Children’s Books
• Bink & Gollie
by Kate DiCamillo
• Pop!: The Invention of Bubblegum
by Meghan McCarthy
• Junkyard Wonders
by Patricia Polacco
• The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
by Tom Angleberger
• Masters of Disaster
by Gary Paulsen

Teen Books
• Across the Universe
by Beth Revis
• Between the Shades of Grey
by Ruta Sepetys
• Daughter of Smoke and Bone
by Laini Taylor
• Girl of Fire and Thorns
by Rae Carson
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs

Adult Fiction
• Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
• Swamplandia
by Karen Russell
• IQ84
by Haruki Murakami
• The Buddha in the Attic
by Julie Otsuka
• Open City
by Teju Cole

Adult Non-Fiction
• Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
• Ecstasy of Influence
by Jonathan Lethem
• In the Garden of Beasts
by Erik Larson
• Bossypants
by Tina Fey
• A History of the World in 100 Objects
by Neil MacGregor

Search the Ocean State Libraries catalog to reserve your book now !

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If you aren’t a member yet, and want a printed copy, stop by the Rochambeau Library and pick up a copy.  And join the Friends now to get future newsletters.

Press release from Occupy Providence to explain the purpose of the march:
“Two years ago, Providence Public Library (PPL) threatened to shut down nine neighborhood library branches amidst a budget crisis. When Providence Community Library (PCL), a non-profit organization, stepped in to rescue these libraries, the city entered in to a lease with Providence Public Library which will expire on January 1st, 2012. Until PPL transfers the buildings to the city as promised, PCL cannot make desperately needed repairs on the neglected buildings, and the future of the community libraries may be in jeopardy. PPL, a private organization with over $27 million in investments and endowment funds, is demanding that the cash-strapped City of Providence pay several million dollars for these buildings. PPL may be the legal owners of these buildings, but this private organization has no ethical right to them- they were built with substantial public funding, and they belong to the people of Providence! Join us for a rally to demand that Providence Public Library turn these library buildings over to the city! ”

the girl next to me is reading the Odyssey.
I bet she’s in high school.
I wonder if she’s gotten to the part
where Odysseus is given a sheepskin bag with all the winds trapped in it
except the gentle westward one that will blow him home…

that guy over there is just snoozing
with the newspaper open on his chest
and all his belongings gathered under the bench
as if he’s just washed up onshore…

I like to pretend everyone in the library
is the hero of an epic poem
that we’ve all come in from a storm,
like boats into the port of this great hushed island
afloat in the middle of the city;
oh you crowd of masterpieces seated around me,
what a classic we would be if we each
stood up and recited
the greatest battle we ever fought…

but we can’t do that
cause this is the library.

hey city people!
if we are cursed all our lives
to navigate the billboard bombardment outside,
at least there is this silent isle
where we can each pause at the prow of our own private ship,
a fleet of a thousand wandering minds
leaving our wives and homelands behind for a while.
hey, if we can’t have a forest
with a murmuring brook,
at least
we have a forest of marble and books.

city people, we own this place.
each one of us
is a long lost son coming home to inherit it.
cherish it, that ratty old copy of The Odyssey.
see where your ancestors have written runes in the margins?
or at least little hearts next to the good parts,
the wet nurse weeping
when she sees his scar

I like to pretend this is where all of my taxes are going
not to bombs or oil bribes
that my taxes are tithes
to this cult of group solitude
where everyone is a member
screw oprah’s book club
here’s a free library card for you!
and one for you!
and one for you!

let’s just stay here forever
and forget our other lives
there are enough books in the public library
to last us til we die.
I wanna to live immortal on the shelves
with a hard maroon cover wrapped around me
and gold inlay saying my name…
or maybe sneak in,
wrap my stories in sheepskin
and leave it among the classics,
where someone might accidentally cut them open
and draw little hearts in the margins
where my words blew her all the way back across the ocean,
here’s hoping!

I never want to leave this room.
at least not til I am soft
and rested as a well-fed hero,
seated in a really comfortable chair
with a great view of the city
feasting on the last pages
of a book so breathtaking
that when it ends every wind on the ocean is trapped in my lungs
except the gentle westward one
to blow me back home

Laura Brown-Lavoie is a performance poet in Providence.

To all of you who helped create another successful “Friends of Rochambeau” book sale.

Without our most generous DONORS, we would have nothing to sell. Small groups of SORTERS are in the library every weekday taking carts full of donated books to the basement, sorting them according to 50 categories, packing them in boxes when the shelves are full, then unpacking them for the bi-annual sales. A number of friends come in as HELPERS for setting up more than 25,000 books in the conference room. A larger group of faithful “Friends” and newcomers to the enterprise are great HELPERS during the actual sales, at the cash register, on the floor restoring a semblance of order, helping wherever help is needed. And then there are after-sale HELPERS who miraculously restore the place to its former tidy order. The LIBRARIANS are cheerful and tolerant during the whirlwind days; custodian FRANK is indispensable for the whole operation! But what would we do without you, the BUYERS? Thank you!

As a result of the foregoing we were able to achieve our minimum goal of a net of $5,000. If we hadn’t lost two of the six days of our sale (Thurs. and Sat.) to torrential downpours, the bottom line might well have been a record figure.

The ongoing sales from our lobby carts during the same period were extremely gratifying, averaging $500 per month. Again, it was the constant attention of our book sale personnel that made this possible.

Rochambeau branch dropped its entire collection of VHS movies from circulation in August and we were able to sell off the collection for $.50 apiece.

As we were left with a considerable residue of unsold high quality books we were able to donate 60 boxes of books to Knight Memorial Library for their own use.

Respectfully submitted,
Gil Mason
(for the book sale committee)

2011 FALL SCHEDULE
OCTOBER 24 – OCTOBER 29

• Monday, OCTOBER 24 5:00 pm – 8:30 pm Dealer’s Night. $30 Admission. All are welcome!  Specials and Rarities available to view from 3pm
• Tuesday, OCTOBER 25 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm Friends’ Night, Members only! (Memberships available at the door)
• Wednesday, OCTOBER 26 10:00 am – 5:30 pm Open free to the public.
• Thursday, OCTOBER 27 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm Open free to the public.
• Friday, OCTOBER 28 1200 noon- 5:00 pm Fill a bag for only $5!
• Saturday, OCTOBER 29 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm  Fill a bag for only $5!

20,000 used books, audiovisuals, and puzzles sorted into more than 50 categories!

All audio visuals, children’s books and small paperbacks,  50 cents
All large (trade) paperback and hardcover books,   1 dollar
Rarities and specials,   as marked

Want to help us with the book sale? It’s really fun!
Sign up at the Rochambeau Library after October 1st.

Our guest speaker will be Laura Marlane, Director of the Providence Community Library.

PROPOSED SLATE – 2011
President: Pam Vogel
Vice-President: Loren Marcus
Treasurer: Victoria Richter
Recording Secretary: Neeltje Henneman
Corresponding Secretary: David Berman

Continuing Board members:
Terms Ending 2012:
David Berman, Neeltje Henneman, Doug Itkin
Terms Ending 2013:
Hildburg Herbst, David Isenberg, Roger Seitz, Patricia Hyde,
Loren Marcus, Victoria Richter, Pam Vogel

Ex Officio
Book Sale Co-chairs: Gil Mason/Hildburg Herbst
Librarian: Tom O’Donnell

New members:
Renate Sandgren, Julie Mccoy, Kate Sanders, Carolyn Piatek,
Margaret Gardner, Cedric DeLeon, Almis Kalafian

Nominating Committee:
Chair: Chris Suchmann
June Tow (Off Board)
Loren Marcus
Roger Seitz
Hildburg Herbst

Keeping local libraries open and available to the public is something to celebrate. In honor of Providence Community Library’s 1st Birthday on July 1, let there be cake!

Celebrations & Cake-cutting (and eating) at each neighborhood library at 4:30pm. Check here for celebration details.

And it’s also late fee amnesty day!  Return overdue materials on July 1, 2010 and the late fees are waived…you can have your cake and eat it too!

This is related to the chess club that is every Saturday 12 until 3 at this library, but players that come do not need to be part of the chess club. Both are open to all and both are free.