August 2015 - This is the time of year at the library when the children who noisily rummaged all summer through bins and shelves for that special book and oohed and aahed at the magician, firemen, and storytellers drift back to school and more serious books. The teachers and young parents who gobbled up our summer bestsellers are turning their attentions away from pleasure reading and back to responsibilities. It is that lull between seasons when there is a certain quiet in the library. It is only broken by our faithful readers who, regardless of seasons, prefer to browse through the shelves for that special book. Once found, these readers want to hold that book in their hands like an old friend who has a good story to tell.
It is that time of year when we begin looking for what is missing and what needs replacing. Of course, there will be a few books about snakes and sharks that won’t find their way back into the library. I suspect they are under some little boy’s bed. When the tasks of getting children back to school is over, a mother will find a much overdue book and deliver it to us with a red-faced apology. There will, of course, be that much loved children’s book who was chewed on by the family’s new puppy… again a red-faced apology. It is also the time when Sandra begins thinking about the preschool story time program and I will begin the cycle of grant writing. It’s always sad to see summer come and go but it’s sometime really good to have a “lull”.
New Bestsellers
Blackwood, Grant - Tom Clancy’s Under Fire
Box, C. J. - Badlands (Audio & Print)
Castillo, Linda - After the Storm
Cline, Ernest - Armada
Harbison, Beth - If I Could Turn Back Time
Lansdale, Joe - Paradise Sky
Lansens, Lori - The Mountain Story
Lee, Harper - Go Set a Watchman (Audio & Print)
Macomber, Debbie - Silver Linings (Audio)
Patterson, James - Alert (Audio & Print)
Reichs, Kathy - Speaking in Bones
Rosenfelt, David - Let the Dog Out
Stephenson, Neal - Seveneves
Weiner, Jennifer - Who Do You Love? (Audio)
