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Games
Playaways
New
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New Audio-Visual Acquisitions (now
includes CDs)
Readers' Advisory
Atrium Displays
Web Sites of Interest
VIDEO
GAMES
The
Library now has video games to lend! We have games for the following
platforms: PlayStation2, PlayStation3, XBOX360 and Wii. Games
are available in the Children's Room and the Adult Department.
Games may only be borrowed on Adult cards, by Baldwin residents.
The loan period is 7 days-games may not be renewed. Adult titles
include Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PS2, PS3,
XBOX360 and Wii), Halo 3, The Lord of the
Rings Conquest (XBOX360), Madden NFL 09
(XBOX360), Mario Part 8 (Wii). Children's titles
include Lego Star Wars (XBOX360), Mario &
Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii) and Lego Indiana
Jones (Wii).

PLAYAWAYS
The
Baldwin Public Library is proud to announce the addition of Playaways,
the newest technology in audiobooks, to our collection. Playaway
is the simplest way to listen to an audio book on the go. It comes
preloaded with one book on it. No cassettes or CDs. No downloads.
Simply plug in earphones or a car adaptor to Playaways universal
jack and enjoy! And at a mere 2 x 3 ¼, the
Playaway is the ultimate in lightweight portability. Playaways
may be borrowed for 28 days. Look for this new collection of best-selling
titles in the Audio Books area. Read more about them here.

NEW ACQUISITIONS

CHECK
HERE FOR NEW NON-FICTION ACQUISITIONS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
(THESE TITLES ARE LOCATED IN THE NEW BOOK GALLERY)
Appetite
City: A Culinary History of New York
by William Grimes (394.1209 G)
In
Appetite City, the former New York Times
restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical
tour of New Yorks dining culture. Beginning with the era
when simple chophouses and oyster bars dominated the culinary
scene, he charts the citys transformation into the world
restaurant capital it is today. Enhancing his tale with more than
one hundred photographs, rare menus, menu cards, and other curios
and illustrations (many never before seen), Grimes vividly describes
the dining styles, dishes, and restaurants succeeding one another
in an unfolding historical panorama: the deluxe ice cream parlors
of the 1850s, the boisterous beef-and-beans joints along Newspaper
Row in the 1890s, the assembly-line experiment of the Automat,
and the surging multicultural city of today. By encompassing renowned
establishments such as Delmonicos and Le Pavillon as well
as the Bowery restaurants where a meal cost a penny, he reveals
the ways in which the restaurant scene mirrored the larger forces
shaping New York, giving us a deliciously original account of
the history of Americas greatest city.
Source:
Book jacket description
All
Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets
of New York 1927-77
by Tony Fletcher (781.6409 F)
A
penetrating and entertaining exploration of New Yorks music
scene from
Cubop through folk, punk, and hip-hop. Author Tony Fletcher gives
us an incisive history of New Yorks seminal music scenes
and their vast contributions to our culture. With great attention
to the colorful characters behind the sounds, from trumpet player
Dizzy Gillespie to Tito Puente, Bob Dylan, and the Ramones, he
takes us through bebop, the Latin music scene, the folk revival,
glitter music, disco, punk, and hip-hop as they emerged from the
neighborhood streets of Harlem, the East and West Village, Brooklyn,
the Bronx, and Queens. All the while, Fletcher goes well beyond
the history of the music to explain just what it was about these
distinctive New York sounds that took the entire nation by storm.
Source:
Amazon.com description
Connected:
The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape
Our Lives
by Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler (302.3 C)
--Happiness
is contagious.
--Your
future spouse is likely to be your friend's friend.
--Your
friends' friends' friends can make you fat - or thin.
These
are just a few of the authors' startling findings. In Connected,
they present intriguing new evidence that our real-life social
networks shape virtually every aspect of our lives. How we feel,
whom we marry, whether we fall ill, how much money we make, and
whether we vote--everything hinges on what others around us are
doing, thinking and feeling. Connected explains
why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why
the rich get richer, and more.
Source:
Book jacket description
In CHEAP We Trust: The Story of a
Misunderstood American Virtue
by Lauren Weber (332.024 W)
Cheap
suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden
with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's
life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat
at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely
using his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But
as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save
$2 on subway fare, she realized she had turned into him.
In
this lively treatise on the virtues of being cheap, Weber explores
provocative questions about Americans' conflicted relationship
with consumption and frugality. Why do we ridicule people who
save money? Where's the boundary between thrift and miserliness?
Is thrift a virtue or a vice during a recession? And was it common
sense or obsessive-compulsive disorder that made her father ration
the family's toilet paper?
In
answering these questions, In Cheap We Trust offers
a colorful ride through the history of frugality in the United
States. Readers will learn the stories behind Ben Franklin and
his famous maxims, Hetty Green (named "the world's greatest
miser" by the Guinness Book of Records) and the stereotyping
of Jewish and Chinese immigrants as cheap. Weber
also explores contemporary expressions and dilemmas of thrift.
From Dumpster-diving to economist John Maynard Keynes's "Paradox
of Thrift" to today's recession-driven enthusiasm for frugal
living, In Cheap We Trust teases out the meanings
of cheapness and examines the wisdom and pleasures of not spending
every last penny.
Source:
Book description
Rowing the Atlantic: Lessons Learned
on the Open Ocean
by Roz Savage (B Savage S)
Stuck
in a corporate job rut and faced with an unraveling marriage at
the age of thirty-six, Roz Savage sat down one night and wrote
two versions of her own obituary -- the one that she wanted and
the one she was heading for. They were very different. She realized
that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end up
with the life she wanted. So she turned her back on an eleven-year
career as a management consultant to reinvent herself as a woman
of adventure. She invested her life's savings in an ocean rowboat
and became the first solo woman ever to enter the Atlantic Rowing
Race.
Stroke
by stroke, Savage discovers there is so much more to life than
a fancy sports car and a power-suit job. Flashing back to key
moments from her life before rowing, she describes the bolt from
the blue that first inspired her to row across oceans and how
this crazy idea evolved from a dream into a tendinitis-inducing
reality. And finally, Savage discovers in the rough waters of
the Atlantic the kind of happiness we all hope to find.
Source:
Product description
The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to
Kill the Child King -
A Nonfiction Thriller
by James Patterson and Martin Dugard (932.014 P)
Thrust
onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's
reign was fiercely debated from the outset. Behind the palace's
veil of prosperity, bitter rivalries and jealousy flourished among
the Boy King's most trusted advisors, and after only nine years,
King Tut suddenly perished, his name purged from Egyptian history.
To this day, his death remains shrouded in controversy.
Enchanted
by the ruler's tragic story and hoping to unlock the answers to
the 3,000 year-old mystery, Howard Carter made it his life's mission
to uncover the pharaoh's hidden tomb. He began his search in 1907,
but encountered countless setbacks and dead-ends before he finally,
uncovered the long-lost crypt.
Now,
in The Murder of King Tut, James Patterson and Martin
Dugard dig through stacks of evidence--X-rays, Carter's files,
forensic clues, and stories told through the ages--to arrive at
their own account of King Tut's life and death. The result is
an exhilarating true crime tale of intrigue, passion, and betrayal
that casts fresh light on the oldest mystery of all.
Source:
Book description
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
by Douglas Rogers (B Rogers)
Born
and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers
living through that countrys long and tense transition from
postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future mapped out for him
by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and
the United States. But when Zimbabwes president Robert Mugabe
launched his violent program to reclaim white-owned land and Rogerss
parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed. Lyn
and Ros, the owners of Drifters-a famous game farm and backpacker
lodge in the eastern mountains that was one of the most popular
budget resorts in the country-found their home and resort
under siege, their friends and neighbors expelled, and their lives
in danger. But instead of leaving, as their son pleads with them
to do, they haul out a shotgun and decide to stay.
On
returning to the country of his birth, Rogers finds his once orderly
and progressive home transformed into something resembling a Marx
Brothers romp crossed with Heart of Darkness: pot
has supplanted maize in the fields; hookers have replaced college
kids as guests; and soldiers, spies, and teenage diamond dealers
guzzle beer at the bar. And
yet, in spite of it all, Rogerss parentswith the help
of friends, farmworkers, lodge guests, and residents --among them
black political dissidents and white refugee farmers-continue
to hold on. But can they survive to the end?
Source:
Book description

Video
Acquisitions During October 2009
(All in DVD format)
Features
American Violet
The Brothers Bloom*
Cheri
Crank 2: High Voltage
Imagine That
Next Day Air
State of Play
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
*Also in Blu-Ray Format
Non-Features
Anvil:
the Story of Anvil (782.42 A)
Champions Forever: the Definitive Edition (B Ali)
Every Little Step (782.14 E)
I Am Because We Are (362.19 I)
Miracle on the Hudson (363.1246 M)
Neil Diamond: Hot August Night/NYC (782.42 N)
The Rise & Fall of WCW (796.81 W)
Tai Chi: Passport to Health (615.8 T)
They Killed Sister Dorothy (577.34 T)
Where's Amelia Earhart (B Earhart)
WWE Best of Smackdown (796.81 W)
Audio
Book Acquisitions During October 2009
(All in CD format)
Fiction
| Barr,
Nevada |
13
1/2 |
| Cornwell,
Patricia |
The
Scarpetta Factor |
| Evans,
Richard Paul |
The
Christmas List |
| Forstchen,
William R. |
One
Second After |
| Irving,
John |
Last
Night in Twisted River |
| Johansen,
Iris |
Blood
Game |
| Kellerman,
Jonathan |
Evidence |
| Michaels,
Fern |
Razor
Sharp |
Niffenegger,
Audrey
|
Her
Fearful Symmetry |
| Parker,
Robert B. |
The
Professional |
| Patterson,
Richard North |
The
Spire |
| Sandford,
John |
Rough
Country |
| Sapphire |
Precious |
| Steel,
Danielle |
Southern
Lights |
Non-Fiction
Patterson,
James &
Martin Dugard
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The
Murder of King Tut:
The Plot to Kill the Child King
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932.01
P |
Biography
Kennedy,
Edward M.
|
True
Compass
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B
Kennedy |
CD
Acquisitions During October 2009
| Caillat,
Colbie |
Breakthrough
|
MA
CAIL BRE |
| Castro,
Tommy |
Hard
Believer |
MA
CAST HAR |
| Céu
|
Vagarosa
|
ML
CÉU VAG |
| Dirty
Projectors |
Bitte
Orca |
MA
DIRT BIT |
| Heap,
Imogen |
Ellipse
|
MA
HEAP ELL |
| Incubus |
Monuments
and Melodies |
MA
INCU MON |
| K'Jon
|
I
Get Around |
MA
K'JON IGE |
| Medeski
Martin & Wood |
Radiolarians
III |
MJ
MEDE RAD |
| The
Robert Cray Band |
This
Time |
MA
CRAY THI |
| Rubio,
Paulina |
Grand
City Pop |
ML
RUBI GRA |
| Skillet
|
Awake
|
MA
SKIL AWA |
| Stern,
Mike |
Big
Neighborhood |
MJ
STER BIG |
| Strait,
George |
Twang
|
MC
STRA TWA |
| Various
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Now
That's What I Call Country: Volume 2 |
MC
COLL NOW |
| Wailin'
Jennys |
Live
at the Mauch Chunk Opera House |
P
WAIL LIV |
READERS' ADVISORY
This bibliography called "The Reader's Shelf" is edited
by Neal Wyatt and appeared in the May 1, 2009 volume of Library
Journal. Call numbers at the Baldwin Public Library follow
each title mentioned.
THE WOMEN'S WAR:
WORLD WAR II NONFICTION
Much has been written by and about the men of the Second World War-soldiers,
politicians, spies, and other figures. The full history of this
"total war," however, must necessarily include the women
and young girls who endured bombings, invasion, hunger, imprisonment,
and other traumas. Explore their stories in these biographies, diaries,
and memoirs.
The
model for James Bond's "M" and subject of Sarah Helm's
A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of
WWII (940.5486 H), Vera Atkins (1908-2000) was the highest-ranking
woman in British intelligence. Hers was a life of deadly secrets-missions,
captured operatives, and the possibility of a highly placed mole.
Her biggest secret was that she was a Romanian Jew and thus technically
an enemy alien. Helm's recounting of Atkins's story, including her
tireless hunt for her missing agents, is a brilliant example of
investigative reporting and historical research.
A
Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (940.5343
W),
translated by Philip Boehm, is the harrowing diary of an anonymous
Berlin
journalist who details life in the occupied city from mid-April
to mid-June 1945. The unknown author's writing is intimate yet detached,
as if the only way to record her ordeal is to focus on small events
and lace them with liberal doses of gallows humor. She describes
the daily quest for food, the desperate measures taken by women
to protect their young daughters from rape, and the pragmatic decision
she made to find herself a high-ranking Russian protector.
Diane
Ackerman is known for her explorations of science and the senses,
so war might seem an odd choice. But writing about Jan and Antonina
Zabiniski, the two longtime keepers of the Warsaw zoo, in The
Zookeeper's Wife (940.5318 A - also available in Large Print
and as a CD audiobook), she blends science and history to illuminate
a little-known episode of World War II. While Jan aided the Resistance,
Antonina created a "Noah's Ark" at the zoo, sheltering
hundreds of Jews and Resistance members in cages meant for the animals.
Ackerman draws on Antonina's extensive diaries to describe the September
1939 Nazi invasion of Poland; she also includes detailed depictions
of Poland's wild forests and Nazi attempts to resurrect extinct
animals in order to create pure "Aryan" species.
Karolina
Lanckoronska's memoir, Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's
War Against the Nazis ([BIOG] B Lanckoronska), details the
privileged life this aristocrat, scholar, and Polish patriot (1898-2002)
enjoyed before the terror of war set her on a new path. When the
Russians invaded Poland in 1939, Lanckoronska fled to Krakow, where
she spent the next three years until she was arrested by the Germans
for resistance activities. Sent to the Ravensbruck concentration
camp, she refused the special treatment accorded her class and Christian
religion, insisting that she be allowed to live with her fellow
prisoners. Released in April 1945 via the Red Cross's intervention,
she made her way to Rome, where she would write her memoirs, foster
Polish culture, and wrestle with survivor's guilt. When she died,
she bequeathed her family's art collection to her homeland so that
it could be seen in a free Poland.
This
column was contributed by Sarah Nagle , a Collection Development
and
Reference Librarian with Carver County Library in Chanhassen, MN
Neal
Wyatt compiles Library Journal 's online feature Wyatt's
World and is the author of The Readers' Advisory Guide to
Nonfiction (ALA Editions, 2007). She is a collection development
and readers' advisory librarian from Virginia.

NOVEMBER
ATRIUM DISPLAYS
Hand Painted Animal Ornaments by Katherine Trunk
View
beautiful hand painted animal ornaments in the display case at
the Baldwin Public Library during the month of November.
Professional and award winning Long Island artist and illustrator,
Katherine Trunk's art work has appeared nationally and throughout
the metropolitan area in various mediums. Her editorial illustrations
and portraits have accompanied articles in publications such as
National Review and The New York Times;
her hand painted ornamental artwork has been shown throughout
the area and she has been commissioned by private clients for
various projects including portraits, personalized keepsake ornaments,
murals and calligraphy.
Paintings
Exhibit by Dorothy O'Brien
Dorothy O'Brien, a long time West Hempstead resident, saw a water
color demonstration and knew she had always wanted to do that.
Thirty five years, many classes and hundreds of paintings later,
her work is on display in the Baldwin Public Library during the
month of November. Many subjects and techniques are represented:
flowers, people, still life, animals, and familiar places that
you will recognize, to name a few. There will be some pastels
and an oil painting, along with the water colors.
Mrs. O'Brien has been in shows at local libraries and at Adelphi
University. She is a member of the Floral Park Art League and
the Nassau County Art League. She also was an art teacher at Our
Lady of Victory School.
In
the Children's Room Display Cases:
Dolls
From Around the World by Shoshana & Talia Bidner
Pirates
by Maxwell Asuncion

NOVEMBER WEB SITES OF INTEREST
NATIONAL ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE MONTH
Observed this month to increase awareness of Alzheimer's disease
and what
the Alzheimer's Association is doing to advance research and help
patients, their families and their caregivers.
http://www.alz.org
EBONY MAGAZINE ANNIVERSARY
Black publishing entrepreneur John H. Johnson launched Ebony on
November
1, 1945. By 1946 Ebony had a circulation of more than 300,000
copies. On
November 1, 1951, Johnson launched the equally successful publication
Jet.
http://www.ebonyjet.com
NATIONAL
ADOPTION MONTH
This celebration commemorates the success of three kinds of
adoption--infant, special needs and intercountry--through a variety
of
special events.
http://www.adoptioncouncil.org
Source:
Chase's Calendar of Events 2009
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