Fizz, Boom, Read

Framingham Public Library Adult Summer Reading
July 1 - August 14, 2014

Why should kids have all the fun?
Adults ages 18 and up are invited to participate in Fizz, Boom, Read.

How to participate:

• Starting Tuesday, July 1, register at the Circulation Desk of the Main Library or the McAuliffe branch and receive a Summer Reading t-shirt, while supplies last.
  
  
• For each book you read, enter the raffle for a Kindle Touch!
  Read any book of your choice. Entries accepted through Wednesday, August 13 at 9:00pm. The winner will be drawn at the Blackstone Valley Bluegrass concert Thursday, August 14 at 7:00pm.
  
  

Special Events

• Drop-in eBook Help
  Mondays and Wednesdays 6:00-9:00pm, Main Library Reference Desk
  Bring your eReader, tablet or smartphone and stop by the Reference Desk of the Main Library to learn how to get library eBooks and eAudiobooks on your device.
  
  
• Blackstone Valley Bluegrass concert & Adult Summer Reading Finale!
  Thursday, August 14 at 7:00pm, Costin Room, Main Library
  Ice cream donated by Ben & Jerry’s Natick Scoop Shop.
  

For more information: Call 508-532-5570 x4351.

All summer programs are funded through the generosity of the DCU Digital Federal Credit Union, the Framingham Public Schools, The Framingham Coalition, The Framingham Cultural Council, and The Friends of the Framingham Library. 

Food Network Cookbooks

Can't get enough Food Network? Did you know FPL has a large selection of cookbooks written by Food Network stars?!? Check them out below:

The Pioneer Woman: Ree Drummond

• The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays, 641.568 Drummond
• The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from my Frontier, 641.5979 Drummond
• The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl, 641.5979 Drummond

Barefoot Contessa: Ina Garten

• Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook (Coming this October)
• Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust, 641.5 Garten (or eBook)
• Barefoot Contessa, How Easy Is That? 641.5 Garten
• Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics, 641.5 Garten (or eBook) 
• -Even More

Giada at Home: Giada De Laurentiis

• Giada's Feel Good Food: My Healthy Recipes and Secrets, New Books 641.5 De Laurentiis (or eBook)
• Weeknights with Giada, 641.5 De Laurentiis 
• Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California, 641.5945 De Laurentiis 
• -Even more

Week in a Day: Rachael Ray

• Week in a Day: 5 dishes, 1 day, New Books 641.555 Ray
• My Year in Meals; My Year in Cocktails, 641.5 Ray 
• The Book of Burger, 641.84 Ray
• Comfort food: Rachael Ray Top 30 30-Minute Meals, 641.555 Ray
• -Even More (including books, DVDs, and Magazines)

The Kitchen: Marcela Valladolid

• Fresh Mexico, 641.5972 Valladolid

5 Ingredient Fix: Claire Robinson

• 5 Ingredient Fix: Easy, Elegant, and Irresistible Recipes, 641.555 Robinson

Guy’s Big Bite: Guy Fieri

• Guy on Fire: 130 Recipes for Adventures in Outdoor Cooking, New Books 641.5784 Fieri
• Guy Fieri Food: More than 150 Off-the-Hook Recipes,  641.5 Fieri
• -Even More

Hungry Girl: Lisa Lillien

• Hungry Girl to the Max!: The Ultimate Guilt-Free Cookbook, 641.5635 Lillien
• Hungry Girl 300 Under 300: 300 Breakfasts, Lunches & Dinners Under 300 Calories, 641.5635 Lillien
• Hungry Girl 200 Under 200 Just Desserts: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories, 641.86 Lillien
• -Even More

Heartland Table: Amy Thielen

• The New Midwestern Table: 200 Heartland Recipes, New Books 641.5977 Thielen

Miscellaneous:

• Food Network Favorites: Recipes from Our All-Star Chefs, 641.5 Food
• Food Network Magazine (No checkout limit)
• Emeril Lagasse books

Culinary Arts e-Resource
Don't forget about our Cooking e-Resource: Culinary Arts Collection. Use this database to browse major cooking and nutrition magazines (Saveur, Bon Appetit, Vegetarian Times, etc.) from the 1980s until now. Find thousands of recipes and reviews. Now when you see that awesome recipe in Good Housekeeping while waiting at the doctor's office, all you have to do is jot down the date and month of the magazine, and you can look up the full article when you get home later!

Suggest a Purchase
Know of a good cookbook that you would like us to consider purchasing? Let us know.

When all the museum passes are taken...
free things to do with guests:

•   Boston Common and the Freedom Trail 

•   Walk the North End. Visit Copps Hill Burial Ground. 

     It's quiet and beautiful.

•   Beer tastings at the Sam Adams and Harpoon Breweries.

•   Take a free tour of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square.  

    Check out the lovely inner court yard for reading and chatting.

  

•   Fort Point Channel. Here's a free audio tour. 

•   U.S.S. Constitution Museum and Bunker Hill Monument

•   Boston Harborwalk

    Rose Kennedy Greenway

• Free Fun Fridays, sponsored by the Highland St. Foundation

Take a MOOC!

Do you have some downtime this summer?  Do you want to expand your horizons and learn something new? Consider a MOOC!

What is a MOOC? MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses, allowing anyone with an internet connection and computer to take free classes on virtually any subject from elite universities.  A MOOC can give you an opportunity to test drive a career, enhance your professional skills or simply explore something new.  Best of all, they are free, available 24/7, and you can learn at your own speed. Subjects vary from the Arts, Math, History, Business, Law, Technology and many more.  The lists keep changing.

How do MOOCs work?  MOOCs are designed for an online audience, teaching primarily through short (5-20 min.) pre recorded video lectures that you watch on a weekly schedule when convenient for you.  They may also have student discussion forums, homework/assignments, and online quizzes or exams, however, there is no course credit given (with some exceptions).

There are many sites administering MOOCs.  Most are affiliated with major universities, with courses taught by university faculty.  Here are a few to get you started:

Coursera  https://www.coursera.org/
One of the largest, Coursera offers over 680 courses in a wide range of subjects, many taught by Ivy League professors.

EDX https://www.edx.org/
This is a joint, nonprofit venture of Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley and others offering over 200 courses.

Udacity https://www.udacity.com/
Originally a project of Stanford University, Udacity has additional educational and corporate partners and offers courses primarily in Computer science, mathematics, life science, business, engineering.

Kahn Academy  https://www.khanacademy.org/about

Khan Academy is for “global classroom” originally developed for students, but now offers classes for all ages.  They also offer free test prep.

 

Class Central https://www.class-central.com/
This site is a MOOC aggregator - you can explore courses from several MOOC operators by searching for a subject.  Music of the Beatles, Sports and Society, Applied Real Estate, and The Fiction of Relationship are just a few of the offerings in their vast catalog.