Library Notes 12/8

New Books!

If you’re looking for something to keep you up at night, check out Patricia Cornwell’s latest novel, Predator. Dr. Kay Scarpetta is back in this best selling psychological mystery. For a less pulse tingling read, try The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant, author of The Red Tent. This favorably reviewed third novel is set on Massachusetts’ Cape Ann in the early 1800s. Gabriel Garcia-Marquez also has a new novel out, his first in 10 years. Memories of my Melancholy Whores is a slim and unconventional love story that serves both as an elegy to old age and a reprise of Garcia-Marquez’s use of brilliant imagery. On the non-fiction front, new books include Tony Judt’s Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Publisher’s Weekly writes: “This is the best history we have of Europe in the postwar period and not likely to be surpassed for many years.”

Display Case

At the Library we have not one, not two, but three-odd dozen versions of St Nicholas, Father Christmas and Santa Claus from the collection of a community member. Ranging from a sugar bowl to a candlewick, come in and see them before they take off again for the North Pole at the end of the month.

Ongoing Events for Kids

Preschool story time, Monday and Wednesday at 10, Infant Lap-sit Tuesday 10:30, Read to a dog Tuesday at 3:30.

Victorian Holidays

Thanks to all who came to see us and our story teller, Santa Claus and of course, the model train set, at the train station on Sunday. Thanks also to all who purchased tickets for the quilt raffle and to the Delmar quilters for their donation of the quilt. The raffle winner is a former Altamont Library Board member who now resides in Chatham.

Computer Class

On 12/15 at 10:30 we’ll meet for our thirdclass in the series, Venturing Online: finding your way around the Internet. In this session, we’ll learn how to tell an address bar from a search box and a hyperlink from a browser, just to start things off. Registration is required as space is limited. Call 861-7239.

Library Joke

When a knight read a book, who was always at his side? Email answers to:
winesj@uhls.lib.ny.us

Ice cream cone to the best answer!

Last week’s Joke:

Why do authors always get good marks on tests? They know how to copy-right.

When a knight read a book, who was always at his side? Email answers to:
winesj@uhls.lib.ny.us

Ice cream cone to the best answer!

Last week’s Joke:

Why do authors always get good marks on tests? They know how to copy-right.