New books at the Library

Adult Fiction

"Driftless" by David Rhodes

From Publishers Weekly - After a 30-year absence from publishing due to a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed, Rhodes is back with a novel featuring July Montgomery, the hero of his 1975 novel, Rock Island Line, which movingly involves him with the fates of several characters who live in the small town of Words, Wis. Through July, we meet Olivia Brasso, an invalid who loses her family's savings at a casino; parolee Wade Armbuster, who befriends Olivia after she is mugged; Winifred Smith, Olivia's new pastor; Jacob Helm, a widower who finds himself falling in love with Winnie; Gail Shotwell, a local musician who has an unusual reaction when her idol offers to record one of her songs; and Gail's brother, Grahm, and his wife, Cora, who blow the whistle on the milk cooperative that has been cheating them and other farmers. It takes a while for all these stories to kick in, but once they do, Rhodes shows he still knows how to keep readers riveted. Add a blizzard, a marauding cougar and some rabble-rousing militiamen, and the result is a novel that is as affecting as it is pleasantly overstuffed. (Oct.)
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New books at the Library

Children's Books

"What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules,Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy!" by Barbara Kerley - "Theodore Roosevelt’s irrepressible oldest child receives an appropriately vivacious appreciation in this superb picture book.... Kerley’s precise text presents readers with a devilishly smart, strong-willed girl who was determined to live life on her own terms and largely succeeded." --Starred Review, Kirkus, February 1, 2008

New books at the Library

Adult Fiction

"Knit Two" by Kate Jacobs - A Friday Night Knitting Club novel - sequel to #1 New York Times Bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club. "It make you yearn for yarn, even if you're not a knitter." - USA Today

Children's Books
"The House in the Night" by Susan Marie Swanson - a Caldecott Book Award winner. Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing-a key, a bed, a book, a light, the moon-this timeless good night book illuminates a reassuring order to the universe.

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Thank you to the voters of the towns of Greensboro and Stannard. Greensboro voted to give the library $15,000 for operating expenses and $10,000 for the building renovation project. Stannard, with a population of only 185 in 2000, voted to give us $375. We are truly a community library and can't thank the voters enough for their support.

New books at the Library

Adult Fiction
"Eleven Minutes" by Paulo Coelho - "A rare combination of craftsmanship, imagination, and inspiration" - Fort Worth Star Telegram
"The English Major" by Jim Harrison - "An entertaining road novel" - Library Journal

Mystery
"Shall We Tell the President?" - Jeffrey Archer - "The countdown is the thing; the pace, the pursuit, the what-next.." - Boston Globe

Adult Non-Fiction
"The Reconnection" - Dr. Eric Pearl - "This book offers interesting and fresh insight into the dynamics of healing." - Deepak Chopra, M.D.

New DVDs

Adult DVDS

"Kamp Katrina" by Ashley Sabin and David Redmon

Juvenile DVDs
"SpongeBob Squarepants Spongicus"