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SWEET

by Valerie Gordon

The holidays will be here before you know it. And who doesn't love getting something sweet as a gift? Valerie Gordon's new cookbook is brimming with decadent desserts and classic recipes! 

"With this comprehensive cookbook filled with Valerie Gordon's beloved recipes, now even more people can eat and bake the Valerie way. Favorite desserts like petits fours, cakes, truffles, and cookies have been perfected with the addition of candied rose petals, atomized chocolate, fleur de sel, matcha tea, and other special ingredients. Valerie re-creates desserts from Los Angeles’s lost restaurants such as Chasen’s and the Brown Derby; she simplifies the process of making jam; she provides an accessible way to mix and match components so readers can design their own luscious cakes and pies. Filled with helpful tricks, recipes for a range of tastes, and gorgeous full-color photographs, Sweet is destined to become every baker’s favorite cookbook." 

Good Reads

This month's selection, Defending Jacob (William Landay), comes from Fay: 

"It's a terrific, psychological courtroom drama. A fascinating read!"

Andy Barber has been a respected and admired assistant district attorney in the courtroom for two decades. Happy at home with the loves of his life (his wife, Laurie, and their teenage son, Jacob), Andy’s quiet suburb is stunned by a shocking crime: a young boy is stabbed to death in a nearby park. And an even greater shock: the accused is Andy’s own son—shy, awkward, mysterious Jacob. Andy believes in Jacob’s innocence. Any parent would. But as the pressure mounts and damning evidence comes to light, doubt begins to set in. A marriage begins to falter. The neighbors’ contempt sets in. A murder trial that threatens to obliterate Andy’s family looms.

 It is the ultimate test for any parent: how far would you go to protect your child? For Andy Barber, a man with an iron will and a dark secret, it is a test of guilt and innocence in the deepest sense. How far would you go?

15th Anniversary of The Boy Who Lived

15th Anniversary

of "Harry Potter"

 

 

The first entry in J.K. Rowling's beloved series, the magical series that defined a generation and instilled a love of reading in countless children the world over, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone reached its 15th year of publication this month. In order to celebrate, Scholastic has released brand new covers for each of the seven books in the series, all designed by the incredibly talented artist and graphic novelist Kazu Kibuishi. Check out a sampling of his work above and stop in the library to check out each individual cover, now on display.

 

Want to help us celebrate? If your child is in grades 5-12 (ages 10-17), they can sign up to participate in our "Hogwarts Bash", September 10th |from 5-8pm.

Call or stop in today to sign them up!

 

Questions or comments? Please call (513) 899-2588.

We're Looking Forward To...

 

DOCTOR SLEEP

BY STEPHEN KING

 

The master of horror returns in this much-anticipated sequel to his 1977 classic, "The Shining". Grown up and struggling with alcoholism (like his father before him), as well as the terrible memories of that fateful winter at the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance has found his calling: using his power of "the shine" to comfort the dying. But he is soon faces a bigger task. He and a young girl named Abra must stop a band of wanderers called The True Knot, quasi-immortals who torture children gifted with the shine and live of the "steam" that rises from their writhing bodies.

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"Gone Girl"

by Gillian Flynn

 

Marriage can be a real killer. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police, media, and Amy's parents, the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife?

 

With her razor-sharp writing and trademark psychological insight, Gillian Flynn delivers a fast-paced, devilishly dark, and ingeniously plotted thriller that confirms her status as one of the hottest writers around.

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"A Week in Winter"

by Maeve Binchy

 

Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller," returns with a cast of characters you will never forget. Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is helped by Rigger, a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place, and her niece Orla, who is a whiz at business.

 

Finally the first week of paying guests arrive: John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Nuala and Henry, husband and wife, both doctors who have been shaken by seeing too much death; Miss Nell Howe, a retired school teacher, who criticizes everything and leaves a day early; the Walls who have entered in 200 contests (and won everything from a microwave oven to velvet curtains, including the week at Stone House); and Freda, the psychic who is afraid of her own visions.

 

 You will laugh and cry as you spend the week with this odd group who share their secrets and might even have some of their dreams come true!

 

Check it out today!

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THE HOBBIT

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

 

 J.R.R. Tolkien's enchanting prelude to his Lord of the Rings trilogy centers around Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum.

 

Check it out today! And make sure to look for other Tolkien
works as well, including The Silmarillion and The Book of Lost Tales.

Give Thanks for Books!

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we here at the library have decided to put together a collection of the books we're most thankful for: our favorites! Read on to find out what we've enjoyed the most and then drop us a comment and let us know what YOUR favorite books are!

Heidi

Johanna Spyri

Gone With the Wind

Margaret Mitchell 

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

C.S. Lewis

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

Lad: A Dog

Albert Payson Terhune

The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck