks, including us Irslunds, and Slater was becoming a baseball hotbed. The town team there already had made a name for
itself on the well-regarded Iowa semipro circuit and the
high school team was the perennial best in Story County. In 1937 the Slater boys even beat the defending state
champs from Des Moines North to advance to the state
tournament. I think three things most attracted Norwegians to the game: dirt, spring and spitting. The hardy
settlers along Skunk Creek in the mid-19th century
hailed from a wintry land. But their first winter here tested them and their resolve to plant and stay in a new world. When they later accepted the challenge
to a game of baseball from the neighboring village of Cambridge before the
turn of the next century, it must have seemed like a fitting way to
celebrate the annual resurrection of the land.”
Author Michael Wellman
Inside this issue:
New Library Items
2
Book Reviews
3
Holiday Happening
4
Book Club
4
Christmas On Main
4
Library Programs
4
Page 2
New Adult Titles
New Youth Titles
The Liberty Amendments by Mark Levin.
Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover’s Story of Joy and Anguish
by Mark Levin
A Street Cat Named Bob and How He Saved My Life
by James Bowen
Masterminds & Wingmen: Helping our Boys Cope with
Schoolyard Power, Locker-room Tests, Girlfriends,
and the New Rules of Boy World by Maria Wheeler
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest
for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff
The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood
Exposed: The Secret Life of Jodi Arias by Jane Velez-Mitchell
Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and
Where the Hell are my Keys? By Billy Crystal
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat by Dan Hampton
Angels on our Shoulder’s: World War II B-29 Superfortress
Destroying the Empire of Japan by Edward Heiberger
The Real Deal: The Life of Bill Knapp by William Friedricks
Si-cology 101: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite
Uncle by Si Robertson
Light of the World by James Lee Burke
Never Go Back by Lee Child
The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter
The Mayan Secrets by Clive Cussler
The While Enchilada by Diane Mott Davidson
The Quest by Nelson DeMille
Hotshot by Julie Garwood
W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton
The White Princess by Philippa Gregory
Dead, White and Blue by Carolyn Hart
Second Watch by Judith A. Jance
The Beast by Faye Kellerman
A Lack of Temperance by Anna Loan-Wilsey
Rose Harbor in Bloom by Debbie Macomber
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
Robert B Parker’s Damned if You Do by Michael Brandman
Blind Justice by Anne Perry
Bones of the Lost by Kathy Reichs
The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Mortal/Sovereign by Ted Dekker
A Flight of Fancy/A Necessary Deception by Laurie Eakes
Unrivaled by Siri Mitchell
The Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers
Mistress by James Patterson (LP)
(Given in Memory of Viola Mapes)
Rosemary Cottage by Colleen Coble (LP)
Love at Any Cost by Julie Lessman (LP)
Sweet Sanctuary by Kim Vogel Sawyer (LP)
Wake the Dawn by Lauraine Snelling (LP)
The Message on the Quilt by Stephanie Grace Whitson (LP)
The Time Between by Karen White (LP)
The House that Love Build by Beth Wiseman (LP)
The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society by Darien Gee (LP)
A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie (LP)
Drag Race! By Ace Landers
Just Lazy Luke/Picnic in the Park/What Do You See?/What’s
Wrong Mr. Wolf by Cindy Leaney
The Croc by the Rock by Hilary Robinson
Absolutely Lucy/Lucy on the Loose by Ilene Cooper
Hurry Up, Houdini! By Mary Pope Osborne
Down for the Count/Quarterback Crisis by Zach Riley
What if You Had Animal Teeth? By Sandra Markle
Fierce Predators by Anna Graham
Komodo Dragons/Giant Pandas by Julie Murray
Pilot by Angela Royston
Machines on the Farm by Sian Smith
Magic Mike’s Miraculous Magic Tricks by Michael Sherman
On the Tracks by David Armentrout
The Winter Olympics by Nick Hunter
Kevin Durant by Marty Gitlin
Eli Manning / Tim Tebow by Alex Monning
The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppet by Tom Angleberger
Al Capone Series 2&3 by Gennifer Choldenko
The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns by Chris Colfer
Risked by Margaret Haddix
Ungifted by Gordon Korman
QB1 by Mike Lupica
Zero Tolerance by Claudia Mills
Treasure Hunters by James Patterson
Invisibility by Andrea Cremer (YA)
Michael Vey: Battle of the Ampere
by Richard Paul Evans (YA)
Abandon/Surrender by Elana Johnson (YA)
If We Survive by Andrew Klavan (YA)
The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore (YA)
Seven Minutes in Heaven by Sara Shepard (YA)
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater (YA)
Ink by Amanda Sun (YA)
The Distance Between Us by Kasie West (YA)
New DVDs
Super Buddies
Peter Pan Return to Neverland
Pixie Hollow Games
Thomas and Friends: King of the Railway
Tom and Jerry’s Magical Misadventures
Wings
The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead
Treasure / Dear Dumb Diary / Dinotopia
Epic / The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
The Great Gatsby
Now You See Me / One Direction: Going Our Way
Peeples / Sharknado / Standing Up
Star Trek Into Darkness / World War Z
Iron Man 3 / Human Planet
The Watson’s Go to Birmingham / Savannah
Page 3
Kids Book Review
By: Alec Sernett
I think that the origami Yoda books are great
because they are very humorous and they are
from a kid’s perspective, too. I like this particular book because it is similar to all of the other
previous books put together in one book. In this
book, kids try to rebel against weird videos that
they have to watch about a singing calculator
and a break-dancing dictionary. I definitely recommend this
book to other kids my age.
By: Liz Gifford
Harvest
… I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
Substitute “apples” for “pears” and you have my dilemma the last couple of weeks. The boughs, heavy with
fruit, bent painfully toward the ground begging to be relieved of its beautiful burden. With the help of
husband and grandson, baskets of pears were soon lined up on the porch. We ate fresh pears. I baked pear
cookies and pear pies; I dried pairs and canned pears. Finally, I said, “Enough!” I phoned a friend who soon
arrived with two children in tow and carried away tubs filled with pears. I was glad to see those pears go.
Sharing the harvest: that’s a joy of an orchard.
No orchard? Share a laugh. Share your talent, your time, your plants, your recipe, your toys, your ideas.
Share a book. You knew, dear reader, I’d get around to books and the Library, didn't you. As the new
chairperson of the Friends of the Slater Library, I am inviting you to come to the next meeting of the
Friends on October 28th at 6:00. Being a part of the Friends of the Slater Public Library is a way to serve
your community and become acquainted with some friendly, interesting people. The meetings provide an
opportunity for you to share your ideas about the Library’s programs, facility improvements, and books.
Please join us!
------My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there’s a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple picking now.
Robert Frost
Friends of the Slater Public Library
Slater Public Library
105 N Tama
Box 598
Slater, Iowa 50244
Phone: 515-228-3558
President: Liz Gifford
E-mail: giffordonlinn@gmail.com
Watch for the Friends’ Holiday Happening this coming Valentine’s
Day! The library will be decorated for the holiday, including dining
tables individually designed & set by the table’s hostess. This will be a
ticketed event, and there are limited seats available, so make your
reservations early! Tickets will be on sale at the library for $20 each.
All proceeds go to the Friends of SPL.
You won’t want to miss out on this great event!
Book Club
This month’s book club selection is Nothing Daunted by
Dorothy Wickenden. Discussion is scheduled for Thursday, October 24 at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Overview: In the summer of 1916, Dorothy
Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored
by society luncheons, charity work, and the
effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in
the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They
lived with a family of homesteaders in the
Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on
horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their
students walked or skied, in tattered clothes
and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle
rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had
promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn’t let
on that they would be considered dazzling prospective
brides for the locals.
Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the
granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers’
buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the
pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable
people the women got to know. In reconstructing their
journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga
about two intrepid women and the “settling up” of the
West. –Barnesandnoble.com
Free Library Programs
Storytime - Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m.
Early-Out Program - Oct. 16, & 30 from 1-3 pm
*(EK - 6th grades, registration required)
Card Making - Thursdays, all day, for all ages.
*(Children must be accompanied by an adult.)
Book Club – Thursday, Oct. 24, at 2 p.m. & 6 p.m.
Coffee – Fridays, 10 a.m.
Christmas on Main
Be sure to stop in the library during
Slater’s Annual Christmas on Main,
Sunday, December 2 from 3-6 p.m.
We will have an open house with
several family friendly activities.
More details to come.