10/31: New at the library this week

Movies

Wives and daughters
North & South
The Patriot
Runaway jury
The Indian in the cupboard
Last stand at Saber River
Breaking bad: seasons 1-3
Black swan

Books

Tigerlily’s orchids / Ruth Rendell
When Stuart Font decides to throw a housewarming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building—three flippant young girls, a lonely spinster, a man with a passion for classical history, and a woman determined to drink herself to death. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. He considered inviting a few other friends, but he definitely does not want his girlfriend, Claudia, in attendance, as he would also have to invite her lawyer husband. As it turns out, the party will be one everyone remembers. Living in a townhouse opposite Stuart’s building, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman known as Tigerlily. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges infrequently to exert a terrible spell. And Stuart’s parents, always worried about their handsome, hopelessly naive, and undermotivated son, have even more cause for concern. (read an excerpt)

Library board meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 7 pm

Update: meeting has been postponed until Tuesday, Nov. 1

Agenda

Roll call (excused absences: Shirly Giles)
Call to order

Public comment

Agenda approval

Approval of minutes:

• August 9, 2011 meeting
• September 8, 2011 public hearing

Old business:

1. Director’s report to board (Savannah)
2. Corporate financial matters (executive session)
3. Report on joint book reading guest program with Seldovia Arts Council (Tracie)
4. Library expansion project (Savannah)

New business:

1. Amend bylaws with respect to email polls (Savannah)
2. Recarpeting library (Savannah)
3. Library purchasing (Savannah)
4. Library ID for postal service renewal
5. Next meeting: 1/31/12

Board member closing comments

Members of the public are welcome to attend all board meetings, but participation in discussions is at the discretion of the meeting chair.

10/13: New at the library this week

Movies

Eclipse
A little princess & The secret garden

Books

The affair / Lee Child
Everything starts somewhere. . . .
For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup.
A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.
Reacher is ordered undercover—to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming, and the investigation spins out of control.
Local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux has a thirst for justice—and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust one another, Reacher and Deveraux reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission, and turn him into a man to be feared. (Jack Reacher Series #16; read an excerpt)

10/7: New at the library this week

Audiobooks

Step on a crack / James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
With the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, the nation falls into mourning as the world’s most powerful people gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped by one man’s brilliant and ruthless scenario.
Pulled into the fray, Detective Michael Bennett-father of ten-faces the most sinister challenge of his career: a criminal who kills without hesitation and counters everything the NYPD and FBI throw at him with impunity. As New York descends into chaos, Bennett learns that the great love of his life, his wife, is battling a terrible disease and he may have to raise their children alone. Now with the entire world watching and the tension reaching a boiling point, Bennett must quickly find a way out-or become responsible for the greatest debacle in history.(Michael Bennett Series #1; abridged; CD)

Amelia Earhart : Queen of the air / Jack Perkins
What really happened to Amelia Earhart? Join the award winning Biography series in their search for the truth. Earhart became the first female pilot to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean (the first person to succeed since Charles Lindburgh’s legendary flight in 1927). (cassette)

Me : stories of my life / Katharine Hepburn
With characteristic gusto and candor, the well-loved star of stage and screen reflects on the events, people, and places that have shaped her life. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a 1992 bestseller. (cassette)