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BCPL has high-speed
BY NANCY SMITH
 | | Patrons at the Bath County Public Library can access the World Wide Web using the library's high-speed wireless Internet connection. Pictured are (l-r) Jeffrey Davis and Mark Kranich. (Photo courtesy the BCPL) |
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WARM SPRINGS - Bath County Library continues to be the hub of the community. Many people use the library every day for different reasons. Some just come to check out the latest bestseller or to read the newspapers. But lately, the library's public access computers are the big draw. Lots of folks use the library on a daily basis to keep in touch with family, friends or business while visiting from out of town. Several patrons use the computers for word processing (for many organizations). With the addition of our wireless access, many students and other adults have become regular customers. Children and adults alike have found that the library provides educational games, databases for research and a way of reaching out to family and friends - without spending a nickel.
The library now subscribes to the Learning Express Library Database. This is a wonderful database which allows students and adults to prepare for exams such as the ACT, SAT, GED, firefighter, police officer, paramedic, EMT-B, U.S. Citizenship and postal worker, to name a few. Learning Express Library offers courses in math, reading and writing with instant scoring. The database has more than 300 online practice tests.
In December, Donald McCaig read from his latest book, "Rhett Butler's People," to approximately 50 people who came out to hear him and to buy a signed copy of the book. This book is the long-awaited sequel to "Gone with the Wind."
We have many new books on the library shelves for the public to read. Fiction: "Amazing Grace" by Danielle Steel, "The Blue Cheer" by Ed Lynsky, "Book of the Dead" by Patricia Cornwell, "Bridge of Sighs" by Richard Russo, "The Burnt House" by Faye Kellerman, "The Careful Use of Compliments" by Alexander McCall Smith, "Consumption" by Kevin Patterson, "Creation in Death" by J.D. Robb, "Everlasting" by Kathleen Woodiwiss, "The First Commandment" by Brad Thor, "The Heir" by Barbara Taylor Bradford, "Home to Holly Springs" by Jan Karon, "The Intruders: They are Already Inside" by Michael Marshall, "Keeping the World Away" by Margaret Forster, "Killer Weekend" by Ridley Pearson, "Protect and Defend" by Vince Flynn, "Rhett Butler's People" by Donald McCaig, "The Scribe" by Francine Rivers, "Silence" by Thomas Perry, "Someone to Love" by Jude Deveraux, "Stone Cold" by David Baldacci, "Summer" by Karen Kingsbury, "Sweet Revenge" by Diane Mott Davidson, "World Without End" by Ken Follett, "You've Been Warned" by James Patterson, "Agnes and the Hitman" by Jennifer Crusie, "An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England" by Brock Clarke; "Away" by Amy Bloom, "Bones to Ashes" by Kathy Reichs, "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks, "Critical" by Robin Cook, "Day of the Dandelion" by Peter Pringle, "Force of Nature" by Suzanne Brockmann; "The New Year's Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini, "Now and Then" by Robert B. Parker, "The Parting" by Beverly Lewis, "The Penny" by Joyce Meyer, "Play Dirty" by Sandra Brown, "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham, "Power Play" by Joseph Finder, "The Restitution" by Marylu Tyndall, "The Sea Lady" by Margaret Drabble, "Sure Fire" by Jack Higgins, "The Tell-Tale Horse" by Rita Mae Brown, "Trespass" by Valerie Martin, "The Bloody Tower" by Carola Dunn, "The Cleft" by Doris Lessing, "Dark of the Moon" by John Sandford, "Dead Heat" by Dick Francis; "The Death Trust" by David Rollins, "Echoes" by Kristen Heitzmann, "The Indian Clerk" by David Leavitt, "The Secret Cardinal" by Tom Grace, "Shoot Him if He Runs" by Stuart Woods, "Tom Bedlam" by George Hagen, "When Darkness Falls" by James Grippando. Non-fiction books are "It's All about Him: Finding the Love of My Life" by Denise Jackson, "Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer" by S. Brownlee, "Giving: How Each of Us Can Change This World" by Bill Clinton, "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" by Alan Alda, "America's Second Revolution" by Harlow Unger, "Blood and Soil: a World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur" by Ben Kiernan, "The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War" by David Halberstam, "The Great American Christmas Book," "I am America (and So Can You)" by Stephen Colbert, "Live from Cape Canaveral" by Jay Barbree, and "Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
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