Maddie Wadsworth shares a book with Carmen in the Prendergast Library Children’s Room.

Carmen earned her Canine Good Citizenship certification through Andrea DiMaio of Dog Speak at The Dog Place and has been making pet therapy visits for three years. She and Jill Bladh, her owner and handler, were named Volunteers of the Year at Lutheran Social Services in 2011.

“Carmen has a unique personality. She is a diva who sleeps until 10 a.m., insists on being under the covers, and likes to wear hats. She is wonderfully gentle with kids and senior citizens, is a friend to all, and never barks.” Ms. Bladh said.

A five-year-old Beagle/Italian Greyhound mixed breed, Carmen was rescued by Save Ohio Strays in 2009.

After children meet Carmen on Monday, they will be able to sign up to come in and read to her in 15-minute slots on Tuesdays between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. A permission slip signed by a legal guardian is required.

Ten family programs are scheduled at 2 p.m. on Mondays throughout the summer as part of the “Dig into Reading” summer reading program. Spoon Man will present a family comedy event July 1.

The library is located at 509 Cherry St., Jamestown. For information, call 484-7135.

Who Really Wrote as Will Shakespeare?

The talk and visual presentation, followed by a Q & A, will take place on Friday, July 5^th at 6 p.m. in the Fireplace Room.

Join the presentation that never fails to convince 95% of the audience!

“I have been a friend of Ron Destro for some time, and can confirm his great gifts as a writer, director and educator.  His research on this subject is as extensive as his knowledge is broad.” –Michael York

“Dear Ron, I’ll spare you the details, but Bill [Shakespeare] deeply resents your insinuations.  However, carry on.  It’s great to have a passion of any kind.” –Charles Grodin

“Shattering!…  Very inspiring…  A masterful lecture!…  A very compelling argument…  Clear, thoughtful, unbiased…  A very engaging speaker, his detective work is exciting & convincing…  Thanks for getting us thinking in new ways!…  Five years of Shakespeare studies down the toilet!!!”

Actor Kevin Spacey & Ron Song Destro discuss Shakespeare

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There will be an opening reception from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, June 21, to meet Bielawski and view his work.

“You never know where a great image may arise, so I always keep my camera at the ready. More often than not, the image finds you,” Bielawski said.

The show will feature a variety of subjects from his travels near and far including hiking in the surrounding area, road tripping across the continent, and backpacking around the world. Some of the pieces are exhibited in a multi-media format, breaking from the standard frame.

“My technique is something like that of a photojournalist, creatively capturing every moment from the obligatory landmarks to the more ‘ordinary’ bits. In many parts of the world, the ‘commonplace’ things are novel and noteworthy like a white-knuckled rickshaw ride through insane traffic or the ‘I-can’t-believe-people-eat-that’ offerings at the butcher shop,” he said.

Bielawski began dabbling in photography 18 years ago as a protégé of local photographer Robert K. Olejniczak.

“While hiking the mountains of the Adirondacks with our cameras, he shared the secrets of capturing the ideal photograph, especially demonstrating the profound effects lighting can have on an image. When I later began taking road trips and traveling abroad, my camera became a tool to help communicate what I was experiencing with those back home,” Bielawski said.

The photographer prefers the least amount of equipment necessary. He speaks from experience when he says expensive equipment can be a liability in the developing world, since he once was mugged and relieved of a new camera an hour after touching down in Zimbabwe.

“Compact gear allows for candidness, portability, and spontaneity. There is some sacrifice in technical quality, but you can do magic with post-processing software these days,” he said.

Bielawski designs consumer products at Whirley DrinkWorks, using a variety of techniques from traditional hand sketching to digital sculpting.

He and his wife, Anna, a music teacher, enjoy reading, travel, maintaining an old farmhouse, exploring the outdoors, and dabbling in a variety of artistic endeavors.

Library hours to view “A Journey in Photographs” will be 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

The next Prendergast Library exhibitor will be Casey Brink.

The library is located at 509 Cherry St., Jamestown. For information, call 484-7135.

eBooks – Adult Fiction

eBooks – Adult NonFiction

eBooks – Young Adult Fiction

eBooks – Young Adult NonFiction

eBooks – Juvenile Fiction

eBooks – Juvenile NonFiction

Audiobooks – Adult Fiction

Audiobooks – Adult NonFiction

Audiobooks – Young Adult Fiction

DVD FEATURES

• Agnes of God
• Alive
• Back to the Future Trilogy
• Barrymore
• Beastly
• Beautiful Creatures
• Beauty and the Beast, Season 2
• Before I Say Goodbye
• Best of Bonanza
• The Bible: Epic Miniseries
• Bomb Girls, Season 1
• The Borgias, Season 2
• Boss, Season 1
• Boss, Season 2
• Breaking Bad, Season 5
• Broken City
• Brotherhood, Season 1
• Brotherhood, Season 2
• Brotherhood, Season 3
• Caddyshack
• Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
• Cloud Atlas
• Clue
• Company of Heroes
• The Cradle will Fall
• A Crime of Passion
• Dale
• Defiance
• Django Unchained
• Down the Shore
• Dredd
• Drop Dead Diva, Season 1
• Entourage, Season 1
• Entourage, Season 4
• Entourage, Season 5
• Farscape, Season 1
• Farscape, Season 2
• Fred Won’t Move Out
• Future Weather
• Gilligan’s Island, Season 3
• A Glimpse inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
• A Good Day to Die Hard
• The Greatest American Hero
• Guilt Trip
• Gun Justice Featuring the Lone Ranger
• Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
• Hemingway & Gellhorn
• Here Comes the Boom
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• I Love You, Beth Cooper
• I’ll Be Seeing You
• The Impossible
• The Imposter
• The Incredible Hulk, Season 2
• It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
• Jack Reacher
• John Dies at the End
• Killing Them Softly
• Last Kiss
• The Last Stand
• Late Bloomers
• Les Miserables
• Life of Pi
• Little Red Wagon
• The Loneliest Planet
• Lover’s Prayer
• Macbeth (Patrick Stewart)
• Mama
• Mister Selfridge
• New in Town
• Nurse Jackie, Season 4
• Pandorum
• Parker
• Playing for Keeps
• Promised Land
• Restaurant
• Rocketman
• Roy Rogers Collection 20 Movie Pack
• Royal Pains, Season 4
• Rust and Bone
• Safe Haven
• Shameless, Season 1
• Shameless, Season 2
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Smashed
• Snitch
• Stand Up Guys
• Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith
• Starlet
• Steel Magnolias (Kenny Leon)
• Struck by Lightning
• Sucker Punch
• 30 Rock, Season 7
• To the Ends of the Earth
• Tomorrow, when the War Began
• True Blood, Season 5
• Try to Remember
• Twilight Zone, Season 1
• Veep, Season 1
• Warm Bodies
• We’ll Meet Again (Mary Higgins Clark)
• Wild West Outlaws
• Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
• Zelig
• Zero Dark Thirty

CHILDREN’S DVD FEATURES

• Adventures of Bailey
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: Easter Collection
• American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the Stars
• Berenstain Bears: Happy Mother’s Day
• Cars Life 3
• Charlie: A Toy Story
• Christmas Story Keepers
• The Curious Garden
• Curious George Swings into Spring
• Derby Dogs
• Escape from Planet Earth
• Freaky Friday (Barbara Harris)
• Guardians of the Lost Code
• Madly Madagascar
• Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends: Happy Hearts Day
• Monster in Paris
• Pound Puppies
• Road to El Dorado
• Rugrats: Mysteries
• Scooby-Doo’s Original Mysteries
• Sid the Science Kid: Rock and Roll Easter
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Rise of the Turtles
• Timothy Goes to School: Abracadabra
• Tom and Jerry: 6 Classic Episodes
• Tom and Jerry: Whiskers Away
• Toys in the Attic
• Veggie Tales: A Snoodle’s Tale
• Victorious, Season 1, Vol. 1
• Victorious, Season 1, Vol. 2
• Wizards of Waverly Place, Supernaturally Stylin’
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Wubbzy’s Egg-cellent Easter

DVD DOCUMENTARIES

• Simple Prayer, Simple Life 248.3 S
• The Pruitt-Igoe Myth 363.5 P
• You’ve Been Trumped 363.70 Y
• This is not a Film 365.4 T
• We Were Here 616.97 W
• Perennial Vegetable Gardening 635 P
• 73 Skills to Create your Dream Garden 635.09 S
• Wineries of Western New York, the Finger Lakes, and Canada’s Niagara Peninsula 641.2 W
• Art and Practice of Gardening 712 A
• Girl Model 746.9 G
• Brenda Bilili! 781.62 B
• Sing Your Song 782.42 S
• Elton John Dream Ticket 782.421 E
• Last Days of the Civil War: Days that Changed a Nation 973.7 L

Volunteers from the Cassadaga Jobs Corps to help at the Prendergast Library book sale are, left to right, Gregory McCalmon, Jessi Garcia, Lula Abdi, Michael Flanagan, Ramon Armand, Charles Jackson, Rafadys Algarin, and Trishana Watson. A bi-lingual volunteer from this group will be available Friday afternoon and all day Saturday during the library’s fund-raising event at the Lillian Ney Renaissance Center. Members of the group will perform various duties to help make the sale a success.

Thank you for volunteering!

“Choosing this venue was a no-brainer,” according to the groom.

“Our home has its own 1,000+ book library already. We both have English degrees, with hers more centered around reading, and mine writing. Love of literature is something that brought us together,” Gullotti said.

He credited the library with being “wonderfully and enthusiastically welcoming” and Aimee Haddad of Modern Design Photography for obtaining some splendid and unique wedding photos inside the library and on the grounds.

“We were given carte blanche for photographic license. Believe you me, there’s a little part of everyone that enjoys opening doors that clearly state, “Do not open, alarm will sound!” Gullotti said.

Describing the library as a “fantastic location” for pictures, the groom said, “We’d like to express our thanks to Director Tina Scott and the rest of the Prendergast staff for making our day that much more special.”

Pamela McDavid

Jamestown native Pamela McDavid has set her debut novel in the city of her birth, and she will return to sign copies of “Seven Years Between” for area residents on Saturday, June 15.

Appearances are scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. at Prendergast Library and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Novel Destination~Used Book Emporium, 177 Fluvanna Avenue, where light refreshments will be served during the shop’s event.

The author was born in WCA Hospital in 1959, but left before her first birthday because her father was transferred to California. Since generations of ancestors had lived in the area, however, it figured prominently in family stories passed down to her.

Going back as far as her great-great grandfather in 1867, she has used diaries and letters to create a Jamestown never seen by her eyes, but much loved in her heart. In the book, she asks “How might it have been?” and fills in the gaps of her mother’s coming of age in Jamestown in the turbulent 1930s and 40s.

“My sister Paula and I were born at the WCA Hospital, where my mother and grandmother both trained and worked. We will be traveling to New York, along with our younger sister Kathleen, to see our birthplace and the home of our relatives for six generations. Though “Seven Years Between” is fiction, it takes place in Jamestown and is based on many of the stories that our mother told us when we were young,” Ms. McDavid said.

During her local visit, she will also do further research for a sequel that will cover her mother’s life from ages 13 through 19.

“Seven Years Between” tells the story of Carol, the daughter of an alcoholic father and a career-driven mother who does what it takes to provide for her daughter during the Depression and WWII. After her parents’ divorce, Carol is left without a full-time parent to care for her and must board with three Jamestown families between the ages of six and 13. Amid a colorful cast of characters, she overcomes obstacles and learns that love can nurture wounded hearts. The heartwarming book delights readers of all ages.

Ms. McDavid was among the top 10 finalists in the Christian Writers Guild 2012 Operation First Novel Competition. In 201, she received an honorable mention from New Millennium Writings for her short story “The Dirt of Guinea.” She is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and has served in overseas medical/dental ministries with CAMA Services and Medical Teams International.

She lives in Oregon with her husband, Andy, a professional photographer. They have four children and four grandchildren.

For more information, call the library at 484-7135 or contact proprietor Carrie Wolfgang at Novel Destination at 489-1496 or noveldestination@windstream.net.

Join the library’s Summer Reading Challenge and challenge yourself to read every day this summer!  Summer reading keeps your mind sharp and helps young readers avoid the “summer slide.”

Youth (grade 6 & below)

1. (Starting June 22^nd) Pick up a reading log (600 minutes).
2. Record how many minutes you read or have been read to each day.
3. After every 100 minutes, bring in your reading log to receive a prize.
4. After every 600 minutes, turn in your reading log for a chance to win a bike.
5. Get a new reading log and keep reading!

GRAND PRIZE: 2 bikes (girl/boy) Donated by the Jamestown Cycle Shop

Teen (grades 7-12)

1. (Starting June 22^nd) Pick up a book review form.
2. After every chapter book read, complete a book review form and turn it in for a chance to win a weekly prize & Grand Prize!
3. The weekly drawing will take place at the Teen Event Thursdays @ 4 p.m.

GRAND PRIZE: Kindle Fire HD

Adult (18+)

1. (Starting June 22^nd) Pick up a book review form.
2. After every book read (over 100 pages), complete a book review form and turn it in for a chance to win!

GRAND PRIZE: Kindle Fire HD

Grand Prize Drawing Saturday, September 7th at 2 p.m. after the Charlie & Checkers Performance

FICTION

• Departure by Neal Asher
• Baker Street Translation by Michael Robertson
• Overlookers by Fay Sampson
• Necessary Ill by Deb Taber
• Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara
• Terror Red by David Hunt
• Stepping Stone ; Love machine by Walter Mosley
• Stranger by Camilla Läckberg
• Mystery Woman by Amanda Quick
• Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland by Ace Atkins
• Pirate Alley by Stephen Coonts
• Ophelia Cut by John Lescroart
• Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory by Tilly Bagshawe
• And Then I Found You by Patti Callahan Henry
• Equilateral by Ken Kalfus
• Gotcha! by Fern Michaels
• Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs
• Decadence by Eric Jerome Dickey
• Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh
• Deadly Virtues by Jo Bannister
• Mothers by Jennifer Gilmore
• House at the End of Hope Street by Menna Van Praag
• Against the Law by Ray Hogan
• Rio Tinto by Michael Zimmer
• Angelopolis by Danielle Trussoni
• Return to Prior’s Ford by Evelyn Hood
• Smarty Bones by Carolyn Haines
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
• Magician’s End by Raymond E. Feist
• Best of Us by Sarah Pekkanen
• Zero Hour by Clive Cussler
• Oil! by Upton Sinclair
• Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz

YOUNG ADULT PRINT FICTION

• Scorch by Gina Damico
• 39 Deaths of Adam Strand by Gregory Galloway
• Requiem by Lauren Oliver
• Gamer Girl by Mari Mancusi
• Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia
• Fire by James Patterson
• Kiss by James Patterson
• Legend by Marie Lu
• Cleopatra Ascending by Maureen Lipinski
• Cameron and the Girls by Edward Averett
• Shades of Earth by Beth Revis
• Dear Life, You Suck by Scott Blagden
• Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina

NON-FICTION

• Long Walk by Brian Castner
• Lincoln’s Code by John Fabian Witt
• Does Jesus Really Love Me? by Jeff Chu
• Good Nurse by Charles Graeber
• Catching Cancer by Claudia Cornwall
• Cronkite’s War by Walter Cronkite
• Fodor’s The Carolinas & Georgia
• Fodor’s Switzerland
• Fodor’s Amsterdam & the Netherlands
• PCs for Dummies by Dan Gookin
• Macs for Dummies by Edward C. Baig
• Rick Steves’ Greece, Athens & the Peloponnese
• In the Body of the World by Eve Ensler
• Who Was Dracula? by Jim Steinmeyer
• Time Reborn by Lee Smolin
• Last Ape Standing by Chip Walter
• Feud by Dean King
• New Digital Age by Eric Schmidt
• Forest Unseen by David George Haskell
• iPod: the Missing Manual by J. D. Biersdorfer
• Winning Strategies for Successful Aging by Eric Pfeiffer
• Who Owns the Future? By Jaron Lanier
• Handsewn by Margaret Rowan

LARGE PRINT NON-FICTION

• Unsinkable by Debbie Reynolds

YOUNG ADULT NON-FICTION

• Last Train by Rona Arato

BOOKS ON COMPACT DISC

• Starting Now by Debbie Macomber
• Striker by Clive Cussler
• Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
• Z by Therese Anne Fowler
• Basic Spanish