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| Four Seasons Hemet Herald | August 2016 | 19 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. It's a hard working group that really enjoys their job. We want to thank the individuals who have donated all of the new hardbound and paperback books. We so appreciate you! I have been reading great books lately thanks to the generosity of our residents. Please donate your June, July and August 2016 magazines to our library to be displayed at this time. The one exception is National Geographic. They are timeless, any year will be accepted. Remember we do take all other magazines, any month, to the downtown library. They are displayed and given free to the community. We are still displaying paperback books from the years 2011- 2016. We are contemplating adjusting the years from 2012-2016. Don't "help" us by putting your paperback books away. Please allow us to do our job. Old paperbacks are donated directly to the Hemet library for their bag sales. All the sales and donations truly help the Hemet library keep their doors open. Most of Clancy's books have been removed from our library as well as Wood's books. We have had this problem before and did not get them back. If you just decided to take several books by one author please return a few so other residents can enjoy them. We would, of course, appreciate their return. Remember, our library works on the honor system. All books are the property of Four Seasons and have been purchased by our residents. Please respect this. Thank you. Until next month keep reading! Volunteer Kay Masonbrink read; In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Crown 2011) This well-researched and fascinating non- fiction story is about William Dodd, a low-key history professor who is appointed by Roosevelt in 1933 as the US Ambassador to Hitler's Germany. The naïve Dodd family is initially caught up with the pomp and excitement of the Third Reich and their enthusiasm for restoring Germany to a position of world prominence. Dodd's sexually-adventurous 24 year old daughter has multiple affairs with Gestapo and Soviet chiefs so in the book we meet close up with Diels, Goring, Goebbels and Hitler. Over time, however, Dodd hears accounts of Jewish persecution and becomes alarmed at attacks on Jews, press censures and frightening new laws. Dodd begins to see Hitler's true character and ruthless ambition and is repulsed but as he telegraphs Washington, he finds a State Department that doesn't believe this is happening, so Hitler charges forth with his ruthless domination and destruction. Of course, we all know how badly that turned out over time. For me, it was provoking to see throughout this book how ordinary German citizens willingly allowed themselves to be brought in line with the Nazi policy. Library Committee