2006 “Summer Fun!” Adult Summer Reading

Look what other Pinckney patrons are reading this year!

Title: Timeline

Author: Michael Crichton

Type: Fiction

Call No.: FIC CRI (book) & BOT CRI (audio book)

Do you recommend this title? Yes

Review:

Really good. Unusual topic--time travel to the Middle Ages. Much about the history of the Middle Ages lifestyle--which is hard to find. Then in the mix is ambition and scientific breakthroughs--Is time travel possible? "Beam me up, Scotty!"

Title: Northern Lights

Author: Nora Roberts

Type: Fiction

Call No.: FIC ROB

Do you recommend this title? Yes, especially for Roberts fans

Review:

OK-a mystery. Lunacy. The story takes place in Alaska! On a hot, humid Michigan summer day, reading of the chills of Alaska made me wonder which is worse--extreme hot or extreme cold? Definitely Hot. Self-sufficient "lunatics" and the description of north country seasons are interesting.

Title: The Lady and the Panda

Author: Vicki Croke

Type: Nonfiction

Call No.: 599.789 CRO (book) & 599.789 CD CRO (audio book)

Do you recommend this title? Yes

Review:

It was wonderful to see how the lady's goals and view regarding the panda changed as time progressed.

Title: City of Falling Angels

Author: John Berendt

Type: Fiction

Call No.: LP FIC BER

Do you recommend this title? Yes

Review:

Wonderful description of Venice. It makes me want to visit. A bit wordy otherwise.

Title: Skybreaker

Author: Kenneth Oppel

Type: Teen Fiction

Call No.: TEEN FIC OPP

Do you recommend this title? Yes

Review:

Fabulous--fun read. Although this is a sequel to Airborn, Skybreaker is better. They should make a movie out of it. Undefined timeframe--could be early 1900's--could be futuristic. LOTS of ACTION and thoughts to ponder scientifically.

Title: A Sand County Almanac

Author: Aldo Leopold

Type: Nonfiction

Call No.: Available through MeLCat interlibrary loan

Do you recommend this title? Yes

Review:

This is a book I feel that every person should read. Aldo Leopold is a man with great vision and perspective on ecology and man's place in it. This book is full of wisdom from front to back.

Enjoy New Audio Book Titles @ the PCPL

Summer time usually means long trips or commutes. Why not sit, back, enjoy the ride and try to forget the irritation of road construction by listening to some good audio books on tapes or CDs?

One of our newest titles in audio book CD format is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Call Number: CD AUS). With this delightful novel on “how girls catch husbands,” listeners will “savor the wit, the sly irony and satire and comedy that Miss Austen crowds into almost every quiet, well-bred line of the novel. There is great sanity, common sense and worldly wisdom to be found in her exploration of human nature”. Listen to Sharon Williams as she narrates the classic romance of the perfect heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, and her Mr. Darcy.

Or why not check out any of these other newer audio book titles now available in the library?

• 24 Hours by Greg Iles (Call No.: BOT ILE)
• Courting Trouble by Lis Scottline (Call No.: BOT SCO)
• Dead Watch by John Sandford (Call No.: CD SAN)
• Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper (Call No.: CD COO)
• The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters (Call No.: BOT PET)
• Split Second by David Baldacci (Call No.: CD BAL)
• Hour Game by David Baldacci (Call No.: CD BAL)
• Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell (Call No.: CD COR)
• Trace by Patricia Cornwell (Call No.: CD COR)
• Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard (Call No.: BOT HOW)
• At Risk by Patricia Cornwell (Call No.: CD COR)
• Beach Road by James Patterson (Call No.: CD PAT)
• Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry (Call No.: CD MCM)
• The Old Wine Shades by Martha Grimes (Call No.: CD GRI)
• The Lost Gospel by Herber Krosney (Call No.: 229.8 CD KRO)
• Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark (Call No.: CD CLA)
• There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem by Wayne W. Dyer(Call No.: 291.4 BOT DYE)

New Movie Titles at the Library!

The library has new movies for kids, families and adults!

One of our newest titles is 16 Blocks starring Mos Def and Bruce Willis, and directed by Richard Donner (Rated PG 13). In this action and crime thriller movie, an aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse. There are, however, forces at work trying to prevent them from making it. Check out what The Video Librarian calls “expertly crafted and enjoyable” and what NBC-TV calls “An amazing thrill ride filled with twists and turns..."

And come check out some of our other newest movie titles available at the Pinckney Library, including:

• Failure to Launch (PG 13) starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker
• When a Stranger Calls (PG 13) starring Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan
• Firewall (PG 13) starring Harrison Ford
• An Unfinished Life (PG 13)starring Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez , and Morgan Freeman
• The World’s Fastest Indian (PG 13) starring Anthony Hopkins and Diane Ladd
• The Prizewinner of Defiance, OH (PG 13)starring Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson
• Syriana (R) starring Kayvan Novak, George Clooney, and Christopher Plummer
• Hustle & Flow (R) starring Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson and Taryn Manning
• Underworld: Evolution (R) starring Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, and Tony Curran
• Snow Dogs (PG) starring Cuba Gooding Jr., James Coburn, Sisqó, and Nichelle Nichols
• Breakfast on Pluto (R) starring Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, and Ruth Negga
• Freedomland (R) starring Samuel L. Jackson, and Julianne Moore

Most movies at the PCPL are $1 for 3 nights, unless otherwise indicated—Anime movies, Classics and Nonfiction/Educational Movies are free to check out for 2 weeks and TV Series are $1 for 2 weeks.

How to Arrange Your Grocery Store Bouquet

On Tuesday, July 25, 2006, at 6:30pm, come to the Pinckney Library and learn “How to Arrange Your Grocery Store Bouquet”. Presenter, Deby Henneman of Pinckney’s Carousel Floral will share her knowledge of flowers and floral arranging. She will teach attendees how to shop for freshness and economy. So don’t forget to join us at the Pinckney Community Public Library for an evening of color and beauty!

To register for the program, please call us at 734-878-3888 or visit us at 350 Mower Rd., Pinckney, MI 48169.

Cinema Night on Thursday, July 27, 2006 @ 7:00 PM

Get ready to sit back, relax, have some pop and popcorn at the Pinckney Library, because on Thursday, July 7, 2006 @7:00 PM, you're invited to attend Cinema Night @ the PCPL.

This month's movie showing is "The Matador", staring Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Phillip Baker Hall and Directed by Richard Shepard.

The movie is about a chance encounter between a traveling salesman (Greg Kinnear) and a lonely hit man (Pierce Brosnan), which triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in a way neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the love of both forever. (This movie is rated "R", so no one under 17 please.)

For more information on this and upcoming movie showings, please call the Pinckney Library at 734-878-3888 or visit us at 350 Mower Rd., Pinckney, MI 48169.

We hope to see you then!

Uglies - Staff Favorite

TITLE: Uglies
AUTHOR: Scott Westerfeld
CALL NO.: TEEN FIC WES PB

Uglies is an outstanding teen fiction book based on an old idea presented in a new way. Ultimately I believe it is a “big brother” watching you story but presented in a new and creative way. It is the first in a trilogy so now I am eager to read the next two books, Pretties and Specials.

We are the Rusties and have destroyed ourselves and our world. When humans recreated the world they also recreated themselves. Are your eyes too wide set or too close together? Is your nose too big, what about your parent’s noses? What if you did not look like your parents but rather what society considers beautiful? Does beauty count if it is only on the inside? Could we create a world free of war, disagreements, and racism by making everyone beautiful? What would the world be like if you are only allowed to be an individual if you are ugly and nobody is allowed to be ugly? Would it cure the world of its ailments? These are the questions Westerfeld addresses in Uglies. Would you rather be an ugly outlaw or a beautiful conformist who lives in a world of luxury? What would you choose? What if you were not given a choice?


Reviewed by: Sara Castle
Note: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is the upcoming title for the August 'Tween Book Discussion Group. The group, open to readers ages 9-17, will meet in the Pinckney Library on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 @ 6:30-7:30pm. For more information, call the library at 734-878-3888 or contact the Pinckney Youth Librarian, Sara Castle.

Get Ready for “Summer Fun” with Adult Summer Reading Program @ the Pinckney Library

Planning on a relaxing vacation this summer? Why not enjoy some good books? Or why not plan on catching up on those titles you’ve been interested in over the winter but never got around to reading? And then come join in the fun and share your reviews with others because the Pinckney Community Public Library is offering “Summer Fun” Adult Summer Reading Program this year!
Due to the great success of the first “Summer Fun” ASRP in 2005, the library has decided to offer it again. Starting on July 1, 2006, the program will continue on for two months and end on September 1, 2006. Adult Summer Reading Program is open to anyone 18 years and over. And it’s very simple to participate. No registration necessary. Simply fill out a review form (located in the library or printed from the Pinckney Library’s website) for every book you read over this time period and return them to the library in the “Summer Fun” drop box. These forms will become your entry for prizes given out periodically every week, and will qualify you for a grand prize drawing set for September 5, 2006. The program is open to all Pinckney Library patrons, Friends Group members, Board of Trustees and Pinckney Library staff.

For more information, call the library (734-878-3888) or visit us on the web @ http://www.pinckneylibrary.org/ or in person @ 350 Mower Rd., Pinckney MI. So come join in the fun and read this summer!

No Internet Service - July 14, 2006

We have received a notice that there will be no internet available at the Pinckney Community Public Library on Friday, July 14, 2006 and Saturday, July 15, 2006. This is due to an equipment upgrade in our internet provider's office.

The backup date for the internet outage is July 17, 2006. We regret any inconvenience this may cause.

LibriVox

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.
Check LibriVox out at http://www.librivox.org.

BookSpot Best Sellers List

For an addional lists of best sellers, click on BookSpot.

New York Times Book List Hardcover Nonfiction - July 9, 2006

Pinckney Public Library Owns

On Order

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	GODLESS, by Ann Coulter. (Crown Forum, $27.95.) The columnist argues that liberalism is a religion with sacraments, a creation myth and a clergy.	2	3
2	WISDOM OF OUR FATHERS, by Tim Russert. (Random House, $22.95.) The host of "Meet the Press'' presents readers' letters about their fathers in responseto his book "Big Russ and Me.''	1	5
3	MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan. (Morrow, $21.95.) A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.	3	36
4	DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE, by Anderson Cooper. (HarperCollins, $24.95.) The CNN correspondent describes a year of covering the tsunami in Sri Lanka, the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.	4	5
5	THE ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE, by Ron Suskind. (Simon & Schuster, $27.) An investigation of the Bush administration's strategic thinking and of the role of ideology and personality in the decision to go to war.		1
6	THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50; updated and expanded edition, $30.) A columnist for The New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy.	5	64
7	MAYFLOWER, by Nathaniel Philbrick. (Viking, $29.95.) How America began, from the author of "In the Heart of the Sea."	6	7
8	MYTHS, LIES, AND DOWNRIGHT STUPIDITY, by John Stossel. (Hyperion, $24.95.) The "20/20" anchor questions conventional wisdom.	7	7
9	FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow, $25.95.) A maverick scholar applies economic thinking to everything from sumo wrestlers who cheat to legalized abortion and the falling crime rate.	9	63
10	MY LIFE IN & OUT OF THE ROUGH, by John Daly with Glen Waggoner. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) A memoir by the bad-boy golf champion.	8	7

New York Times Book List Hardcover Fiction - July 9, 2006

Pinckney Public Library Owns

On Order

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	TWELVE SHARP, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin's, $26.95.) The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum must find a killer and rescue a kidnapped child.		1
2	THE HUSBAND, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $27.) A man whose wife is kidnapped has 60 hours to come up with a huge ransom.	1	4
3	BEACH ROAD, by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge. (Little, Brown, $27.95.) An East Hampton lawyer becomes involved in a highly publicized trial that pits locals against the super-rich.	2	8
4	AT RISK, by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam, $21.95.) A Massachusetts state investigator applies DNA and other forensic techniques to a cold murder case; written as a serial for The New York Times Magazine.	3	5
5	THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Warner, $25.95.) The final volume of a trilogy involving Secret Agent Aloysius Pendergast of the F.B.I. and his criminal brother.	4	4
6	CAPTIVE OF MY DESIRES, by Johanna Lindsey. (Pocket Books, $25.) The daughter of a Caribbean pirate is introduced to London society but falls in love with a dashing American sea captain.		1
7	TERRORIST, by John Updike. (Knopf, $24.95.) A New Jersey high school boy falls under the sway of an imam.	5	3
8	THE RAPTURE, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. (Tyndale, $25.99.) The third prequel to the "Left Behind" series.	8	3
9	BLUE SCREEN, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $24.95.) Looking into the murder of a starlet's sister, the private investigator Sunny Randall teams up with Jesse Stone, the chief of police in Paradise, Mass.	6	2
10	THE SABOTEURS, by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. (Putnam, $25.95.) Another volume of the "Men at War" series about O.S.S. agents during World War II.	10	3