From The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe to handbooks like Lesley Bannatyne’s A Halloween How-To : Costumes, Parties, Decorations, and Destinations, there’s plenty of material to help make your season spookier. It’s hard to keep the horror movies on the shelves this time of year, but holds can be placed for DVDs from all three library locations. You can find most of them in the card catalog by using “horror” and “DVD” in a “Keyword(s) Anywhere” search. There’s also a variety of children’s DVDs that are suitable for late autumn viewing.

While you’re at it, check out the Halloween display at the temporary downtown location (408 Roberts Street). And don’t forget the Closing Costume Party Extravaganza at the Southpointe Branch on Wednesday, October 31. Treats will be served from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Please check out the online catalog or give us a call at 241-1472 to put any of these items on hold.

Fiction

Bloom, Amy. Away

Feehan, Christine. Safe Harbor

Grisham, John. Playing for Pizza

Mailer, Norris Church. Cheap Diamonds

Martin, Valerie. Trespass

Patchett, Ann. Run

Sparks, Nicholas. The Choice

Staub, Wendy Corsi. Don’t Scream

Swain, James. Midnight Rambler

Wilson, Paul F. Bloodline: A Repairman Jack Novel

Mystery

Bannister, Jo. Flawed

Fluke, Joanne. Candy Cane Murder

Francis, Dick. Dead Heat

Gerritsen, Tess. The Bone Garden

Greeley, Andrew M. The Bishop at the Lake

Hamilton, Steve. Night Work

Harris, Charlaine.  An Ice Cold Grave

Meissner, Susan. Days and Hours 

Michaels, Kasey. High Heels and Holidays

Tapply, William G. One-Way Ticket

Science Fiction

Modesitt, L.E.  Natural Ordermage

Non-Fiction

Colbert, Stephen. I Am America (and so can you). 818.607 I11

Crosby, Molly Caldwell.  The American Plague. 614.541 C949

Draper, Robert. Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush 973.931092 D766

Dyer, Wayne W. Change Your Thoughts–Change Your Life. 299.51482D996

Fulghum, Robert. What on Earth Have I Done?  814.6 F963

Green, William D.  A Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Early Minnesota. 978.604 G798

Greene, Candace S. The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian. 978.00497 Y39

Gruwell, Erin. The Freedom Writers Diary: Teacher’s Guide. 373.1102 G893

Rolls, Barbara. Volumetrics Eating Plan. 641.5635 R755

Rolls, Barbara. Volumetrics Weight-Control. 613.25 R755

Simpson, O.J. If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer. 364.152309794 S613

Stocker, Kathleen. Remedies and Rituals: Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land. 615.8809481 S874

Large Print

Leigh, Wendy. True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess. Biography Grace L529

Please check out the online catalog or give us a call at 241-1472 to put any of these items on hold.

On a waiting list for Oprah’s book club’s newest book, Love in the Time of Cholera?  Pick up one of these titles with similiar themes and ideas.

Allende, Isabel. The Stories of Eva Luna

Barrett, Andrea. Ship Fever

Doctorow, E.L.  Ragtime

Esquivel, Laura.  Like Water for Chocolate

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Mamet, David. Glengarry Glen Ross

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Of Love and Other Demons

Remarque, Erich Maria.  All Quiet on the Western Front

Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Please check out the online catalog or give us a call at 241-1472 to put any of these items on hold.

Every year, the American Library Association sponsors the national Banned Books Week, which highlights titles that have been banned or challenged. As the ALA website describes it, “Banned Books Week emphasizes the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular, and the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.”

The downtown branch at 408 Roberts Street has a Banned Books Week display featuring several books that have been banned or challenged. These include classics like Hamlet, The Decameron, and One Hundred Years of Solitude, among others. Stop by for a booklist pamphlet and a free bookmark with this year’s slogan: “Get hooked on a banned book.”