This is the week we've been waiting for - Don't Wait - Celebrate! Week. All this week you are encouraged to have frequent festivities acknowledging small but significant accomplishments, such as team wins, good grades, completed projects, new neighbors, braces off, or balanced checkbooks! Gathering for these mini-galas will enhance and nurture relationships and raise the self-esteem of the honorees!
    You might want to celebrate National I Love Cowboys and Cowgirls (America's best-loved heroes and heroines) Day and National Relaxation Day, both of which fall on Saturday.

WHAT'S HAPPENING?
    At Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. storytime, Bitter Lakes Wildlife Refuge will present an educational program about Southwest birds and animals. Participants will make a rattlesnake! Wednesday afternoon's 3:30 reptile storytime features stories and a flying lizard craft. Saturday morning's 10:00 storytime features stories about soap and a bubble-blowing activity.
    Adults, especially teachers interested in the science of soap making, are invited to learn the secrets of soapmaking from an expert at a special free program on Saturday, August 15, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., in the Bondurant Room. Susan Nelson will demonstrate the soap making process from start to finish, including selecting essential oils, mixing ingredients, and decorative packaging. She'll also answer your "how to" questions, so plan now to join us for a relaxing afternoon of learning. If you can't attend the workshop, drop by the reference desk to get a bibliography of soapmaking books in the library's collection. The bibliography includes children's fiction and non-fiction to supplement a unit on soapmaking for kids!

BOOK TALK
    The library's Larry Holm again provides this week's book information. If you're looking for some "hot" late summer reads, you might try some at-the-scene-of-the-crime books like these. "Guilty Parties: A Mystery Lover's Companion" is Ian Ousby's tour de force of this great genre, "a criminally enjoyable dossier of Gunsels, Gun Molls, Private Eyes, and Femme Fatales, lock ups and locked rooms, butlers who did it, and mobsters who didn't!"
    In "Massacre on the Lordsburg Road," Marc Simmons weaves a lurid true tale of one of the last massacres of the Indian Wars. Grab hold as you read the tense and gripping events surrounding the death of Judge H.C. McComas and his family. If you like "X-Files," fear aliens, or want to use the force, be sure to pick up the sequel to "The Physics of Star Trek," by Lawrence Krauss. This one's called "Beyond Star Trek: Physics from Alien Invasions to the End of Time," and it takes a nuts-and-bolts look at how time travel, dimensional encounters, and mind powers might actually work.
    "Obsession" by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker is a creepy journey with the FBI's premier psychological profiler deep into the minds of America's warped factors. After the chills, you'll be grateful for all of the very helpful tips on how to protect yourself and help defeat the slimebags. And if all of that reading leaves you hungry, you'll be grateful for "Pillsbury's Best Cookies Cookbook." This official guidebook to America's most universally adored snack gives 176 succulent recipes that are sure to thrill famished drool mongers. Get tempted with "Rocky Road Fudge Bars" and many other double-d'licious cookies!

DID YOU KNOW?
    This summer, the library held a contest for children ages 5 through 12 to design their dream library. Congratulations to grand prize winner, Ashley s. Carter, and other winners, Becky Aragonez, Nick Bennett, Amber Renee Blakeney, Alana Brumbaugh, Carrie Burrow, Bre Cottrell, John Hale, Caitlin Lindsey, Sara McMinn, Tara McMinn, Trevor McMinn, Callie Tucker, and Taylor Tucker.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "A humble person never blows his knows in public."

JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276

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