FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
BOOK LOVERS SUMMER SALE
Saturday, August 7, 2010 - 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
$5 a bag used books
Bake Sale too: Book lovers like to eat when the read!
Please join the Friends in our work for the library during the year. We will be focusing on adult programs and our Book Store - which is open during library hours every day except Sunday.
We are off to a good start with our membership this year. Our goal is 100 members by December and at this writing we are at 54. So we are cally July Half-Way-There month. If you have not renewed, please take care of that soon, in person or by mail.
Adults - $10
Seniors $5
Students $3
Our membership is made up of local patrons in Warren and Center Line alike, and includes Friends from Dearborn, Livonia, Hamtramck and Detroit. Each realizes the value of a good library and supports us in a variety of ways, such as:
- Sorting books
- Helping at a book sale (could use your help on Sat. August 7)
- Donating books, buying books
- Baking for fundraisers (August 7 and December 4)
Its easy and fun and in the spirit of giving, we are also on the receiving end, with friendships that last a lifetime.
FRIENDS BOOK CLUB
Are you looking for a book club to join? The Friends have sponsored the Pageturners for several years and we usually have 8 or more sharing views on the book we’ve just read for that month. We meet on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at the library.
The Schedule for thefall is:
Tuesday, Sept 21 - 7 P.M. "The Book Thief" - Marcus Zusak~~Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl livinig outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for helrself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist - books. With the help of her accordion - playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hdden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul....
Tuesday, October 19 - 7 P.M. "Shanghai Girls" - Lisa See~~The author may be the daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Caucasian women, but the Chinese great-grandfather who arrived in California in 1871 has proved to be the most influential of her ancestors:.....In 1937 Pearl and her younger sister May are beauties just coming into flower, calendar girls who primp by day and pose at night. They wonder at all things foreign and think nothing of stepping delicately around a dead baby on the sidewalk on their way to the French Concession. Rickshaws are seen side by side with Daimlers. BUt the gilded girls and their gilded city are doomed. Withinn a few pages their father marries off is daughters to pay his gambling debts, and Japanese bombs begin to fall.....
Tuesday, November 16 - 7 P.M. "A Gift from the Sea" - Anne Morrow Lindbergh~~When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in horror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity: when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern.....
If you are ready for such a discussion evening which lasts about an hour, sign up at the library to be a part of this fun group. And don’t forget about our BOOK STORE in the library, where most books are $2.00!
FOUNDING FATHERS PROJECT
We continue to add stories and pictures for our long range project on local family history in Center Line and Warren. You can see some family names in our street signs.
We need to borrow old yearbooks and class pictures so our historian Wesley Arnold can microfilm them. They will be returned to you. This will enable them to be made available to our patrons.Do you know of someone who may have graduated in the 1920's, 1930's or 1940's? We want to rescue this history. Especially interesting are early pictures of local homes. Please consider helping this community project.
History and historic pictures of the Center Line area can be seen through the efforts of Mike Grobbel and local historian Wesley E Arnold. See mor on Center Line History at: