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14 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | December 2016 | The Library Committee would like to wish everyone at Four Seasons Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas. I, myself, do not believe that summer is over and a New Year is not far away. You know our motto by now, ask for a book as a present and then donate it to our beautiful library! Or, a magazine subscription and bring it to us after you read it. What about both! We have been pleased to have many new hardbound books donated lately. They are fantastic! And current! We have full shelves once again and great books to read. The committee members are avid readers. I have been introduced to many new authors which is probably why I haven't realized the holidays are here. If you can read too much… I have! The non-fiction shelves have also had lots of activity recently. We don't have a cut-off date on non-fiction as we do with our fiction selection. There are some great books for you to check out. We have residents who read nothing but non-fiction books. Just be careful in getting them down. I want to remind you that you may go to the front desk for help in reaching that top shelf! We are trying to come up with a way to track how many books Four Seasons' donates to the Hemet library. We do play a part in helping them stay open. Two committee members work for the library and see the results. It is not unusual to cart ten bags downtown each week. Two copies of first rate, prolific author's books, are kept at Four Seasons but duplicates after that are sent to the Hemet library. If you haven't been to their little book store lately it would be worth your time. Our committee is comprised of volunteers living in Four Seasons who enjoy reading and have a desire to keep our 55+ library in order. We know you want to help but please leave the books for us. We do have a system and certain rules we need to follow that you are unaware of. Thank you. Our magazine rack holds three months of donated material. Please bring magazines dated, October, November and December 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 downtown as well which are given free to anyone visiting the library. We have a challenge with over-sized paperback books lately. It really seems like authors are trying to outdo each other on size. We are rotating a certain amount of books simply for a lack of room. The regular size paperbacks are so current that keeping only four years fills the shelves. Remember, years 2011-2015 are kept. Shortly, 2016 paperbacks will appear! Please remember that the front desk has a HUGE collection of DVDs that you may borrow to enjoy at home. 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 you. Residents of Four Seasons appreciate you and love hearing that you appreciate the hard working volunteers! Volunteer Sue Corum read Lilac Girls (hardcover book) by Martha Hall Kelly: This is the story of three women during World War II. Caroline Ferriddy was a New York socialite who volunteered at the French consulate in New York City. Her world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939 and then heads for France. In Poland, Kasia Kuzmerick senses her youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into the Polish underground resistance movement. German doctor Herta Oberheuser has just graduated from medical school with no job prospects because she is a woman. Herta answers an ad for a government medical position. Once she is hired, she discovers herself trapped in a male-dominated world of Nazi secrets and power. The lives of these three women collide when Kasia is arrested and sent to Ravensbruck, the Nazi concentration camp for women. It is at this time that Herta becomes involved with performing medical experiments on the prisoners. Kasia is one of the dozens of healthy patients that are used in the study of war wound treatments and surgeries. Caroline has watched the war unfold from her position at the consulate and feels helpless. As the war is ending Caroline travels to France in search of a friend. During the search for her friend, Caroline is faced with the horrors of war which inspires her to organize charities to help the people of France. It is during this time that she meets a Polish survivor of Ravenbruck and discovers what actually took place there. Caroline forms a charity to help these women recover from the many wounds they received while they were being held prisoner. Library Committee

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