What's New At The Library - November 6, 2009
by Joan Huff

What’s New at the Library
by Joan Huff

The Book Sale is over and we’re having a great time spending the money. Thanks to Sandra Davis, Jenni Wolf, Vicki Warr, Terri & Bob Lacher, Marrisa Jones, Phyllis Osburn and Liz Clark the library made over 3 thousand dollars, a new record. A special thanks to all of you shoppers and book donators who made this possible. Jenni is busy processing our recently bought new books and covering them like a professional. She and Sandra do not allow me to cover new books. They didn’t say it but they hinted that my results are not good enough to be put into the library. As a child I hated covering new school books with the John C. Roger’s Drug Store brown covers. I could never do it right. My friend, Vickie War, on the other hand was an expert and I was secretly jealous of her handiwork.

Sandra is still perusing the catalogues for new children’s books while I have been writing grants to secure more money for new nonfiction books. This area has seen a significant increase in circulation in the last year. We don’t know if we should attribute our increase in circulation of books and computer use to a down turn in the economy or to an increase of library participation by Wal-Mart shoppers. We have new and previous library members who live throughout the county and in surrounding towns in both Texas and Louisiana who now make regularly scheduled shopping trips to Center. Fortunately for us, they also use this time to visit the library. This phenomenon reminds me of Saturdays during my childhood in the 1050’s when everyone from the surrounding areas shopped on the Center “Square”. If you think traffic can be bad at Wal-Mart on Saturdays, you should have tried to negotiate two way traffic on the “Square” during peak shopping time back then.

New Bestsellers
Connelly, Michael – 9 Dragons
Cornwell, Patricia – The Scarpetta Factor
Ferguson, Craig – American on Purpose
Gabaldon, Diana – An Echo in the Bone
Irving, John – Last Night in Twisted River
Parker, Robert –The Professional (audio)
Patterson, James – Alex Cross’s Trial
Steel, Daniell – Southern Lights
Williams, Andy – Moon River and Me
Woods, Stuart - Hothouse Orchid (audio)