10/29: New in the library this week

Books:

• Eragon / Christopher Paolini: the first book of the Inheritance trilogy follows the travels of a young boy named Eragon and his dragon, Saphira.
• A breath of snow and ashes / Diana Gabaldon: this sixth novel in her Outlander saga continues the story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.
• Haunted : a tale of the mediator / Meg Cabot: Suze Simon, a mediator who can see and communicate with the dead, begins her junior year of high school in Carmel, CA.
• The time hackers / Gary Paulsen: Dorso, 12, finds himself the brunt of time-travel-related practical jokes and soon realizes that the incidents are related to his laptop.
• At the crossing-places / Kevin. Crossley-Holland: Holy wars and romantic intrigue adventure combine in book two in the Arthur Trilogy (begun with The Seeing Stone). Here 13-year-old Arthur begins life as squire to Lord Stephen at Holt and aspires to be a Crusader in his own right, and perhaps win the hand of a fair maiden.
• The Amulet of Samarkand / Jonathan Stroud: Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent to live as an apprentice to a master. When he musters the strength to summon the 5,000-year-old djinni Bartimaeus to avenge Lovelace by stealing the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, the boy magician plunges into a situation more dangerous and deadly than anything he could ever imagine.
• Bone / Jeff Smith (v. 1. Out from Boneville, v. 2. The great cow race): Smith's epic graphic novel series concerns three blobby creatures who have stumbled into a valley full of monsters, magic, farmers, an exiled princess and a huge, cynical dragon.
• Uncle Shelby's story of Lafcadio, the lion who shot back / Shel Silverstein: the story of a lion who obtains a hunter's gun and practices until he becomes a good enough marksman to join a circus.
• The missing piece / Shel Silverstein: a circle with a wedge-shaped missing piece rolls along in search of its mate.
• Uncle Shelby's A giraffe and a half / Shel Silverstein: an add and subtract prose poem.
• Consent to kill : a thriller / Vince Flynn: Flynn continues to ratchet up the stakes for CIA assassin Mitch Rapp, who here battles a Saudi billionaire bent on revenge, an ex–East German Stasi spy and a deadly husband-and-wife team of assassins.
• Heron street / Ann Turner: an illustrated history of a marsh from before the American Revolution till the present.
• The camel club / David Baldacci: takes readers inside the Beltway as four unlikely misfits struggle not only to survive, but to save their president and their country from a plot that will lead to nuclear disaster.
• Predator / Patricia Cornwell: Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowbound Boston.

DVDs

• Behaving badly
• Simisola/Road rage
• The student prince
• Romper stomper
• Kiss daddy goodnight

Genealogy at the library

Recent library visitors have noticed some new equipment being set up: a new computer and film reader. These belong to the Seldovia Family Tree Searchers genealogy group and are for the use of their members in researching their family trees. While the Searchers don't perform research for people, they're happy to help new members do their own research. Anyone is welcome to join the group and there is no membership fee. The equipment will be available only during regular library hours and under the supervision of Tree Searchers members. The group hopes to be able to expand their program in the months ahead to include training classes. For more information on the Seldovia Family Tree Searchers and how you can learn to explore your own family tree, contact Jan Wyland at 234-7462 or Sandee Elvsaas at 234-7898.

10/22: New in the library this week

DVDs: Intermission--Shirly Henderson, Kelly Macdonald, Colm Meaney Books: The Undomestic Goddess--SohpieKinsella Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About--Kevin Trudeau Crusader's Cross--James Lee Burke New Living Spaces--Time-Life The Small Workshop--Fine Woodworking The Woodworker's Shop : 100 Projects to Enhance Your Work Space -- Percy W. Blandford 40 More Woodworking Plans & Projects--Guild of Master Craftsman 101 Do-it-yourself Projects--Reader's Digest Outdoor furniture--Nick Engler Display cases, frames, and shelves-Nick Engler Country furniture : cupboards, cabinets, and shelves--Nick Engler Fine Woodworking : Biennial Design Book Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking (bk 1: Joinery; bk 2: Shaping, veneering, finishing; bk. 3. Furnituremaking) Understanding Wood : A Craftsman's Guide to Wood Technology / R. Bruce Hoadley Fine Woodworking Design Book Two : 1,150 Photographs of the Best Work in Wood by 1,000 Craftsmen Always Time to Die--Elizabeth Lowell The Tiger Rising--Kate DiCamillo Flashpoint--Suzanne Brockmann Fallen Idols--J. F. Freedman The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald Without Mercy--Jack Higgins Missing Persons--Stephen White Sea Music--Sara MacDonald Avenger--Frederick Forsyth The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2005 Two in a Red Canoe : Our Journey Down the Yukon--Megan Baldino ; Matt Hage The Glass Cafe, or, The stripper and the State : How My Mother Started a War with the System that Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous--Gary Paulsen How Angel Peterson Got His Name and Other Outrageous Tales About Extreme Sports--Gary Paulsen The Seeing Stone--Kevin Crossley-Holland It's a Fair Day, Amber Brown--Paula Danziger What a Trip, Amber Brown--Paula Danziger The Thief Lord--Cornelia Funke Gilda the Giraffe and Lucky the Leopard--Lucie Papineau Gilda the Giraffe and Leonardo the Lion--Lucie Papineau The Flower's Busy Day--Felicia Law The Bookseller Bird--Felicia Law Paint a Sun in the Sky : A First Look at the Seasons--Claire Llewellyn Take a Walk on a Rainbow : A First Look at Colour--Miriam Moss Loser--Jerry Spinelli Wormwood--G. P. Taylor

10/15: New in the library this week

This week's new items are all books: I Am a Pencil--Sam Swope Someday is Not a Day of the Week--Denise Brennan-Nelson The Driveway Diaries, A Dirt Road Almanac--Tim Brookes The Goodnight Book for Moms and Little Ones--Alice Wong Leeway Cottage--Beth Gutcheon Are You Afraid of the Dark?--Sidney Sheldon The Inside Ring--Michael Lawson Turkey Day Murder--Leslie Meier Father's Day Murder--Leslie Meier The Way the Crow Flies--Ann-Marie MacDonald Emeril's Delmonico--Emeril Lagasse A Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast--Hank and Jan Taft

10/8: New in the library this week

One of the things we'll be letting you know about regularly is what we have new in the library collection. We get new items regularly, either through a rental service, purchases, or donations. We'll try to link our new items to reviews so that you can do a little browsing at home, straight from this website. And with our new circulation system, you can get on a waiting list for a new item if it's not available next time you stop by the library. Just let us know and we can sign you up. This week we added the following new items: DVDs: The Grifters--Anjelica Huston, John Cusak, Annette Bening Blood Work--Clint Eastwood Chinatown--Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway Books: The Divide--Nicholas Evans The Historian--Elizabeth Kostova Audiobooks: The Pied Piper--Ridley Pearson (CD) Videotapes: Our Gang Comedy Festival On Our Own

Welcome

Welcome to the Seldovia Public Library's new website. We'll be using this site to bring you news and information about the library--things like new books and movies in our collection, library announcements, online resources, tips on internet research, interlibrary loans, collection spotlights, books & videos for sale or give-away, board meeting and other event notices, Battle of the Books, and how you can make the best use of your library. Got suggestions on how we can make the library better? Let us know about them: stop by and talk with a volunteer, email us, or leave a comment here on the library blog.