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Welcome
to Art of Communications Week; make your Valentine’s Day a memorable one by
complimenting your sweetheart every day! This
is also Love May Make the World Go ‘Round, but Laughter Keeps Us from Getting
Dizzy Week. Since “laughter is
the shortest distance between two people” (Victor Borge) and since “Seven
days without laughter makes one weak” (Joel Goodman), we can lighten our
relationships by reinforcing the connection between heart and hearty laughter!
Today
is Get a Different Name Day, which takes pity on those of us who hate our names
and “allows” us to change out names to anything we choose.
Wednesday is Valentine’s Day and Read to Your Child Day.
You can show your children that you love them by reading to them
regularly.
WHAT'S
HAPPENING?
At Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. story times, participants will
hear Valentine stories and make Valentine crafts.
Saturday morning’s 10:00 story time features President’s Day stories
and activities.
The library will be closed for President’s Day on Monday, February 19,
and will reopen at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 20.
BOOK
TALK
Librarian
Barbara Harris presents this week’s book information.
Although they may not be the best reading while you're in bed with
the flu or the ideal gift for a friend facing a stay in the hospital, medical
thrillers are a very popular genre. Here
are some less familiar books and authors to try while you await the latest novel
from Tess Gerritsen or Robin Cook.
If prescription prices have elevated your blood pressure, you may get
some satisfaction from stories in which determined heroes take on crooked
pharmaceutical companies. Try Paul
Reinken's "Judgement Day," Harry Stein's "The Magic Bullet,"
Colin Alexander's "God's Adamantine Fate," or Tom Ferguson's and Joe
Graedon's "No Deadly Drug."
Rogue viruses are the villains in "The Carrier" by Holden
Scott, "Carriers" by Patrick Lynch, and "The Plague Tales"
by Ann Benson. They're the tools of
bioterrorists in "Resurrection" by Ken McClure and "The Eleventh
Plague" by John S. Marr and John Baldwin.
Reading "The Deus Machine" by Pierre Ouellette or "Fire
Cracker" by Shirley Kennett may confirm your suspicion that computers and
medicine shouldn't mix. Ben
Mezrich's "Threshold" and Stanley Pottinger's "The Fourth
Procedure" may convince you that government and medicine shouldn't either.
If you are a mystery fan, you might like medical thrillers that feature
investigations into mysterious deaths. These
include Steven Spruill's "Painkiller," Leah Ruth Robinson's
"Blood Run," and Philip Harper's "Final Fear."
Next time you're in the Library, ask a reference librarian for a copy of
our medical thrillers list that includes these and other authors.
DID
YOU KNOW?
Saving
is a cheaper and faster way to pay for what you want without debt.
According to nonprofit financial-solutions organization Myvesta.org, if
you pay a $500 bill with a credit card that carries 17.99% interest and send in
$20 a month, you will pay a total of $715, and it will take 59 months to pay off
the bill. However, if you simply
put $20 a month into a savings account earning 2.1% interest, you will build up
$500 in 24 months and can then pay cash for what you want.
THOUGHT
FOR THE WEEK:
“You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stopped laughing.” (unknown)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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