National Honey Bee Awareness Day

August 12, 2018 | sobczakd

August 18 is National Honey Bee Awareness Day! Honey Bees are the hero of our world because they pollinate our fruit and vegetable crops. They also create delicious honey. That adds up to $15 billion a year, about third of the food we eat in America! Honey bees live all over the world and play a vital role in crop production. But the global honey bee population is at risk. To learn more about honey bees and how to make your garden more bee-friendly and bountiful, check out some of our buzzworthy books!

Our native bees : North America's endangered pollinators and the fight to save them by Paige Embry

Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America's native bees--an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies--is just as crucial. Through interviews with farmers, gardeners, scientists, and bee experts, Our Native Bees explores the importance of native bees and focuses on why they play a key role in gardening and agriculture. The people and stories are compelling: Paige Embry goes on a bee hunt with the world expert on the likely extinct Franklin's bumble bee, raises blue orchard bees in her refrigerator, and learns about an organization that turns the out-of-play areas in golf courses into pollinator habitats. Our Native Bees is a fascinating, must-read for fans of natural history and science and anyone curious about bees. 

The backyard beekeeper : an absolute beginner's guide to keeping bees in your yard and garden by Kim Flottum

This handbook features expert advice for: Setting up and caring for your own colonies; Selecting the best location to place your new bee colonies for their safety and yours; The most practical and nontoxic ways to care for your bees; Swarm control; Using top bar hives; Harvesting the products of a beehive and collecting and using honey; Bee problems and treatments. With this complete resource and the expert advice of Bee Culture editor Kim Flottum, your bees will be healthy, happy, and more productive. 

62 Days of Summer: August 12

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Look What's In Large Print: August 2018

August 11, 2018 | kasarak

Large print is not just a bigger font size that makes reading accessible for the visually impaired. It’s also proven to improve letter and word recognition, aid reading comprehension, and increase feelings of confidence and satisfaction when reading. That makes it perfect for beginning or reluctant readers and ESL/ELL students. Large print books are an essential resource for any literacy program. Source.

 

Here are just a few new large print titles that are new to our shelves:

Every Breath [large print] by Nicholas Sparks
Also available in: print

Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future.
Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter from a man claiming to be his father. A safari guide, born and raised in Zimbabwe, Tru hopes to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding his mother's early life and recapture memories lost with her death. When the two strangers cross paths, their connection is as electric as it is unfathomable . . . but in the immersive days that follow, their feelings for each other will give way to choices that pit family duty against personal happiness in devastating ways.

Illuminating life's heartbreaking regrets and enduring hope, EVERY BREATH explores the many facets of love that lay claim to our deepest loyalties--while asking the question, How long can a dream survive?
 

Almost Everything : Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott

"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest--when we are, as she puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated"--the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. "All truth is paradox," Lamott writes, "and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change." That is the time when we must pledge not to give up but "to do what Wendell Berry wrote: 'Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.'"

In this profound and funny book, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward.

Candid and caring, insightful and sometimes hilarious, Almost Everything is the book we need and that only Anne Lamott can write.

62 Days of Summer: August 11

August 11, 2018 | beesleya

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New Books on the History Shelf

August 10, 2018 | SuzyQ
Proust's duchess : how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris by Caroline Weber
On the Ganges : encounters with saints and sinners on India's mythic river by George Black
The prison letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

62 Days of Summer: August 10

August 10, 2018 | beesleya

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Community Financial Shred Day

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Community Financial's Shred Day is September 8 from 2:00 - 4:30 PM. Bring your confidential documents to Community Financial's Canton location, 6355 N. Canton Center, or Westland location, 7420 N. Wayne Road to be securely shredded and recycled. Limit four shopping bags/banker's boxes per car. 

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Worry Less Now!

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Learn specific techniques to replace your negative thoughts with positive ones so you can face your troubling times with courage, hope, and wisdom. 

Gigi Langer holds a PhD from Stanford University and just published “50 Ways to Worry Less Now: Reject Negative Thinking To Find Peace, Clarity, And Connection" available after the workshop. www.gigilanger.com or FB Gigi Langer Author.

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62 Days of Summer: August 9

August 9, 2018 | beesleya

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Lit Lab Productions: Star Wars Reads

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STar Wars Reads

 

Take literature and literacy to the next level at this Lit Lab Production!  Hear fascinating, creative stories and build literacy skills through talking, writing, singing and playing.  Literacy skills are essential to a child's development and understanding of all aspects of the world, and we want to provide an environment that helps children develop these skills while having FUN!  All families will receive take home tips for everyday literacy ideas.  For families with children aged 4-9.  Registration required.

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Wednesday, October 24 - 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM — Community Room — Star Wars Reads — Registration required.
Wednesday, November 28 - 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM — Community Room — SNOW

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