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Welcome to your Four Seasons beautiful library! It is created by you, the residents, and maintained by a committee that loves both Four Seasons and books! Every holiday you have the opportunity to expand the library. We are still waiting for the Christmas books to be read and donated but now we have Valentine's Day! We don't need more chocolate, we need more current books both hardbound and paperback. Take time to enjoy them and then share them with your Four Seasons residents by bringing them to our beautiful library. Please donate your December, January and February magazines to our library to be displayed at this time. Notice how often you see residents sitting in the library thumbing through a magazine. Once again we so appreciate the resident who is donating National Geographic. Our paperback selection is becoming over crowded once again. We are still displaying the years 2011-2016. As we receive new ones we will need to adjust the year. We have been delighted with the hardbound books being donated and want to shelve as many as possible which led to the current rule of displaying books from 2004 and up. If you treasure a "series," please keep the set if they are below that year. We could still use audio books on CDs. Please, no more audio books on tape. There also isn't a need for videos on tape. I took five bags of donated movies on tape to the downtown library. I will be donating most of the audio books on cassettes to the Hemet library. If you still have a tape player feel free to take a couple. Remember that the scrapbooks and newsletter binders were moved next to the religious section under our hardbound books. You will really enjoy looking at all the social events going back several years. We had too many to keep them on the coffee table. We are already experiencing more light in the days. Your library committee thinks that gives you more time to read! Keep turning pages Committee member Cookie read Burn by James Patterson. Burn is a return to the Detective Michael Bennett series. In any Patterson we deal with unpleasantness and this certainly gets messy. Michael has just returned from California testifying against the highest ranking Tepito cartel member and returned to New York. His large family had been in protective custody without freedom of any kind. Everyone was excited in getting back to normal. Especially Detective Bennett. First day back to work. After his western adventures Michael was meeting with the commissioner. As he reported for duty he was informed that the commissioner was in Washington and he now had a meeting with Chief of Detectives, Starkie. This was really worrisome as they had history both as policemen and also romantic competition. Instead of a hero's welcome Bennett was given the assignment of running the brand new NYPD'S Ombudsman Outreach Squad. He reported to Harlem and stood in line with residents as they went one by one asking for help from this new squad. And, a poor excuse for police as they come. As you can imagine, Michael shakes things up and they begin the process of learning team work. In his personal life there is a romantic involvement with, Mary Catherine, the housekeeper and nanny that you root for, and his father, Father Seamus, that always inserts humorous situations. A stranger appears with a lawyer claiming rights to one of the adopted children. Michael and Maeve adopted eight before she died of cancer. The biological father just may have rights to the child. The book is full of strange characters, robberies, murder and things not usually written about. It's been some time since I couldn't put down a book but this one requires real thought to figure things out! Library Committee | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | February 2016 | 14

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