Did you know that between July 2008 to March 2009, over 105,000 titles were checked out of the Southborough library? Or that on average, 1,500 people use the library each week? Not bad.
And did you also know that the library gets new titles in all the time? I though it would be interesting to publish a list of what’s new at the library each week. Get your library cards ready, because here’s your first installment.
(Thanks to Library Director Jane Cain, Children’s Librarian Miss Kim, and the rest of the library staff for supplying the list!)
Adult selections
The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles (Adult Fiction)
The story of two different families, headed by a former slave and by a Quaker, who settle in Texas during the Civil War. (Amazon | Library catalog)
Cooking with my Indian Mother-In-Law by Simon Daley
(Adult Non-Fiction)
(Amazon | Library catalog)
Chef Lala Presents Best-Loved Mexican Cooking by Laura Diaz-Brown (Adult Non-Fiction)
(Amazon)
Simple French Cooking by Carole Clements
(Adult Non-Fiction)
(Amazon)
DVDs
Seven Pounds (DVD)
In order to redeem himself, an IRS agent begins an amazing journey where he will sacrifice all to change the lives of seven strangers forever. (Amazon | Library catalog)
Doubt (DVD)
It’s 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school’s strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. When Father Flynn pays too much attention to a new student, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. (Amazon | Library catalog)
Children’s selections
Mr. Mosquito Put on His Tuxedo by Barbara Olenyik Morrow
Mr. Mosquito saves the insect ball from an intruding bear.
(Amazon | Library catalog)
Scaredy Squirrel at Night by Melanie Watt
Another adventure with Miss Kim’s favorite character!
(Amazon | Library catalog)
The Yggyssey by Daniel Pinkwater
In the mid-1950s, Yggdrasil Birnbaum and her friends, Seamus and Neddie, journey to Old New Hackensack, which is on another plane, to try to learn why ghosts are disappearing from the Birnbaum’s hotel.
(Amazon | Library catalog)
The Naked Mole-Rat Letters by Mary Amato
When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship.
(Amazon | Library catalog)
We Can’t All be Rattlesnakes by Patrick Jennings
When Crusher the snake is captured, her only thought is to escape but as time goes by and she befriends the other inmates of the “zoo,” she realizes that freedom also means leaving companions behind.
(Amazon | Library catalog)
T is for Tugboat by Chronicle Books (Amazon | Library catalog)
C is for Caboose by Chronicle Books (Amazon | Library catalog)
Children’s non-fiction
Suddenly Supernatural Books 1 & 2 by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Audiobook (CD)
(Amazon | Library catalog)
