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Library News
Summer library programs a big hit in Bath
By Nancy Smith Bath County Public Library
Our summer reading pro- gram "Virginia Trails," presented by librarian Sharon Lindsay, is now over. We had numerous children, ranging in ages from three to 12, participating in five programs a week. Each program had a story hour and a craft related to the week's theme and lasted over an hour. The children learned about the Applalchian Trail, Jamestown, Pochontas, pirates, kites and much more. The summer reading program is an annual event that starts and ends with a special performance. This year, storyteller Barry Mines and the Virginia Wildlife Center entertained our participants. Students are always notified about library programs throughout the year by the school system. This is a program tht not only lentertains our children in the summer, but more importantly, it encourages them to read and enjou books. As we all know, reading is the most important part of education - without it, you can't get anywhere in life.
We have masny new fiction books at the library. They are as follows: "The Ever-Running Man" by Marcial Muller; "Laced" by Carol Higgins Clark; "Miss Katie's Rosewood" by Michael Phillips; "New England White" by Stephen L. Carter; "The Quickie" by James Patterson; "The Sleeping Doll" by Jeffrey Deaver; "THe Storm Runners" by T. Jefferson Parker; "Between the Tides" by Patricia Callahan; "Blaze: The Posthumous Novel" by Richard Bachman; "Double Take" by Catherine Coulter; "THe Execution Channel" by Ken Macleod; "Free Fire" by C.J. Box; "God's Spy" by Juan Gomez-Jurado; "Innocent as Sin by Elizabeth Lowell; "The Land of Mnago Sunsets" by Dorothea Benton Frank; "Love Kills: A Britt Montero Novel" by Edna Buchanan; "Michael Tolliver Lives" by Armistead Maupin; "The Navigator" by Clive Cussler; "North River" by Pete Hamill; "Savages: A Nameless Detective Novel" by Bill Pronzini; "Sleeping with Strangers" by Jerone Dickey; and "Waltzing at the Piggly-Wiggly" by Robert Dalby.
The new non-fiction books are: "The Diana Chronicles" by Tina Brown; "The Songs of Insects" by Lang Elliot; "A woman in Charge"; "The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton" by Carl Bernstein; "The Digital Photography book" by Scott Kelby; "Dominion
of Memories"' "Jefferson Madison & The Decline of Virginia"
by T.R. Dunn; and "How to Live In Small Spaces", "Design, Furnishing, Decoration and detail for the Smaller Home" by Terence Conran.
Our new adult DVDs are: Apollo 13; Flag of our Father; Flame Trees of Thika; Martin Chuzzlewit; A Tale of Two Cities; Nature: Alaska; A Death in the Family; The Railway Children; Love in Cold Climmae, Summer's Lease; Under the Greenwood Tree; The Waltons; the complete third and fourth Seeason; and Man of the Year.
If some of you teens have DVDs that you have watched several times and think you won't be looking at them anymore, you might consider donating them to the library so others can check them out and then you might find some you are interested in watching at the same time that have been donated by someone else.
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