New items are purchased monthly. These include the newest best sellers, fiction, non-fiction, picture books, youth titles, movies on DVD, music CDs and audio books on both CD and cassette. We also own all of the books on the Flume High School List, Great Stone Face Book List and the Isinglass Teen Read List for 2009-2010! Lists of new and upcoming book purchases for children and young adults can be found on the Kids' Corner and Teen Zone pages.
If you would like to be on the reserve list for any of these titles please e-mail the library and include your FIRST and LAST name, library card number, complete titles, format and authors. Please consider donating your books, DVDs, audio books or music CDs to the library once you have read/viewed/listened to them.
Have you read a book lately that you'd like to review? Viewed a movie that you loved? Listened to an audio book that blew your socks off? If so, please send your book review (or just the title) to Amy Inglis at blibrary@metrocast.net We also have a display board where these books are put out so people may see "great finds" by other patrons!
New Book Titles by Month:
September
102 Evergreen Place by Debbie Macomber
Against All Things Ending by Stephen Donaldson
Ape House by Sara Gruen
Bad Blood by John Sandford
Blessings of the Animals by Katrina Kittle
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
Dexter is Delicious by Jeffry Lindsay
A Dog's Purpose by Bruce Cameron
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Dreams of the Dead by Perri O'Shaughnessy
Exile by Diana Gabaldon
Fall by Guillermo Del Toro
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead
February by Lisa Moore
Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
Fort by Bernard Cornwell
Hanging Tree by Bryan Gruley
Hypothermia by Indridason Arnaldur
Innocent Until Interrogated by Gary Stuart
Juliet by Anne Fortier
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
Legacy by Danielle Steel
Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories that Time Forgot by Martin Sandler
Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie
My Lost Daughter by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Nose for Justice by Rita Mae Brown
Our KInd of Traitor by John LeCarre
Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker
Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann WEisgarber
Pirates of Levant by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Play Dead by Harln Coben
Red Herring by Archor Mayor
Room by Emma Donoghue
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
Santa Fe Edge by Stuart Woods
Sisters from Hardscarabble bay by Jennifer Vanderbes
Such a Pretty Face by Cathy Lamb
Sweet Misfortune by Kevin Milne
Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith
Thursdays at Eight by Debbie Macomber
Trail of Blood by Lisa Black
Warlord by Ted Bell
Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
Widower's Tale by Julia Glass
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Open by Andre Agassi
Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
Goddess of Spring by PC Cast
Goodbye Wifes and Daughters by Susan Resnick
The Cutting by James Hayman
In the face of Fear: Buddhist Wisdom for Challenging Times by Barry Boyce
New DVD Titles at the Library
We're always expanding our collection of DVD titles for you and your family!
New
DVD Titles:
August::
From the Earth to the Moon
Learn to Play Electric Guitar
A Star is Born
House: Season Six
Lost: Season Six
The Back-up Plan
Not Without My Daughter
Autumn in New York
Throw Momma From the Train
Return to Me
Gorky Park
Yours, Mine, and Ours (Lucille Ball version)
Tea with Mussolini
Hope and Glory
Griffin and Phoenix
True Love
StarGate: Ark of Truth
Learn to Play Acoustic Guitar
Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Smallville: Season 1-3
Last Song
Thank you to generous donors who have made many of these titles available.
In response
to patron requests, the library has begun a collection of console video
games for loan. Titles have been donated or purchased with fine money.
WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010
If you have games to donate, please drop them off at the library. We will be counting on donations to increase this collection. If you have suggestions for titles to get, please e-mail them to blibrary@metrocast.net
We currently have over 50 titles to choose from!
INCLUDE the GAME PLATFORM wanted. Games will be
treated like DVDs...any game we get that is rated M for Mature will only
be checked out to those who have adult cards (age 18 and up), or, with a
parent present who gives permission on an underage card. Patrons will be
responsible for any loss or damage to games and charged a replacement fee.
Parents who have signed for children's cards take financial responsibility
for any items lost or damaged by their children.
Console Games will circulate for 3 weeks but will not be renewed due to
the limited number of them in our collection. They will also be fined at
$1.00 per day if they are overdue.
The library also has a small collection of PC Games, mostly geared towards
young children (Harry Potter, Nancy Drew mysteries, and other learning
games) and non-fiction titles such as resume writing programs, family
history, and writing business plans.
Check One Out Today!
New Music CD Titles at the Library
Lots of new Blues CDs donated!
Ray Charles
Billy Idol
Santana
Tina Turner
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl who Played with fire, and Girl who kicked a Hornet's nest by Stieg Larsson
Bone vault by Linda Fairstein
Black Wave by John and Jean Silverwood
Blood Spilt by Asa Larsson
29 Gifts by Cami Walker
Acing the Interview by Tony Beshara
Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay
Disconnect by Devra davis
Dog Tags by David Rosenfelt
Don't Blink by James Patterson
Farm City by Novella Carpenter
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
Great Upheaval by Jay Wink
Have a new You by Friday by Kevin Lehman
Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
How to Change Someone You Love by Brad Lamm
In with the Devil by James Keene
Jefferson's Secrets by Andrew Burstein
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
Lives of the Kings and Queens of England by Antonia Fraser
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
People's History of the US by Howard Zinn
Secret Kept by Tatiana DeRosnay
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
Washington Rules by Andrew Bacevich
Why My Third Husband will be a Dog by Lisa Scottoline
You Were Always Mom's Favorite by Debotah Tannen
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Lots of Non-Fiction in this group!
Remember: We get a new set of audio books on CD every three months from our cooperative. 25-30 titles that circulate here for 3 months...then we get a new batch! We get new ones in March, June, September, and December. (Usually the 2nd week of the month)
E-Books Are Here!
A new collection
of FREE E-Books you can download via our Overdrive System is available! Let us
know what you think of the collection and send ideas for purchases in this area
to blibrary@metrocast.net
..the buyer ay NHSL is very good about patron requests when funds allow.
Compatible Readers:
Sony Readers and Barnes & Noble Nooks are compatible
readers
http://www.overdrive.com/resources/drc/compatibleebookdevices.aspx
The Amazon Kindle is not a compatible reader.
Your PC or Mac computer is a compatible reader! Most laptops and many netbooks
run full versions of Windows or Mac OS and could work nicely for some people as
an eBook reader - especially the small netbooks with long battery life or
laptops that fold into a tablet.
Circulation Period & Early Return of EPUB Titles:
The ebooks will circulate for 14 days.
The ebooks can be returned early. How? Using your Sony Reader Library software,
right-click on the book cover and choose "Return Borrowed Item."
After the 14-day circulation period has passed, if you return to the main menu
of your Sony Reader and try once again to enter into the book, you will get a
notice stating that the license has expired. You will need to recheck out the
title.
Here is a slide show tutorial to help with eBooks on PC:
http://tech.nhlibrary.org/2010/03/steps-to-enjoying-ebooks/
And for MAC users:
http://tech.nhlibrary.org/2010/03/enjoying-ebooks-on-your-mac-transferring-an-ebook-to-a-sony-reader/
Collection &
Free eBooks from Google, etc.
The collection is a blend of new titles and back list titles.
We won't be adding any out of copyright titles to the collection. Why not?
Because you can get these titles *for free* from Google Books, Project
Gutenberg, and a number of other sources online.
And here's a link from Sony with instructions on using a free e-book site:
http://ebookstore.sony.com/google-ebooks/
Book Award Links
Need a new author, a great new book to read? Check out some of these sites that list current and past award winners and recommended titles!
The Edgar Award: Mystery and Suspense Novels
The Pen/Faulkner Award: The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year....list of winners is located at the bottom of the page.
Pulitzer Prize for Literature: Covers fiction, poetry, music, drama, biography, non-fiction, and news reporting!
The National Book Award: Covers fiction and non-fiction.
The RITA Awards: Romance Writer's of America choices. Current years winners and runners-up listed on bottom of the page.
The HUGO Awards: For best science fiction and fantasy titles.
The Printz Award: For best teen novels.
Bram Stoker Award: Best Horror books.
The Spur Awards: Best Westerns.
The Hammett Awards: Best crime fiction.
National Book Critics Circle Award: Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews published in English
The Man Booker Prize: Prizes for best International fiction.
Book Sense: A wonderful site with tons of recommended reads from independent booksellers.
State Awards for Children's and Young Adult Books Lots of wonderful titles picked by teachers, librarians, and kids!
Caldecott Awards: Most distinguished American picture book for children.
Newbery Award: It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Agatha Awards: The Agatha Awards, named for Malice inspiration Agatha Christie, are awarded for the Best Novel, First Mystery Novel, Nonfiction, and Short Story in the genre for the previous year.
Nebula Awards: Science Fiction novels, short stories, etc.