Welcome to Amateur Radio Week, Universal Father’s Week, Take Your Pet to Work Week, and National Forgiveness Week, so forgive someone every day this week. Today is Still Need To Do Day, reminding us that it is time to do all of the things we’ve dreamed of doing. Wednesday is World Juggling Day, Thursday is Baby Boomers Recognition Day, and Saturday is Let It Go Day, which encourages us to drop those things that are eating away at us and providing nothing positive.

WHAT’S HAPPENING?

Wednesday’s 10:00 a.m. story time features folksongs with singer and musician Andres De Gutierrez. Wednesday afternoon’s 3:30 story time focuses on Egypt in stories and activities. Saturday morning’s 10:00 story time features flamingo stories and crafts.

June 21 is Terrific Teen Thursday, with a "Memories" program beginning at 2:00 p.m. in the Bondurant Room. You’ll make a miniature memory book pendant as a way to preserve special photos or small items for yourself or as a gift.

June 22, at 9:00 a.m., the library will offer a Microsoft Word class to help you learn to use word processing for letters, flyers, and resumes. The class is limited to five, so reserve your place now!

BOOK TALK

Librarian Nancy Schummer provides this week's book information. Nancy has just recently moved here from the Black Hills of South Dakota and is now the new Young Adult (Teen) and Audiovisual Librarian. Previously, she worked in a tribal college library in North Dakota and libraries in Colorado and northern New Mexico. Her home state is Iowa, and in her spare time, she most enjoys her cocker spaniels, being outdoors, some weaving, and, of course, reading.

Quite a few new audio-visual materials are showing up on the shelves of the Roswell Public Library. Teens should be on the lookout for the "Subtle Knife", 2nd in the Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. Also for the middle school and high school crowd: "Diamond Dogs" by Alan Watt, "Young Men and Fire" by Norman McClean, and some great science fiction with a heart-stopping plot in "Dark Side of Nowhere" by Neal Shusterman.

Adults will be interested in "Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad, "Breaking Ranks" by Norman Podhoretz, "That Every Man be Armed" by Stephen P. Halbrook, "Playing God" by Charles L. Mee, Jr., "Libertarians: a primer" by David Boaz, or "The Most Dangerous Man in American: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin." In a related vein are audiobooks on war, such as Paul Brickhill's "The Great Escape," "Nazi Terror: the Gestapo, Jews & Ordinary Germans," Dr. Miklos' eyewitness account of "Auschwitz", and Peter Maas' "The Terrible Hours" about the greatest submarine rescue in history, or a novel on the Vietnam War entitled "No Place to Hide" by Gerry Carroll.

For insight into Middle Eastern culture, "The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom" will enlighten us all. Some true adventures may lose their impact when written down, so try listening to these: "The Climb" or the audio of a book first published in 1913, which remains one of the most vivid and truthful first-hand records of disaster at sea, "Titanic" by Archibald Grace.

For spiritual insight, try "In the Shadow of the Almighty" by Elizabeth Eliot; two by C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity" and "Miracles," or one with essays honoring Lewis, "A Christian for All Christians"; "A Severe Mercy" by Sheldon Vanauken; or "Understanding the Occult" by Josh McDowell and Don Stewert.

DID YOU KNOW?

Because audiobooks generally cost anywhere from $60 to $120, quite a bit more than the hardcover book, please make sure that your listening equipment is in good working order before putting in the tape or CD. If it's been a while since it's been cleaned, do so, with either a head cleaner tape, some denatured alcohol and a Q-tip, or whatever the manufacturer of your equipment suggests.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "Courage is holding on five minutes longer." (unknown)