Thursday, November 29, 2007

Holiday Reading Available at the Worthington Library

A brand new shelf of books has arrived and there’s something for everyone. Biographies include Clapton by Eric Clapton, the Mitfords by Charlotte Mosley, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame Wilson, and Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat. Tom Brokaw has given us Boom!: Voices of the Sixties. Gardeners can settle into winter with HRH The Prince of Wales’ Elements of Organic Gardening. Diana Gabaldon continues her series and Jan Karon begins a new one. Jodi Picoult also begins a new venture as a regular series writer for Wonder Woman. Holiday books from Anne Perry, Jennifer Chiaverini, Debbie Macomber and Orson Scott Card can be found on the new book shelf. Core Actors in America from our own Stephen Terhune Smith is here. From Karen Kingsbury to Clive Barker many of your favorite authors are just waiting for you to come in.

Remember, our hours are:

Tuesday 3 - 7 pm
Thursday 10 am - noon and 3 - 7 pm

Saturday 10 am - 4 pm

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Words, words, words

A library deals in words, yes? Well now you can look up more words than you ever have been able to with our brand new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. A two-volume set, this is the abridged version of the twenty volume OED, a dictionary on historical principles. This is a wonderful tool for writers, researchers and word-lovers. Answer your questions on Scrabble or crosswords with this ultimate tool. It's on the computers, too!