Back Home What happens to a family when a soldier father comes home from combat in Iraq severely disabled by physical and brain injuries? For the Browning family, of Julia Keller’s young adult novel, Back Home, adjusting to the new reality is tough on everyone. The husband and father who left them months ago has come back a profoundly changed man. As part of 2013’s . . . more »

The City of Cupertino has an emergency notification service, the Cupertino Alert System (CAS), that allows the City to alert residents about local emergencies. How the Cupertino Alert System Works When the City of Cupertino issues a message about a potential safety hazard or concern, messages are sent to all standard voice and text communication devices that residents have registered, including landline phones, cell phones, . . . more »

The Culinary Dude, Chef Scott Davis, will present “Healthy Meals for Kids,” on: Sunday, March 17th at 12:00 p.m. Cupertino Community Hall For children ages 6-11. Registration is required. Please sign up at the Children’s Reference Desk. Chef Davis started cooking at age 7 to earn a merit badge for Cub Scouts. He’s been creating amazing, imaginative and healthy food ever since. He . . . more »

View the full image, color versions of hundreds of popular magazines on various subjects from China. They are full text searchable, updated daily, and available in both traditional and simplified Chinese. To access Dragonsource Qikan Online Magazines, please go to sccl.org, then click: Browse --> Collections – International Languages --> CHINESE – Online Magazine. Sample titles include: . . . more »

Purple Heart Did you know that 2013 is the first year Silicon Valley Reads (SVR) has selected a book just for teens? It's true! The psychological, wartime-thriller,Purple Heart, is the first SVR Teen selection, and it is a popular! The book centers on Matt Duffy, a young soldier serving in the Iraqi War, who sustains a head injury during one of his daily patrols. Soon . . . more »

Minefields of the Heart This month, the Cupertino Library Adult Book Discussion Group will talk about Minefields of the Heart: A Mother’s Stories of a Son at War, one of the two 2013 Silicon Valley Reads featured titles. Sue Diaz writes about her feelings as the parent of a soldier during her son’s two deployments in Iraq. She concentrates on writing about the home front . . . more »

Asteroid Fly-by Asteroid 2012 DA14 will be making a close call as it passes Earth on Friday, February 15th. Check out the Library's print and online resources for more information concerning such occurrences. Click on our "Best of the Web" link for the NASA/Ames Research Center to get coverage of this event. To read more about this exciting subject, read “Near Earth Objects”, by . . . more »

Almost wiped out by the Cultural Revolution in the 1960’s, Shen Yun is currently enjoying a renaissance both in China and abroad. Shen Yun is a representation of Chinese culture as it once was. For centuries, Chinese civilization has influenced not only Asia, but the world. However, for Western audiences, it can be enigmatic and difficult to understand. The mission of Shen Yun is not . . . more »

Silicon Valley Reads for Teens kicked off with the 1st Annual SVR Author Press Conference. Since 2002, the Silicon Valley Reads program has encouraged EVERYONE in Santa Clara County to read the same book, at the same time, and talk about it. Now, for the first time, high school newspaper reporters and journalism departments gathered together to interview SVR 2013 authors, Brian Castner (The Long . . . more »