LPL News for the week of 4/18/10

[Lakewood Public Library]

"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."
John Mortimer (1923-)

Upcoming Events

Sunday, April 18
SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS: JIM GILL &
DOC DREYFUSS: Contemporary Folk Music
Take one heartwarming, homespun and hilarious singer-songwriter and add the most innovative electric viola player in the history of the instrument. We think you end up with a dazzling afternoon of entertainment, impossible to explain but easy to enjoy. It’s hard to believe these guys are just folks.
2:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Monday, April 19
FAMILY MATTERS:
NEGOTIATING WITH YOUR LENDER:
Home Foreclosure Mediation
These days, almost everybody with an adding machine seems to have tips for people with home foreclosure worries. Get your advice straight from the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Home Foreclosure Mediation Program. Andrea Kinast will provide resources and information that can be used to save a home.
7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Wednesday, April 21
MEET THE AUTHOR:
Write for Your Lives: Inspire Your Creative Writing with Buddhist Wisdom by Joseph Sesito
Understand the types of thinking that restrict creativity and learn techniques to breakthrough defeat. Master the manuscript by mastering yourself. Get an agent and get published. Then sell the book and help people by helping yourself. Joseph Sesito will answer your questions. Books will be available for sale and signing.
7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Tuesday, April 20
KNIT & LIT BOOK CLUB
Lynda Tuennerman hosts a social club for multitaskers—a combination book club and stitchery group. She’s looking for readers who can enjoy intense discussion of modern classics while relaxing with their latest stitching project. Come share your passion for great literature and show off your knitting, crocheting, counted cross-stitch, embroidery and quilting works-in-progress. At each meeting, the group decides what will be read next. Call (216) 226-8275, ext. 127 or visit www.lkwdpl.org/bookclubs to learn more. Tonight's meeting focusses on the work on local author Les Roberts.
7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Meeting Room

Thursday, April 22
LAKEWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS:
DRIVING THROUGH TIME: Lakewood’s Automobile History
Did you know that one of the country’s most beautiful early automobiles was manufactured right here in Lakewood? And that many of the people involved in the Cleveland car scene lived in our community? The Lakewood Historical Society’s Mazie Adams explores Lakewood’s connection to the early automobile industry, with special attention paid to the the personal and professional lives of Alexander Winton, Walter C. Baker and Matthew Bramley, owner of Templar Motors.
7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Sunday, April 25
SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS: UZIZI
Most alternative rock bands don’t come with a twelve-piece choir. Fewer still follow their musical roots back to the Renaissance. Director Craig Matis bends Civil War-era shape-note singing around his own poetic vision of the power of primitive harmonic forces and the simple joy of singing.
2:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

NEW BOOKS, MOVIES & MUSIC: Located on the First Floor in the New Book Area

Adult Fiction:

Deeper than the dead by Tami Hoag - FICTION HOAG
The girl who ate Kalamazoo by Darrin Doyle - FICTION DOYLE
Dying gasp by Leighton Gage - MYSTERY GAGE

Adult Nonfiction:

Samuel Johnson: a life by David Nokes - BIO JOHNSON
Immigrant, Inc.: why immigrant entrepreneurs are driving the new economy (and how they will save the American worker by Richard T. Herman - 338.040869120973 HERMAN
I am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne - BIO OSBOURNE

Adult Audiovisual:

The devil's tomb -- DVD DEVIL'S TOMB
One: a contemporary journey toward a timeless destiny : the movie -- DVD 128 ONE
Tuned in: uncover the extraordinary opportunities that lead to business breakthroughs by Craig Stull - CD 658.409 STULL

Juvenile Fiction:

Duck's Not Afraid of the Dark! by Ethan Long - jPICTURE LONG
Chicken, Pig, Cow: On the Move by Ruth Ohi - jPICTURE OHI
Ratfink by Marcia Thornton Jones - jFICTION JONES

Juvenile Audiovisual:
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? And More Dinosaur Tales -- jDVD HOW
The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael Beil - CD FICTION BEIL
Music Box by Mary Kaye - jCD KAYE

BROWSING THE STACKS

Lakewood Public Library offers a wide variety of book collections within our non-fiction area. This week's spotlight is on: Gardening. These titles can be found in the Non-fiction collection on the second floor or at the Madison Branch.

The buggy professor's solutions to a healthy lawn & garden : a handbook for all-natural gardening by Myles H. Bader - 635.0484 BADER

The garden primer by Barbara. Damrosch - 635 DAMROSCH

Guide to Ohio vegetable gardening by James A. Fizzell - 635.09771 FIZZELL

The elements of organic gardening: Highgrove, Clarence House, Birkhall by Charles, Prince of Wales - 631.584 CHARLES

Grounds for improvement: 40 great landscaping & gardening projects by Dean Hill - 712.6 HILL

The way we garden now: 41 pick-and-choose projects for planting your paradise large or small by Katherine Whiteside - 635 WHITESIDE


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