Inside the FOIL Newsletter Dinner at the Rex Recap……………………………...Page 1 Online Ways to Donate……………………………...Page 2 Thanks to All Our Friends…………………………....Page 3 New Library Pledge…………………………………..Page 4 New @ Your Library………………………………….Page7

Newsletter Vol. 17 No. 2

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December 2015

Wish List

Check out the items your library is hoping to add to the shelves. Go to www.amazon.com and click the Wish List>Find a Wish List button. Look for Bur-ney Library. You’ll see items for adults and children, books, audio books and DVDs. Any one of them would make a wonderful donation to your library’s collection.

The best thing about the FOIL fundraising dinner held September13 at the Rex Club wasn’t the food: lasagna and Cornish game hens: but the food was really good. The best thing wasn’t the fact that 59 library supporters came and enjoyed the dinner or ordered take out: but FOIL is so glad they did. The best thing wasn’t that volunteers gave up their Sunday evening to serve (wearing those cute FOIL aprons) : but FOIL really appreciates that they did. The very best thing about Dinner at the Rex was the FUN that everyone had! There were people truly enjoying their great food cooked up by Con-nie. There were servers dancing their way through the tables with not one crash. There were tips stuffed into apron pockets (and other places) all through the dinner. There was laughter from every-one, and singing from quite a few. It was such fun for everyone that the FOIL volunteers kept hearing “When are you going to do it again?” Thanks again to the great Rex Club crew for hosting and helping. Thanks to the volunteers who worked so hard and laughed so much it didn’t seem like work. Thanks to the folks that came and ate and gave and gave and gave! Thanks to the folks unable to come but sent tips anyway. Thanks to all of you FOIL collected almost $1500! With the gracious and generous help of eve-ryone involved, FOIL would love to do this again. Keep your eye out for updates. Food and laughter and a great cause—helping the Burney Library. What a fantastic way to spend an evening!

Dinner At The Rex A Wonderful Night IMPORTANT NEWS FOR

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FOIL Tee Shirts and Book Bags are available at the Library.

Show your support!

Love Your Library Raffle Coming in January

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Use the eScrip Online Mall when shopping online Hundreds of online stores give back a percentage of what you spend to the charity of your choice. When you shop online, go first to www.escrip.com. Com- plete a simple registration and then shop at places you already buy from, like Macy’s, Harry & David, Target, Home Depot and many more. Shop at amazon.com? Go to

smile.amazon.com instead You already know how easy it is to shop at amazon, and now they’ve made giving back just as easy. When you go to smile.amazon.com enter Friends of the Intermountain Libraries as your group. Make your purchases and FOIL will receive a donation.

SHOPPING ONLINE IS QUICK AND EASY SUPPORTING YOUR FAVORITE GROUP IS

JUST AS EASY PLUS IT DOESN’T COST YOU ANYTHING!

Friends

Main & Tamarack Burney

USED BOOKS FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN HARDCOVERS—PAPERBACKS

AUDIO BOOKS

OPEN ONCE A MONTH DURING THE WINTER

CALL THE LIBRARY FOR DATES

OR TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THE EMAIL LIST

ALL PROCEEDS GO TO BURNEY LIBRARY

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The FOIL Newsletter is published 4 times a year by

Friends of the Intermountain Libraries Inc, a Califor-

nia non-profit corporation dedicated to the support of

our public library. Our membership believes in the

importance of libraries for the enlightenment, educa-

tion, and well-being of the community. Our tireless

volunteers and our generous members and support-

ers are the backbone of the Burney Branch Library.

The FOIL Board meets monthly. While meetings are

scheduled at the annual election meeting in June,

they are subject to change. Please call any Board

member or the Library for meeting information.

LIBRARY HOURS

9AM-1PM & 2PM-5PM

Fall & Winter - October through February

10AM-1PM & 2PM-6PM

(Always Closed for lunch between 1 & 2)

Spring & Summer - March through September-

Monday through Thursday

Closed Friday—Saturday—Sunday

Phone: 530-335-4317

WEBSITE

www.shastalibraries.org

Visit the website anytime to find or renew

books and to check your account. You’ll need

your library card number and PIN

Make Your Online Shopping Work For Your Library

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FOIL so appreciates the community support received all though the year in its efforts to support the Burney Library. During the holiday season FOIL likes to take a moment to review the past year and say a heart-felt “thanks” to all of you who contributed. Your general membership dues are separate from your pledges and donations toward the New Library Now campaign. FOIL uses your dues, income from booksales and your other donations to augment the Burney Library materials collection. This past year FOIL spent almost $12,000 of the money you donated for books, au-dio books, magazine subscriptions and DVDs. The “New” rack at the Burney Branch is consistently full of the latest material in all areas of interest for all ages, so you get to see the results of your generosity. The Friends say THANK YOU to those who paid dues to FOIL or gave other monetary or in-kind dona-tions in the last year. The names on the list are the active general members of FOIL, but rest assured that the li-brary appreciates each and every person that supported the library in any way. Thank you for buying books at the library or bookstore or donating books to the library. We thank you for all the donations and kind words. FOIL succeeds because of you, and together we all support the Burney Library.

Thanks to All of You!

Phyllis Arno Kris Berthelson-Williams Jill & Don Binger Adele Boster The Breedveld Family

Burney Fall River Educational Foundation Burney Veterinary Hospital Scarlett Bush Theresa Bushey Carolyn Chambers Karen Churney Cathleen Coleman & Rich Mikelson Fran Collier Bill & Lois Cummings

Kathi Eastburn Charles Evans Candace Foley Meg Fox Pam Giacomini Ed Giant Nancy & Fred Gideon Heidi Greer

Martha & Cark Hamon

Lola Harris Nancy Hauge

Dorothy Herrell The Howes Family Dave & Linda Isbell Pete Johnson & Linda Wrenn- Johnson Suzanne & Phil Kane Melanie & Mike Kerns Mike Kiser Mary & Jim Lentz Raylene Metcalf Lynn Miller Vicki & Mike Montgomery Evalee Nelson Mary Olmstead John & Deanna Ospital Patterson Optometric Amy Plumhof Sherri & Jon Quinlan Larry & Camille Rau Sully Renwick

Ruth Roeschlau & Bea Berchem Bill & Betty Rogers Carol & Jim Salini Donna Sanders

The Schmierers The Sharp Family Soroptimist International Don & Jody Spencer Jackie Spencer Superior Steel & Supply Mikel Turner Carolee & Roger Underwood United Presbyterian Women's Association

The Urlie Family K. Trish Van Dyke Lucille von Tersch Anne Weatherford Karel Wollaston Leon O. Wood Jane Woodrum Mary Ellen & Dennis Young

Cheers to all of FOIL’s Library Supporters!

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TO: All The Friends of the Burney Library

SUBJECT: New Library Now Capital Campaign Pledge Now—Pay Later

As you may be aware, the building in which our Burney Library resides is outdated and unable to fulfill

our community’s library needs. A larger, more modern facility would help to solve these problems.

In cooperation with Shasta County, we now have the opportunity to purchase a building on Main

Street that would more than double the size of the Library. This would allow us to improve our Library

services to all age groups—young children, teens, and seniors--and enable the Library to be a valuable

center for educational activities, literacy programs, computer resources, and just having a “good read.”

To make this happen, FOIL and the community need to raise approximately $450,000 to match the

$400,000 the Shasta County Board of Supervisors has set aside for this project. While we will gladly

accept donations now, what we most need at this time is a pledge from each of you to support this

project to demonstrate to the Board of Supervisors that our community will enthusiastically back this

venture.

A pledge sheet is on the next page. Please return it at your earliest convenience. Additionally, please

do not hesitate to encourage your family, friends, and business associates to join in this effort.

We thank you in advance for your generous support!

Sincerely, Melanie Kerns, President Allison Breedveld, Member-at-Large Peter Johnson, Vice President Karen Churney, Member-at-Large Kathy Urlie, Secretary Adele Boster, Member-at-Large Matthew Quinlan, Treasurer

Count Me In! Here is my pledge for the Burney Library Capital Campaign AMOUNT $____________________________________________________________________________

This pledge amount will be used as a part of the capital campaign to provide a new facility for the Burney Library.

NAME_________________________________________________________________________________ (as you wish it to appear in donor recognition materials) ADDRESS____________________________________CITY/STATE/ZIP_____________________________ EMAIL______________________________________PHONE_____________________________________

ADDED BONUS: Pledge $500 or more by 1/15/16 and your name will be entered in a drawing for a cord of lodgepole firewood, generously donated by Tubit Enterprises.

All donations will be acknowledged. Donations of $500.00 and up will receive recognition in the new Burney Library.

FOIL will contact you to redeem your pledge when the project is a go! FOIL is a duly established charitable, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) entity; Tax ID # 68-0199229

Pledge sheets and/or donations should be returned to the Burney Library or mailed to P.O. Box 65, Cassel, CA 96016

Questions? Contact: Melanie Kerns at 530-335-2056 or Evalee Nelson at 530-941-7909

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

NEW LIBRARY NOW PLEDGE YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE BURNEY LIBRARY CAPITAL CAMPAIGN JOIN WITH THE FRIENDS OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN LIBRARIES

__________________________________________FOLD HERE_______________________________________________ FROM: STAMP

TO: Friends of the Intermountain Libraries, Inc. 37038 Siskiyou St. Burney, CA 96013 ___________________________________________FOLD HERE_______________________________________________

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Publishers always re-lease the big blockbuster reads at the holiday season. New on the shelves or coming very soon are Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham, Host by Robin Cook, Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz, The Guilty by David Baldacci, and See Me by Nicholas Sparks.

Returning characters include Alex Cross in Cross Justice by James Patterson, Jack Reacher in Make Me by Lee Child, Stephanie Plum in Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Eva-novich, Harry Bosch in The Crossing by Michael Connelly and Stone Barrington in Foreign Affairs by Stu-art Woods. Also returning are Elvis Cole and Joe Pike in The Promise by Robert Crais. Depraved

Heart is the new Scarpetta novel by Patricia Corn-well and The Theory of Death by Faye Kellerman brings back Decker and Lazarus. The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine is a new No. 1 Detective Agency novel by Alexander McCall Smith. Crimson Shore by Douglas

Preston and Lincoln Child is a new entry in the Agent Pendergast series. The NUMA files continue in The Pharaoh’s Secret by Clive Cussler. New crime thrillers include Fear the Dark by Kay Hooper, a Bishop/Special Crimes Unit story. All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke con-tinues the Under Suspicion series. Corrupted by Lisa Scottoline is a

Rosato & DiNunzio book. Career of Evil is a new entry in the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith, aka J.K. Rowling. Stieg Larsson died after completing his Millennium series

featuring Lizbeth Salander (the girl with the dragon tattoo) but Swedish author David Lagercrantz has written a continuation in The Girl in the Spi-der’s Web.

Celebrated western author Ivan Doig’s last novel takes readers from his beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies to Wisconsin with 11-year-old Donal Cameron in Last Bus To Wisdom. Donal’s grand-mother is having surgery so he’s being sent to live with his Aunt Kate.

Donal’s grand adventures are the stuff of legend, and Doig’s words are as magical as ever. A wonderful last book of a great storyteller. Patrick Taylor takes readers back to the Irish countryside with his beloved Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly in An Irish Doctor In Love and At Sea, the series’ 10th book.

Playing With Fire by Tess Gerritsen is a paranormal thriller about a piece of music that has a haunt-ing effect on those who hear it. House of the Ris-ing Sun by James Lee Burke is an action novel

of fathers and sons and war: and the Holy Grail.

Stephen King’s newest is a collection of short stories titled The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. Scary, maca-bre, melancholy and thrilling, the sto-ries have fable-like qualities and will delight any King fan.

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New @ Your Library

Other serious modern prob-lems receive the speculative treat-ment. In The Subprimes by Karl Taro Greenfeld, extreme wealth inequality has created an America of have noth-ings. No credit means no job and no home. Destitute people wander the globally-warmed wastelands seeking day jobs and avoiding arrest. How they cope offers a darkly funny and sobering look at our current financial state.

Job loss and financial and so-cial disaster has forced Stan and Charmaine to live in their car, prey to roving gangs. They decide to take ad-vantage of the Positron Project in the town of Consilience. No one is unem-ployed and everyone has a home. Here’s the catch: on alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as in-

mates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their perfect houses. Of course, not every-thing is as it seems in The Heart Goes Last by Mar-garet Atwood.

Fans of hard science fiction will appreciate John Sandford’s Sat-urn Run. In 2066 a Caltech intern sees an anomaly in space. Something is approaching Saturn, and decelerat-ing. It’s a first contact novel involv-ing technology, political machina-tions, resourcefulness and wonder.

Fantasy lovers have been wait-ing for the newest George R.R. Mar-

tin entry in his continuing Song of Ice and Fire (the actual name of the Game of Thrones series) and it’s here in A

Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. While not exactly new, it unites for the first time the three prequels of the series,

set a century before the events of GOT and recount an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not

yet passed from living consciousness.

On December 11, 1978, a daring armed rob-bery took place at Kennedy Airport, resulting in the

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Continued from page 7 Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked, returns to the fairy tale world with A fter Alice. It’s a tale of Alice’s friend Ada’s search for her friend in 1860’s England. New romance includes Secret

Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz, A New Hope by Robyn Carr, Starlight on Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs, Un-dercover by Danielle Steel, Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts and Win-ter Stroll by Erin Hilderbrand. New historical novels in-clude The Lake House by Kate Mor-ton, about a vanished child and a crum-bling house in Corn-wall. The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati is set in 1883 New York, the gilded age. It tells of Anna Sa-vard and her cousin Sophie, both gradu-

ates of The Women’s Medical School and their work in the city.

The Story of a Lost Child by Elena Ferrante completes her four-book cycle of the Neapolitan novels. The series has told the story of bril-liant Elena and fiery Lila, one who stayed and one who left Naples. They became friends in childhood, and Ferrante’s novels have docu-mented their loves and losses, their clashes and reconciliations, success-

es and failures, and now they’re confronting aging. The western drought has captured authors’ attentions and produced some timely and startling ideas on what may hap-pen in our near future. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi and Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins speculate in chilling fashion on what could be the West’s new normal.

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largest unrecovered cash haul in world history: six million dollars. The perpetrators were never appre-hended and thirteen people connected to the crime were murdered in homi-cides that, like the crime itself, re-main unsolved to this day. Henry Hill, one of the organizers of the rob-bery, immortalized in the movie Good Fellas, tells the story in

Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World. Henry Hill collaborated with Daniel Simone in Hill’s last book before his death in 2012.

Noted historian Simon Win-chester’s new book Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers is not an ex-amination of the geological history of the ocean. Ra-ther, he writes of seemingly disparate events and dis-cusses their importance to the rest of the world. He examines Bikini Atoll, the Koreas, China, the digital revolution, climate changes, Gidget, and more. Win-chester’s prodigious research and deep historical un-derstanding make for a fascinating tale.

The events of one year, 1692, in a little village in Massachusetts are still subjects of interest and specula-tion. What caused the hysteria that saw 19 women and 5 men accused of being witches to be hanged in and around Salem, MA? The Witches: Salem 1692 by Stacy Schiff tell the story of this bizarre period in Ameri-can history.

All the familiar characters: cowboys, Indians, dance hall girls,

miners, railroad barons, outlaws, pioneers and everyone else who populated western America during

the 1800’s are represented in The Old West by Stephen G. Hyslop.

Lavishly illustrated in National Ge-ographic’s signature style, it’s full of wonderful pho-tographs and detailed maps to illuminate the fasci-

nating stories.

Children’s holiday books are always special. This year brings a new edition of Over the River and Through the Wood by Lydia Maria Child, with gorgeous wood cut illus-trations by Christopher Manson. . In The Autumn

Visitors by Karel Hayes the bear family experiences all the fun of fall, from the county fair to Hal-loween to a Thanksgiving feast with all their forest friends.

Rudolph wants the night off, so someone else will have to lead Santa’s sleigh (with a little help from a headlamp and GPS) in Merry Moosey Christmas by Lynn Plourde.

Just Right For Christmas by Birdie Black is a classic tale of let-ting nothing go to waste in making gifts for all, right down to a scrap of fabric just right for a mouse’s scarf.

In The Gingerbread Man

Loose at Christmas by Laura Mur-ray Gingerbread Man has made a

treat for someone sweet. But before he can deliver it wind and snow ar-rive, and slushy streets are no place

for a cookie. With some help he gets the job done – chocolate boots, any-one?

Big Snowshoe tells Lit-tle Snow that the animals’ San-

ta is coming with presents for everyone in the forest. Jan Brett’s beautiful, intricate art-

work makes The Animals’ Santa a holiday classic.

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