Pember Library

What do you think of DearReader so far? If you have a Pember Library card you can reply to this post or send me an email and be entered into a drawing for a copy of the new Dean Koontz book Relentless.

The books that will be featured next week are :

Criminal Paradise by Steven M. Thomas    audio
The Contrarian Effect : Why It Pays (Big) to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite by Michael Port, Elizabeth Marshall     business
Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors    fiction
Faith and Doubt by  John Ortberg    good news
Crosshairs by Harry Hunsicker    mystery
Scheisshaus Luck by Pierre Berg with Brian Brock    nonfiction
Seeing Things by Patti Hill    prepub
To Protect a Princess by Gail Barrett    romance
Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter    sci-fi
The Baptism by Shelia P. Moses    teen
A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell     thriller

To join, click on the “Online Book Clubs, Click Here” icon to the left, put in your email address, and choose which club(s) you would like to get in your email. Thanks to the Friends of the Library for sponsoring this wonderful service for our readers out there!

Our list of new and popular books matches pretty well with the NY Times Bestseller lists. We have twelve of the top fifteen from the fiction list and four of the top five from the nonfiction list. Any one who responds to this post with a comment about one of the books or a review will be entered into a contest for a book weight.* You can send your comment or review to us through the email link to the right or by clicking on ‘no comments’ at the bottom of the post.

Fiction:

#1 Title:            Gone tomorrow : a Jack Reacher novel
Call Number:    Fict Chi
Author:             Child, Lee.

Also available as
Title:     Gone tomorrow [compact audio disc (unabridged)]
Call Number:    CD Fict Chi

#2 Title:            Wicked prey [large print]
Call Number:    LT Fict San
Author:             Sandford, John,

#3 Title:            The 8th confession
Call Number:    Fict Pat Mystery
Author:             Patterson, James,

#4 Title:            Dead and gone
Call Number:    Fict Har
Author:             Harris, Charlaine.

#5 Title:            Cemetery dance
Call Number:    Fict Pre
Author:             Preston, Douglas J.

Also available as
Title:     Cemetery dance [compact audio disc (unabridged)]
Call Number:    CD Fict Pre

#6 Title:            First family
Call Number:    Fict Bal
Author:             Baldacci, David.

#7 Title:            The host : a novel
Call Number:    Fict Mey Sci-Fi
Author:             Meyer, Stephenie,

Also available as
Title:     The host [compact audio disc (unabridged)] : a novel
Call Number:    CD Fict Mey

#9 Title:            The sign
Call Number:    Fict Kho
Author:             Khoury, Raymond.

#11 Title:          The help
Call Number:    Fict Sto
Author:             Stockett, Kathryn.

#12 Title:          Tea time for the traditionally built [large print]
Call Number:    LT Fict McC
Author:             McCall Smith, Alexander,

#14 Title:          Road dogs
Call Number:    Fict Leo
Author:             Leonard, Elmore,

#15 Title:          Just take my heart [large print] : a novel
Call Number:    LT Fict Cla
Author:             Clark, Mary Higgins.

Nonfiction:

#1 Title:            Liberty and tyranny : a conservative manifesto
Call Number:    320.52 Lev
Author:             Levin, Mark R. (Mark Reed),

#2 Title:             Outliers [large print] : the story of success
Call Number:    LT 302 Gla
Author:             Gladwell, Malcolm, 1963-

#3 Title:            Resilience : reflections on the burdens and gifts of facing life’s adversities
Call Number:    92 Edwards
Author:             Edwards, Elizabeth,

#5 Title:            Always looking up : the adventures of an incurable optimist
Call Number:    92 Fox
Author:             Fox, Michael J.,

* donated to the library by Sandi R

Ellen won the Santa plaque.

The Nora Roberts book is going to Mary Ann.

Thanks to all who took part in the contest!

It’s Black Friday so probably many of you have been out and about since 4AM. Did you find any great buys? Do you shop online? Is your holiday shopping all done or are you waiting to see if there will be better sales just before Christmas?

I have been gathering small items for a couple of months now and everyone in our family knows that spending is cut way back this year. Stockings are being filled from the dollar stores.

Magazines and books are usual gifts in our family along with electronics and automotive stuff. Our children are grown so we don’t even look in toy stores anymore (but I think the boys might still enjoy putting together a Lego kit.)

If you are a member at the Pember Library, you could win this Nora Roberts book or the Santa plaque to use as a holiday gift by sending an email through the email link to the right. You only need to include your name and phone #. (We won’t share that info.) You may also enter by coming in to the library and filling out an entry blank. Two winners will be randomly selected from all entries submitted by December 15, 2008.

Here are the results of our first online contest. We hope to do more in the future!