Visit Your CVE Clubhouse Library in October

By Clubhouse Library Staff Lita Andreano

Where is the CVE Library? It’s 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 through Thursday 10am to 2pm. The library will be closed September 2nd for Labor Day, as well as for the upcoming Jewish High Holy Days.

If you have a CVE ID, come in and borrow one of our 5,000+ holdings, read the New York Times, or look at our 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 and large print 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.

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 CVE Master Management fund the purchase of new library books.

Have donations? The library gladly accepts artwork of any media and 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.

New Books

Regular Print         

Intermezzo, Sally Rooney

Ghost Soldier, Clive Cussler

Counting Miracles, Nicholas Sparks

Here One Moment, Liane Moriarty

The Life Impossible, Matt Haig

The Night We Lost Him, Laura Dave

Passions in Death, J. D. Robb

Capture or Kill, Vince Flynn

Confronting the Presidents, Bill O’Reilly

On the Hunt, Iris Johansen

Den of Iniquity, J. A. Jance

A Place to Hide, Ronald H. Balson

Lies He Told me, James Patterson

An Eye for An Eye, Jeffrey Archer

Buzz Kill, Robert Parker

Connie: A Memoir, Connie Chung

Angel of Vengeance, Douglas Preston

When the Sea Came Alive, Garrett M. Graff

All the Colors of the Dark, Chris Whitaker

The Art of Power, Nancy Pelosi

Shadow of Doubt, Brad Thor

By Any Other Name, Jodi Picoult

Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout

Fatal Intrusion, Jeffery Deaver

Hard to Kill, James Patterson, Mike Lupica

Long Island Compromise, Taffy Brodesser-Anker

The Jig is Up, Lisa Q. Mathews

Joy, Danielle Steel

Arkangel, James Rollins

This is Why We Lied, Karin Slaughter

Tom Clancy Shadow State, M.P. Woodward

The Art Thief, Michael Finkel

The Love of My Afterlife, Kristy Greenwood

A Death in Cornwall, Daniel Silva

Book Review

The Sign of Four

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (In our Literature section)

Sherlock Holmes is the most popular fictitious figure ever written about. Watson wrote about this adventure in 1890, and nowhere would you feel as if you are living in London more than a Holmes story.  It begins, as many Sherlock Holmes stories do, in the famous address of 221B Baker Street.  It’s a cold, rainy day in London, when Mary Morstan arrives, desperately seeking advice from the “worlds only consulting detective”.  It appears that she has been getting a very expensive gift sent to her, once a year for the past number of years and she has no idea who has been sending it to her. The night before she received a letter stating to meet an unknown person at a particular location, and everything will be explained to her.  The letter told her to bring somebody that she feels safe with and she knows about Holmes’s reputation because he had helped a friend of hers before. Holmes’s incredible talent for the art of deduction is on full display throughout this story. His ability to find clues that are visible to no one else. All of his unique faculties are shown here. And yes, you will even hear about his usage of a “7% solution.”