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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS August 8, 2001
by Mary Brown
The dog days of summer are here. That means that the library's
Summer Reading Program has concluded, and now everyone just wants
to sit in front of a fan and read a good book!
Traci wants to remind any kids who participated in the Summer
Reading Program and weren't able to come to the last session
that they should stop in the library soon and pick up their bags
of program goodies. She adds a reminder to participants to continue
reading for the rest of the summer. She still has coupons for
Jreck subs, book logs and books to give away for every three
books you read! Also, thanks to following people and businesses
who helped support the summer program: Marlene Miner, Joyce Vedder,
Lynde Lafever, Maxine Hunter, Marvin, Irene and Dan Arnold, Dutcher's
Inc., Key Bank, Napa Auto Parts, A&P Water Testing, Cooley's
True Value, Creations Hair Studio, Morrisville Motors, Morrisville
Big M, Jrecks Subs, Battisti's Flower Shop, and Sautter's Diner
Coming up soon is the Internet for Kids workshop on Tuesday,
August 21st from 10-11:30 a.m. Sign up asap at the circulation
desk. This should be a great event for all children who want
to learn to find information and fun on the internet.
Another neat event in the near future is an information session
and workshop, "Geneology - using Internet Resources"
presented by Beverly Choltco-Devlin, a reference specialist for
the Mid-York Library System. This interesting program will be
held on Wednesday, August 29th from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at the library.
Call 684-9130 or stop by the circulation desk to sign up. This
event will be limited to twenty participants.
The library wants to extend a big welcome to any patrons of the
Hamilton Village Library. We would be glad to take care of your
book needs and your interlibrary loans while your library is
closed. We are the cute brown Victorian cottage on Main Street
in Morrisville, just three buildings up the street from the Key
Bank.
The Mid-York system is preparing a MusicNet for use by all member
libraries. If you have any suggestions of CD's you would like
to see them include, please let Barb Fogg know and she will pass
on the ideas. We want to make sure a wide variety of music is
included so that everyone will be able to enjoy this service.
Several new book adoptions head the list of arrivals this week.
For our 9-12 year old readers, there are three new books. Matilda
Bone by Karen Cushman is a novel, about orphan, Matilda, an excessively
pious young woman, obsessed with the saints and the remembered
words of her former teacher, Father Leufredus. The story tells
of her life when she is dropped into Blood and Bone Alley to
become servant, and later apprentice, to Red Peg, the Bonesetter.
Orwell's Luck by Richard Jennings tells about a girl who discovers
an injured rabbit, Orwell, which she nurses back to health. The
bunny begins communicating with the girl through coded messages
in a newspaper horoscope column in this unusual story that considers
the nature of luck, chance, and miracles, and hints at not-quite-understandable
mysteries. In Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, author
Kathryn Lasky invents a diary of the young Marie Antoinette in
1769 -- the year she is to be married off to Dauphin Louis Auguste,
eldest grandson of the French king Louis XV. Thanks to the adopter
for these books our youthful readers will enjoy.
For our adult readers, a new adoption, Her Own Woman: The Life
of Mary Wollstonecraft by Diane Jacobs relates the life of this
pioneer feminist, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,
observer of the French Revolution, and mother of Mary Shelley,
author of Frankenstein. Thanks to the Nodells for adopting Jury,
the latest legal thriller by Steve Martini. In this one, Paul
Madriani, the lawyer-hero of five previous Martini novels, has
moved to San Diego and taken on the case of David Crone, a doctor
involved in mapping the human genome, who's been charged with
the murder of his colleague, a young African American research
physician whose ambitions threatened Crone's career. While the
adoption campaign is moving along very well, these great books
would love to be adopted: Danielle Steele's Leap of Faith, John
Irving's The Fourth Hand, Lalita Tademy's Cane River (an Oprah
selection), Hampton Sides' Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic
of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission, Linda Hogan's Woman
Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir, Dominick Dunne's
Justice: Crimes, Trials and Punishments, and Joseph Ellis' Founding
Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. Consider adopting a book
this week; we promise to give it a good home. The notebook of
books up for adoption is on the circulation desk, so that you
can look at all the "orphans" you might adopt.
Finally, thanks to Lynde Lefever who donated On the Street Where
You Live by Mary Higgins Clark, and to anonymous donors for The
Red Rose Crew by Daniel Boyne and for Lee's Young Artillerist
by William Pegram.
Other new books just in include Baby Names Now : From Classic
to Cool, the Very Last Word on First Names by Linda Rosenkrantz,
Pamela Satran and Linda Satran. Tarzan fans will want to sign
out Tarzan the Classics: Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan
by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Also in for younger readers are a new adventure of Mary Kate
and Ashley, The Case of the Dog Camp Mystery and The Mayflower
Project (Remnanats #1) , first in a powerful new series that
begins with the end of Earth as we know it, by Katherine Applegate,
the best-selling author of Animorphs and Everworld. Harry Potter
fans will enjoy two of his new Hogwarts schoolbooks, Quidditch
through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Quidditch starts with the history of broomsticks, describes the
evolution of Quidditch through the generations, and includes
the rules of the game as well as a chapter on modern-day play.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a complete listing
of all the magical beasts you've only heard of and will introduce
you to a host of new ones you haven't. Finally, new on the shelf
is the video, "Joe's Apartment."
Be cool this month. Relax in the shade and read a good book from
your local library.
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