Aaron Cutler Memorial Library

Tweens and Teens earn raffle tickets from June 30th til August 14th for each book they listen to or read, and for each activity or event they participate in. Raffle tickets earn them the chance to win a pizza and a movie ticket each week, prizes from the Goodie Box, and the chance to win great prizes in the final drawing.

For the full rundown of activities, sign up in the Teen Room at the library and pick up your Sink Your Teeth Into a Good Book Activity Guide and Calendar. Bring all your friends along too!

Labels: summer reading club for teens, TeeN RooM News

New Downloadable Audiobooks for MP3s @ Your Library!

The following titles have recently been added to the New Hampshire Downloadable Audio
Book collection:

Fiction for Adults
Assegai by Wilbur Smith
The City and the City by China Mieville
Cruel Intent by J.A. Jance
Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
The Increment by David Ignatius
Jango by William Nicholson
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
A Man to Call My Own by Johanna Lindsey
The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
No Survivors by Tom Cain
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Relentless by Dean Koontz
Sanctuary by Nora Roberts
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
Seducing an Angel by Mary Balogh
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Sign by Raymond Khoury
Sleeping Arrangements by Madeleine Wickham
Stalking the Angel by Robert Crais
The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro
by author
Wicked Prey by John Sandford

Non-Fiction for Adults
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad
The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky
The Link by Colin Tudge
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford





Fiction for Teens
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson
Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter
Evermore by Alyson Noel
I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
The Sorceress by Michael Scott
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan



Fiction for Kids
The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan
The Dragon's Eye by Kaza Kingsley
Kenny & the Dragon by Tony DiTerlizzi
The Monsters of Otherness by Kaza Kingsley
Werewolf Versus Dragon by David Sinden




Download these books for free via New Hampshire Downloadable Audio Books. For more information, read Downloadable Audio Books Free!

Labels: KiDS' RooM News, new stuff for adults, new stuff for kids, new stuff for teens, ReaDiNG RooM News, ReFeReNCe RooM News, TeeN RooM News

 

Get Your Green On This Summer

Registration for adult summer reading has begun! Stop by the library and sign-up for 9 weeks of Get Your Green On beginning June 30th.

As always, we're keeping things simple for the "old folks": read and earn raffle tickets, do the weekly activities and earn raffle tickets, write book reviews and earn raffle tickets... Get the picture

Full details at the library and online.

Labels: ReaDiNG RooM News, summer reading club for adults

 

Just Wondering on Wednesday...

We've all been there. Someone asks you if you read such-and-such a book, and before you can say, "Yes, and it was awful," the other person's telling what a great book it was. But have you ever found yourself the minority dissent in a group of people? If so, what book did you hate that everyone else liked?


Click on "comments" below and share your answer!

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Summer Reading for Kids

Bring in your children, age 3 - 5th grade, and sign-up for 6 weeks of summer reading fun! Between June 30th and August 7th, Summertime and the Reading is Easy will have your kids reading, participating in crafts & contests, and attending other activities, making their summer extra fun.

Weekly activities in the Lazy Days of Summer earn children 4 points each. Participation in the Made in the Shade events earn 2 points each. Reading, or being read to, for 75 minutes a week in the Scorching Hot Book Clubs earns 6 points each. Track their earned points on the provided Point Log, and before you know it your kids are earning raffle tickets for a chance to win great prizes!

In addition, if your child reaches 36 points out of a possible 86+ (with 24 points coming from reading), he or she will earn this year's 3 final prizes: a sundae from McDonald's, a kid's meal from Bugaboo Creek, and a slice of pizza from Papa Gino's.

Top this off with 15 other fun events, and you've got yourself quite a lot to do! Children can take part in any or all of the activities--it's totally up to you. And did I mention it's absolutely FREE? That's right. Free, zero, zip, nada!

Stop by the library to register, and pick up your Summertime and the Reading is Easy Activity Guide and Calendar. You'll be glad you did.

Labels: events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News, summer reading club for kids

 

This Week @ The Library...

Summer Reading Registration is Here!
Stop by the library to register your child, your tween, your teen, and yourself for summer reading fun and prizes! Watch for more details in the coming days.

Last Chance to Shop the Porch Sale
The 24/7 Self-Service Porch Sale closes this Friday around 11 a.m. so be sure to stop by one last time for great deals on gently used books.

Grab the Book of the Month
Copies of The Full Cupboard of Life are still available at the Circulation Desk.

Labels: this week

 

New Downloadable Audiobooks for iPods and MP3s @ Your Library!

The following titles have recently been added to the New Hampshire Downloadable Audio Book collection:

Fiction for Adults
The Black Dove by Steve Hockensmith
Changeling by Yasmine Galenorn
Crusade by Taylor Anderson
The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn
Dragon Wytch by Yasmine Galenorn
Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson
Maelstrom by Taylor Anderson
No One Your Know by Michelle Richmond
Plea of Insanity by Jilliane Hoffman
Temporary Sanity by Rose Connors
The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn

Non-Fiction for Adults by author
Big Boy Rules by Steve Fainaru
Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles
House Lust by Daniel McGinn
House to House by Staff Sergeant David Bellavia
What Would MacGyver Do? by Brendan Vaughan





Picture Books for Kids by author
Duck For President by Doreen Cronin
Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino
Teacher From the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler




Download these books for free via New Hampshire Downloadable Audio Books. For more information, read Downloadable Audio Books Free!

Labels: new downloadable audiobooks

 

New DVDs @ Your Library!

New DVDs recently added to the library collection:

For Kids
Curious George Goes Green
Learn to Read at the Storybook Factory
School House Rock! Earth







For Adults
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Paul Blart Mall Cop
Valkyrie





These DVDs are available for check-out now. Check the online catalog for availability. If the title you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve through the online catalog or at the Circulation Desk.

Labels: new stuff for adults, new stuff for kids, new stuff for teens, ReC RooM News

 

New Stuff for Adults @ Your Library!

New titles recently added to the library collection:

Fiction
The Bourne Deception by Eric Lustbader
Brimstone by Robert B. Parker
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
Matters of the Heart by Danielle Steel
My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Story of Sisters by Alice Hoffman


Non-Fiction
America's Cheapest Family Gets You Right on the Money by Steve Economides
Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies
Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts
Naturally Thin by Bethenny Frankel
Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend by Bill Russell
Understanding Color: Creative Techniques in Watercolor by Marcia Moses


Audiobooks
The 8th Confession by James Patterson
The Appeal by John Grisham
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark
Phantom Prey by John Sandford
Vision in White by Nora Roberts




These titles are available for check-out now. Check the online catalog for availability. If the title you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve through the online catalog or at the Circulation Desk.

Labels: new stuff for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News, ReFeReNCe RooM News

 

New Stuff for Teens @ Your Library!

New titles recently added to the library collection:

Fiction
Batman: the Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb
Being Nikki: an Airhead Novel by Meg Cabot
The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Non-Fiction
The Amphibian Class by Rebecca Stefoff
Ripley's Believe It Or Not!: Special Edition 2009
Your Federal Student Loans

These titles are available for check-out now. Check the online catalog for availability. If the title you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve through the online catalog or at the Circulation Desk.

Labels: new stuff for teens, TeeN RooM News

 

New Stuff for Kids @ Your Library!

New titles recently added to the library collection:

Picture Books
Bats at the Library by Brian Lies
Dogfish by Gillian Shields
Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney
Melvin Might? by Jon Scieszka
Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed by Mo Willems
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
That's Papa's Way by Kate Banks
Too Many Cats by Lori Haskins

Beginning Readers
Bones and the Roller Coaster Mystery by David Adler
Fancy Nancy: Poison Ivy Expert by Jane O'Connor

Chapter Books
The Amazing Trail of Seymour Snail by Lynn Hazen
The Fall of Fergal by Philip Ardagh
In Stitches With Ms. Wiz by Terence Blacker
Mudshark by Gary Paulsen

Information Books
Earth-Friendly Crafts by Kathy Ross
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal by Paul Fleischman
Hydrogen: Running on Water by Niki Walker
I Spy Gold Challenger by Walter Wick
Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortenson
Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang
One Beetle Too Many: the Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin by Kathryn Lasky
River of Dreams: the Story of the Hudson River by Hudson Talbott
We the People by Lynne Cheney
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! by Jonah Winter

These titles are available for check-out now. Check the online catalog for availability. If the title you want has already been checked-out, place it on reserve through the online catalog or at the Circulation Desk.

Labels: KiDS' RooM News, new stuff for kids

 

Feeling Lost? Try a Literature Map.

Take a trip through the land of literature. Enter the name of one of your favorite authors, and a cloud of other authors will form around your entry.

For example, when I enter the name Jack Higgins, a cloud of other names begins to swirl around my entry. These are the names of authors other Jack Higgins fans read.

The closer a name is to your original entry, the more likely you'll enjoy their work. It's a great way to try an author you haven't read before. So choose an author and give them a whirl.

Labels: ReaDiNG RooM News, reading suggestions

 

Just Wondering on Wednesday...

When asked if you've read a particular book, have you ever pretended, or at least hinted, that you had, when in fact you hadn't? What was the book and what was the circumstance?

Tell us your secret by clicking on "comment" below.

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OverDrive to Offer Expanded iPod Compatibility

OverDrive recently began offering audiobook titles through the New Hampshire Downloadable Audiobooks program in the MP3 format, which is compatible with Apple's iPod. Now a press release concerning the mid-June upgrade to OverDrive Media Console 3.2 reports that most of the existing WMA titles will become iPod compatible for Windows users:

Once OverDrive Media Console version 3.2 is installed, most titles in a library’s OverDrive WMA Audiobook collection will instantly become iPod-compatible for users with Windows PCs. The growing collection of iPod-compatible, Mac®-friendly OverDrive MP3 Audiobooks will still be available to help libraries better serve patrons with Apple computers.

What a great way to celebrate national Audiobook Month. I can't wait for the upgrade!

Labels: downloadable audio books

 

New E-mail Address?

If your email address has changed recently, don't forget to update your patron information and ReaD4THeFuNoFiT blog subscription!

To update your patron contact information so we can contact you about your account via email, just email us your new address.

To update your ReaD4THeFuNoFiT blog subscription so you continue to get library info, simply re-subscribe with your new email address at the bottom of the sidebar to the left of this post.

Labels: iNFoRMaTioN BooTH News, miscellaneous

 

Summer Reading Registration Begins June 16th!

Registration for the 2009 Summer Reading Clubs begins on June 16th! Here's what we're offering this year:

Summertime and the Reading is Easy

for kids age 3 - 5th grade.

Sink Your Teeth Into a Good Book

for tweens and teens 6th - 12th grade.

Get Your Green On

for adults.

Labels: summer reading club for adults, summer reading club for kids, summer reading club for teens

 

All Booked Up Reads World Without End for July/August

Last summer All Booked Up read Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth. This summer they are reading the sequel, World Without End. The epic proportions of the story demand that it be read over 2 months, so the group will not meet in July, but will gather again on Wednesday, August 5th at 6:30 p.m. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk.

World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas— about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. (From the Publisher)

Reading Group Guide / Author Talk on BookReporter

Coming next: A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

Labels: all booked up, book discussion for adults, events/activities for adults, ReaDiNG RooM News

 

Reserve Passes to the Museum of Science

Did you know the Friends of the Library sponsor a library membership to the Museum of Science in Boston? Through this program, there is one pass available for each calendar day. Each pass admits up for four people at a cost of $5.00 per person for general admission only. (Admission to the Omni Theater, the Planetarium, or Laser Show is not included.)

According to the museum's newsletter, Sparks!, two new exhibits will be starting soon: National Geographic Crittercam and Black Holes. Crittercam lets you see the world through animal eyes using compact video cameras worn by wildlife. See what they do when we aren't around, where they feed, how they hunt, and more. This exhibit runs June 7 - August 30. Black Holes: Space Warps & Time Twists explores one of the universe's most awe-inspiring phenomena, separating fact from fiction, and playfully revealing the evidence that these powerful warps in space-time do, in fact, exist. Visit this exhibit June 21 - September 7. For other upcoming exhibits and shows, click here.

These sound like two great exhibits to help fill your summer schedule! Call the library at 424-4044 to reserve a Museum of Science activity pass up to two months in advance.

Labels: activity passes, events/activities for all, FRieNDS' CoRNeR News

 

Just Wondering on Wednesday...

Here's a super easy question: What's your current read, your last read, and the book you'll read next? I hope to be inspired by your answers!

To leave your answer, click on "comments" below.

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Puppetmaster Contest Winners

Congratulations to our Puppetmaster Contest Winners! They were all so fabulous we had a hard time choosing just one winner for each age category... but we did it. Congratulations to:

Reese Pelletier (age 3-5 group) for Woolbur by Helakoski

Julia Clifford (age 6-8 group) for Fancy Nancy by Jane O'Connor

Danielle Ledoux (age 9-11 group) for Dobby from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

We just loved all the imagination used in making these winning paper bag puppets and all the others that were entered in the contest. Congratulations to everyone for a job well done!

See all the puppets here.

Labels: events/activities for kids, KiDS' RooM News

 

The Full Cupboard of Life is the Book of Month in June

The Full Cupboard of Life, the 5th book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, is our featured novel in June. Written by Alexander McCall Smith, the "traditionally built, eminently sensible Mma Precious Ramotswe continues her enterprise at the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Gaborone, Botswana, a country that is indeed fortunate.

Still engaged to the estimable Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe understands that she should not put too much pressure on him, as he has other concerns, especially a hair-raising request from the ever persuasive Mma Potokwane, matron of the orphan farm. Besides Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty matters on her mind. She has been approached by a wealthy lady to check up on several suitors. Are these men interested in the lady or just her money? This may be a difficult case, but it's just the kind of problem Mma Ramotswe likes and she is, as we know, a very intuitive lady." (From the Publisher)

Pick up your copy at the Circulation Desk.

Reading Group Guide / Short Video Interview with McCall Smith / Now an HBO Series

Labels: book of the month club, ReaDiNG RooM News, reading suggestions

 

"View Your Account/User Status" Working Again

Thanks to the patrons who called to let us know the "View Your Account/User Status" link under Library Services was broken. It has been fixed and is up and working once again!

Labels: website news

 

This Week @ The Library...

Discussion of The Historian
Join All Booked Up on Wednesday at 6:30 to talk about Elizabeth Kostova's novel in which a motherless American girl, after discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler. (NoveList) New members are always welcome!

Monkey Make 'n Take
Bring in the kids for our Quit Monkeying Around craft to make here or at home.

24/7 Self-Service Book Sale
Visit the book sale on the front porch, now through June 19th. Get gently used books at great prices.

Labels: this week

Remember to READ 4 THe FuN oF iT @ Aaron Cutler Memorial Library!