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Read a Digital Magazine

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Greenwood Public Library is pleased to offer over 75 magazines in digital format so that you can read them in your browser or on your phone, tablet, or e-reader. Start reading right now online or on the Libby/OverDrive App on your device.  Whether it’s health and style, technology and business, gardening and art, or cooking, culture and hobbies, we’ve got you covered. Go ahead and explore – it’s all free with your library card!

If you have a specific magazine in mind, check out the complete list of magazines on eIndiana Digital Consortium!  You can check these out for 7, 14, or 21 days and they don’t count against your 10-item checkout limit.

Featured eIndiana Digital Magazines include:

Cardmaking and Papercraft                                  History Revealed

Home Business Magazine                                      New York Magazine

Reminisce                                                            Smart Photography

Taste of Home                                                      Yoga Journal

 

Last, but not least, here at the library, we have a pretty good selection of print magazines available for checkout. From time to time we like to give that collection a boost. Recently we added three new print magazines.

The Atlantic monthly is a literary and cultural commentary magazine that published leading writers’ commentary on the abolition of slavery, education, and other major issues in contemporary political affairs.

 

 

 

 

Family Handyman is a DIYers best friend, offering a variety of print and digital resources for do-it-yourself homeowners.

 

 

 

 

 

HGTV Magazine offers the best design tips for decorating, remodeling, and organizing your home, plus Insider secrets from your favorite HGTV stars

 

 

 

 

 

So stop on by the library to check out these featured new magazines or any other ones that catch your fancy.

 

 

Review: The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+

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The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+: Winning Strategies to Make Your Money Last A Lifetime
by Suze Orman
4 stars

So, you have just turned 50. You’ve worked for decades, saving money away, planning for that special time that is retirement. Are you worried? Have I saved enough? Should I sale my house and live on a boat? What if I get sick? How can I make my money last? Suze Orman’s book provides a wealth of information on personal finance that can help guide you through the myriad of questions that comes with retirement. What will retirement look like? Suze tell us to plan for retirement to last twenty to thirty years and to have multiple streams of revenue to cope with the ever changing landscape of retirement. Then, using easy to understand language, she begins to explain the various types of investments – IRA, Roth IRA, stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Orman just makes it easy! She talks about how taxes and adult children will affect our retirement accounts and I thought who thinks about that? She tells us to start laying out all the various pieces for retirement at age 50 to build a cohesive plan and she does counsel if all of this seems daunting to seek out a qualified financial planner. It’s not a crime to not understand. She calls us warriors! I love that she just brutally says, “Who cares about your money more than you do? The answer is no one. What happens to your money directly affects the quality of life” “The only way to conquer fear is through action” Her practical examples and stories from her own life are so interesting. Recommend!

 

Read alikes:

Retirement 101 by Michele Cagan, CPA

How to make your money last: the indispensable retirement guide by Jane Bryant Quinn.

Answers to 100 frequently asked questions about social security retirement benefits by John Weber

 

Review: An American Marriage

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An American Marriage
by Marisa De Los Santos
4 stars

Celestial and Roy, a young, successful couple from Atlanta, have been married for just over a year when Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years in jail for a crime he did not commit while visiting his parents in Louisiana. The author lets the reader know he is innocent because he was with his wife at the time. With both of their lives upturned, Celestial remains loyal to her husband, but after a few years, she finds herself adrift and turns to her childhood friend Andre for comfort. Then suddenly, after five years, Roy’s conviction is overturned and he returns to face Celestial and Andre while trying to figure out where he belongs. Roy, Celestial and Andre are each given a voice in alternating chapters, which pulls the reader back and forth weaving a complex of emotions for the reader on who to side while tugging at our emotions. I really thought this book was going to be about our broken judicial system in regards to racial inequality and mass incarceration, and while those topics were explored some, the story is really about the quiet devastation of a marriage that maybe wasn’t as solid as we all thought. I thought the story was beautifully written and I found myself rereading different passages because I was moved by the strength and flow of her words. Recommend.

 

Read alikes:

The Mars Room: a novel by Rachel Kushner

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

 

April is National Car Care Month

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The Greenwood Public Library has resources available to help you take care of your car while you are at home, including ChiltonLibrary.  National Car Care Month brings attention to the importance of car repair and preventative maintenance. Because it is always good to get your car ready for spring and winter, there are two car care months: National Car Care Month in April and Fall Car Care Month in October.  

Use our auto repair database ChiltonLibrary to find diagnostic and repair information on tons of vehicles.  Resources offered are automotive diagnostic and repair information, technical service bulletins, printable wiring diagrams, and ASE test prep quizzes for the most popular certification exams. A print button is available which allows you to easily print out what is needed. Select your year, make, and model, and you can start problem solving from the comfort of home by logging in with a GPL Evergreen library card at http://www.greenwoodlibrary.us/online-databases

Also, if you are in the market to purchase a new or used car you can visit the “Buying Guides” from Consumer Reports and use their ratings to select a new or used car.  Consumer Reports not only reviews cars, they also provide reviews and ratings on tires, car batteries, wiper blades, and more. Available for free through Inspire at http://www.greenwoodlibrary.us/online-databases

 

Review: I’ll Be Your Blue Sky

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I’ll Be Your Blue Sky
by Marisa De Los Santos
4 stars

Would you ever decide to not get married based on a conversation with a total stranger? This is what happens when Clare Hobbes runs into a mysterious elderly woman named Edith Herron, at the hotel in Virginia where she is to be married that afternoon and after talking with Edith decides to call off the wedding. Three weeks later, Clare learns that Edith has died and that she has inherited Edith’s old house called Blue Sky House along the Delaware coast. The story moves between Clare in present time and Edith’s difficult life in the 1950’s. Clare is surprised to find that the house has been vacant for years, but still has pictures of Edith and her beloved, long-dead husband Joseph on the walls. As she is exploring the house, Clare finds some boxes and mysterious ledgers and begins to research the history of this old inn learning of a decades-old dark secret. I felt this book was about making connections, looking at loss and about the family we have. Some parts of this book were sad and hard to read. This was #3 in the series (Love Walked In) but you don’t have to read them in order.  I didn’t!  Recommend.

Read-alikes

The Violets of March by Sarah Jio

Inheriting Edith by Zoe Fishman

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb