Welcome to the Galiano Island Community Library.
2540 Sturdies Bay Road
(across from Trincomali Bakery)
Galiano Island, BC
(250) 539-2141
Open Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 11 am - 2:00 PM
NOTE: The library has a new website (http://zope.bclibrary.ca/sgicl/galiano). Please bookmark the new website address. This website will be shutting down.
The library is staffed and managed entirely by volunteers. New volunteers are always welcome.
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4. Inter-library loan request forms
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Using Your Card: Your library card must be presented each time you wish to borrow materials. You are responsible for all materials borrowed on your card. Notify the library immediately if your card is lost or stolen. The charge for replacing a card is $2.00. Please keep your card up to date by telling the library if you move.
Young Patrons: Children and young adults are encouraged to enjoy the privileges of a library card. Guardians are responsible for choice of materials borrowed by young patrons and for any fines or damages.
Loan Periods: You may check out materials for a period of three weeks. You may renew all but "new" materials once for three more weeks.
Returning Materials: Please return borrowed materials to the front desk when the library is open. After hours, you may use the returns slot near the front door.
Maximum Number of Borrowed Materials: You may have out on loan up to six items (up to three "new" items and three videos) at any time.
Overdue Materials: To keep library materials available for everyone, the library asks that you return materials on time. If you keep materials past the due date, you will be charged a fine of $.50 per item per day. Fines will not accrue on days the library is closed. Patrons with excessive fines will be asked to clear the fines before borrowing additional materials.
Lost and Damaged Materials: You are responsible for lost or damaged materials. You may either pay the replacement cost set by the library or purchase a replacement on your own and give it to the library.
Contributing to Your Library: You may also donate new or used books to the library collection. The library accepts books on Thursdays between 10 AM and Noon.
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May 2008
NEW IN NON-FICTION:
Garlic and Sapphires: the secret life of a critic in disguise by Ruth
Reichl
I must admit, it has taken me a while to warm to Ms Reichl, editor in chief
of Gourmet Magazine. In this - her third - title, we follow the agonies and
hysteria of not just any New York Times columnist, but the most influential
restaurant critic in the United States. Mistress of disguise, plagued by bouts
of self-doubt, this intelligent foodie will ultimately convince you that you
never want to be eating someone else’s cooking for a living.
Food, Sex, and Salmonella: why our food is making us sick by Dr David
Waltner-Toews.
Food-borne disease is not tops for many readers, but I think this is the best
written book I’ve sampled all year. I dare you to read a paragraph and
not be hooked. There’s plenty of enchantment in tapeworms, botulism, salmonella
and radioactive contaminants. Imagine you are with Capt George Vancouver on
June 15, 1793 very close to Galiano Island. You and the crew take a feed of
mussels without asking the locals. Dr W-T tells it, ”This episode shows
once again that not asking questions (1) is a male thing and (2) may have bad
consequences.” Enjoy your fill of some of the tastiest reading this season.
The Pie and Pastry Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum.
What more can we say? This is the ultimate authority on “easy as pie”.
From meringue to custards, filo, quiche and cream puffs, you’ll find a
fool-proof method and authentic ingredients here. Think local and seasonal:
bring on the asparagus flans and strawberry tarts.
On Food and Cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen by Harold McGee.
Every serious foodie should have a browse through this book. While encyclopedic
in scope, individual entries have all the charm and grace of a good essay. Respect
for tradition leads to eye-opening enlightenment from food chemistry and botany.
Plus great handy hints. What’s a safe way to prepare a rare hamburger?
Imagine, pumpernickel in Westphalian dialect means the devil’s fart! Learn
how each ingredient in your bread recipe works to change the final loaf. Find
out about the bad rap MSG has developed over the last hundred years since its
derivation from dried kombu seaweed. The science of flavours and aromas truly
transform the silly jargon of educated palates (think reviews written by wine,
tea, fruit and chocolate epicures). Your culinary questions of WHAT?, HOW?,
and WHY? will find an answers in this 800+ page treasure. And I’ll bet
your cooking skills improve, too.
March 2008
NEW IN NON-FICTION:
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
This unusual small book will lead you to through our desire to travel, to get
away from the familiar. The author engages Gustave Flaubert, Edward Hopper,
Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Van Gogh and Ruskin to accompany us as guides in an
intellectual journey that is sometimes funny, often surprising and usually thought-provoking.
This is not a travel guide, but more a philosophical and aesthetic travelogue.
The compelling illustrations ease the way, too.
A Cook’s Tour: in search of the perfect meal by Anthony Bourdain
From Portuguese pig slaughter to cobra-chomping in Saigon, here is a wild and
rude romp with the chef-brat let loose to star in his own Food Network series.
Beyond reach for most foodies, the rare, legendary and sometimes dangerous are
Bourdain’s prey for this trip. You’ll likely be appalled, amused,
offended, nauseated and certainly entertained.
History of Photography by Peter Turner
Photographer, curator, critic and lobbyist, Peter Turner was an advocate for
photographic artists. Twenty years ago he assembled and published this magnificent
record of photography’s origins and its creative heights through the 19th
and 20th centuries. The early days are well recorded, as is a great variety
of photographic forms, from snap shot to scientific imagery. Prepare to be astounded
and delighted.
Landscaping with Stone by Sunset Books.
This is a guide to building natural-looking paths, steps, walls, water features,
and rock gardens.
Container Gardening for Canada by Laura Peters, Alison Beck & Don
Williamson (2007)
This book is an easy to use hands-on guide featuring 548 plants to dazzle and
inspire gardeners: it’s equally useful to those with large properties or
small patios. Well illustrated and full of common sense tips.
Butterflies and Butterfly Gardening in the Pacific Northwest by Mary
Kate Woodward.
Written by a landscaper/artist, this beautifully illustrated and informative
book is designed to help gardeners create butterfly habitat. Especially useful
to those interested in enhancing natural habitat and working with nature.
Rustic Garden Furniture & Accessories by Daniel Mack & Thomas
Stender.
This is a guide to making chairs, planters, bird houses, gates and more using
basic woodworking techniques and very few tools. Whether you create a log candleholder
or a log arbor this is a chance to reconnect with nature by building beautiful
accessories from branches and saplings collected on your property.
West Coast Gardening: Natural Insect, Weed & Disease Control by
Linda A. Gilkeson. Ph.D. (2006)
This guide, with over 130 illustrations and photographs was written for west
coast gardeners. It describes safe, effective ways to control pests, prevent
pest problems and make allies with beneficial insects. It also covers mites,
diseases and weeds in vegetables, fruit trees, lawns, roses and ornamentals.
February 2008
NEW IN NON-FICTION:
Empty Casing: a soldier’s memoir of Sarajevo under siege by Fred
Doucette.
General Romeo Dallaire’s forward vouches for this testament of brutal discord
between battlefield and home leave. While not brilliantly written, this is a
deeply honest account of the beginning, middle and continuity of Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder. What Bosnian peacekeepers like Doucette brought home to Canada
is still a risk for our military in Afghanistan. Political and military leaders,
and perhaps all of us, need to experience this intimate journal.
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a window into human nature, by Steven
Pinker.
Fascinating, entertaining and erudite too, this best-selling author explores
words and usage to discover the way we perceive, process and imagine our world.
Sources include William Shakespeare, Google, John Cleese, Elvis Presley, Immanuel
Kant, Hollywood, Chiapas Mayans, Euclidian geometry, pop music and scholarly
semantics. If you love words (which of course you do as a library patron) you
will find great joy here.
Secret Ingredients: the New Yorker book of food and drink, edited by
David Remnick.
A favourite magazine’s current editor digs into the archives for choice
pieces from the 1920’s to 2005 to serve up nearly 600 pages of delectable
food writing and cartoons. Enjoy the smorgasbord! In Defense of Food: an eater’s
manifesto by Michael Pollan.
The celebrated author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma opens this brief volume
with simple advice to Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants. Food science and
industrialization led us away from what was good for us to eat, to doubt our
diets and then to seek answers from fear-based nutritionism. Pollan advocates
returning to the table to enjoy real, well-grown and unprocessed food to honour
tradition and ecology -- and health.
The Herbal Kitchen: cooking with fragrance and flavor by Jerry Traunfeld.
In the ‘burbs of Seattle, the Herbfarm Restaurant gained an much-vaunted
reputation for excellence in local and seasonal fare, for a pretty price. Happily,
this collection is full of economical and straightforward recipes that rely
on herbs that are easy to grow on Galiano. Chef Traunfeld serves up every course
from the garden with recipes for a crowd, or just you. Time to plant now, and
feast soon.
Birds of the Raincoast: habits and habitat by Harvey Thommasen and Kevin
Huchings.
Beautiful photography, lovingly reproduced on glossy paper is the seduction,
but this is so much more. Enjoy an excellent introduction for new birders and
an advanced course in field studies for experienced folks. Each chapter walks
us through the major landscapes of coastal BC to describe a seasonal cycle of
our most familiar species and many who stealth just beyond easy sighting. You
will learn about the lives of birds whose home we share.
Vegetables Every Day: the definitive guide to buying and cooking today’s
produce, with more than 350 recipes by Jack Bishop.
This is a FRESH approach to the vegetable market from A to Z. You learn about
how to select the best and handle them with care. Searching for new vegetable
choices? Kohlrabi and salsify make appearances, along with mustard greens and
arugula, too. Classic Italian cuisine lends many recipes its time-honoured respect
for veg. Good taste triumphs. Enjoy!
An Apple a Day: the myths, misconceptions and truths about the foods we
eat by Joe Schwarcz.
Thought you knew your free-radicals from your celiac triggers? Separating sense
from nonsense is this Canadian chemist’s drive in debunking eating rules
you thought you knew all about. Packed chapters examine “natural”
health foods, manipulated foods, contaminants and “miracle” foods.
This is an easy to digest survey of the latest international nutritional research.
You will enjoy the clear writing style and common sense that make this a must-read
for any health-conscious eater. Isn’t that you?
The Nasty Bits: collected varietal cuts, usable trim, scraps, and bones
by Anthony Bourdain.
Our favourite bad-boy-chef offers us a collection of snarky and outrageous essays
from recent globe-trotting. If you didn’t catch them in Gourmet, Esquire
or the Financial Times, here you go. Bonus items are never-before published,
but always naughty.
JANUARY, 2008
NEW IN FICTION:
The Gathering – Anne Enright. The nine surviving siblings of the Hegarty family are in Dublin to bury their brother Liam who walked into the ocean to end his pain. 2007 Booker Prize winner
Cheating at Canasta – William Trevor. Typically excellent collection of short stories wins consistently high praise.
The Ghost – Robert Harris (Enigma, The Fatherland). A political thriller and, the reviews suggest, a rollicking good read.
The Almost Moon – Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones). A harrowing story of euthanasia. Not a happy read but a brutally affecting one. Praised by The Literary Review.
Sweetest Dream – Doris Lessing. a shimmering, solidly wrought, deeply felt portrait of a divorced "earth" mother and her passel of teenage live-ins.
Delirium – Maya Jaggi. Guardian review: "set in a sexually repressive and unstable country, this haunting novel by accomplished Colombian author... presents her unhinged heroine as a true mirror of a damaged and deranged society"
Agent Zigzag – Ben MacIntyre. John LeCarre says "superb WW ll story".
Life Class – Pat Barker. Three ambitious young artists are caught up in the cataclysm of World War I.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid. Philip Pullman says "more exciting than any thriller I've read in a long time".
The Echo Maker – Richard Powers. Margaret Atwood says "grand novel - grand in its reach, grand in its themes, grand in its patterning".
Turtle Valley – Gail Anderson Dargatz. Set in BC’s Shuswap-Thompson area during a raging wildfire that threatens the valley, the story that evolves is part mystery, part romance, part ghost story.
Diary of a Bad Year – JM Coetzee. Nobelist Coetzee's 19th book features a stand-in for himself: Senor C, a white 72-year-old South African writer living in Australia. Sprinkled throughout the story are essays on music, the origin of the state, Machiavelli, intelligent design and Al-Quaida.
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon. The story, told through the eyes of a police inspector investigating a murder, is set in an imagined Jewish community in Alaska.
Poetry
Native Poetry In Canada – edited by Jeannette Armstrong and Lally Grauer.
Fall 2007
NEW IN NON-FICTION:
Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: a History of Food Fears by Madeleine Ferrières
(2006).
This serious study by an eminent French academic examines the “dilemma
of humans torn between the necessity of finding other food sources and the danger
of ingesting toxic substances.” Along this journey you will trace the origin
of ancient and modern butchering rules, the perennial suspicion of new plants
on our plate and what brought the plague to 17th century Venice. Whet your appetite
on toxically colored foods, bone flour substituted for the wheat variety and
the curious quandary of cat pâté. Highly readable and an intelligent
lesson on what our tastes at the table tells us about our humanity through the
ages.
Chew on This: everything you don’t want to know about fast food
by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson (2006).
The author of Fast Food Nation brings his critical thinking to young adults.
When the young person in your life whines for a Big Mac or ultra-caffeine pop,
have them chomp into this winner. They’ll quickly see how their society,
their health and their spending money are exploited by an industry that rolls
over customer, worker and farmer alike.
The Olive Route: a Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean
by Carol Drinkwater (2006).
The armchair traveller and foodie alike will enjoy this gutsey post-9/11 solo
journey around the Med through Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and north Africa
to discover the places and people that make up olive culture. Highly readable,
vivid and exciting.
Indian Home Cooking: a fresh introduction to indian food by Suvir Saran
and Stephanie Lyness (2004).
Guaranteed to step up your lack-luster cooking repertoire, here is a marvelous
guide to bring authentic ingredients and techniques from the Sub-Continent to
your kitchen. Vegetarians and carnivores will both be pleased with more than
150 recipes written for the adventurous cook in a modern North American kitchen.
Especially nice to have a great variety of appetizers, snacks, breads, pickles,
chutneys, sweets and drinks to meet all your needs. Excellent clear instructions
and lots of cultural insight offered.
Low-fat No-fat Mediterranean edited by Anne Sheaby (2005). Don’t be put off by the earnest title; this is a great cookbook for GOOD food, regardless of fat content. Here are scrumptious offerings from coastal Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Morocco for the simplest or most elaborate meal. All of the recipes offer a nutritional analysis per serving and simple, well-illustrated instructions. Follow these traditions to eat well for a healthy heart and happy long life.
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If you know of a new baby in our community please let us know so we can welcome them in our own special way.
Call Willow at 539-5020 for more information.
New Children's books in the Library
NOVEMBER, 2006
Jesse's Star by Ellen Schwartz is a BC 2000 Book Award selection in which the main character discovers a great deal about his family's Jewish roots. When Jesse has to do a family report for school and can't get the information he needs he resorts to rummaging through an old trunk in the attic. At first he is disappointed then,when he puts the Star-of-David on a chain he has found around his neck, something unexpectedhappens.Ages 8 - 11
A Kind of Courage by Colleen Heffernan. "Heffernan has produced a compelling novel that not only offers emotional glimpses of life and death on the First World War Front but also sensitively sheds light on an often overlooked aspect of the Home Front-- the life of the conscientious objector" Linda Granfield from the cover. Ages 12+
I Am A Taxi by Deborah Ellis. The highly acclaimed author of the Breadwinner Trilogy now takes us to the notorious San Sebastion Women's Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia in the first of the Cocalero Novels. Home for Diego is a cramped cell that he shares with his mother and little sister, he works as a "taxi" running errands for other prisoners to help support his family. Although he tries to stay away from trouble, a stroke of bad luck pitches him headlong into the worst kind and takes him deep into the heart of the jungle. Ages 11-14
Anna's Goat by Janice Kulyk Keefer. "Based on a true story of WW2 Anna's goat is a moving statement about the refugee experience, told from a child's unique point of view. " from the book jacket. Beautifully illustrated by Janet Wilson . Picture book. Ages 4+
For Every Child produced by UNICEF with a forward by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The rights of the child in words and pictures.In November 1989 the United Nations formally adopted fifty-four principles that make up the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Fourteen of the most pertinent rights have been carefully chosen and retold in simple, evocative text that can be understood by children. Each right has been lovingly interpreted by some of our most acclaimed children's book illustrators.
Yetsa's Sweater by Sylvia Olsen and illustrated by Joan Larson. Beautifully rendered chronicling of the making of a Cowichan Sweater from fleece to wearer, imbued with the warmth of family and the importance of tradition. Picture book. Ages 4+
Secret of the Dance by Andrea Spalding and Alfred Scow (elder of the Kwakwa'ka'wakw Nations)and illustrated by Darlene Gait. Based on the true life experiences of Judge Scow whose family held a forbidden Potlatch in 1935 when he was a boy. Picture book.
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Inter-library loan request forms
If the book you are looking for is not in the Galiano Library collection it is usually possible for us to obtain the book from another provincial library for you to borrow. You will need to complete an Inter-library loan request form, which can be done at the Library during open hours.
Alternatively, you can download, print, and complete a copy of the form, and then mail it or drop it off at the Library outside of the regular open hours. Click here for a PDF version of the loan request form.
A third option is to download a copy of the form that can be filled out on your computer and emailed back to the Library. Please click here for this version of the form. After completing the form, please attach it to an email message and send it to galianolibrary@gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca
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The Galiano Library welcomes suggestions from patrons about books and other items to add to the collection. Please complete a copy of the suggestion-for-purchase form which is available at the Library during regular open hours.
Alternatively, you can download, print, and complete a copy of the form, and then mail it or drop it off at the Library outside of the regular open hours. Click here for a PDF version of the suggestion-for-purchase form.
A third option is to download a copy of the form that can be filled out on your computer and emailed back to the Library. Please click here for this version of the form. After completing the form, please attach it to an email message and send it to galianolibrary@gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca