Chester County Public Library
The Library Lowdown
A Publication of the Chester County Library
"I cannot live without books." ~ Thomas Jefferson
September 2010
Book Giveaway
The library has just finished a very successful book sale. Anything left on our tables is FREE so please come and take advantage of all the gems that were not sold in August.
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The Brown Bag Book Club will meet on Wednesday, September 8, at 12 noon to discuss Turn Left At The Trojan Horse by Brad Herzog. October's book will be the classic To Kill A Mockingbird in honor of it's 50th year of publication. |
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The library will be closed on Monday, September 6, in observance of Labor Day. |
CONGRATULATIONS to our new community leaders—County Mayor Dwain Seaton and newly elected commissioners. We look forward to working with all of you. Special thanks go to outgoing County Mayor Troy Kilzer for his hard work and his vision for making our community a great one. |
Library Board Meeting
The Chester County Library Board will meet on Thursday, September 30 at 5:00 P.M.
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower;
Steel, stitch, cloud and clout and drumbeats on the air.
Gwendolyn Brooks
New Arrivals
DVD's: Grizzly Falls; Percy Jackson and the Olympians; The Velveteen Rabbit; Sweetpea Beauty; The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; The Book of Eli; and Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Cake Pans: Bunny Treat; Wreath; Easter Bunny; Teddy Bear Mini Cake Pans; Pumpkin Treats Cake Pans; Cookie Treat Pan; and Snowmen Treats
Juvenile Fiction: Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex; The Clique Graphic Novel; My Little Phony: A Clique Novel; The Ebony Mare; Sent; The Swiss Family Robinson; A Northern Light; Olivia and Her Ducklings; Olivia Trains Her Cat; Skyclan’s Destiny; The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma; How to Clean Your Room In 10 Easy Steps; Amelia Bedelia’s First Apple Pie; Bats At the Ballgame; Penguin’s Snowy Day; Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?; Ollie’s Halloween; and Fancy Nancy and the Delectable Cupcakes
Adult Non-Fiction: In A Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving by Leigh Ann Tuohy of The Blind Side; The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice de Janz and the Mysterious Death of Lord Erroll; Decorating With Flea Market Finds; The Art Detective: Fake, Frauds, Finds, and the Search for Lost Treasure; The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World’s Most Perplexing Cold Cases; The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago; Young Romantics: The Tangled Life of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation; Passages In Caregiving: Turning Chaos Into Confidence; and Be Thrifty: How to Live Better With Less
Adult Fiction: Hangman by Faye Kellerman; The Red Queen by Phillipa Gregory; In Harm’s Way by Ridley Pearson; Queen of the Night by J.A. Jance; Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese; The Vigilantes by W.E.B. Griffin; Deadly Decisions and Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs; Saturday Morning by Lauraine Snelling; Shadow Zone by Iris Johansen; Veil of Night by Linda Howard; Death On the D-List by Nancy Grace; Still Missing by Chevy Stevens; Death Echo by Elizabeth Lowell; Tough Customer by Sandra Brown; The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke; Star Island by Carl Hiassen; Where the Rivers Run North by Sam Morton; Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs; The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise by Julia Stuart; and Promise of Change by Joan Medlicott
Remember that your friendly local library offers current best sellers, inter-library loan services, public access computers, a genealogy room with a microfilm reader, the Chester County Independent and The Jackson Sun, a weekly story time, an adult book club and a middle school book club in summer, a conference room, reference materials and friendly faces who are ready to help.