Adult Services Newsletter

September is Library Card Sign up Month

“Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that support to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this.”
— Toni Morrison

To celebrate this special month, and to continue promoting our love of reading, the library has partnered with the Dairy Queen in Danville to help you reach your reading goals. When you read 5 books in the month of September you will receive a coupon for a free cone exclusively from Dairy Queen in Danville. Come pick up a bookmark, write down the 5 titles you read this month, and redeem it at the Adult Services Desk for a coupon!

Stay positive,

Brittany

Adult Services Manager

Do you remember how fast your holds used to transit from other libraries?

We know transits have been extremely slow the last couple of months due to a courier change. We are so excited to announce the Indiana State Library has decided to go back to our old courier company. Therefore, in order for them to catch up on the backlogged items, Evergreen is suspending all holds and transits until September 10th. There will be no deliveries, pick ups, and you will not be able to put material from other libraries on hold during this time. Starting September 11th our "new courier" will resume pick up and deliveries. Even though this may be frustrating for some, we are so excited to have our old reliable courier back. We promise things will be back to normal in no time! In the meantime, you can put material in our library on hold and check out our wonderful collection.

Thank you for your patience.

Danville-Center Township Public Library

Do you find yourself struggling with your computer skills? Do you want to know more about how to navigate your computer, tablet, or smart phone? Do you want to learn how to use the library apps? Call the library today, and schedule an appoint with adult services. We are here to help!

The Danville Public Library (DPL) is offering a service to our HOMEBOUND PATRONS with a library card in good standing who are 18 years old or older. Patrons living within our Center or Marion Township service area may use this service. We want to ensure that everyone can enjoy books, audiobooks and DVDs from our collection. Our DPL DASH will deliver items from our library to your door THE THIRD TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH. THE FIRST DELIVERIES WILL BE MADE JUNE 20TH. You can request specific items from our regularly circulating library catalog. New materials will not be available for this service. Or you can share your areas of interest and let us choose some selections for you.

To register you may call us during regular library hours. Items will be delivered/collected for return on the third Tuesday of each month.

Check our Facebook page, adult services newsletter, call or stop by the Danville Public Library for more details. Reading feeds the mind, so be sure to take advantage of this new opportunity to use our library. We are happy to serve our patrons and our community.

The Friends of the Danville-Center Township Public Library are having a book and rummage sale on Friday and Saturday, September 8th and 9th. Good quality rummage may be taken to the library beginning Tuesday, September 5th through Thursday, the 7th. We cannot accept donations of televisions, VCR equipment or tapes, computers or furniture.

There will be special bargain prices for books, and for audio and video items. Come support your local library, we look forward to seeing you

Every month the library hosts many programs for all ages! Don't forget to register online on our events calendar at www.dplindiana.org!

We offer programming for patrons 18 years or older. It is free to all who attend, even if you are not a patron at our library, and registration is required for all events. It is very important to register for programs. Registration not only allows us the opportunity to make sure we are able to accommodate everyone (make sure there is enough supplies or space), but if something happens where we need to cancel, this is how we will contact you to let you know that the program is cancelled.

We are excited to be hosting local Danville author Philip Gulley for an evening at the library where he will be reading from some of his favorite essays and stories.

Mr. Gulley has published 22 books, including the acclaimed Harmony series chronicling life in the eccentric Quaker community of Harmony, Indiana. Gulley's latest fictional series continues the exploits of Sam Gardner, first introduced in the Harmony series. The new Hope series includes A Place Called Hope, A Lesson in Hope, and A Gathering in Hope, his most recent fictional release.

Register on our events calendar at dplindiana.org or scan the QR code

Self-defense training not only helps you protect yourself but others too. Plus, training helps you become physically and emotionally fit. Having the ability to defend yourself increases your self-esteem and boosts your confidence. Join us Tuesday September 19th to learn more tips and tricks to defend yourself. Register on our events calendar or scan the QR code below.

Please join us for a discussion of our next cozy mystery, and a treat, on Tuesday September 12th,

2023 from 6-7 p.m. Please register online at DPLindiana.org using our event calendar.

Autumn has come and gone on Scotland's Isle of Rothsay, and the locals gather for the Tartan Ball, the annual end-of-tourist-season gala. Among the invited guests is American antique dealer Kate Hamilton. Returning to the island where her husband died is brutal, but Kate is determined to repair her relationship with her sister-in-law, Elenor Spurgeon, the proprietor of Rothsay's deluxe country house hotel.

Kate has hardly unpacked when a body turns up, murdered in an eerie recreation of an infamous unsolved murder two hundred years before. And the only clue to the killer's identity lies in a curiously embellished antique casket. When Bo Duff, the gentle handyman who had tried to save Kate’s husband's life, is taken into custody, she teams up with vacationing Detective Inspector Tom Mallory to clear Bo’s name. To accomplish that, they’ll have to unmask a killer who seems bizarrely fixated on the past…because two hundred years is an awfully long time to hold a grudge in A Dream of Death, the tantalizing series debut by Connie Berry.

The Winemaker's Wife by Kristin Harmel

Goodreads 4.21 stars

The author of the engrossing international bestseller The Room on Rue Amélie returns with a moving story set amid the champagne vineyards of northern France during the darkest days of World War II, perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale.

Champagne, 1940: Inès has just married Michel, the owner of storied champagne house Maison Chauveau, when the Germans invade. As the danger mounts, Michel turns his back on his marriage to begin hiding munitions for the Résistance. Inès fears they’ll be exposed, but for Céline, half-Jewish wife of Chauveau’s chef de cave, the risk is even greater—rumors abound of Jews being shipped east to an unspeakable fate.

When Céline recklessly follows her heart in one desperate bid for happiness, and Inès makes a dangerous mistake with a Nazi collaborator, they risk the lives of those they love—and the champagne house that ties them together.

New York, 2019: Liv Kent has just lost everything when her eccentric French grandmother shows up unannounced, insisting on a trip to France. But the older woman has an ulterior motive—and a tragic, decades-old story to share. When past and present finally collide, Liv finds herself on a road to salvation that leads right to the caves of the Maison Chauveau.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201870-the-winemaker-s-wife?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=LLtPPprx2l&rank=1

Join other avid readers as we discuss this book Thursday September 29th at 6:00 p.m. NEW LOCATION: The Kickstand Bar and Grill in Danville. A copy of the book can be picked up at the adult services desk. Registration required for new participants.

Have a good book that you are reading and are eager to tell someone about? Submit a book review to bhujar@dplindiana.org for a chance to be featured in our newsletter and share your review with other Danville-Center Township readers!

Prep Time:

25 mins

Cook Time:

40 mins

Additional Time:

30 mins

Total Time:

1 hr 35 mins

Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons unsalted butter

Dry Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 teaspoon baking powder

• ¾ teaspoon baking soda

• ½ teaspoon fine sea salt

Crumble Mixture:

• 1 ½ cups finely chopped toasted walnuts

• ⅓ cup packed light brown sugar

• ⅓ cup white sugar

• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• ¼ teaspoon salt

Wet Ingredients:

• 1 cup white sugar

• ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

• 2 large eggs

• 1 cup plain yogurt

• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

• 2 Honeycrisp apples

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 9x12-inch baking dish generously.

   
   

2. Mix dry ingredients: Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl. Set aside.

   
   

3. Make the crumble: Combine walnuts, brown sugar, white sugar, melted butter, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl. Mix until walnuts and sugar are thoroughly coated with butter.

   
   

4. Mix the wet ingredients: Cream sugar and butter together in another bowl with a spatula until well blended. Add 1 egg and whisk until mixture is smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Whisk in second egg until thoroughly incorporated. Add yogurt and vanilla; whisk together.

   
   

5. Add dry flour mixture to wet ingredients; whisk just until flour disappears. Do not overmix.

   
   

6. Remove cores from apples. Cut across into 1/8- to 1/4-inch slices. Stack up a few slices, make a cut down the center, and dice across into cubes. Add to cake batter, folding in with a spatula until just combined.

   
   

7. Spread 1/2 of the batter evenly into the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Scatter 1/2 of the crumble mixture evenly over the top. Top with the rest of the batter in dollops. Spread carefully to evenly distribute, trying not to disturb the crumbs. Top with the rest of the crumb mixture. Press crumbs into the batter very gently.

   
   

8. Bake in the center of the preheated oven until a toothpick or bamboo skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Let cool to room temperature, about 30 minutes, before slicing and serving.

9. source: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/280118/apple-crumble-coffee-cake/

Have a recipe that you would like to share? Submit your recipe to bhujar@dplindiana.org for a chance to be featured in our newsletter. Including a good quality photo is always a plus!

Registration is required for all adult programming. Limited Attendance

Rue de Fleurs is a local Danville owned You Pick Flower Farm. Brenda, an award winning floral designer and owner, will be here to share all of her tips and tricks to help you create the perfect floral center piece for the holidays. Limited Space and registration is required. Check them out on social media, and through their website https://ruedefleurs.com/

Have you seen this trend on Tiktok? Turn your boring Goodwill paintings into a ghostly scene for Halloween. This is a relaxed style studio painting and no artistic skill is required, you just simply paint ghosts. Bring your thrifted painting, or we will have some for you. Limited space and registration is required.

Please join us for a discussion of our next cozy mystery, and a treat, on Tuesday October 10th,

2023 from 6-7 p.m. Our next book we will be discussing is The Spook in the Stacks by Eva

Gates. Please register online at DPLindiana.org using our event calendar.

Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North

Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition for the

collection is fierce. Unfortunately, while the library is hosting a lecture on ghostly legends, Jay becomes one of the dearly departed in the rare books section. Now it’s up to Lucy Richardson and her fellow librarians to bone up on their detective skills and discover who is responsible for this wicked Halloween homicide. Meanwhile, very strange things are happening at the library-haunted horses are materializing in the marsh, the lights seem to have an eerie life of their own, and the tiny crew of a model ship appears to move around when no one is watching. Is Lucy at her wit’s end? Or can it be that the Bodie Island Lighthouse really is haunted? Lucy will need to separate the clues from the boo’s if she wants to crack this case without losing her head in this spooky Lighthouse Library mystery.

Going All the Way by Dan Wakefield

Goodreads 3.61 stars

"... a passionate and tormented novel about the summer of 1954 as it transpired in the lives of two young Korean War veterans returning to their Indianapolis homes.... it is possible that the current publishing season will produce no book more urgently felt." — New York Times Book Review, August 9, 1970

"A brilliant book." — John Ciardi

"Wonderful, sad and funny; a scathing portrait of middle America through the eyes of a new fictional character who will inevitably be compared to Portnoy and Holden Caulfield." — Gay Talese

Noted author Dan Wakefield's most famous novel seethes with pent-up frustration and confusion and nearly every episode bubbles with hilarity.

Two friends return home from the Korean War to find their world—and themselves—irrevocably altered in this novel hailed by Kurt Vonnegut as “gruesomely accurate and enchanting” and “wildly sexy”

Willard “Sonny” Burns and Tom “Gunner” Casselman, Korean War vets and former classmates, reunite on the train ride home to Indianapolis. Despite their shared history, the two young men could not be more different: Sonny had been an introverted, bookish student, whereas Gunner had been the consummate Casanova and athlete—and a popular source of macho pride throughout the high school. Reunited by the pains of war, they go in search of finding love, rebuilding their lives, and shedding the repressive expectations of their families.

As Sonny and Gunner seek their true passions, the stage is set for a wounded, gripping account of disillusionment and self-discovery as seen through the lens of the conservative Midwest in the summer of 1954. Rendered in honest prose, national bestseller Going All the Way expertly and astutely captures the joys and struggles of working-class Middle America, and the risks of challenging the status quo. Author Dan Wakefield crafts this enduring coming-of-age tale with fluidity, grace, and deep humanity.

Join other avid readers as we discuss this book Thursday October 26th at 6:00 p.m. NEW LOCATION: The Kickstand Bar and Grill in Danville. A copy of the book can be picked up at the adult services desk. Registration required for new participants.

If you missed the book sale at the beginning of the month, don't worry we have plenty of books left patiently waiting for you to take them home! Stop by Rosalie's Room to find your next book to add to your library. All book sales go towards funds for future programming!

All of our events are made possible through the generosity of the Friends of the Library. The Friends of the Library was founded to support the Danville Public Library in various ways. They sponsor all library programs as well as help buy the supplies/equipment needed for programs through membership dues and fundraising activities. We are always looking for more members! If you are interested in becoming a member of the Friends of the Library, please visit our website here for more information. You may also click here to download a printable brochure and membership form.

The Library will ensure its efforts, resources and services evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of a diverse community.

Library Director: Karyn Millikan

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Sunday: Closed

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