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Vinton Public Library Newsletter
December 4th through December 9th, 2023
Monday, December 4th
- Open 9a-5p
- 9:45am: Accessible Yoga, class is full
- 10am: Adult Coloring Time, materials provided
- 10am: Ready Set Build with Legos for Kids
- 10:30am: Tot Lot Storytime, held offsite at Vinton Skate Center
- 3:30pm: Ready Set Build with Legos for Kids
Tuesday, December 5th
- Open 9a-6p
- 11am: Children's Storytime
- 1:30pm: Lutheran Home Assisted Living Read Aloud Book Club, held offsite
- 6pm: VPL After Hours Gift Wrapping Party, details below
Wednesday, December 6th
- Open 9a-8p
- 10:30am: Preschool Storytime
- 7pm: 'A Christmas Carol' read aloud with Margie Ortgiesen
Thursday, December 7th
- Open 9a-6p
- 10am: Tummy Time, birth through 18 months
- 5pm: Storytime with Santa
Friday, December 8th
- Open 9am-4p
- 9am: Free Coffee Fridays for Adults
- 10am: Play-Doh Fun for Kids
- 10:30am: Tot Lot Storytime
- Noon: Guided Journaling for Adults
- 2pm: DIY Gingerbread House for kids
Saturday, December 9th
- Open 9a-Noon
- 9:15am: Community Book Club, discussing 'The Silent Stars Go By' by Sally Nicholls
Friends of the Library Book Bag Fundraiser!
Vinton Public Library Reusable Book Bags: A Perfect Christmas Gift for your Book Lover
The newly organized Friends of the Vinton Library is selling reusable book bags just in time for Christmas. The sturdy bags are the perfect gift to carry books back and forth to the library. The canvas and polyester blend bags must be preordered and can be ordered Monday, November 20th through Wednesday, November 29th. The cost of the bags is $15 for the cream colored canvas bag and $20 for the polyester blend gray bag. Order forms are available at the Vinton Public Library or online at: https://blessed-duo-llc.square.site/product/friends-of-the-vinton-public-library-fundraiser/515.
Five dollars from the sale of each bag is tax deductible and goes to the Friends of the Vinton Library. The Friends of the Library is a nonprofit organization that supports special programs and improvements for the Vinton Public Library.
Questions about the bags can be directed to Kelly Henkle, Vinton Public Library Director, 319-472-4208 or Greg Walston, President of the Friends of the Vinton Public Library at: Email: gwalston@iastate.edu or Phone: 641-208-7602.
Upcoming Programming Events
VPL Gift Wrapping Party
Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023, 06:00 PM
Vinton Iowa Public Library, 510 2nd Avenue, Vinton, IA
'A Christmas Carol' reading by Margie Ortgiesen
Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023, 07:00 PM
510 2nd Avenue, Vinton, IA, USA
Storytime with Santa
Join us for a special Storytime with Santa! Activities start at 5pm; hope to see you there!
Thursday, Dec 7, 2023, 05:00 PM
Community Book Club: 'The Silent Stars Go By' by Sally Nicholls
Saturday, Dec 9, 2023, 09:15 AM
Vinton Iowa Public Library, 510 2nd Avenue, Vinton, IA
DIY Gingerbread Houses for Kids
Join us at the library for a fun-filled afternoon as we make our own gingerbread houses! This event starts at 2pm; materials are provided, while supplies last.
Friday, Dec 8, 2023, 02:00 PM
New Books in Our Collection
Author Spotlight: Robin Cook
VPL Update: Robin Cook's new release 'Manner of Death' is the latest book in his Jack Stapleton/Laurie Montgomery series and is currently available in regular type.
Robin Cook was born on May 4, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, and spent his early years in Woodside, Queens. At the age of eight he moved with his parents and older brother to Leonia, New Jersey. His sister arrived two years later, changing him from the baby of the family to the middle child.
In the sixth grade Dr. Cook became fascinated with archeology and selected it as a career goal. By the time he reached the tenth grade, however, he realized, humorously, he’d been born a century too late as far as the fabled, major buried cities were concerned. When he graduated from high school as valedictorian of his class, his interests had switched to medicine. Putting himself through school, he graduated from Wesleyan University summa cum laude with a major in chemistry and a distinction in government. He then went on to attend the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons while he worked running a blood/gas chemistry laboratory in support of the cardiac surgery team at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital during nights and weekends. The bright side of those difficult years was that he’d been invited as a consequence of his necessary gainful employment to spend his medical school summer electives setting up a similar blood/gas lab for the Jacques Cousteau Oceanographic Institute in Monaco.
After surgical residency training, Dr. Cook was drafted into the Navy, where he attended submarine school and navy diving school. Following a tour of duty in the South Pacific on the USS Kamehameha, a ballistic missile submarine and the flagship of the Pacific submarine fleet, he was transferred to the Deep Submergence Systems Project (Sea Lab), where he trained as a navy aquanaut medical officer. In that position he participated in research in diving, and published his first book: A Medical Watch Standers Guide to Saturation Diving.
Following his completion of his military service and subsequent discharge from the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander, Dr. Cook undertook a second residency. This was in ophthalmology at Harvard. Upon its completion, he then matriculated as a full time student at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government while at the same time opening a private practice of ophthalmology in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and accepting a clinical position at Harvard Medical School to teach residents and to see patients at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Robin Cook’s literary career began with his first novel, The Year of the Intern, which he wrote underwater while on board the nuclear submarine, Kamehameha. It was written to illustrate the less than salubrious psychological impact of graduate medical education on the psyche of young physicians. It was followed 5 years later in 1977 with Coma, which had been written at night while he was a senior ophthalmology resident and which was published while Dr. Cook was a student at the Kennedy School of Government. This novel created the genre of the medical mystery-thriller, and changed the public’s perception as well as the media’s portrayal of medicine. Prior to Coma, medicine was on the proverbial pedestal (e.g. Dr. Ben Casey and Marcus Welby, M.D.); post Coma, there were questions, meaning bad doctors and bad hospitals exist and should be avoided.
To date Robin Cook has written a total of thirty-seven worldwide bestsellers, which have sold hundreds of millions of copies. Most all of Dr. Cook’s books have been written to elucidate various medical/biotech ethical and public policy issues, particularly about the problem of business interests and the maximization of profit taking over medicine. From his first novel on, this has been Dr. Cook’s intention by using entertainment in novels and movies as a method of raising the concern of the general public. The issues have included the supply of organs for transplantation (Coma), stem cells and egg donation (Shock), the collision of politics and bioscience regarding therapeutic cloning (Seizure), food poisoning (Toxin), bio-terrorism (Vector), xeno-transplantation (Chromosome 6), managed care (Fatal Cure), the impact of the decipherment of the human genome on the economics and sociology of medicine (Marker), medical nanotechnology (Nano), spread of disease (Outbreak, Contagion, Pandemic), Dr. Cook's most recent book is Genesis, which deals with using ancestral DNA to aid forensics.
There have been almost a dozen theatrical movies, television movies, and mini-series made from Robin Cook’s work. In 2009 Robin Cook created and produced with Michael Eisner the world’s first full-length V-cast movie in 50 three-minute segments as a prequel to his book, Foreign Body. Recently Dr. Cook has teamed up with several successful businessmen to form Cook-Blackwood Productions to make feature movies and TV series from his work. It is expected that filming will begin on his first TV series shortly and involve his recurrent characters, Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton.
Source: https://robincook.com/author
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