LPL News for the week of 4/26/09

[Lakewood Public Library]

"Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck."
--Joseph Heller (1923 -1999)

UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY

SUNDAY, APRIL 26

SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS : Spirit of Life Dancers
Spring Fever in Dance and Poetry Welcome the new season of possibilities with everything from classical music to tribal belly dancing. CeCe Miller choreographs The Spirit of Life Dancers in a celebration of spring with a series of dances set to music from around the world, interspersed with spring poems and other delights.
2 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

MONDAY, APRIL 27

Uprooted: Reconnect Food and People
Documentary filmmaker Brad Masi chronicles the ways in which communities across northeast Ohio are taking back control of the local food system. From fifth generation family farmers to inner-city children, we all have to eat. Can local foods reinvigorate democracy? Brad Masi will show you how.
7 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

TUESDAY, APRIL 28

Community Gardens: Dig In!
Horticulturalist Nicole Wright considers the role that community gardens have played in our history and makes the case that they’re more relevant now than ever before. Learn how you can connect to the land and positively affect the health of your neighborhood.
7 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

THURSDAY, APRIL 30

Templar Motor Car Company
Dave Buehler will review the history of Lakewood's only car manufacturer, Templar Motors. He'll describe the current collection of cars housed in the original Templar factory, the Lake Erie Screw building, and he'll talk about how this will impact the future of economic development for the city of Lakewood.
7 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

SUNDAY, MAY 3

SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS:
On the Road to Nova Scotia
Filmmakers Terry and Sue Meehan discover rocky coastlines, rolling hills, brooding mountains and breathtaking vistas along the scenic travelways of Canada’s most popular maritime province. From lonely lighthouses to lively cities, they invite you to join them on this vacation exploration of culture, history and natural beauty.
2 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

NEW BOOKS, MOVIES & MUSIC-- Located on the First Floor in the New Book Area

Adult Fiction:

Dead man's money by V. S. Meszaros - FICTION MESZAROS
Seeing red by Dorothy P. O'Neill - MYSTERY O'NEILL
Savage season: a Hap and Leonard novel by Joe R. Lansdale - FICTION LANSDALE

Adult Nonfiction:

Spectacular Ireland by Peter Harbison - 914.1500222 HARBISON
Halliburton's army: how a well-connected Texas oil company revolutionized the way America makes war by Pratap Chatterjee - 956.704431 CHATTERJEE
A pint of plain: tradition, change, and the fate of the Irish pub by Bill Barich - 647.9509417 BARICH

Adult Audiovisual:

Blood noir by Laurell K. Hamilton - CD FICTION HAMILTON
American thighs: the Sweet Potato Queens' guide to preserving your assets by Jill Conner Browne - CD 818.5402 BROWNE
Blindness starring Julianne Moore -- DVD BLINDNESS

Juvenile Fiction:

Jibberwillies at Night by Rachel Vail - jPICTURE BK Vail
Welcome to the Zoo by Alison Jay - jPICTURE BK Jay
Mr. Granite is From Another Planet by Dan Gutman - jFICTION Gutman

Juvenile Audiovisual:

Hannah Montana: Keeping It Real -- jDVD Hannah
Pendragon: Raven Rise by D.J. MacHale - jCD FICTION MacHale
Wiggles Present Dorothy the Dinosaur -- jCD Wiggles


BROWSING THE STACKS

Lakewood Public Library offers a wide variety of book collections within our non-fiction area. This week's spotlight is: Travel
These titles can be found on the second floor in the Non-Fiction Collection.

100 places every woman should go by Stephanie Elizondo Griest - 910.82 GRIEST

Pint-sized Ireland: in search of the perfect Guinness by Evan McHugh - 647.95415 MCHUGH

The River Queen: a memoir by Mary Morris - 813.54 MORRIS

Way off the road: discovering the peculiar charms of small-town America
by William Geist - 973.9240207 GEIST

Conquering the impossible: my 12,000-mile journey around the Arctic Circle by Mike Horn - 910.9113 HORN

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