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The Good Witch Movies
A mysterious woman named Cassandra Nightingale moves in to an old, abandoned house which is reputed to be haunted by its original owner, "The Grey Lady." Everyone begins to wonder if she's really a witch. It is a family fun movie. It is really super cute!
So every fall the fashion world comes out with a "new black," well I'm going to introduce you to a "new Greg." His name is Nate Wright and like Greg Heffley he is a middle schooler who graduated from a webcomic to his very own series of books. We all knew it wouldn't be long before more Greg-like characters popped up, but this one seems pretty good with grassroots support from kids and a blurb from Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney on the cover. Check out "Big Nate" today.
Every year we participate in a Mock Newbery discussion with other librarians in Nassau County. We read books that have some Newbery buzz, discuss them and then vote on a winner. I thought you might like to know what's on our radar this year, so here are the books we'll be reading:
Keeper by Kathi Appelt
Alchemy and Meggy Swann by Karen Cushman
Falling In by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Mockingbird Kathryn Erskine
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
What Happened on Fox Street by Tricia Springstubb
Countdown by Deborah Wiles
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
I read Heart of a Samurai and really liked it, but that's the only one I can report on so far.
Did you hear, read or see the UFO in NY the other day?
by the way this is not the pic!
ps the ufo was a bunch of balloons.
The finalists for the National Book Award, honoring American writers, were announced last week. The complete list is as follows:
Fiction:
Peter Carey, "Parrot and Olivier in America"
Jaimy Gordon,"Lord of Misrule"
Nicole Krauss, "Great House"
Lionel Shriver, "So Much for That"
Karen Tei Yamashita, "I Hotel"
Nonfiction:
Barbara Demick, "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea"
John W. Dower,
Patti Smith, "Just Kids"
Justin Spring, "Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward"
Megan K. Stack, "Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War"
Poetry:
Kathleen Graber, "The Eternal City"
Terrance Hayes, "Lighthead"
James Richardson, "By the Numbers"
C.D. Wright, "One with Others"
Monica Youn, "Ignatz"em>
Young People's Literature:
Paolo Bacigalupi,
Kathryn Erskine, "Mockingbird"
Laura McNeal, "Dark Water"strong>
Walter Dean Myers, "Lockdown"
Rita Williams-Garcia, "One Crazy Summer"
The National Book Awards will be announced at a ceremony in New York on Nov. 17.
Howard Jacobson for The Finkler Question, a novel about love, loss and male friendship, and explores what it means to be Jewish today.
Congratulations Mr. Jacobson on your 2010 Man Booker Prize!
October is National Adopt-A-Dog Month . If you're interested in adding a lovable shelter dog to your family, we have plenty of resources here at the library to help you select just the right breed. A few of the many, many books in our collection include:
The 50+ dog owner: complete dog parenting for baby boomers and beyond by Mary Jane Checchi
Oh my dog: how to choose, train, groom, nurture, feed and care for your new best friend by Beth Ostrosky Stern (Howard's wife!)
The Original Dog Bible: the definitive source for all things dog from Bowtie Press
The adopted dog bible by Kim Saunders
New Dog: choosing wisely and ensuring a happy ever after by Bruce Fogle
Dogs for Kids by Kristin Mehus-Roe
So, do your homework, investigate what type of dog is right for you and head on over to the nearest shelter and rescue your new best friend.
Two very cute teddy bears showed up at the library a few weeks ago, and no one knows where they came from. Check out their pictures on our Facebook page. Do you recognize them? If you donated them to us, thanks. If you left them here by mistake, come and claim them before one of the librarians takes them home ;-)
The Dream is here in NY....So, true believers, comic geeks, Nerds and fan boys/girls enjoy the fiesta!
The New York Comic Con is coming to Jacob Javits Center October 8 - 10, 2010! WOOT!
Are you a fan of AMC's hit series, Mad Men? A manager of the Battery Park City branch of the NY Public Library sure is and has created a reading list of books either talked about or seen on this popular show.
His current list includes:
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Confessions of an Advertising Man (of course) by David Ogilvy
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict
Exodus by Leon Uris
Ship of Fools by Katherine Ann Porter
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
The Group by Mary McCarthy
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
So, do as Billy Parrott of the NYPL suggests, pour yourself a big glass of Scotch and enjoy one of these oldies-but-goodies that you can get from the RVC library.
On October 7, Jumpstart is sponsoring Read for the Record. This annual campaign is meant to raise awareness of the literacy crisis and break a world record for most people reading the same book at the same time. So pledge to read The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, when you pledge you'll be entered to win a $77 gift card from 77Kids American Eagle. Visit the Read for the Record website to pledge, check out the "Where's Peter?" feature and get ideas for starting a book drive.