Visit Your CVE Clubhouse Library!

 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. We are open Monday thru Thursday from 10:00am to 2:00pm. We will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 27^th for Thanksgiving.  

    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 sells items that have been donated. We have hand painted note cards, puzzles, artwork, jewelry and fashion items, etc. The funds we receive from these items are used to purchase new books. Neither CenClub nor Master Management fund the purchase of our 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/or 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 Fiction Books-Regular Print

On order or in our library

​Spitfires, NF, Becky Aikman

End Game, Jeffrey Archer

My Friends, Fredrik Backman

The Secret of Secrets, Dan Brown

Cry Havoc, Jack Carr

Terminal Velocity, Tom Clancy

The Grave Artist, Jeffery Deaver

L.A. Women, Ella Berman

Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure, Rhys Bowen

Sing Me Home to Carolina, Joy Callaway

The Correspondent, Virginia Evans

Calder Strong, Janet Dailey

Guilty by Definition, Susie Dent

Denied Access, Vince Flynn

Circle of Days, Ken Follett

The Killer Question, Janice Hallett

Amity, Nathan Harris

Dead Man Blues, S.D. House

Overkill, J.A. Jance

The Girl from Devil’s Lake, J.A .Jance

Shoot or Cut Bait, William Johnstone

What We Can Know, Ian McEwan

The Intruder, Freida McFadden

Code Blue, Fern Michaels

The Irish Goodbye, Heather Aimee O’Neill

Billon-Dollar Ransom, James Patterson

The Black Wolf, Louise Penny

Framed in Death, J.D. Robb

For Richer or Poorer, Danielle Steele

The Portrait, Danielle Steele

The Heir, Darcie Wilde

Non-Fiction Books-Regular Print

107 Days, BIO, Kamala Harris

History Matters, David McCullough

Confronting Evil, Bill O’Reilly

Book Review

Written by Hilary Nachbar

The Unraveling of Julia

Filled with intrigue and mystery, this book has many twists and turns. It starts out with the main character, Julia, facing sudden widowhood at a young age. Fate takes a turn for the better when Julia receives unexpected news that she has inherited a fortune and a villa in Italy. Julia was adopted and had no information on her biological family. Her benefactor is a lady named Emily Rossi. Once Julia arrives in Italy, the mystery begins. Emily is a very strange person and the more Julia researches the Rossi family, the more perplexing it becomes. 

Julia feels as she is in the twilight zone. Unusual things keep happening to Julia. It is hard for her to distinguish

between reality and fantasy. The more she delves into the Rossi family the more puzzling it gets. The past also collides with the present. Her husband was murdered during a robbery. This mystery follows her to Italy as well. Was the Rossi family hiding some horrific secrets, or is there a sane explanation for all she is uncovering?

Will Julia find happiness after all or will she unravel? I highly recommend you read this novel and find out. Lisa Scotolini is at her best in this ‘can’t put it down’ story.