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14 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | May 2017 | Welcome to your Four Seasons library. The residents make it the best by donating all of our books, hardbound and paperback plus our magazines. Without YOU there wouldn't be a library here. We simply work at keeping it organized and continuously shelve returned and new book donations. We also donate books to the downtown public library that we cannot display. Our audio books are kept in the far left corner with the double doors. The pull out shelving was installed in 2014 and certainly makes it easier to peruse the CDs. Please use the one chair in the library at the return table. It would be great to have a few more audio books if you have any you could donate. Thanks in advance! Help us to keep the library current. Please donate hardbound prolific authors from the year 2006 up. Our paperbacks are 2011-2017. The magazine rack holds three months of donated material. As of this newsletter please bring March, April and May for us to display. And, do remember, we are happy to take books that we cannot display to the Hemet Library. Are you aware that the Hemet Library sells cards and calendars? Cards have reached a ridiculous price of $4-$7. There are many who just cannot afford that expense. I receive so many cards in the mail that I cannot use and donate them downtown. They will sell them for 25 cents and it brings happiness to many. Also, all those calendars we receive at the holidays, bring what you cannot use for us to donate downtown. Our non-fiction section is filled with biographies and a broad range of interesting topics. We now have some room on the bottom shelf for different topics normally not displayed. A travel section was started and we could use more books. Please check your personal library for travel books. We are missing about $200 in donated books. We never accept technical books and actually the downtown library doesn't accept them either. We have had a situation lately with someone using the library for meetings. The library is simply that, a library! Even our committee cannot hold a meeting in there. There are some who won't enter while a meeting is being held. If you have lived here eight to10 years you will remember the library was used as a meeting room and game room. It was hard to pick out a book or shelve any returns. You certainly couldn't read there. Please, no meetings. We will add a sign on the door. The library committee and residents thank you. Last month, committee member, Kay, wrote about Lynne Spreen's new book Key Largo Blues. I received a call from a resident feeling we need to have Lynne do a book signing and a talk. I did have Lynne give a talk on Dakota Blues at our Sunshine meeting and it was well received. Perhaps the book club could ask her to speak or if enough of you reach out to us, the Library Committee could sponsor Lynne for a book signing. Lynne is a magnificent woman right here in our midst. New committee member Bernadette read The Trespasser, by Tana French. The Trespasser is the latest in a series of six psychological/crime mysteries. Set in Dublin, Ireland, it was named one of 2016's top 10 books by Time magazine. Tana is an American, born in Vermont, now living in Dublin. Detective Antoinette Conway has wanted for years to be part of Dublin's Murder Squad, but as the first woman in the Squad she has been the victim of vicious pranks and harassments. She toughs along until she and her new partner, Stephen Moran, are given the task of solving a case that appears to be a lover's quarrel gone bad. No more the land of leprechauns and legends, the book reveals the dark side of Antoinette's city and its police department. Aislinn Murray is blonde, pretty, and dead in her living room next to a table set for a romantic dinner. Aislinn's boyfriend, Rory Fallon, is brought in for questioning when his alibi falls apart. Antoinette wonders if she has been set up for defeat by her co-workers to force her off the squad. As she and Stephen stubbornly sift through many theories they discover more and more about Aislinn's life, Antoinette's own insecurities are exposed and her instincts are rewarded. A great mystery! Library Committee