Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library Blog

The library is looking for volunteers to join focus groups to discuss the library’s future.The suggested focus groups are Young Adults, Parents, Volunteers, Business Leaders, Educators, and Seniors. If you would like to join please call 905-775-3328 or email bwgmailbox@bradford.library.on.ca.

Here are a few titles that might prove to be interesting summer reading.  Let us know what you think.

FIC DeLil
Don DeLillo
Falling man
Falling Man is Don DeLillo’s exquisite, memorable take on 9/11. Somewhat more stylistically spare than his earlier books, Falling Man nonetheless feels like the book DeLillo was meant to write; themes he has addressed throughout his body of work — terrorism, religion, signs and symbols — come together eerily in this novel, which is by far the most significant work of fiction about 9/11 to date. — Powell’s Books

FIC Gabba
Tom Gabbay
The Lisbon crossing
It’s the summer of 1940 & Europe is in the grip of the Nazi war machine. Jack Teller arrives in neutral Lisbon on the arm of internationally famous screen idol Lili Stern, who is searching for her childhood friend, Eva Lange, a German exile who may be hiding in Lisbon to escape the Nazis. But Jack isn’t the first on Eva’s trail. Top Hollywood detective Eddie Grimes had been on the case - until he wound up dead.  — Murder One Online

FIC Oyeye
Helen Oyeyemi
The opposite house
“The Opposite House” is about the disquiet that follows us across places and languages, a feeling passed down from mother and father to son and daughter. It is an unforgettable second novel from the author of “The Icarus Girl”.  — Powell Books

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Peggy Fallon
Ice cream and frozen desserts
A flavorful compendium of homemade frozen desserts offers step-by-step instructions on how to use every type of ice cream machine on the market and includes more than 125 tempting recipes for ice cream, gelato, and sorbet treats ranging from the classic French Vanilla Gelato to the unusual Chocolate-Chipotle Ice Cream. — F.Y.E

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Rupert Everett
Red carpets and other banana skins
In this autobiography, actor Rupert Everett displays the quick wit and wisdom that he exhibited as Julia Roberts’s gay buddy in My Best Friend’s Wedding. But, of course, Everett isn’t just a fine actor and a great raconteur; he’s also a published novelist and serves as a contributing editor of Vanity Fair. He also has an almost uncanny ability to “be there”: He was in Moscow when communism collapsed; in Berlin, when the Wall came down; and in downtown Manhattan, on the morning of the World Trade Center attacks. His autobiography bubbles with delightful stories, many of them deliciously wicked, and candid observations about England, Hollywood, and all the world between.
– Barnes & Noble

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Mike Horn
Conquering the impossible: my 12,000-mile journey around the Arctic Circle
In August 2002, Mike Horn set out on a mission that bordered on the impossible: to travel 12,000 miles around the globe at the Arctic Circle–alone, against all prevailing winds and currents, and without motorized transportation. This is the adrenaline-filled tale of his remarkable journey — Giford Bookshop

When you next come into the library, take a look in the Children’s Room.  There, you will find a new display unit ”full” of books and cd’s in bright coloured bags.  These cd’s read the story to you or your child - some even have sounds to let you know when to turn the page.  Hope that you will enjoy them!

Wandering past the new books shelves, I found these titles interesting…perhaps you will too.

158.128 Chi
Chicken soup for the beach lover’s soul
Countdown to summer with this collection of memories from the sand and surf. Days of hot summer fun await readers in this sizzling Chicken Soup book for beach lovers. These romantic, humorous, and sentimental stories about days spent catching waves, building sand castles, unexpected beach parties, devouring a great paperback novel, or just getting that healthy glow will remind readers why they cant wait to hit the beach. The perfect beach read, Chicken Soup for the Beach Lovers Soul will entice readers with an eight-page color insert highlighting the most renowned beaches around the world. 
– Amazon.ca

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Hawken, Paul
Blessed unrest: how the largest movement of the world came into being and why no one saw it coming
“Blessed Unrest is exciting, compelling, and very important. It describes the growing unrest that I encounter around the world, the frustration and courage of those who dare to challenge the power of the political corporate world. Paul Hawken states eloquently all that I believe so passionately to be true — that there is inherent goodness at the heart of our humanity, that collectively we can — and are — changing the world. Please read and share Blessed Unrest, a celebration of the awakening of the human spirit. It will inspire and encourage millions more to take action.” Jane Goodall, UN Ambassador for Peace — Powell’s Books

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Latus, Janine
If I am missing or dead: a sister’s story of love, murder and liberation
Drawing on a piece that won an Essay of the Year award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Latus chronicles the murder of her sister by an abusive lover and her own narrow escape from the same fate. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.  Library Journal — Barnes & Noble

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Smith, Alisa
The 100-mile diet: a year of local eating
In 2005, longtime vegetarians and environmentalists Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon decided to up the ante on their eco-friendly ways. After discovering that the food eaten by the average North American travels 1,500 gas-guzzling miles from farm to grocery store, the Vancouver couple decided to spend a year eating only food grown within a 100-mile radius of their downtown apartment.  — http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/100_mile_diet.html

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Lamott, Anne
Grace (Eventually) : thoughts on faith
In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, Lamott examines the ways we’re caught in life’s most daunting predicaments: love, mothering, work, politics, and maybe toughest of all, evolving from who we are to who we were meant to be. This is a complicated process for most of us, and Lamott turns her wit and honesty inward to describe her own intimate, bumpy, and unconventional road to grace and faith. — Penguin Group

Thanks to the active participation of the community, the Friends of the Library Book Sale raised just over $1100. Thank you for your help in this activity!

The Friends of the Library are having a book sale, and will be held at the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library, from 9:30am until 3:00pm on Saturday May 5, 2007, in the Compton Room. Volunteers are needed to help out. To get involved, please contact the Library at
905-775-3328.

We are now accepting donations of “gently used” books for the Annual Book Sale. During regular library hours, books may be dropped off at the circulation desk.

Please refer to the following guidelines for the most appropriate donations:

• Paperbacks in good condition
• Current non-fiction
• Children’s books

Please, do not bring text books, magazines, condensed Readers Digests, or any books that are torn, moldy, old or yellow.
If you remove and dispose of any hard covers or sprial bindings, the remainders as well as paperbacks and magazines can be placed in your recycling bin.

Turnabout is fair play … it’s now time for some new fiction!

 FIC Davis
Davis, Jill A.
Ask again later
From the brainy, breezy writer who “writes like a professional comic” (The Onion) and is “hard to stop reading once you start” (USA Today) comes a laugh-out-loud tale that confirms you can recover from your parents, the bad habit of missed opportunities, and men who romance you with meat. When opportunity knocks, it’s time to stop running and start living.  — Harper Collins 

FIC Hill
Hill, Joe
Heart-shaped box
Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman’s noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange, Jude can’t help but reach for his wallet. I will “sell” my stepfather’s ghost to the highest bidder. . . .  – Harper Collins 

FIC Hill
Hill, Lawrence
The book of negroes
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle - a string of slaves - Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic “Book of Negroes”. This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia, only to find that the haven they sought was steeped in an oppression all of its own. Aminata’s eventual return to Sierra Leone - passing ships carrying thousands of slaves bound for America - is an engrossing account of an obscure but important chapter in history that saw 1,200 former slaves embark on a harrowing back-to-Africa odyssey.  — Amazon.ca

FIC King
King, Cassandra
Queen of broken hearts
In this story infused with all the flavors, textures, and intrigues of a small Southern town with a rich, resonant center, a divorce coach must heal her own broken heart when her marriage ends in tragedy.  — Lemuriabooks.com 

FIC Larss
Larsson, Asa
The blood spilt
It’s midsummer in Sweden—when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priest—who made enemies and acolytes in equal number—has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces…. — Amazon.ca

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McGhee, Alison
Falling boy
After a mysterious accident left him paralyzed, sixteen-year-old Joseph finds himself living with his father in Minneapolis and working hot summer days in a bakery. What happened to the life he used to live? How did he come to be here? Although they approach the mystery in different ways, two people in Josephs new lifeseventeen-year-old Zap, who also works in the bakery, and Enzo, a fierce and funny nine-year-old girlboth want to find out. Are you really a superhero? whispers Enzo, who secretly longs for her world to be transformed. Please be a superhero. Stoically quiet, Joseph has never thought of himself as a superhero, especially now that he is in a wheelchair and can’t feel his legs. But others disagree. Who is the hero? Who is the enemy? Is redemption possible, and if so, where is it to be found? — Amazon.ca

FIC Palme
Palmer, Michael
The fifth vial
From the blockbuster, eleven-time New York Times bestselling author comes a novel of medical suspense that begins with these chilling questions: Who ends up with the blood samples you routinely give for tests? What else are they being used for? Why don’t you know?  –Publisher

FIC Rees
Rees, Matt Beynon
The collaborator of Bethlehem 
“The Collaborator of Bethlehem is the best-and the rarest-sort of mystery: exciting and compelling, but it is also a deeply moving story that will, for many readers, shed much needed light on the conditions in the Palestinian territories. Matt Beynon Rees’s ability to blend the political and the emotional is reminiscent of Graham Greene.” -David Liss, author of The Ethical Assassin

Some interesting non-fiction books have been flooding the shelves.  Different varieties of topics and theories abound.  Do we agree with them all?  No, but that doesn’t stop us from learning.

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Cloud, Henry, Dr.
Integrity: the courage to meet the demands of reality
“According to Cloud, a clinical psychologist and coauthor of Nine Things You Simply Must Do, an individual’s integrity will ultimately determine whether he or she succeeds. While brains, competencies, deal-making abilities, and opportunities help, a person needs six character dimensions, including the capacities to connect and build trust, to embrace and resolve negative reality, and to rise above ordinary human selfishness and find one’s role in the big picture. While more judicious editing would have made the book more concise, it’s a worthwhile read that will help people fill some “gaps” in their lives and stand a better chance at achieving their goals. ” Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Stewart, Amy
Flower confidential: the good, the bad, and the beautiful in the business of flowers
“Flower Confidential attains the uncommon rank of a non-fiction book that is equally as rewarding to the reader for its storytelling as it is for its content. Even if you’re not into flowers, it’s fascinating to see how a major industry is built around such a short-lived, aesthetic luxury.”
—USA Today

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Esquith, Rafe
Teach like your hair’s on fire: the methods and madness inside Room 56
“Politicians, burbling over how to educate the underclass, would do well to stop by Rafe Esquith’s fifth grade class as it mounts its annual Shakespeare play. Sound like a grind? Listen to the peals of laughter bouncing off the classroom walls.”
—Time

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Ungar, Michael
Too safe for their own good: how risk and reponsibility help teens thrive.
“Canadian children are safer now than at any other time in history. So why are we so fearful for them? When they’re young, we drive them to playdates, fill up their time with organized activity, and cocoon them from every imaginable peril. We think we are doing what’s best for them. But as they grow into young adults and we continue to manage their lives, running interference with teachers and coaches, we are, in fact, unwittingly stunting them.” - Chapters.Indigo

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Baskett, Mickey
Leather crafting in an afternoon
“With simple language and numerous illustrations, this captivating introduction to the art of leathermaking covers all the tools and techniques for cutting, hole-punching, setting, sewing, woodburning, stamping, colouring, gluing, and finishing. Even beginners can give the lovely projects a try almost immediately.” - The GMC Group

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Ang, Tom
Digital photography: an introduction
“From improving casual snapshots to learning the secrets of lighting, composition and digital image manipulation, Digital Photography provides a practical, accessible approach to producing better digital photographs. With over 400 photographs, this guide both shows you and tells you what to do.” - Digital Camera Magazine 

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Shea, Kevin
Lord Stanley: the man behind the cup
“Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston, was Canada’s sixth Governor General (1888-1893). Historians have traditionally been satisfied to draw a brief timeline of Stanley’s life to serve as the man’s biography. But such an oversimplified timeline does a great disservice to the stories that developed around Stanley’s term as Canada’s Governor General, to the man himself and, of course, to the story behind affixing his name to the Stanley Cup.” - Fenn and Company

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Granatstein, J. L.
Whose war is it?
“What if a major earthquake devastated the west coast of North America, killing thousands of people, flattening entire cities and fracturing the economy? How would the Canadian government address the crisis when many of our already weakened forces are deployed in Kandahar or in supporting roles? Or suppose terrorists attacked the Toronto subway system during a convention of Canadian and American emergency-room physicians? Would our military have the manpower, equipment and technical resources to protect our citizens and visitors?” - HarperCollins

The courier has been busy, delivering a stream of new books.  Check out some of these new titles.

FIC Folso
Folsom, Allan
The Machiavelli covenant
“The New York Times bestselling author of The Day After Tomorrow pens a rocket-paced tale of global maneuvering and betrayal by a powerful secret society based on the prophetic lost writings of Machiavelli.: — Powell’s Books 
FIC Grave
Graves, Sarah
Trap door
“When Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree left behind her high-powered, high-risk career on Wall Street for the charming town of Eastport, Maine, she expected a quiet life spent fixing up her 1823 Federal-style house. But there are skeletons in her closet that may prove beyond repair…Suddenly the perils of the stock market pale in comparison to the murder, mayhem, and mystery of remodeling.” “Engaging…. spiced by plenty of humor.”—Booklist
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Crofton, Ian
Brewer’s cabinet of curiosities
“a compendium of facts and anedotes, some of them genuinely curious.” Times Literary Supplement

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Bell, John
Invaders from the North: how Canada conquered the comic book universe
“What do Superman, Prince Valiant, Cerebus the Aardvark, and Spawn have in common? Their creators - Joe Shuster, Harold Foster, Dave Sim, and Todd McFarlane are Canadians. And while many of the cutting-edge talents of contemporary comix and graphic novels are also from Canada - artists such as Chester Brown, Seth, Dave Cooper, and Julie Doucet - far too few Canadians realize their country had a remarkable involvement with the “funnies” long before.”

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Sutherland, John
How to read a novel
“How to Read a Novel is a lighthearted, often funny book. And oddly calming. There may not be time to read everything, but at least there is some hope of doing it well.”–The Los Angeles Times

Upon purchasing a new Canon iR3170 B+W photocopier / printer, patrons are now able to send black and white print jobs to this release station, pay through a coin op, and receive their prints at their own designated time. Patrons are also able to use the station as a photocopier all for 10c a copy.