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CURRENT LIBRARY COLUMNS
BY
POLLY BENTLEY
HOURS
Monday, Tuesday
Thursday 3 - 8 p.m.
Wednesday 6-8 p.m.
Friday, Saturday 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Story Time - Fridays - 11:15 - 11:45 a.m.
May 2008
NEW HOURS
The Moretown Memorial Library has expanded its hours to 23 per week. We have added two more evenings each week - Tuesday and Thursday. We have dropped the 1-3 p.m. period on Tuesdays since it wasn’t being utilized, but we added 3-5 p.m. on Tuesdays. The hours for Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday remain the same.
BOOK, BAG AND BAKE SALE
Our spring book, bag, and bake sale will be held at the library on May 31st from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Mark your calendars as this will be our biggest sale ever. Hundreds of juvenile and adult books have been donated to the library over the past year. If you haven’t purchased one of our crocheted book bags, here’s a good opportunity. We even have hats that match! The bake goods always sell out early.
RECENT ADULT TITLES
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is back to investigate a safari in The Miracle At Speedy Motors by Alexander McCall Smith. In the ninth book of this series, Precious Ramotswe sets out to explain the death of an American tourist visiting a game preserve. While she is busy with her investigation, her husband decides to mortgage the Speedy Motors garage and her assistant begins a Complaint Half Hour to air her grievances.
Kate White has come a long way from her troubled teenage years when she and her friends were involved in the burglary of a convenience store that resulted in the death of an off-duty policeman. Now she is a single mother of a nine year old son and works as a prosecutor in the District Attorney’s office. Then her past catches up with her when she is caught in a courtroom shooting that involves one of those friends from her past. Guilty
by Karen Robards will appeal to anyone who enjoys Linda Howard and Nora Roberts.
Fans of Alex Delaware will enjoy Compulsion by Jonathan Kellerman. Alex is back with Robin, but she’s busy crafting a mandolin so he has a lot of free time to help Milo in his investigations. It would appear that a serial killer who likes disguises and expensive cars is at work in Seattle.
NEW JUVENILE TITLES
We have half of the 2008-2009 Red Clover books on the shelves. The rest are on order.
Fred Stays With Me by Nancy Coffelt is the story of a young girl who spends time with her mother and sometimes with her father. Her school is the same and her friends are the same, but she has a different bedroom at each house. However, her dog, Fred, always goes with her and manages to cause trouble.
Paul Fleischman has included elements of folk traditions from Mexico, Iran, Korea, and Russia to develop a world wide Cinderella in Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal.
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine and When Dinosaurs Came With Everything by Elise Broach are also Red Clover nominees but they were discussed a few weeks ago as they were also Caldecott Honor books this year.
April 2008
LISTEN UP! VERMONT
The Moretown Memorial Library is participating in the Listen Up! Vermont downloadable audio book project through the Green Mountain Library Consortium. This means that our library patrons can access a diverse collection of audio titles including fiction, non-fiction, and mystery as well as materials for children. Customers can check out and download up to two titles at a time for a seven day period. At the end of the seven days they are automatically returned and may not be renewed. If there is no one on the waiting list you may be able to check it out again. Visit www.listenupvermont.org to view the entire collection. You will have to know your four digit library card number to checkout and download an audio book to your PC, transfer to a portable device player or burn many titles to a CD. Free software has to be downloaded on your PC, but the program walks you through the process. If I can do it, anyone can! If you don’t know your number or don’t have a card, stop by the library to get one.
RECENT ADULT TITLES
The sisterhood is back with Hokus Pokus by Fern Michaels. These seven friends have their own way of providing justice, but now they must remain in exile or risk capture and prison life. Even though their new home on a secluded mountaintop is luxurious, the ladies really miss the U.S.A. Then a call comes from Supreme Court Justice Pearl Barnes
who is facing blackmail for her own illegal activities. The sisterhood needs to get back into the United States and remain undetected while they complete their task. It’s a good thing Alexis has her bag of magic tricks!
Linda Fairstein draws on her own 25 years of experience in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to bring you her tenth Alex Cooper novel in Killer Heat. It’s August in New York during a heat wave, when Alex is called out to view the brutalized body of a young woman. Before she has much information about the first killing, two more bodies appear. Is there a serial killer at work in Manhattan?
7th Heaven by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro brings a rash of fires leaving several wealthy couples dead. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club have to find the arsonists who don’t leave any clues at the fires. She also has to try to find the former governor’s son who has mysteriously disappeared.
NEW CHILDREN’S BOOKS
There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems is an Elephant and Piggie book. Gerald, the elephant doesn’t like the idea of a bird on his head. When two birds move in and build a next he likes it even less. Piggie helps with the solution to the problem.
What to do About Alice? by Barbara Kersley is a biography about Alice Roosevelt who broke all the rules, charmed the world and drove her father, Teddy Roosevelt, crazy.
Tilly loves ballet; so when she gets to see her aunt perform in “Sleeping Beauty” it’s a special birthday gift. Little Ballet Star by Adle Geras will be enjoyed buy all little girls taking ballet clases.
RECENT ADULT TITLES
As is always true with a Jodi Picoult novel, Change of Heart raises some interesting questions. If a convicted murderer donates his heart to the desperately ill sister of his victim does that give him redemption? Should you grant the dying wish of the man who murdered your child and your husband?
The events in Betrayal by John Lescroat could be taking place in Iraq today as the “peace-keeping” days continue. Evan Schollar’s National Guard unit reports for duty only to find out that no one was expecting the group and they end up protecting a private contractor. While serving in Iraq, Evan meets Ron Nolan who eliminates problems and people who interfere with the business of making money.
Imagine having your college age son disappear, but for ten years have him call to wish you a Happy Mother’s Day. Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark deals with just such a scenario. Carolyn MacKenzie was sixteen when her older brother disappeared. After ten years she decides it’s time to be proactive. She’s going to try to find her brother on her own. As she delves into the past she finds that many people are not happy with her investigation and it may even be very dangerous to her health.
Dead Time by Stephen White finds psychologist Alan Gregory trying to strengthen a shaky marriage and develop a relationship with his newly adopted son. He’s looking forward to some vacation time while his new son visits relatives in New York and his second wife travels to Europe to locate the child she put up for adoption years before. Then his ex-wife seeks his help in finding Lisa, the surrogate mother of her child. Has Lisa left on her own or is there foul play involved?
NATION LIBRARY WEEK POSTER CONTEST
We had 14 entries from first and second grade students. First prize for most artistic was won by Seth Beard for “Books Rule.” Second prize in the same category went to Hannah Goodman for “Moonwalk With Books.” Erin Magill received first place in the most original category for “Sail Into the Book Wave” and Cyrus Zchau took second place with “Be a Book Worm.” Honorable mentions went to “Surfing with Books” by Cheyanne Green, “Read What You Can” by Ciara Mead, “Fish for a Good Book” by Matthew Nussbaum, and “Batting Into Books” by Anthony Palmerio.
The third and fourth grade students submitted 16 entries. First prize for most artistic was won by Josie Allison and Sophy Furlong for “Let Your Imagination Carry You Away - Read.” Second place in the same category went to Emily Dow, Emma Helmken, and Maggie Nowlan for “Got Books.” Maura Reilly received first place for most original with “Love to Read” while Shane Fekert and Lucas Williams took second with “Read If You Know What’s Good for You.“ Honorable mentions went to Lucie Banevicius and Sadie Bolger for “Let Your Imagination Capture You - Read!,” Evan Beaulieu for “Go to the Library,” Isabella Harris for “Reading Makes Your Mind blow Open,“ Maggie Nowlan for “I Can’t Believe I Read the Whole Thing,” and Adrienne Strassberg for “Read Around the World.”