Library Notes week of July 19

The Summer Reading Program is winding down. July 29th we will embellish a wind chime kit. Please call us and let us know you will be coming as supplies are limited--466-3352. All activities are held on Thursday mornings at 10 a.m. before we open our doors for the day. You can check out the schedule on our website http://www.lclib.lib.wa.us/ . Come join us for a fun time.

When you bring in your child for the craft time, take a look at the new book shelf for one of these new titles.

Alice I have Been by Melanie Benjamin. Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.

Altar of Eden by James Rollins. Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a fishing trawler shipwrecked on a barrier island. The crew is missing or dead, but the boat holds a frightening cargo: a caged group of exotic animals, clearly part of a black market smuggling ring. Yet, something is wrong with these beasts, disturbing deformities that make no sense: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-toothed tiger. They also all share one uncanny trait—a disturbingly heightened intelligence. To uncover the truth about the origin of this strange cargo and the terrorist threat it poses, Lorna must team up with a man who shares a dark and bloody past with her and is now an agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, Jack Menard.

Southern Lights by Danielle Steel. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa prepares for a high-stakes trial…until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to her beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter, Savannah, whom Alexa has been raising alone since her divorce. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters—and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly she must make the toughest choice of all—and send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak…her ex-husband’s world of southern tradition, memories of betrayal, and the antebellum charm of Charleston.

Library Notes Week of June 28th

Summer activities are underway. Last week was T-shirt paintings and we had lots of fun creating our one-of-a-kind shirts. This Thursday at 10:30 a.m. will be the ancient art of Gyotaku (fish prints). July 1st at 10 a.m. Last Leaf will be back with us to perform Show Down at Starfish Canyon. Don’t miss them!! They are always so entertaining.

Have you heard we moved around our story times? Baby ‘N Me (birth to 18 months) is Wed. morning at 10:30 a.m. Toddler Time (18 months to 3 years) is Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. and, just for the summer, there will be a Pre-school/Primary story time (ages 3-6) on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 10:30. There is something for everyone. Come check us out.

New books are always coming in. Here are a few you might enjoy reading.

Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson. In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords and surviving an eight-day armed abduction by the Taliban.

Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves. In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II -- pilots, navigators, and mechanics -- who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report to local military bases. The president, Harry S. Truman, was recalling them to active duty to try to save the desperate people of the western sectors of Berlin, the enemy capital many of them had bombed to rubble only three years before.

The Man Who Ate His Boots by Anthony Brandt. A riveting read of the 19th century search for the Northwest Passage from Europe to the East, written with grace and mordant wit. After their defeat of Napoleon, the Brits thought they were invincible, even in the face of one failed expedition after another. Failure was not an option, and so into the frozen unknown they pushed in their quest for mastery of the world, urged on by one man who wielded great power in the Admiralty, John Barrow. Trouble is, until recently the Northwest Passage did not exist. They also could not be bothered to learn from the people who lived there, the Inuits so they paid the price.