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20 | SUN LAKES LIFESTYLES | NOVEMBER 2016 | The Library Committee wants the libraries to be a valuable and popular asset to Sun Lakes residents. There is an on-going need for persons to help the committee in maintaining the libraries. For this we have our hard-working library volunteers. We can't say enough good things about our volunteers! Every day of the year books need to be re-shelved. We have donations (thank you!) that need to be sorted and labeled. Each library has a return bin but books get returned to a different library than from which it was borrowed. These need to be returned to their rightful place. Older or tattered books must be culled from the shelves. The committee wishes to thank all our volunteers and one way we do this is at a fun luncheon each October. About 30 volunteers joined the committee members for a lively meal where in addition to questions about library operations, we had fun with socializing, good food, and door prizes. The next book sale is Nov. 5 from 9 am to 2 pm – lots to purchase! A couple of recent books I wanted to mention: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and The Wright Brothers by David McCullough, both from 2015. Both received critical acclaim and both won literary prizes. David McCullough started with popular history books with 1987's Johnstown Flood. His latest book tells of Orville and Wilbur Wright, bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio — no college, no formal physics or engineering training. He details their step-by-step creation of a lighter than air ship, making correct choices, with many original ideas. Their first successful flight, Dec. 17, 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina wasn't even widely publicized at that time but really became widely known in 1905 with an article in a birding magazine. The Nightingale occurs in France in WWII. Viann and Isabelle are sisters; Viann, married, living on a farm in Loire. Isabelle was sent there from Paris by their father. Isabelle is younger, rebellious, more outspoken. France is occupied by the Germans; Isabelle joins the Resistance and is codenamed Nightingale. She volunteers for dangerous duty, shepherding downed Allied pilots through France to the Pyrenees and Spain. Viann initially worries her sister is foolish but she too has a journey, from passivity to active resistance. A quote from each book I think gives the reader something to ponder, or discuss with friends: Kitty Hawk was the brother's choice because of the wind. Wilbur wrote in his notebook: "No bird soars in a calm." Viann comments much later in her life, "In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are." Donations? Want to volunteer? Please call Doug Deans at (360) 840-5559. To return audio books you may ask at the desk in Main Clubhouse lobby. Library Committee