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Love Stories: Great Romantic Films
Penelope [videodisc] by Summit Entertainment and Stone Village Pictures present a Type A Films ; Tatira Active Film production in association with Grosvenor Park Productions
Miss Pettigrew lives for a day [videodisc] by Keylight Entertainment Group ; Kudos Productions Ltd.
I could never be your woman [videodisc] by I Could Never Ltd. ; Bauer Martinez Studios ; Scott Rudin Productions
Four weddings and a funeral [videodisc] by Polygram Filmed Entertainment and Channel Four Films [present] ; a Working Title production
The proposal [videodisc] by Touchstone Pictures presents a Mandeville Films production, an Anne Fletcher film
50 first dates [videodisc] by Columbia Pictures presents a Happy Madison/Anonymous Content and Flower Films production, a film by Peter Segal
Books for Teens Who Love Adventure Stories
Variant by Robison Wells
The knife of never letting go [sound recording] by Patrick Ness
The maze runner by James Dashner
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz ; adapted by Antony Johnston ; illustrated by Kanako Damerum & Yuzuru Takasaki
The night she disappeared by April Henry
Safekeeping by Karen Hesse
Nobody by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Where Do You Love to Read?
Do you love to read so much that you will read almost anywhere? Where are you reading this summer? On the golf course? In a tent? On a boat? On vacation in some exotic locale? Or in your own tree fort? When you claim your Love It badge, upload a picture of you (or your family) reading. Not only will you earn your Love It badge, you will be entered in a random drawing for a prize!
Clockworks and Steam Power: Steampunk for Adults
The world of steampunk literature imagines a different historical path-a world run on iron and steam, where the preferred method of travel is the dirigible and everything that moves is run on clockworks.
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
Dead iron by Devon Monk
The windup girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
The diamond age ; or, Young lady's illustrated primer by Neal Stephenson
Mainspring by Jay Lake
Soulless by Gail Carriger
The half-made world by Felix Gilman
"I Want to Believe...": Supernatural Mysteries on TV
Need something to fill that X-Files-shaped hole in your TV viewing? These TV series feature investigations into the spooky and strange. (Warning: May contain aliens.)
Fringe. The complete first season. Discs 1 & 2 [videodisc]
Torchwood. The complete first season, Disc 1 [videodisc] by British Broadcasting Corporation
Supernatural. Season 1. Disc 1 & 2 [videodisc] by Kripke Enterprises, Inc. ; Wonderland Sound and Vision ; Warner Bros. Television
Eureka. Season 1. Disc 1 [videodisc] by Universal Studios ; Sci Fi Channel
Warehouse 13. Season one. Disc 1 [videodisc] by Universal Media Studios
Curtains Up Adult Fiction Books
Lucky break: a novel by Esther Freud
The star attraction: a novel by Alison Seeney
The starlet: a novel by Mary McNamara
Picture perfect by Jodi Picoult
Someday, someday, maybe: a novel by Lauren Graham
The stand-in by Kate Clemens
An accidental affair by Eric Jerome Dickey
The ballroom on Magnolia Street by Sharon Owens
Get Well/Be Well with Health Goals
- Walk for 30 minutes, 5x a week
- Quit drinking soda for (at least) one month
- Find and join a local martial arts group and attend at least 3 meetings
Memoirs: Overcoming Addiction
Check out these inspirational stories from people who have hit rock bottom and lived to tell the tale.
Broken: my story of addiction and redemption by William Cope Moyers with Katherine Ketcham
Fall to pieces: a memoir of drugs, rock 'n' roll, and mental illness by Mary Forsberg Weiland
Guts: the endless follies and tiny triumphs of a giant disaster by Kristen Johnston
Drinking: a love story by Caroline Knapp
The heroin diaries: a year in the life of a shattered rock star by Nikki Sixx ; with Ian Gittins
Long past stopping: a memoir by Oran Canfield
Top Three Things To Love About Canton
Tell us what you love the most about the Canton Community. Reply to this blog with your top three things in Canton and earn your Love It badge. You can sneak a few more than three in if you really want!
Mysteries We Love!
Whose body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
A murder is announced: a Miss Marple mystery by Agatha Christie
Death comes as epiphany by Sharan Newman
Death comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
A cold day in paradise by Steve Hamilton
Crocodile on the sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
Blood alone by James R.
Love Stories: Great Teen Romance Novels
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Anna and the French kiss by Stephanie Perkins
The summer I turned pretty by Jenny Han
Nick & Norah's infinite playlist by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
The Hollow by Jessica Verday
The hollow kingdom by Clare B. Dunkle
Going too far by Jennifer Echols
Geek magnet: a novel in five acts by Kieran Scott
Teens' Top Ten 2012
We know these are books teens love because the Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where the American Library Association has teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year!
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The fault in our stars by John Green
Legend by Marie Lu
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
What happened to goodbye by Sarah Dessen
Across the universe [sound recording] by Beth Revis
Picture Books to Love
There are so many fantastic picture books out there to enjoy. Here's a few great reads that kids of all ages will love!
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Chicka chicka boom boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault ; illustrated by Lois Ehlert
Curious George by H. A.
Everyone Loves a Hero: True Stories of Real Heroes
Bonhoeffer: pastor, martyr, prophet, spy: a righteous gentile vs. the Third Reich by Eric Metaxas
Forgotten heroes: inspiring American portraits from our leading historians by edited by Susan Ware ; with a foreword by David McCullough
The cruelest miles: the heroic story of dogs and men in a race against an epidemic by Gay Salisbury & Laney Salisbury
Willie Mays: the life, the legend by James S. Hirsch, authorized by Willie Mays
Wildlife heroes: 40 leading conservationists and the animals they are committed to saving by Julie Scardina and Jeff Flocken ; with photo editor Sterling Zumbrunn
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery by Eric Metaxas
Teen Green Thumb Book Suggestions
Grow your own pizza!: gardening plans and recipes for kids by Constance Hardesty ; illustrations by Jeff McClung
Plants vs. zombies [electronic resource (video game)]
The green teen: the eco-friendly teen's guide to saving the planet by Jenn Savedge
Generation green: the ultimate teen guide to living an eco-friendly life by written by Linda Sivertsen and Tosh Sivertsen
47 things you can do for the environment by Lexi Petronis with environmental consultant Jill Buck
Kids Green Thumb Book Suggestions
Potatoes on rooftops: farming in the city by Hadley Dyer
Vegetables!: life on a produce farm by Ruth Owen
Life on a cattle farm by Judy Wolfman ; photographs by David Lorenz Winston
Food and farming by Jen Green
Our farm: four seasons with five kids on one family's farm by written and photographed by Michael J. Rosen
Green Thumb Flower Matching June 23 to 29, 2013
Who do you love? Share your favorite author.
Who is the writer you love the most? Share your very favorite author to earn your Love It badge. You can reply to this blog and tell us your best-loved scribe (and perhaps your top book by that author, too), or you can come in to the library and scribble the name down on a big heart for all the library to see. Or, you could do both!Chow Down Easy Readers
Pancakes, crackers, and pizza: a book about shapes by Marjorie Eberts and Margaret Gisler ; illustrations by Steven Hayes ; prepared under the direction of Robert Hillerich
Good food by written by DeMar Reggier ; illustrated by David Austin Clar
The greedy python by Richard Buckley ; illustrated by Eric Carle
Custard Surprise by Bernard Lodge ; pictures by Tim Bowers
Pete the cat: Pete's big lunch by created by James Dean
Easy as apple pie by Karen Gray Ruelle
Chow Down Picture Books
Pete's a pizza by William Steig
The apple pie tree by Zoe Hall ; illustrated by Shari Halpern
Growing vegetable soup by written and illustrated by Lois Ehlert
Who took the cookies from the cookie jar? by Bonnie Lass & Philemon Sturges ; illustrated by Ashley Wolff
The princess and the pizza by Mary Jane Auch ; illustrated by Herm and Mary Jane Auch
Creamed tuna, fish & peas on toast by Philip Cristian Stead

