LPL News for the week of 4-27-08

[Lakewood Public Library]

"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?" --Joseph Heller (1923-1999)

UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY


Saturday, May 3, 2008
GIRLS WITH WINGS: For students second through seventh grade
Lakewood pilot Lynda Meeks uses aviation to entertain and educate kids about their limitless opportunities for personal growth.
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

LAKEWOOD PUBLIC CINEMA: THE SEARCHERS (1956)
Directed by John Ford and rated PG. He had to find her... John Wayne gives the best performance of his career as Ethan Edwards, an angry, perhaps obsolete man who finds refuge in an obsessive search for his niece, captured by Comanche so many years ago. "Some day, this country's gonna be a fine, good place to be. Maybe it needs our bones in the ground before that time can come."
New time! 6:00 p.m. in the New Main Library Auditorium

Sunday, May 4, 2008
SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS: DUO IN THE POCKET
In the tradition of Zoot Sims, Scott Hamilton and Stan Getz, Duo in the Pocket presents a horizon-widening afternoon of jazz. Conrad Reeves holds down the rhythm on guitar while Dave Kasper lays out warm melodies with saxophone.
2:00 p.m. in the New Main Library Auditorium

NEW BOOKS, MOVIES & MUSIC-- Located on the First Floor

Adult Fiction:
Buckingham Palace Gardens: a novel by Anne Perry — MYSTERY PERRY
Windy City: a novel of politics by Scott Simon — FICTION SIMON
Criminal Paradise: a novel by Steven M. Thomas — FICTION THOMAS

Adult Nonfiction:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Cleveland Indians: heart-pounding, jaw-dropping, and gut-wrenching moments from Cleveland Indians history by Mary Schmitt Boyer — 796.357640977132 BOYER
The Panic Years: a guide to surviving smug married friends, bad taffeta, and life on the wrong side of 25 without a ring by Doree Lewak — 306.8153 LEWAK
Double or Nothing: how two friends risked it all to buy one of Las Vegas' legendary casinos by Tom Breitling — 338.7617950922793135 BREITLING

Adult Audiovisual:
Beyond the Gates -- DVD BEYOND THE GATES
The Senator's Wife by Sue S. Miller — CD FICTION MILLER
The Venetian Betrayal by Steve Berry — CD FICTION BERRY

Juvenile Fiction:
Punk Farm on Tour by Jarrett J. Krosoczka — JPICTURE Krosoczka
Uh-oh! by Rachel Isadora — JPICTURE Isadora
Night of the Homework Zombies by Scott Nickel — JFICTION Nickel

Juvenile Audiovisual:
Henry and Beezus by Beverly Cleary — JCD Fiction Cleary
I Wanna Play by Bill Harley — JCD Harley
All About the Brain -- JDVD 612.82 All

BROWSING THE STACKS
Lakewood Public Library offers a wide variety of book collections within our non-fiction area.
This week's spotlight is on: Travel. Located in Non-Fiction on the second floor. Good titles if you're planing a trip or just want to do a little armchair traveling.

Cruising on the Queen Elizabeth 2: around the world in 91 days by Bernard M. Patten — 910.41 PATTEN
Unlikely Destinations: the Lonely Planet story by Tony Wheeler — 910 WHEELER
All Things Reconsidered: my birding adventures by Roger Tory Peterson — 598.07234 PETERSON
Zaatar Days, Henna Nights: adventures, dreams, and destinations across the Middle East by Maliha Masood — 915.604 MASOOD
River of No Reprieve: descending Siberia's waterway of exile, death, and destiny by Jeffrey Tayler — 915.70486 TAYLER
Getting Stoned with Savages: a trip through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu
by J. Maarten Troost — 919.59504 TROOST

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E-BOOKS

Through the Ohio eBook Project your Lakewood Public Library card (and PIN) gives you access to browse and search hundreds of titles for downloading to your home computer, portable device, or burning onto CDs for reading and listening anywhere, anytime. The Ohio eBook Project is funded in part using LSTA funds awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to the State Library of Ohio.

Don't have a PIN? You will need a PIN to access your account online or to check out materials from the eBook Project. Get your PIN at the Circulation Desk at Main Library or Madison Branch. Get started here: http://ohdbks.lib.overdrive.com/

This Week's Featured E-Books
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 3 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Includes: The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet and The Adventure of the Copper Beeches. Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these adventures, part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth. Parts: 4 Duration: 2 hours, 55 minutes Software needed: OverDrive Media Console 1.0

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The award-winning Sherlock Holmes narrator David Timson leads us through Conan Doyle's most famous tale. This extended story brings the archetypal detective to the moors with his friend and biographer Dr Watson to investigate the mystery of a beast terrorising the neighbourhood. Software needed: OverDrive Media Console 1.0