New Arrivals: Self-Help, Weddings, Travel & More…

Check out some of the latest additions to our collections!

           

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day!  If you are finding it difficult to muster up the sentiments necessary to properly express your admiration, gratitude, and devotion, why not take inspiration from these wise words?

Motherhood is still the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and it’s scary — it’s an act of infinite optimism.

– Gilda Radner

A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

– Tenneva Jordan

Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves it’s own mark.  To have loved so deeply… will give us some protection forever.

– J.K. Rowling

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

– Oscar Wilde

 

New Arrivals: Movies

 

Explore a New Genre: Mystery

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Not sure what to read next? Want to try something new but don’t know where to start? We’ve picked out a few good ones for you from our Mystery Collection… Modern Detectives Short Story Collections

May Sales in the Volunteer Guild Bookstore

ALL MONTH
All Science Fiction, Fantasy and Comic Books are 50% off
AND
All hard-cover books with blue or yellow dot stickers
are on clearance for just 50 cents each

May 1-4
Buy 2 single-disc DVDs and get 1 free

May 7 – 11
All biographies are $1 each

May 14 – 18
Buy a one year membership, get 40% off your first purchase

May 21 – 26
Get a 2$ coupon for every 5$ purchase you make

May 28 – June1
Volunteer Guild members get 30% off all purchases

It’s easy to become a member and enjoy extra savings!
$5.00 — 1 year membership
$100.00 — Lifetime membership

Volunteer Guild Bookstore Hours

Tues & Wed: 10am – 6 pm

Thurs: 10am – 7:30 pm

Fri & Sat: 10am – 4:30 pm

Refreshments for Sale • For more info call 714-826-4100 x 123

Ball Don’t Lie: 2013 NBA Playoffs

The NBA playoffs are now well underway!  So sports fans, is this OKC’s year (sans Russell Westbrook)?  Or do the Spurs have another championship run in them?  Can the Knicks harness their momentum and energy into a championship win?  Or is a Miami Heat repeat inevitable, rendering this prognostication null and void?

Who knows!  That’s what’s so exciting about the playoffs — it’s all up in the air and any team could win… Well, okay not really as some teams have much better chances than others. (That Heat/Bucks series has proven to be a bloodbath despite Brandon Jennings bravura proclamation, bless his heart ). But let us harken back to the 2011 Playoffs when a scrappy Dallas team led by a lanky, awkward German with a propensity for hitting ridiculous shots came out of nowhere to win it all.  In the immortal words of the NBA’s poet laureate: “Ball don’t lie!“

It’s particularly heartening to have two local teams in the playoff race.  Can the adversity ridden Lakers muster up the wherewithal to do what no other NBA team has ever done and come back from being down 0-3 in a series?  As a dyed in the wool Clippers fan (#lobcity) I think not (#schadenfreude), but hey as mentioned earlier — IT’S THE PLAYOFFS, ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN! (#crazytown)

The Library has a wealth of basketball material for you to explore during this playoff season.  Here are a few recommendations for both die-hard fans and those interested in learning more about the game.

   

Another Candle on the Cake!

What do the following words have in common?
Eyeball
Swagger
Champion
Bedazzled

Choose one answer:
A. All are nicknames of retired/nonliving NBA greats.
B. All are names of Denzel Washington’s four dogs.
C. All are banned from utterance on the island of Bora Bora.
D. All are words popularized by the late, the great Mr. William Shakespeare.

If you guessed answer choice D, then give yourself a high five because you are correct! Where would we be without Mr. Shakespeare? We wouldn’t even know what to call that round thing in our eyes!

Mr. Shakespeare turned 449 years old this week, so let’s give him the gift of our gratitude: thank you for giving us so many useful, necessary English words. And congratulations on another candle on the cake!

Home Improvement Reference Center – Free Access!

Home Improvement Reference Center

Ebsco presents the definitive online tool for home improvement assistance, including: maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, and more!

This comprehensive resource contains 24 major reference works in full text with more than 10,000 images (none found available online anywhere else). Additionally, the database contains nearly 100 videos of popular home repair projects, a convenient A-Z browsing tool, and full-text magazines such as This Old House.

You will find how-to videos, conversion charts, a glossary of terms, a homeowner’s journal, and tips on working with contractors.

Access is free with your Buena Park Library District card!
Simply go to our website: www.buenaparklibrary.org
and click on the Home Improvement Reference Center database

Buena Park Reads: Upcoming Events

The Buena Park Library District Presents:

“Farewell to Manzanar” Film Screening
This film gives us a look at the Manzanar internment camp in California.
The film will be shown at 3:00 pm and 6:00 pm on Thursday, April 18^th and again at 1:00 pm on Saturday, April 27^th
The Library would like to thank the Japanese American National Museum for donating the DVD Farewell to Manzanar and providing the viewing rights for the film.

Panel Discussion With Former Internees
A panel of local Japanese Americans who lived in an internment camp during World War II will take part in a question and answer session on Saturday, April 20^th at 2:00 pm
Invited panelists include Alcene Cain, Alice Okimoto and Minori Higashi.

Buena Park Reads is a month long event in which the community has been reading When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka. Told from five different points of view, it is a novel chronicling the internment experiences of a Japanese American family during World War II.

For more information, please call the library at 714.826.4100 x125,
or visit our virtual branch at www.buenaparklibrary.org.
The Library is located at 7150 La Palma Ave, Buena Park, CA.
We are open Tuesday through Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
and Friday and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Silent Auction: New Items!

Three Classics from
the Easton Press

All in excellent condition.
Each book is bound in full leather with 22k gold accents, 4-hubbed spines, gilt paper edges, attached silk bookmarks, and moire fabric endpapers.

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Bidding starts at $20

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Bidding starts at $15

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Bidding starts at $15

Each book will be auctioned separately
Bidding closes at 4:00 pm on April 27 2013

The books are on display in the Volunteer Guild BookstoreGive us a call or come in and visit for more info!

Volunteer Guild Bookstore

Tues & Wed: 10am – 6 pm

Thurs: 10am – 7:30 pm

Fri & Sat: 10am – 4:30 pm

714-826-4100 x 123