Internet Access: We provide 5 computers for internet access along with access to other applications such as Resume Maker, Word, Excel, Word Database, and Power Point. Wi Fi is also available throughtout the building.

Tuesday Morning Story Hour: Having fun with numbers will be the theme for the New Year as Peggy reads about numbers in nature, in sequence, and in our food. Books include Count! by Denise Fleming, Eyelike Numbers by PlayBac, and 17 Things I'm Not Allowed To Do Anymore by Jenny Offill. Join Peggy each Tuesday @10. Saturdays are open storytime. Drop by and let Peggy read to you and your child. Peggy says, "Winter Saturdays can be an activity challenge, so children's movies will also be available to watch".

NEW MATERIALS

ADULT

The Lock Artist  by Steve Hamilton 
Amazon.com Review 

Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2010: Mike Smith is a "boxman." He can open any safe, padlock, or locked door without a combination or a key--a talent that lands him in prison at the age of eighteen. He spends his time writing down the story of his life because that's the only way he can share it. He hasn't spoken in ten years. Not a single word since the tragic day he became known as the "Miracle Boy." Mike is one of those unreliable narrators you can't help rooting for--a traumatized soul fighting his way back from the brink--and the mystery of his silence will have you blazing through pages. A smart, inventive thriller, The Lock Artist is packed with a standout cast of characters, plus enough safe-cracking trade secrets to tempt you to dig up that old combination lock and test your newfound knowledge.

A Cruel Ever After  by Ellen Hart 
From Publishers Weekly

At the start of Hart's delightful 18th mystery starring Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless (after 2009's The Mirror and the Mask), Jane's charismatic ex-husband and antiquities dealer, Chester "Chess" Garrity, wakes up one morning with a hangover outside the house of Melvin Dial, an art collector to whom he'd offered to sell a valuable Iraqi artifact, the Winged Bull of Nimrud, the night before. After finding Dial dead of a knife wound inside the house, Chess flees. When he returns to the crime scene with fellow dealer Irina Nelson, he discovers the body gone and a note clearly addressed to him demanding ,000 in small bills along with incriminating photos. Arrested for Dial's murder, Chess must turn to Jane, who has more than enough on her plate already, for help. Buttressed by distinctive characters and a splendid Minnesota setting, the well-constructed plot builds to a satisfying conclusion.

CHILDREN

The Enchanted Sled  by Jan Wahl and Monique Felix 
From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2–Although Wahl's poem seems to be about a winter excursion, Felix abandons visual references to snow after the first spread. Instead, viewers are whisked away to balmy imaginary lands where a girl is transformed into a puffed-up toad, a mermaid, a queen, a gypsy asleep in camp, and other incarnations. Tendrils of her long, orange hair wind through the soft-focus landscapes. Her pale skin and languid poses add to her remoteness in this self-consciously artsy volume. For a winter book that employs artistic creativity to foster multiple readings, turn to Lynne Rae Perkins's Snow Music (HarperCollins, 2003). Hope Vestergaard's Hello, Snow! (Farrar, 2004) offers a much better choice if you need a straightforward, rhymed romp. Unfortunately for Wahl, the illustrations in Sled don't give his words much traction.

Cottonball Colin  by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross 
Product Description

Award-winning duo Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross team up again for this delightful book about growing up and letting go.
Colin is the smallest of his ten brothers and sisters, and oh, how his mother worries about him! She won't let him run and play. She insists that Colin sit quietly indoors -- until Grandma has a clever idea: wrapping him up tight in cotton.
Sweet, humorous illustrations of Colin's adventures in the big, wide world will charm readers of all ages.