Closed For M. L. King Holiday. The Webb will be closed Monday Jan. 16 in observance of the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday.   Audio Books. "Craven-Pamlico-Carteret Regional Libraries are providing our patrons with 24/7 access to a comprehensive and growing collection of best-selling, classic and award-winning audio titles.
OneClickDigital is now in Beta testing and will be using the next month to gather feedback to continue enhancing the project. OneClickDigital replaces previous versions of Craven-Pamlico-Carteret's eAudiobook service.
After a quick, one-time account set-up process, you will be able to download audio books. You may choose to download items manually or you may use OneClickDigital's Media Manager (you may be prompted to download Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 during this process). Visit OneClickDigial help for detailed download instructions and tutorials http://cravenpamliconc.oneclickdigital.com/en/Help/Help.aspx.
Library users can search for, preview, download and listen to audiobooks 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Audiobooks will download or play on any desktop PC or laptop running supported operating systems. Users can also transfer favorite titles to a wide range of supported portable devices, including portable music players and portable media centers. Types of supported portable devices.
Audiobooks are narrated by their respective authors, trained narrators or well-known actors. They are professionally produced in recording studios for superior sound quality and have earned numerous prizes including Audiofile Magazine's Earphone Awards for Excellence and the Audie Awards from the Audio Publishers Association." I would like feedback from patrons who have used this service. Please email webblibrary@gmail.com with comments or use comments at end of blog.

Art On Display. Our new artist is Diana Malinowski presenting her work with acrylics. Her works include the Morehead City waterfront, a cork float and net on the shore, Cape Lookout, a blue marlin, and a drum done with acrylics and 3-D marble modeling.

NEW MATERIALS
Adult
The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel  by Anthony Horowitz 
Book Description

For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.

Once again, THE GAME'S AFOOT... London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund

Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.

Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.

The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world's greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print...until now.

A Dance With Dragons  by George R. R. Martin
Review by Kate Morris
In "A Dance with Dragons," George R.R. Martin seems to have ripped out a page from his own self-written guide to writing a good story, and replaced it with a page from Robert Jordan's version - and in both cases, the change was very much for the worse.

The page he borrowed could charitably be called "Setup," or "Preparation," or even given some grandiose description about the "careful movement and positioning of critical pieces on a game board." In practical terms, though, it comes down to "Delay," "Pointless Stalling," and would be more accurately summed up as "an entire book about multiple characters wandering slowly across the world to approach - but never reach - a place in which something interesting has the potential to happen." For example, everyone's favourite dwarf has a simple goal: he wants to throw in his lot with the dragon queen, offering her whatever advice and wisdom he can. A noble goal, that, and one that would do a great deal to move the story along - his cynicism would open her eyes about some pretty important things. But does he make it to her? Not in this book! No, he's far too busy being packed into barrels like Bilbo the hobbit, swapping tales with cheese lords, being lost, found, sold, and bought, falling in with slaves and signing paper for sellswords, and even being saddled with a plucky lady-dwarf sidekick who continually tells him that he should stop causing trouble and just focus on making the big people laugh, because that's what dwarves are for. In Westeros during the previous four books, he was known and feared as Tyrion of House Lannister, Halfman to the wild mountain tribes, former Hand of the King, unsung hero of Blackwater Bay, the Imp, kinslayer and Kingslayer both; in Essos during this book, all he really manages to do is play a lot of Stratego, reminisce about a previously-unmentioned happy boyhood of gymnastics training in the art of dwarfish capering, and fall convincingly off a trained pig. 

Birds Of Paradise  by Diana Abu-Jaber 
Book Description
A multilayered, beautifully textured novel about family and self, self-indulgence and generosity, against the vivid backdrop of contemporary Miami.

In the tropical paradise that is Miami, Avis and Brian Muir are still haunted by the disappearance of their ineffably beautiful daughter, Felice, who ran away when she was thirteen. Now, after five years of modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach, Felice is about to turn eighteen. Her family—Avis, an exquisitely talented pastry chef; Brian, a corporate real estate attorney; and her brother, Stanley, the proprietor of Freshly Grown, a trendy food market—will each be forced to confront their anguish, loss, and sense of betrayal. Meanwhile, Felice must reckon with the guilty secret that drove her away, and must face her fear of losing her family and her sense of self forever.

This multilayered novel about a family that comes apart at the seams—and finds its way together again—is totally involving and deeply satisfying, a glorious feast of a book.

Juvenile

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

Book Description

Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up 

Skilley, an alley cat with an embarrassing secret, longs to escape his hard life dodging fishwives brooms and carriage wheels and trade his damp alley for the warmth of the Cheshire Cheese Inn. When he learns that the innkeeper is looking for a new mouser, Skilley comes up with an audacious scheme to install himself in the 

famous tavern. Once established in the inn, Skilley strikes a bargain with Pip, the intelligent mouse-resident, and his fellow mice. Skilley protects the mice and the mice in turn give to Skilley the delectable Cheshire cheese of the inn. Thus begins a most unlikely alliance and friendship. The cat and mouse design a plan to restore Maldwyn wounded raven and faithful guard in the service of Queen Victoria to his rightful place in The Tower, but first they must contend with a tyrannical cook, a mouse-despising barmaid, and an evil tomcat named Pinch. Will the famous author suffering from serious writer s block who visits the Cheshire Cheese pub each day be able to help?

Picture Books Marcell the Shell with shoes on Things About Me  by Jenny SlateStuck  by Oliver JeffersGossie  by Oliver DunreaA Penguin Story  by Antoinette PortisIf You Were a Penguin  by Wendell and Florence Minor