Blog entries - September 2011

From Storytime to Classes, October is a busy month!

Heather — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:47:50 +0100

It's Autumn again, and as life winds down from harvest and summer activities, the library picks up the slack with a LOT of new programs!

Starting October 3rd, your preschool age children (3 to 6) can come to the library Monday afternoons (2:30 to 3:15pm) to enjoy a story read by our director, Janet Lyon.

Then beginning October 11th, we'll have storytimes for Babies (11:30 to 11:45am) and Toddlers (11:00 to 11:30am) every Tuesday.

Also beginning Tuesday mornings (and...

Adult books for 29 September 2011

Heather — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:24:15 +0100

Fiction:

Wonderland Creek (Austin)
Beneath the Night Tree (Baart)
Summer Snow (Baart)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Bradley)
The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag (Bradley)
Speaker for the Dead (Card)
Shadows of Lancaster County (Clark)
Twice Dead (Coulter)
The Opposite of Art (Dickson)
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven (Flagg)
The Survivor (Gray)
The Protector (Gray)
The Caregiver (Gray)
The Brotherhood (Jenkins)
The Betrayal (Jenkins)
Stagecoach West (Moody)
A Fatal Grace (Penny)...

Teen books for 29 September 2011

Heather — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:19:30 +0100

Fiction:

The Amaranth Enchantment (Berry)
Fire (Cashore)
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Names Hamlet (Dionne)
The Morgue and Me (Ford)
Claim to Fame (Haddix)
Hazel (Hearn)
Take Me to the River (Hobbs)
Hero (Lupica)
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl (Lyga)
Once a Witch (MacCullough)
My Boyfriend's Dogs (Mackall)
Another Faust (Nayeri)
Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest (Oz)
The Miles Between (Pearson)
The Wish Stealers (Trivas)
Witch Dreams (Velde)
The Rogues (Yolen and Ha...

DVDs for 28 September 2011

Heather — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:12:22 +0100

Children's:

Barney, vol 1
Ponyo
SpongeBob: Sea Stories

Adult & Family:

Agent Cody Banks
American Dream
America's Sweethearts
Baby Mama
Bandolero
Because I Said So
Behind Enemy Lines
Breaking Free
Cowboy Up
Dear John
Double Jeopardy
Dynasty
Falling From Grace
Freaky Friday
Gunfighter
In Love and War
John Q.
Juno
Ladder 49
Look Who's Talking
Love Potion #9
Man of the Year
Mean Girls
Meet Joe Black
Monster In Law
Monte Walsh
Mr. Woodcock
No Greater Love
Picture Perfect
Pink Pan...

Adult books for 22 September 2011

Heather — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:01:08 +0100

Fiction:

A Red Herring without Mustard (Bradley)
Killing the Blues (Brandman)
Half of Paradise (Burke)
Secrets of Harmony Grove (Clark)
Goddess of Vengeance (Collins)
Forbidden (Dekker and Lee)
The Shell Collecter (Doerr)
About Grace (Doerr)
The Smoke Room (Emerson)
Primal Threat (Emerson)
Firetrap (Emerson)
Vertical Burn (Emerson)
Barcelona Calling (Kirkpatrick)
A Man of Parts (Lodge)
Nana's Gift (Oke)
New York to Dallas (Robb)
Summer Dreams (Roberts)
How Firm a Foundation (Weber)

N...

Audio books for 22 September 2011

Heather — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:59:53 +0100

Fiction:

America (Coonts)
The Plague of Doves (Erdrich)
Your Heart Belongs to Me (Koontz)
Dead Sleep (Iles)
Blacklist (Paretsky)
Fire Sale (Paretsky)

Literature Map

Heather — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:56:30 +0100

http://www.literature-map.com/

Looking for a new author, but don't want one that's completely different from the stuff you're already reading?

Literature Map generates a visual representation of relationships between authors. The closer names sit together, the more similar their books are.

Children's books for 16 September 2011

Heather — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:01:30 +0100

Picture Books:

Christmas Stories for Bedtime
I Had a Favorite Dress (Ashburn)
Oh, Harry! (Kumin)
Pete the Cat (Litwin)
Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School (Mackintosh)
Sea Monster's First Day (Messner)
Tumford the Terrible (Tillman)
Bumblebee (Wilson)

Chapter Books:

Those Amazing Dogs (Fenne)
A to Z Mysteries: Super Edition vols 1-4 (Roy)

Adult books for 16 September 2011

Heather — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:11:11 +0100

Fiction:

A Tale of Castle Cottage (Albert)
Deadline (Alcorn)
On Canaan's Side (Barry)
Kill Shot (Bolan)
Naughty and Nice (Bowen)
The Perfect Suspect (Coel)
Brute Strength (Conant)
The Race (Cussler)
Prey (Howard)
Pirate King (King)
The Mercy (Lewis)
The Dog Who Knew too Much (Quinn)
Washington! (Ross)
A Killing in China Basin (Russell)
Heir to the Empire (Zahn)

Non-Fiction:

100 Flowers to Knit and Crochet
400 Knitting Stitches
All By My Selves
At Home
Baby Beanies
Bag Making Bib...

Adult books for 8 September 2011

Heather — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:25:16 +0100

Fiction:

Only Time will Tell (Archer)
By Grace Possessed (Blake)
Heartwishes (Devereaux)
West of Here (Evison)
Sookie Stackhouse Companion (Harris)
False Pretenses (Herman)
Grace Interrupted (Hyzy)
Northwest Angle (Krueger)
Awakenings (Lazellari)
A Bond Never Broken (Miller)
The Story of Beautiful Girl (Simon)
Murder on Lexington Avenue (Thompson)
Lark Rise to Candleford (Thompson)

Non-Fiction:

Algebra I for Dummies
Algebra II for Dummies
Basic Math and Pre-Algebra for Dummies
C...

Children's books for 8 September 2011

Heather — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:15:25 +0100

Fiction:

The Basket Ball (Codell)
Bone Dog (Rohman)

Non-Fiction:

Algebra and Geometry
Grammar
Kids Knitting
Punctuation

Graphic:

Battle of the Alamo
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Midway
Hot Iron
Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain
Trojan Horse

Teen books for 2 September 2011

Heather — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:13:41 +0100

Fiction:

Wishful Thinking (Bullen)
Wish (Bullen)
Pathfinder (Card)
Uncommon Criminals (Carter)
Ripple (Hubbard)
Middle School (Patterson)

Non-Fiction:

Career Opportunities: Photography
Career Opportunities: Science
Good Brother, Bad Brother

Graphic Novels:

Bleach vol 10

Adult books for 2 September 2011

Heather — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:09:12 +0100

Fiction:

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Choldenko)
The Language of Flowers (Diffenbaugh)
Kill Me If You Can (Patterson)
The Complete Peanuts (Schulz)
See No Evil (Young)

Non-Fiction:

2011 U.S. Pocket Stamp Catalogue
2012 Blackbook Price Guide to U.S. Stamps
Cat Owners' Home Veterinary Handbook
Complete Baths
Guide Book of U.S. Coins
Memory's Daughter
Natural Cat
Prodigal Daughter
Renovating a Bathroom
Tiling
U.S. Army Special Operations