Friday, December 21, 2007

Christmas Eve and Day



Don't forget that the library will be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The library will re-open on December 26th at 9am.

Library Web page

The library webpage will have a very brief outage this morning. The server needed updating and that requires a restart. The outage will be as brief as possible.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

New Books for December!

Baldacci, David: Stone Cold
Bass, Jefferson: Flesh and Bone: a Body Farm novel
Blume, Judy: Smart Women
Bradford, Barbara Taylor: The Heir
Cabot, Meg: Big Boned: a Heather Wells Mystery
Card, Orson Scott: Children of the Mind
Coble, Colleen: Lonestar Sanctuary
Connelly, Michael: City of Bones
Cornwell, Patricia: Book of the Dead
Cussler, Clive: The Chase
Ellison, JT: All the Pretty Girls
Flynn, Vince: Protect and Defend: a Thriller
Foster, Lori: Enticing
Gold, August: The Prayer Chest: a novel about receiving all of life's riches
Grafton, Sue: T is for Trespass
Hannah, Sophie: Little Face
Herman, Kathy: Never Look Back
Hill, Joe: 20th Century Ghosts
Iles, Greg: Third Degree
Kaplow, Robert: Who's Killing the Great Writers of a America?: a satire
Karon, Jan: Home to Holly Springs
Kingsbury, Karen: Between Sundays
Koontz, Dean: The Darkest Evening of the Year
Lacy, Al: A Line in the Sand
Lehane, Dennis: Gone, Baby, Gone
McCraig, Donald: Rhett Butler's People
McGarrity, Michael: The Judas Judge: a Kevin Kerney Novel
Morris, Gilbert: Pages of Promise; The Cat's Pajamas
Parker, Robert B.: Now and Then
Patterson, James: Double Cross
Patterson, Richard North: The Race
Pullman, Phillip: The Golden Compass
Robb, J.D.: Creation in Death
Roberts, Nora: Blood Brothers
Sawyer, Kim Vogel: Beginnings: Sommerfield Trilogy, Book 2
Steele, Danielle: Amazing Grace
Truman, Margaret: Murder on K Street: a Capital Crimes Novel
Woodworth, Stephen: With Red Hands

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Don't forget!

The Young Adult Christmas Cookie party is tonight @ 6pm!

Friday, December 7, 2007

Teen Christmas Cookie Party

Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 @ 6:00pm


Let's bake Christmas Cookies! Yum! We will taste our cookies, of course, and do some other fun stuff while they bake. Come and BRING YOUR FRIENDS! Sign up at the library.

563-2972 or wabashteens@gmail.com

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

My Year of Reading Dangerously

Looking to read a few books you've been putting off because you don't want to read them on your own? Check out a Year of Reading Dangerously and join in the challenge to read 12 novels in 2008.

Either chose to read their list of novels, or pick your own.
January: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (since Estella is our namesake)
February: The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (African American)
March: Cat's Eye, by Margaret Atwood (Atwood for Atwood's sake)
April: Transformations, by Anne Sexton (Poetry)
May: Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote (Southern)
June: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (Russian)
July: The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier (adolescent)
August: Maus I and II, by Art Spiegelman (Graphic Novel, Pulitzer winner)
September: The Secret Lives of People in Love, by Simon Van Booy (Independent)
October: The Human Stain, by Philip Roth (Contemporary/Jewish)
November: A Month of Classic Short Stories, Various - watch for a list
December: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck (Dusty)

Wordless Wednesday


Wabash received its first snowfall with accumulation on Wednesday, December 5th.