Hottest Beach Reads 2017 edition!

Thirty hot summer titles just for you....!

Get a jump on these titles right here.

  
   
  

  

There rest of the 30 can be found by clicking right here!

In observance of Memorial Day, Merrick Library will be closed Sunday, May 28th and Monday, May 29th.

We will reopen for normal library hours 

on Tuesday, May 30th at 9am.

Our website is available 24/7, 

so please feel to borrow an e-book, 

download an audiobook,

or even watch a concert.

Click here to get started!

Jones Beach Air Show is this weekend...!

Click here to find out more about the Air Show. 

In observance of Memorial Day, 

our hours of operation are as follows:

Saturday, May 27th: 9am-5pm 

Sunday, May 28th: closed

Monday, May 29th: closed

Tuesday, May 30th: 9am - 9pm

If you can't see live music because of the rain this weekend, try streaming these concerts from your home!

Qello is our new live concert streaming service!
Stream on demand over 1700 of the most amazing live moments in music. It's the world's largest collection of full-length concerts and music documentaries streamed on-demand to just about any digital device. 
It's like a never-ending concert ticket!

Click here to find our more!

Top 10 Best True Crime Books...

according to Publisher's Weekly. 
These are great book club choices!
Click here to read the article.

Here's a sample:


 
 

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Columbine, Dave Cullen
Son of a Gun, Justin St. Germain
Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
Killings by Calvin Trillin

Read the article to see the other five. 

Jeffrey Tambor gave libraries a huge shout-out in his recent NYT By the Book interview...

Here's part of the Q&A:

"Q: What kind of reader were you as a child?

A: There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to drive me there at night and pick me up when it closed. I think he was worried about this routine but never let on. Also, I kept this a secret from my friends, as I don’t think it would have been considered the “coolest” habit. It was the ’50s, and the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System were in fashion. I hung out in the 812 section — American theater and plays. This is where I first read Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” and was transfixed. I remember staring into space for what seemed an eternity after reading Linda Loman’s final speech. I’ve been a fan of libraries ever since and all but wept when my kids got their first cards. No, I wept! I always got that same feeling of “expectancy” when entering the library — it’s the same feeling when the lights are turned down in the theater and that hush goes through the audience. It is sacred."

Read the rest of this terrific interview right here. 

We love you Jeffrey Tambor!

Artemis is coming...

He's BACK!  The Martian author Andy Weir will hit the bestseller lists in November 2017 with his second book 
entitled, "Artemis", a crime novel set on the moon.

It's already been picked up by 20th Century Fox and it seems The Martian producers will team up once again for "Artemis". But in Hollywood anything can happen, so we'll see if that remains the case.  

EarlyWord has a great clip of the author discussing his new book and you can watch that right here. 

Who is Artemis? 

Greek Goddess of the Hunt, Forests and Hills, the Moon, Archery. Artemis is known as the goddess of the hunt and is one of the most respected of all the ancient Greek deities. ... She was the daughter of Zeus, king of the gods, and the Titaness Leto and she has a twin brother, the god Apollo. Her Roman equivalent is Diana. 

 

Artemis-Diana | 
Greco-Roman marble statue 
C1st A.D. | 
Musée du Louvre,




Can't wait to read it! Watch this space for updates. Get it? "Space"? 

Reese Witherspoon is giving another great book the movie treatment...

Debut title with plenty of buzz, "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine" has just been picked up by Reese Witherspoon's production company. If her HBO treatment of "Big Little Lies" is any indication, Eleanor is going to be amazing. 

Place a hold for Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine here.

Read more about the movie from Deadline Hollywood right here. 

Congratulations to Director Ellen Firer! Her book review has been featured on the June 2017 Library Reads list!

The book is "The Alice Network" by Kate Quinn. 
Click this link to place your hold. 

Here's Ellen's terrific review:

"Outstanding fictional account of the Alice network, women spies in World War I, tough and determined to defeat the Germans. The story centers on Eve Gardiner, aka Marguerite, a young woman trained to spy on the Germans, and Charlie St. Clair, a young woman post WWII, pregnant, lost and finding her direction. The two meet and the story alternates chapters as Charlie is determined to find her cousin, Rose presumed dead after the war, while Eve’s story of the Alice network unfolds. A fantastic book with strong female characters.” - Ellen Firer, Director, Merrick Library



Congratulations, Ellen!

Click here to see more Library Reads choices for June!

Hugh Jackman...

recently tweeted about our 

Wednesday Afternoon Book Discussion title for June. 

Jackman tweeted high praise to author Laura Dave about 

"Eight Hundred Grapes". 

See the exchange below, and then join us 

Wednesday, June7th at 2:30pm 

as we host Laura Dave via Skype to discuss, 

"Eight Hundred Grapes"!

See you then!

Sunday, May 14th the library will be closed for Mother's Day.

We'll reopen on Monday, May 15th at 9am.

You can still access e-books, 

concerts and databases directly from 

the Merrick Library homepage. 

My mother's favorite books...

                      

My mom was a voracious reader. 

She could read a book in one sitting. 

And her favorite writer? 

Stephen King. 

I think my mom may have been the original fan girl, 

not an Annie Wilks obviously, but a pretty big fan.

 One summer we both read "The Mist" while vacationing in Maine,

 the two of us peering across the lake in terror. 

Here are some of her favorites in no particular order

Salem's Lot

Carrie

The Stand

The Shining

It

Cujo

Mr. Mercedes

The Mist

The Green Mile

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption

This one's for you Mom. xo

19 Historical Fiction Titles....

you can read in one sitting? 
Try it!  
Click here for the list.
Here's a sample:
     
There are 12 more on the list so click here or above to see the rest of them. 
And since it's probably going to rain all weekend, those titles will keep you covered. 

Feel like this is you? Need help making investment decisions?

Did you know that with your Merrick library card 
you have access to the 
Morningstar Investment Reseach Center? 

Click the link above to get started!

Sandberg, Atwood and Strout hold 3 top spots on the upcoming NYT Bestseller list...

The May 14 New York Times best seller lists shows three women in top spots!
The #1 hardcover nonfiction title is Sheryl Sandberg’s Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.
The #1 trade paperback title is Margaret Atwood’s 
The Handmaid’s Tale.
Elizabeth Strout’s Anything Is Possible debuts on the fiction list at #4.
Read the full article from EarlyWord here. 
Thank you ladies!