We have received our first shipment of Chinese books for 2010! New titles in Simplified Chinese include:

• A li by Bi Shumin
• Lang Xianping shuo shui zai zheng jiu Zhongguo jing ji by Lang Xianping
• Wa by Mo Yan
• Wo zhong jiu shi ai ni de by Zhang Xiaoxian

New titles in Traditional Chinese include:

• Jing xuan 100 dao bi xue Zhong cai by Liang Qiongbai
• Li Kaifu cong xin xuan ze de ren sheng by Li Kaifu
• Sheng shi : Zhongguo, er lling yi san nian by Chen Guanzhong
• Wei Sili chuan qi zhi dao mu by Ni Kuang

Do you like deliciously dramatic novels like those of Jodi Picoult? Does a touch of romance a la Danielle Steel or Nora Roberts make it just that much better? If so, dig into these authors.

• Patricia Gaffney
• Emily Grayson
• Kristin Hannah
• Mary Alice Monroe
• Luanne Rice
• Anita Shreve
• Nicholas Sparks

Want more? Try the books in Barbara Taylor Bradford and Nora Roberts readalikes or If you like Nora Roberts and Julie Garwood

A large shipment of Hindi books has arrived and is on the shelves for you to enjoy. Nonfiction titles include Baccoṃ kī prāthamika śikshā evaṃ vikāsa kaise? by Mālatī Jośī and Bhāratīya saṃskāra by Indu Vīrendrā. Fiction titles include Khūna kā riśtā: bromāñcabharī pārivārika gāthā by Ema. Je. Akabara and An̐dhere kā tālā by Mamatā Kāliyā.

Have you wondered about all the hoopla surrounding Facebook and Twitter? If you are curious and want to learn the basics of these social networking tools, sign up and join me on Friday, April 30th at 10:00AM for CPL's Get Connected Class.

What better day than April First to play with your food? All around the world people host Edible Book Festivals where folks create and consume incredible edible books. What a great idea, combining and celebrating two of the most wonderful things imaginable: Books and Food!

I don't even follow stock car racing, and I am tearing through this entertaining history of NASCAR. The focus is on the first fully televised Daytona 500 in 1979, but other fascinating characters and times are highlighted along the way. Sometimes a subtitle says it all. Since this title has everything but the kitchen sink thrown in, I'll let it speak for itself: He crashed me so I crashed him back: the true story of the year the King, Jaws, Earnhardt, and the rest of NASCAR's feudin', fightin', good ol' boys put stock car racing on the map