Attention!!!! Attention!!!! Gamers Needed!!! The Library just got in Starcraft (video game) for the Center's computers. Mr. M needs helpers to set up and play Starcraft!!!! Please contact asap!!

The Musical Moppets return this Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. for more fun and music with two and three-year-olds. Thursday, Oct. 25 marks the first meeting of the Parent/Child Workshop and Mother Goose, and Friday, Oct. 26 at 9:30 a.m. is Rhyme Time for babies from 4 to 14 months old.
Another reminder: Entries for the Children's Book Week Bookmark contest are due on Nov. 3. Download the form on the Just For Kids page of the library website.

Please join us on Sunday, October 21 @ 2 pm for an afternoon of musical entertainment and listening pleasure provided by The Counterclockwise Ensemble. This dynamic, contemporary septet features guitarist Rich Stein. Also featured will be the Village String Quartet with Boris and Fran Jourawleff on violins I and II, and Dr. Andrew and Rebecca Perea on viola and cello. Matt Arvotti is the group's bassist and Simon Miller its percussionist extraordianrire. Selections will include pieces from Stein's cds "Unspoken" and "Counterclockwise".

Admission is free and open to all!

British author Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Ms. Lessing, who is only the 11th woman to win literature's most prestigious prize in its 106-year history, is best known for her 1962 postmodern feminist masterpiece, The Golden Notebook. To read more about this fascinating, interesting and talented author, click here.

The Man Booker Award was announced yesterday with Anne Enright, author of The Gathering, winning this year's prize. The Man Booker is awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. Enright, 45, is the second Irish woman to win the prize, joining compatriots Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and John Banville who won the prize in 1978, 1993 and 2005 respectively.

i'm not sure if this show is going to last. The ratings dropped significantly the second week so I give it two more weeks until the plug is pulled. :(

The Seeker, a movie based on Susan Cooper's book The Dark is Rising opened last Friday and is unfortunately getting reviewed as a bad Harry Potter rip-off. The truth is Cooper's award winning five-book The Dark is Rising Sequence was written in the early 1970s, 20-plus years before Harry Potter . The Dark is Rising is a Newbery Honor Book and The Grey King is a Newbery Medal Winner. Check out all five books in the children's room:
Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King and Silver on the Tree
Decide for yourself which is better, the book or the movie?

At the end of Friday's show with author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love), Oprah announced her next book club pick, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. According to Oprah, “If you love a good love story, this is the best one ever.” She gushed, “You just want to eat it!”

Oprah described the book as “a captivating story about a passionate but troubled love story that takes place over 50 years. It makes you ask yourself, how long would I wait for love?”

Noting that the film version opens on November 16, Oprah urged everyone to read the book before they see the movie. Reserve your copy online from home or stop by the reference desk for us to reserve one for you!

I'm not much of a movie-goer but did see a fantastic movie this weekend, Eastern Promises, with Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts. Be aware that it's an extremely violent film but a great story of the Russian Mob in London. Believe it or not, an extra added treat were the trailers before the movie. There are three interesting new movies due out this fall based on best-selling novels. Why not read the books and then catch the movies to see how well they translate to the big screen.

Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

P.S. Check out this fascinating article in the NY Times regarding The Kite Runner movie.

The long awaited sequel to Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems, Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity has arrived! This time Trixie takes Knuffle Bunny to school only to discover her one-of-a-kind friend may not be so unique. Check it out today and be sure to look carefully for characters from Mo's other books, like the famous pigeon. Look for all our new picture books, fiction, nonfiction and CDs to be displayed on the red shelves at the ends of the aisles.