Delphos library gearing up for busy new year

Published:  Monday, January 7, 2008 (1 year ago)
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Happy New Year to all of our library patrons! We hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday this year. The library is wrapping up one busy year and planning for another to begin. Storytimes will resume in January, as well as the children’s activity days. Adult programs will also be scheduled for the new year. Please check the library for dates and times of upcoming events.
30 new DVD titles were added to our collection this month:
A Time to Kill, Arctic Tale, The Bachelor, The Backyardigans: Cave Party, Creature Comforts America, Curious George Plays in the Snow and Other Awesome Activities, Dance It Off, Dare to Dream: U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, Dark Storm, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Full Of It, Get Moving, Gorillas In the Mist, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, In the Land of Women, Kiss the Girls, Lovewrecked, Meet the Robinsons, MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate, North Country, Oh, God! You Devil, The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Scooby-Doo: Pirates Ahoy, Spider-Man 3, Surf’s Up, Trading Places, Tweety’s High-Flying Adventure.

Fiction

Stuff to Die For — Don Bruns
Best friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are hardly on the fast track. James reports to duty as a line cook at Cap’n Crab, and Skip spends his days attempting to sell security systems to people who have no money and have nothing they care to protect. When James spends a surprise inheritance on a white box truck, the two go into the hauling business. However, while unloading the contents of their first moving job they find some unexpected cargo — a bloody human finger. As James and Skip scramble to stay one step ahead of the perpetrators of a gruesome crime, they’ll learn that there is some stuff you should never touch — and some stuff to die for.
T is for Trespass — Sue Grafton
Grafton tackles identity theft and elder abuse in her new Kinsey Millhone mystery. Gus Vronsky, Kinsey’s elderly next-door neighbor, suffers a fall and needs in-home care. A health-care nurse named Solana Rojas is hired and Kinsey even does the background check, finding nothing out of order. As Gus’s condition deteriorates and Solana limits access to her patient, Kinsey and her landlord, Henry, suspect that something is a little off with Solana — and “little off” doesn’t fully describe this identity thief and true sociopath. Digging around more carefully, Kinsey unearths horrifying details of Solana’s past and must act quickly to save Gus.
Twisted Justice — Patricia Gussin
Laura is a successful surgeon with five children and a prominent husband, Steve, who works as a nightly news anchor on the Tampa TV News. Her seemingly perfect world shatters when she discovers that Steve is sharing much more than a news desk with his sexy co-anchor, Kim. When Kim is murdered, Laura becomes the prime suspect and within days, lands in jail facing murder charges. Laura’s perfect life spirals into a perfect nightmare when Steve turns on her in the worst ways imaginable: leaving Laura in jail, incriminating her on television, and holding their children captive. In an all too real world where things are not always as they seem, looks can be deceiving — and deceit can be deadly.
Hand of Evil — J.A. Jance
In Senona, Arizona Ali Reynolds is grieving. The newscasting job she once delighted in is gone and so is the philandering husband she loved and thought she knew. When a member of the family who gave Ali a generous scholarship for her education decades earlier suddenly asks her for a meeting, Ali is uncomfortable. Then the elderly lady shares that her half-brother abused her when she was a child and asks Ali to read her diary from that time. Ali agrees but is sidetracked with the disappearance of Crystal, the 12-year-old daughter of her good friend, homicide detective Dale Holman. Ali offers to help, but in doing so, she unknowingly begins a quest that will reveal a deadly ring of secrets, at the center of which stand two undiscriminating killers…
Getting Old is Criminal — Rita Lakin
Gladdy Gold, Florida’s self-proclaimed oldest living private eye, is hot on the trail of a Peeping Tom and a retirement-home Romeo whose paramours keep expiring under suspicious circumstances. The stakes are higher than ever when the girls of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency go undercover at a ritzy retirement villa in order to expose the suspected killer, with Gladdy’s drama queen sister Evvie playing the role of a Palm Beach flirt. But by the time the girls ID their perp, Evvie is in the arms of the killer.
Third Strike — Philip Craig & William Tapply
In late August thousands of vacationers on Martha’s Vineyard are preparing to go home. But a union has gone on strike, paralyzing the Steamship Authority which runs the ferries to “America,” and creating panic and anger among tourists and islanders alike. When an explosion destroys a boat’s engine room and kills the striker who apparently planted the bomb, J.W. Jackson agrees to the widow’s pleas that he attempt to prove her husband innocent. Meanwhile, Boston attorney Brady Coyne gets a call from a former client living on the Vineyard, who tells him about a group of armed men loading and unloading mysterious crates at a dock at midnight. Together Jackson and Coyne discover that not only are their cases connected but that time is running out for them to prevent a crime that could have international ramifications — and their only hope will be to confront dedicated killers face-to-face.
Non-Fiction

The Ultimate Volunteer Guidebook for Young People — Christine Maxwell
Volunteering is one of the most educational, inspiring and exciting things a person can do. Donating your time to a worthwhile cause offers substantial rewards that will enrich your life. Volunteering not only allows young people to learn new skills and discover talents they never knew they had, it teaches them the value of diversity and human relations. Young volunteers and their families need a fun, easy to understand, and enjoyable plan to get them going. There is no better time than the present to give back to your community and the author shows us that you are never too young to volunteer.
Raising Baby Green — Alan Greene
In this illustrated and easy-to-use guide, noted pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, a leading voice of the green baby movement, advises parents how to make healthy green choices for pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care — from feeding your baby the best food available to using medicines wisely. Also included is information  for  making smart choices and applying green principles to a whole new universe of products from zero-VOC paints for the nursery, to pure and gentle lotions for baby’s delicate skin, to the eco-friendly diapers now in the marketplace, as well as specific recommendations for hundreds of other products.
Harper’s Bazaar Great Style — Jenny Levin
Being chic isn’t about wearing the hottest designer creations: it’s about putting your own stamp on what you wear, and Harper’s  Bazaar has gathered an impressive array of fashion stars to help you uncover your inner style. Building a timeless wardrobe is a breeze when you know the five pieces every woman should have and the best fashion investments. Learn how to accentuate your assets, mix and match, and layer like a pro. Dozens of insider shopping tips are here, as well as ideas for easy accessorizing and what to have in your lingerie drawer.
Peter Jennings: A Reporter’s Life
The bulk of the interviews in this oral history were conducted in the days immediately following the anchorman’s death from lung cancer in August 2005. Friends and fellow reporters retrace every step of his career, starting with his first jobs in Canadian radio to his coverage of major events like the 9/11 attacks. When he was just 26, he was hired by ABC to anchor the evening news, a job he himself would later admit he was “simply unqualified” for at the time. So he demanded to be sent  out  into  the  field  as  a foreign  correspondent,  building up his experience until he became what Ted Koppel calls “a complete package” as a journalist: smart, attractive and graceful under pressure. Sections on his personal life along with testimonials from statesmen like Bill Clinton and Colin Powell flesh out the portrait, reminding readers of the commanding presence Jennings held over broadcast journalism.

From the
Children’s Corner:

May I Pet Your Dog? By Stephanie Calmenson
This cute little picture book tells readers step-by-step how to meet a strange dog and end up friends. The title tells you the most important part: ask the owner, ‘May I pet your dog?’ The cartoon-like drawings show different body signals that dogs give if they are interested in your attention like waging their tails or, if they are not interested, growling. Kids and adults should read this when it comes time for them to be walking or riding bikes on their own.
Snow Ball by David Steinberg
The polar bear community is enjoying a snow day — no school! So what do they do? They sled and slide in the feathery snow; they even attend a ‘snow ball’ to dance and twirl and stomp their feet. This over-sized board book is a rhyming good time and a great winter read.
Meet Julie
Julie Tells Her Story
Happy New Year, Julie
Julie and the Eagles
Julie’s Journey
Changes for Julie, all by Megan McDonald
American  girl  has  created a new character in the tradition of Felicity, Addy and Samantha. Julie is a child of the 70’s and lives in San Francisco. The stories in the six  chapter  books  portray the monumental changes in the roles of girls and women in sports, career choices and everyday life. In ‘Julie’s Journey’,  America’s  bicentennial is celebrated and in ‘Julie  and  the  Eagles’  the subject of ecology is explored. American girl enthusiasts will enjoy this new series as much as the previous ones.
Penguins! Strange and Wonderful by Laurence Pringle
Penguins are a fascinating subject. For instance, did you know that there are 17 species of penguins on earth? They differ in size, looks and the places they live. However, they are most all recognizable by their distinctive looks and comical waddle. Pringle has written an excellent picture book size nonfiction read that penguin lovers are sure to enjoy.
Dinomummy by Phillip Lars Manning
Manning calls his book the ‘Life, Death and Discovery of Dakota, a Dinosaur from Hell Creek’. In 2000 Tyler Larson, then 16, found a mummified duck-billed dinosaur on his uncle’s ranch. He named it ‘Dakota’ for where it was found. This fascinating book tells the story of Dakota, based on what they have learned from his fossil remains, beginning 65 million years ago when he would have been alive, coming forward to his present-day discovery. The stunning illustrations are computer generated and will hold the readers attention for some time.

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