Board Meeting Minutes
The approved minutes from the November 12, 2007 Board of Trustees Meeting are now available for viewing. If you are interested in reading these minutes, please click here.
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Happy Holidays
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New Children's Fiction @ Your Library!
New children's fiction recently added to the library collection:
Ivy + Bean by Annie Barrows
Ivy + Bean Break the Fossil Record by Annie Barrows
The Last Fairy-Apple Tree by Emily Rodda
Mokie & Bik by Wendy Orr
Molly Moon, Micky Minus, & the Mind Machine by Georgia Byng
On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
Pretty Is by Elizabeth Holmes
The Third Wish by Emily Rodda
These books are available for check-out now. If the book you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
New Teen Non-Fiction @ Your Library!
New teen non-fiction recently added to the library collection:
99 Ways to Cut, Sew & Deck Out Your Denim by Faith Blakeney
The Ballet Companion by Eliza Gaynor Minden
Comic Book Century by Stephen Krensky
Deep Woods: the Story of Robert Frost by Peggy Caravantes
The Elements: What You Really Want to Know by Ron Miller
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals in America by Tom Jackson
Spunk & Bite: a Writer's Guide to Punchier, More Engaging Language and Style by Arthur Plotnik
Tasting the Sky: a Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It by Ben Yagoda
These books are available for check-out now. If the book you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
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New Children's DVDs @ Your Library!
New children's DVDs recently added to the library collection:
Fiction:
Angelina Ballerina
Carrie's War
Chill Out Scooby-Doo!
Eloise Goes to School
Meet the Robinsons
Ratatouille
Shrek the Third
Non-Fiction:
All About John Deere For Kids
All About John Deere: Special Edition
Kids Love Fire Engines
Metal Monsters
Walking With Dinosaurs
These DVDs are available for check-out now. If the DVD you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
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All Booked Up Reads Plainsong for January
Plainsong by Ken Haruf is the All Booked Up pick for January.
A stirring meditation on the true nature and necessity of the family. Among the several damaged families in this beautifully cadenced and understated tale is that of Tom Guthrie, a high-school history teacher in small Holt, Colorado, whos left to raise his two young sons, Ike and Bobby, alone when his troubled wife first withdraws from them and then, without explanation, abandons them altogether. Victoria Roubideaux, a high-school senior, is thrown out of her house when her mother discovers shes pregnant. Harold and Raymond McPheron, two aging but self-reliant cattle ranchers, are haunted by their imaginings of what they may have missed in life by electing never to get married, never to strike out on their own. Haruf (Where You Once Belonged, 1989, etc.) believably draws these various incomplete or troubled figures together. Victoria, pretty, insecure, uncertain of her own worth, has allowed herself to be seduced by a weak, spoiled lout who quickly disappears. When her bitter mother locks her out, she turns to Maggie Jones, a compassionate teacher and a neighbor, for help. Maggie places Victoria with the McPheron brothers, an arrangement that Guthrie, a friend of both Maggie and the McPherons, supports. Some of Harufs best passages trace with precision and delicacy the ways in which, gradually, the gentle, the lonely brothers and Victoria begin to adapt to each other and then, over the course of Victoria's pregnancy, to form a resilient family unit. Harold and Raymond's growing affection for Victoria gives her a sense of self-worth, which proves crucial when her vanished (and abusive) boyfriend, comes briefly back into her life. Haruf is equally good at catching the ways in which Tom and his sons must quietly struggle to deal with their differing feelings of loss, guilt, and abandonment. Everyone is struggling here, and it's their decency, and their determination to care for one another, Haruf suggests, that gets them through. A touching work, as honest and precise as the McPheron brothers themselves. (Kirkus)
Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. The group meets January 9th at 6:30 in the library.
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New DVDs @ Your Library!
New DVDs recently added to the library collection:
The Holiday
Microcosmos: It's Jurassic Park in Your Own Back Yard
Spider-Man 3
Winged Migration
These DVDs are available for check-out now. If the DV Dyou want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
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New Non Fiction @ Your Library!
New non-fiction recently added to the library collection:
Billy the Kid: The Endless Rid by Michael Wallis
Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship by John Baldwin
It Ain't All About the Cookin' by Paula Deen
Peterson's Four-Year Colleges(Reference)
Surviving Prostate Cancer by E. Fuller Torrey
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Way Off the Road by William Geist
These books are available for check-out now. If the book you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
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New Fiction @ Your Library!
New fiction recently added to the collection:
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
The Gift by Richard Paul Evans
A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Pandora's Daughter by Iris Johansen
The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
These books are available for check-out now. If the book you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
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Book of the Month Club Reads Blues in the Night for December
Pick up your copy of Rochelle Krich's Blues in the Night, our featured novel for December.
In Blues, an unidentified woman in a nightgown is the victim of a hit-and-run accident on Mulholland Drive that leaves her unconscious and seriously injured.
The image of the young woman stumbling along a dark, winding road is one true-crime writer Molly Blume cannot shake. It draws her to a bedside in intensive care, where, before dying, the victim whispers three names: Robbie, Max, and Nina. It's not a smoking gun, but it is sufficient enough to reinforce Molly's gut instinct that there are sinister circumstances behind the assault on Lenore Saunders.
With fearless conviction, Molly asks questions that nobody - including Lenore's mom, her ex-husband, her shrink, or even Molly's LAPD buddy, Detective Connors - wants to answer. Nevertheless, the astute Molly discovers Lenore lived a fractured life, so different from Molly's own secure and loving Orthodox Jewish background. And as a chilling picture of the unfortunate woman begins to take shape, the menace of murders past and present stirs and quickens.
Copies are available for check-out at the Circulation Desk. Then, if you like, join us for online discussion at Aaron's Book of the Month Club.
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New Downloadable Audiobooks @ Your Library!
The following titles have recently been added to the New Hampshire Downloadable Audio Book collection:
American Creation by Joseph Ellis
Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors by Jenny Nimmo (Kid's)
Darkness Falls by Kyle Mills
Double Cross by James Patterson
The Heir by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
The Race by Richard North Patterson
Download these books for free via New Hampshire Downloadable Audio Books. For more information, read Downloadable Audio Books are Here!
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Happy Birthday Mr. Grinch!
According to Random House Children's Books, the Grinch who stole Christmas celebrated his 50th birthday on December 1st.
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