LPL News for the week of 7/4/10

[Lakewood Public Library]

Lakewood Public Library will be closed on Sunday, July 4 for Independence Day.

"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces." -- Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

Thursday, July 8
BOOKED FOR MURDER: Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
When a murderer uses torture methods straight out of Dante’s Inferno, the police call upon the unique talents of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell to put out the fire.
7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Meeting Room

Friday, July 9
LakewoodAlive presents: FRONT PORCH CONCERTS
Celebrate Lakewood’s rich diversity and youthful talent with live, family-friendly entertainment in front of the Library—Lakewood’s Front Porch! Bring a chair and a happy heart and don’t forget your dancing shoes!
Lakewood Is Art: One World Music Series: African Village Music with Halim El-Dabh
7:00 p.m. in front of the Main Library

Saturday, July 10
BACK TO THE MOVIES: Vintage Hitchcock
Young and Innocent (1937)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Not Rated
A man with a twitching eye argues with his movie-star wife. Later, she is found dead and another man is seen fleeing. This man, whose eyes are perfectly normal, commandeers a car with a constable’s daughter in it. Together they search for the real killer. Did I mention the twitching eye? Have you ever seen a movie where a character with a twitching eye is innocent? This movie’s big reveal has been featured in every cinema textbook ever since.
6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Sunday, July 11
SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS: JODY GETZ & FRIENDS
An award-winning songwriter rediscovers her voice with help from two of her favorite musicians. Guitarist John Lucic and bassist George Lee join Jody Getz for a return to center stage. The blues can’t be far behind—along with folk and pop originals.
2:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

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:

Orange County noir by Gary Phillips - MYSTERY ORANGE
Charlotte and Emily: a novel of the Brontes by Jude Morgan - FICTION MORGAN
Return of the Crimson Guard: a novel of the Malazan Empire by Ian C. Esslemont - SCIFI ESSLEMONT

Adult Nonfiction:

13 bankers: the Wall Street takeover and the next financial meltdown by Simon Johnson - 332.10973 JOHNSON
From the closet to the courtroom: five LGBT rights lawsuits that have changed our nation
by Carlos A. Ball - 342.73087 BALL
Drink this, not that!: sip your way to a flat belly! by David. Zinczenko - 641.2 ZINCZENKO

Juvenile Fiction:

Push Button by Aliki - jPICTURE Aliki
Please Take Me for a Walk by Susan Gal - jPICTURE Gal
Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto by Eric Luper - TEEN FICTION Luper

Juvenile Audiovisual:

Rapunzel...and More Classic Fairytales -- jDVD Rapunzel
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen - jCD FICTION Paulsen
Little Diva by LaChanze - CDB LaChanze

BROWSING THE STACKS
Lakewood Public Library offers a wide variety of book collections within our non-fiction area. This week's spotlight is on: Biography. Take a vacation from your life and check out someone else's! These titles can be found in the Non-fiction collection on the second floor or at the Madison Branch.

Front-page girl by Doris O'Donnell - BIO O'DONNELL
Ziegfeld:the man who invented show business by Ethan Mordden - BIO ZIEGFIELD
Flaubert: a biography by Frederick Brown - BIO FLAUBERT
Kingfish: the reign of Huey P. Long Richard D. White - BIO LONG
Possible side effects by Augusten Burroughs - BIO BURROUGHS
Barbra : the way she is by Christopher P. Andersen - BIO STREISAND

LPL'S WEB SITE FOCUS: Disabled American Veterans

Lakewood Public Library hosts Chapter 108's Web page. The site is updated periodically, to keep you informed of the Chapter's activities and other upcoming events of interest to disabled veterans and their families.

http://www.lkwdpl.org/dav108/

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