The workshops will cover a range of areas designed to help job seekers. The complete schedule is as follows:

• Thursday, September 16 – Resume Writing Review. Attendees will participate in a round table discussion of resume writing in general, including how to address key word search techniques. Chronological and functional resume samples will also be analyzed. Participates are encouraged to bring their existing resumes for confidential one-on-one critique.
• Thursday, September 23 – Cover and Thank You Letter Review. A group discussion and analysis of various letter-writing samples. A review of acceptable formats will be included.
• Thursday, September 30 – Interview Workshop. An interactive and informal question and answer session where participants will role-play typical interview questions and how best to answer them. The seminar will also include ways to avoid job candidates’ most common interview mistakes.
• Thursday, October 7 – Online Job Search and Resume Submittal Workshop. An analysis and discussion of numerous search strategies, including job alerts, job boards, job aggregators and company employment pages. The session will include a discussion of how to best utilize these web sites for submitting one’s resume.
• Thursday, October 14 – Changing Careers: Reinventing Yourself in Today’s Job Market. Transitioning into a new profession can be a challenging and daunting undertaking. This session will explore various strategies to help make the transition from one industry to another a smooth one. This is a group discussion where everyone’s experiences and opinions are welcomed.
• Thursday, October 21 – Salary and Benefits Negotiating. For many, discussing compensation with employers is a risky and uncomfortable endeavor, yet it is imperative that people have the necessary tools to advocate for themselves. Is the salary commensurate with your market value? Can allowances be made with respect to additional vacation time and increased stock options? Strategies will be discussed to help bolster confidence and gain knowledge as it relates to business negotiations.

The employment workshops are funded by the Friends of the Library.

Beebe Library also maintains an extensive Career and College collection with resources for job seekers including guides to writing resumes and cover letters and other aspects of the job search.

For further information, phone 781-246-6334, x102.

The next Supper Sleuths Discussion takes place September 14, 2010 at 6:00pm to 7:30pm in the Lecture Hall.

For our meeting in September, read–at least–the first in each of these series. Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear and The Strange Files of Fremont Jones by Dianne Day. Click here for the list.

Please consider: While reading these two books, compare how the authors deal with character and setting, bearing in mind that Russell’s book is fiction and Wallach’s book is nonfiction.

Janet Wallach’s nonfiction Desert Queen recounts the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, an English adventurer–adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia–who explored the Arab world and helped create the modern Middle East. Mary Doria Russell’s fictional Dreamers of the Day takes place in the wake of the Great War and the devastating influenza pandemic of 1919, forty-year- old Ohio schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin decides to use her inheritance to take a trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land, where she meets T. E. Lawrence and Karl Weilbacher, a charming German spy with an intense interest in Lawrence.

For more information about this group, see the Books By the Lake page.

• Maisie Dobbs (2003)
• Birds of a Feather (2004)
• Pardonable Lies (2005)
• Messenger of Truth (2006)
• An Incomplete Revenge (2008)
• Among the Mad (2009)
• The Mapping of Love and Death (2010)

Dianne Day (Fremont Jones)

• The Strange Files of Fremont Jones (1995)
• Fire and Fog (1996)
• The Bohemian Murders (1997)
• Emperor Norton’s Ghost (1998)
• Death Train to Boston (1999)
• Beacon Street Mourning (2000)

GENERAL

Savage Pastimes: A cultural history of violent entertainment by Harold Schechter. Our culture’s gory past and how it compares to today. 303.6 Schechter

Regarding the pain of others by Susan Sontag. A reappraisal of how we view violence, war, and disaster. 303.6 Sontag

Is Religion Killing Us?: Violence in the Bible and the Quran by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer. 291.5697 Nelson-Pallmeyer

FAMILY VIOLENCE

Insult to Injury: Rethinking our responses to intimate abuse by Linda G. Mills. A paradigm-shifting look at dealing with abusive relationships. 362.8292 Mills

Invisible Scars: How to stop, change or end psychological abuse by Catharine Dowda. NEW 362.8292 Dowda

Healing the trauma of domestic violence : A workbook for women by Edward S. Kubany et al. 362.8292 Kubany

Beyond Bruises: The truth about teens and abuse by Sherri Mabry. For Teens. Children’s

CHILDREN and VIOLENCE

Killing Monsters: Why children need fantasy, super heroes, and make-believe violence by Gerard Jones. 303.6 Jones

Children Who See Too Much by Betsy McAlister Groves. Presenting steps for creating a safer world for kids who observe violence. 303.6 Groves

Lost Boys: Why our sons turn violent and how we can save them by James Gabarino. 303.6 Garbarino

Sugar and Spice and no longer nice: How we can stop girls’ violence by Deborah Prothrow-Stith. 303.6 Prothrow-Stith

See Jane Hit: Why girls are growing more violent and what can be done about it by James Gabarino. 303.6 Garbarino

Books, Blackboards, and Bullets: School shootings and violence in America by Marcel Lebrun. NEW 371.7 Lebrun

Why Kids Kill: Inside the minds of school shooters by Peter Langman. NEW 371.7 Langman

Ceremonial Violence: A psychological explanation of school shootings by Jonathan Fast. 371.7 Fast

BULLYING

Your Child Bully or Victim?: Understanding and ending schoolyard tyranny by Peter Sheras with Sherill Tippins. 649.125 Sheras

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Pre-School to High School: How parents can help break the cycle of violence. by Barbara Coloroso. 371.102 Coloroso

Cyber bullying : Protecting kids and adults from online bullies by Samuel C. McQuade et al. 371.1 McQuade

Bullying beyond the schoolyard : Preventing and responding to cyberbullying by Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. Patchin. 371.7 Hinduja

VIOLENCE and the MEDIA

Grand Theft Childhood: The surprising truth about violent video games and what parents should know by Lawrence Kutner. Parent’s Shelf 302.23 Kutner

Media Violence by David M. Haugen and Susan Musser, eds. Especially for teens, a book presenting opposing viewpoints. Children’s 303.6 Media

The Other Parent: The inside story of the media’s effect on our children by James P. Steyer. Parent’s Shelf 302.23 Steyer

Matthew Pearl’s The Dante Club
In 1865, the preparations of the Dante Club–led by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes–to release the first translation of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy” are threatened by a series of murders that re-create episodes from “Inferno.”

Jim Nisbet’s Syracuse Codex
San Francisco frame maker Danny Kestrel has just driven away from a one-night stand with art patron Renee Knowles when she’s bumped off with a single gunshot, leaving him the main suspect in her killing. Danny investigates Renee’s dealings in the underground antique trade and immediately runs afoul of crooks convinced that she passed him a secret treasure she finagled in her final days. Events eventually lead Danny to an antiquarian text that reveals evidence damning a sixth-century Roman empress for intrigues involving her son and some priceless trinkets. This piece of bravura storytelling grabs you in its helter-skelter narrative frenzy and won’t let go.

Clive Cussler’s Spartan Gold. Written with Grant Blackwood.
Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are shocked to discover a bottle of a rare wine taken from Napoleon’s lost cellar. However, someone else is also searching for this treasure.

Douglas J. Preston’s The Codex
The mysterious disappearance of treasure hunter and adventurer Maxwell Broadbent–along with his riches–sends his three sons on a search for their father, who has hidden himself and his treasures, in order to claim their inheritance.

If history and serial killers are a mix you enjoy:

Jeffrey Ford’s The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
In 1893, the Italian portrait painter Piero Piambo receives a strange commission to paint a New York woman named Mrs. Charbuque, but with the condition that he never see her face. As he begins his strange task with his model hidden behind a screen, Piambo hears the odd stories of her childhood and adolescent life. Outside the studio, women are being murdered in the streets of New York, and Piambo slowly comes to believe that his Mrs. Charbuque and the murders are somehow related.

Also look over the Sure-Bet Historical Epics list

First place in the Adult Category went to Loren Hill, who was inspired by a 1914 colorized postcard or the Rockery.

“It was inviting, almost pastoral, as illustrated by the young lad and his relaxed pose,” Hill wrote, describing the old photo. “Today the area is less inviting. No crosswalks connect to any sidewalks on Main Street. Traffic swirls around it like a swarm of angry hornets. The stone marker has been moved elsewhere to a less prominent spot on the town common. In its stead is the statue of a military figure commemorating the Spanish-American War. Today’s “Young lad” must brave heavy traffic to visit the island on Main Street.”

Thirteen year-old Emma Kraus won first place in the Teen Category. She matched an early 20th century view of Crystal Lake taken from the top of Hart’s Hill. She said that she chose the photo because she lives across the street from Hart’s Hill.
“It was so beautiful until people wrote graffiti all over the rocks and smashed beer bottles,” Emma wrote in her description. “Trees grew in back of the rock so you can’t see the houses on Main Street anymore. You can see the water plant in the right hand corner of the photo. It is still a nice view of Crystal Lake.”

Second Prize in the Adult Category went to Annette Dupon for her “now” photo of the former location of the Wakefield furniture factories on Water Street.

David Bruce won Third Place for his photo of the Rockery.

In the Teen Category, Julia MacDonald took second place for her photo of the YMCA and Baptist Church.

Third Prize went to Emma Kraus for her photo of the Upham House on Main Street at Crystal Lake.

In the Kids’ Category, seven year-old Sophia Bruce won second place for her photo of the YMCA and Baptist Church.

Honorable Mention awards were given to Loren Hill’s photo of the Isaac Green House on Main Street and to David Bruce for his photo of the town historical marker on the Upper Common.

Two Special Awards for Creativity were also given.

One went to Mary Anne Power for her enhanced photo of the YMCA building. The other went to Doug Heath for his image of the Wakefield Park Gates simulating 19th century photo techniques.

All of the entries in the “Wakefield Then & Now” photo contest are on display at Beebe Library on the main floor near the Reference Desk.

Adams, Harold (Carl Wilcox)

• Lead so I can follow (1999)

Hard to find or buy. Not recommended by SS readers.

Burke, Alafair (Samantha Kincaid)

• Judgment calls (2003)
• Missing justice (2004)
• Close case (2005)

Burke, James Lee (Dave Robicheaux)

• Heaven’s prisoners (2002)

Bush, Nancy (Jane Kelly)

• Candy apple red (2005)

Carr, Caleb

• Angel of darkness (1997)
• Italian secretary: a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes
  (2005)

Clark, Clare

• Nature of monsters (2007)

Davis, Lindsey (Marcus Didius Falco)

• Body in the bathhouse (2003)

Grabenstein, Chris (John Ceepek)

• Tilt a whirl (2006)

Penney, Stef

• Tenderness of wolves (2007)

Schwegel, Theresa (Samantha Mack)

• Officer down (2006)

Smiley, Patricia (Tucker Sinclair)

• Cool cache (2008)

Wilson, Laura

• A Little death (2000)

Hard to find or buy.

Suggestions taken from Barry Trott’s Read on…Crime Fiction (2008) Libraries Unlimited.

Bochco, Steven (Eddie Jelko) (Hollywood)

• Death by Hollywood (2003)

Connelly, Michael (Harry Bosch) (Laurel Canyon & the Hollywood Hills)

• Black echo (1992)
• Black ice (1993)
• Concrete blond (1994)
• Last coyote (1995)
• Trunk Music (1996)
• Angels flight (1998)
• Darkness more than night (2000)
• City of bones (2002)
• Lost light (2003)
• Narrows (2004)
• Closers (2005)
• Echo Park (2006)
• Overlook (2007)
• 9 Dragons (2009)
• Reversal (2010)

Robert Crais (Elvis Cole) (Laurel Canyon & the Hollywood Hills)

• The Monkey’s Raincoat (1987)
• Stalking the Angel (1988)
• Lullaby Town (1992)
• Free Fall (1993)
• Voodoo River (1995)
• Sunset Express (1996)
• Indigo Slam (1997)
• L.A. Requiem (1999)
• The Last Detective (2003)
• The Forgotten Man (2005)
• Chasing Darkness (2008)
• also The Watchman, Joe Pike (2007)

Ellroy, James (L.A. Quartet) (L.A.)

• Black Dahlia (1987)
• Big nowhere (1988)
• L.A. confidential (1990)
• White jazz (1992)

Ferrigno, Robert (Jimmy Gage) (Hollywood)

• Flinch (2001)
• Scavenger hunt (2003)

Kaminsky, Stuart (Toby Peters) (Hollywood)

• Bullet for a star (1977)
• Murder on the Yellow Brick Road (1977)
• You bet your life (1978)
• The Howard Hughes affair (1979)
• Never cross a vampire (1980)
• High midnight (1981)
• Catch a falling clown (1981)
• He done her wrong (1983)
• Fala Factor (1984)
• Down for the count (1985)
• Man who shot Lewis Vance (1986)
• Smart moves (1986)
• Think fast, Mr. Peters (1987)
• Buried Caesars (1989)
• Poor butterfly (1990)
• Melting clock (1991)
• Devil met a Lady (1993)
• Tomorrow is another day (1995)
• Dancing in the dark (1996)
• Fatal glass of beer (1997)
• Few minutes past midnight (2001)
• To catch a spy (2002)
• Mildred Pierced (2003)
• Now you see it (2004)

Kellerman, Faye (Rina Lazarus & Peter Decker) (West Valley)

• Ritual bath (1986)
• Sacred and profane (1987)
• Milk and honey (1990)
• Day of Atonement (1991)
• False prophet (1992)
• Grievous sin (1993)
• Sanctuary (1994)
• Justice (1995)
• Prayers for the dead (1996)
• Serpent’s tooth (1997)
• Jupiter’s bones (1998)
• Stalker (1999)
• Forgotten (2000)
• Stone kiss (2001)
• Street dreams (2002)
• Burnt house (2003)
• Mercedes coffin (2004)
• Blindman’s bluff (2005)
• Hangman (2010)

Kellerman, Jonathan (Alex Delaware) (Hollywood)

• When the bough breaks (1985)
• Blood test (1986)
• Over the edge (1987)
• Silent partner (1989)
• Time bomb (1990)
• Private eyes (1991)
• Devil’s waltz (1992)
• Bad love (1993)
• Self defense (1994)
• The Web (1995)
• The Clinic (1996)
• Survival of the fittest (1997)
• Monster (1999)
• Doctor Death (2000)
• Flesh and blood (2001)
• Murder book (2002)
• Cold heart (2003)
• Therapy (2004)
• Rage (2005)
• Gone (2006)
• Obsession (2007)
• Compulsion (2008)
• Bones (2008)
• Evidence (2009)
• Deception (2010)

Leonard, Elmore (Chili Palmer) (Hollywood)

• Get Shorty (1990)
• Be cool (1999)

Martini, Steve (Paul Madriani) (San Diego)

• Compelling evidence (1992)
• Prime witness (1993)
• Undue influence (1994)
• The judge (1995)
• The attorney (1999)
• The jury (2001)
• The arraignment (2002)
• Double tap (2005)
• Shadow of power (2008)
• Guardians of lies (2009)
• Rule of nine (2010)

Mosley, Walter  (Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins) (South Central L.A.)

• Devil in a blue dress (1990)
• Red death (1991)
• White butterfly (1992)
• Black Betty (1994)
• Little yellow dog (1996)
• Gone fishin’ (1997)
• Bad boy Brawly Brown (2002)
• Six easy pieces: Short Stories (2003)
• Little Scarlet (2004)
• Cinnamon kiss (2005)
• Blonde faith (2008)

(Socrates Fortlow) (South Central L.A.)

• Always outnumbered (1997)
• Walking the dog (1999)
• Right mistake (2008)

Parker, T. Jefferson (Merci Rayborn) (Orange County)

• Blue hour (1999)
• Red light (2000)
• Black water (2002)

Seranella, Barbara (Munch Mancini) (Santa Monica)

• No human involved (1997)
• No offense intended (1999)
• Unwanted company (2000)
• Unfinished business (2001)
• No man standing (2002)
• Unpaid dues (2003)
• Unwilling accomplice (2004)
• Unacceptable death (2005)

Shannon, John (Jack Liffey) (South Central L.A.)

• Concrete River (1996)
• Cracked earth (1999)
• Poison sky (2000)
• Orange curtain (2001)
• Streets of fire (2002)
• City of strangers (2003)
• Terminal Island (2004)
• Dangerous games (2005)
• Dark streets (2006)
• Devils of Bakersfield (2007)
• Palos Verdes blues (2008)
• On the nickel (2010)

Smith, April (Ana Grey) (Santa Monica)

• North of Montana (1994)
• Good Morning, Killer (2003)
• Judas horse (2008)

Stansberry, Domenic. (Jim Thompson) (Hollywood)

• Chasing the dragon (2004)
• Big boom (2006)
• Ancient rain (2008)
• Naked moon (2010)

Wambaugh, Joseph

• New Centurions (1970) (Los Angeles)
• Blue Knight (1972) (Los Angeles)
• Choirboys (1975) (Los Angeles)
• Black marble (1977) (Los Angeles)
• Glitter dome (1981) (Hollywood)
• Delta star (1983) (Los Angeles)
• Secrets of Harry Bright (1985)  (Los Angeles)
• Golden orange (1990) (Orange County)
• Fugitive nights (1992) (Palm Springs)
• Finnegan’s Week (1993) (San Diego)
• Floaters (1996) (San Diego)
• Hollywood Station (2006) (Hollywood)
• Hollywood Crows (2008) (Hollywood)
• Hollywood moon (2009) (Hollywood)

Wilson, John Morgan (Benjamin Justice) (Hollywood)

• Simple justice (1996)
• Revision of justice (1997)
• Justice at risk (1999)
• Limits of justice (2000)
• Blind eye (2003)
• Moth and flame (2004)
• Rhapsody in blood (2006)
• Spider season (2008)

Woods, Paula L. (Charlotte Justice) (Hollywood)

• Inner city blues (1999)
• Stormy weather (2001)
• Dirty laundry (2003)
• Strange bedfellows (2006)