Wednesday, July 18, 2007

“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





Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: July 15, 2007

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Week

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Weeks
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THE DIANA CHRONICLES, by Tina Brown. (Doubleday, $27.50.) The Princess of Wales’s romance with the media.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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2

3

BUNGALOW 2, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $27.) A writer must deal with the effects of Hollywood success on her family life.


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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.

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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.


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6

THE NAVIGATOR, by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos. (Putnam, $26.95.) Kurt Austin and his team track down a stolen Phoenician statue.

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BLAZE, by Richard Bachman. (Scribner, $25.) An early Stephen King novel — Bachman is his alias — here revised. .

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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.


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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.

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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

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

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