Magazines from the Library, Print & Digital

 

If you miss browsing the magazine collection at the library, you can still checkout magazines through contactless pickup, including the most recent issues. Just call or email the library to let us know what you would like and choose a day to pickup your order.

All CLAMS library card holders also have access to digital magazines from OverDrive, available through the popular Libby App platform, OverDrive App, and via web browsers. Overdrive magazines are always available with no wait times, and they do not count against patron checkout limits. Readers can also download magazines on Libby for offline use. The OverDrive Magazine collection includes 50 subscriptions, and several new titles were added this summer, including Allure, Bon Appetit, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone.

https://clamsnet.overdrive.com/library/magazines

A Dollop of Trollope! Zoom Book group in October

Zoom with the Vineyard Haven and West Tisbury Libraries.

• Which book? Doctor Thorne
• Why that one? A great intro to Trollope and a great TV version too!
• Who’s leading? Myra Stark & Dee Leopold
• Why them? Myra knows Trollope and Dee knows Zoom
• When? Choose a group: Sunday or Monday at 5:00 pm in October
• Can I get the book? Yes. Hard copies and eBooks
• Do I need to be a Trollope scholar? Please. It’s a pandemic. Let’s not make up things to worry about

Interested? Email Dee at dleopold@clamsnet.org

Online Event for Mystery Lovers!

 

On Thursday August 27th at 7 pm, mystery novelist Jeannette de Beauvoir is hosting a hilarious Improvisational Mystery Creation event via Zoom. Audience members will help supply the victim(s), the protagonist, the sidekick, the red herring, and the murderer… and will eventually put the entire story together!

Throughout the event, Jeannette uses these categories to weave in information about the genre and the craft: the difference between a cozy mystery and a procedural, the importance of sense of place, the formation of character, and the plot—which most certainly will include a twist.In less than 90 minutes you’ll have created a (semi)-coherent story to rival Agatha Christie—but having a lot more fun than Agatha ever did! 

Jeannette de Beauvoir is a bestselling novelist whose characters uncover truths and occasional dark secrets via mystery, historical, and literary fiction. Her work has been translated into 12 languages and she has been a Booksense Book-of-the-Year finalist.

Contact amcdonough@clamsnet.org for meeting access info, or register at this link:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucO-gqTwrE9D4eWhUzCRu3EJbu4RR9PJj

Teens & Tweens: Participate in Battle of the Books!

This summer, Teens and Tweens can participate in the Martha's Vineyard Library Association's island-wide "Battle of the Books!" Participants read up to 6 books for their age group, and compete in a trivia contest over Zoom to win 1st, 2nd, & 3rd prize gift certificates from Bunch of Grapes.

Registration is required for these events that will take place online via Zoom. A week before the event, all registrants will receive an email with specific details on how to participate. See sign up information and books lists for for each age group below:

Tween Battle of the Books, 7 pm, Friday August 21st

Ages 8-12

Sign-up here https://tinyurl.com/yd3aa7qr

Tween Battle of the Books List:

• Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper
• Drama by Raina Telgemeier
• Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
• We are the Change by Selino Alko
• Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
• The Giver by Lois Lowry

Teen Battle of the Books, 7 pm, Friday August 28th

Ages 13-18

Sign-up here https://tinyurl.com/y7vcbm94

Teen Battle of the Books List:

• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• There You Are by Mathea Morais
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• Undefeated by Steve Sheinkin
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Register for Fall Literature Seminar on Toni Morrison with Phil Weinstein

Register Online

This year the library's annual literature seminar with Philip Weinstein will be presented as a series of virtual events on Zoom. Professor Weinstein will be discussing the works of Toni Morrison, one of the 20th Century’s most influential novelists and intellectuals, and recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. The class will be reading four novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, The Song of Solomon, and Beloved. 

Philip Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Emeritus at Swarthmore College. He has been offering literary seminars in cooperation with the Vineyard Haven Public Library since 2012. His publications include Henry James and the Requirements of the Imagination (1971), The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce (1984), Faulkner’s Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns (1992), What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (1996), Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction (2005), Becoming Faulkner(2009), and Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage (2015).  He is currently working on a book of essays entitled Soul-Error.

In order to allow the library to distribute class materials and communicate with students, participants should register online. Prior to the first class, registered participants will receive a welcome email with Zoom access information and a reading guide.

Dates and reading assignments:

Wednesday, September 16th, 5:30 pm
The Bluest Eye -- Request the book or Checkout the eBook
Reading guide

Wednesday, September 30th, 5:30 pm
Sula -- Request the book or Checkout the eBook

Wednesday, October 14th, 5:30 pm
Song of Solomon, part I -- Request the book or Checkout the eBook

Wednesday, October 28th, 5:30 pm
Song of Solomon, part II

Thursday, November 12th, 5:30 pm
Beloved, part I -- Request the book or Checkout the eBook

Wednesday, December 2nd, 5:30 pm
Beloved, part II

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This year, Professor Weinstein will also be presenting a series on James Joyce's Ulysses with Swarthmore's Lifelong Learning program starting in September. For more information, visit https://www.swarthmore.edu/alumni-resources-events/lifelong-learning-swarthmore

Adult Books: Bestsellers, New on the Shelf, and Coming Soon!

Join Vineyard Haven Library's "Standing Order" program to automatically order forthcoming books from your favorite popular authors. Just fill out our online form, and library staff will add you to the advance hold list for any future books by the authors you select. This program helps the library know how many books to order, and places our patrons higher on the waiting list since holds are placed prior to publication. Sign up for Standing Orders here: https://forms.gle/RCqwheVUm8ndimJ46

For other ways to choose titles, see what's new and popular, and learn what's coming soon:

• Visit the "New Books" page on our website to see books added to the collection this week. This page is updated weekly, and includes a description for each title and a direct link to the CLAMS catalog to place a request online. Visit:  http://www.vhlibrary.org/newbooks.shtml
  
  
• Our "Books on the Air" page makes it easy to find books you've heard discussed on NPR and talk shows. This weekly update is published every Friday. Visit:http://www.vhlibrary.org/booksizzle.shtml
  
  
• Our CLAMS library network maintains list of top requested titles, forthcoming books that have been ordered for CLAMS libraries, award winners, and more. Visit https://library.clamsnet.org/screens/newpoptitles_encore.html
  
  
• Try Novelist! Created especially for people who love books, NoveList Plus is the premier online database for reading recommendations, for readers of all ages. You will need your CLAMS library card number to login to Novelist.