New York Times Best Sellers for Hardcover Nonfiction for November 11, 2007

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: November 11, 2007

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!), by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello and Allison Silverman. (Grand Central, $26.99.) The wit and wisdom of the mock pundit of Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report.”	1	3
2	CLAPTON, by Eric Clapton. (Broadway Books, $26.) The great guitarist looks back on his life and his music.	2	3
3	MY GRANDFATHER’S SON, by Clarence Thomas. (Harper, $26.95.) A memoir from an associate justice of the Supreme Court.	3	4
4	LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) The only survivor of a Navy Seal operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle, his comrades and his courageous escape.	11	18
5	THE AGE OF TURBULENCE, by Alan Greenspan. (Penguin Press, $35.) A memoir by the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.	4	6
6	FAIR GAME, by Valerie Plame Wilson. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) A former undercover C.I.A. officer who was exposed by the Bush administration describes her experience.		1
7	MUSICOPHILIA, by Oliver Sacks. (Knopf, $26.) The neurologist and author of “Awakenings” examines the interaction between music and the brain.	12	2
8	QUIET STRENGTH, by Tony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker. (Tyndale, $26.99.) A memoir by the first black coach to win a Super Bowl (with the Indianapolis Colts in 2007).	10	16
9	IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS, THEY’D BE REPUBLICANS, by Ann Coulter. (Crown Forum, $24.95.) A collection of the columnist’s provocative quotations.	6	4
10	* THE NINE, by Jeffrey Toobin. (Doubleday, $27.95.) A portrait of the Supreme Court since the Reagan administration focuses on the influence of its moderates.	8	6

New York Times Best Sellers for Hardcover Fiction for November 11, 2007

Hardcover Fiction

Published: November 11, 2007

Library Owns

On Order

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	BOOK OF THE DEAD, by Patricia Cornwell. (Putnam, $26.95.) The forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta opens a private practice in Charleston, S.C.		1
2	A LICK OF FROST, by Laurell K. Hamilton. (Ballantine, $24.95.) In the sixth Meredith Gentry paranormal romance, Meredith’s wicked uncle presses charges against her guards.		1
3	* PLAYING FOR PIZZA, by John Grisham. (Doubleday, $21.95.) An American third-string quarterback joins the Italian National Football League’s Parma Panthers.	1	5
4	WORLD WITHOUT END, by Ken Follett. (Dutton, $35.) Love and intrigue in Kingsbridge, the medieval English cathedral town at the center of Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth.”	3	3
5	THE ALMOST MOON, by Alice Sebold. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) A woman murders her mother; from the author of “The Lovely Bones.”	2	2
6	THE CHOICE, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central, $24.99.) How a North Carolina man’s choices play out in his life.	4	5
7	A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.	5	23
8	NOW AND THEN, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $25.95.) What looked like a simple matrimonial case for the Boston P.I. turns out to involve a group that sponsors terrorists.		1
9	DARK OF THE MOON, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $26.95.) Virgil Flowers, a character from “Invisible Prey,” investigates three murders in a small Minnesota town.	6	4
10	YOU’VE BEEN WARNED, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) An aspiring photographer working as a nanny has terrible visions.	7	7

On Saturday, August 11, the Pinckney Community Public Library held Family Fun Day the the Park. It was a family focused event with all proceeds benefiting the PCPL Building Fund. There were many programs including: Barbeque tips from Chef Kassandra Warner, Music by Ed Sugar, “Make & Take” one stroke painting book marks with Donna Roskamp, Stocking Flowers with Mal Dobis, Yoga for Life with Lucille Lightstone-Brochu, Euchre with Gary Anemaet, Play the Harmonica- quick lesson with Kate Pratt, the Pinckney Purlers Knitting Group, a Moonwalk, bubbles, Face Painting & Balloon Art by Flutterby. Some local businesses and organizations also had tables set up including the Pinckney Police Department, Edward Jones, Mainly Chocolate, Comerica Bank, the vintage cars of Steve Achenbrenner and Terry Smith, and the Friends of the
Pinckney Library.

The Library Board of Trustees, Library Director & Staff would like to thank everyone who participated and volunteered to make this an enjoyable event for all.





















Face painting and balloon art




















Flutterby and children




















Yoga with Lucille Lightstone-Brochu

“Summer Fun” with Adult Summer Reading Program @ the Pinckney Library Is Back

Our popular “Summer Fun” Adult Summer Reading Program is making a comeback! Starting on July 1, 2007, the program will continue on for two months and ends on September 1, 2007, with grand prize drawings on September 4, 2007.

This program is open to anyone 18 years and over who love to read. 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 4, 2007. (Note: Only 5 submissions per person per week will be included in the weekly drawings.) The program is open to all Pinckney Library patrons and community members, 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!

Aleta Dillehay & Marla Doersch & Morgan Doersch,
2006 Adult Summer Reading

New York Times Best Seller List for July 15, 2007 Hardcover Nonfiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: July 15, 2007

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	THE DIANA CHRONICLES, by Tina Brown. (Doubleday, $27.50.) The Princess of Wales’s romance with the media.	1	3
2	THE DIANA CHRONICLES, by Christopher Hitchens. (Twelve, $24.99.) Religion as a malignant force in the world.	4	9
3	THE ASSAULT ON REASON, by Al Gore. (Penguin Press, $25.95.) How the Bush administration has degraded the political environment through secrecy, fear and the rejection of fact-based reasoning.	3	6
4	LONE SURVIVOR, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. (Little, Brown, $24.99.) The only survivor of a Navy Seal operation in northern Afghanistan describes the battle, his comrades and his courageous escape.	6	3
5	THE REAGAN DIARIES, by Ronald Reagan. Edited by Douglas Brinkley. (HarperCollins, $35.) Selections from the 40th president’s daily White House diaries.	2	6
6	A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.	8	20
7	OUTRAGE, by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. (HC/ HarperCollins, $26.95.) An attack on illegal immigration, United Nations profiteers, lazy congressmen and high drug prices.	5	3
8	EINSTEIN, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, $32.) A biography based on newly released personal letters.	7	12
9	ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE, by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. (HarperCollins, $26.95.) The novelist and her family spend a year eating homegrown or local food.	10	9
10	THE BLACK SWAN, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (Random House, $26.95.) The role of the unexpected.		8

New York Times Best Seller List for July 15, 2007 for Hardcover Fiction

Hardcover Fiction

Published: July 15, 2007

Library Owns

On Order

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war.	2	6
2	LEAN MEAN THIRTEEN, by Janet Evanovich. (St. Martin’s, $27.95.) The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes a suspect when her exhusband disappears.	1	2
3	BUNGALOW 2, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $27.) A writer must deal with the effects of Hollywood success on her family life.		1
4	DOUBLE TAKE, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam, $25.95.) Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock — F.B.I. agents as well as husband and wife — join with a San Francisco colleague to solve a murder and find a missing woman.	4	3
5	DROP DEAD BEAUTIFUL, by Jackie Collins. (St. Martin’s, $24.95.) Lucky Santangelo’s preparations for the opening of a Las Vegas hotel complex are complicated by the reappearance of an old family foe.		1
6	THE NAVIGATOR, by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos. (Putnam, $26.95.) Kurt Austin and his team track down a stolen Phoenician statue.	5	4
7	BLAZE, by Richard Bachman. (Scribner, $25.) An early Stephen King novel — Bachman is his alias — here revised. .	3	3
8	THE DOUBLE AGENTS, 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 in World War II.		1
9	THE BOURNE BETRAYAL, by Eric Van Lustbader. (Warner, $25.99.) Continuing the story of Robert Ludlum’s character Jason Bourne, who tangles with a group of diabolical Islamic terrorists.	12	4
10	THE 6TH TARGET, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate the disappearance of several children in San Francisco.	10	8

Ancestor’s Clothesline Project Comes to the Pinckney Library

Starting Monday, June 25—as the Pinckney Community Public Library gears up for its 2007 Summer Reading Program and celebrates its 55th Birthday—patrons will find a great display of the Livingston County Genealogical Society Ancestor’s Clothesline Project against the Reading/Magazine area wall of the library.

What is an “Ancestor’s Clothesline”?

An “Ancestor’s Clothesline” is a display put together by the Livingston County Genealogical Society, in celebration of their Silver Jubilee. The project is a tradition borrowed from the Finns, who honored their forebears with displays of hung clothing or other household items onto which likenesses of ancestors have been transferred.

Pictures from the Livingston County Genealogical Society’s Ancestor’s Clothesline honor the early settlers and other residents of Livingston County, MI. Many of the people displayed were farmers, merchants, stock breeders, millers, hoteliers, railroaders, milliners, seamstresses, laundresses, gardeners, teachers, nurses and homemakers. Names seen on the display may be recognizable from county streets, roads, buildings, schools or parks, which have been named for early residents.

The Clothesline Display found in the Pinckney Community Public Library portrays many Pinckney and Putnam Twp. local history photos. We invite everyone in our community, young and old, to visit us at 350 Mower Rd., Pinckney, MI to view this amazing display of local history.

For more information, please contact the Pinckney Community Public Library at 734-878-3888 or visit us at 350 Mower Rd., Pinckney, MI 48169.
















Ancestor's Clothesline Project @ PCPL--The Livingston County
Genealogical Society's Ancestor's Clothesline project comes to the
Pinckney Community Public Library. The display was put up just in time
for 2007's Summer Reading Program and the Library's 55th Birthday Party
on Friday, June 29, 2007.

























From left: Library Staff Member, Judy Aschenbrenner,
Library Director, Hope Siasoco, and Livingston County
Genealogical Society Member, Lyla Spelbring, pose by
the Ancestor's Clothesline Project Display at the Pinckney Library.


















From left to right: Livingston County Genealogical Society's
Lyla Spelbring, pose with Judy and Steve Aschenbrenner
of Pinckney, MI beside the Ancestor's Clothesline Project
now on display at the Pinckney Library, in time to celebrate the
library's 55th Birthday Party on June 29, 2007.

















Hope & Milt by Clothesline Project--Hope Siasoco, library director,
and Milt Charboneau, local history author and Livingston County
Genealogical Society member, pose beside the Ancestor's Clothesline
Project Display at the Pinckney Community Public Library

A giant turtle decided to visit the PCPL on Friday, June 1, 2007...

The Library is open to anyone and everyone.















Turtle decided to go to the Pinckney Library...

It's a little bit of a hike, but I think I see the library now...















Almost there...















Okay, I'm sure it's here somewhere...















Yes! I see the door! I made it!















Okay, I made it to the garden, at least.















Okay, I think I saw the door this way.















Okay, maybe that wasn't the right way.















Ok, this is enough for me today. Maybe if the Library was bigger I could find it easier!

New York Times Best Seller list for May 6, 2007 - Hardcover Nonfiction

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: May 6, 2007

Pinckney owns

On order

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	EINSTEIN, by Walter Isaacson. (Simon & Schuster, $32.) A biography based on newly released personal letters.	1	2
2	PAULA DEEN: IT AIN’T ALL ABOUT THE COOKIN’, by Paula Deen with Sherry Suib Cohen. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) A memoir with recipes from the Southern cooking impresario.	3	3
3	A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.	2	10
4	WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE?, by Lee Iacocca. (Scribner, $25.) The former C.E.O. of Chrysler protests the lack of political and business leadership on issues like health care and energy policy.		1
5	THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. (Crown, $25.) The Illinois junior senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions.	7	27
6	HOW DOCTORS THINK, by Jerome Groopman. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) A doctor and New Yorker staff writer describes how doctors arrive at diagnoses.	9	6
7	FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow, $27.95.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to nearly everything.	12	100
8	THIS MOMENT ON EARTH, by John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry. (Public Affairs, $25.) Environmental challenges and possible solutions.		1
9	CRAZIES TO THE LEFT OF ME, WIMPS TO THE RIGHT, by Bernard Goldberg. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) The author of “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America” attacks liberals and accuses Republicans of betraying conservative principles.		1
10	THE WILD TREES, by Richard Preston. (Random House, $25.95.) The people who climb the massive California redwoods to study the complex life in their canopies.		1

New York Times Best Seller list for May 6, 2007 - Harcover Fiction

Hardcover Fiction

Published: May 6, 2007

Pinckney owns

On order

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN, by J. R. R. Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Illustrated by Alan Lee. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) In Middle-earth, an evil lord wants to destroy his rival’s children.		1
2	THE WOODS, by Harlan Coben. (Dutton, $26.95.) New evidence about a case of murder and disappearance at a summer camp 20 years earlier forces a county prosecutor to confront family secrets.		1
3	I HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.95.) A woman marries a childhood acquaintance suspected of several murders.	1	3
4	THE GOOD HUSBAND OF ZEBRA DRIVE, by Alexander McCall Smith. (Pantheon, $21.95.) The eighth novel in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.		1
5	NINETEEN MINUTES, by Jodi Picoult. (Atria, $26.95.) The aftermath of a high school shooting reveals the fault lines in a small New Hampshire town.	2	7
6	OBSESSION, by Jonathan Kellerman. (Ballantine, $26.95.) The psychologist-detective Alex Delaware investigates an apparent deathbed confession of murder.	5	4
7	FRESH DISASTERS, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) Stone Barrington, the New York cop turned lawyer, tangles with a mob boss.	3	2
8	KINGDOM COME, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. (Tyndale, $25.99.) The final title in the “Left Behind” series.	6	3
9	* SLEEPING WITH STRANGERS, by Eric Jerome Dickey. (Dutton, $24.95.) A hit man who hopes to leave the business travels to London to escape pursuers.	9	2
10	THE ALIBI MAN, by Tami Hoag. (Bantam, $26.) A disgraced former policewoman investigates a murder linked to a group of wealthy Palm Beach men.	8	4

Pinckney Community Public Library Books Sale!

Located in the Township Annex
122 S Howell St
Pinckney, MI 48169
Information: 734-878-3888

Steppin’ Out for the Pinckney Library.

PRESS RELEASE: For Immediate Release
For More Information Contact: Hope Siasoco at (734) 878-3888

Steppin’ Out for the Pinckney Library.



On Saturday March 3, 2007 the Pinckney Community Public Library hosted its first annual 5K run/walk to benefit the Library’s building fund.
















Seventy-three runners and walkers participated. They came from all over the state. We had runners from as far away as Flat Rock, Adrian, Pontiac and Detroit, as well as, Pinckney, Howell and Whitmore Lake. We even had one runner from Bowling Green, Ohio and one from Redlands, California














Zack Carpenter, from Whitmore Lake was our Over-ALL First Place Winner. Zack is 15 years old. His finishing time was 19:03LeAnne Crowell, also from Whitmore Lake, was our First Place Women's runner. LeAnne is 19. LeAnne's finishing time was 26:01.














Special thanks to every one who helped out! For a complete list...

New York Times Best Sellers Hardcover NonFiction for April 8, 2007

Hardcover NonFiction

Published: April 8, 2007

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	IN AN INSTANT, by Lee and Bob Woodruff (Random House, $25.95.) The aftermath of the ABC co-anchor’s traumatic bran injury in Iraq in 2006	1	4
2	GRACE (EVENTUALLY), by Anne Lamott. (Riverhead, $24.95.) Essays about faith and forgiveness.		1
3	HOW DOCTORS THINK, by Jerome Groopman. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) A doctor and New Yorker staff writer describes how doctors arrive at diagnoses and what patients can do to make sure they don’t err.	7	2
4	A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.	2	6
5	THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. (Crown, $25.) The Illinois junior senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions.	4	23
6	* I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK, by Nora Ephron. (Knopf, $19.95.) A witty look at aging from a novelist and screenwriter (“When Harry Met Sally”).	3	34
7	INFIDEL, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. (Free Press, $26.) A memoir by the Somali-born advocate for Muslim immigrant women, once a member of the Dutch Parliament, who has been threatened with death.	5	7
8	THE HARDCORE DIARIES, by Mick Foley. (World Wrestling Entertainment/Pocket, $24.) The former professional wrestling champion discusses his fame and his life at World Wrestling Entertainment	6	3
9	BLACKWATER, by Jeremy Scahill. (Nation, $26.95.) An account of the private army that has been deployed by the government in Afghanistan and Iraq.		1
10	SOMEBODY’S GOTTA SAY IT, by Neal Boortz (HC/HarperCollins, $25.95.) A radio talk-show host discusses government, poverty, prayer in the schools, race relations, gun control and other topics.	9	5

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: April 8, 2007

This Week		Last Week	Weeks On List
1	IN AN INSTANT, by Lee and Bob Woodruff. (Random House, $25.95.) The aftermath of the ABC co-anchor’s traumatic brain injury in Iraq in 2006.	1	4
2	GRACE (EVENTUALLY), by Anne Lamott. (Riverhead, $24.95.) Essays about faith and forgiveness.		1
3	HOW DOCTORS THINK, by Jerome Groopman. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) A doctor and New Yorker staff writer describes how doctors arrive at diagnoses and what patients can do to make sure they don’t err.	7	2
4	A LONG WAY GONE, by Ishmael Beah. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child soldier from Sierra Leone describes his drug-crazed killing spree and his return to humanity.	2	6
5	THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, by Barack Obama. (Crown, $25.) The Illinois junior senator proposes that Americans move beyond their political divisions.	4	23
6	* I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK, by Nora Ephron. (Knopf, $19.95.) A witty look at aging from a novelist and screenwriter (“When Harry Met Sally”).	3	34
7	INFIDEL, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. (Free Press, $26.) A memoir by the Somali-born advocate for Muslim immigrant women, once a member of the Dutch Parliament, who has been threatened with death.	5	7
8	THE HARDCORE DIARIES, by Mick Foley. (World Wrestling Entertainment/Pocket, $24.) The former professional wrestling champion discusses his fame and his life at World Wrestling Entertainment.	6	3
9	BLACKWATER, by Jeremy Scahill. (Nation, $26.95.) An account of the private army that has been deployed by the government in Afghanistan and Iraq.		1
10	SOMEBODY’S GOTTA SAY IT, by Neal Boortz (HC/HarperCollins, $25.95.) A radio talk-show host discusses government, poverty, prayer in the schools, race relations, gun control and other topics.	9	5