Library Notes for the week of July 23

Saturday, July 21st the library celebrated the release of the last Harry Potter book with Master Payne and his illusions. We also gave away a copy of the Harry Potter title to one lucky audience member. Brayden Howard was the lucky winner!

Some exiting news at the library! We received a grant through the Washington State Library Gates Staying Connected Project to replace two of our aging public computers. If you use our public computers you know they are getting hard use and are in need of replacement. This grant helps us stretch our technology budget a bit further. The new computers should be up and running soon.

Kids, don’t forget the big countywide celebration for the end of our Summer Reading Program. Thursday, July 26^th at either 10:30 a.m. or 6:30 p.m. Brothers from Different Mothers will perform at the new Burlington library. You will not want to miss this!!

We are getting lots of new books. Why not check out one of these.

Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinkski. A young American freelance writer accompanies his girlfriend to Thailand, where, from a person he'd known before, he is offered a story to pursue. It seems a woman anthropologist had been imprisoned in Thailand for murder and subsequently killed herself during her incarceration.

Woman in Red by Eileen Goudge. Alice Kessler, the married mother of two sons, is living on Grays Island, in the Pacific Northwest, when her eight-year-old son is run over while riding his bike. Alice is convinced the driver, Owen White, was drunk—though her husband is not--neither is the court system. So, on the day Alice loses her wrongful death lawsuit, she runs Owen down in the courthouse parking lot, crippling but not killing him. Alice serves nine years and returns to the island near-broke and hoping to reunite with her surviving son now 16.

Still Life with Elephant by Judy Reene Singer. When social worker turned horse trainer Cornelia "Neelie" Sterling finds out her vet husband, Matt, is cheating on her, she throws him out, but can't bear to make it legal. Faced with losing her house and barn, Neelie jumps aboard Matt's mission to Zimbabwe to rescue two wounded elephants, thinking the transatlantic journey will convince him to recommit to the marriage.