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FOWL Annual Board Meeting

Thursday, November 5 at 6:30 p.m. Community Room. Dates

occasionally change. Please call the Library (508) 636-1100

to confirm date if you plan to attend.

Perspectives: Generosity Begins in Westport

“Give what you have. To someone, it may better than you dare to think” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Americans are known to be a very generous people, responding to need not only in their own country, but also throughout the globe. That certainly has been proven true in recent times, when so many good causes find them-selves scrambling for donations to continue their missions and new worthy causes have emerged. With the cancella-tion of FOWL’s 2020 book sales, we are now dependent upon funds from our annual membership drive for 2021 to provide support to the Library for the purchase of materi-als and technology. Our basic membership remains at the same rate it has been for well over a decade, ten dollars, because it’s part of our mission that everyone has the op-portunity to be a member of FOWL and to be involved in supporting a vital part of our community, our public Li-brary. Your 2021 membership is more important than ev-er. Thank you for your support.

FOWL NEEDS YOU

The Board of Directors of FOWL has openings. For more information, please contact Denise at

fowl.email@gmail.com

Denise Micale, President, FOWL

Kid’s Corner Fall 2020 Picture Books

Girl Versus Squirrel Hayley Barrett Before We Eat: From Farm to Table Pat Brisson The Wheels on the Dump Truck Jeffrey Burton Soaked! Abi Cushman Antiracist Baby Ibram Kendi The Hidden Rainbow Christie Matheson You Matter Christian Robinson

Non-Fiction

In the Woods David Elliott The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis (ed.) Earth Shattering Events: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Cyclones, Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters Robin Jacobs Play in the Wild: How Baby Animals Like to Have Fun Lita Judge One World Many Colors Ben Lerwill

Biographies

Joey: The Story of Joe Biden Jill Biden & Kathleen Krull Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice Nikki Grimes

Grade 1-4 Fiction

Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us Lauren Castillo Mermaid School Lucy Courtenay

Grade 5-8 Fiction

Lety Out Loud Angela Cervantes Get a Grip Vivy Cohen! Sarah Kapit All the Greys on Greene Street Laura Tucker Echo Mountain Lauren Wolk

Young Adult Fiction

Gravity Sarah Deming Refugee 87 Ele Fountain Where the World Ends Geraldine McCaughrean The Conference of the Birds Ransom Riggs Non-Fiction

We Are Power: How Nonviolent Activism Changes the World Todd Hasak-Lowy Into the Deep: Science, Technology, and the Quest to Protect the Ocean Christy Peterson

Biography

The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh Candace Fleming

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NEW Books For FALL 2020 Westport Library Book Club

Hello Book Club Members;

What Have You Been Reading?

I’m curious about everyone’s choice of books during these last few months. Is there one or even two books that you found outstanding and would like to recommend to all the other members? There is no better source of book recom-mendations but from Book Club members who read widely, voraciously and eclectically.

A few months ago I read Olive Kitteridge. I had heard of the book previously but didn’t find the description intriguing. On Denise Micale’s recommendation I not only read the book but the sequel Olive, Again. The book is a compilation of 13 stories all tied together by one irrepressible Crosby, Maine resident named Olive, a retired math teacher. Olive affects other people’s lives but finds that her view of herself is quite different than what others see.

One of our FOWL members, Maryteresa Hicks, sent me her favorite book choice during this long quarantine. She highly recommends Jodi Picoult’s The Storyteller , two paral-lel and powerful stories (one of a Nazi officer and one of a young Jewish girl) in the days of the Polish occupation by Nazi Germany. Maryteresa’s husband Dave recommends The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, a historically accurate gothic horror tale .

Looks like my holds list on SAILS is getting longer. Send me an email. Let me know what you’ve been read-ing and what you would recommend to the group. Best wishes to all and stay safe,

Carol Vidal Flora318@aol.com or cav318@gmail.com

New to the Collection

Adult Fiction:

Anxious People Fredrik Backman Before She Was Helen Caroline Cooney One By One Ruth Ware

Adult Non-Fiction

Livewired David Eagleman Begin Again Eddie S. Glaude Jr. A Knock at Midnight Brittany K. Barnett The Answer Is... Alex Trebek

Large Print Fiction

Above the Bay of Angels Rhys Bowen Gone by Midnight Candice Fox Lost Hills Lee Goldberg

Books on CD: Fiction

The Case of the Reincarnated Client Tarquin Hall Blindside James Patterson

Music CDs

Pick Me Up Off the Floor Norah Jones Such Pretty Forks in the Road Alanis Morissette While I’m Livin’ Tanya Tucker

Adult DVDs

Baptiste season 1 Grantchester season 5 Poldark season 5 Murdoch Mysteries season 13

Keep saving your Lees receipts for the Library. This is an important revenue source now in light of our book sale cancellation this year. You can mail in your receipts or wait until the Library reopens to bring them in. Your receipts have earned $3940 in 2019.

Thank you Lees Market

for your support.

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Become a member — Join today

FOWL aids the mission

of the Westport Free Public Library.

All activities are run by volunteers—people who believe in a public

library. Funds raised through member dues and book sales go to the

Library to purchase books, CDs, DVDs, museum passes, and to fund

children’s and adult programs. FOWL is the largest funding source for

these purchases. In 2019, member dues and book sales contributed

over $25,000 to Library funding. If you’re not yet a member, fill in the

form to the right to join today.

@ the Library Quarterly Newsletter

*Membership levels:

$10 Individual $50 Patron $20 Family $100 Bibliophile $30 Sponsor $ _______ Other

FOWL is a 501c3 non-profit; your donation is tax deductible

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Board Members:

President: Denise Micale Vice President: Maryteresa Hicks Secretary: Jennie Elias Co-Treasurers: Denise Micale & Maryteresa Hicks Myrna Altshuler Lisa Arnold, Publicity Suze Craig, Editor Michael Habib Linda Harrop Brianna McAvoy Linda Olsen Sue Szekely, Book sale Coordinator Carol Vidal, Copy Editor

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