Buckland Public Library

Join fellow BPL patrons whose interests include comparative literature, traditional stories, cross-cultural tales, picture books and fine illustration! We’ll meet on Tuesday, October 28, 7-8pm at the center table in the library. Patrons of all ages are welcome. (We’ll peruse a variety of LRR-themed picture books, read a few of them aloud, and share milk & cookies. No preparation is required; there will be no homework!)

Check-Out New Items at BPL

Filed under: CheckOut:New books/movies — Library Liz @ 9:15 pm

For Kids:
Ahlberg, Allan The Pencil
Boos, Ben Swords: an Artist’s Devotion
DiCamillo, Kate Louise: the Adventures of a Chicken
Dickinson, Emily My Letter to the World and Other Poems
McDonald, Megan Judy Moody Goes to College
O’Connell, R. Penina Levine Is A Hard Boiled Egg
Osborne, M.P. Eve of the Emperor Penguin
Pedersen, Janet Houdini the Amazing Caterpillar
Peterson, Cris Clarabelle: Making Milk
Ries, Lori Mrs. Fickle’s pickles Scieszka, Jon Knucklehead
Yolen, Jane Sea Queens

For Adults & Young Adults:
Barnes, Kim A Country Called Home
Bryant, Howard Shut Out
Coben, Harlan Hold Tight
Corin, Joshua Nuclear Winter Wonderland
DuPrau, Jeanne The City of Ember
DuPrau, Jeanne The Diamond of Darkhold
DuPrau, Jeanne The People of Sparks
DuPrau, Jeanne The Prophet of Yonwood
Fairchild, Barbara Bon Appetit: fast easy fresh
Farrell-Kingsley The Home Creamery
Grandin, Temple Humane Livestock Handling
Guinness World Records 2009
Harrison, Kathy Just in Case
Jones, Sadie The Outcast
Lam, Vincent Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures [audio]
Landy, Derek Skulduggery Pleasant [audio]
Noonan, Peggy Patriotic Grace
Obama, Barack Dreams from my Father
Pamuk, Orhan My name is Red [audio]
Rice, Anne Called Out of Darkness
Rimington, Stella Illegal Action
Robinson, M. Home
Scottoline, Lisa Lady killer
Shopsin, Kenny Eat me
Todd, Richard The Thing Itself
DVD A. Christie’s Poirot. Collector’s Set 7
DVD Come Away Home
DVD Enjoy the Ride: Share the Road in CT River Valley
DVD Eve of Understanding
DVD Fog City Mavericks
DVD Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
DVD The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
DVD Ten Canoes
DVD Yoga for the Rest of Us

September 30, 2008

10/4 Story Hour: Alphabets for All Ages

Filed under: From the Director, Mark Your Calendar! — Library Liz @ 7:58 pm

Alphabets for All Ages will be explored at The Buckland Public Library Story Hour on Saturday at 10am. Participants will look at scads of A - Z books, then help Library Liz write the newest book in the genre. (Want to share your family favorite? Bring it along!) BPL is located at 30 Upper Street — just off 112 — in Buckland.

September 25, 2008

Check-Out New Items at BPL

Filed under: From the Director, CheckOut:New books/movies — Library Liz @ 11:50 am

DVDS:Adult & YA
The Fall
John Adams
21
Five People You Meet in Heaven
Russian Ark
Saint Clara
Kite Runner

DVDS:Juvenile
Land Before Time: Through the Eyes of Spiketail, Magical Discoveries
Kiki’s Delivery Service

BOOKS: Adult & Young Adult
Quindlen, Anna: Good Dog, Stay (Large Print)
Wright, Charles: Best American Poetry 2008
Baker, Stephen: the Numerati
Servan-Schreiber, David: Anticancer, A New Way of Life
Lehane, Dennis: The Given Day
Woods, Stuart: Hot Mahogany
Sparks, Nicholas: The Lucky One
Peters, Elizabeth: The Daughter of Dead Kings
Gerritson, Tess: The Keepsake
Carlsen, Spike: A Splintered History of Wood
Smith , Jeff: from the Bone series of graphic novels/comic books, volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8.
Maguire, Gregory: Wicked, Son of a Witch, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Mirror, Mirror, What the Dickens
Welles, Lee: Gaia Girls Way of Water
Crossley Holland, Kevin: from the Arthur Trilogy, The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places
Delaney, Joseph: from The Last Apprentice series, Wrath of the Bloodeye

Books:Juvenile
McDonald, Megan: Judy Moody Goes to College
Meddaugh, Susan: Martha Blah Blah, Perfectly Martha, Martha and Skits
Ibbotson, Eva: The Dragonfly Pool,The Great Ghost Rescue, Three Complete Novels (The Secret of Platform 13,Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts)

Audio on CD:Adult & Young Adult
Saramago, Jose: Blindness
Pelecanos, George: The Turnaround
Meltzer, Brad: The Book of Lies
Colbert, Stephen: I Am America (And So Can You)
Burke, James Lee: Swan Peak

September 6, 2008

Raffle Drawing on Saturday, Sept. 9/13th at 10am!

Filed under: Mark Your Calendar! — Library Liz @ 3:32 pm

Patrons young and old have a chance to win one of several prizes on Saturday — but some have greater chances than others — simply because they visit their library frequently.

Buckland’s Emma Jepsen, 11, a library volunteer and avid reader, has been visiting the library at least once a week since June; each time she walks through the door, she tosses her name into the raffle pot. Jepsen has her sights set on winning a poster-sized photograph of be-spectacled canine patrons of another library. The print is the work of award-winning photographer David Langley, who taught at the Hallmark Institute of Photography in Turner’s Falls during the 2007-2008 academic year.

The gift certificate donated by the proprietor of Shelburne Falls’ Nancy Dole Books & Ephemera has caught the attention of the literate collectors among us. The hand-carved mug, by local potter Molly Cantor, is coveted by neighbors anticipating chilly evenings with cinnamon tea and a cozy mystery. The patron whose name is first to be drawn from the pot by Library Director Liz Jacobson-Carroll will receive her desired prize; those whose names are drawn subsequently will choose from the remaining items.

Would you, too, like a chance to win one of these prizes? If so, simply stop by the BPL this week (library hours posted to the right) to enter before the drawing. There is no cost to enter, but borrowing something to read, watch, or listen to is strongly recommended by the librarian.