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Now that school is back in session, the library hours have changed. Mon – Thur 9:30 to 8:00pm Fri & Sat 9:00 to 5:00 The library will be closed September 4th through September 6th for Labor Day. Come stock up on your library needs before the long weekend. Closed on Sunday and Holiday’s Work has resumed on the renovation this week. The roof is being completed. Woodwork and carpeting is being removed. The bathroom counters have been installed. Regarding the disposition of the two change orders, the one for replacing the clogged piping below two roof drains was approved. The roofing subcontractor’s request for additional payment because of more work than anticipated in tearing off the old roof was not approved. For photos and more information, see iolalibraryrenovation.wordpress.com YA Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising by Jason Henderson J The Billionaire’s Curse by Richard Newsome BR Lucky Day with Mr. and Mrs. Green by Keith Baker E How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills J-Nonfiction A Smart Girl’s Guide to Parties by Apryl Lundsten Fiction Postcard by James Patterson LARGE PRINT BOOKS Deeper Than The Dead by Tami Hoag DVD’s The Last Station Fiction Vigilantes, The by W.E.B. Griffin
Today we announce our final author for the Family Reading Festival on Sept. 18: Paul Shirley. Paul Shirley is the author of Can I Keep My Jersey?, a look at his professional basketball career with a healthy dose of humor. It was named to the Kansas Notable Book list of 2008. Shirley, a Kansas native, played basketball for Iowa State and decided to try to make it as a basketball pro. He was briefly on several NBA teams, between which times he played in leagues in several foreign countries and in the minor leagues. Shirley now lives in the Kansas City area, where he runs the web site FlipCollective, records a bi-weekly podcast, and works on several writing projects. From 2005-2010 he was a regular contributor for ESPN.com. Since the release of Can I Keep My Jersey?, he was created and co-produced a television pilot called The 12th Man for Fox and played for several more basketball teams (one of which still owes him money).
Beverley Olson Buller is an author who will be attending the Family Reading Festival on Sept. 18. Buller is a public school teacher and librarian who currently works in Newton. She chairs the William Allen White Children’s Book Awards selection committee and is a commissioner for Kansas Reading Circle. Buller has written two books which she will be talking about at the Reading Festival. Her first book was From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White was a biography of the legendary Kansas editor written for upper elementary or teens. It was named to the Kansas Notable Book list. Of all of William Allen White’s writings, perhaps the most enduring has been his editorial written after the death of his 16-year old daughter. Titled simply Mary White, it won White the Pulitzer Prize, has been anthologized many times, and even became a TV movie in the 1980s. Buller’s second book, to be published around the time of the Festival and written for mid-elementary ages, will be about Mary White and is titled Prairie Peter Pan. Fiction Scarlet Nights by Jude Deveraux YA books Going Bovine by Libba Bray
Jason Quinn Malott, author of The Evolution of Shadows, is the 15th author we have announced as attending the Family Reading Festival on Sept. 18. The book, Malott’s first novel, was a 2009 Indie Next Pick and was named to the 2010 Kansas Notable Book list. Publishers Weekly describes the book in this way: “Malott explores each character, opening their lives to expose the wounds the war has inflicted upon them…This could easily have been a clichéd war diary, but Malott avoids the pitfalls of sentimentality, providing a refreshingly clear-eyed evocation of friendship, love and loss.” Joseph T. Collins and Suzanne L. Collins, experts on Kansas wildlife, are a husband and wife co-author team who will be at the Family Reading Festival on Sept. 18. They will be talking mainly about their about-to-be published book Amphibians, Reptiles, and Turtles in Kansas. Joseph Collins has written more books about Kansas wildlife than any other person in the history of the state. He has published over 275 articles on reptiles, turtles, amphibians, and fishes throughout North America and has written twenty-three books. In 1996 Collins was proclaimed The Wildlife Author Laureate of Kansas by Governor Bill Graves. Collins was honored in 1997 with the Kansas Wildlife Federation Presidential Award for distinguished service. He serves as Director of the Center for North American Herpetology. Suzanne Collins is a wildlife photographer of national stature. Her images have appeared in many books and magazines to include Kansas Wildlife, Ranger Rick, Country Journal and Kansas Wildlife and Parks. You can find her photographs on permanent display in the Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita, KS and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit on Declining Amphibians. |
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