LPL News for the week of 8/1/10

[Lakewood Public Library]

"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism." -- Graham Greene (1904-1991)

Upcoming Events

Saturday, August 7
ARTS FESTIVAL BOOK SALE
Friends Book Sale Area (lower level)
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday, August 8
SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS: WALLACE COLEMAN’S BLUES
He embodies a musical gift that has all but disappeared from the African American musical landscape. After playing harp for the late Delta guitar legend Robert Lockwood, Jr. and traveling the world, Wallace Coleman has come home to play songs that preserve the spirit of Chess Records and reflect his own storied life. Don’t miss your chance to hear this Living Blues Award winner have a ball playing favorite songs for friends.
2:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Thursday, August 12
BOOKED FOR MURDER:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by C. Alan Bradley
Precocious and well-read, eleven-year-old Flavia is an amateur chemist who turns amateur sleuth when a dead body winds up in the cucumber patch. Her widowed father and older sisters don’t pay much attention, so it’s up to her and Gladys (a bicycle) to find the murderer.
7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Meeting Room

Saturday, August 14
BACK TO THE MOVIES: Vintage Hitchcock
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Not Rated
A woman traveling by train to meet her future husband befriends an amiable governess, Miss Froy. Waking up from her nap, she discovers that the lady has vanished. Everyone insists that she never existed! Enlisting the help of a musicologist played by Michael Redgrave, she searches for the missing woman and encounters one suspicious character after another. Why would foreign agents want to harm poor Miss Froy? She’s just a governess, right?
6:00 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:

Money to burn: a novel of suspense by James Grippando - FICTION GRIPPANDO
A bad day for sorry by Sophie Littlefield - FICTION LITTLEFIELD
Angel with two faces: a mystery featuring Josephine Tey by Nicola Upson - MYSTERY UPSON

Adult Nonfiction:

Revolutionary atmosphere: the story of the Altitude Wind Tunnel and the Space Power Chambers by Robert S. Arrighi - 629.468 ARRIGHI
Broke, USA: from pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.--how the working poor became big business by Gary Rivlin - 339.460973 RIVLIN
The most powerful idea in the world: a story of steam, industry, and invention
by William Rosen - 909.81 ROSEN

Juvenile Fiction:

Zero, Zilch, Nada: Counting to None by Wendy Ulmer -- jPICTURE Ulmer
Tap Tap Bang Bang by Emma Garcia - jPICTURE Garcia
Shine, Coconut Moon by Neesha Meminger - TEEN FICTION Meminger

Juvenile Audiovisual:

Is Your Mama a Llama? And More Classic Children's Stories -- jDVD Is
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen -- jCD FICTION Paulsen
Veggietales 25 Favorite Lullaby Songs
jCD Veggietales


BROWSING THE STACKS
Lakewood Public Library offers a wide variety of book collections within our non-fiction area. This week's spotlight is on:Cooking with Fruits and Vegetables. Find out how to make use all the fresh veggies and fruit from your garden! These titles can be found in non-fiction collection at Main Libraryand the Madison Branch.

In season: cooking with vegetables and fruits by Sarah Raven - 641.65 RAVEN

Rosalind Creasy 's recipes from the garden by Rosalind Creasy - 641.651 CREASY

Fruit!: fresh and delicious recipes for sweet and main dishes by Kathryn Hawkins - 641.64 HAWKINS

The vegetable dishes I can't live without by Mollie Katzen - 641.651 KATZEN

Farmer John's cookbook : the real dirt on vegetables by John Peterson - 641.651 PETERSON

LPL'S WEB SITE FOCUS: Parent Pages
Tthe Lakewood Public Library's Parent Pages are packed with resources you can use to discover the best that Lakewood and surrounding communities have to offer for family fun and education.
http://www.lkwdpl.org/parentpages/

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