MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS November 30, 2001
by Mary Brown
It's beginning to look a lot like the holiday season at the
library. Book displays, decorations and auction items surround
visitors with the spirit of Christmas. To highlight the season,
the Friends of the Library will be hosting the annual Holiday
Open House on Friday, December 7th from 1 - 5 p.m. Be sure to
stop by and enjoy our decorations and the delicious treats the
Friends always prepare.
As you enter the front hall this week, you'll see a beautiful
Christmas tree all dressed in red, white and blue, the focal
point of the patriotic holiday theme at the library this year.
Next to the tree is a wonderful display of holiday books to sign
out. Among the books are many from the Christmas around the World
series - such as Christmas in: Ireland, Germany, Russia, America
and Italy. Wander back a little farther and you'll find a nice
display of Christmas decorating and craft books to help you make
your home festive for the holidays.
Keep walking back to the program room and you'll think that Santa
has already visited the library. The room is packed with wonderful
gift items for the Holiday Silent Auction. Sign up for a bidding
number, and start bidding on those items you'd like to give as
gifts (or keep for yourself!). In addition to some of the great
auction items we've mentioned recently in this column, we now
have on the auction block a beautiful framed garden painting
done in watercolors by Morrisville's Maxine Hunter. It is one
of several lovely signed paintings in the auction. Other new
items up for bid are a crocheted granny square Christmas stocking,
a carnival glass compote, a small girl's bike, Peruvian men's
sweaters, children's skis with poles and boots, A Pony Rider's
Diary and Horse Quotations books, and several pizza gift certificates.
Of course, don't forget all the wonderful collectible dolls up
for bid. This is definitely the place to do some of your holiday
shopping; there is something here for most everybody on your
gift-giving list.
The auction will extend during library hours until December 13th
. At 1 p.m. sharp on the 13th, the auction ends, the highest
bidders are determined and contacted. (Note: The auction ends
on December 13th - not the 17th as I had mistakenly written last
week. Also note that the library's hours on Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturdays are 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., not 2 p.m. as I also mistakenly
wrote last week. I guess I was having a bad day!!)
Thanks to some generous adopters, we have some new books to report
this week. Joan Gregory adopted Marte Dunn's Ella Minnow Pea
, a whimsical fable about a group of island inhabitants who start
to limit the letters of the alphabet they can use to communicate.
The results are both clever and amusing. Joan Zazzara adopted
James Patterson's new Violets are Blue, an Alex Cross thriller
in which Alex has to defeat a modern day "vampire"
and his nemesis known as "the Mastermind." Heather
Miller adopted Carolyn Meyer's Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain,
a new entry in the Royal Diaries series for 9-12 year old readers.
This tells the story of the young, determined, soon-to-be Queen
Isabel of Castilla, the royal who sponsored Christopher Columbus's
journey to America. Mary Brath adopted Elizabeth George's A Traitor
to Memory, the latest in the bestselling Thomas Lynley series.
In this massive novel, Detective Inspector Lynley starts out
investigating a vehicular homicide, but soon becomes engrossed
in the intricacies of a "nanny murder", a confused
violinist, and another deliberate hit-and-run accident.
Rounding out the new arrivals this week are two novels by popular
novelists and a nice CD. Flesh: Blood by Jonathan Kellerman,
follows psychologist, Alex Delaware as he explores the circumstances
that surround the murder of a former patient who went on to become
a straight "A" student and a high price call girl.
Barbara Taylor Bradford's The Triumph of Katie Byrne is a romantic
suspense novel about a young women haunted by the tragedies of
two friends as she tries to succeed as an actress. Finally, "WOW:
Worship Orange" is a new CD of Christian contemporary music.
Your local library is the holiday place to be this week. Sign
out some Christmas books, bid on gifts at our wonderful Holiday
Silent Auction and drop in for our Annual Holiday Open House
on Friday, the 7th.
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