MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS March 1, 2002
by Mary Brown
Cabin Fever is not a major epidemic this March, but if you
are looking to get out of the house and do something interesting,
the library has two nice events coming up.
This Friday, March 8th at 7 p.m., Professor Roxanna Pisiak will
lead a discussion of Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water as
part of the Adult Book Talk series. Sign out a copy of the book
at the circulation desk now, read fast, and join us for a lively
evening of discussion.
On Sunday, March 17th, local musician, Dennis McGuire will be
at the library, singing a repertoire of Irish folk songs in honor
of St. Patrick's Day. His performance will run from 2:30 - 3:30
p.m. in the library's front room. It is free and open to the
public. Dennis has been performing for several years, and has
long been a member of the popular rock group, "Harvest",
as well as a teacher of many local musicians. He also owns and
operates McGuire's Music Store in Cazenovia. This annual event
promises to be a fine day for the Irish and the Irish at heart.
Thanks go out this week to Michele Niles for her donation of
two wonderful books to the library. Scrapbooking with Memory
Makers by Michelle Gerbrandt and Kerry Arquette includes many
full-color photos of scrapbooking pages created by scrapbookers,
and how-to photos illustrating detailed directions for selecting
a theme, organizing material, choosing and cropping photos, and
arranging items attractively. Gift Wrapping and Greeting Cards
by Annette Claxton gives many creative ideas for making and decorating
gift wrap and cards for most any occasion.
Mystery readers will appreciate the wonderful new books donated
this week by a generous, anonymous donor. Bloodroot is Susan
Albert's latest China Bayles mystery. In this one, China's mother,
Leatha, is staying on the family plantation in Mississippi, when
the plantation manager announces that he has a deed to the land
under the plantation's main house, is assaulted, and then disappears.
Reluctantly, China drives to Mississippi to resolve the problems,
but they are deeper, more personal and more difficult than she
realizes. Aunt Dimity Detective, the newest book in the Aunt
Dimity series by Nancy Atherton, finds Lori and her ghostly aunt
investigating numerous suspects when a newcomer to town who has
shown herself to be hateful, spiteful, and malicious, is murdered.
Hostage by Robert Crais is a thriller in which Jeff Talley, the
police chief in a small Southern California town, has to negotiate
for three hostages' lives with punks who are robbers and killers.
(More to come next week on other new mysteries the library has
just received.)
Three nice book adoptions have also come in this week. Barb Richmond
has adopted John Grisham's latest thriller, The Summons, which
follows law professor Ray Atlee when he finds three million dollars.
Ray's efforts to keep his find a secret, figure out where it
came from, and hide it from a nameless extortioner, who seems
to know more about it than he does, makes for another fine Grisham
tale. Linda Puddington has adopted Cruel and Unusual Punishment,
the tenth in the Pennsylvania Dutch mystery series by Tamar Myers.
In this one, an imprisoned con man dies after sampling one of
Magdalena Yoder's most famous dishes-and lands Magdalena in the
middle of a grueling mystery. Teresa Lemery has adopted W.E.B.
Griffin's Under Fire, the ninth book in his Corps series. Set
in 1950, with Communist forces making their presence felt below
Korea's 38th Parallel, Griffin's plot centers on Gen. Pickering
and Ken McCoy as they work behind MacArthur's back to covertly
pave the way for an invasion of North Korea. Thanks Barb, Linda
and Teresa.
Stop by the library this week. Our activities and nice selection
of books to read will quickly make you forget any passing feelings
of March madness - or cabin fever.
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