Wednesday, October 19

Happy Halloween!

Click the links below for Halloween resources @ your library.

Enjoy cute children's Halloween books, or children's Halloween crafts and cookery at your library! Maybe you are looking for a quick costume idea.

Could you be looking for true horror books for adults or young adults, or maybe scarry movies?

Are you planning Halloween decorations? Click HERE to see books full of decoration ideas for this creepy holiday! Or, click HERE if your kids are wanting to make their own decorations!

Enjoy these Halloween sites...
Ghost Stories

http://www.halloweenghoststories.com/

http://www.macscouter.com/Stories/GhostStories.html

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/ghost-stories.html

http://www.americanfolklore.net/spooky-stories.html

http://www.castleofspirits.com/spookiest.html

http://www.secstate.state.nc.us/kidspg/legends.htm

http://www.visitorinfo.com/ghoststories/index.htm

Halloween Jokes

http://www.theholidayspot.com/halloween/jokes.htm

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/halloween/games/jokes.html

http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/jkscary.html

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/pumpkinave/jokes/

http://www.haunteddoghouse.com/Halloween_Joke.html

Halloween Games

http://www.blackdog.net/holiday/halloween/

http://www.gamekids.com/hallow1.html

http://www.night.net/halloween/party-games.html-ssi

http://www.partygameideas.com/halloweengames.htm

History of Halloween

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/halloween/

http://www.theholidayspot.com/halloween/history.htm

If you still didn't find what you are looking for, ask a librarian.
Happy Halloween!
BOO!

Tuesday, October 4

The New York Times Best Sellers @ your library

Follow the link to the title in the catalog to make a request.
FICTION
Goodnight Nobody, by Jennifer Weiner
The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
The March, by E. L. Doctorow
The Widow of the South, by Robert Hicks
The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
Polar Shift, by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos
Lipstick Jungle, by Candace Bushnell
Point Blank, by Caterine Coulter
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, by Alexander McCall Smith
Chill Factor, by Sandra Brown
Shalimar the Clown, by Salman Rushdie
High Druid of Shannara: Straken, by Terry Brooks
Thud!, by Terry Pratchett
Slow Burn, by Julie Garwood
Cinnamon Kiss, by Walter Mosley
The Mermaid Chair, by Sue Monk
Lifeguard, by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
The Five People You Meet in Heaven, by Mitch Albom
Sweetwater Creek, by Anne Rivers Siddons
Vanish, by Tess Gerritson
Without Mercy, by Jack Higgins
Tyrannosaur Canyon, by Douglas Preston
The Last Days of Dogtown, by Anita Diamant
Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown
Spell of the Highlander, by Karen Marie Moning
The Undomestic Goddess, by Sophie Kinsella
True Believer, by Nicholas Sparks
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See
The Painted Drum, by Louise Erdrich
The Interruption of Everything, by Terry McMillan
Miracle, by Danielle Steel
Pirate, by Ted Bell

NON FICTION
The World is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman
1776, by David McCullough
Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, by Alan Alda
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, by Bernard Goldberg
Where God Was Born, by Bruce Feiler
Bait and Switch, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Talking Back, by Andrea Mitchell
1491, by Charles C. Mann
The Universe in a Single Atom, by Dalai Lama
America (The Book), by Jon Stewart
Collapse, by Jared Diamond
Good to Great, by Jim Collins
The Shame of the Nation, by Jonathan Kozol