A Day in Detroit/Casinos for a Cause

The Pinckney Community Public Library invites you to “A Day in Detroit/Casinos for a Cause” on:
• Thursday, October 16, 2008—bus leaves Pinckney @ 9:00 am (First Drop Off—Detroit Institute of the Arts; Second Drop Off—Greektown Casino)
• Friday, October 24, 2008—bus leaves Pinckney @ 4:00 pm (First Drop Off—Detroit Institute of the Arts; Second Drop Off—Greektown Casino)
• Thursday, November 13, 2008—bus leaves Pinckney @ 9:00 am (First Drop Off—Detroit Institute of the Arts; Second Drop Off—Greektown Casino)
• Saturday, November 22, 2008—bus leaves Pinckney @ 10:00 am (First Drop Off—Detroit Institute of the Arts; Second Drop Off—Greektown Casino)
• Friday, November 28, 2008—bus leaves Pinckney @ 11:00 am (First Drop Off—Detroit Institute of the Arts; Second Drop Off—Greektown Casino)

Join us for a trip to Downtown Detroit at the Detroit Institute of the Arts or Greektown Casino for an evening of fine arts or gambling, food and fun! Tickets are $30 per person. Price includes round-trip transportation and $20.00 Greektown credit for play at the casino.

For more information, call the Pinckney Public Library (734-878-3888) . Proceeds benefit the Pinckney Community Public Library and other various organizations throughout mid-Michigan.

New York Times Bestsellers List for Hardcover NonFiction for October 12, 2008

Hardcover Nonfiction

Published: October 12, 2008

Pinckney Library Owns

On Order

This Week		Last Week	Weeks on List
1	HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.95.) How a green revolution can renew America, by the New York Times columnist.	1	3
2	A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY, by Bill O’Reilly. (Broadway, $26.) The Fox News commentator on his upbringing and career.		1
3	PIECES OF MY HEART, by Robert J. Wagner with Scott Eyman. (William Morrow, 25.95.) The movie star offers a memoir of his life, his marriages and his work.		1
4	THE WAR WITHIN, by Bob Woodward. (Simon & Schuster, $32.) White House debates over the Iraq war, 2006-8. First Chapter	2	3
5	DEWEY, by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. (Grand Central, $19.99.) The kitten left freezing in the returned-book slot of an Iowa public library, and his rise to fame.	13	2
6	BAD MONEY, by Kevin Phillips. (Viking, $25.95.) How the financial sector has hijacked the American economy, aided by Washington’s ruinous faith in the efficiency of markets.		3
7	THE LIMITS OF POWER, by Andrew Bacevich. (Metropolitan/Holt, $24.) A retired Army colonel argues that Americans themselves are responsible for the country’s woes. (†)	3	7
8	MOTHER WARRIORS, by Jenny McCarthy. (Dutton, $24.95.) The battles of the author and other mothers against their children’s autism.		1
9	BOYS WILL BE BOYS, by Jeff Pearlman. (Harper, $25.95.) A chronicle of the Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s.	7	2
10	THROUGH THE STORM, by Lynne Spears with Lorilee Craker. (Nelson, 24.99.) Britney Spears’s mother gives her perspective on her family’s perils.

New York Times Bestsellers List for Hardcover Fiction for October 3, 2008

Hardcover Fiction

Published: October 3, 2008

Pinckney Library Owns

On Order

This Week		Last Week	Weeks on List
1	THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, by David Wroblewski. (Ecco, $25.95.) A mute takes refuge with three dogs in the Wisconsin woods after his father’s death. First Chapter	1	16
2	HEAT LIGHTNING, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $26.95.) Virgil Flowers investigates murder cases linked by a lemon in the mouth of each victim.		1
3	THE GIVEN DAY, by Dennis Lehane. (William Morrow, $27.95.) A policman, a fugitive and their families persevere in the turbulence of Boston at the end of World War I.		1
4	HOT MAHOGANY, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam, $25.95.) A Stone Barrington mystery set amid the intrigues of the world of antiques and old and new money in New England.		1
5	ONE FIFTH AVENUE, by Candace Bushnell. (Hyperion, $25.95.) The worlds of gossip, theater and hedge funds have one address in common.		1
6	THE OTHER QUEEN, by Philippa Gregory. (Touchstone, $25.95.) The story of Mary, Queen of Scots, in captivity under Queen Elizabeth.	2	2
7	THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $24.95.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of an octogenarian’s niece 40 years ago.	4	2
8	TSAR, by Ted Bell. (Atria Books, $26.95.) The Kremlin has a brutal killer working for it in America.		1
9	THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. (Dial, $22.) A journalist meets the island’s old Nazi resisters.	5	9
10*	THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer. (Little, Brown, $25.99.) Aliens have taken control of the minds and bodies of most humans, but one woman won’t surrender.