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Library Notes
By Nancy Smith, Bath County Public Library
Our summer reading program "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 AppalachianTrail, Jamestown, Pocahontas, 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 partici- pants. Students are always notified about library programs throughout the year by the school system. This is a program that not only entertains our children in the summer, but more importantly, it encourages them to read and enjoy books. As we all know, reading is the most important part of education - without it, you can't get anywhere in life.
We have many new fiction books at the library. They are as follows: "The Ever-Running Man" by Marcia 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 Mango 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 Jerome 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, and the Decline of Virginia" by Susan 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; Flags of our Father; The Flame Trees of Thika; Martin Chuzzlewit; A Tale of Two Cities; Nature: Alaska; A Death in the Family; The Railway Children; Love in Cold Climate, Summer's Lease; Under the Greenwood Tree; Man of the Year; The Waltons, the complete third and fourth Season.
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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