Visit Your CVE Clubhouse Library!
By Clubhouse Library Volunteer Lita Andreano
Happy New Year! Wishing all our CVE readers a peaceful, quiet and safe New Year 2025!
Please note that we will open on Monday, January 20th Martin Luther King Day.
For those new to CVE please come in to browse or join our library. It’s located in the Clubhouse lower-level across from the Billiard room, which is located on the shuffleboard courts side of the Clubhouse.
If you have a CVE ID, come in and borrow one of our 5,000+ holdings, read the New York Times, or shop at our variety of boutique items for sale. If you cannot find the book, ask a Library volunteer to assist you. They will look the book up on our tablet. If we have the book, they will let you know where to find it on our shelves. We have two types of circulation.
Reserved Circulation contains our newest books, which are constantly arriving. Becoming a Friend of the Library for an annual $3 donation will allow you to borrow these new books. A Friend may also waitlist-reserve a book currently borrowed. Ask a Reservist how this works. Once interest in a new book diminishes it is placed in Regular Circulation. We have both regular print and large print books. Kindly look at the listings below for the new regular print books.
How do we obtain new books? The library has items available for a donation. Hand painted note cards, artwork, fashion items, etc. The donations from these items are used to purchase new books. Neither CenClub nor Master Management fund the purchase of new library books.
Have donations? The library gladly accepts artwork of any media, puzzles, boutique items, as well as fiction books written in the last 10 years, and non-fiction books in good condition. Your support and assistance, for the purchase of new books for the library, is greatly appreciated.
A convenient book drop box, to the left of the library entrance, is available for use when the library is closed to return and donate books.
Volunteers staff the library in 2-hour shifts for our residents’ and staff’s enjoyment. Would you consider helping to staff the library? Please leave contact information at the library, and CVE Library President, Ruth Schroeder, will contact you. If you are not contacted, please come in or call at (954) 481-2898.
New Books
On order or in our library
Regular Print
Counting Miracles, Nicholas Sparks
Defense Protocol, Tom Clancy, Andrews & Wilson
Disturbing the Bones, Jeff Biggers
Eddie Winston is Looking for Love Marianne Cronin
Gabriel’s Moon, William Boyd
Ghost Soldier, Clive Cussler
Here One Moment, Liane Moriarty
Intermezzo, Sally Rooney
Knife Skills for Beginners, Orlando Murrin
Mr. Einstein’s Secretary, Matthew Reilly
Pretty Dead Things, Lilian West
The Case of the Missing Maid, Rob Osler
The Champagne Letters, Kate Macintosh
The Last One at the Wedding, Jason Rekulak
The Life Impossible, Matt Haig
The Night We Lost Him, Laura Dave
The Seventh Floor, David McCloskey
Trouble Island, Sharon Short
Women’s Hotel, Daniel M. Lavery
Large Print
Passions in Death, J. D Robb
The Dark Wives, Ann Cleeves
Proof, Fern Michaels
Shadow State, Tom Clancy, M. P. Woodward
Safe Enough, Lee Child
The Wedding People, Alison Espach
The Days I Loved You Most, Amy Neff
The Bourne Shadow, Robert Ludlum, Brian Freeman
Joy, Danielle Steel
House of Glass, Sarah Pekkanen
Betrayal Road, Christine Feehan
Calder Country, Janet Dailey
Mind Games, Nora Roberts
Stuart Woods Smolder, Brett Battles
One Perfect Couple, Ruth Ware
For the Love of Summer, Susan Mallery
Tom Clancy Act of Defiance, Brian Andrews
Book Review
Written by Mark Silverman
Quick Silver
By Dean Koontz
I have read many of Dean Koontz books, the vast majority of them start off fast. You’re hooked within the first ten pages. This one, although named “Quick Silver”, was a slow builder. Koontz wants you to get to know the characters, especially the main character, Ouick Silver. The story unravels as the pace quickens. As in the vast majority of his books, there is the hint of something out of this world and this one is no exception. The characters were well developed and you do care about them and they do not disappoint. Quick Silver is a 19 year old orphan with surprising, developing powers. As the story proceeds, you see how the powers develop in each character. It’s an exciting story and I will leave it there so you can proceed to read it and enjoy the satisfying ending.
