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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
As I write this column, the vote for the School District
Library proposition has not yet taken place, but as you read
the column, the vote will be over. Whatever the result, thanks
to all who voted "Yes" in the effort to help the library.
Don't forget that the library will be closed on Friday,
May 24th through Monday, ay 27th for the Memorial Day weekend.
We don't want you to come and be disappointed that no one is
home! We will re-open on Tuesday, May 28th at 10 a.m.
May is Amnesty Month at the library. We will forgive
any fines this month if you return any overdue library books.
Please do not stuff the drop box; just bring back books all
month with no fine or late charges.
The Mystery Book Sale is continuing in the front hall this
month. We are selling hardcovers @ $1.00 each, or 3 for $2.00.
paperbacks are $.50 each or 3 for $1.00.
Come in and see your friends and neighbors and the many
sites of Morrisville in the photographic exhibit now on display
in the program room. The photos were all taken by Pat Swann's
photographic journalism class at SUNY Morrisville.
The last of the delightful spring series of Pre-School
Story Hours with Grandma B is on the agenda for next Tuesday,
May 28th at 10:30 a.m. with a theme of dental hygiene. Bring
in the little ones for some fun and some good lessons about taking
care of their teeth.
We have a few new books to report this week. Thanks to Traci,
our library director, for adopting Michael Moore's Stupid White
Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, an interesting,
if outrageous, critique of George Bush and his administration.
Thanks to Ethel Crane for Knight: My Story by Bobby Knight, a
biography of the successful and highly criticized coach. Thanks
to Linda Puddington for adopting Murder She Wrote: Provence to
Die For by Donald Bain and Jessica Fletcher. Jessica Fletcher
mystery fans will want to sign out this one. Thanks to Phyllis
Mattingly for Joseph Wambaugh's TheFire Lover: A True Story,
the shocking story of John Orr, an arson investigator who was
also the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century
Also in this week is Toni Morrison's Sula, which tells the
story of two women--friends since childhood, separated in young
adulthood, and reunited as grown women. Nel Wright grows up to
become a wife and mother, happy to remain in her hometown while
Sula Peace leaves Medallion to experience college, men, and life
in the big city, an exceptional choice for a black woman to make
in the late 1920s. Jean Auel's The Shelters of Stone(Earth's
Children Series, No. 5 is a fact-based fantasy in which Ayla,
the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, meets the Zelandonii
tribe of Jondalar, the Cro-Magnon man she rescued from Baby,
her pet lion. Norman Rosenthal's The Emotional Revolution:How
the New Science of Feeling Can transform Your Life synthesizes
highly technical brain research into an easily understandable
book, so you really know what's going on with your brain when
you are sad, happy, relaxed, or angry. He then uses examples,
and specific behavioral guidelines to show you what simple steps
you can take to lead a happier, healthier life.
Other newly arrived books include Robert Parker's Widow's
Walk. Randall Kennedy's Nigger, Kevin Connelly's Stud, David
Ambrose's Coincidence, Allan Morris Jones's Last Year's River
and Helen Dewitt's The Last Samurai.
Take advantage of the last few days of Amnesty Month and
be sure to stop by the library even if you have no overdue books
to bring in. We'd love to see you!
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