Library serves as community’s resource center

Published:  Monday, November 3, 2008 (2 months ago)
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The library is a wonderful resource center for the whole community. We provide a wide range of services from books and magazines to puppets and computers … there is something for every age person. Our Genealogy Room is a great place to start looking up those long lost relatives. Don’t forget the library when looking for tax forms, phone books and area newspapers too.
Remember, Saturday hours for the library are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
30 new DVD titles were added to our collection this month:
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, in 3-D; Another Cinderella Story; Baby Mama; Christmas Miracle at Sage Creek; Crusade; Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Seventh Season; The Forbidden Kingdom; Handy Manny: Manny’s Pet Roundup; Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert; Holly Hobbie & Friends: Fabulous Fashion Show; John Adams; The Land Before Time: Magical Discoveries; The Legend of the Long Ranger; Little Einsteins: Flight of the Instrument Fairies; The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning; Made of Honor; Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey’s Storybook Surprises; My Sassy Girl;  National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets; Outsourced; Persuasion; Rails & Ties; The Riddle; Run, Fatboy, Run; Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour; Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior; Sense and Sensibility; Sentimental Reflections: America’s Heritage in Story, Scenery and Song; Thomas and Friends: Henry and the Elephant; What Happens in Vegas.
New Fiction
Just Desserts — Barbara Bretton
Hayley Maitland Goldstein should be jumping for joy. She’s been offered the chance of a lifetime: to bake a cake for the world-famous rock star Tommy Stiles. Buy why would such a celebrity send his big-time lawyer to her small-time South Jersey bakery? Hayley’s had enough hard knocks in her life to always suspect the worst. She has a sneaking suspicion that this is about more than a cake. And she’s right. The truth is, Hayley is Tommy’s long-lost daughter, and the aging rocker wants to meet — and maybe spoil — Hayley and her daughter.
The Secret — Elizabeth Gill
1944, London, a young man, is killed in an air-raid, leaving a wife, two children and a secret. Ailsa, Margaret and Luke are persuaded by Jaime’s brother Cal to return to the North East, to the town he came from. Despite their grief and bitterness, they find a new life there: the children make firm friends with Danny and Shannon Logan, whose father drinks and whose mother has a secret of her own. Against their families’ better judgment, the young people form a bond which sustains them in hard times, and which will ultimately prove unbreakable.
Dark Summer — Iris Johansen
While working a disaster relief mission on an earthquake-ravaged Caribbean island, veterinarian Devon Brady is enlisted to save the life of Ned, a superbly sensitive search-and-rescue dog that has been shot. The bullet came from a sniper hired to destroy Ned and his handler, the inscrutable and disturbingly charismatic Jude Marrok. When Jude leaves Ned in Devon’s care, he knowingly places her life in jeopardy by making her both a target for the man who has spent his life hunting Jude and his uniquely gifted dogs, and a pawn to be used to draw Jude into a lethal trap. When Devon returns home to Denver, she finds herself a target in a deadly conflict involving international intelligence agents, ruthless billionaire entrepreneurs and Native American shamanism.
The Darker Side — Cody McFadyen
When the FBI director calls special agent Smoky Barrett to Washington, D.C. to inspect the body of a beautiful young woman stabbed to death aboard an airplane, Smoky is puzzled as to why she’s been assigned a case so far outside her L.A. jurisdiction. But when Smoky learns that not only was the victim, Lisa Reid, the child of a powerful Democratic senator, but also that “she” was a pre-op transsexual, Smoky realizes that this is more than a bizarre homicide. Smoky and her team soon get on the trail of the man they dub “the Preacher,” a sin collector who murders people to obtain their darkest secrets. Harboring secrets of her own, Smoky must stay one step ahead of the killer if she’s to bring him down.
River of Heaven — Lee Martin
On an April evening in 1955, a teenage boy named Dewey Finn died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, and the mystery of his death still confounds the people of this small town. Some 50 years later, Dewey’s  boyhood friend, Sam Brady’s entire adult life has been formed to a large degree by what happened in the days leading up to that evening on the tracks. It’s a story Sam would do anything to keep from telling. But when his brother, Cal, returns to Mt. Gilead after decades of self-exile, the bits and pieces are revealed.

Non-Fiction
Multiple Blessings — Jon & Kate Gosselin & Beth Carson
After the emotional rollercoaster ride of dealing with infertility, Kate and her husband Jon, rejoiced in the birth of their twin daughters. Three years later, she was pregnant again — with sextuplets. After struggling to carry and deliver all six babies, then coping with months of neonatal intensive care, Jon and Kate thought they’d made it through the hardest part of the journey. Not even close. Stress-filled days and sleepless nights became their world as Kate and Jon managed to feed, bathe, clothe, and monitor the health of their fragile infants without losing sight of their love for each other and the twins. This is the story of slogging through exhausting challenges, coping with setbacks and trusting that God will provide the strength and resilience to get through each day. The daily lives of this family are chronicled on the hit show Jon & Kate Plus 8.
Great Parties — Leslie Carola
Celebrations galore come alive and personal with handmade invitations and imaginative table decor. Celebrations mean good company, good conversation, good food, and laughter. Add a bit more of yourself by creating some of the tabletop components for a party, and you have a celebration right from the heart. A range of ideas and techniques to create intriguing crafts for your tabletop are offered. The projects are imaginative and fun. The techniques are inexpensive, easy and effective.
Bet You Didn’t Know — Cheryl Russell
Recognized authority on statistics and demographics, Cheryl Russell has spent a career tracking down the facts that many pundits in the media avoid, don’t know, or don’t care to know. This book is a fast-paced adventure in trend setting, as the author applies a hefty dose of common sense to provide a deeper understanding of the processes at work in American society. Whether you’re planning to look for a job, invest in the stock market, get married, have children, buy a house, vote, run for political office, or are just looking for some luscious tidbits to drop at your party, you’d better check this book first to get your facts straight. And you are guaranteed to be amazed by what you find!
American Prince — Tony Curtis and Peter Golenbock
He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. A prince of the silver screen. Dashing and debonair, Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights and celluloid. His good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earned him fame, women, and adulation. But the Hollywood life of his dreams brought both invincible highs and debilitating lows. Now, in his captivating, no-holds-barred autobiography, Tony Curtis shares the agony and ecstasy of a private life in the public eye, as he offers intimate glimpses into his succession of failed marriages (and the one that has endured), his destructive drug addiction, and his passion as a painter.

November Memorials
Writing Family History Made Very Easy — Noeline Kyle, @ Home With Your Ancestors.com — Diane Marelli, Finding Your Family on the Internet — Michael Otterson, Ohio: The Buckeye State: An Illustrated History  — Eugene Murdock and Jeffrey Darbee. In memory of: Robert Shenk. Given by: Friends.
Bones — Jonathan Kellerman, Dark Summer — Iria Johansen, Gooseberry Patch Family Favorite Recipes, Pillsbury Best of the Bake-off Contest Cookbook, A Christmas Star — Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer, A Cedar Cove Christmas — Debbie Macomber, The Lucky One — Nicholas Sparks. In memory of: Freeda Belle Kelly. Given by: Family & Friends.
If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Numeroff, Gingerbread Friends by Jan Brett. In memory of: Merle Will. Given by: Kevin, Cindy, Abby and Deidre Knippen.
American Farmer: The Heart of our Country. In memory of: Arthur Hoersten. Given by: Friends.
Country Living: Eating Outdoors, Timeless Earth. In memory of: Jane O’Connor. Given by: Mary McGue.
The Amish Cook at Home — Lovina Eicher & Kevin Williams. In memory of: Dorothy Leffers. Given by: Beth & Michael Conn.
Santa’s Snow Kitten — Sue Stainton, The Gift of the Christmas Cookie — Dandi Daley Mackall, The Christmas Angels — Claire Freedman, Drummer Boy — Loren Long. In memory of: Ann Critchfield. Given by: Family & Friends.

From the Children’s Column:
That Book Woman by Heather Henson
Cal lives high up in the Appalachian Mountains and he is not interested in any book learnin’. But that book woman keeps bringing them to his sisters. Even when it’s snowing and storming, she keeps coming. Henson had written a moving and humorous story of the Pack Horse Librarians, women who brought books on horseback to the most remote and poor families of Appalachia. Just like Cal, many children owe the gift of reading to these brave and dedicated women.
Mary’s First Thanksgiving by Kathy-jo Wargin
It’s the day before Thanksgiving and Mary is not feeling very thankful. For one thing, they will not be having turkey or much to eat at all tomorrow and she’s lonely for the friends she left back in Ireland. When she shares these feelings with her parents, her father begins to tell her the story of the first Thanksgiving and the hardships faced by the pilgrims. The author skillfully blends two stories into one, Mary’s lesson in gratitude and the story of our forefather’s sacrifices in the pursuit of freedom.
Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
Cooney is the gifted and much loved author of the ‘Face on the Milk Carton’ series. In this novel, she turns her attentions to the current issue of immigrants. The Finch family is taking in a family from Africa. What they don’t know is that the family has been forced by another refugee to carry diamonds into the country and now he wants them back. The main character is Jared, a teen who learns to deal with his own selfishness and anger when confronted with the evil and suffering the refugee family has experienced.
The Mayflower and the Pilgrims’ New World by Nathaniel Philbrick
The national bestseller, Mayflower, A Story of Courage, Community and War, written for adults by the same author, has been adapted for young people. The author sheds new light on the settlement at Plymouth and the uneasy peace with the local Native Americans. Along the way, readers will encounter the well-known figures of day: Miles Standish, Squanto, Massasoit and William Bradford. If you love to read the story of our nation’s history, this is a book for you.
Extreme Athletes: Michael Phelps by Kerrily Sapet
Want to know more about the Olympic phenomenon, Michael Phelps? Doesn’t everyone? Here is a biography with at least 100 pages, the perfect length for those book reports. Beginning in his youth and following his swimming success, it takes him through the 2007 World Championships in Australia where he broke five world records. Although Phelps achievements seem unattainable to most, readers will come away with the sense that he’s a typical young person with mistakes, challenges, hopes and dreams, an all-American guy.

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