LPL News for the week of 12/26/10

[Lakewood Public Library]

Lakewood Public Library will close at 6 p.m. on Friday, December 31
and be closed Saturday, January 1, 2011 for New Year's Day.


"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something." -- Nicholas Sparks (1965-)

Upcoming Events

Saturday, January 8
FALL GUYS AND FEMME FATALES: Film Noir in the Forties
Out of the Past (1947)
Directed by Jacques Tourneur Not Rated
Ex-gangster Robert Mitchum has finally found happiness in a small California town running a service station and going on blissful picnics with his lady love, Virginia Huston. But it’s not long before the movie’s plot catches up with its title, and characters from the past must be dealt with, including mob boss Kirk Douglas and femme fatales Rhonda Fleming and Jane Greer.
6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Sunday, January 9
SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS: The Dixon Family Reunion
Step back in time and space and enter a smoky 1950s roadhouse. The food is lousy, but the music is great. From rhythm & blues to the old rock’n’roll, this family plays American music dating back to the turn of the twentieth century.
2:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

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Lakewood Public Library no longer provides plastic bags. Patrons are welcome to take or leave plastic bags from selected areas in the first floor Community Room and the Audiovisual Department. Thank you for supporting our continuing efforts to be environmentally responsible.

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

Adult Fiction:

Edge: a novel by Jeffery Deaver - FICTION DEAVER
The cradle: a novel by Patrick Somerville - FICTION SOMERVILLE
The ware tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - SCIFI RUCKER

Adult Nonfiction:

Zeitoun by Dave Eggers - 305.8927076335 EGGERS
The warmth of other suns: the epic story of America's great migration by Isabel Wilkerson - 304.80973 WILKERSON
The twilight saga. Eclipse: the score by Howard Shore - 786.2 SHORE

Juvenile Fiction:

That's Not Funny! by Jeanne Willis - jPICTURE Willis
Hero by Mike Lupica - jFICTION Lupica
The Secret Society of the Pink Crystal Ball by Risa Green - TEEN FICTION Green

Juvenile Audiovisual:

Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars -- jDVD Harriet
Reckless by Cornelia Funke - jCD FICTION Funke
Seven Clever Pirates by Eric Ode - jCD Ode

BROWSING THE STACKS
Lakewood Public Library offers a wide variety of book collections within our non-fiction area. This week's spotlight is on: Weddings. These titles can be found in non-fiction collection at Main Library and the Madison Branch.

Style your dream wedding by Susie Coelho - 395.22 COELHO

The Modern bride survival guide by Antonia Van der Meer - 395.22 VAN DER MEER

Bad bridesmaid: bachelorette brawls and taffeta tantrums: tales from the front lines by Siri Agrell - 395.22 AGRELL

Faux florals for your wedding: thirty easy and original silk-floral projects by Ardith Beveridge - 745.926 BEVERIDGE

Organic weddings: balancing ecology, style and tradition by Michelle Kozin - 395.22 KOZIN

Extraordinary weddings: from a glimmer of an idea to a legendary event by Colin Cowie - 395.22 COWIE

STAFF PICKS

The Life of Pi By Yann Martel
The Life of Pi is a wildly imaginative coming-of-age survival story that takes readers from a zoo in Pondicherry, India to the rough waters of the Pacific to a fantastical carnivorous island home to meerkats. The story reminds me of stories of books that I read in my youth, like Theodore Taylor's The Cay and Hatchet by Gary Paulsen in that it is a bona fide adventure and survival novel. It is the art of storytelling and faith in something that keep the reader entertained throughout this novel with elements of magical realism that test readers' trust and perception as the story unfolds.

http://lwpl.sirsi.net/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata12=ocm47893052

Packing for Mars: the Curious Science of Life in the Void By Mary Roach

Mary Roach is not your "typical" science writer; she makes the facts of her subjects instantly accessible and wraps them in a sense of humor. In Packing for Mars, Roach asks the quirky questions we all may have pondered. How do astronauts use the toilet? Why is it rude to float upside down while conversing? The answers are here in her exploration of life in space. Check out Roach's other best selling books: Stiff:The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife and Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.
http://lwpl.sirsi.net/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata12=9780393068474

Staff Picks Archive: http://www.lkwdpl.org/staffpicks

LPL'S WEB SITE FOCUS: ALLDATA ONLINE: Free Car Repair Database

Need some free car repair help? Reserve computer time at either the Main Library or the Madison Branch and check out ALLDATA Online, a comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information. There you’ll find crisp, clear OEM wiring diagrams, exploded-view illustrations of how things fits together, maintenance tables with handy service intervals, automatic repair updates and
technical service bulletins updated daily. This valuable, money-saving resource cannot be accessed outside the Library.

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