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BOOK BROWSE

The city library is not the only one to enjoy improvements. Thanks to Annabelle, Eldin, Jill and Gordon, our church library now has 56 more volumes. See the complete list on the narthex bulletin board. For starters, you might want to check out:

101 Hymn Stories – the inspiring true stories behind 101 favorite hymns by Kenneth W. Osbeck. (see shelf 03)

Not Trying Too Hard by Bob Sitze who advocates a small-step-approach to change providing readers with the necessary tools to engage what is possible without trying too hard. (04 E)

Games Games Games for people of all ages – a game for everyone’s taste, for every situation, for every age. (07 E)

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Anne Morrow Lindberg’s Gift from the Sea is on the PW Book List for 2012 and can be found on the 09E shelf. In this beloved classic, the author shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage; peace, solitude and contentment as she sets them down during a brief vacation by the sea. It is a book to be read slowly, savored, re-read, meditated and mused on. Its message is timely and timeless.

To check out a book, do you know the drill? Choose a book from the catalogue listings in the 3-ring black notebook on the file cabinet or find a book by subject matter on a shelf. Sign the loaner card and place it in the smaller basket. Return the book to the larger basket. March into the library and enjoy the music of the written word.

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Found under 09 E: Devotions for every day of the year are offered in 365 More Meditations for Women.
Billy Crystal shares his life of joy, love, music and laughter with an eccentric family headed by the hardworking father who left them all too soon in 700 Sundays.
Using Ephesians 4:1-6 as a base, Janice E. Catron explores six aspects of our calling as Christians–relationship, choice, new identity, way of life, competence and ministry–in God’s Vision, Our Calling.
HAPPY reading in the NEW YEAR!

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John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me is as relevant today as it was when published in October 1961. The October issue of Smithsonian has a fine article about Griffin who felt the only way he could bridge the gap between the races was to become a Negro. You will find a copy of his book in our library (09 E) if you care to read it.
FYI . . . the oldest and the newest donations to our library are The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas (1948) and John Grisham’s Skipping Christmas (2001). Both good reads. You will find them under 09 D.

Women’s Bible Study Readers

WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY READERS

There is still time to read books on the 2011 Reading List. Here are four books currently in our church library.
Love Finds You in Valentine, Nebraska by Irene Brand – California girl, Kennedy Blaine, inherits a ranch near Valentine, Nebraska. She plans to sell it but is attracted to the manager, Derek Sterling. While visiting the ranch someone begins to harass her, and she seeks to discover who it is. In the process, she is confronted with painful details about her family, and her search also raises questions about Derek’s past. A nice romance.
One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury – Two men meet in the stairwell of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The tower collapses and only one survives, burned and suffering from amnesia. Jamie Bryan, wife of one of the men, works to rehabilitate the survivor, but which one of the men is it? Hard to put down.
The Wisdom of the Seasons: How the Church Year Helps Us Understand Our Congregation by Charles Olsen – The book is a gift of encouragement, a cup of refreshing water offered for the spiritual health of the church family. Readers will appreciate the real stories from congregational life and ministry – each rooted in and illuminated by a season of the church year.
Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese – Cutting For Stone is a sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves India in 1947 to take a missionary post in Yemen. During the sea voyage she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. A best seller

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Newest addition: Love Finds You in Valentine Nebraska by Irene Brand, a 2011 PW BOOK, donated by Rose Miller. A handsome rancher, a lovely girl, a unique setting, a touch of suspense and a faith that searches out the characters’ souls are ingredients in this delightful story set in none other than Valentine, Nebraska. You’ll find it displayed on the 09 shelf.

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What book in our library is a gift of encouragement, a cup of refreshing water offered for the spiritual health of the church family? Read real stories from congregational life and ministry—each rooted in and illuminated by a season of the church year. How do you find this book? Look in Section 05-C and alphabetically under Ols for The Wisdom of the Seasons: How The Church Year Helps Us Understand Our Congregation authored by our good friend The Rev. Dr. “Chuck” Olsen.