New fall offerings at the Delphos Public Library

Published:  Tuesday, September 8, 2009 (5 months ago)
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Fall storytimes will resume in September. Children’s Librarian Denise Cressman has several children’s activities planned and adult programs are being scheduled for the next several months. Be sure to check the paper or call the library for the next event you or your child might be interested in.

20 new DVD titles were added to our collection this month:
Bart Got A Room
Bedtime With Elmo
Confessions Of A Shopaholic
Coraline
Dragonball Evolution
Dragon Hunter
Echelon Conspiracy
Everest
He’s Just Not That Into You
Home
Inkheart
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience
Labor Pains
Mr. Troop Mom
Morning Light
The Pink Panther 2
Retriburion Road
Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li
12 Rounds
Veggie Tales: Minnesota Cuke And The Search For Noah’s Umbrella

FICTION
EVIL AT HEART —  Chelsea Cain
After his last encounter with bewitching serial killer Gretchen Lowell, Portland Oregon police detective Archie Sheridan checked himself into a mental hospital. But Gretchen isn’t through with Archie. When bodies with missing spleens start turning up around Portland, Archie’s police colleagues enlist his help. But is Gretchen really back, or has she spawned a generation of copycats whose taste for removing internal organs is every bit as voracious as her own?

THE LAST BRIDGE – Terri Coyne
For ten years, Alexandra “Cat” Rucker has been on the run from her past, struggling to forget her Ohio hometown and the rural farmhouse she once called home. But a sudden call from an old neighbor forces Cat to return to the home and family she never intended to see again. It seems Cat’s mother is dead. Returning home, Cat finds a suicide note that reads: Cat, He isn’t who you think he is. Mom XXXOOO. Seeking to unravel the mystery of her mother’s death, Cat must confront her past to discover who “he” might be: her abusive father? Her brother Jared, named after her mother’s true love? The town coroner, Andrew Reilly, who seems to have known Cat’s mother long before she landed on a slab in his morgue? Or Addison Watkins, Cat’s first and only love?

206 BONES  — Kathy Reichs
At the beginning of this book, Dr. Temperance Brennan regains consciousness and discovers that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Is she buried alive? In some kind of cell? Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why? In flashbacks, Tempe remembers that she and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsy and the case. Then the corpses of two more elderly women are found. Can Brennan solve the case, rescue her reputation, discover who abducted her and why, and free herself from what appears to be certain death?

THE SIEGE – Stephen White
As a lovely weekend approaches on the Yale campus, it appears that a number of students have gone missing. The authorities aren’t sure whether it is kidnapping of terrorism. But the high-profile disappearances draw the attention of the CIA and the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team. Attention quickly focuses on the fortress-like tomb of one of Yale’s oldest secret societies. As officials become aware of what has happened, the response escalates, but these hostage takers are completely unpredictable. They make no demands, agree to no negotiations and execute or release hostages as they choose. Suspended Boulder, Colorado police detective Sam Purdy eventually teams with maverick FBI agent Christopher Poe and CIA terror expert Deirdre Drake in an effort outside official channels to figure out what is going on inside the windowless stone tomb on the edge of campus.

NON-FICTION
006.7  THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES – Ben Mezrich
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends—outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a less-than-smooth approach with the female population. One lonely night, Mark hacked into the university’s computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus—subsequently crashing the university’s servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, the framework for Facebook was born. What followed was a real-life adventure filled with unimaginable wealth, stunning women, exotic locales, and betrayal. Before long, Eduardo’s and Mark’s different ideas about Facebook created cracks in their relationship which soon ruptured. The collegiate exuberance that marked their collaboration fell prey to the adult world of lawyers and money. The great irony is that while Facebook succeeded by bringing people together, its very success tore two best friends apart.

158.1 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: Tough times, tough people
This book will encourage, inspire, and support you through all types of difficult situations, whether financial, health-related, family or personal issues. Read 101 personal stories from real people about meeting their challenges:
— Downsizing and enjoying a simpler life
— Finding the silver lining in layoffs and other economic troubles
— Living with illness and disability
— Surviving natural disasters
— Grief and healing
— The value of family and friends
— And 10 bonus stories about using faith to pull through

599.65 THE PLEASURE OF THEIR COMPANY –Cynthia Hubbard
A West Virginia native, Cynthia Hubbard has had a lifelong love for animals. Her adventures with five orphan fawns, four of whom she hand-raised, began in 1988. This book relates the author’s nearly twenty-year journey hand-raising these fawns in her barn and the unique bonds that developed with these extraordinary friends. Who could imagine lying down in a barn stall with a week-old five-pound fawn curled up alongside; or having a fawn grow up and bring her own fawns around to introduce them; or being invited to play by a fawn, and by that same fawn after release and when grown into a 100-pound buck; or sedating that 100-pound buck, then playing operating room nurse while the veterinarian neutered him? Readers will get to share in these experiences and enjoy photographs of each fawn’s story.

616.07 EVERY PATIENT TELLS A STORY – Lisa Sanders
Never in human history have doctors had the knowledge, the tools, and the skills that they have today to diagnose illness and disease. And yet mistakes are made, diagnoses missed, symptoms or tests misunderstood. The author shows us that knowledge, while essential, is not sufficient to unravel the complexities of illness. She presents an unflinching look inside the detective story that marks nearly every illness—the diagnosis—revealing the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors face when confronting patients who are sick or dying. Through dramatic stories of patients with baffling symptoms, the author portrays the absolute necessity and surprising difficulties of getting the patient’s story, the challenges of the physical exam, the pitfalls of doctor-to-doctor communication, the vagaries of tests, and the near calamity of diagnostic errors. This book chronicles the real-life drama of doctors solving these difficult medical mysteries that not only illustrate the art and science of diagnosis, but often save the patients’ lives.

MEMORIALS
GRANDPA DOESN’T LIKE SNAKES! –  Caroline Arend
In memory of: Philip Martin
Given by: The grandkids

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION HEALTHY FAMILY MEALS
WANDA BRUNSTETTER’S AMISH FRIENDS COOKBOOK V.2
THE EVERYTHING CANNING & PRESERVING BOOK  — Patricia Telesco & Jeanne Maack
In memory of: Hazel (Fortman) Schneider
Given by: Donald & Janet Kochenour

FIRST YEAR NURSE
RUSTIC FRUIT DESSERTS – Cory Schreiber & Julie Richardson
EATING WELL COMFORT FOODS MADE HEALTHY – Jessie Price
In memory of Hazel (Fortman) Schneider
Given by: Delphos Public Library Staff

BEST BORDERS – Tony Lord
SMITHSONIAN FIELD GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA –Ted Floyd
In memory of: Edith Kundert
Given by: 8 A.M. Liars Table At Jim’s Restaurant

ROSES – Hazel White
COMPLETE GUIDE TO ROSES
In memory of: Edith Kundert
Given by: Ken & Marcia Miehls

BACKROADS & BYWAYS OF MICHIGAN – Matt Forester
THE RED HAT SOCIETY’S LAUGH LINES — Sue Ellen Cooper
BAKERTOWNE’S PRICE GUIDE FOR MI HUMMEL – Tammy Fennell, Matthew Fennell & Lou Kahn
AXLE ANNIE – Robin Pulver
AXLE ANNIE AND THE SPEED GRUMP – Robin Pulver
In memory of: Rita Klinger
Given by: The Divine Divas Of Delphos Red Hat Club

GARDENING WHEN IT COUNTS: Growing food in hard times – Steve Solomon
VEGETABLE GARDENING: From planting to picking—the complete guide to Creating a bountiful garden – Fern Bradley & Jane Courtier
In memory of: Ruth Michael
Given by: Delphos Ladies Auxiliary Fraternal Order Of Eagles #471

GARDEN TO VASE: Growing and using your own cut flowers – Linda Beutler
In memory of: Becky Minnig
Given by: Warren & Ladonna Peterson

FROM THE CHILDREN’S CORNER:
MY NAME IS SANGOEL by Karen Lynn Williams
Sangoel (pronounced Sun-goal) is a refugee from the Sudan who has come with his family to the United States to start a new life. But it’s hard when everything is so different, especially school. When all the children, teachers and coaches have trouble pronouncing his name, he feels as though he is losing his heritage. His new soccer T-shirt gives him an idea. He makes a sweatshirt with pictures of a sun and a soccer goal.  Pretty soon all the children in his class are writing their names with pictures.

DINO-SOCCER by Lisa Wheeler
Following in the footsteps of ‘Dino-Hockey’ author Wheeler combines her knowledge of dinosaurs and soccer to write a rip-roaring rhyming tale. Before a herd of fans and soccer moms, this band of prehistoric players dribble, strike back, score big and attack the ball. It’s the ‘Biters’ against the ‘Grazers.’ Read to find out who wins!

MUDSHARK by Gary Paulsen
Paulsen continues to write very popular novels for young readers. In this short grade-school mystery, Mudshark (AKA Lyle Williams) is known for his detective skills, especially his ability to find missing objects. When all the erasers begin to disappear from the classrooms, he is the go-to-guy. With the help of a wacky cast of characters, the principal and his iron-clad memory, Mudshark delivers a humorous and satisfying conclusion.

WILD GIRL by Patricia Reilly Giff
Since her mother has died, Lidie is coming from Brazil to New York to live with her father, who takes care of the horses at a race track in Queens. Her brother is also there, training to be a jockey. When she arrives, Lidie realizes that her father and brother don’t know how good she is at riding. To prove herself she takes on ‘Wild Girl’ a spirited filly just brought to the farm. Stories about girls and their horses continue to be a popular read.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CORN by Charles Micucci
What would we do without corn?  It is called the giant of grains:  it helps make batteries, fuel, ink and laundry starch. Not to mention tortillas, corn chowder, Johnny cakes and a personal favorite, corn on the cob. Micucci has combined fascinating facts and cheerful illustrations to inform the reader of all there is to know and love about this important staple.

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