PVLD Adult Services Blog

Thank You!

Researchers have found that expressions of thanks promote health and happiness, and might help people actually feel better.  Gratitude leads people to act in virtuous or more selfless ways, and builds social support, which is tied to both physical and psychological well being. Research shows that those who offer thanks are less envious and resentful.  They [...]

National Book Awards

The National Book Foundation honored the best American books of the year last night in New York City. The National Book Award for Fiction was awarded to Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin– “a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.” T. J. [...]

Recommended Winter Reading

The Independent newspaper of Great Britain recently published a list of 50 best winter reads.  You can click on the following images for those which are a part of our collection:

Staff Suggestions

At the Peninsula Center Library, you can find recommended reading on the new book shelves closest to the reference desk.  Staff members have chosen some of their favorite books, fiction and nonfiction, and have included reviews.  Check it out, for literary endorsements based on personal reading experience.

Energy and the Environment

Our new book display next to the circulation desk at Peninsula Center features energy and the environment.  At a time of apparent climate change and dwindling natural resources, we’ve all become sensitized to issues of conservation and the size of carbon footprints.  Check out the display and find materials addressing such individual decisions as getting rid [...]

Wimp Power

The latest installment in the children’s series Diary of a Wimpy Kid recently displaced Dan Brown’s powerhouse The Lost Symbol at the top of the bestseller lists.  Dog Days is Jeff Kinney’s fourth book of musings by Greg Heffley, his fictitious (but instantly recognizable) self-absorbed middle-schooler. Young readers (especially boys) are taken with Greg’s average [...]