Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Library Notes week of December 17


Looking for something to do with your kids during the Christmas Holiday? We are planning a Family Storytime for Thursday, Dec. 27th at 6 p.m. Stories for kids and parents, prizes and refreshments, come and have a great time.

Maybe you have finished your Christmas shopping and need something to read. Here are a few of the latest titles to hit our new book shelf.

A Spy by Nature by Charles Cumming. Alec Milius is young, smart, and ambitious. He also has a talent for deception. He is working in a dead-end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center-stage in a dangerous game of espionage.

North River by Pete Hamill. In the dead of winter in the Depression year of 1934, Dr. Delaney knows the cause of death was always life. Delaney is numb from the war and the abandonment of his family. When he saves the life of gangster friend Eddie Corso, Italian hood Frankie Botts is not happy. Delaney can feel the threat to him and his grandson in his bones.

The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith. Isabel has recently become a mother, but she has an ambiguous relationship with her son's father, Jamie, whose attempts to formalize their connection have been unsuccessful. Their ties are further strained by Jamie's ex-girlfriend, Cat, who not only still harbors strong feelings for him but is Isabel's niece. Isabel must also deal with petty academic politics aimed at depriving her of her position as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics.

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