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10A | WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2020 | SIUSLAW NEWS Library Tidings News about the Siuslaw Public Library Library Tidings by Kevin Mittge features news about upcoming Siuslaw Public Library programs for adults and children, new books and videos, and other library news of interest to the community. name has been Book Review buried for centuries, and another whose “Ghosts of Harvard” name mankind will never forget. By Francesca Serritella Cady doesn’t know how or why these Cadence Archer arrives on Harvard’s ghosts are contacting her. But as she is campus desperate to understand why her drawn deeper into their worlds, she be- brother, Eric, a troubled genius, took his lieves they’re moving her closer to the own life the year before by leaping from truth about Eric, even as keeping them his dorm room window. Eric’s brilliance secret isolates her further. Will listening to these voices lead her to overshadowed Cady growing up, but still the one voice she craves — her brother’s? — she loved and idolized him. He developed paranoid schizophrenia — or will she follow them down a path to while at college, retreating from everyone her own destruction? Francesca Serritella is the New York and everything except his purportedly Times bestselling author of a nine-book top-secret physics project — until even that was not enough to tether him to this series of essay collec-tions co-written with her mother, author Lisa Scottoline, world. Losing Eric has left a black hole in and based on “Chick Wit,” their Sunday Cady’s life, and while her decision to fol- column in The Philadelphia Inquirer. low in her brother’s footsteps threatens to “Ghosts of Harvard” is her first novel. break her family apart, she is haunted by Computer Appointments! questions of what she could have done Need to check email or print some- and what she might have missed in his thing? People can now make an appoint- last year. And there’s only one place to find an- ment to use one of the library’s comput- ers. swers. Call 541-997-3132 Monday through As Cady struggles under the enormous pressure and competition at Harvard, she Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., to make a one- begins to investigate her brother’s final hour appointment for the following year, armed only with a blue notebook weekday. There are a limited number of morning of Eric’s cryptic scribblings. She knew he had been struggling with his mental ill- and afternoon slots available. More information will be given over ness — the paranoia, the delusions, the illusory en-emies — but what tipped him the phone, or go to www.siuslawlibrary. over the edge into doing the unthinkable? org to learn more. Soon, her prying turns up clues that New Books grow increasingly sinister. With her sus- Did you know the library has some picions mounting, Cady begins to hear voices herself. Then the panic sets in. wonderful new books to check out? The library is posting videos of new Does she share Eric’s illness, or is she tap- fiction and nonfiction that is hitting the ping into something else? Voices fill her head, seemingly belong- shelves on its YouTube page. Go to www. ing to three ghosts who passed through siuslawlibrary.info, scroll towards the the university in life, or death, and whose bottom and click on the YouTube link. Library staff are going to try to post voices, dreams and terrors still echo down new videos about every two weeks. the halls. 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All teens 12-18 are invited to apply. The Florence Air Academy, led by COL (Retired) Terry Tomeny, will be a two week course teaching Boys & Girls Club members the principals of aviation and information on careers in the aviation industry. Classes will include a tour of the Coast Guard Helicopter, flying Remote Controlled planes, piloting drones, and the change to go up in a plane one-on-one with an instructor pilot! The Academy activities will be a combination of classroom study, interspersed with hand on activities and flight operation. There is no cost to Boys & Girls Club of Western Lane County members. All expenses for members are paid by Aero Legends Biplane Rides :HVWHUQ/DQH&RPPXQLW\)RXQGDWLRQ. Teens not already a CLUB member can join for a $25 membership fee and $ Program fee. Date & Hours of Operation: The course will be conducted on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for two consecutive weeks, August UG – August 1th. Class time will be 0800 - 1200 and 1300 – 1500. Lunch will be provided by The Boys & Girls Club. There will be a graduation ceremony and celebration BBQ held on the last day of the Academy at Hangar 26E at noon. All family members are invited to attend. Prior to the graduation ceremony, Academy graduates will take to the skies with a qualified pilot. Families are invited to watch graduates and hear their teen make the radio calls during flight! Instructor: Terry Tomeny is a former USAF and Lockheed Martin Test Pilot and current Flight Instructor with over 45 years of flying experience in aircraft ranging from Reno Air Racers to F-16 Fighters to C-17 Transports. GREAT FUTURES START HERE. OF WESTERN LANE COUNTY Last Chance to Register, Deadline July Applications are available at the Boys & Girls Club Teen Center located at 1501 Airport Road, Florence. Whatever It Takes To Build Great Futures 541-902-0304 www.bgcwlc.org Deadline for Press Releases is every Monday and Thursday by noon. Email PressReleases@TheSiuslawNews.com