New This Week
April 19, 2010
Column: At the Library
From: Cranbrook Public Library
By Mike Selby
When prostitute Luciana Vetra is asked to pose for a painting by Botticelli, she is understandable flattered. When Botticelli refuses to pay her for her time, Luciana steels the painting, setting off a series of grisly murders all meant for her. Marina Fiorato’s THE BOTTICELLI SECRET is a romantic adventure story, following Luciana as she tries to elude her killers all over 15th century Italy.
Younger readers who like Peter Pan should enjoy Gail Carson Levine’s FAIRY HAVEN & THE QUEST FOR THE WAND. Tinker Bell and her fellow fairies are involved in their own Neverland adventure, trying to convince a higher order of fairies to save their village from flooding.
Preschool Story Time this Wednesday at 11:00 am, 1:15 pm, & 6:30 pm, and Toddler Story this Friday at 10:30 am will be all about Scarecrows!
Wow, what a garage sale and what fun! The Friends of the Library would like to thank the public for their terrific donations and great support on sale day. Over eleven hundred dollars was raised and this will be used to purchase new books for the library.
Thank you to everyone.
Have you heard about Slam Poetry? Did you see Shane Koyczan’s performance at the Olympic opening ceremonies? Are you curious about this genre? Well, Barbara Adler, one of Canada’s most exciting young performance poets, is coming to Cranbrook on May 1 to host a Slam Poetry workshop and performance.
The workshop will begin at 6 pm and the performance will follow at 8 pm at the Manual Training School beside the Cranbrook Public Library. You can attend one or both, but pre-registration would be appreciated (email khough@cbal.org with your name and Slam as the subject). If you are 18 or under, it’s free! Adults are $3.
Two short-listed authors of this year’s BC Book Prize will be visiting the Cranbrook Library next week. Sylvia Olsen (author of COUNTING ON HOPE), and Fred Wah (IS A DOOR) will be reading from the works on Tuesday, April 20th at 7 pm. There will be book sales and signings at this exciting event, as well as a chance to meet both authors.
Don’t forget to come and see Bob Pearce’s Wilderness paintings, currently on display.
ADULT NEWLY AQUIRED SHELF:
Lonely Planet: USA (917.3)
Lonely Planet: South America on a Shoestring (918)
Frommer’s Hawaii Day by Day (919.69)
The Man in the Moone " Francis Godwin (823.3)
Change Your Brain, Change Your Body " Daniel G. Amen (613)
Bulletproof Mascara " Bethany Maines (mys)
Tenth Stone " Bodie Thoene (fic)
Ninth Witness " Bodie Thoene (fic)
The Botticelli Secret -- Marina Fiorato.
The Judging Eye " R. Scott Baker (pb)
Hell and Earth " Elizabeth Bear (pb)
Reading the Wind " Brenda Cooper (pb)
Warrior Ascended " Addison Fox (pb)
Wulf’s Tracks " Dusty Richards (pb)
Motherhood is Murder " Diana Orgain (pb)
Patriot Games (DVD)
Friday Night Lights: Complete 3rd Season (DVD)
Legend of the Crystal Skulls (DVD)
Trick Training Dogs (DVD)
National Geographic Everglades (DVD)
Persepolis (DVD)
YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S NEWLY ACQUIRED ITEMS:
Token of Darkness -- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (ya fic)
The Dead Tossed Waves " Carrie Ryan (ya fic)
The Forest of Hands & Teeth " Carrie Ryan (ya fic)
Secret Army " Robert Muchamore (ya fic)
Eagle Day " Robert Muchamore (ya fic)
Hunted " P.C. Cast (ya fic)
Calamity Jack " Shannon Hale (ya fic)
Knights of the Ruby Wand " Tony Abbot (j fic)
8th Grade Super Zero -- Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich (j fic)
Pokemon Adventures Volume 5 -- Hidenori Kusaka (j fic)
Fairy Haven & the Quest for the Wand " Gail Carson Levine (j fic)
The War Guests Diary of Charlotte Mary Twist " Jean Little (j fic)
Smile -- Raina Telgemeier (j fic)
The Pokemon Sneak (j easy)
Machines at Work " Byron Barton (j pic)
Good Morning Farm " Catherine Nichols (j pic)
Read New BC (DVD)
