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Welcome to National Farrier’s Week, National Laundry Workers Week, National Therapeutic Recreation Week, Great Circus Parade Week, and Take Charge of Change Week.
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
At Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. Birds of Prey story time, participants can join Steve Patterson and Scarlett, the red-tailed hawk, from Bottomless Lakes State Park and take home a craft of a bookmark with a red-tailed hawk. Wednesday’s 3:30 p.m. story time features members of the Pecos Valley Horseman Club, who will talk about horses and exhibit horse tack. Participants will make a freestanding horse craft. At Saturday morning’s 10:00 story time participants will taste homemade ice cream and make an ice cream cone craft.
BOOK TALK
Librarian Barbara Harris presents this week’s book information. Are you clueless when it comes to finding a new favorite mystery writer? The library can help you sift through the suspects and identify the perpetrator of many future hours of reading pleasure.
If you want a book to check out and peruse at leisure, try "The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing." In it, you can find items as various as short biographies of real authors and fictional detectives, background on detective novels with particular settings or themes, and outlines of the U.S., English, and Scottish legal systems. "Killer Books" by Jean Swanson and Dean James gives brief descriptions of authors grouped by type of mystery. Sample the stories from the best detective writers of the past hundred years in "Sleuths of the Century" and rediscover a master or two.
When you have time to spend with the library’s reference collection, consult one of our many guides to fiction. One of the best is "What Mystery Do I Read Next?" You can find other authors like your favorites, find mysteries set in particular places or historical periods, or track down amateur detectives by their "real" occupations.
On your own computer or on one of the library’s public access Internet computers, take a look at some of the Websites for mystery lovers. For a start, try www.mystery.com, www.themysteryreader.com, or www.mysteries.com. These sites often welcome suggestions for reading from mystery fans just like you!
DID YOU KNOW?
Speaking of the Internet, here are some great sites to visit for free materials. Some items may require a small charge for shipping and handling. For art videos and slides on topics ranging from the art of China to early modern painting, visit the National Gallery of Art at www.nga.gov/resources/.
The National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information offers address books, diaries, posters, stickers, and more at their site, www.health.org. You can get natural disaster information for kids, including coloring books, stickers, and hurricane tracking maps, at the Federal Emergency Management Agency site, www.fema.gov/kids/freebie.htm. As part of the government’s antismoking campaign, you can get a free poster of the World Cup winning US Women’s Soccer Team at www.smokefree.gov/poster.html.
Enter your zip code at the eCoupons site, www.ecoupons.com, to find print coupons for offers and discounts from retail supermarkets and on-line vendors. You can download sheet music for thousands of popular tunes for guitar, piano, clarinet, flute, trumpet, violin, and more at www.mysheetmusic.com.
Download more than 15,000 items, such as travel maps, guides, and brochures, for destinations around the world at Worldwide Brochures, www.wwb.com.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
"I’ve learned that when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you." (Andy Rooney)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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