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14 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | October 2016 | Welcome to your Four Seasons library. We have been so pleased to have so many new hardbound books donated lately. They are fantastic and current! We have full shelves once again. This means we will simply rotate books to keep it full. The committee will laugh at me using the word "simply." I want to remind you that you may go to the front desk for help in reaching that top shelf. We have everything coded and it was in alphabetical order. Hopefully it still is! We do have a book "easy reach" hanging on the left hand wall for reaching that high. I have somehow managed to pull books down on top of myself using it, so do feel free to spot a taller person and ask for a favor. Our committee is comprised of volunteers living in Four Seasons who enjoy reading and have a desire to keep our library in order. We know you want to help but we find books that are not alphabetical or non-fiction in fiction, etc. Just leave everything for us, even if it's overflowing so much that you are sure you should help! Our magazine rack holds three months of donated material. Please bring, August, September, and October at this time. Our magazine rack has been really full lately. Thank you for your donations and for returning what you borrow. We do take older magazines to the Hemet library. Please remember that the front desk has a HUGE collection of DVDs that you may borrow to enjoy at home. We no longer have VHS movies in the library. Most of us don't have VCRs anymore so they were never checked out. We still have some children's movies in the long cabinet under the R-S shelves. We finally have a better selection of audio books on CD thanks to our residents. All audio books on tape have been donated to the Hemet library. They actually are able to sell them. Our community is part of what keeps the library open. We are so happy that the rules, of keeping the doors open and not eating in the library, are being followed. I was just asked by a team that I am very partial to, if they could hold a meeting in the library. Several years ago a very firm rule of no meetings, including the library committee, was made by the Board. Everything is going well now. Residents of Four Seasons, we appreciate you and love hearing that you appreciate the hard working volunteers! Volunteer Char read a book, and all of us read it and feel it's fantastic; The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. Nightingale – a small European songbird; the males sing mostly at night. The word in French is rossignol. The Rossignol sisters, Vianne and Isabelle, very different in age and temperament, do not believe the Germans will invade France, but invade they do! Now each sister must find a way to survive their very dangerous circumstances during the German occupation. Vianne lives on a small farm in a village outside Paris. She sees her husband, Antoine, go off to the front and later learns that he has been captured. With no work, no money, and little food, she must make a living for herself and her young daughter, Sophie. Her Jewish neighbor, about to be loaded onto a train to a concentration camp, asks Vianne to take her son. Vianne takes him into her home, changing his name and saying he is a cousin's son. When a German captain requisitions her home, Vianne, Sophie, and the boy must live with the enemy or lose everything. She is forced to make one impossible choice after another. Isabelle, a rebellious 18-year old Parisian, falls in love with a partisan who believes the French can fight the Germans from within France. When he leaves her, Isabelle joins the resistance, risking her life time and again to save others. She finds and hides downed English fliers and, with help from other members of the resistance, guides them over the Pyrenees to Spain from where they are returned to England. She becomes well known to resistance workers who give her the code name "The Nightingale." Her work also becomes known to the Germans who are on the lookout for this "nightingale," but never suspect that it is a woman making these arduous and dangerous treks over the mountains. This is primarily a novel about the women's war. It celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. But it is a story for everyone. Library Committee