Recent Additions to the Collection

 

AUDIOBOOKS

V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton

The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Dissolution by C. J. Sansom

Absolute Power by David Baldacci

First Thrills: High-Octane Stories by Lee Child

The Spy by Clive Cussier

Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich

The Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins

The Mask by Dean Koontz

Miracle on the 17th Green by James Patterson

Kisser by Stuart Woods

VIDEOS

Broad Brook Anthology: A Play for Voices BY Verandah Porche

BIOGRAPHY

Ethan Allen: His Life and Times by Willard Sterne Randall

Da Chen            Colors of the Mountain

FICTION

Nick Drake            Egypt: the Book of Chaos

Jennifer Egan            A Visit From the Goon Squad

Alice Hoffman            Here on Earth

John Irving            Last Night in Twisted River

Jan Karon            In the Company of Others

Stephen King            11/22/63

Michael Koryta            The Cypress House

Andrea Seigel            To Feel Stuff

Nicholas Sparks            The Best of Me

Wallace Stegner            Crossing to Safety

GUILFORD COLLECTION

Rich Blazej            Ferryin’ With Lucy Beyond the Mist

Royall Tyler            The Verse of Royall Tyler

INFANT/TODDLER

St. Patrick’s Day

Deck the Halls

Betty Ann Schwartz & Alexander Wilensky            The Splendid Spotted Snake

JUVENILE FICTION

Carmen Agra Deedy &  Randall Wright            The Cheshire Cheese Cat: a Dickens of a Tale

John Flanagan            Brotherband Chronicles Book1: The Out Casts

Stephanie Greene            Princess Posey and the Perfect Present

Jennifer & Matthew Holm            Squish: Super Amoeba

Lee Welles            Gaia Girls Enter the Earth

JUVENILE NONFICTION

Nursery Rhyme Comics

Marge Bruchac            Malian’s Song

Simon Seymour            Butterflies

MYSTERY

Nevada Barr            Burn

Sue Grafton            V is for Vengeance

P. D. James            Death Comes to Pemberley

Iris Johansen            Firestorm

Robert B. Parker            Split Image

Arthur W. Upfield            Winds of Evil

Arthur W. Upfield            The Will of the Tribe

Jacqueline Winspear            A Lesson in Secrets

NONFICTION

Vogue Knitting : the ultimate knitting book / by the editors of Vogue Knitting Magazine

Bill Clinton            Back to Work

Cindy Lee             OM: Yoga a Guide to Daily Practice

Neill Lochery            Lisbon : war in the shadows of the city lights, 1939-1945

Michael Phillips            The Apple Grower

Nancy Sporborg            It’s Not About The Hike

PICTURE

William Jaspersohn            The Scrimshaw Ring

William Jaspersohn            The Two Brothers

Oliver Jeffers            Stuck

Lita Judge            Red Sled

Willem Lange             John and Tom

Michael Medearis & Angela Shelf Medearis            Daisy and the Doll

Susan Milord            The Ghost on the Hearth

Stephanie Stansbie            What’s That Noise, Little Mouse?

Henry Cole             The Littlest Evergreen

Olga & Aleksey Ivanov            Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah

Fran Manushkin            Many Days, One Shabbat

YOUNG ADULT

Marie Lu            Legend

Recent Additions

DVDS
Miss Marple Movie Collection
The Phantom Tollbooth
March Of The Penguins
Sherlock Holmes
AUDIOBOOKS
Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci
The Mission Song by John LeCarre
BIOGRAPHY
Decision Points by George W. Bush
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Autobiography of Mark Twain
INFANT/TODDLER
Bright Baby First Words
Childs Play If You’re Happy and You Know It...
Karen Pandell I Love You Sun, I Love You Moon
JUVENILE FICTION
Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Ugly Truth
Lynn Levine Snow Secrets
Susan Shreve Under the Watsons’ Porch
MYSTERY
Archer Mayor Red Herring
Robert Parker Painted Ladies
MOUNTAINBROOK CENTER
Barstow The Eco-Foods Guide
NONFICTION
Deborah Krasner Good Meat
Bill Bryson At Home
Bethany McLean & Joe Nocera, All The Devils Are Here
Curt Presme Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments
Brian Walker Doonesbury And The Art Of G.B. Trudeau
Tom Wessels Reading the Forested Landscape
PICTURE
Bonnie Becker A Bedtime For Bear
Eileen Christelow Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Lisa Nikola & Max Wilson Setting the Turkeys Free
Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman Bear Snores On

AUDIOBOOKS

In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George

Middle of Nowhere by Ridley Pearson

Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis

Sue grafton a,b c

Deep black: arctic gold

The scarecrow

Terminal freeze

Just take my heart

The devil’s punchbowl

BIOGRAPHY

Katherine Russell Rich Dreaming in Hindi

CARING FOR CHILDREN

Joan & Sarah Bothell Henry and Fred Learn About Lead

FICTION

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus

Marguerite Allis Not Without Peril

hay secret of lost things

French The Likeness

Katherine Howe The Physick Book Of Deliverance Dane

Lisa See Shanghai Girls

Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge

Ward Just Exiles in the Garden

Pessl Special topics in calamity physics

BORROWED FROM GUILFORD SCHOOL

Han Shug

diary of a wimpy kid:rodrick

volcano

smith crown of horns

ghost circles

treasure hunters

Tak I Live In Tokyo

Isaac Millman Hidden Child

Nothing Agee

Brown All stations! Distress

Smith, Jeff The Dragonslayer

Smith, Jeff Rock Jaw - Mastr of the Eastern Border

smith old man’s cave

Magic For Kids

Monster Origami

Nimmo Charlie Bone and the castle of mirrors

Nimmo Charlie Bone and the hidden king

Nimmo Charlie Bone and the invisible boy

Harper imaginative inventions

rodda third wish

rodda flower fairies

rodda flower bracelet

jackson origami

rodda the last fairy-apple tree

Dahl The BFG

smith bone ghost circles

rodda star cloak

rodda unicorn

rodda water sprites

rodda rainbow wand

rodda peskie spell

INFANT/TODDLER

cocca-leffler baby animals

JUVENILE FICTION

Jeff Smith Eyes of the Storm: Bone

Jeff Smith The Dragonslayer: Bone

Anthony Horowitz Necropolis

LARGE PRINT

David Baldacci First Family

MYSTERY

Sandra Brown Ricochet

Michael Connelly City of Bones

Nevada Barr Track of the Cat

Walters Ice House

Walters Disordered minds

Walters The shape of snakes

Bernard Corpse in a gilded cage

Walters The Scold’s Bridle

Nevada Barr Blood Lure

Nevada Barr Endangered Species

Diana Abu-Jabar Origin

Ignatius Body of Lies

Ignatius Agents in innocence

Stieg Larsson The Girl Who Played with Fire

Mary Anna Evans Floodgates

Pythagoras’s Revenge

MOUNTAINBROOK CENTER

Buhner Lost language of plants

walker ecovillage of ithaca

NONFICTION

woolfson corvus

belsey why shakespeare?

Donald W. Kemper Healthwise Handbook

Ellen Ruppel Shell Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

Diane Dumanoski The End of the Long Summer

Robert Wright The Evolution of God

Bert Whitehead Why Smart People Do Stupid Things With Money

PICTURE

Kenneth Oppel The King’s Taster

Friends Forest A Day in the Forest

Sharon Mueller Lolly and Macdoogal

REFERENCE

David Larson, ed. Mayo Clinic Family Health Book

Guilford Reads ! The 2009 VT. Reads Selection

Thanks to the VT. Reads program of the VT Humanities Council, the
town of Guilford, through the Guilford Free Liibrary, has received a grant of multiple copies of this year’s “VT. Reads” book: Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine.

What is this book about? Julie Otsuka’s family was sent to an internment camp during World War II. Her mother was a child then and never spoke much about the experience in later years. This novel tells the story of a fictional family’s time in an internment camp. Otsuka says: “I wanted to write a novel about real people...their experience is universal not only for Japanese Americans, but for people of any ethnic group. Throughout history people have been rounded up and sent into exile. The predicament of the family in my novel...is that of ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary.” We hope this book may lead to family reading aloud and discussion over the summer. There will be several Guilford programs in July and August connected with the book.

The Library will make copies of this book available at the following locations:
-the Guilford Free Library
- the Guilford Historical Society
-the Guilford Community Church
-the Town Clerk’s Office
-the Guilford Golden Age luncheons
-Strong Living senior exercise sessions
-Richmond’s Auto Shop

The procedure for borrowing these books will be as follows:
1)Taking and returning a book will be on the Honor System.
2) Take a book from one of the above locations.
3) Read it and enjoy it with your family.
4) Return it to one of the above locations.
5) If you would like to do so, sign your name on the inside of the
cover..This will create a network of Guilford readers who have read
the book.

There will be several programs over the summer to tie-in with When the Emperor Was Divine .

July 15 (Wednesday) location-The Guilford Free Library-time 7pm

The Guilford Library’s regular book discussion group will focus on When the Emperor was Divine and the issues it raises.

July 22 (Wednesday) location-The Broadbrook Grange-time 7pm

Join us for a family origami night, learn (or teach) the art of paper folding. Take home a collection of original art, this program is suitable for everyone.

August 12 (Wednesday))-location, downstairs at the Guilford Community Church --time 7pm

“Poetry at the Church” Guilford’s muse and poet Verandah Porche will lead a workshop to help writers create short poems using Japanese poetic forms. Selections of local poetry will be displayed in public places around Guilford during the summer to celebrate the art of poetry.

August 21 (Friday) location The Guilford Community Church-time 12noon

The Council on Aging Senior Lunch will go back in time today. We will enjoy a World War II inspired lunch menu with conversation based on what participants remember about life during wartime, each table will have its own leader. Thanks to the Guilford Historical Society, there will be a display today on “Guilford and the War.”

August 25 (Tuesday), location, the Broadbrook Grange , time 7 pm

Susan Hebson will lead to-night’s group in an instructed Japanese Tea Ceremony. This will be an opporunity to experience this event with a serious student of Japanese culture. In addition there will be on display a kimono on loan from a local family. Reservations by August 15 ,please at 257-4603.

September 6 and 7, location Guilford Fair Grounds-time all day

The Guilford library will have on display photographs and artifacts from the summer’s programs; after today the books will be collected and taken to the Guilford Central School where they will be used in the fall curriculum.

These programs are open to all readers of this year’s book. Any questions about the programs? Call the Guilford Free Library 257- 4603 or Laura Lewis 254-4839

Additions to the Collection

AUDIOBOOKS
The Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Sue Grafton Collection “A”, “B”, “C” by Sue Grafton
Body Double by Tess Gerritsen
Crusader’s Cross by James Lee Burke
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth George
Middle of Nowhere by Ridley Pearson
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
BIOGRAPHY
Ruth Reichl Not Becoming My Mother
FICTION
Adichie half of a yellow sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
Paulo Coelho The Winner Stands Alone
Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex
Lisa Genova Still Alice
Julia Glass The Whole World Over
Dara Horn The World to Come
Jim Lehrer Oh, Johnny
Rohinton Mistry Such a Long Journey
Catherine O’Flynn What Was Lost
Jodi Picoult Handle With Care
Salmon Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence
Akhil Sharma An Obedient Father
Anita Shreve Body Surfing
Danielle Steel Granny Dan
Thrity Umrigar The Weight of Heaven
INFANT/TODDLER
cocca-leffler baby animals
JUVENILE FICTION
Elise Broach Masterpiece
Michael J. Daley Rat Trap
Niki Daly Bettina Valentino and the Picasso Club
Richard Farr Emperors of the Ice
Neil Gaiman The Graveyard Book
Jessica Day George Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Allegra Goodman The Other Side of the Island
Shannon & Dean Hale Rapunzel’s Revenge
M. H. Herlong The Great Wide Sea
Anthony Horowitz Evil Star
Jacqueline Kelly The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Christopher Paolini Brisingr
Jeff Smith Out from Boneville: Bone
Jeff Smith The Great Cow Race: Bone
Jeff Smith Eyes of the Storm: Bone
Jeff Smith The Dragonslayer: Bone
D.J. Steinberg Mac Attack!
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Deborah Ellis Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees
Greg Mortenson Listen to the Wind
Greg ortenson Three Cups of Tea: Young Reader’s Edition
Patrick O’Brien You are the First Kid on Mars
Sally Pomme Clayton Persephone
MYSTERY
Diana Abu-Jabar Origin
Sandra Brown Ricochet
Lee Child Persuader
Harlan Coben Darkest Fear
Michael Connelly City of Bones
Tarquin Hall The Case of the Missing Servant
Alexander McCall Smith Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Eliot Pattison The Lord of Death
Iain Pears Stone’s Fall
C. J. Sansom Dark Fire
Daniel Silva The Mark of the Assassin
NONFICTION
Catherine Belsey why shakespeare?
Jeff and Liz Ball Rodale’s Landscape Problem Solver
Howard Blackiston Beekeeping For Dummies
Anthony Bourdain Kitchen Confidential
Lesley Bremness The Complete Book of Herbs
Tierney Cahill Ms. Cahill for Congress
Kathi Keville The Illustrated Herb Encyclopedia
James Maskalyk Six Months in Sudan
Patricia Michalak Herbs
Barbara Pond A Sampler of Wayside Herbs
Phyllis V. Shaudys Herbal Treasures
PICTURE
Peter Brown The Curious Garden
Andrew Larsen The Imaginary Garden
Jonathan London Froggy Gets Dressed
Kenneth Oppel The King’s Taster
Jeanie Franz Ransom What Really Happened to Humpty?
Lorena Siminovich Alex and Lulu
REFERENCE
Merck The Merck Veterinary Manual 7th edition
YOUNG ADULT
Eva Wiseman Puppet

Additions to the Collection

AUDIOBOOKS
Garden of Beasts by Jeffery Deaver
Stokes Guide to Bird Songs
Unless by Carol Shields
The Vanished Man by Jeffery Deaver
Magic Tree House Collection Books 17-24 by Mary Pope Osborne
Magic Tree House Collection Books 25-28 by Mary Pope Osborne
BIOGRAPHY
Sidney Poitier The Measure of a Man
Augusten Burroughs Dry
CARING FOR CHILDREN
Penelope Leach Child Care Today
FICTION
Joshilyn Jackson Gods in Alabama
Nora Roberts Winner Takes All
Jeanne Ray Julie and Romeo
Tim O’Brien In the Lake of the Woods
Sebastien Japrisot A Very Long Engagement
Margaret Forster Lady’s Maid
Jeffrey Lent Lost Nation
Barry Unsworth Morality Play
Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams
Sue Miller While I Was Gone
John Banville The Sea
Chris Bohjalian Midwives
Allegra Goodman Intuition
Geraldine Brooks People of the Book
Janet Evanovich Thanksgiving
Anita Shreve Body Surfing
JUVENILE FICTION
Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Iona Opie Here Comes Mother Goose
Tanya Lee Stone Sandy’s Circus
MYSTERY
Matt Beynon Rees The Samaritan’s Secret
Nevada Barr Blind Descent
Nevada Barr Ill Wind
Nevada Barr Deep South
Janet Evanovich High Five
Janet Evanovich Four to Score
Janet Evanovich Three to Get Deadly
Janet Evanovich Seven Up
Janet Evanovich Hot Six
Janet Evanovich One For the Money
Adams Alexander Cipher
Nevada Barr Borderline
C. J. Sansom Revelation
C. J. Sansom Dark Fire
MOUNTAINBROOK CENTER
straight-ahead organic
NONFICTION
Jeff and Liz Ball Rodale’s Flower Garden Problem Solver
Mark Bittman Food Matters
Martha Stewart Encyclopedia of Crafts
Randy Pausch Last Lecture

Latest Additions to the Collection

AUDIO BOOKS
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
VIDEOS
E. T. The Extra-terrestrial
The Tigger Movie
The Book of Pooh
Sing a Song with Pooh Bear
Sing a Song with Tigger
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales
JUVENILE BIOGRAPHY
Sandy Koufax You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
Wangari’s Trees of Peace by Jeanette Winter
JUVENILE FICTION
Carl Hiaasen Scat
John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Scott Westerfeld Specials
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Guilford Central School 7th Grade Ancient Greece at the Latchis
Garry Hamilton Arctic Fox: Life at the Top of the World
Janet Schulman Pale Male: Citizen Hawk of New York City
MYSTERY
Dexter daughters of cain
Olen Steinhauer The Tourist
Jacqueline Winspear Among the Mad
Silva The mark of the assassin
MOUNTAINBROOK CENTEE
Cling Building Construction illustrated
Rezendez Tracking and the art
Stanley Going solar
NONFICTION
Diane Ackerman The Zookeeper’s Wife
Liaquat Ahamed Lords of Finance
Henry Homeyer The Vermont Gardener’s Companion
Robert G. Kaiser So Damn Much Money
Mary Oliver Red Bird
Michael Ruse, ed. Evolution:The First Four Billion Years
Evan Thomas A Long Time Coming
vearons how to grow more vegetables
PICTURE
Bob Graham How to Heal a Broken Wing
Deborah Hopkinson Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek
Penny Ives Celestine, Drama Queen
Sandra Markle Finding Home
James Rumford Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad
REFERENCE
Tarif Khalidi, translator The Qur’an
LARGE PRINT
Dailey Illusions
Whitson Secrets on the wind

Lastest Additions to the Collection

VIDEO
Why Shakespeare? (DVD)
AUDIO BOOKS
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
Where the River Ends by Charles Martin
Just Like Heaven by Marc Levy
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
FICTION
Deveraux Return to summer house
O’Flynn What was lost
Bernard Cornwell Sharpe’s Fury
Leonard The Law at Randado
long way from home
Ken Follett World Without End
INFANT/TODDLER
Leslie Patricelli Baby Happy Baby Sad
JUVENILE BIOGRAPHY
Barak Obama:Son of Promise, Child of Hope by Nikki Grimes
Barack Obama Yes We Can
JUVENILE FICTION
Shaun Tan Tales from Outer Suburbia
Mary Pope Osborne Mummies in the Morning
Donna Jo Napoli Mogo: The Third Warthog
Maggie Stiefvater Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception
Wendy Lichtman Do the Math: Secrets, Lies and Algebra
Julia Alvarez Return to Sender
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Fandex Field Guide Presidents
Shel Silverstein Runny Babbit
Gail MacColl The Book of Cards for Kids
Carolyn Otto Celebrate Chinese New Year
Dugald A. Steer The Wizardology Handbook
Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life
LARGE PRINT
David Baldacci The Whole Truth
John Sandford Dark of the Moon
Vicki Myron Dewey
MYSTERY
Coben The darkest fear
Archer Mayor The Dark Root
Perry Cain his brother
Robert Parker Hush Money
Deborah Crombie Where Memories Lie
Evanovich Plum Spooky
Rees The Samaritan’s Secret
MOUNTAINBROOK CENTER
Chiras The natural house
Watershed media Building with vision
Steen The straw bale house
NONFICTION
Tim Russert Wisdom of Our Fathers
Calvin Trillin Deciding the Decider
Gwen Ifill The Break-Through: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Will Bunch Tear Down This Myth: The Reagan Legacy
PICTURE
Mary Amato The Chicken of the Family
Joseph Slate I Want to be Free
Mona Kerby Owney, The Mail-Pouch Pooch
Robie H. Harris Mail Harry to the Moon!
Patricia Polacco Thank You, Mr. Falker
Minfong Ho Hush! A Thai Lullaby
REFERENCE
Ann McKinstry Micou B
VERMONT
Verandah Porche Kitchen Talks 2

Additions to the Collection

AUDIO BOOKS
Judge & Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
The Last Dance by Ed McBain
The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
The Paris Option By Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
Little Saigon (cassettes)
Madensky Square by Eva Ibbotson
Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled by Dorothy Gilman
BIOGRAPHY
Frankin Roosevelt:Traitor to His Class by H. W. Brands
FICTION
Sue Monk Kidd The Secret Life of Bees
Toni Morrison A Mercy
Unsworth Morality play
JUVENILE FICTION
Campbell The ghost mountain boys
Allan W. Eckert Incident at Hawk’s Hill
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Yearling
LARGE PRINT
William W, Johnstone Sidewinders
Ruth Axtell Morren Wild Rose
Diane Palmer Heart of Stone
Annette Smith A Crooked Path
MYSTERY
The next accident
NONFICTION
C. J. Sansom Sovereign
Mungo Famous long ago
Mark Bittman How to Cook Everything
Pamuk Snow
PICTURE
Cynthia Rylant Snow
Lisa Wheeler Boogie Knights
VERMONT COLLECTION
Dorothy Canfield Understood Betsy

New Books in September

BIOGRAPHY
Burroughs Dry
FICTION
Isabel Allende Daughter of Fortune
banville the sea
Lent Lost nation
michaels lethal justice
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
INFANT/TODDLER
Nancy Shaw Sheep in a Jeep
JUVENILE FICTION
Lloyd Alexander Taran Wanderer
John Coy Box Out
Garth Nix Superior Saturday
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Steve Jenkins How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly?
MYSTERY
Brown The witness
O’Brien In the lake of the woods
NONFICTION
Brandt A death in Bulloch Parish
Brandt Mr Tubbs' Civil War
brandt man who tried to burn new york
Brandt Massacre in Shansi
Thomas L. Friedman Hot, Flat, And Crowded
Erin Hogan Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West
Barbara Kingsolver Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Sy Montgomery The Good Good Pig
Judy Pangman Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock
Sagal The book of vice
PICTURE
Kazuna Kohara Ghosts in the House!
Bob Kolar Big Kicks

SUMMER ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTION

YOUNG ADULT
Stephanie Meyer Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer Twilight
AUDIO BOOKS
The choice
The End by Lemony Snicket
The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
PICTURE
Antoine O Flaharta Hurry and the Monarch
NON FICTION
Paul Krugman The Conscience of a Liberal
Jane Mayer The Dark Side
Bill McKibben Deep Economy
Penny Simkin Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn
Eckhart Tolle A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
Howard Zinn A People’s History of American Empire
JUVENILE NON FICTION
Maxine Anderson Explore Winter!
Tanya Lee Stone Elizabeth Leads the Way
Diane Swanson Bugs Up Close
Phil Yeh Dinosaurs Across America
JUVENILE FICTION
Kenneth Grahame Wind in the Willows (graphic)
Linda Medley Castle Waiting
Joann Sfar Little Vampire
Roland Smith Elephant Run
Donald J. Sobol Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Midnight Visitor
Donald J. Sobol Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Dead Eagles
Kean Soo Jellaby
D. J. Steinberg Sound Off!
Lewis Trondheim Kaput & Zosky
BOARD BOOKS
Little Lamb
Colors
Sandra Boynton Pajama Time!
Mem Fox Time for Bed
Karen Katz Where is Baby’s Belly Button?
Sam McBratney Guess How Much I Love You
FICTION
David Benioff City of Thieves
Camilla Gibb Sweetness in the Belly
Lars Martinson Tonoharu Part 1
Peebles The Seamstress
Luanne Rice Light of the Moon
C. Tyler Late Bloomer
Thrity Umrigar The Space Between Us
NON-FICTION
Karen Armstrong My Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Tom Fels Farm Friends
Natalie Bober A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost
Miriam Katin We Are on Our Own

Additions to the Collection

AUDIO BOOKS
Stone cold
Double take
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
BIOGRAPHY
Isabel Allende The Sum of Our Days
EARLY READERS
Geoffrey Hayes Benny and Penny in Just Pretend
FICTION
Connelly The closers
Fielding Whispers & lies
Hoag Dust to dust
BIOGRAPHY
Alison Weir The Lady Elizabeth
JUVENILE FICTION
Rawlings The yearling
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Andra Serlin Abramson Heavy Equipment Up Close
MYSTERY
The pardon
Nevada Barr Winter Study
Cresswell Full pursuit
Hoag Cry wolf
Alexander McCall Smith The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Sandford Hidden prey
NONFICTION
Bill Bishop The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
Elizabeth Gilbert Eat Pray Love
Matthew Lombardi Fodor’s Italy 2008
John Patrick Shanley Doubt: A Parable
PICTURE
Kelly DiPucchio Grace for President
Nancy Price Graff In the Hush of the Evening
Clare Jarrett Arabella Miller’s Tiny Caterpillar
Jon Scieszka Smash! Crash!
Britta Teckentrup Grumpy Cat

Additions to the Collection

AUDIO
The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer
Therapy by Jonathan Kellerman
T is for Trespass
Stone cold
Double take
VIDEO
Pride and Prejudice
BIOGRAPHY
Augusten Burroughs Running With Scissors
FICTION
Child Echo burning
Cresswell Full pursuit
Deveraux Eternity
Green The fifth angel
Hoag Dust to dust
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner
Alice McDermott At Weddings and Wakes
Pelton The adventurist
Belva Plain Fortune’s Plain
Nora Roberts Tears of the Moon
Nicholas Sparks Dear John
JUVENILE FICTION
Brian Selznick The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Scott Westerfeld Pretties
Scott Westerfeld Uglies
Laura Amy Schlitz Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
MYSTERY
The pardon
Carr The angel of darkness
Christie The seven dials mystery
Connelly City of bones
Ruth Downie Terra Incognita
Fairstein The bone vault
Gerritsen Body double
Jance Day of the dead
Iris Johansen Body of Lies
Paretsky Windy city blues
Patterson Violets are blue
Perry Dark assasin
Sandford Hidden prey
NONFICTION
Lance Armstrong Cancer survivor notebook
Norm Abram Classics from the New Yankee Workshop
Percy W. Blandford Designing and Building Children’s Furniture
Elaine Costello Webster’s American Sign Language Dictionary
Nick Engler Nick Engler’s Woodwooking Wisdom
Jennifer 8. Lee The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin Three Cups of Tea
David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day
Elizabeth Gilbert Eat Pray Love
PICTURE
Jonathan Bean At Night
Jan Brett The Three Snow Bears
Kelly DiPucchio Grace for President
Jane O’Connor Fancy Nancy: Bonjour, Butterfly
Kevin O’Malley Gimme Cracked Corn & I Will Share
REFERENCE
Ian Ousby, ed. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

Additions to the Collection

BIOGRAPHY
Poitier The measure of a man
FICTION
Follett A place called Freedom
Goodman Intuition
John Grisham The Appeal
Stephen King Duma Key
Annie Proulx Heart Songs and Other Stories
Anita Shreve Sea Glass
Westerfeld The pretties
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Nicola Davies White Owl, Barn Owl
Paul Fleischman Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella
MYSTERY
Baldacci Wish you well
Robert Barnard The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori
Burdett Bangkok haunts
Flynn Act of treason
Tess Gerritsen Vanish
Gerritsen Body double
Robert B. Parker Stranger in Paradise
John Sandford Broken Prey
Taylor Departure lounge
MOUNTAINBROOK CENTER
Yale Green Architecture
NONFICTION
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Mr. and Mrs. Prince
Martha Weinman Lear Where Did I Leave My Glasses?
Jason McElwain The Game of My Life
Williams The woman at the Washington zoo
PICTURE
Elise Broach When Dinosaurs Came With Everything
Susan Fletcher Dadblamed Union Army Cow
Phillis Gershator Sky Sweeper
Angela Johnson Wind Flyers
Melanie Watt Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend

REVIEW OF MR AND MRS PRINCE

The New York Times book review section reviewed Mr and Mrs Prince today. This book is very popular at the library right now, not just with the people living around Johnson's Pasture. If you'd like to reserve it, and you're a Guilford, VT citizen, reserve it here.

CLASSICS @ YOUR LIBRARY

What a great, swashbuckling tale is The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. I raced through the excitement of rescuing the Queen’s diamonds, D’Artagnon riding headlong through the French countryside, the commupance of Milady. I got out (googled actually) the map of France so I could see where this was all happening. Oh, it was so exciting. And reading Dumas is so fulfilling —the good guys ALWAYS win. Well, mostly. (just like real life).

Then I heard that the people who have just translated the proclaimed new edition of War and Peace had also recently translated The Three Musketeers. So now, we have it in our library, and you don’t even need to ask for it through inter-library loan, as I did. (We only had a Juvenile Classics edition, quite edited.)

Got me to thinking about classics—the ones we have, and the ones we ought to have. Last spring we had a meeting to decide what books we should buy with Calista’s Fund. Bob Anderson thought we really needed to have such classics as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Our editions were old and scraggley, and Bowdlerizd —heavily edited. We have new ones now, with great illustrations. We also ordered a newly illustrated edition of Alice’s Adventures Underground.

Should we have more classics, and do we have space to store them in such a small library? It’s not an easy choice- to say nothing of the floor weight that has to sustain them. Roger and I visited the southwest a few years ago, and I heard from many people that I HAD to read Willa Cather’s Death of the Archbishop. The library had that, I read it and had an immediate understanding of that empty part of our world. It’s still in our collection, because it’s now on my classics list.

Well, we have an old translation of War and Peace, and a new translation of Crime and Punishment, (thanks to Robert Stack, who donated it), as well as A Tale of Two Cities (the stories are so good you adapt to the language).

What is a classic? Mark Twain said, A classic--something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." Several years ago I bought many books on tape which were “classics”, thinking that people might enjoy listening to things they had meant to read, but never got around to. On tape we have things like David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, and Animal Farm by George Orwell. That’s just the beginning, but you get the idea.

Some people will say that a classic is something we read again and again, because it means something to us, or says something valuable about the human experience. In trying to give you a list of the classics that we have in the library, I realized that each one of us has our own list of what we consider classics. I found some great lists on the web and in talking with people, and I’ve concluded that the library floor would collapse if we had them all in here. (Even after Dan Stoughton voluntarily put in strengthening supports last spring .)

So, here are a few more of the classic books we have, based on what I think are classics — this week. In addition to those mentioned above:
Watership Down 1972, Aesop’s Fables 6th century BC, Little Women 1868, Not Without Peril 1941, Pride and Prejudice 1813, The Good Earth 1931, Robinson Crusoe 1719, The Great Gatsby 1925, The Old Man And The Sea 1952, A Taste for Death 1988, Washington Square 1881, Smiley’s People 1979, To Kill A Mockingbird 1960, The Call of the Wild 1903, Beloved 1987, Catcher in the Rye 1951, Grapes of Wrath 1939, Crystal Cave 1970, Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852, Walden 1869. There aren’t any new books in this list because another definition of classic is that something is not only really good but also withstands the test of time.

I‘ve included books here that may not seem like classics to you, but it’s my list. You can make your own.

Mr and Mrs Prince

Mr and Mrs Prince is new to our collection. About Abijah Prince and Lucy Terry Prince, who are Guilford personalities, and written by Gretchen Gerzina, who researched some of it while she lived in Guilford, many folks have asked to read it. So we have three copies. If you are a Guilford, Vermont resident, you can reserve it at our web page.

Gretchen will be speaking at a Guilford Historical Society meeting on Sunday, April 13, at 2 PM. The meeting will be at the Guilford Central School.

Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share

Read a few pages of Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share, and read a review by Nancy Pearl if you like.

This book is new to our collection. I thought it would be great fun to read with the first graders next week. I'll let you know what they think about it.