Books out Jan 28th...

The Reserve by Russell Banks.
Setting the Table by Danny Meyer.
Temples on the Other Side by Sylvia Browne.

Database Tip

Need an article from a magazine, you know which one, it is, but can't find the right keywords to find it in iCONN? The database provided by the State Library has added a cool feature which lists all the magazines included in all the databases. this feature is located in the upper-right menu. See the circled image to the right. This means you can look at the table of contents of Newsweek from November 2007.

Best Business books 2007

A business book web Site a=has named these titles as best for 2007 in their respective fields. Source: 800ceosreads.com

Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath.
Bill & Dave by Michael Malone.
No Man's Land by Doug Tatum.
The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly.
A Demon of Our Own Design by Richard Bookstaber.
The Elephant and the Dragon by Robyn Meredith.
One Foot Out the Door by Judith Bardwick.
The Last Tycoons by William Cohan.
Group Genius by Keith Sawyer.
The Secret Language of Leadership by Stephen Denning.
In Spite of the Gods by Edward Luce.
Responsibility at Work by Howard Gardner.
The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes.
The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Scott.
The Point of the Deal by Danny Ertel and Mark Gordon.
Selling Sucks by Frank Rumbauskas.

Adopt-A-Shelf Club draw over 20 volunteers!

Help keep our shelves neat, straightened and in order! Anyone can participate at any time by volunteering one hour of their time once a month for the Adopt-a-Shelf Club. There will be a coffee social monthly for the club members. Every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. in the library lobby. Please call to register. Next coffee social: Wednesday, February 20, 2008.

Books Out Week of Jan 21st.

Dissent: Voices of Conscience by Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon.
Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell.

Book Critic's Award Finalists

Autobiography
· Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone by Joshua Clark
· Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)
· The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
· Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky (Verso)
· Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya (Random House)
Nonfiction
· American Transcendentalism by Philip Gura (FSG)
· What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
· Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington (Doubleday)
· Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (Doubleday)
· The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s)
Fiction
· Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins)
· The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)
· In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Dial)
· The Gravediggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates (HarperCollins)
· The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins (S&S)
Biography
· Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal (Yale University Press)
· Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee (Knopf)
· Ralph Ellison by Arnold Rampersad (Knopf)
· The Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson (Knopf)
· Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin (Penguin)
Poetry
· Elegy by Mary Jo Bang (Graywolf)
· Modern Life by Matthea Harvey (Graywolf)
· Sleeping and Waking by Michael O'Brien (Flood)
· The Ballad of Jamie Allan by Tom Pickard (Flood)
· New Poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz (Archipelago)
Criticism
· Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints by Joan Acocella (Pantheon)
· Once Upon a Quniceanera by Julia lvarez (Viking)
· The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi (Metropolitan/Holt)
· Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff (FSG)
· The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (FSG)

Books Out the Week of Jan 15th

These books are released next week, call the library or click on the cover to place a hold. Please let us know any title you would like use to obtain for you. Until next week...





My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead by Jeffrey Eugenides. Memo to the President Elect by Madeline Albright.
Real Change by Newt Gingrich.
Tom Cruise: Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton.

Regional Book Award from the Northwest US

These books found favor in the Pacific Northwest. The local booksellers association that covers Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska awarded these books their PNBA Book Award.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison.
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson.
Dancing With Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's by Lauren Kessler.
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle.
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff.

Start the year with a clean slate!

What's YOUR Resolution?
It's that time of year again to do something new for yourself, whether exercise, learning a new language, social networking, dieting or getting more organized. We have materials that will get you started. Come in and share your resolution!

The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg.