New Books on CD - Fiction

• Spook Country by William Gibson
  
  
  
• World Without End by Ken Follett
  
  
  
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  
  
  
• Witch Hunt by Ian Rankin
  
  
  
• The Dubliners by James Joyce
  
  
  
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  
  
  
• The Sea by John Banville
  
  
  
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  
  
  
• House of Meetings by Martin Amis
  
  
  
• Run by Ann Patchett
  
  
  
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
  
  
  
• Songs Without Words by Ann Packer
  
  
  
• Drop Dead Beautiful by Jackie Collins
  
  
  
• The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
  
  
  
• Rope Walk by Carrie Brown
  
  
  
• Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith
  
  
  
• Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
  
  
  
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
  
  
  
• Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician by Daniel Wallace
  
  
  
• North River by Pete Hamill
  
  
  
• Find Me by Carol O'Connell
  
  
  
• Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
  
  
  
• In the Woods by Tana French
  
  
  
• The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham
  
  
  
• Next by Michael Crichton
  
  
  
• The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum
  
  
  
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  
  
  
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  
  
  
• The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck
  
  
  
• Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
  
  
  
• The Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig
  
  
  
• Herzog by Saul Bellow
  
  
  
• The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
  
  
  
• Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig
  
  
  
• People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
  
  
  
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
  
  
  
• The Tin Roof Blowdown: a Dave Robicheaux novel by Dave Robicheaux
  
  
  
• The Appeal by John Grisham
  

New DVDs- Februrary 20, 2008

• Christmas with the Kranks
  
  
• Across the Universe
  
  
• Adventures of Robinhood
  
  
• Air
  
  
• American Gangster
  
  
• Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  
  
• Becoming Jane
  
  
• Brave One
  
  
• Bright Young Things
  
  
• Curb your Enthusiasm: season one
  
  
• Curb your Enthusiasm: season two
  
  
• Curb your Enthusiasm: season three
  
  
• Darjeeling Limited
  
  
• El Cid
  
  
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age
  
  
• Farewell to Arms
  
  
• A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
  
  
• Gone baby Gone
  
  
• High Anxiety
  
  
• History of the World: Part One
  
  
• Into the Wild
  
  
• Persuasion
  
  
• The Jerk
  
  
• Lilies of the Field
  
  
• Little Shop of Horrors
  
  
• Michael Clayton
  
  
• Mrs. Henderson Presents
  
  
• Northanger Abbey
  
  
• People I know
  
  
• Rendition
  
  
• Zodiac
  

New Nonfiction Books on CD - February 20, 2008

• American Bloomsbury
  
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  
  
• The Joke's Over
  
  
• The World Without Us
  
  
• The Botany of Desire
  
  
• Three Cups of Tea
  
  
• Don't Know Much About Mythology
  
  
• Shakespeare: The World as Stage
  
  
• Born Standing Up
  
  
• How Starbucks Saved My Life
  
  
• Born on a Blue Day
  
  
• Kitchen Confidential
  
  
• Getting Unstuck
  
  
• God Is Not Great
  
  

Lunar Eclipse

Just a reminder to all our patrons that tonight there is a full lunar esclipse that will happen this evening.

There is a great story on lunar eclipses and on the one scheduled for tonight at Sky and Telescope.

The eclipse will start around 9:00 and the moon will be in full shadow around 10.

Enjoy the view.

Digital TV

Sorry for the long time with no blog entries. Libraries are incredibly busy places these days!

Anyway, here's something we learned at GPL that may come in handy for some of you when Digital TV goes live:

Re the upcoming switch to digital TV, I'd think libraries would be a good way to get some information out. Especially noteworthy is the offer of up to two $40 coupons per household for converter boxes. I'd hate to think of free money not being gotten, just because someone didn't know about it.

http://www.dtv.gov/index.html includes FAQs, an Outreach Toolkit, and publications in English and Spanish.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/dtvcoupon/ includes information about the coupon program and brochures in several languages.

This comes courtesy of the PUBLIB listserv.