LPL News for the week of 3/14/10

[Lakewood Public Library]

"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." -- John Updike (1932-2009)

Upcoming Events

Sunday, March 14
SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS: LIA FAIL
The first Lia Fail was the stone of destiny, one of the four treasures of ancient Ireland. This Lia Fail is a band of friends and fellow musicians drawn together musically and spiritually to the haunting melodies of their Celtic roots. Rekindle the ancient fire with this stunning new music.
2:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Tuesday March 16
KNIT & LIT BOOK CLUB
Lynda Tuennerman hosts a social club for multitaskers—a combination book club and stitchery group. She’s looking for readers who can enjoy intense discussion of modern classics while relaxing with their latest stitching project. Come share your passion for great literature and show off your knitting, crocheting, counted cross-stitch, embroidery and quilting works-in-progress. At each meeting, the group decides what will be read next. Call (216) 226-8275, ext. 127 or visit http://www.lkwdpl.org/bookclubs to learn more. Tonight's book is Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell. A special appearance by the author marks the opening of the new season.
7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Meeting Room

Thursday, March 18
BUSINESS BOOK TALK with Tim Zaun and Friends
The Four Hour Work Week (Expanded and Updated) by Timothy Ferriss
Ferriss reinvents his 2007 bestseller after studying thousands of insightful comments made on his blog and reviewing fifty case studies. New material includes “How Lifestyle Design Principles Can Be Suited to Unpredictable Economic Times.”
7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Meeting Room

Saturday, March 20
FIVE STAR FILMS: The Tango Lesson
(U.K.-1997) Directed By Sally Potter Rated PG
In this engaging semi-autobiographical movie, filmmaker Sally Potter suffers writer’s block, packs her bags and heads for Paris. One evening she sees famed Argentinean dancer Pablo Veron perform and is mesmerized. She shares his passion for tango and wants to learn from him. In exchange for lessons, he’s to have a role in her film. An intricate relationship develops between them, but can it last?
6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Sunday, March 21
SUNDAY WITH THE FRIENDS: THE RUSSIAN DUO
A magical collaboration between virtuoso balalaika and concert piano brings fresh life to both classical favorites and Russian roots. This vibrant, cross-cultural musical experience takes place in the Main Library Multipurpose Room on the first floor.
2:00 p.m. in the Main Library Multipurpose Room



NEW BOOKS, MOVIES & MUSIC: Located on the First Floor in the New Book Area
Adult Fiction:

Double jeopardy by David Sherman - SCIFI SHERMAN
Raining cat sitters and dogs: a Dixie Hemingway mystery by Blaize Clement - MYSTERY CLEMENT
Choice: a novel by Suzanne Woods Fisher - FICTION FISHER

Adult Nonfiction:

Frommer's cruises & ports of call: from U.S. & Canadian home ports to the Caribbean, Alaska, Hawaii & more by Heid Sarna - 910.202 FROMMER'S 2010
Chips, clones, and living beyond 100: how far will the biosciences take us? by Paul J. H. Schoemaker - 660.6 SCHOEMAKER
Dirty rotten strategies: how we trick ourselves and others into solving the wrong problems precisely by Ian I. Mitroff - 650.1 MITROFF

Adult Audiovisual:

Playlist: the very best of sly & the family stone by Sly And the Family Stone - CD R&B SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE
Nuclear jellyfish by Tim Dorsey - CD FICTION DORSEY
Cream puff murder by Joanne Fluke - CD MYSTERY FLUKE

Juvenile Fiction:

Wendel's Workshop by Chris Riddell - jPICTURE Riddell
Join the Circus! by Josh Selig - jPICTURE Selig
The Salamander Spell by E.D. Baker - jFICTION Baker

Juvenile Audiovisual:

The Secret Saturdays Volume One --jDVD Secret
We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson - jCD 796.357640973
My Trampoline by Peter Himmelman - jCD Himmelman

BROWSING THE STACKS

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

Cooking with the horse & buggy people II: sharing a second serving of favorites from 207 Amish women of Holmes County, Ohio: authentic Amish cooking by Henry E. Mast - 641.5 COOKING

Cleveland: the Flats, the mill, and the hills by Andrew Borowiec - 977.13200222 BOROWIEC

Masterpieces of European painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art by Margaret Iacono - 759.94 IACONO

Ohio then & now: contemporary rephotography by Randall Lee Schieber - 977.1 SCHEIBER

Cemeteries of northeast Ohio: stones, symbols & stories by Vicki Blum Vigil - 363.750977132 VIGIL

Ohio confidential: stories of sex, scandal, murder by John Boertlein - 364.109771 BOERTLEIN

Fishing Ohio: an angler's guide to over 200 fishing spots in the Buckeye State by Tom Cross - 799.1209771 CROSS


LPL'S WEB SITE FOCUS: The Lakewood Historical Society

The Lakewood Historical Society web site contains links to all sorts of web information about our city. One of the many features is a page entitled "Lakewood Lore: A Collection of Historical Stories and Profiles" by Dan Chabek. These columns began as a series in 1989 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lakewood's founding. They appeared in the Lakewood Sun Post, under the heading Lakewood Lore. Mr. Chabek passed away January 29, 2008.
http://lakewoodhistory.org/

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